Covid-19 tailwinds haunt Zim local authorities

Resultantly, 75 local authorities were in arrears. The respective local authorities that failed to submit were in arrears, mainly due to the impact of Covid-19 restrictions.
By Tafadzwa Mhlanga Mar. 28, 2024

Ring-fence right skills, councils told

Acting Auditor General Rheah Kujinga said local authorities need to bring financial reporting to date, while updating their systems to sustain the IPSAS software.
By Tafadzwa Mhlanga Mar. 20, 2024

Councils struggling to produce financials: AG

She noted that documentation remains a major challenge for local authorities and encouraged utilities to come up with a root cause analysis to come up with a solution.
By Tafadzwa Mhlanga Mar. 19, 2024

Feature: When acting Auditor-General visited the small town of Macheke

For two decades the local authority failed to claim the house located in the famous Nyazema Township, prejudicing council on quite a handsome amount in potential revenue.
By Jairos Saunyama Jan. 9, 2024
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Nigerian tycoons make offer to lease AirZim Dreamliners

In aviation parlance, the term “equipment” also refers to aircraft.
By Freeman Makopa Nov. 3, 2023
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US$407m losses: Air Zimbabwe ‘dead as a dodo’

According to the report on SOEs and parastatals for the financial year ended December 31, 2022 (2019 for Air Zim), the airline continues to bleed with no solution in sight.
By Melody Chikono Oct. 29, 2023

High time to enforce no delivery, no pay policy

In her report, acting Auditor-General Rheah Kujinga noted that there were 51 entities that had not yet submitted financial statements for audit.
By The Zimbabwe Independent Oct. 27, 2023

‘Poor oversight fuelling mismanagement at SoEs’

This resulted in unauthorised excess expenditure of $87,224,158,615. Treasury was still to regularise the excess expenditure at the time of audit on May 16, 2022.
By Mirriam Mangwaya and Harriet Chikandiwa Oct. 27, 2023

‘Auditor-General grossly underfunded’

Acting Auditor-General Rheah Kujinga revealed this while appearing before the Public Accounts Committee to submit bids for the 2024 national budget.
By Harriet Chikandiwa Oct. 24, 2023