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High Court quashes MDC Alliance activists' conviction
BULAWAYO High Court on Tuesday granted the appeal made by three Plumtree-based MDC Alliance activists who were convicted in 2018 on political violence charges after clashing with Zanu-PF activists dur...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:00hrs | 2090 | by Staff reportetr
CID boss jailed for abuse of office
THE officer-in-charge of CID Gweru, Detective Inspector Leonard Gwandu has been sentenced to three years in prison for criminal abuse of office. Gwandu will, however serve an effective two years in ja...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 06:57hrs | 1439 | by Staff reporter
Undenge loses last bid for freedom
JAILED former Energy Minister Samuel Undenge has lost his application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court against a High Court decision upholding a 30 month-jail sentence imposed on him for corru...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 20:26hrs | 1905 | by Staff reporter
Man kills HIV+ maid lover
AN ex-Lupane State University laboratory technician who fatally assaulted his 52-year-old maid whom he was having an affair with after discovering that she was HIV positive, was yesterday sentenced to...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:10hrs | 2909 | by Staff reporter
Man gets 30 years for Xmas rape
A 60-year-old Gweru man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for raping a woman in her early 30s as well as her daughter on Christmas Day last year. Appearing before Regional Magistrate Mr...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:10hrs | 1502 | by Staff reporter
Headache for Zacc
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is having a massive headache trying to recover billions of dollars stashed outside the country in the form of funds and properties, the Daily News report...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 19:49hrs | 4241 | by Staff reporter
Man assaults 'naked' woman (78)
A 35-YEAR-OLD Gwanda man has been arrested for beating up a 78-year-old woman who is his neighbour. Xolisani Maphosa of Matsholomotshe Village was convicted on his own plea of guilty to assaul...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:14hrs | 1301 | by Staff reporter
Cage the 'wolves' Mr President
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent admission that there are ‘wolves in sheep's clothing' within the top echelons of his beleaguered government simply calls for an operation of caging them in orde...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:44hrs | 1343 | by Staff reporter
We await Health minister Obadiah Moyo's charge sheet
THE Zimbabwe AntiCorruption Commission (Zacc) has arrested Health and Child Care minister Obadiah Moyo over undisclosed charges.Moyo, popularly known as Deejay Biscuit in social circles, has b...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:36hrs | 1667 | by Staff reporter
Herdsman jailed 12 years for rape
A 22-YEAR-OLD herdsman from Filabusi has been jailed for 12 years for raping his employer's granddaughter on three occasions after she was left in his custody. The man from Sibambene Village i...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:13hrs | 645 | by Staff reporter
Jilted man jailed for axing ex-wife to death
A MAN from Inyathi in Matabeleland North who fatally struck his ex-wife several times with an axe on Christmas Eve in 2018 after she had ended their marriage has been sentenced to 30 years in prison f...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 07:45hrs | 617 | by Staff reporter
Man jailed 25 years for killed security guard
A BULAWAYO man who ganged up with two accomplices and choked a security guard to death at a flea market in the city centre in 2013, was yesterday sentenced to 25 years in jail. Ignatius Mehlul...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 07:44hrs | 542 | by Staff reporter
Undenge's whereabouts shrouded in mystery
A warrant of arrest has been issued against former Energy and Power Development Minister Samuel Undenge, as the State seeks to have him imprisoned for 30 months for abuse of office. The warran...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 07:40hrs | 2184 | by Staff reporter
Wicked man jailed for murder
"YOU are a very wicked man." Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Maxwell Takuva on Monday told an Inyathi man before sentencing him to 25 years in jail for fatally stabbing a village head four times wit...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 06:40hrs | 716 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa associate denied bail
CONTROVERSIAL businessman Delish Nguwaya, facing fraud charges, will languish in remand prison after he was denied bail by Harare magistrate, Vongai Muchuchuti.Muchuchuti ruled Nguwaya is faci...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 06:37hrs | 772 | by newzimbabwe
The Dalish Nguwaya saga, Justice or scape goat
For the past few months Zimbabwe was gripped with news of corruption involving The first family in particular Collins Mnangagwa and his associate DALISH Nguwaya the local representative of a medical c...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 13:47hrs | 922 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Ex-farmer jailed 10 months for theft of trust property
FORMER Chiredzi commercial farmer, Tony Renato Sarpo, was last week jailed to 10 months in prison for theft of trust property by magistrate Geraldine Mutsoto.Sarpo (55) was convicted for steal...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 07:55hrs | 696 | by Staff reporter
