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CIO security aide pleads guilty to unlawful entry and theft
A Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) security aide has admitted to three counts of unlawful entry and theft after breaking into Home Affairs ministry offices in Harare.George Marufu (32) ...Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 10:16hrs | 397 | by Staff reporter
Man pleads guilty to armed robbery after night attack on Bulawayo couple
A 25-year-old Bulawayo man appeared in court this week facing armed robbery following a night attack on a Nketa couple's home with his accomplices to snatch cash and cell phones from their victims....Published: 05 Oct 2024 at 16:57hrs | 1131 | by Staff reporter
Man bashes best friend to death for joking about bedding his wife
A 35-year-old Mvurwi man has been jailed seven years for bashing his best friend to death for joking about bedding his wife.High Court Judge Munamato Mutevedzi handed Mike Foya the lenient sen...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 18:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lone anti-govt protester pleads guilty
A Harare resident, Itai Makombe (51) who was arrested while staging a one-man demo at the intersection of Sam Nujoma and Josiah Tongogara streets has pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and unlawful ...Published: 08 Jun 2023 at 09:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ex-US soldier pleads guilty to possession of a firearm
A former American soldier has been found guilty of trying to board a flight at the Robert Gabriel International Airport with a firearm which was not lawfully declared.Ronald Johnson was convic...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 05:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man pleads guilty to multiple counts of murder, robbery, rape, extortion
A 27-year-old Zimbabwean man, Wellington Kachidza, dubbed the Pretoria "serial killer" in South Africa has pleaded guilty to multiple counts of extortion, murder, robbery with aggravating circumstance...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 16:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Abusive teacher pleads guilty, blames toothache
A HARARE school teacher who last week caused a social media stir after he was filmed brutally bashing a Lower Sixth student pleaded guilty to assault charges when he appeared in court on Saturday....Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Top prosecutors in plot to 'fix' lawyer
TWO chief public prosecutors - Rosa Takuva and Justin Uladi - could face a criminal probe after an alleged clandestine manoeuvre to "destroy" Harare lawyer Admire Rubaya was unmasked.A WhatsAp...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:15hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Serial rapist pleads guilty to all charges
Bindura based serial rapist Kwaramasa Kwaramasa of Chiwaridzo suburb appeared before Bindura magistrate Lungile Ncube facing six counts of rape today....Published: 12 May 2021 at 21:14hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Teen gangster pleads guilty
A TEENAGER from Bulawayo has been arrested for allegedly attacking a man with bricks before he robbed him of a cellphone and cash. Nicky Moyo (18) from New Magwegwe suburb and four accom...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 15:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt says anti-corruption drive not a fluke
GOVERNMENT says the ongoing anti-corruption drive is "not a fluke", but a sustained operation running until the scourge of corruption is eradicated. The Government is also urging citizens to be patien...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo mocks Chief Justice Malaba over ruling on Chamisa's election petition
Former Zanu PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo has rapped Chief Justice Luke Malaba for being bias in his discharge of Judgement, which threw away MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's election Challeng...Published: 25 Aug 2018 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Govt orders breathalysers
Home Affairs Deputy Minister Obedingwa Mguni says Government has placed an order for breathalysers and these will be issued to the police soon. This was after the realisation that drunken drivers have...Published: 10 Oct 2017 at 01:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe traffic cops go 7 years without breathalysers
DRUNKEN drivers who are involved in accidents are getting away largely scot-free as police have been operating without breath test kits since 2010.Standard police breathalysers cost as little ...Published: 09 Oct 2017 at 16:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fungisai pleads guilty to negligent driving
