Dangarembga challenges Anti-Corruption Court trial
Miriam Mangwaya
RENOWNED author Tsitsi Dangarembga has dragged Harare magistrate Trynos Wutawashe to the High Court challenging his decision to try her in the Anti -Corruption Court when her matter “has nothing to do with corruption”.
Dangarembga and her co-defendant Julie Gabriel Barnes, accused of violating Covid-19 regulations, are arguing that Wutawashe misdirected himself by allowing the State to use a non-existent law.
It is alleged that on July 31, 2020, police received a tipoff that Dangarembga and Barnes were demonstrating at corner Whitwell and Borrowdale Roads.
Police found the duo demonstrating with placards, and this, according to the State, was in contravention of the Covid-19 regulations.
By Mary Taruvinga
POLICE officer commanding Matabeleland North province, Senior Assistant Commissioner Erasmus Makodza, arrested Monday on graft charges, has been granted $10 000 bail.
Makodza landed in the dock after he allegedly gave his baby mama a farm allegedly owned by the Zimbabwe Republic Police on the pretext she was a private investor.
The high-ranking police officer was arrested by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission on charges of criminal abuse of office for allegedly concealing from the police a personal transaction involving the force when he was in his previous post as officer commanding Mashonaland East.
He appeared before Harare magistrate Stanford Mambanje Tuesday facing criminal abuse of office charges.
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Zimbabwe: Anti-corruption body warns private laboratory centres issuing fake Covid-19 certificates
âZACC warns laboratories over issuance of fake Covid-19 test certificatesâ 26 January 2020
THE Zimbabwe Anti-corruption Commission (ZACC) has warned laboratory centres which are issuing fake Covid-19 certificates that the net is closing in on them. Following widespread reports of a scam involving private laboratory centres which are issuing fake Covid-19 test results across the country, the Zimbabwe Anti-corruption Commission â (ZACC) has dispatched a crack team to investigate the issue. Speaking to ZBC news this Tuesday, ZACC spokesperson Commissioner John Makamure warned that the long arm of the law will soon catch up with those involved in this scam.
ZACC probes Covid-19 tests scam
Investigations Editor
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has opened investigations into laboratories and individuals accused of issuing certificates declaring a person free of Covid-19 without carrying out any tests, thus allowing potentially infected people to travel and interact with others, allowing the virus to spread.
Those with information that could help in the investigations should contact investigators, the commission’s deputy chairperson Mr Kuziva Murapa has said.
There have been reports that at least one private laboratory and some State laboratories, or at least staff at these laboratories, have been issuing certificates and sets of fake results without doing the required test.