{"id":209230,"date":"2025-10-08T07:29:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T05:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mutodi-removed-as-parliamentary-committee-chair-over-bribery-claims-against-finance-ministry-ps-guvamatanga\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T07:29:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T05:29:42","slug":"zimbabwe-mutodi-removed-as-parliamentary-committee-chair-over-bribery-claims-against-finance-ministry-ps-guvamatanga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mutodi-removed-as-parliamentary-committee-chair-over-bribery-claims-against-finance-ministry-ps-guvamatanga\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Mutodi Removed As Parliamentary Committee Chair Over Bribery Claims Against Finance Ministry PS Guvamatanga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Bikita South MP Energy Mutodi has been removed from his position as Chairperson of Parliament&#8217;s Portfolio Committee on Budget, Finance and Economic Development following allegations he made against Finance Ministry Permanent Secretary George Guvamatanga, accusing him of receiving multi-million dollar kickbacks from government contractors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">In a post on X last week, Mutodi claimed Parliament had received complaints regarding Guvamatanga&#8217;s conduct and alleged that he was demanding payments of between&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510080110.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bikita South MP Energy Mutodi has been removed from his position as Chairperson of Parliament&#8217;s Portfolio Committee on Budget, Finance and Economic Development following allegations he made against Finance Ministry Permanent Secretary George Guvamatanga, accusing him of receiving multi-million dollar kickbacks from government contractors. In a post on X last week, Mutodi claimed Parliament had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,7673,6412,8117,5857,7829,43248,6857,21205,257,5855,15291,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-209230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bribery","tag-chair","tag-claims","tag-committee","tag-finance","tag-guvamatanga","tag-ministry","tag-mutodi","tag-news","tag-parliamentary","tag-removed","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}