The Zimbabwe Independent Melody Chikono ZIMBABWE’S executive arm of government promulgated a whopping 300 Statutory Instruments (SIs) in 2020 and, in the process, violated laid down procedures in a significant number of these subsidiary laws. This emerged from investigations conducted by The Zimbabwe Independent, in collaboration with Information for Development Trust, a non-profit organisation helping the media to probe corruption and bad governance. Executive bumper Our research discovered that Zimbabwe has made in excess of 10 725 statutory instruments since independence in 1980, translating to an annual average of 268 over 40 years. Records show that, between 2018 and 2020 — the period following the current administration’s army-assisted power takeover from the late Robert Mugabe — the executive flipped 849 SIs, recording a yearly average of 283.