Musician Fungisai Zvakavapano yesterday pleaded guilty to negligent driving after her vehicle bumped into a vehicle that she was trailing too closely. Zvakavapano (36) failed to manoeuvre while overta...Published: 19 Sep 2017 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
31 dead, truck driver pleads guilty
THE driver of a South African-registered haulage truck which sideswiped a Johannesburg-bound Proliner bus killing 31 people on the spot and injuring 40 near Mvuma, has pleaded guilty.Regis Man...Published: 28 Aug 2017 at 12:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man pleads guilty to selling wife
A MBARE resident, who connived with his wife to play brother and sister before tricking a Kuwadzana man into paying $4 000 lobola, pleaded guilty to the offence when he appeared before a Harare magist...Published: 22 Aug 2017 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Masendeke pleads guilty
THE late notorious robber and murderer Edmond Edgar Masendeke's younger brother Andrew, arrested for allegedly robbing and kidnapping a police officer, has pleaded guilty.The younger Masendeke...Published: 24 Jun 2017 at 13:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reorter
TV presenter pleads guilty to culpable homicide
ZTV's Coke on the Beat presenter Tichaona Maruziva yesterday pleaded guilty to culpable homicide and told the court that he was truly sorry for knocking down and killing a cyclist in April this ye...Published: 15 Dec 2016 at 05:06hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Geek to gun-runner: the super-villain with Zimbabwean links
Cape Town - He established hothouses in lawless Somalia, protecting them with a private militia to grow opium poppies, cocaine and other narcotic substances under scientifically controlled conditions....Published: 11 Apr 2016 at 10:09hrs | 13 | by Ivor Powell
Armed robber abandoned by crew pleads guilty
A GUN-wielding robber who allegedly shot and injured two people as he tried to escape from an angry mob has appeared in court facing robbery charges. Thokozani Zulu, 39, allegedly robbed and t...Published: 14 Mar 2016 at 05:39hrs | | by Thandeka Moyo
Con-woman pleads guilty
A Chitungwiza con-woman, who is facing five counts of fraud involving more than $4 000, was on Tuesday sentenced to 210 hours of community service after pleading guilty to two more charges of a simila...Published: 28 Jan 2016 at 05:12hrs | 1 | by Court Reporter
Zimbabwean 'human heart-eater' pleads guilty to murder
Cape Town - A Zimbabwean man pleaded guilty in the Western Cape High Court on Monday morning to stabbing Mbuyiselo Manona to death last year and removing his heart.On the first day of the tria...Published: 02 Feb 2015 at 11:48hrs | | by Sapa
Man pleads guilty for raping unconscious church mate
A man in Binga Zimbabwe clearly did not read the 'thou shalt not commit adultery' commandment when he raped a fellow church member on her way back.The court heard last week that Encovk Mu...Published: 28 Aug 2014 at 07:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Tout stabbed and killed over R8
A COMMUTER omnibus tout allegedly stabbed a fellow tout to death in a dispute over R8.Chemist Sakala (20) of Matshobana appeared before Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Andrew Mutema yesterd...Published: 06 Jun 2014 at 10:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
US man pleads guilty in Mugabe scheme
A 72-year-old Chicago man has pleaded guilty to illegally lobbying U.S. lawmakers to lift sanctions against Zimbabwe's president and other members of his regime for a promise of $3.4 million....Published: 12 Apr 2014 at 19:22hrs | 1 | by AP
Killer kombi driver pleads guilty
THE commuter omnibus driver who hit and killed a pedestrian with his vehicle while trying to evade arrest by police officers on Tuesday this week, appeared at the Harare Magistrates' Court yesterday f...Published: 06 Dec 2013 at 03:24hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporters
Zim man pleads guilty to bashing wife to death in Canada
A ZIMBABWEAN man accused of beating his wife to death with a hammer in Canada has pleaded guilty to second degree murder. Patrick Chareka was formally charged with first-degree murder aft...Published: 26 Sep 2013 at 16:28hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe man pleads guilty in US tax-fraud scheme
A second Zimbabwe man accused in an Ohio-based tax fraud case that prosecutors say netted up to $7 million has changed his plea to guilty.Tawanda Marimbire pleaded guilty in federal court on M...Published: 15 Jan 2013 at 05:18hrs | 1 | by AP
Bosso pleads guilty
Bulawayo soccer giants - Highlanders - have appeared before the Premier Soccer League (PSL) disciplinary committee and await judgment in the case in which their fans turned violent during the match th...Published: 27 Jul 2012 at 06:16hrs | | by Sports Reporter
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