since been vindicated of any wrongdoing on his transactions in Cape Town. From 2003 until 2005, Kuruneri was placed on the United States sanctions list. On 24 April 2004, Kuruneri was arrested for externalising funds and was reported to have externalised US$1.082 million, 34 471 British pounds and 30 000 Euros. Kuruneri made headlines in the South African Sunday Times when it broke a story that he was building a R30 million mansion in the exclusive suburb of Llandudno in Cape Town. It was also alleged that he also owned other properties in the same suburb which he bought for R2.7 million in 2002 and is reported to own shares in a block of apartments at Sea Point. Kuruneri had two passports, one a Canadian one and at the time dual citizenship was prohibited in Zimbabwe. Though Kuruneri argued that what he did was above the law because he earned the money he used to buy the properties from consultancy work for Mobile Systems International and Felipe Solano, the law says if one earns any money while resident in Zimbabwe, that money must be brought into the country. He spent more than a year in remand prison and after 10 appeals for bail; Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku released him on bail and he was later acquitted by the High Court in 2007. Despite all the harassment, Kuruneri has remained a loyal Zanu PF member, Kuruneri stood in Mount Darwin East election in the 31 July 2013 polls and his electoral victory made it possible for him to make his way back to the National Assembly, but failed to catapult him into Cabinet after he was overlooked by Robert Mugabe. Personal life Kuruneri married Dr. Titi Violet Palesa Mohapi in Edmonton, Canada, having one child by her. Dr. Mohapi died in 2014, having the Dr Titi Mohapi Day Care Centre founded in her honour in Maseru, Lesotho. Kuruneri subsequently remarried in Harare, Zimbabwe and had two daughters. Kuruneri also fathered 4 other children who reside in the UK, Canada and France. On 19 May 2016, Kuruneri collapsed in Parliament from an undisclosed ailment. References 1949 births 2022 deaths People from Harare Finance Ministers of Zimbabwe Members of the National Assembly of Zimbabwe 20th-century Zimbabwean politicians 21st-century Zimbabwean politicians ZANU–PF politicians