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Mawarire, Mutasa dockets merged
A HARARE court yesterday merged dockets of #ThisFlag founder Evan Mawarire, and Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union secretary-general Peter Mutasa, who are both accused of attempting to subvert a constit...Published: 8 hrs ago | 446 | by Staff reporter
'Declare civil imprisonment unconstitutional'
A HARARE woman, who was civil imprisoned for slightly over two weeks has petitioned the High Court, seeking an order to declare the punishment unconstitutional and wants $100 000 in damages from the C...Published: 8 hrs ago | 207 | by Staff reporter
'Political hand in Chitungwiza town deputy mayor trial'
FORMER Chitungwiza deputy mayor Jabulani Mtunzi's lawyer has made an impassioned appeal to the courts not to be used as podiums to settle political scores as he made his closing submissions in a trial...Published: 8 hrs ago | 147 | by Staff reporter
Mawarire wants treason charges tossed
ACTIVIST cleric Evan Mawarire ramped up pressure on prosecutors Wednesday after his treason trial failed to take off.Through his lawyer, the cleric gave the State a notice to challenge further...Published: 8 hrs ago | 158 | by newzimbabwe
Top cop jailed 4 years for attempted murder
A HARARE magistrate yesterday jailed Borrowdale police officer-in-charge Simbarashe Sibanda to four years for attempted murder of his police girlfriend in a dispute over relish.Sibanda (40) wa...Published: 8 hrs ago | 437 | by Staff reporter
National Museums executive director, deputy in court
National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe's executive director Godfrey Mahachi and his deputy Darlington Munyikwa yesterday appeared in court on allegations of allocating themselves fuel from the org...Published: 16 hrs ago | 1173 | by Staff reporter
Scalding lover earns ex-cop jail term
A former police officer who scalded his girlfriend with water following a misunderstanding over meat, was yesterday sentenced to an effective three years in jail. Harare magistrate Mrs Jessy K...Published: 17 hrs ago | 338 | by Staff reporter
'Zacc officials' remanded in custody
Five men, who masqueraded as Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) officials and allegedly moved around Mashonaland East Province terrorising farmers and kidnapped a fuel dealer in Marondera, app...Published: 17 hrs ago | 227 | by Staff reporter
Cops charged with assault
Four police officers have appeared in court facing charges of assault following a High Court ruling that ordered them to pay $17 000 as compensation for brutality.The four officers, George Puk...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 14:05hrs | 1338 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe son in-law trial continues
The trial of former President Mugabe's son-in-law Simba Chikore yesterday continued with an inspection in loco held at the secret Zimbabwe Airways premises in Chishawasha.Chikore's lawyer Jona...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 14:05hrs | 1318 | by Staff reporter
Couple escapes jail for stocktheft
A CHIPINGE couple heaved a sigh of relief on Monday after it escaped a jail term for stealing another villager's goat worth $100, intending to slaughter the animal and raise money for their child's sc...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 13:48hrs | 436 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance, Mnangagwa lawyers trade barbs
ACCUSATIONS and counter claims of assault have been traded in a slanging match between two lawyers in a case in which opposition MDC Alliance MPs are being tried for allegedly inciting last month's vi...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 13:45hrs | 542 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa is a dog' trial stalls
THE trial of MDC Alliance legislator Joel Gabbuza, facing charges of undermining and insulting President Emmerson Mnangagwa, is being stalled by Prosecutor-General Kumbirai Hodzi, who is yet to issue ...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 13:44hrs | 418 | by Staff reporter
High Court to rule on Parirenyatwa request
The High Court is today expected to rule on former Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa's case in which he is seeking an order to stop his prosecution, arguing the charges levelled agains...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 12:05hrs | 583 | 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 | 400 | by Staff reporter
Dismissal of Masvingo Magistrate Mr Madhibha unfair
It is true that Magistrates and judges have to be competent. They have to measure to the standard expected of them by discharging their duties efficiently, effectively and judiciously. The...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 10:25hrs | 992 | by Njabulo
Guards exonerate Gumbura from prison break
Two members of the Zimbabwe Prison and Correctional Services yesterday said they did not see jailed cleric Robert Martin Gumbura attempting a jailbreak at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison.Gum...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 10:07hrs | 2249 | by Staff reporter
Biti pays fine in 5 cent bond coins, retains Parliament seat
