THE trial of former cabinet minister Prisca Mupfumira has kicked off at the Harare Magistrates court this Wednesday with both Mupfumira and her then Permanent Secretary, Ngoni Masoka pleading not guilty to all three counts. The duo is being charged for two counts of criminal abuse of office as public officers and one of concealing a transaction.

Mupfumira becomes the second of former President Robert Mugabe’s ministers to be tried in recent days. Former Energy Minister Samuel Undenge was last week sent to prison for two years on similar charges. Will Mupfumira join her former cabinet colleague in prison at the end of the trial?

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