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Zanu PF official arrested for forgery and fraud
A former Zanu PF councillor and unsuccessful parliamentary candidate has been apprehended for fraud, accused of forging land ownership documents in an attempt to claim mining rights at a farm near Gwe...Published: 18 May 2024 at 13:04hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sets Gokwe-Kabuyuni by-election date
President Mnangagwa has fixed Saturday 27 August 2022 as the date on which Gokwe-Kabuyuni by-election will be held to fill in the vacancy created by the death of Leornard Chikomba.In a Statuto...Published: 05 Jul 2022 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Varsity bursar up for $10m fraud
The assistant bursar with the Midlands State University with responsibility for the payroll has been issued with a warrant of arrest after he went on the run and failed to appear at the Gweru Magistra...Published: 01 Jun 2022 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Woman uses borrowed baby to claim US$1 800 from ex
IN a matter that left the Gweru magistrate court dumbfounded, a Senga woman allegedly borrowed a baby from her friend, which she used to claim US$1 800 from her ex-husband.This was heard when ...Published: 31 May 2022 at 06:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Woman poisons 10 mourners
A 71-year-old woman has been arrested on allegations of attempting to kill at least 10 mourners at a funeral after lacing a bucket of water with an unknown poison at Luvuluma Village, Madlambuzi in Bu...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:22hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Smelly Dube's trial stopped
GWERU regional magistrate Mr Christopher Maturure has stopped the criminal trial of River Valley Properties chief executive officer Smelly Dube, who was facing US$9 million fraud allegations, pending ...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 17:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
We have stopped prosecution of Smelly Dube - Gweru magistrate's court
Gweru Magistrate Christopher Maturure has accented to the High Court ruling granting Smelly Dube a stay of prosecution in a case in which the businesswoman is facing corruption involving $9 million....Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 22:44hrs | 5 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Jason Machaya gets four-year jail term
Former Midlands Provincial Affairs Minister, Jason Machaya, has been jailed for four years after being convicted of abuse of office.He was sentenced together with former Midlands Provincial ph...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 18:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Former Governor convicted
Former Midlands Governor Jason Machaya has been convicted by the Gweru magistrate court of abuse of office and will be sentenced today (Tuesday), his lawy...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 05:10hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Cop shoots soldier
HIGH Court Senior Judge, Justice Nicholas Mathonsi has upheld a ruling by the Gweru Magistrate Court to fine a police officer, Detective Constable Gift Gorongonya $400 for shooting a soldier following...Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 19:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Vendor slams baby against court wall
THERE was pandemonium at the Gweru magistrate court's yesterday when a vendor facing theft charges allegedly smashed the head of her three months old daughter against the wall in protest after being r...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 06:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
By-elections ordered in Mujuru and Mnangagwa's constituencies
President Robert Mugabe has ordered that new elections be held for Mt Darwin West and Chirumanzu-Zibagwe constituencies after they fell vacant.The Mt Darwin West constituency fell vacant a...Published: 11 Jan 2015 at 21:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bloody fight over $5
A CHIUNDURA vendor went berserk and assaulted a fellow vendor after she failed to give him change for $5.According to B-Metro, Prince Komilo of Mabhungu Village in Chiundura was hauled be...Published: 27 Feb 2014 at 10:00hrs | | by Jacqueline Dube
Man in court for urinating on neighbour's wall
A 32-year-old man from Rubi resettlement area along the Gweru-Bulawayo Highway got himself into trouble with the law after he staged a rare protest over a boundary dispute with his neighbour. ...Published: 27 Dec 2013 at 03:31hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Journalist arrested for 'posing as a court prosecutor'
A Gweru-based journalist, Maxwell Katakamba, allegedly posed as a court prosecutor and conned a fellow accused person of $50 at the Gweru magistrate courts after promising to throw away the victim's ...Published: 31 Aug 2013 at 04:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Top lawyer in court for stocktheft
PROMINENT Kwekwe lawyer and former Gweru magistrate Tapera Sengweni has been arrested for allegedly stealing five cattle belonging to two villagers in Zhombe and Silobela communal lands.Sengw...Published: 25 Jul 2012 at 05:17hrs | 6 | by court reporter
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