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Kidnap & assault magistrate acquitted
ESIGODINI resident magistrate Tawanda Muchemwa has been acquitted of assaulting and kidnapping his maid. Muchemwa, through his lawyer Mr Tanaka Muganyi of Tanaka Law Chambers, had denied the c...Published: 10 hrs ago | 268 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate in court for kidnapping and assault
ESIGODINI resident magistrate Tawanda Muchemwa has been arrested for allegedly assaulting his maid using a belt before locking her in a room.The incident allegedly occurred last year in May, b...Published: 22 May 2019 at 00:23hrs | 1370 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate arrested for $20 bribe
A KAROI magistrate and clerk of court have appeared at the Chinhoyi Magistrate Court for allegedly accepting a $20 bribe in order to rule in favour of the defendant in a maintenance case. Aman...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:03hrs | 492 | by Staff reporter
State impeaches star witness in the Parirenyatwa case
FORMER Natpharm board chairman and one of the state's star witnesses in former minister David Parirenyatwa's abuse of office case was yesterday impeached after the court ruled that he was hostile....Published: 15 May 2019 at 09:59hrs | 1700 | by Staff reporter
Mpofu to appear in court today
ZIMBABWE Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) chief executive Morris Bekezela Mpofu will today appear in court facing charges of criminal abuse of duty, police has said.On Monday, Mpofu was pic...Published: 15 May 2019 at 07:31hrs | 511 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa risks trial for killing protestors'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa might be tried for incitement and involvement in the killing of protesters in August 2018 and January 2019 exiled Professor Jonathan Moyo has said. Commenting afte...Published: 13 May 2019 at 20:45hrs | 4749 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mthwakazi: Justice delayed is justice denied
I am utterly disgusted and dismayed by the level of both incompetence and a clear disregard of rule of law by the Zimbabwean courts, especially at Tredgold Magistrate court and Bulawayo High court whe...Published: 13 May 2019 at 11:22hrs | 799 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Mthwakazi welcomes Mnangagwa's interest to address the Gukurahundi genocide
Mthwakazi National Party is carefully following the developments with regards to the resolution of the Gukurahundi genocide. Gukurahundi was a criminal offence aimed at exterminating a political group...Published: 10 May 2019 at 22:48hrs | 2695 | by Mthwakazi National Party
Gumbura's application to stop lower court proceedings dismissed
Jailed cleric Robert Martin Gumbura yesterday unsuccessfully filed an application to stop proceedings in a case in which he is facing charges of attempting to break from Chikurubi Maximum Security Pri...Published: 10 May 2019 at 06:56hrs | 369 | by Staff reporter
Poser for Gukurahundi mass graves
The exhumation of the remains of Gurahundi victims buried in mass graves dotted around Matabeleland and those thrown into mine shafts will pose ethical challenges as it will require the consent of all...Published: 05 May 2019 at 10:39hrs | 462 | by Staff reporter
The horrors of Gukurahundi relived
At a time when former president Robert Mugabe's government avoided debate on Gukurahundi massacres to an extent that talk about the bloody past was criminalised, a human rights activist was helping th...Published: 05 May 2019 at 10:38hrs | 3196 | by Staff reporter
State closes case in MDC MP’s falsified address case
The State yesterday closed its case in the matter in which Mt Pleasant legislator Samuel Banda (MDC Alliance) is being accused of contravening a section of the Electoral Act by allegedly falsifying hi...Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 06:47hrs | 973 | by Staff reporter
Binga RDC boss acquitted of criminal abuse of office
BINGA Rural District Council (BRDC) chief executive officer, Joshua Muzamba, has been acquitted of criminal abuse of office charges following an appeal to the High Court.Muzamba, who was facin...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 07:02hrs | 244 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF gold baron, 9 others up for public violence
Prominent Chinhoyi gold dealer and Zanu-PF politician, Gerald Sairon, and nine others have been arrested and charged with public violence.Sairon, who is also the general manager at the controv...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 07:19hrs | 798 | by Staff reporter
19 injured in Luveve Road pile-up
NINETEEN people were injured in a three- vehicle pile-up accident near Entumbane Shopping Complex in Bulawayo yesterday. The pile-up occurred when a Toyota Quantum headed towards Luveve suburb...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 07:08hrs | 822 | by Staff reporter
Fugitive murder suspect threatens witnesses
A HARARE murder suspect is on the run after fatally shooting his wife and brother-in-law at their Gletywin home last month following a protracted marital dispute.Petros Pomborokani (50), alias...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:15hrs | 647 | by Staff reporter
Advanced Level Family and Religious Studies: Miracles and the New Testament
The word "miracle," is derived from the Latin word miraculum, which is so translated in the New Testament of the Authorized Version from two Greek words. On twenty-two occasions the word semeion is tr...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 16:37hrs | 1145 | by Brian Maregedze
