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Peter Dube's trial commences after years of delays
Once a prominent car dealer in Gweru, Peter Dube now stands accused in a high-profile murder trial that has captivated the nation since 2021. Dube is facing double murder charges and two counts of att...Published: 15 Jul 2025 at 08:33hrs | 1197 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge policeman's attempted murder trial delayed
The attempted murder trial of Ziggie Khonzani, a Beitbridge police officer, failed to take off yesterday after the accused fell ill, prompting the court to reschedule the proceedings to May 14, 2025....Published: 10 May 2025 at 13:12hrs | 121 | by Staff reporter
Double murder accused businessman's trial stalls again
The murder trial of former fugitive and Gweru businessman Peter Dube, accused of killing two people and attempting to kill two more in a suspected love triangle, has hit another roadblock after he exh...Published: 27 Nov 2024 at 12:04hrs | 685 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's doctor quizzed over wrong drugs
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's personal physician, John Mangwiro, faced scrutiny regarding a nurse who allegedly administered incorrect medication to his patient.During the cross-examin...Published: 20 Nov 2023 at 22:00hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga attempted murder trial stalls
A series of delays, including state inaction and the absence of the trial magistrate and key witnesses, have further prolonged the attempted murder trial of Marry Mubaiwa, the former wife of Vice Pres...Published: 20 Sep 2023 at 07:37hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Woman shot outside Cape Town court was Zimbabwean witness to murder
A woman shot dead outside a courthouse in Cape Town, South Africa, on May 25 was a 30-year-old Zimbabwean who was a witness against a man who killed her friend, ZimLive revealed.In a viral vid...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 14:25hrs | 39 | by Staff reporter
Mubaiwa's attempted murder trial postponed
MARRY Mubaiwa's trial on charges of attempting to kill Vice President Constantino Chiwenga by unplugging the hospital life support system and attempting to sneak him out of the ward, failed to continu...Published: 19 May 2023 at 20:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Lawyer, prosecutor row disrupts Mubaiwa trial
Harare Magistrate Feresi Chakanyuka was Tuesday forced to briefly adjourn court after failing to control heated exchanges between Beatrice Mtetwa, lawyer representing Marry Mubaiwa in her attempted mu...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 08:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga ex-wife trial: New details emerge
NEW details have emerged in the attempted murder trial of Marry Mubaiwa, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's estranged wife.As trial commenced yesterday, one of the witnesses, Warren Sibanda...Published: 28 Feb 2023 at 07:43hrs | 3 | by Phillip Anjorin
Chiwenga ex-wife's attempted murder trial opens
MARRY Mubaiwa diverted the entourage that accompanied Vice President Constantino Chiwenga to seek medical attention in South Africa to a hotel instead of going straight to hospital upon their arrival,...Published: 28 Feb 2023 at 07:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mom pleads insanity in killing 4 children
The legal counsel for Emelda Marizani of Chivhu accused of killing her four daughters by slitting their throats and setting the family house on fire, has asked the court to consider a special verdict ...Published: 27 Oct 2022 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Judge's son and co-accuseds in flopped bid to delay murder trial
THE murder trial of High Court Judge, Justice Garainesu Mawadze's son, has commenced despite several strenuous efforts to delay proceedings.Munyaradzi Mawadze is accused of killing Sipho Ncube...Published: 01 Oct 2022 at 06:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga ex-wife's bid to shift attempted murder trial to SA fails
Court has rejected a bid by Marry Mubaiwa to have her trial shifted to South Africa where the attempted murder on her ex-husband and Zimbabwe Vice President Constantino Chiwenga allegedly took place....Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 17:08hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga attempted murder trial: Top lawyer Mtetwa in tears
VICE President Chiwenga's estranged wife Marry Mubaiwa failed to attend proceedings Friday despite being at the courts as she was too ill to leave her vehicle.The presiding magistrate still is...Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's office planned to get Advocate Teffo off Meyiwa murder trial
"On the 28th of April when I was arrested before your court, that was a plan, and the plan was hatched in the office of the president - the number one office in the country," said Teffo.H...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's ex-wife awaits attempted murder trial date
THE State will furnish Marry Mubaiwa with a trial date when she returns to court on July 6 on charges of attempting to kill Vice President Constantino Chiwenga during the time he was hospitalised in S...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jerrycan links Taj Abdul gang to spate of robberies