General SB Moyo's wife clashes with Hopwell Chin'ono
Justice Loice Matanda Moyo has refuted an allegation by Award winning journalist Hopewell Chin'ono that she told him the charge sheet of embattled businessman Delish Nguwaya was created by the police ...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 15:58hrs | 8910 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Nude Madzibaba jailed 4 years after fondling congregant
A self proclaimed Mutorashanga apostolic prophet Madzibaba Never Mavhurere was slapped with a four year jail term by Guruve resident magistrate Shingirai Mutiro on Friday for fondling a congregant's p...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 09:38hrs | 434 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Kasukuwere's brother released without charge
FORMER Zanu-PF Mashonaland Central provincial chairman Dickson Mafios, who was arrested soon after his release from Harare Polytechnic quarantine centre, has been released without charge.Mafio...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:37hrs | 1246 | by Staff reporter
Cop disciplined for insulting Mnangagwa
APOLICE constable Taison Hove (30) stationed at the Lupane Police Station, who is accused of insulting President Emmerson Mnangagwa, was convicted by the police disciplinary court and sentenced to 14 ...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:35hrs | 995 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa: On a wing and a prayer
THIS has been a terrible week for President Emmerson Mnangagwa. It has been more than terrible – a week in which government was always on the backfoot. A week during which the regime's sterility has...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:34hrs | 343 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Corruption and leadership sincerity
IT is not enough for the political leadership to merely give speeches about fighting corruption and setting up anti corruption bodies if nothing tangible is seen and achieved. Zimbabweans are not comp...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:31hrs | 863 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Magwegwe murderer jailed for life
A MAN who waylaid two lovers in Bulawayo while they were out for an evening stroll before striking them with a brick resulting in one the victims succumbing to the injuries has been sentenced to life ...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:12hrs | 634 | by Staff reporter
Komichi 'election results challenge' sentence upheld
THE High Court has upheld a conviction passed against reinstated MDC chairperson Morgen Komichi for disrupting announcement of 2018 election results after his appeal was dismissed for lack of merit....Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 18:27hrs | 1346 | by Staff reporter
Machaya must face trial: High Court
THE High Court has ruled that former Midlands Provincial Affairs minister Jason Machaya, who is accused of criminal abuse of office, must face trial as permanently staying his criminal trial would be ...Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 07:52hrs | 609 | by Staff reporter
Returnees to surrender IDs at quarantine centres
Government has resolved to confiscate national identification cards and passports for returnees upon arrival in the country to prevent them from escaping quarantine centres.Since the lockdown ...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 16:47hrs | 323 | by Staff reporter
Lewis Matutu savages Mnangagwa over corruption
Former Zanu-PF youth league deputy secretary Lewis Matutu deleted his Twitter account on Saturday, hours after appearing to take aim at President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his family for corruption....Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 10:50hrs | 11030 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa-linked company’s govt tenders cancelled
The government has cancelled corrupt procurement deals worth up to US$60 million signed with a company linked to one of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's sons.The cancellation follows an investig...Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 10:48hrs | 7200 | by Staff reporter
Kereke in fresh freedom bid
JAILED former Zanu-PF legislator Munyaradzi Kereke has approached the High Court seeking to take his appeal against conviction and sentence to the Supreme Court for the second time.The former ...Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 07:55hrs | 1080 | by newzimbabwe
Former Mugabe minister faces jail
Former Energy and Power Development Minister Samuel Undenge's appeal against a 30-month jail term for abuse of office was thrown out by the High Court yesterday which found that the sentence was not e...Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 07:51hrs | 1445 | by Staff reporter
Police boss fights 90-day civil imprisonment
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has approached the High Court seeking condonation for late filing of opposing papers challenging a 90-day civil imprisonment and reinstatement of a junior fe...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 07:11hrs | 1241 | by Staff reporter
Prison officers skip border
TWO Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service officers who tested positive for Covid-19 positive are alleged to have illegally crossed the border to neighbouring countries.ZPCS Commissioner Ge...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 19:07hrs | 4197 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa top aide's cars forfeited