HARARE East MP Tendai Biti (MDC Alliance) on Tuesday survived losing his parliamentary seat after he was convicted by Harare magistrate, Gloria Takundwa and ordered to pay a $200 fine, which he paid i...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 10:06hrs | 5800 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army, cops banned at civilian courts
THE Constitutional Court (ConCourt) has banned the use of State security agents as public prosecutors at civilian courts, saying their secondment to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) was a seri...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 09:56hrs | 679 | by Staff reporter
Maid steals 3 000 rands from Bulawayo, bolts to Harare
AN 18-YEAR-OLD woman who was employed as a housemaid by a family from Rangemore suburb in Bulawayo has been arrested for stealing 3 000 rands from her employer before fleeing to her home in Harare. ...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 22:38hrs | 3095 | by Staff reporter
CAAZ boss arrested
Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) chief executive Mr David Chawota yesterday appeared in court over allegations of authorising payment of $56 042,76 for promotional material from his company...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 20:04hrs | 3766 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: MDC Youth leader acquitted
MDC Youth President Happymore Chidziva has been acquitted of charges of inciting public violence by a Gweru magistrate.Chidziva was being accused of inciting public violence during the pre-ele...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 15:10hrs | 6033 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's 'CIO son' cons church-mate
A 30-year-old Harare businessman was Monday dragged before a Harare magistrate for allegedly duping his church mate out of his cash and goods while purporting to be a member of the Central Intelligenc...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 12:42hrs | 2700 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa's lawyer assaults MDC MP's lawyer in court
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's lawyer Tinomuda Chinyoka was arrested on Monday after a human rights lawyer who is representing several individuals detained during last month's fuel protests accused hi...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:47hrs | 4875 | by ZimLive
Chamisa, Mnangagwa trade barbs
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has blasted President Emmerson Mnangagwa saying he is the chief culprit in causing violence against innocent Zimbabweans. Mnangagwa blamed the opposition for t...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:34hrs | 1897 | by Staff reporter
MDC councillor in court over violence
MDC councillor for Mabelreign, Denford Ngadziore, appeared at the Harare Magistrates' Court yesterday on allegations of inciting last month's public violence.Ngadziore, who was represented by ...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:29hrs | 150 | by Staff reporter
Jailed robbers face fresh charges
THREE armed robbers recently jailed to 35 years for robbing buses were last week back in court, charged with another two counts of robbery.Jobson Shonhe (39) of Gokwe, Samuel Moyo (29) of Chip...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:28hrs | 548 | by Staff reporter
Serial burglar jailed 48 months
A SERIAL Mutare burglar was yesterday caged 48 months by magistrate Perseverance Makhala.Prince Mabika (45) appeared in court facing two counts of unlawful entry.Makhala, however, susp...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:26hrs | 192 | by Staff reporter
5 'Zacc officials' in trouble
Five people who masqueraded as Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) officials and allegedly moved around farms in Marondera, terrorising farmers before kidnaping and robbing a fuel dealer have a...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:25hrs | 759 | by Staff reporter
Biti escapes jail
MDC-Alliance principal Tendai Biti yesterday escaped jail by a whisker after he was slapped with a suspended six-month prison term for illegally announcing purported results for the 2018 Presidential ...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 22:56hrs | 1297 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa more brutal than Mugabe at his worst, says Chamisa
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa on Monday said President Emmerson Mnangagwa is "more rabid than Robert Mugabe at his worst."Chamisa spoke outside the Harare Magistrates Court where the MDC's Harare ...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 18:19hrs | 4448 | by ZimLive
Cops sue each other
A POLICE officer last week dragged her former husband to the Harare Civil Court applying $200 maintenance for three children.Winniefield Madyandove wanted $200 for the upkeep of their three ch...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 15:00hrs | 2450 | by Staff reporter
Biti escapes with just a fine over false election result declaration
MDC deputy chairman Tendai Biti was fined $200 by a court in Harare on Monday after he was convicted of falsely declaring an election victory for his party leader Nelson Chamisa in July last year....Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 13:29hrs | 1363 | by ZimLive
BREAKING: Tendai Biti found guilty
