Dinha seeks Concourt reprieve
Advocate Martin DinhaFidelis Munyoro Chief Court Reporter The trial of Mashonaland Central Provincial Affairs Minister Martin Dinha hit a snag yesterday after the case was deferred to tomorrow for the...
View Article‘Thieving’ model to be put to her defence
Mercy KamanuraCourt Reporter Black Opal Face of Zimbabwe second princess, Mercy Kamanura, yesterday had her application for discharge on a theft charge dismissed at the close of the State’s...
View ArticleMurder most foul . . . woman scalds baby with water meant for husband
Court Reporter A Harare woman allegedly killed her six-month-old baby after she mistakenly scalded him with water she meant to burn her husband with after coming across a video of a naked woman in his...
View ArticleFirst Oil fuel scandal sucks in ZB Bank pair
Fidelis Munyoro Chief Court Reporter First Oil, facing a lawsuit by CMED to recover $2,7 million it was paid for fuel never delivered is now applying to have ZB Bank and two of its managers joined to...
View ArticleHerald journalist’s trial date set for Dec 16
Tendai Rupapa Senior Court Reporter The trial date of The Herald assistant news editor Takunda Maodza, who is accused of blackmailing the director of Sam Levy’s Village Mr Isaac Levy into giving him...
View ArticleMP, 15 others to face trial on December 8
Fungai Jachi Court Correspondent The trial date of MDC-T legislator for Highfield East Eric Murai and 15 members of the opposition party accused of stoning police officers at an unsanctioned rally in...
View ArticleDinha extortion case goes to Concourt
Fidelis Munyoro Chief Court Reporter Mashonaland Central Provincial Affairs Minister Martin Dinha yesterday had his extortion trial suspended after the High Court referred the matter to the...
View ArticleDisciplinary hearing finds CMED boss guilty
Fidelis Munyoro Chief Court Reporter suspended CMED (Pvt) Ltd managing director Davison Mhaka, whose involvement in a fuel scam that prejudiced the parastatal of $3 million, has been found guilty on...
View ArticleJSC charges Gokwe magistrate
Midlands Bureau The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has charged Gokwe regional magistrate Shepherd Munjanja for unbecoming behaviour following his court case involving a Harare self-confessed...
View ArticleParly urged to clamp down on revenge pornography
Rutendo Rori Herald Reporter Women’S rights activists yesterday called on Parliament to enact a law that prohibits the distribution of pornographic material taken privately without the subject’s...
View ArticleBogus marriage officer jailed
Court Reporter A Kingdom Glory Ministries pastor who solemnised a wedding without a marriage officer’s certificate was yesterday sentenced to an effective eight months in jail.Prince Emmanuel Tsoka...
View Article‘Police entitled to retain spot fines’
Cde MatshiyaMunyaradzi Musiiwa Midlands Correspondent Police are not remitting all the revenue they collect from traffic offences to Treasury but are retaining some of it for internal use, an official...
View ArticleSuspected poacher guns down 2 cops
Ivan Zhakata Herald Reporter Two policemen and a civilian were shot dead on Tuesday by a suspected poacher in Chipinge while trying to arrest the illegal hunter.Sergeants Robert Shumba (39) and Vengai...
View ArticleKunonga appeals against $428k award
Bishop KunongaDaniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter Former Anglican Church leader Dr Nolbert Kunonga, who was last week ordered to pay $428 000 to the church as compensation for the shares he looted...
View ArticleN’anga acquitted on charge of raping client
Prosper Dembedza Court Correspondent A self-styled traditional healer who was accused of raping his client claiming that he wanted to remove a growth on her genitals has been acquitted. Ngonidzashe...
View ArticleProbrands loses 12k to employee
Fungai Jachi Court Correspondent Probrands (Pvt) Ltd allegedly lost $12 169 to an employee in a botched debt collection deal, the court heard yesterday. Edward Zambuko appeared before Harare magistrate...
View ArticleGoche wins maintenance case
Nicholas GocheIvan Zhakata Court Correspondent Harare Civil Court magistrate Mrs Barbra Mateko yesterday dismissed a $9 450 maintenance claim by a Harare woman against former Transport and...
View ArticleSix land barons up for $300 000 fraud
Tendai Rupapa Senior Court Reporter Six more land barons owning an unregistered housing co-operative in Harare have been arrested in connection with a fraud case in which home-seekers were swindled of...
View ArticleJealous hubby burns self while torching rival’s car
Court Reporter A Harare man suffered serious burns while torching a vehicle belonging to another man he suspected of having an adulterous relationship with his wife. Businessman Munyaradzi Nyandoro was...
View ArticleFly Africa squabbles take new twist
Herald Reporters Local Fly Africa shareholders Nu Aero Pvt Limited, have accused their foreign partners, FlyAfrica.com of externalising money from the business, in a sensational twist to squabbles that...
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