Soldiers arrested over Cyclone Idai aid
AFTER weeks of frenzied speculation, some members of the military have finally been exposed for allegedly looting goods donated to survivors of the recent Cyclone Idai which left a trail of dest...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 08:10hrs | 3487 | by Staff reporter
Boy loses leg because of church belief
A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD boy from Bulawayo is precariously clinging to life, as his parents, who are staunch Jehovah's Witnesses are allegedly refusing that he undergoes a blood transfusion to save his life, ...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 10:01hrs | 1627 | by Staff reporter
State case against Dr Parirenyatwa crumbles
The state's case against former Health and Child Care Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa is faltering.This follows one of the key state witnesses and former Natpharm board chairperson Dr Goerge Wa...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 16:52hrs | 1741 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe in court
Former Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) board chairman Albert Mugabe has appeared in court on allegations of authorising and tendering false letters of undertaking to set off a mortgage ...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 13:09hrs | 529 | by Staff reporter
Guvamombe's bid to be tried at the High Court flops
A HWANGE magistrate handling the case of suspended chief magistrate Mishrod Guvamombe, who is accused of criminal abuse of office, yesterday threw out an application for his recusal, saying it was com...Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 07:24hrs | 721 | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Idai donations thieving cop gets bail
A HARARE police officer, who on Monday appeared at the Rusape Magistrates Court charged with stealing foodstuffs donated to victims of Cyclone Idai in Manicaland, has been granted $200 bail and remand...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 07:02hrs | 1057 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance MP, councillor denied bail
Bid by Zengeza East legislator Goodrich Chimbaira (MDC-ALLIANCE) and Ward 14 councillor Chengetai Nyagondo to get freedom hit a snag after Chitungwiza resident magistrate Mr Nyasha Vitorini denied the...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 18:42hrs | 483 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers derail Parliament committee hearing
ORAL evidence of the Parliamentary Privileges Committee set up to look into a matter involving four legislators affiliated to the Mines Committee who allegedly demanded a $400 000 bribe from businessm...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 15:23hrs | 649 | by Staff reporter
Four of the seven Zimbabweans burnt alive in South Africans laid to rest
More than 1000 mourners, including some South Africans attended the burial in Sanyati Zimbabwe of the four of the slain Zimbabweans. Each mourner had his-or her own profound reasons for being ...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 19:22hrs | 15854 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Killer Campfire ranger granted $100 bail
A RANGER from Hwange Rural District Council (HRDC) Community Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (Campfire), who allegedly accidentally killed a 62-year-old Jambezi woman as he tried t...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 06:41hrs | 319 | by Staff reporter
Parly begins probe into Mliswa Committee graft allegations
PARLIAMENT's Privileges Committee (PPC) will this Monday, begin investigations into corruption allegations levelled against some former members of the Mines and Mining Development then chaired by Inde...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 06:29hrs | 160 | by newzimbabwe
Mohadi goes scot-free
Vice-President Kembo Mohadi has not been censured for allegedly threatening to his kill his ex-wife and damaging her property because no police report has been made a week after the shocking incident,...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 09:08hrs | 3094 | by Staff reporter
Major forex scam hits Nedbank Zimbabwe
A massive scandal has rocked Nedbank Zimbabwe - a local unit of one of South Africa's largest financial services groups - after 28 employees were nabbed by police for allegedly swindling the financial...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 08:26hrs | 3459 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa extends Commission of Inquiry term
President Mnangagwa has extended the term of the Commission of Inquiry into the sale of State Land in and around urban areas by nine months. He appointed the commission after illegal settlements had m...Published: 06 Apr 2019 at 07:55hrs | 523 | by Staff reporter
Surface accounting is aiding corruption
Zinara, Zinara! Big fish should never get through the net where small ones are caught. Otherwise, its vanity. The catch and release trajectory is never healthy and may not help our situation. ...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 08:12hrs | 594 | by Thomas Murisa
Umalayitsha wins battle to recover impounded car
THE High Court has ordered police to release a South African registered kombi belonging to an umalayitsha which was impounded last year after it was found carrying a carcass of an alleged stolen beast...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 06:50hrs | 1100 | by Staff reporter
Dzikamai Mavhaire faces arrest
