Unpaid work for hubby basher
Yeukai Karengezeka Herald Correspondent A Chitungwiza woman, who appeared in court last week for bashing her husband and scalding him with porridge, has been sentenced to serve 608 hours of community...
View ArticleGood Samaritan loses property, cash
Midlands Reporter A married woman from Ascot suburb in Gweru allegedly lost a decoder, two cellphones and cash amounting to $146 to a man she had met around 3am while coming from a nightclub and...
View Article$15 bribe lands cop in the dock
A Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officer stationed at Morris Depot in Harare appeared in court last week for allegedly soliciting and receiving a bribe from a Mutasa man, who wanted a police clearance...
View ArticleUPDATED: Former minister hits hard times
Former Cabinet minister Samuel Undenge has fallen on hard times and is struggling to raise money to travel from Chimanimani to Harare every week to report at Highlands Police Station as part of his...
View ArticleZimParks boss acquitted in $3m saga
Tendai Rupapa Senior Court Reporter Former Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority director-general Mr Edson Chidziya, accused of concealing an audit report in 2015, which exposed the theft of...
View Article9 arrested over MDC-T violence
NINE people, including Bulawayo deputy mayor Gift Banda and two other councillors, have been arrested in connection with violence that rocked MDC-T provincial offices in the city on Sunday, which left...
View ArticleUPDATED: CEO rapes, impregnates minor
Windmill Pvt Ltd chief executive officer George Rundogo, allegedly raped and impregnated his relative's 15-year-old daughter and gave her $900 to buy her silence, a court heard last week.
View ArticleHubby ‘butchers’ wife with machete
Wimbainashe Zhakata Mutare Correspondent A 25-YEAR-OLD Honde Valley man was last week sentenced to four years in prison for brutally assaulting his wife with a machete over alleged infidelity. Cuthbert...
View ArticleSerial rapist jailed 72 years
Martha Leboho Masvingo Correspondent The serial rapist from Chivi, who on Tuesday begged the court to hang him for his heinous acts, has been sentenced to an effective 72 years in jail. Regional...
View ArticleEx-Chitungwiza boss told to return car, gadgets
FORMER Chitungwiza Municipality director of works Mr Maxwell Karenyi has been ordered to surrender an official Toyota Hilux, laptop and other gadgets that he used.
View ArticleWoman extradited over 2m pula fraud
A 40-year-old Zimbabwean woman was recently extradited to Botswana from her safe haven in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to face fraud charges involving 2 million pula.
View ArticleHawks nab cross-border vehicle theft kingpin
South Africa’s serious crime-busting unit (Hawks) have arrested a 31-year-old man, believed to be the ring leader of a gang specialising in stealing and smuggling vehicles to Zimbabwe through the...
View ArticleFather killer thrown behind bars
A DOTITO man has been jailed 15 years for striking his 70-year-old father with a pestle for eating his six mice. Two days before the murder, the father had reportedly stolen a jar of sour milk which...
View ArticleExam cheats lose case
The High Court has upheld the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) decision to nullify all November 2017 Ordinary Level results for four St David’s Bonda High School pupils who were caught...
View ArticleMutare seeks to recover $4k from ex-employee
Mutare City Council has resolved to lodge a complaint with the police against its former human resources clerk, who allegedly got employed using forged documents, a move that has pushed council to...
View ArticleRobbers pounce on Bona mansion
Nokutenda Chiyangwa Herald Reporter Three armed robbers stormed a construction site in Umwisdale, which is believed to belong to Bona Mugabe, and manhandled a police officer on duty before fleeing with...
View ArticleJUST IN: Man released from jail, up for murder
A 30-year-old man from Amaveni suburb in Kwekwe who fatally stabbed a fellow drinking mate, barely three days after being released from jail, has appeared before a magistrate facing murder charges.
View ArticleMan sodomises schoolboy (9)
A 37-year-old man has been jailed for 25 years after he was found guilty of sodomising a nine-year-old boy and forcing him to suck his manhood in full view of his younger sister.
View ArticleBona Mugabe robbers jailed
Nokutenda Chiyangwa Herald Reporter The three robbers who stormed a construction site in Umwinsidale, which is believed to belong to Ms Bona Chikore (nee Mugabe), were yesterday sentenced to an...
View ArticlePasuwa fined for illegal occupation of land
Yeukai Karengezeka Herald Correspondent Former Zimbabwe national football team coach Callisto Pasuwa was yesterday convicted and fined $150 by a Chitungwiza court for illegally occupying land in...
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