A medicine woman who conned President Robert Mugabe’s government out of about US$1million by bamboozling ministers into believing she could tap diesel fuel from a rock, was convicted of fraud at the weekend. Rotina Mavhunga, who goes by the alias of Nomatter Tagirira, found an abandoned fuel tank in the bush near the northern town of Chinhoyi in March 2007. She filled it with diesel, attached a pipe to the outlet and concealed it at the top of a rock. She then summoned government officials to witness her “discovery.” A hidden accomplice would open the tap on the pipe and the officials would gasp in amazement as refined diesel poured down the side of the rock.