Former Energy and Power Development Minister Dzikamai Mavhaire, who had been summoned by the State to testify against former Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) chairperson in a bribery case, was yesterday i...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:18hrs | 561 | by Staff reporter
Ranger misses elephant, kills villager
A 61-year-old woman from Chenamisa village in Hwange rural has been accidentally killed by a CAMPFIRE ranger who was aiming at a stray elephant which had destroyed crops in nearby homesteads. ...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 20:06hrs | 3671 | by Staff reporter
Date set for Gumbura jailbreak case ruling
A Harare magistrate is on April 10 expected to make a ruling on the application for discharge at the close of the State case by jailed RMG Independent End Time Message leader Robert Martin Gumbura and...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 07:58hrs | 197 | by Staff reporter
'Rapist robber' seeks bail pending trial
A BULAWAYO man who allegedly raped his neighbour who is twice his age until she passed out and robbed her of a handbag containing money and a cellphone, has approached the High Court seeking bail pend...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 06:37hrs | 677 | by Staff reporter
'Mum killer's' third bail bid rejected
THE High Court has dismissed a third application for bail pending trial by a Bulawayo teenager who allegedly killed his mother and kept the body in the house for two days after she failed to repay 50 ...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 06:36hrs | 766 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi goes berserk, attacks former wife with an axe
VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi yesterday allegedly attacked his estranged former wife using an axe to break doors and threatened to shoot her in a dispute over property.The enraged VP raided sena...Published: 31 Mar 2019 at 10:11hrs | 16883 | by Staff reporter
7 Zimbabweans burnt alive in South Africa
A Zimbabwean family fled to Cape town to escape the hunger and poverty All 7 of them including four children just died in a house fire.The loss of one child is devastating. The loss of seven? ...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 11:10hrs | 32579 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Teen's burial abandoned in Harare after 'prophets' claim she is alive
The burial of a teenage girl was abandoned in bizarre scenes on Wednesday after members of a church sect insisted that she was alive.The 16-year-old Form 4 pupil at Kwayedza High School in Hig...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 19:43hrs | 2175 | by ZimLive
'Makandiwa' gold mine kidnappers acquitted
Five men, who were accused of torturing, kidnapping and robbing while impersonating police officers to villagers who had reportedly stolen gold ore from a mine earlier believed to be owned by United F...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 23:54hrs | 902 | by Staff reporter
New Twist in NATPHARM boss trial
There is a new twist in NATPHARM acting managing director Newman Madzikwa's case of violating tender procedures by hiking medicine prices after a Harare magistrate ordered that a sixth witness be call...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 23:50hrs | 231 | by Staff reporter
Pupil affair teacher loses Supreme Court appeal
THE Supreme Court yesterday dismissed an appeal by a fired married teacher from Bubi district who was challenging a decision by his employer to discharge him for having an affair with a pupil....Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 23:44hrs | 982 | by Staff reporter
CAAZ boss denied bail
Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) chief executive Mr David Chawota yesterday appeared in court on fresh charges of criminal abuse of office after he allegedly awarded a tender amounting to 2...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 23:08hrs | 376 | by Staff reporter
No bail for cop 'killer' sangoma
AN inyanga from Gokwe who allegedly lured a police officer to a bush where he is alleged to have fatally stabbed him with a knife and dumped the body, has lost his application for bail pending trial. ...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 22:55hrs | 372 | by Staff reporter
Witness in Mugabe son-in-law case develops cold feet
The trial of former president Robert Mugabe's son-in-law Simba Chikore, who is accused of kidnapping his employee - Bertha Zakeyo - at Zimbabwe Airways offices, continued yesterday with the fourth Sta...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 22:41hrs | 167 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere challenges dismissal of application
Former Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere has asked the High Court to review a Harare magistrate's decision to dismiss his application for exception to the criminal abuse of office charges....Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 07:06hrs | 1472 | by Staff reporter
Teacher fired for impregnating student appeals to Supreme Court
A TEACHER based in Matabeleland North who lost his job after he fell in love with a student and impregnated her, yesterday appealed against his employer's decision before the Supreme Court, arguing th...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 14:13hrs | 2396 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MP removed from remand
GWERU magistrate Mildred Matuvi yesterday removed from remand Chiwundura legislator Livingstone Chimina (MDC Alliance) and two other Gweru City Council employees in a case in which they are being accu...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 06:23hrs | 1038 | by Staff reporter
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