{"id":68639,"date":"2022-10-31T19:03:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T17:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/securocrats-challenged-to-account-for-proceeds-from-drc-war"},"modified":"2022-10-31T21:36:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T19:36:28","slug":"securocrats-challenged-to-account-for-proceeds-from-drc-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/securocrats-challenged-to-account-for-proceeds-from-drc-war","title":{"rendered":"Securocrats Challenged To Account For \u201cProceeds\u201d From DRC War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Independent Norton legislator, Temba Mliswa has challenged securocrats to account for \u201cproceeds\u201d from Zimbabwe\u2019s participation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) war of the late 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Late Laurent Kabila, the then DRC president, sought the assistance of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) to fend off insurgency in return for mineral concessions in that country, NewZimbabwe.com reports.<\/p>\n<p>The deal between Kabila and then President Robert Mugabe was shrouded in secrecy amid suspicion Zimbabwe\u2019s founding leader and his inner circle, including army generals, amassed rich pickings.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a recent pre-budget meeting of Parliament in Harare, Mliswa said:<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe joined the DRC war and there was supposed to be something for us. I would want to know what has happened to that because when we go there, it is a service. I look at the police, the prison and the army as a service. They are there to generate money.<\/p>\n<p>We have a history in terms of resources being given to the Defence ministry. At times it is a question of mismanagement of resources. So while we are talking about resources, the critical issue is their management.<\/p>\n<p>The former ZANU PF legislator also challenged Defence Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri to deal with rampant corruption in the army and airforce.<\/p>\n<p>He said there was massive mismanagement of resources of the Defence and Home Affairs ministries.<\/p>\n<p>Mliswa\u2019s contribution came after Muchinguri-Kashiri\u2019s report on the defence forces\u2019 poor condition of service where soldiers were reportedly being served sadza and beans daily, and some staying in old dilapidated barracks countrywide.<\/p>\n<p>Mliswa said ZDF wouldn\u2019t be buying uniforms if resources were being managed well adding that there are sewing machines that can be used to make the uniforms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Independent Norton legislator, Temba Mliswa has challenged securocrats to account for \u201cproceeds\u201d from Zimbabwe\u2019s participation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) war of the late 1990s. Late Laurent Kabila, the then DRC president, sought the assistance of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) to fend off insurgency in return for mineral concessions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":68638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[1493,2189,12563,12562,30,19],"class_list":["post-68639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-files","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","tag-drc-war","tag-laurent-kabila","tag-robert-mugabe","tag-zimbabwe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Securocrats Challenged To Account For \u201cProceeds\u201d From DRC War - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Independent Norton legislator, Temba Mliswa has challenged securocrats to account for \u201cproceeds\u201d from Zimbabwe\u2019s partici ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/securocrats-challenged-to-account-for-proceeds-from-drc-war\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Securocrats Challenged To Account For \u201cProceeds\u201d From DRC War\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Independent Norton legislator, Temba Mliswa has challenged securocrats to account for \u201cproceeds\u201d from Zimbabwe\u2019s partici ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/securocrats-challenged-to-account-for-proceeds-from-drc-war\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-10-31T17:03:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-10-31T19:36:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_19-636023721f9f2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1276\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"681\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/securocrats-challenged-to-account-for-proceeds-from-drc-war#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/securocrats-challenged-to-account-for-proceeds-from-drc-war\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Securocrats Challenged To Account For \u201cProceeds\u201d From DRC War\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-10-31T17:03:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-10-31T19:36:28+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/securocrats-challenged-to-account-for-proceeds-from-drc-war\"},\"wordCount\":308,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/securocrats-challenged-to-account-for-proceeds-from-drc-war#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_19-636023721f9f2.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zimbabwe\",\"DRC War\",\"Laurent Kabila\",\"Robert Mugabe\",\"Zimbabwe\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"files\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/securocrats-challenged-to-account-for-proceeds-from-drc-war#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/securocrats-challenged-to-account-for-proceeds-from-drc-war\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/securocrats-challenged-to-account-for-proceeds-from-drc-war\",\"name\":\"Securocrats Challenged To Account For \u201cProceeds\u201d From DRC War - zimbabwe\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/securocrats-challenged-to-account-for-proceeds-from-drc-war#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/securocrats-challenged-to-account-for-proceeds-from-drc-war#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_19-636023721f9f2.