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Gang leader escapes police shoot-out

March 20, 2020, 3:08 pm
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Freeman Razemba and Victor Maphosa Two of the five armed robbers killed in a shoot-out with police along Glenara Avenue in Harare yesterday were South Africans, while the other three who were captured alive were Zimbabweans; but the gang leader and most wanted suspect, the notorious Musa Taj Abdul (alias Musa Mahommed), managed to escape. […]
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Chitungwiza Mayor Maiko wants prosecution dismissed

March 22, 2020, 3:01 pm
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Yeukai Karengezeka Court Correspondent Chitungwiza Mayor Lovemore Maiko has filed an urgent chamber application with the High Court to set aside the case lodged against him by Ward 13 councillor Kevin Mutimbanyoka. Mutimbanyoka had applied for a relief order against the decision by Maiko and other senior council officials to suspend the then substantive town […]
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Kadungure applies for exception to fraud charges

March 22, 2020, 3:02 pm
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Tendai Rupapa Senior Reporter Businessman Genius Kadungure, who is facing four counts of prejudicing Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) of over $3,8 million in taxes, has applied for exception on all the counts arguing he did not act criminally in any way. Kadungure is charged in his personal capacity as the second accused while his company, […]
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Patient wins drug overdose case

March 22, 2020, 3:03 pm
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Fidelis Munyoro Chief Court Reporter A Harare man has been awarded $20 000 compensation for taking wrong quantities of medicine after a pharmacist at a private clinic negligently mislabelled the sachets of the prescribed medication, resulting in him suffering acute kidney injuries. Mr Robert Green visited Albert Zinn Medical Centre seeking treatment for gastroenteritis but […]
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Lawyers welcome joint custody ruling

March 23, 2020, 3:03 pm
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Prosper Dembedza Court Correspondent LAWYERS have welcomed last week’s ruling by High Court Judge Justice Happias Zhou which gave parents of children born out of wedlock joint custody, saying it was in line with the country’s Constitution. The landmark judgment ended a long-drawn custody dispute pitting businessman Mr Frank Buyanga and his ex-girlfriend, Ms Chantelle […]
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Motorist runs over 2 school kids

March 23, 2020, 3:03 pm
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John Manzongo Senior Photojournalist Two schoolchildren were yesterday morning ran over by a car at a pick-up point in Harare. National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the accident. “I can confirm that two schoolchildren who reside in Rydale Ridge were hit and killed on the spot yesterday morning while waiting for transport to […]
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Latest on robbers’ shooting

March 23, 2020, 3:03 pm
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Crime Reporter TWO of the five armed robbers who were last week gunned down along Glenara Avenue in Harare, were Zimbabweans, who had acquired South African identity documents. Taurai Chitapa (36) and Dumisani Mahlangu (45), who stayed in South Africa but used to slip into Zimbabwe for robberies, had acquired foreign citizenship under unclear circumstances. […]
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20 former farm workers evicted

March 23, 2020, 3:03 pm
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Ivan Zhakata Herald Correspondent TWENTY former workers of Water Vlei Farm along Seke Road in Chitungwiza and their families were evicted yesterday after foiled attempts two weeks ago when they attacked the Messenger of Court. Yesterday, the Messenger of Court accompanied by anti-riot police managed to enforce the eviction order. When The Herald crew visited […]
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Merchant code holders duped of thousands

March 23, 2020, 3:03 pm
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Tendai Rupapa Senior Reporter Several people and companies with Econet merchant code facilities lost varying amounts of money to two suspected fraudsters. The Harare Magistrates Courts heard yesterday that the suspects would phone targets purporting to be conducting random checks. After being told of any challenges they would then request for a one-time password that […]
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Mubaiwa trial postponed

March 23, 2020, 3:07 pm
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Tendai Rupapa Senior Reporter The trial of Marry Mubaiwa, the estranged wife of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, on the charge of assaulting the family maid failed to open yesterday after the State applied for postponement. It will now run from May 12 to 15. Deputy chief magistrate Mr Crispen Mberewere deferred the matter after the […]
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Company challenges USD-Zimdollar ruling

March 24, 2020, 3:02 pm
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THE legal validity of a Supreme Court judgment which converted United States dollar debts to the Zimdollar at a rate of 1:1 in line with Statutory Instrument 33 of 2019, must be tested by a nine-judge panel of the Constitutional Court, according to lawyers acting for NR Barber, a mining company, locked in a fierce legal battle with Zambezi Gas Pvt Ltd.
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Mupfumira case deferred

March 24, 2020, 3:03 pm
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Harare regional magistrate Mr Crispen Mberewere yesterday deferred the criminal abuse of office charges against former Cabinet minister Prisca Mupfumira and ex-Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare permanent secretary Ngoni Masoka to July 1.
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Soldier’s killer jailed 30 years

March 24, 2020, 3:03 pm
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A MAN from Epworth has been jailed 30 years for robbing and killing a soldier.
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Judge’s son up for murder

March 25, 2020, 3:03 pm
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THE son of a High Court judge and his two friends allegedly robbed a Harare cellphone dealer of his four handsets and fatally stabbed him before dumping the corpse in a bush in Ruwa.
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Eyewitnesses relive Glenara Ave shoot-out

March 25, 2020, 3:05 pm
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As police pursued a speeding white Mazda BT50 truck carrying a gang of robbers down Glenara Avenue South in Eastlea, Harare, movie-style gunfire exchange, staff at Pro-Auto Styling Centre heard gunshots, then saw the Mazda turn into their premises through a wide-open gate and ramming into a parked Toyota Hilux.
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President loses phone to driver

March 25, 2020, 3:05 pm
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PRESIDENT Mnangagwa’s driver has been spared jail after he was ordered to perform 315 hours of unpaid work for stealing a cellphone handed to the President as a gift when he recently hosted a field day at his Precabe Farm in Kwekwe.
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Kidnap drama for Buyanga’s child

March 26, 2020, 3:55 pm
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Daniel Nemukuyu Investigations and Special Reports Editor BUSINESSMAN Mr Frank Buyanga’s five-year-old child, who was at the centre of a recent landmark judgment on joint guardianship and custody, was yesterday kidnapped movie-style by two armed men driving an unregistered Ford Ranger at Waterfalls Shopping Centre in Harare. The boy’s grandmother, Mrs Judith Muteswa, was seriously […]
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Mine loses land dispute

March 26, 2020, 4:04 pm
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Fidelis Munyoro Chief Court Reporter PINKSTONE Mining (Pvt) Ltd’s request to have an interim interdict granted against LafargeHolcim Cement Zimbabwe from mining lime on a piece of land in Pfura Rural District in Mashonaland Central Province has failed after the High Court turned down the injunction confirmation. The interim relief in March 2018 was granted […]
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2 notorious immigrants deported

March 26, 2020, 4:25 pm
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Crime Reporter TWO illegal immigrants who have been evading deportation for years through threats of violence and supplying authorities with false identity information, have been deported. The Immigration Department’s spokesperson Mrs Canisia Magaya issued a statement confirming the deportation of the pair. “On 23 March 2020, Zimbabwe deported Mabu John alias Ibrahim Abdurahaman (38) a […]
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Zim cocaine pusher jailed

March 27, 2020, 3:02 pm
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Correspondent A drug dealer from Slough has been jailed for four years after he took over the Canterbury home of an elderly vulnerable man to peddle crack cocaine and heroin. Nyasha Mushayandebvu (25), of Bromycroft Road, Slough, occupied the property of a man in his sixties, who had learning difficulties and mental health difficulties. Mushayandebvu […]
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