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Reprieve for 39 war vets accused of public violence
The High Court has granted an application for review filed by 39 war veterans who were previously arrested for participating in an illegal gathering intended to promote public violence. Initi...Published: 31 Aug 2024 at 11:07hrs | 62 | by Staff reporter
ZACC officials recover US$29m assets offshore
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has recovered externalised assets by corrupt citizens worth US$29 million, a new report submitted to Parliament has revealed.Experts say the sout...Published: 27 Nov 2023 at 17:32hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Tsitsi Dangarembga acquitted
ACCLAIMED writer Tsitsi Dangarembga and pro-democracy campaigner Julie Barns have been acquitted by the High Court following a successful appeal against their conviction and sentence for inciting publ...Published: 08 May 2023 at 19:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Vic Falls double header for Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will be in Victoria Falls today to lead key proceedings of two separate high-level international economic conferences as the Second Republic intensifies its efforts to accelerate d...Published: 23 Mar 2023 at 06:15hrs | 4 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Property developer appeals to ConCourt for more time
Prominent property developer George Katsimberis has appealed to the Constitutional Court to be given more time to apply for leave to challenge a High Court ruling on his bid for a permanent stay of pa...Published: 06 Feb 2023 at 08:06hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mamelodi Sundowns target two Bulawayo youngsters
FORMER Warriors star and Mamelodi Sundowns head scout Esrom Nyandoro has revealed that they are monitoring three young players from Zimbabwe.Two of the youngsters are from Bulawayo and the oth...Published: 28 Oct 2022 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gauteng cops arrest Zimbabwean fugitive wanted for rape
A man who allegedly raped a woman in North West and then escaped from police custody while receiving hospital treatment was rearrested in Tsakane, Gauteng.Aubrey Zunguza, 27, was initially arr...Published: 03 Oct 2022 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsitsi Dangarembga and co-accused fined ZW$70k each for inciting public violence
WORLD acclaimed author, Tsitsi Dangarembga and her co-accused, Julie Barnes, have been found guilty of inciting public violence after staging a peaceful demonstration in Harare's leafy suburb of Borro...Published: 29 Sep 2022 at 20:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
High Court trashes businessman's lawsuit against PG and four magistrates
THE High Court has dismissed a lawsuit against four Harare magistrates and the Prosecutor General (PG) filed by controversial property developer George Katsimberis.Katsimberis had sued t...Published: 18 Sep 2022 at 16:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
4 convicted for saying police are Mnangagwa's dogs
FOUR people were on Friday convicted for insulting police officers, saying they were President Emmerson Mnangagwa's dogs.Nobody Makoni, Kudzai Sachiwo, Jacob Chigodora and Batsirai Sorawere we...Published: 11 Sep 2022 at 15:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe trucks forfeited to the State
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has been given the green light to forfeit to the State three trucks belonging to former first lady Mrs Grace Mugabe that were brought into Zimbabwe more than 1...Published: 31 Aug 2022 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
More woes for embattled Wadyajena
HARARE magistrate Barbra Mateko has ordered the seizure of a fleet of vehicles belonging to embattled Gokwe-Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena (Zanu-PF) on suspicion that they were purchase...Published: 22 Aug 2022 at 07:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Court seizes Wadyajena's 24 vehicles including a fleet of trucks and super cars
A HARARE Magistrate Barbara Mateko has ordered the seizure of 24 vehicles among them a fleet of trucks and supercars belonging to embattled Gokwe-Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena....Published: 21 Aug 2022 at 08:53hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mudede's son in court
The trial of former Registrar General Tobaiwa Mudede's son, Tawanda, on allegations of driving his father's US$40 000 Toyota Prado without authority is expected to open today at the Harare Magistrates...Published: 18 Aug 2022 at 20:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dangarembga vows to demonstrate against Mnangagwa's govt again
RENOWNED Zimbabwean writer and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga has said that she sees nothing wrong with expressing her feelings through peaceful demonstrations and would do it again should another cause...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:43hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Court tosses Tsitsi Dangarembga freedom bid
Celebrated film maker and author Tsitsi Dangarembga will next week stand trial on public violence incitement charges after a Harare magistrate Thursday dismissed her application for discharge at the c...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 22:31hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Warrant of arrest for court absconding Dangarembga