MDC National Deputy Chairperson Tendai Biti has been found guilty by Harare magistrate Gloria Takundwa of announcing results yet he is not a Zimbabwe Electoral Commission official. Magistrate ...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:52hrs | 8319 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Prison officer up for public violence
A 29-YEAR-OLD prison guard based at Whawha Security Prison in Gweru appeared in court last week facing a public violence charge after he allegedly took part in last month's violent protests against fu...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:13hrs | 359 | by Staff reporter
Man gouges neighbour's eye
A 43-YEAR-OLD Guruve man was last week slapped with a four-year jail term for attacking and popping out his neighbour's eye in a fight over a stolen chicken valued at $5.Maduka Makozhombwe (43...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:11hrs | 443 | by Staff reporter
Makwavarara's $80m fraud docket to be merged
THE court has ordered that former chairperson of Harare City Council's caretaker commission, Sekesai Makwavavarara, who is accused of awarding a road dualisation tender to Augur Investment Company wit...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:06hrs | 288 | by Staff reporter
4 armed robbers in army uniform arrested
FOUR suspected armed robbers who allegedly targeted businesses in Harare, Chegutu and Chinhoyi and made off with more than $200 000 cash, appeared at the Harare Magistrates' Court on Friday charged wi...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:03hrs | 974 | by Staff reporter
Bogus lawyer arrested for fraud
A BOGUS lawyer, Descent Moyo, who allegedly masqueraded as a housing estate agent, was nabbed last week and brought to court on charges of duping a Harare property owner of his money after being hired...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:03hrs | 318 | 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 | 173 | by Staff reporter
Prison officer remanded over shutdown protests
A Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) officer has been arrested for allegedly conniving with suspected hooligans who participated in the violent protests that rocked Gweru, leaving a tra...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 06:30hrs | 259 | by Staff reporter
Guvamombe trial set for February 28
The trial of suspended chief magistrate Mishrod Guvamombe on charges of allegedly influencing a subordinate to recuse himself in a matter he had interest in, will commence on February 28. Guva...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 06:29hrs | 58 | by Staffg reporter
Soldiers flood Mnangagwa's NPA
The number of soldiers at the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has increased amid indications that civilian prosecutors are being relegated do to minor tasks, raising fears of the militarisation o...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 08:12hrs | 2080 | by Staff reporter
Village head arrested for rape
A VILLAGE head from Jambezi who allegedly turned a 25-year-old mentally challenged woman into a sex slave has been dragged to court facing rape charges.Walter Ncube (43) of Monde Village who i...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:56hrs | 557 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance lie has no legs
A number of Non-Governmental Organisations and the opposition MDC Alliance have been on the warpath, peddling falsehoods regarding last month's riots, which interestingly, were instigated by them....Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:46hrs | 253 | by Staff writer
'Magaya church not paying tax'
THE Walter Magaya-led Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries was yesterday accused before a Harare magistrate of violating the Income Tax Act after failing to declare tax sales of over $28,7 mil...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:17hrs | 2284 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance senator for Hwange acquitted
A MAGISTRATE has acquitted MDC Alliance senator, Rosemary Nyathi, on charges of defeating the course of justice and addressing an illegal gathering.Nyathi (56), who was being represented by Th...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:10hrs | 161 | by Staff reporter
Perm sec's wife arrested at Supa's trial
THERE was drama at the Harare Magistrates' Courts yesterday when the wife of ICT ministry permanent secretary Sam Kundishora, Beaulla, was arrested for recording an audio of court proceedings in which...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:10hrs | 827 | by Staff reporter
'Expelled' FOG members take founder to court
THE founding leader of the Family of God Church (FOG) Apostle Andrew Wutawunashe has been taken to court by five disgruntled members challenging his decision to expel them for allegedly aligning thems...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:07hrs | 326 | by Staff reporter
Man beats up police officers, throws plate of sadza at them
A tout has been sentenced to 105 hours of community service for resisting arrest and assaulting four police officers at Family Of God (FOG) church illegal commuter pick up point along Robert Mugabe Ro...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:04hrs | 562 | by Staff reporter
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