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Prophet demands US$6K from stranger's dead dad's 'spiritual debt'
A self-styled prophet who claimed divine powers to extort money from a woman over a fabricated debt allegedly owed by her deceased father has been convicted and sentenced to community service in a cas...Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 16:09hrs | 450 | by Staff reporter
Police officer in court for releasing robbery suspects after US$30 bribe
A police officer stationed at ZRP Nkulumane is facing serious criminal charges after allegedly accepting a US$30 bribe to release two robbery suspects from custody, a Bulawayo court heard on Tuesday....Published: 01 May 2025 at 10:18hrs | 478 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya also used same forger as Gift Banda?
Former ZIFA vice president Gift Banda was granted US$500 bail by a Bulawayo court on Friday following his arrest for allegedly forging an Ordinary Level certificate.Banda, 55, walked the short...Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 18:20hrs | 2449 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo court uncovers potential car theft syndicate
A Bulawayo magistrate has denied bail to prominent car dealer and socialite Brighton Chipunza, citing compelling evidence that he poses a flight risk and might interfere with witnesses. Chipunza, who ...Published: 29 Nov 2024 at 07:09hrs | 1312 | by Staff reporter
Handcuffed suspect outruns cops for a kilometre
THERE was drama when a man who had been arrested for unlawful entry and theft escaped from police cells before officers on duty gave chase and apprehended him after a breathless pursuit that spanned c...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 09:46hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
CCC members in court after turning on each other in election fallout
Six members of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), including Members of the National Assembly Surrender Kapoikulu (Bulawayo Central) and Gift Ostallos Siziba (Pelandaba-Tshabalala), appeared in a...Published: 15 Sep 2023 at 17:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
18 Zimbabwe magistrates quit in 2021 over poor pay
Eighteen magistrates quit their jobs in the last year and 70 other employees resigned from the Judicial Service Commission over poor pay, Deputy Chief Justice Elizabeth Gwaunza revealed on Monday....Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:12hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zacc boss in graft storm
THE Zimbabwe Anti Commission (Zacc) chairperson Justice Loice MatandaMoyo has been caught in the eye of a storm after she allegedly ordered the release of top National Prosecuting Agency (NPA) officia...Published: 24 May 2021 at 06:53hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Trio busted for selling US$70,000 'fake' gold
THREE Chinhoyi men yesterday appeared before a Bulawayo court for allegedly selling "fake" gold worth US$70 000 to a mine company in Matopo, Matabeleland South Province. Nyasha Marumahoko, Kud...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 15:22hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi members plead not guilty to public violence
Five members of Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) pleaded not guilty to public violence when they appeared in a Bulawayo Court Wednesday.The five, whose court trial begun today were arrested on c...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 19:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko requests Bulawayo trial
Former Vice President, Phelekezela Mphoko, yesterday appeared at the Harare magistrates' court for his routine remand and notified the court that he wanted to be tried in Bulawayo where he resides....Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Kambarami has a string of legal battles'
1893MRM lodged a case against Tinashe Kambarami following the 31 July 2018 Zimbabwe harmonized national and municipal government elections. The movement had discovered that Mr Kambarami, the councilor...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 20:55hrs | 3 | by 1893MRM
Suspected armed robbers, gold dealers in court
TWO suspected armed robbers have been arraigned before a Bulawayo court on charges of illegal possession of gold worth US$37 338.Robson Chatikobo (35) and Brezhnev Maposa (37) appeared before ...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu to appear before Bulawayo court
Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu, is set to testify before a Bulawayo magistrate in a case in which he stands accused of inciting a Ntabazinduna villager to defy directives from Chief ...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 15:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Looting cases clog Bulawayo courts
The recent fuel riots have left the justice delivery system in Bulawayo creaking under a deluge of cases which have forced the government to dispatch additional magistrates and prosecutors to the City...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 12:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Protests cases flood Bulawayo courts
THE Judiciary Services Commission (JSC) has deployed 10 senior magistrates to Bulawayo to help their counterparts deal with the high number of public violence cases in the province emanating from last...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi activist arrested for pointing at Mnangagwa portrait
