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HARARE - Finance Minister Prof Mthuli Ncube on Thursday announced an increase in passport fees from US$120 to $200 starting from January next year, a decision that has been slammed by many across the country. Journalist and political commentator Hopewell Chin'ono said President Emmerson Mnangagwa's "wants to make money from the misery of Zimbabweans who are running away from ZANUPF’s failed policies and corrupt rule."

The wrangle over the estate of the late cabinet minister Eddison Mudadirwa Zvobgo's continues with the minority shareholders demanding an immediate shareholders meeting for the purposes of empowering one of the shareholders to prosecute any member of the estate who is exposed of abusing assets by a forensic audit.

Zimbabwe’s first Education Minister at independence, Dr Dzingai Mutumbuka, has expressed shock at the level of corruption in Zimbabwe after suspected fraudsters, conniving with the Deeds Office in Harare forged documents to his US$600 000 Chisipite house and sold it for a mere US$140 000.

Two police officers appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court yesterday facing criminal abuse of office charges after they recovered 75 bags of stolen Presidential inputs fertilizer from a Marondera businessman before they connived to leave 55 bags and took only 20 as exhibits after being bribed.

Information minister Jenfan Muswere's trust entity lost US$3 568 after his driver diverted the money he was given to pay for the servicing done to his vehicles by Faramatsi Motors.