Harare — Saviour Kasukuwere, a former government minister and Zanu-PF national political commissar, appeared in court on Friday facing charges of violating Zimbabwe’s immigration act for "border jumping" when he fled Zimbabwe in November last year, after the fall of former ruler Robert Mugabe. Kasukuwere returned to the country last month after spending six months in self-imposed exile in SA. Since Mugabe’s fall last year, several former top government and Zanu-PF officials, such as Ignatius Chombo, the former finance minister; Walter Chidhakwa, the former mines minister; and Walter Mzembi, the former foreign affairs minister, have been brought before the courts facing various charges. President Emmerson Mnangagwa has vowed to make the fight against corruption a tenet of his administration. This was also in Zanu-PF’s election manifesto launched last month.
Jonathan Moyo, a former cabinet minister who is exiled in Kenya said the law was being applied selectively, as Mnangagwa h...
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