Illegal billboard suspects case deferred
Prosper Dembedza Court Correspondent The matter in which two Harare men suspected of illegally erecting a billboard in Borrowdale, with damaging information on a local development company has been...
View ArticleWoman kidnapped in Harare CBD
Prosper Dembedza Court Correspondent A 30-year-old Harare man has appeared in court on allegations of kidnapping a woman in the Harare Central Business District. Jethro Mubaiwa was facing kidnapping...
View ArticleDeny armed robbers bail at all costs
Dr Masimba Mavaza Correspondent Bail is a temporary release of an accused person while awaiting trial. This is when the person arrested for a criminal offence and awaiting trial can be allowed to go...
View ArticleIllegal billboard suspects appear in court
Court Correspondent Two Harare men who allegedly erected a billboard with damaging information on a property development company in Borrowdale go on trial on February 9 after their application to have...
View ArticleMashwede robbery vehicle, safe recovered
Crime Reporter A team of police forensic experts and fingerprint scientists have been roped in to assist in investigating the case in which four robbers recently raided a Mashwede Holdings food court...
View ArticleTwo guards jailed over $4,9m border alcohol deal
Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau Two security guards who were last month paid R3 000 by a smuggler to release from the Beitbridge customs yard, a truck carrying alcohol worth nearly $5 million in...
View ArticleChief Chikwaka testifies in Prophet Freddy trial
Nyore Madzianike Senior Court Reporter The trial of Goodness and Mercy Ministries Church leader Prophet Tapiwa Freddy on rape charges continued yesterday with Chief Chikwaka (Murambiwa Witness Bungu),...
View ArticleRushwaya wants trial date set
Senior Court Reporter HENRIETTA Rushwaya and her three alleged accomplices accused of attempting to smuggle 6kg of gold through the VIP route at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport yesterday...
View ArticleChihuri wealth case deferred
Court Reporter The High Court has deferred to next month, the case in which the State is seeking explanation from former police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri on the sale of five properties...
View ArticleSA Police turn heat on tobacco smugglers
Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau South African police have intercepted a contraband of cigarettes worth nearly R670 000 as they clamp down on smuggling activities along the Limpopo River. Two suspects...
View ArticleGuard arrested for losing firearm while drinking
Crime Reporter A 30-year-old security officer has been arrested after losing a service firearm and failed to report to the police, while a suspected house breaker has been arrested in Concession where...
View ArticleMamombe, activists application thrown out
Court Reporter The application by five MDC-Alliance activists to refer their charges of staging an illegal demonstration in Harare during the high level lockdown in May last year to the Constitutional...
View ArticleMDC A activist on terrorism trial in the UK
Herald Reporter MDC Alliance activist William Chinyanga, who in 2019 instigated his followers on social media platforms to bomb the Zanu PF Headquarters, is on trial in the United Kingdom on terrorism...
View ArticleEx-Pokugara employee denies perjury charges
Prosper Dembedza Court Correspondent A former employee of Pokugara Properties (Pvt) Ltd, John Micheal Van Blerk, has denied allegations of perjury by building contractor, George Katsimberis, describing...
View ArticleDealer’s body dumped at suspected killer’s house
Victor Maphosa Mashonaland East Bureau The body of a Beatrice fuel dealer who recently died a few hours after he was involved in a fierce fight with his business partner over fuel dealings, was dumped...
View ArticleState withdraws charges against Mufandauya
Nyore Madzianike Senior Court Reporter THE State has withdrawn charges against a Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) member, Raphios Mufandauya, arrested on allegations of attempting to assist...
View ArticleBoy (15) up for murder
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested on allegations of killing a friend during a "kickboxing match" while they were herding cattle in Gokwe last Thursday.
View ArticleMachine gun ammunition recovered
Police have requested the Zimbabwe National Army to assist in investigating the case in which 507 rounds of ammunition of a PKM machine gun were unearthed in a rusty box by a farmer who was working in...
View ArticleCorrupt prosecutors denied bail
TWO Karoi National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) officers are languishing in remand after they were nabbed for accepting bribe money meant to influence a lenient sentence.
View ArticleSuspended Registrar-General removed from remand
Nyore Madzianike Senior Court Reporter SUSPENDED Registrar General Clemence Masango was last week freed on charges of misappropriating 1400 litres in fuel coupons after a Harare regional magistrate...
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