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Anti-corruption drive

    JOHANNESBURG

    As the government targets corrupt officials in the run-up to the elections, bail conditions have been relaxed for Agriculture Minister Kumbirai Kangai to allow him to campaign in ZANU-PF primaries in his Manicaland constituency, 'The Herald' reported on Thursday. Kangai, who has served as a cabinet minister since independence in 1980, has been charged with
    embezzling funds from the state-owned Grain Marketing Board.

    The government's anti-corruption drive launched last month, which the media has described as a move to boost its electoral fortunes, has resulted in the arrest - among others - of two permanent secretaries, a prominent banker, the boss of the bankrupt state-owned National Oil Company of Zimbabwe
    (NOCZIM) and the former mayor of Harare. The 'Financial Gazette' reported on Thursday that Interpol was helping the police trace offshore accounts of those charged.

    Meanwhile, a company contracted to supply fuel to NOCZIM this week discontinued its operations over the parastatal's failure to service a US $8 million debt, the 'Financial Gazette' reported. A Zimalzam spokesman said "we are unable to resume supplies until we get paid." The newspaper also reported that an upfront payment of US $2 million by NOCZIM to cover
    supplies from the South African synthetic fuel company SASOL was up for renewal this week.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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