Top Government official Douglas Tapfuma has been jailed for four years and had his six cars forfeited to the State.Tapfuma was convicted on three counts of criminal abuse of office as a public...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 17:34hrs | 4811 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's lawyer faces 20 years in jail
PROSECUTORS yesterday said prominent lawyer Thabani Mpofu faced up to 20 years in jail if convicted of charges of corruption and defeating the course of justice he is facing.Mpofu, who is also...Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 17:55hrs | 2968 | by Staff reporter
Zimra officer clears vehicles as groceries, jailed
A ZIMBABWE Revenue Authority (Zimra) officer based at Plumtree Border Post was jailedan effective six years for defrauding the tax collector of over US$500 000, excluding local currency, in illegal cl...Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 17:35hrs | 1348 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa top aide convicted
FORMER principal director of State residences in the Office of the President and Cabinet Douglas Tapfuma, has been convicted of three counts of criminal abuse of office by a Harare magistrate. ...Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 17:05hrs | 1462 | by Staff reporter
Zimra official jailed 14 years for US$500k fraud
A Plumtree-based Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officer linked to a car smuggling racket that defrauded the revenue collector of more than US$530 000 was yesterday sentenced to 14 years in jail fo...Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 17:00hrs | 329 | by Staff reporter
NSSA fires manager
NSSA investment manager, Richard Fusire, has been fired for ill-advice which resulted in the multi-billion State-run pension entity financing a high-risk financial institution to the tune of US$6 mill...Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 16:51hrs | 285 | by Staff reporter
Man whips wife in street
A JEALOUS Hwange man assaulted his wife with a switch on the street after he found her walking with a female friend and another man, he suspected to be her lover. Albert Phiri (28) of number 8...Published: 03 Jun 2020 at 09:51hrs | 2073 | by Staff reporter
Man whips wife after anonymous call
A JEALOUS Hwange man assaulted his wife with a switch on the street after he found her walking with a female friend and another man, he suspected to be her lover. Albert Phiri (28) of number 8...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 08:35hrs | 1002 | by Staff reporter
Hungry thieves steal tomato crates
TWO Mvurwi hungry thieves were convicted by Guruve resident magistrate Shingirai Mutiro of stealing a soft wire and empty crates valued at RTGS$1 900....Published: 31 May 2020 at 11:22hrs | 1086 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
'I use mbanje to prevent Covid-19'
A MBANJE user yesterday left a Harare court stunned after claiming that he uses it to protect himself against Covid-19, if added to food and drink. Terence Joronga pleaded guilty to unlawful p...Published: 30 May 2020 at 09:11hrs | 658 | by Staff reporter
Mangwana drags G40 into MDC activist abduction storm
INFORMATION ministry permanent secretary Nick Mangwana says the nation must not be blind to the possible involvement of late former President Robert Mugabe's remnants in the alleged abduction and tort...Published: 29 May 2020 at 07:44hrs | 981 | by newzimbabwe
24 months jail for killing gold ore thief
A security guard from Kwekwe has been sentenced to 24 months in prison for fatally shooting a suspected gold ore thief once in the head with a Vanguard rifle. Francis Dhlamini (43) appeared before Bul...Published: 26 May 2020 at 07:12hrs | 440 | by Staff reporter
Man fined for beating up 'cheating' wife
A Hwange man who suspected that his wife was cheating on him beat her up after he saw a text message allegedly coming from a boyfriend. Mavuto Sithole (37) of Number S9 Makwika Village, Number...Published: 25 May 2020 at 07:44hrs | 1223 | by Staff reporter
Major diplomatic row brewing between Harare and Islamabad
A largely unknown, but wealthy businessman, Mian Sohail Qaiser, is threatening to ignite a diplomatic row between Zimbabwe and Pakistan. The Pakistan embassy in Harare is unhappy with the protection Q...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:36hrs | 1237 | by Staff reporter
Rape, Assault cop appeals against dismissal
A POLICE officer stationed at Mzilikazi Police Station in Bulawayo who was accused of raping two women on separate occasions after assaulting and threatening to kill them, has approached the High Cour...Published: 22 May 2020 at 06:27hrs | 949 | by Staff reporter
Komichi says sorry for aiding Chamisa 2018 'coup'
MDC-T national chair, Morgen Komichi has issued an apology to party structures for being one of the key architects of Nelson Chamisa's alleged power grab performed on the news of founding leader Morga...Published: 20 May 2020 at 06:54hrs | 8089 | by newzimbabwe
Woman arrested over Covid-19 fake news
ANOTHER Bulawayo woman who allegedly peddled fake news on WhatsApp and shared with her daughter a false Press statement bearing President Mnangagwa's fake signature announcing the extension of the loc...Published: 19 May 2020 at 07:16hrs | 1062 | by Staff reporter
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