AWARD winning novelist, Tsitsi Dangarembga, who is accused of participating in an unsanctioned gathering to cause public violence, has been issued with a warrant of arrest after failing to appear in c...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 19:07hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Dangarembgwa files for discharge
FILMMAKER and novelist Tsitsi Dangarembgwa has filed for discharge at the close of the State case in which she is being charged for participating in an illegal gathering aimed at causing public violen...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Trial of Tsitsi Dangarembgwa resumes
THE trial of novelist Tsitsi Dangarembgwa and Julie Gabriel Barnes who stand accused of participating in an illegal demonstration in 2020 resumed yesterday.Dangarembgwa and Barnes were arreste...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 07:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
High Court stays protesting war vets case
THE High Court has stayed a case involving forty ex-combatants facing charges of disorderly conduct pending their application for review of exception.The ex-combatants had applied for an excep...Published: 02 Jun 2022 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Magistrate refuses to amend war vets charges
A HARARE magistrate has dismissed an application by 40 war veterans who were arrested last year for demanding a review of their monthly earnings.The application seeking to have their charges a...Published: 04 May 2022 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dynamos boss approaches ConCourt over lawyer ban
DYNAMOS Football Club chairperson Bernard Marriot Lusengo, who is accused of fraudulently awarding himself the majority shareholding of the club, has filed an application for referral to the Constitut...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 08:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
'US$24 000 stand sold for US$65'
A MAN who allegedly conspired with the chief estates officer in the Ministry of Lands and bought a residential stand worth US$24 384 for just US$65 in the name of his eight-year-old daughter, yesterda...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to open diamond conference today
THE extraordinary meeting of the Association of African Diamond Producing Countries (ADPA) and Council of Ministers will be officially opened by President Mnangagwa this morning.The President,...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 06:37hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
3 up for electoral miscellaneous offences
A 35-year-old man has been fined $15 000 or risks spending a month in jail for chewing ballot papers he had been handed to cast his vote during the just-ended by-elections on March 26.Tendai A...Published: 04 Apr 2022 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinamsa and friend steals Government car
TWO men appeared in court yesterday on allegations of conniving to steal a car from the Office of the President and Cabinet after the driver parked it in Harare's city centre to buy a pair of shoes....Published: 01 Apr 2022 at 09:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Madzibaba Veshanduko granted bail
NewZimbabweOUTSPOKEN Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist, Godfrey Karembera, has been granted ZW$10 000 bail by Harare magistrate Babra Mateko.Kerembera popularly, known as Ma...Published: 23 Mar 2022 at 20:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
State opposes Madzibaba Veshanduko bail
THE State has opposed bail application by popular Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist Godfrey Karembera, popularly known as Madzibaba Veshanduko, arguing that evidence against him is overwhel...Published: 23 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's Madzibaba veshanduko bail ruling tomorrow
THE State on Tuesday opposed bail for Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporter, Godfrey Karembera saying it has a strong case against him.Karembera, popularly known as Madzibaba Veshanduk...Published: 23 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Police lied on tortured CCC activist charges'
LAWYERS representing Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporter Godfrey Karembera, who was allegedly brutally tortured in police custody, have accused the police of falsely claiming that he had att...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 05:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
War veterans trial moved to April 11
THE trial of 40 war veterans arrested last year while demanding a review of their monthly stipends has been set for April 11, after their application for exception was dismissed yesterday by Harare ma...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 05:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bizzare twist to CCC activist torture saga
POLICE yesterday said they must be given ‘space' in their investigations into torture of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist Godrey Karembera while in custody at Harare Central Police Stati...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kamambo refuses to represent ZIFA in fraud case
SUSPENDED Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) president Felton Kamambo yesterday refused to represent the country''s football mother governing board in a trial on fraud charges involving US$35 000 sa...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's dogs comment lands CCC activists in court