A victim of armed robbery yesterday positively identified a jerry can which had his initials at the bottom, as the High Court murder trial of suspected armed robber Musa Taj Abdul and his eight co-acc...Published: 10 Jun 2022 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Trial stopped as 'killer' accused turns hysterical
HIGH Court judge Justice Munamato Mutevedzi was yesterday forced to adjourn a murder trial after the alleged murderer went "insane" and started tearing his prison garb, shouting and screaming....Published: 10 Feb 2022 at 05:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean woman unfit to stand trial over SA murder
A 42-year-old Zimbabwean woman who killed her husband and dumped his limbs in three pit latrines has been certified medically unfit to stand trial by South African doctors.Nancy Majonhi has mi...Published: 20 Oct 2021 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Marry Chiwenga's attempted murder trial set for 1 November
The National Prosecuting Authority has set 1 November 2021 as the tentative date for the trial of former 2nd Lady Marry Mubaiwa-Chiwenga who is accused of attempting to murder Vice President General C...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 12:56hrs | 10 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Banana's widow dies
Janet Banana, the widow of Zimbabwe's first president Canaan Banana died aged 83 on Thursday, her family announced.She died at Bulawayo's Mater Dei Hospital from a kidney ailment, according to...Published: 29 Jul 2021 at 12:03hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean-born pathologist stirs controversy
Dr David Fowler, a South African-trained pathologist who was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, has been testifying for the defence in the murder trial of fired Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin charg...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 07:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mbuya Nehanda's remains must be repatriated first then erection of the statue
One of the greatest achievements of the President of Zimbabwe comrade Emerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa is to honour the heroes. The president has shown that he does not forget those deserving to be honoured...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:40hrs | 8 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Murder suspect roaming free in streets
A MURDER suspect, who allegedly killed his girlfriend in 2015 and skipped bail in 2017, is walking free five years after the commission of the crime, moving from one rented house to another in Harare'...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 04:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean accused of attacking 10 hikers and murdering 2 in Cape Town
The double-murder trial of the alleged "Table Mountain killer" is set to resume next Monday in the Cape Town high court.Thirty-five-year-old Zimbabwean national Blessing Bveni is accused of at...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 18:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Family paid 20 beasts for murdered relative
Harare businessman, Tawanda Chivavaya, together with his six employees who are alleged to have bludgeoned to death a Glen Norah man for stealing meat worth $2, yesterday told High Court judge Justice ...Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 08:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zim Judge to deal with army killings in Lesotho
Top judge Justice Charles Hungwe is in Lesotho as one of the foreign judges who will preside over the politically sensitive criminal cases involving politicians and members of Lesotho's army, police, ...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:35hrs | 11 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Wheelchair-bound killer feigning disability unmasked by girfriend
A WHEELCHAIR-BOUND Mbare man who allegedly fatally stabbed a fellow resident accusing him of fondling his girlfriend's breasts was last Wednesday remanded in custody pending conclusion of his murder t...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bombing: Barwe feeds reckless ethnic narrative
At the height of the Oscar Pistorius murder trial, I read about an interesting concept in South Africa, "swart gevaar" (black danger), as the athlete's defence was that he thought there was an intrude...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 07:22hrs | 2 | by Nqaba Matshazi
32 murder cases lined up as High Court term opens
THE second term of the High Court commenced yesterday with 32 murder trials on the roll among them the case of alleged serial killer Rodney Tongai Jindu.Jindu's trial, in which the State has l...Published: 16 May 2018 at 06:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Soldier further remanded on murder charges
A KWEKWE-BASED soldier, who allegedly shot his wife and her two siblings at their family home in Bulawayo two months ago, has been further remanded in custody to April 17 pending his indictment to the...Published: 05 Apr 2018 at 07:19hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Warrant of arrest for State witness in murder trial
THE trial of a man who allegedly fatally assaulted Bulawayo City Council Assistant Director of Engineering Services, Engineer Mbuthi Gugu Mkhwananzi, after the two clashed at a girlfriend's house, was...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
The love scandals that rocked Zanu-PF
Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones, but obviously someone forgot to tell the folks inside Zanu-PF. In this expose, we look at the love scandals that have dominated Mugabe's party ...Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 15:57hrs | 246 | by Lance Guma
