As he was preparing to deliver a report on corruption as chairman of the powerful parliamentary committee on public accounts, the MP and former finance minister Tendai Biti found himself unexpectedly expelled from parliament on 17 April. The event gives some measure of the power of local business kingpin Kuda Tagwirei, who Biti says featured prominently in the report. The 52-year-old advisor to President Emmerson Mnangagwa leads an empire that ranges from trading to fuel distribution to mining, finance,