A BULAWAYO court freed on bail a man detained for insulting the president while testifying before a commission probing the fatal shooting of six civilians during post-election protests in August, lawy...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 06:59hrs | 4 | by AFP
Wife crushes prophet's jewels
A PROPHET from Bulawayo is likely to undergo surgery after his enraged wife; upset that he was allegedly cheating on her, grabbed his testicles and squashed them hard in her grip for sometime....Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Justice Malaba calls for modernisation of Zimbabwe judiciary
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba yesterday toured Bulawayo courts to familiarise himself with their operations and called for the modernisation of the judiciary and use of modern technology by court official...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa's ally a bitter soul'
KWEKWE Central MP elect Masango Matambanadzo (National Patriotic Front) has dismissed MDC Alliance losing candidate Blessing Chebundo as a bitter soul that cannot stomach electoral defeat, and was now...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 12:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Justice Mathonsi, promoted, redeployed
BULAWAYO High Court judge Justice Nicholas Mathonsi has been re-deployed to Harare where he has been elevated to the position of senior judge in charge of the Civil Division of the High Court....Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo courts Special Economic Zone investors (SEZ)
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has invited potential investors to seize business opportunities in the country's second largest city, which has been designated a Special Economic Zone.Speaking...Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Karikoga Kaseke ordered to pay $225 for child's upkeep
ZIMBABWE Tourism Authority (ZTA) boss Mr Karikoga Kaseke has been ordered to pay $225 by a Bulawayo court for the upkeep of his nine-year-old son whom he sired with a Bulawayo woman.The ruling...Published: 07 Feb 2018 at 06:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
12 of 14-gang serial armed robbers convicted
Twelve robbers who include six from Bulawayo who are linked to a 14-member gang of armed robbers that terrorised mines and business premises before they were busted in August 2015 leading to the recov...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 10:35hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Fuel smuggling suspect on the run
A fuel smuggling suspect is on the run as the Zimbabwe Republic Police have filed affidavits at the Bulawayo court seeking a warrant of arrest for the suspect Samuel Kufandada.The affida...Published: 16 May 2017 at 18:37hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Ndlovu family connives with court to steal children's inheritance
A corruption case have emerged involving Jacky Dube 22 years old, his twin sisters 14 years of age and their late mother’s family. According to the reports made to us by Mr Jachin and his father Dum...Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by MRP
Woman wins $2 000 for lost v-irginity
A Bulawayo court has awarded damages to a teenager as compensation for lost v-irginity in a ruling which shines the spotlight on unfulfilled marriage promises.Magistrate Sheunesu Matove ye...Published: 11 Jan 2017 at 13:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Barbourfields pitch invader escape with caution
A Bulawayo court has only cautioned and discharged Tendai Donga, a streaker who ran into the field of play on Sunday during Highlanders and How Mine game at Barbourfields stadium.Donga was...Published: 30 Aug 2016 at 12:46hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Australian Ambassador to Zimbabwe to visit Bulawayo
The Australian Ambassador to Zimbabwe Suzanne McCourt will tomo0row visit Bulawayo courtesy of the invitation by the mayor Martin Moyo, it has emerged.Bulawayo City Council Public Relation...Published: 13 Aug 2015 at 16:19hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Woman too tired for sex, beaten
A Bulawayo woman Priscilla Chizhande was thoroughly beaten by her lover Admire Kashiki aged 35 for refusing to have sex saying she was too tired.Chizhande told her hubby that she was not up to...Published: 19 May 2015 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Court in shock as 22-year-old man is accused of raping 70-year-old aunt
A 22-year-old Nkayi man who was arrested for allegedly raping his 70 year old aunt, shocked a Bulawayo court when he said he lost his virginity to his aunt in consensual sex. Nkosilathi Ncube ...Published: 25 Mar 2015 at 19:58hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Tuku, Sulumani set to rock the City of Kings and Queens
Oliver Mutukudzi is set to rock the Large City Hall in Bulawayo tonight weeks after failing to turn up at the same venue to team up with South African star Ringo Mandlingozi.At the time, Mutuk...Published: 20 Mar 2015 at 05:55hrs | 6 | by Thobekile Zhou
Criminalisation of HIV transmission challenged
