Ex-ZBC boss review application deferred
Happison MuchechetereChief Court Reporter The High Court has postponed hearing the review application by former Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation chief executive officer Happison Muchechetere querying...
View ArticleNo reprieve for Mutasa
Mr MutasaDaniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter Movable property attached from politician Didymus Mutasa will now be auctioned without any hindrance after the High Court yesterday threw out his urgent...
View Article‘Our hands are clean’ . . . ZACC hits back at Prof Moyo
Prof MoyoFreeman Razemba Senior Reporter The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has dismissed allegations by Higher and Tertiary Education Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo that it is using...
View ArticleSmuggling trio nabbed
The contraband was being transported to Bulawayo in a SouthAfrican registered Toyota Hilux.Thupeyo Muleya: Beitbridge BureauThe Ferret team has intercepted three South African-registered vehicles...
View ArticleKombi driver thrown 7 months behinds bars
Takudzwa Matambura Court Reporter A Chitungwiza kombi driver who caused an accident at a roadblock along New Chitungwiza Road has been sentenced to an effective seven months in prison, and prohibited...
View ArticleSuspected SA human trafficker denied bail
Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau A South African man who is accused of trafficking four Zimbabweans into the neighbouring country was yesterday denied bail by a Polokwane magistrate and will stand...
View ArticleWomen kill, dump infants
Tendai Rupapa Senior Court Reporter Two women arrested for killing their newborn babies in separate incidents appeared in court last week. Patience Chawasarira (34) reportedly gave birth alone at home...
View ArticleMan turns child’s birthday into drugs binge
Fungai Lupande Court Reporter A THIRTY-THREE-year-old man allegedly turned his child’s birthday on Valentine’s Day into a “passa passa” night, smoking weed and drinking BronCleer cough syrup with...
View ArticleInterpreter no-show stalls Chigwedere witchcraft case
Dr ChigwedereFidelis Munyoro Chief Court Reporter—- The non-availability of an interpreter for the witchcraft case pitting former education Minister Aeneas Chigwedere and his son last week forced the...
View ArticleNSSA worker in court for swindling job seekers
Tendai Rupapa Senior Court Reporter A Harare woman employed by the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) as a messenger reportedly swindled several job seekers of more than $6 000 after...
View ArticleMugadza’s freedom bid flops
Pastor Phillip MugadzaTendai Rupapa Senior Court Reporter A bid for freedom by self-proclaimed pastor Phillip Mugadza, who allegedly prophesied that President Mugabe would die in October, yesterday hit...
View ArticleHigh Court judge decries surge in murder cases
From Abel Zhakata in Mutare THE high prevalence of murder cases is a sad reflection of our society and a cause for concern for any right-thinking citizen, a High Court judge has said.Officially opening...
View ArticleHousemaid gets 18 months for killing ‘sex pest’ gardener
Fungai Lupande: Court ReporterA houseMAid who stabbed a gardener in the heart after he tried to rape her at a house in Chisipite, Harare, was yesterday sentenced to an effective one-and-a-half years in...
View ArticleTsenengamu locked up for insulting First Family
Nyemudzai Kakore: Herald CorrespondentOusted Zanu-PF Mashonaland Central youth chairman Godfrey Tsenengamu was yesterday arrested for what unconfirmed sources said was allegedly subverting the...
View ArticleLawyer sues ‘sloppy’ bank
Daniel Nemukuyu: Senior Court ReporterA HARARE lawyer is suing Steward Bank Limited for economic loss after missing an investment opportunity worth $19 500 due to alleged inefficiency at the financial...
View ArticleWife killer to undergo mental examination
Tendai Rupapa: Senior Court ReporterA Harare man reportedly ran amok and stabbed his wife to death before assaulting his father and brother with an iron bar over an undisclosed misunderstanding.It is...
View ArticleGandawa’s firm in name furore
Dr Godfrey GandawaFidelis Munyoro:Chief Court ReporterFuzzy Technologies (Pvt) Limited, a company fingered in the Zimbabwe Manpower Development Fund (Zimdef) alleged corruption saga, is embroiled in a...
View ArticleConcourt dismisses Mabamba’s application
Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter The Constitutional Court has dismissed with costs an application by ex-councillor for Chitungwiza Ward 25 Fredrick Mabamba to nullify his ouster from...
View ArticleZBC journalist in hit-and-run accident
Court Reporter A Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation journalist Buttler Nhepure has appeared in court over a hit-and-run accident along Hurworth Road, Highlands in Harare.Nhepure allegedly hit a...
View ArticleMunicipal worker slapped with three-year jail term
Tafadzwa Zimoyo Senior Court Reporter A Chitungwiza Municipality worker was sentenced to three years in prison for teaming up with his two accomplices to rob a man of his Samsung Galaxy Z2 mobile phone...
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