A Zimbabwean magistrate, Samuel Zuze, has been exposed in what counts as one of Zimbabwe’s most blatant cases of judicial malpractice and fraud after he presided over a farm dispute in which he is a direct beneficiary, with an offer letter entitling him to one third of the disputed farm.
RWANDAN genocide hero and inspiration behind the film Hotel Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina, says the east African country has neither healed from the 1994 genocide nor learned any lessons from it, as he accused the Rwandan government of continuing human rights abuses through the alleged arbitrary arrest and transportation of Hutus to work illegally in mines…
A Ministry of Works and Transport employee suspected of allegedly leaking information about the new N$10 million Presidential motorcade exposed in Informanté has been suspended.
PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba has ordered two state-of-the-art S600L Mercedes Benz costing taxpayers about N$10 million – equivalent to the annual salaries for 20 specialist doctors or Anti-retroviral drugs for 26,000 people per month, Informanté has unearthed.
China had offered Namibia a loan of N$300 million on condition that the Namibian government waivers all tender procedures and contracts CMEC to do the work, although CMEC’s quote was ten times more expensive than South African and German railway construction companies in the same league.
Last week, we carried a story in Informante about a company controlled by influential government officials closely linked to the President which got an R80 million tender to develop student hostels at the University of Namibia. Apparently, in Namibia, the threshold of corruption is much higher. What would qualify as stinking corruption in Congo or [...]
Constant police raids along the highway have not significantly dented the illicit trade as locals continue to advertise and sell their diamonds to motorists at growth points and on the streets in Mutare.