SIX Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists appeared in court facing a charge of insulting police officers calling them President Emmerson Mnangagwa's dogs.Nobody Makoni (51), Batsirai S...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man assaults police officers
A DOMBOSHAVA man has appeared in court on allegations of assaulting police officers who had visited his homestead to ask him to hand over his seven-month old baby to its mother for breast-feeding, aft...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Where wildlife produces its own managers
When African wildlife 'sends' you to South Africa's Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) to study nature conservation, using international hunting revenue so that you can come back and manage it, yo...Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 13:16hrs | 3 | by Emmanuel Koro
Dynamos FC ownership wrangle trial date set
HARARE regional magistrate Mrs Barbra Mateko yesterday set February 22 as the trial date for Dynamos board chairman, Bernard Marriott Lusengo, on allegations of defrauding the football club, and the p...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 05:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa activist's trial kicks off January 18
THE trial of MDC Alliance Makomborero Haruzivishe has been set for January 18.Haruzivishe who was released from remand prison on Saturday after spending 10 months in prison appeared before mag...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:14hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Woman accused of hiring out guns to armed robbers
Police are on the hunt for a Harare woman who allegedly rented out guns to armed robbers.Investigators recovered two pistols during a raid at Norest Kufa's Glendale residence in Harare after a...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 18:59hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Drug peddler arrested
A 37-YEAR-OLD Harare woman appeared at Harare Magistrates Court yesterday facing allegations of illegally dealing in drugs.Revai Mangani was caught with crystal meth worth $150 000 on Christma...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:15hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
2 soldiers to appear in court for murder, US$40 000 robbery
TWO soldiers are due to appear in court today facing charges of murder and armed robbery after they got away with US$40 000 in heist at a Hatfield house in Harare.Lameck Kabara from the Zimbab...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:14hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
2 robbers pose as cops
TWO men have been brought to court for allegedly masquerading as police officers and robbing unsuspecting people on five occasions.Nelson Madhevere (23) of Chibara Farm and Edwin Muchagwa (42)...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:04hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Brother rapes sister
A 19-year-old man from Mufakose in Harare appeared in court yesterday on allegations of raping his five-year-old sister on Christmas eve after she was left in his custody while their mother was attend...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:03hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Shootout escapee in court for robbery
ONE of the suspected armed robbers, who escaped a shoot-out that claimed the lives of three of his colleagues at ex-detective Joseph Nemaise's house on Monday night appeared at the Harare Magistrates ...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:26hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa supporters in court over 'Mnangagwa's dogs'
SIX MDC Alliance members appeared before a Harare magistrate yesterday facing charges of insulting police officers calling them President Emmerson Mnangagwa's dogs.Nobody Makoni (51), Batsirai...Published: 24 Nov 2021 at 09:07hrs | 13 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF's Godwin Gomwe assaults man for talking to him with cap on
Zanu-PF's Harare deputy chairperson Godwin Gomwe was once again hauled before the courts for assault after he allegedly unleashed his full wrath on a fellow party member for disrespecting him by talki...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 05:55hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
War veterans wants trial date or to be remove from remand
THIRTY-NINE members of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) who are accused of participating in a gathering with the intention to cause public violence were today remande...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Marriot loses ConCourt bid in Dynamos fraud case
DYNAMOS Football Club board chairperson Bernard Marriot Lusengo yesterday lost his bid for referral of his matter, involving the club's shareholding, to the Constitutional Court after a Harare magistr...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa claims Zanu-PF 'upholding constitutionalism' as war vets charged
Tyrant Emmerson Mnangagwa made a bizarre claim on Thursday that he was "upholding constitutionalism."On a day 40 war veterans were taken to court later than the constitutional limit of 48-hour...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:02hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Liberation war veterans detained in prison over anti-govt protest
THIRTY-NINE liberation war veterans will spend the night in prison detention after Harare Magistrate Barbra Mateko deferred her ruling on their application seeking to be set free citing violation of t...Published: 29 Oct 2021 at 14:31hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
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