Murder suspect claims torture
THE murder trial of a man who is accused of killing his business partner took a new twist last week after the High Court rejected a statement made to the police by the accused saying it was made under...Published: 29 Mar 2016 at 06:29hrs | | by Fidelis Munyoro
SA Home Affairs ordered to pay Zimbabwean lawyer
The home affairs department has been ordered to pay costs incurred by a Pretoria-based attorney, Eucan Gwanangura, after officials at the Beitbridge border post barred him entry on his return from Zim...Published: 08 Jun 2015 at 08:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean lawyer take SA Home Affairs department to the cleaners
The South African Home Affairs department has been ordered to pay costs incurred by a Pretoria-based attorney Eucan Gwanangura after officials at the Beitbridge border post barred him entry on his ret...Published: 01 Jun 2015 at 07:23hrs | 11 | by ANA
Lolly Jackson's killer dies
Cape Town - George Louka, the man accused of killing Teazers boss Lolly Jackson, has died on Monday, according to reports.eNCA reported that the Cypriot national, who had lung cancer has died....Published: 11 May 2015 at 21:19hrs | 1 | by News24
Zanu-PF activist murder trial stalled
THE trial of a Zanu-PF activist, who allegedly killed an MDC member in 2002 accusing him of being a sellout because his daughters were Morgan Tsvangirai's election agents in the presidential election ...Published: 14 Jan 2015 at 06:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
DJ Munya's discharge bid thrown out
A Harare court yesterday dismissed Munyaradzi Milimo (DJ Munya)'s application for refusal of further remand in his murder trial and ordered the State to speed up investigations to enable trial to com...Published: 09 Jan 2015 at 15:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Killer Pastor gets double life jail term
CONTROVERSIAL Jerusalem Apostolic Faith Church, Jonathan Mutsinze was last Friday slapped with a dual life prison term, bringing the 16-year-old murder case to its logical conclusion.Muts...Published: 21 Oct 2014 at 07:19hrs | | by Court reporter
Zanu-PF's 'Chuck Norris' faces murder charges
SUSPECTED Zanu-PF fugitive, Stabiliser Kadafi, alias "Chuck Norris", who has been on the run after he was implicated in the murder of an opposition MDC-T activist in Kadoma in the run-up to the 2008 p...Published: 23 Sep 2014 at 05:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fletcher Dulini Ncube: Principled and Dependable to the End
1940 to 2014I first met Fletcher Dulini Ncube in 1999 during the early days of the processes of the formation of the MDC. He was introduced to me by the late Gibson Sibanda at a meeting th...Published: 18 Sep 2014 at 21:05hrs | 1 | by Welshman Ncube
Pistorius found guilty of culpable homicide
Judge Thokozile Masipa has found paralympian Oscar Pistorius guilty of culpable homicide in the killing of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine's Day last year, SABC reported. Judge T...Published: 12 Sep 2014 at 09:18hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Court proceedings halted after couple spotted having sex
A judge suspended a murder trial in Italy after spotting two court staff in an office beside the court having sex.Anna Ivaldi asked the prosecutor to stop talking after she heard strange noise...Published: 21 May 2014 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Murder accused Oscar Pistorius' version untrue - Nel
Pretoria - The version of events by murder accused Oscar Pistorius the night his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp was shot dead is improbable, the State said on Thursday."Your version is so improbab...Published: 10 Apr 2014 at 14:23hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Oscar Pistorius will testify
Murder accused Oscar Pistorius will testify in his own defence, his legal team said on Tuesday."I don't think we have a choice. The question is when," a member of Pistorius's legal team, Brian...Published: 25 Mar 2014 at 14:58hrs | 3 | by Sapa
Oscar Pistorius trial judge under world-wide scrutiny
Cape Town - In 15 years on the bench, Judge Thokozile Matilda Masipa has heard a few high profile cases, but they will all be eclipsed by the drama and world-wide scrutiny of the Oscar Pistorius murd...Published: 18 Feb 2014 at 12:24hrs | 1 | by Sapa
Mlambos Express murder trial enters second day
The trial of a Somali National accused of brutally murdering a member of Zimbabwe's ace rhumba group Mlambos Express Band on the 26th of May 2013, entered its second day at the Pretoria Magistrat...Published: 12 Feb 2014 at 21:53hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabes' fight over Hong Kong mansion to open Pandora's Box
THE feud between Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's family and its erstwhile South African business partner Hsieh Ping Sung (also known as Jack Ping) is set to intensify as the tycoon pulls out all ...Published: 07 Feb 2014 at 10:08hrs | 1 | by Herbert Moyo
Justice Hungwe given a 30-day ultimatum
The Constitutional Court has given Justice Charles Hungwe a 30-day ultimatum to furnish it with reasons for the decade long delay in concluding the Jonathan Mutsinze murder trial.In its rulin...Published: 22 Jan 2014 at 17:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
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