Zim magistrates hailed for excellency
Chief Magistrate GuvamombeDaniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter— Magistrates in Zimbabwe have this year maintained their outstanding performance as they cleared a whopping 171 375 criminal and civil...
View ArticleZanu-PF members up for violence
Lovemore Meya Court Correspondent Six zanu-pf members in Chitungwiza who allegedly stormed a Seventh Day Adventist Church destroying a 95-metre long precast wall valued at $3 000 claiming the stand...
View ArticleMan jailed 4 years for theft
Court Correspondent A 35-year-old Mbare man who targeted deserted homes to steal electrical gadgets was last week sentenced to four years and eight months in prison for unlawful entry.Lameck Motive...
View ArticleMotorists cry foul over proposed $100 fine
Minister ChinamasaAbigail Mawonde Herald Correspondent Motorists have castigated plans by Government to hike fines for traffic offences saying this would promote corruption within the police...
View ArticleFengu challenges court’s restitution order
Fidelis FenguCourt Reporter Political activist Fidelis Fengu, who was jailed for masquerading as an immigration principal director and forging a letter for a Chinese who wanted a residence permit, has...
View ArticleConcourt challenge for city’s vehicle clamping, tow away
Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter The constitutionality of by-laws allowing municipalities to clamp and tow away vehicles and the manner in which the process is carried out has been challenged and...
View ArticleImmigration officer accused of illegally endorsing visa
Court Correspondent A Zimbabwe Immigration principal officer yesterday appeared in court for unlawfully endorsing a Zimbabwean residence re-entry visa to a Deutsch national so that he would stay in the...
View ArticleHigh Court to decentralise
George Maponga Masvingo Bureau The Judicial Service Commission has started moves to decentralise the High Court to all the country’s provinces, with Masvingo set to have the first permanent seat of the...
View ArticleGishon Ntini’s wife testifies in court
Fungai Jachi Court Correspondent Football coach Gishon Ntini, who is accused of indecently assaulting a woman he held responsible for the disappearance of his son, yesterday brought his wife to court...
View ArticleInfecting ‘lover (14)’ with STI earns man prison term
Lovemore Meya Court Correspondent A 21-year-old HIV positive Chitungwiza man, who infected his 14-year-old girlfriend with a sexual transmitted disease, was yesterday sentenced to 10 years in prison....
View ArticleBribe-taking cops hauled to court
Lovemore Meya Court Correspondent Four traffic police officers stationed at Chitungwiza Police Station, who allegedly solicited for bribes from motorists at a roadblock along Harare-Hwedza road,...
View ArticleThieving nurse granted $30 bail
Fungai Jachi Court Correspondent A 32-year-old nurse at Harare Central Hospital was yesterday arraigned before the courts for allegedly stealing 21 boxes of sutures (stitches) worth $231 from the...
View ArticleCops face fresh extortion charge
Lovemore Meya Court Correspondent Two Chitungwiza-based policemen who are facing $35 extortion charges are back in the dock, this time facing an allegation of demanding $2 000 from a couple they...
View ArticleWarrant of arrest for eye-gouging suspect
Lovemore Meya Court Correspondent A Chitungwiza man, accused of gorging out a policeman’s eye after hitting him with an empty beer bottle, is on the run and was slapped with a warrant of arrest...
View ArticleDiamond Centre ordered to pay $4,3m
Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter The High Court has ordered the Zimbabwe Diamond Technology Centre (Pvt) Ltd (ZDTC) to pay $4,3 million plus interest to some seven construction firms that were...
View ArticleMaridadi denies stealing NRZ ticket book
Prosper Dembedza Court Correspondent The trial of MDC-T Member of Parliament for Mabvuku-Tafara constituency James Maridadi in which he is being accused of grabbing a National Railways of Zimbabwe...
View ArticleNUST slapped with $600 000 lawsuit
Lindela Rowland Ndlovu,Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter— The National University of Science and Technology (NUST) has been slapped with a $600 000 lawsuit for failing to pay for the services of an...
View ArticleZPC boss acquitted
Fungai Jachi Court Correspondent A Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) boss was yesterday acquitted of indecent assault charges by a Mbare magistrate. Patrick Ndhlovu (52), who is a ZPC shift charge...
View ArticleTeenager rapes cousin (5)
Lovemore Meya Court Correspondent A Chitungwiza teenager allegedly raped his five-year-old cousin while accompanying her home from school. The teenager (18) was not asked to plead to rape charges...
View ArticleGumbura plotted to dethrone Govt: Witness
Robert Martin GumburaTendai Rupapa Senior Court Reporter Jailed Independent End Time Message leader Robert Martin Gumbura communicated with alleged coup plotter and former army captain Albert Matapo...
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