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Ignatious Chombo

Chombo faces 90 days in prison

By Tendai Kamhungira Home Affairs minister, Ignatius Chombo, faces 90 days in prison after failing to comply with a court order directing him to facilitate the release of $78 000 confiscated by police from a Mutare businessman — Tendai Blessing Mangwiro. Police, who are answerable to Chombo’s ministry, seized the cash following Mangwiro’s arrest in […]

Why Mugabe will not fight corruption

NEKO no kubi ni suzu o tsukeru is a Japanese proverb which literally means “putting a bell around a cat’s neck”. This means expecting or talking about something that is nearly impossible to do. Many Zimbabweans have of late mistakenly believed that President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF are now serious about fighting corruption.

Intellectual Prostitutes and Collaborators

The Zimbabwe Conundrum Part 6 By George B.N. Ayittey, Ph.D.    Dr. Arikana Chihombori  Dr Arikana Chihombori is a US-based Zimbabwean doctor, and often described as a “woman so ambitious she does not care who gets hurt as she seeks to achieve her personal ambitions”. She is said to openly declare that her ultimate ambition […]