Kangai’s estate loses farm caveat bid
The late Cde KangaiFidelis Munyoro Chief Court Reporter The late national hero Kumbirai Kangai’s land development company, Luna Estate, has lost a bid to remove a caveat placed on a farm it sought to...
View ArticleRapist pastor jailed 22 years
Pastor Onbert MapfumoSheillah Mapani Herald Reporter By Grace Ministries founder Onbert Mapfumo, who was arrested for raping two female congregants, has been jailed effective 22 years. Mapfumo (39) of...
View ArticleFaeces row earns man 2 years in jail
Fungai Lupande Court Reporter A Mbare man has been sentenced to two years in prison for stabbing his neighbour with an Okapi knife after the neighbour’s child had defecated on his doorstep. Wonder...
View Article$2m ZACC allowances case hits brickwall
Fidelis Munyoro Chief Court Reporter Seventeen Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (zacc) employees suffered a huge setback after an arbitrator refused to endorse a combined $2 million claim for...
View ArticleEx-mayor clings to office keys
Chitungwiza MunicipalityLovemore Meya Herald Correspondent Fired Chitungwiza mayor Councillor Phillip Mutoti is holding on to keys to his former office that are required by the caretaker commission for...
View ArticleChitungwiza council battles 129 lawsuits
Chitungwiza municipalityLovemore Meya Herald Correspondent CASH-STRAPPED Chitungwiza Municipality is battling 129 lawsuits involving labour, civil and criminal cases worth over $7 million.Some of the...
View ArticleKasukuwere sued
Minister KasukuwereDaniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter Suspended Chitungwiza mayor Phillip Mutoti and 12 councillors — part of officials under investigation for corruptly allocating themselves tracts...
View Article‘Land barons’ target open spaces
Mr PawadyiraLovemore Meya Herald Correspondent Some unruly elements in Chitungwiza are reportedly occupying open spaces ahead of the land identification and regularisation process being spearheaded by...
View ArticleCrash survivor sues bus firm for $26 000
High court of ZimbabweHazel Lifa Herald Reporter A police officer who lost his wife and daughter in a Pioneer bus accident in 2015 is suing the company for $26 000. In papers filed at the High Court,...
View ArticleApex court to rule on demo ban
Mr MwonzoraFidelis Munyoro Chief Court Reporter The Supreme Court is today expected to hear an appeal by opposition political parties under the banner of the National Electoral Reform Agenda (Nera)...
View ArticleRoad fatalities down 15pc
Mr ChinyereTedious Manyepo Herald Reporter At least 581 people have been killed, while 3 260 were injured in road accidents recorded countrywide between January and May this year, Traffic Safety...
View ArticleOld Limpopo Bridge now crime haven
Limpopo BridgeThupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau Criminal activities are the order of the day at the Alfred Beit Bridge (Old Limpopo Bridge) where touts, thieves, conmen, wheeler dealers and vendors are...
View ArticleNera case referred to Concourt
Tendai BitiFidelis Munyoro Chief Court Reporter Opposition political parties which are part of the National Electoral Reform Agenda (NERA) yesterday had their case challenging the validity of police...
View ArticleHarare City blows $11m on salaries
Mildred ChiriAbigail Mawonde Herald Correspondent Harare City Council violated the Urban Councils Act when it borrowed $11 million from a financial institution to pay salaries and terminal benefits for...
View ArticleCourt exposes Chitungwiza rot . Mayor ‘bought stand on behalf of 3-year-old son’
Philip MutotiLovemore Meya Herald Correspondent Suspended Chitungwiza mayor Philip Mutoti allegedly acquired a residential stand in the name of his three-year-old son which he later resold, the court...
View Article$60k vanishes from teachers’ union
Freeman Razemba Herald Reporter Police have widened investigations following reports that Zimbabwe Democratic Teachers’ Union (ZDTU) leaders misappropriated over $60 000.A forensic audit report by...
View ArticleInterpol trains ZRP officers
ZRPFreeman Razemba Crime Reporter Zimbabwe Republic Police officers were part of a team that was trained recently by the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) on using firearms to trace...
View ArticleZisco property attached
Minister ChinamasaMidlands Correspondent The Sheriff of the High Court yesterday attached vehicles, machinery and other movable property belonging to the Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (Zisco)...
View ArticleZimra busts fuel smuggling scam
ZIMRA officesThupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has smashed a massive fuel smuggling scandal at Beitbridge Border Post after it intercepted two tankers carrying...
View ArticleHarare evicts tenants
Innocent Ruwende Senior Reporter Harare City Council has started evicting over 100 tenants from its rented properties in high density suburbs of Highfield and Glen Norah over debts amounting to more...
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