FORMER ICT minister and serving legislator Supa Mandiwanzira is demanding damages amounting to $1 million from Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ) over what he terms defamatory content against his person.
In a letter of demand to TIZ, sent through his lawyers, Zenas Chimwa Murombe, Mandiwanzira accused TIZ of supplying lies about him to South African publication, Daily Maverick, which ran a damning report last week implicating him in corrupt activities.
TIZ recently caused the publication of a report which has the title, “Annual State of Corruption Report: Focus on State owned enterprises”.
The report accused the Nyanga South MP of owning a company, Univern PVT LTD, that purchased snow graders for state entity Zinara.
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Sacu targets looters in govt, parastatals
BY BLESSED MHLANGA
THE Special Anti-Corruption Unit (Sacu) in President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s office yesterday said it would soon be arresting high-profile looters implicated in Auditor-General Mildred Chiri’s audit reports.
Sacu head Thabani Mpofu said this yesterday during a Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ) debate on corruption, where he stated that an investigation team was acting on allegations of corruption committed by government officials which were raised in Chiri’s reports.
Chiri has in the past years revealed massive corruption in government ministries and departments, which has cost the country millions of dollars.
“I can tell you that as Sacu, we have many dockets emanating from reports that have been investigated and refined from the AG’s Office… so they (reports) are not being ignored. I have got an officer sitting at a desk, who is considering the reports from the AG’s reports and liaising with the po