A LAW criminalising the transmission of HIV comes under the spotlight today when the Constitutional Court hears an application filed by a Bulawayo woman challenging its constitutionality.The w...Published: 18 Feb 2015 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Former bank employees up for $65,000 fraud
THREE former ZB Bank workers allegedly defrauded their employer of more than $60 000 after conniving to convert clients' deposits to their own use, a Bulawayo court heard.The trio, Yevai A...Published: 01 Feb 2015 at 11:40hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Teacher 'baptised' with urine as pupils watch
AN enraged Bulawayo woman caused a stir when she allegedly stormed her ex-husband's workplace and humiliated him in front of his pupils and workmates by pouring urine all over him.Jillian Taf...Published: 23 Jan 2015 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pastor rapes, robs prostitute
A SELF-PROCLAIMED pastor from Bulawayo's Manningdale suburb allegedly raped and robbed two sex workers whom he picked up in the city centre.Vuyisile Lionel Madzingwe, 28, would pay the women ...Published: 06 Jan 2015 at 07:02hrs | | by Thandeka Moyo
Jabulani Sibanda remanded in custody
Ousted war veterans leader, Jabulani Sibanda, has appeared before a Harare magistrate facing charges of insulting the President while addressing an unsanctioned gathering in Mutare recently.H...Published: 02 Dec 2014 at 06:44hrs | | by Fungai Lupande
Woman 'pulls' hubby's penis as punishment
REPORTS of domestic violence are normally framed and understood under the impression that there are a female victim and male perpetrator problem. But many a time men just like their female counterpart...Published: 21 Nov 2014 at 09:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Woman 'allergic to condoms', demands unprotected sex
A Bulawayo woman's plot to trap her boyfriend into marrying her after she deliberately fell pregnant was exposed last week at a Bulawayo court by her lover who claimed that she forced him to have unpr...Published: 20 Nov 2014 at 09:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Daughter 'forces' dad to retire from sex
A woman from Sizinda suburb in Bulawayo is allegedly forcing her father to retire "early" from sex as punishment for reportedly divorcing her mother when she was a toddler.Soneni Moyo is appar...Published: 06 Nov 2014 at 22:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gift Banda's ex-girlfriend faces arrest
A Bulawayo Court has issued a warrant of arrest for the deputy mayor Gift Banda's ex-lover for contempt of court after she failed to attend a maintenance hearing yesterday. Earlier on...Published: 24 Oct 2014 at 04:56hrs | 7 | by Staff Reporter
Man molests toddler (2), claims she is his wife
BULAWAYO - A WOMAN from Mpopoma is ruing the day she allowed her neighbour to take her two-year old daughter to the shops to buy her biscuits as the man was later found touching the girl's privat...Published: 13 Oct 2014 at 13:39hrs | 2 | by Court reporter
Bosso players bed 'prostitute'
BOSSO bad boy star Mthulisi Maphosa yesterday shockingly revealed that 'three quarters' of his team mates had slept with a lady he is allegedly to have brutally assaulted on Saturday last week....Published: 10 Oct 2014 at 05:42hrs | 1 | by Court reporter
Woman (18) in trouble for inserting finger in minor's (6) privates
BULAWAYO - A NKULUMANE woman landed herself in murky waters after she allegedly inserted her fingers in her niece's private part.The woman (23) who was then (18) and cannot be named to pro...Published: 10 Oct 2014 at 05:25hrs | 1 | by Court reporter
Man rapes daughter (11) to get 'rich'
A 69-year old Gokwe man allegedly raped his 11year-old daughter in a suspected case of ritual practices in a bid to amass 'wealth'.The man, according to a local tabloid report, sometime last y...Published: 09 Oct 2014 at 15:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Female cop in trouble over derogatory messages
A senior cop based at Ntabazinduna has dragged his ex-girlfriend, whose is his subordinate to court accusing her of sending him nasty messages over the phone.Temptation Muchecheti (24) also ba...Published: 09 Oct 2014 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Traffic cop injured during kombi chase
A Bulawayo traffic cop was yesterday injured when a pirate kombi driver from a roadblock dragging the hapless officer along whose arm had been trapped inside the vehicle. Police had to use...Published: 08 Oct 2014 at 08:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mafia' blazer-boy up for murder
TWO years after he attempted to kill a 15-year-old classmate by striking him with a brick on the head before pouring boiling water on him after suspecting him of stealing his socks, a 17-year old ...Published: 08 Oct 2014 at 05:54hrs | | by Court reporter
Bulawayo fraudster surrenders himself to cops, claims church forced him to do
A 44-YEAR-OLD Tshabalala man, who allegedly defrauded Portland Holdings of about $350,000, claimed his church forced him to hand himself over to police despite being innocent.But Ndobona M...Published: 06 Oct 2014 at 06:19hrs | 3 | by Court reporter
Byo drug paddlers busted
LUCKY ran out of two drug dealers in Bulawayo on Wednesday when police pounced on them following a tip and found them in possession of illegal drugs with a street value of $4,240.Miseli Ndlov...Published: 04 Oct 2014 at 13:36hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
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