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Boy (5) electrocuted
Snr Asst Comm CharambaCrime Reporter—A five-year-old boy was electrocuted in Marlborough, Harare, last week after touching a wire used as a washing line.The wire, which had dropped from a pole at the...
View ArticleMaid forces self on boss’ son (14)
Margaret Matibiri Herald Reporter—A 20-year-old Harare housemaid allegedly forced her employee’s son (14) to have sexual intercourse with her after threatening to report him to the police for raping...
View ArticleMugadza nabbed over malicious utterances
Tafadzwa Zimoyo Senior Court Reporter—Controversial pastor Phillip Mugadza was yesterday arrested by Harare law and order maintenance officers, while attending his routine remand case.He was arrested...
View ArticleTeen(18) jailed 10yrs for raping sister
Margaret Matibiri Herald Reporter—An 18-year-old Harare man, who raped his 12-year-old sister, was slapped with a 10-year jail term by a Harare magistrate.The teenager raped his 12-year-old stepsister...
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Ruling on Gandawa Concourt bid deferred to Thursday
Godfrey GandawaFungai Lupande Court Reporter—The ruling on Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Deputy Minister Godfrey Gandawa’s application for referral to the...
View ArticleCommand Agric inputs suspect freed on bail
Fungai Lupande Court Reporter—Another suspected Command Agriculture inputs theft suspect yesterday appeared in court and was granted $200 bail.Panganai Marunga (39) appeared before Harare magistrate Ms...
View ArticleZimdollar stand sale haunts land developer
Fungai Lupande Court Reporter—A director with a real estate company appeared in court yesterday for allegedly swindling a home-seeker of Z$5 billion (US$1,6 million at the then exchange rate) in a...
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ZBC driver relives 2016 violent demos
ZBC vehicle set ablazeFungai Lupande Court Reporter—A Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) driver last week emotionally described how he watched as the company vehicle he was driving was torched by...
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End of the road for highway robbers
Snr Asst Comm CharambaCrime Reporter—Three suspected armed robbers who were targeting and robbing people, especially those stranded along highways in Mashonaland West Province, have been arrested.The...
View ArticleHigh Court No. 4 for Mutare
Fidelis Munyoro Chief Court Reporter—Mutare is set to have its first High Court in June, as the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) continues with the decentralisation of superior courts in a bid to...
View Article‘Lazy’ judges to face the music
Fidelis Munyoro Chief Court Reporter—A High Court judge is likely to be brought before a disciplinary committee by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) over poor performance and is now being viewed as...
View Article$8k fraud case lands two cops in the dock
Fungai Lupande Court Reporter—Two senior police officers yesterday appeared in court accused of stealing about $8 000 from the force’s income generating project, Kuyedza Women’s Club.Senior staff...
View ArticleBotswana scales up bid to track down Zim jailbreakers
Crime Reporter—-A team of soldiers, police officers and prison officials has been set up in Botswana to help track down Zimbabwean fugitives who reportedly escaped from Francistown Central Prison at...
View Article. . . Senior official dips into ministry coffers
Sheillah Mapani Court Reporter—A senior executive assistant director in the Ministry of Mines and Mining Development has been dragged to court by her employer for allegedly defrauding the ministry of...
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Self-proclaimed cleric cries foul
pastor Phillip MugadzaSenior Court Reporter—-Controversial, self-proclaimed pastor Phillip Mugadza (pictured right) yesterday appeared before the Harare Magistrates’ Courts and sought immediate release...
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Perm Sec to testify in MMCZ fraud case
Prof GudyangaFungai Lupande Court Reporter—The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Mines and Mining Development, Professor Francis Gudyanga, is set to testify in the trial of two Minerals Marketing...
View ArticleBusinesswoman off the hook
Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau The case of a Beitbridge businesswoman accused of hiring four men, including South Africans, to kidnap her married boyfriend has been struck off remand. This was after...
View Article4 Zimbabweans in court
Crime Reporter Four Zimbabweans who were part of an 18-men gang which escaped from Francistown Central Prison at Gerald Estates Centre last Saturday after destroying the prison fence with a manhole...
View ArticleCop, criminals in thieving alliance
Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau The trial date of a 34-year-old police officer stationed at Tuli in Beitbridge, who connived with two suspected cattle hustlers to steal 27 beasts worth 244 000 rand...
View ArticleZimparks names ‘poaching kingpin’
Abigail Mawonde Herald Correspondent The Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) has named a suspected cross-border poaching kingpin as Dumisani Moyo. The authority said...
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