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-10-31T17:03:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-10-31T19:36:28+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Independent Norton legislator, Temba Mliswa has challenged securocrats to account for \u201cproceeds\u201d from Zimbabwe\u2019s partici ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/securocrats-challenged-to-account-for-proceeds-from-drc-war#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/securocrats-challenged-to-account-for-proceeds-from-drc-war\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/securocrats-challenged-to-account-for-proceeds-from-drc-war#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_19-636023721f9f2.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_19-636023721f9f2.jpg\",\"width\":1276,\"height\":681,\"caption\":\"Securocrats Challenged To Account For \u201cProceeds\u201d From DRC War\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/securocrats-challenged-to-account-for-proceeds-from-drc-war#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Securocrats Challenged To Account For \u201cProceeds\u201d From DRC War\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/\",\"name\":\"zimbabwe\",\"description\":\"\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u064a\u0648\u0645\u064a\u0629 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0645\u062f\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0627\u0639\u0629\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Securocrats Challenged To Account For \u201cProceeds\u201d From DRC War - zimbabwe","description":"Independent Norton legislator, Temba Mliswa has challenged securocrats to account for \u201cproceeds\u201d from Zimbabwe\u2019s partici ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/securocrats-challenged-to-account-for-proceeds-from-drc-war","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Securocrats Challenged To Account For \u201cProceeds\u201d From DRC War","og_description":"Independent Norton legislator, Temba Mliswa has challenged securocrats to account for \u201cproceeds\u201d from Zimbabwe\u2019s partici ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/securocrats-challenged-to-account-for-proceeds-from-drc-war","og_site_name":"zimbabwe","article_published_time":"2022-10-31T17:03:12+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-10-31T19:36:28+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1276,"height":681,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_19-636023721f9f2.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/securocrats-challenged-to-account-for-proceeds-from-drc-war#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/securocrats-challenged-to-account-for-proceeds-from-drc-war"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Securocrats Challenged To Account For \u201cProceeds\u201d From DRC War","datePublished":"2022-10-31T17:03:12+00:00","dateModified":"2022-10-31T19:36:28+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/securocrats-challenged-to-account-for-proceeds-from-drc-war"},"wordCount":308,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/securocrats-challenged-to-account-for-proceeds-from-drc-war#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_19-636023721f9f2.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Zimbabwe","DRC War","Laurent Kabila","Robert Mugabe","Zimbabwe"],"articleSection":["all news","files"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/securocrats-challenged-to-account-for-proceeds-from-drc-war#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/securocrats-challenged-to-account-for-proceeds-from-drc-war","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/securocrats-challenged-to-account-for-proceeds-from-drc-war","name":"Securocrats Challenged To Account For \u201cProceeds\u201d From DRC War - zimbabwe","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/securocrats-challenged-to-account-for-proceeds-from-drc-war#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/securocrats-challenged-to-account-for-proceeds-from-drc-war#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_19-636023721f9f2.jpg","datePublished":"2022-10-31T17:03:12+00:00","dateModified":"2022-10-31T19:36:28+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Independent Norton legislator, Temba Mliswa has challenged securocrats to account for \u201cproceeds\u201d from Zimbabwe\u2019s partici ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/securocrats-challenged-to-account-for-proceeds-from-drc-war#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/securocrats-challenged-to-account-for-proceeds-from-drc-war"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/securocrats-challenged-to-account-for-proceeds-from-drc-war#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_19-636023721f9f2.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_19-636023721f9f2.jpg","width":1276,"height":681,"caption":"Securocrats Challenged To Account For \u201cProceeds\u201d From DRC War"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/securocrats-challenged-to-account-for-proceeds-from-drc-war#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Securocrats Challenged To Account For \u201cProceeds\u201d From DRC War"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/","name":"zimbabwe","description":"\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u064a\u0648\u0645\u064a\u0629 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0645\u062f\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0627\u0639\u0629","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}