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Chimombe, Mpofu take fight to Supreme Court

Lawyers representing businessmen Mike Chimombe and Moses Mpofu have announced plans to take their clients' case to the Supreme Court, challenging both the conviction and the sentences handed down by the High Court.On Monday, the High Court…

Published: 09 Dec 2025 at 08:45hrs | 881 | by Staff reporter

State to appeal for harsher punishment in Mpofu, Chimombe case

The State has signalled intentions to appeal for harsher punishment in the landmark US$7.3 million fraud case involving businessmen Mike Chimombe and Moses Mpofu, arguing that the 27 years combined jail term handed down by the High Court d…

Published: 09 Dec 2025 at 06:22hrs | 552 | by Staff reporter

Tribal ruling as Mpofu jailed 22 years, Chimombe 17 years

Businessmen Moses Mpofu and Mike Chimombe were on Friday sentenced to lengthy prison terms after the High Court found them guilty of defrauding the government of more than US$7 million in a botched goat procurement project.Mpofu was senten…

Published: 08 Dec 2025 at 13:01hrs | 2522 | by Staff reporter

D-Day for Chimombe, Mpofu

Businessmen Mike Chimombe and Moses Mpofu are expected to learn their fate today when they return to the High Court for sentencing, after being convicted of fraud in connection with the controversial Presidential Goat Scheme.The two were f…

Published: 08 Dec 2025 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter

Businessman gets 12 years for robbery

Harare businessman Paul Zhou was last week sentenced to an effective eight-year jail term for conspiring with the late armed robber Godknows Machingura to target fellow businessman Paul Chimbodza.Zhou, 55, faced two counts of conspiracy to…

Published: 08 Dec 2025 at 07:08hrs | 491 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwean identity thief jailed in UK

A Zimbabwean man who stole another person's identity to pose as a registered nurse in the United Kingdom has been jailed for more than three years.Ashton Guramatunhu, 46, registered with a nursing agency in Warrington in 2014 using the ide…

Published: 05 Dec 2025 at 13:18hrs | | by Staff reporter

Madzibaba Ishmael faces at least 15 years in jail

MADZIBABA Ishmael faces, at least 15 years in jail, after the Apostolic Sect leader was convicted of raping and impregnating a 13-year-old girl despite spirited attempts by the victim to help him escape the jaws of justice.Harare regional …

Published: 05 Dec 2025 at 07:33hrs | 398 | by Staff reporter

State proposes 35 years for Chimombe, Mpofu

The prosecution is pushing for a 35-year prison sentence for businessmen Moses Mpofu and Mike Chimombe, who were recently convicted of fraud in connection with the Presidential Goat Scheme. Their sentencing is expected to be delivered on M…

Published: 04 Dec 2025 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter

Tsholotsho woman jailed 18 years for sexual abuse of two boys

A 24-year-old woman from Tsholotsho District has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after being convicted on six counts of sexually abusing two male juveniles

Published: 03 Dec 2025 at 07:47hrs | 496 | by Staff reporter

Man jailed for raping mother-in-law

A 37-year-old man from Mandaza Village under Chief Nyamweda in Mhondoro has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after being convicted of raping and assaulting his 56-year-old mother-in-law.Walter Maponga was found guilty by Harare regiona…

Published: 02 Dec 2025 at 16:10hrs | | by Staff reporter

Filabusi makorokoza jailed for attempted murder

A 22-year-old gold panner, Proud Mathe, has been sentenced to five years in prison after being convicted of attempted murder following a vicious axe attack on a fellow villager. The attack left the victim, Bongani Mpofu, with severe head a…

Published: 24 Nov 2025 at 06:42hrs | 579 | by Staff reporter

Thunderstorms predicted in Zimbabwe

Bulawayo and parts of the Matabeleland provinces have received their first rains of the 2025 summer season over the weekend, with the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) forecasting additional isolated showers during the week.The city…

Published: 23 Oct 2025 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff reporter

Widow jailed 27 years for premeditated murder

Bridget Makaza, widow of Kurai Coaches director MaCloud Zvavovaviri Mapanga, has been sentenced to 27 years in prison for the premeditated murder of her husband at their Belvedere home in Harare in 2018.Makaza was convicted last week by th…

Published: 23 Oct 2025 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter

Prominent businessman jailed 10 years for stock theft

A PROMINENT Gweru-based businessman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after being convicted of stock theft.Appearing before Gweru magistrate Mr Langton N

Published: 29 Nov 2023 at 15:28hrs | | by Staff reporter

If you are Zanu PF, CCC or MDC jail time awaits you

New changes to the criminal code will not infringe the freedom of criticising the Government or President, but rather targets criminals who press for sanctions that result in injury of Zimbabwe, Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Min…

Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 15:19hrs | | by Erick Matotoba

Jail has cost Job Sikhala a fortune already

Just before the presidential elections of early 2002, two young MPs from the united MDC, Job Sikhala and Tafadzwa Musekiwa, arranged a meeting with the late Perrance Shiri, who was then commander of the Airforce of Zimbabwe, and met him at…

Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:15hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni

Cyril Ramaphosa may have to consider the prospects of donning orange overalls

AS EMBATTLED President Cyril Ramaphosa fights for his political life in the build-up to the ANC national conference at the end of this year, he might also have to consider his fashion sense with the prospect of donning orange overalls loom…

Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 18:45hrs | | by Sizwe Dlamini

Haruzivishe represents everything wrong about opposition politics

A young member of the MDC formation led by Nelson Chamisa, Makomborero Haruzivishe, was sentenced to 14 months in prison by the Harare Magistrates Court this week for inciting public violence.  While many blindly joined the faction in…

Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 06:16hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga

Ibutho leNqama press release on Chief Ndiweni issue

Monday 19 August 2018Hundreds of Mthwakazi people residing in Johannesburg in South Africa converged at Joubert Park Johannesburg on Sunday 18 August 2018.The emergency meeting which was facilitated by Ibutho leNqama followed the public ou…

Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 13:02hrs | | by Ibutho leNqama Spokesperson

Chief Ndiweni's incarÃ§eration an attack on peoples rights

Chief Ndiweni has been incarcerated not only because of the crime he is alleged to have committed but he has long been an undesirable element according to ZANU PF.The sending away of the chief from the people is a well-calculated ploy by t…

Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 20:30hrs | | by Iphithule Maphosa

Grace Mugabe: diplomatic immunity isn't an 'out of jail' ticket

Grace Mugabe, the wife of President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, is accused of assaulting a young woman while on a visit to South Africa. A week after the incident in a hotel in Sandton, Johannesburg's upmarket central business district, a S…

Published: 22 Aug 2017 at 07:13hrs | | by Gerhard Kemp

How to remain bosom friends with the law!

However minor, severe or abominable, almost everybody commits crime!The adorable part is, not everybody gets caught! Likewise, not everyone who gets caught, gets convicted.The law is a shrewd old busy woman who's got her hands full everyda…

Published: 12 Apr 2017 at 07:14hrs | 378 | by Nimi Princewill

Mugabe should be behind bars, not in State House

As Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe continues on his unrepentant career of brutalising those merely expressing their democratic and constitutional rights to peacefully demonstrate, it is very disheartening that a person who should an exemp…

Published: 02 Sep 2016 at 05:48hrs | | by Kudakwashe Marangwanda

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