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Institutions that are supposed to investigate corruption like the anti-corruption commission and the police are compromised with one commissioner taking home only US$19 a month, the Member of Parliament for Kambuzuma Willias Madzimure said when he wound up the motion on corporate governance.

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Police cannot arrest corrupt government officials because they are afraid of politicians and the corruption is being covered up by “the high office”, a Member of Parliament for Manicaland Fanny Chirisa said.

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It is 5:20am on 30 January, 2014, and most of the residents of Ethiopia’s capital are asleep. On the streets, a few vehicles prowl as night-time revellers – mostly girls in short skirts – make their way home after a long night of merriment. On Bole Avenue, some guards stand in front of the enticing window displays of the well-stocked shops as the artificial palm trees that line the street shimmer in the biting morning cold.

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A Midlands legislator says corruption is rife at colleges and the victims are mostly young women. Anastancia Ndlovu said the corruption was in the writing of assignments and marking of exams.

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Zimbabwe’s eighth parliament must go on record as being the one that stopped corruption in the country because corruption is now everywhere in Zimbabwe, even in the bathrooms, the Member of Parliament for Mangwe Obedingwa Mguni said.

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The lifting of sanctions on Zimbabwe’s diamonds which enabled the country to sell its stones openly at Antwerp and Dubai has boosted government revenues earning the country US$79.1 million in the first quarter of this year, more than double what the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority had anticipated.

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A country can never develop when there is corruption because it destroys the very core of development which is the work ethic, a former Deputy Finance Minister said.

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Goromonzi West Member of Parliament Beatrice Nyamupinga has urged fellow legislators not to concentrate on salarygate but also to expose petty corruption because it is killing the poor.

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It is easier for a single mother than a single father to obtain a birth certificate for a child because as they say in Shona, gomba harina mwana, the Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Ziyambi Ziyambi said last week.

Responding to questions about how single parents can obtain birth certificates in the absence of the other parent, Ziyambi said it was easier for mothers than father to obtain birth certificates for their children because ordinarily fathers do not take care of the child.

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Tsvangirai says people must now refuse to be abused by Mugabe– Zimbabweans must refuse to be abused by President Robert Mugabe and his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and must take courageous action to force Mugabe to go back to the people, Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai said in Gweru today. Tsvangirai said Mugabe’s administration was incapable of turning around the country’s fortunes. The only way to get out of this quagmire was to take courageous action and refuse to be abused. “Do you think we stand a chance to get to 2018 with the current national leadership?” he asked. “We cannot wait till 2018 given the state of the nation. We have been taken to a hard place because of Mugabe and ZANU-PF. To get out of this quagmire, we ought to take courageous action and refuse to be abused.” He said that people should remain focused on what the problem of Zimbabwe is and find a solution to dealing with the issue. “Whether he likes it or not, we are going to force Mugabe to go back to the people because the people need solutions and they need to be consulted. It is about time Mugabe and ZANU-PF understand that the nation is in a crisis and they need to act. The people need to know how to end corruption. The people need to know what the so called government is doing for all the children who are coming out of schools. People want to know what this failed government is doing to ensure jobs are created. But we all know this government is incapable of transforming this nation into a prosperous nation that it is. We have natural resources that are benefiting a few and this has to change,” Tsvangirai said. This is the second time within a week that Tsvangirai has called on the people to take action against Mugabe. Some ZANU-PF supporters wanted him arrested for calling for an uprising but Information Minister Jonathan Moyo brushed this off as a cheap publicity stunt. Moyo said Tsvangirai was now history. There was nothing he could do today that he had failed to do over the past 15 years.

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