HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa, blew his gasket on Wednesday and put his ministers on notice, after he received damaging
reports that some of them were demanding bribes from investors to facilitate meetings with him and deputy president Constantino Chiwenga.
So rampant was the corruption by his lieutenants that Mnangagwa told stunned Zanu PF bigwigs during the party’s central committee meeting in
Harare that in one of the more egregious cases, a Cabinet minister had demanded a whopping R5
million bribe from a foreign investor to arrange a meeting with him.
An insider who spoke to the Daily News yesterday said Mnangagwa was “fed up” with claims of corruption involving senior government and Zanu PF officials — and was determined to “deal decisively” with all those caught on the wrong side of the law.
The allegations of sleaze involving bigwigs are not new. In 2012, ousted former president Robert Mugabe also told Zanu PF delegates at the
party’s conference in Gweru that two Cabinet ministers had demanded US$10 million from

South African investors.Daily News