Mafume applies for exception to charges
Nyore Madzianike Senior Court Reporter Suspended Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume has today applied for exception to charges where he allegedly allocated residential stands to his sister and a secretary at...
View ArticlePolice hunt for hit and run driver
Crime Reporter Police have launched a manhunt for an unknown motorist who was driving a silver BMW vehicle who sped away from a police patrol car before running over and killing a person suspected to...
View ArticleLightning leaves 8 family members sharing hut
Eight family members, among them four children, have been forced to share one room after a lightning bolt razed down one of their huts at a homestead in Siyoka area, Ward 12, some 100km west of...
View ArticleEcobank workers up for theft
THREE Ecobank employees appeared in court yesterday on allegations of stealing US$14 000 from the vault, trying to hide the missing money by replacing higher denomination notes with lower value notes.
View ArticleBrother kills sister over sadza
A 27-year-old man suspected to be mentally ill, has been arrested on allegations of killing his sister after he was denied a third plate of sadza on Sunday night in Chiredzi.
View ArticleConcern raised over surge in divorce cases
Analysts have attributed the rise in marriage break-ups to financial challenges and the breakdown of the extended family system that used to play an integral part in preserving marriages.
View ArticleMafume denies being HCC employee
SUSPENDED Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume, who is charged with criminal abuse of duty as a public officer, yesterday denied being employed by the Harare City Council although acknowledging that he was a...
View ArticleDrugs land trio in trouble
THREE women were intercepted in Harare and Mutare in separate incidents after they were found in possession of 281kg of mbanje and 50 bottles of BronCleer cough syrup.
View ArticleBroncleer contraband intercepted
Crime Reporter Police officers yesterday intercepted 400 by 100mls bottles of BronCleer cough syrup with an estimated street value of ZAR40 000. The contraband was being transported in a Honda Fit...
View ArticleNaboth Kereke in court for rape, fraud
Nyore Madzianike Senior Court Reporter Naboth Kereke has today appeared in court on allegations of raping and defrauding four women on different occasions. Kereke appeared before Harare regional...
View ArticleChadcombe robber still to be buried
Crime Reporter One of the three robbers who was shot dead last December by retired detective Mr Joseph Nemaisa after they stormed his Chadcombe house looking for cash has not yet been buried. The three...
View ArticleSerial rapist, fraudster in the dock
Nyore Madzianike Senior Court Reporter Suspected serial rapist, Naboth Kereke, who was on the run since April last year after failing to present himself in court to answer to two counts of rape and...
View ArticleMan (30) rapes minor
Andrew Muvishi Mashonaland East Correspondent A 30-year-old man who allegedly raped a 13-year-old girl from Goromonzi appeared before Marondera magistrate yesterday facing rape charges. The man denied...
View ArticleT Freddy denies rape charges as his trial starts
Nyore Madzianike Senior Court Reporter Goodness and Mercy Ministries church leader Tapiwa Freddy has denied raping and physically abusing his ex-girlfriend when his trial opened at the Harare...
View ArticleVillagers fined for snubbing funeral
In a controversial traditional court ruling, Chief Madziwa has fined eleven villagers for snubbing a funeral in his area, a verdict the convicted strongly oppose, and threatened to appeal to higher...
View ArticleHatfield robbers in court on fresh charges
Prosper Dembedza Correspondent THE five armed robbers who are suspected of fatally shooting Elvis Chijaka and seriously injuring a business person and his partner in Hatfield, Harare, on Christmas Eve...
View ArticleProphet T Freddy raped me: woman tells court
Senior Court Reporter A Harare woman who lives with disability yesterday chronicled how Goodness and Mercy Ministries prophet Tapiwa Freddy (T Freddy) allegedly took advantage of the illness and...
View ArticleKidnapped Nkayi boy to be repatriated from Kenya
Crime Reporter Authorities from Zimbabwe and Kenya are working on paperwork to repatriate a seven-year-old boy from Nkayi who was kidnapped and taken to Kenya in 2016 in a case of human trafficking....
View Article“Limpopo robbers” jailed for possessing illegal guns
Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau Three men believed to be part of an armed robbery gang terrorising illegal immigrants and smugglers along the Limpopo river have been jailed for an effective 10 months...
View ArticleLimpopo robbers jailed 10 months
Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau Three men, believed to be part of an armed robbery gang terrorising illegal immigrants and smugglers along the Limpopo River, have been jailed for an effective 10...
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