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Polygamist in trouble for abusing first wife
A Chipinge-based polygamist, Phillip Mhlanga (36), appeared in court after he attempted to abuse his first wife. Magistrate Nixon Mangoti sentenced him to four months in jail, wholly suspended on cond...Published: 9 hrs ago | 306 | by Edson Mapani in Chipinge
Cop sentenced to 2 years for fatal shooting during arrest attempt
A police officer in Gwanda has been sentenced to an effective two years in prison after being found guilty of culpable homicide for fatally shooting a suspect during an attempted arrest in January 202...Published: 17 hrs ago | 250 | by Staff reporter
Lenient sentence for unlicensed driver sparks public outcry
The 24-month suspended sentence handed to a 20-year-old unlicensed driver who fatally knocked down a Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT) student has ignited fierce debate and ...Published: 14 Jul 2025 at 08:00hrs | 897 | by Staff reporter
Kingdom Blue boss convicted over maintenance wrangle
Flamboyant businessman Brilliant Ncube, the man behind the high-end Kingdom Blue Funeral Services brand, has been convicted of contempt of court after failing to comply with a court order to pay spous...Published: 27 Jun 2025 at 15:01hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
Ngarivhume removed from remand as State fails to produce witnesses
Transform Zimbabwe leader Jacob Ngarivhume has been removed from remand after the State failed to bring witnesses to testify in a case in which he was charged with attending an unlawful gathering and ...Published: 24 May 2025 at 11:01hrs | 151 | by Staff reporter
Fake Health Ministry officer jailed 12 yrs for nurse training scam
A woman who masterminded an elaborate scam targeting job seekers by impersonating a Ministry of Health official has been sentenced to 12 years in prison, with 10 years suspended. Patricia Muyambo Maga...Published: 05 May 2025 at 16:13hrs | 518 | by Staff reporter
R40,000 fine for Zimbabwean man who tried to smuggle cigarettes
The Lehurutshe regional court in the North West has sentenced Joseph Kusekwa to 48 months' imprisonment or a fine of R40,000 after finding him guilty of failing to declare goods upon entering South Af...Published: 03 Apr 2025 at 07:58hrs | 113 | by Staff reported
Sikhala arrested over war vets push for Mnangagwa resignation
Opposition politician Job Sikhala, leader of the National Democratic Working Group (NDWG), was arrested yesterday in Penhalonga, near Mutare, along with 21 other members of his political group for all...Published: 11 Feb 2025 at 06:52hrs | 1088 | by Staff reporter
Harare cops sentenced to community service for extortion
Three Harare-based police officers have been sentenced to perform 315 hours of community service at Seke North Clinic after being found guilty of extorting US$5,500 from a fraud suspect. The convicted...Published: 06 Feb 2025 at 07:18hrs | 261 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe begins verification of dead Stilfontein mine zama zamas
The Zimbabwean Embassy in South Africa has dispatched a team of forensic experts and other specialists to collaborate with South African authorities in verifying the identities and nationalities of vi...Published: 18 Jan 2025 at 19:00hrs | 757 | by Staff reporter
Man assaults daughter-in-law in dispute over teaspoon
A 48-year-old widower from Senga, Gweru, has been handed a four-month suspended prison sentence for assaulting his daughter-in-law over a dispute involving a teaspoon.Appearing before Gweru Pr...Published: 29 Nov 2024 at 06:59hrs | 253 | by Staff reporter
Jameson Timba and crew released with suspended sentences
The interim leader of the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), Jameson Timba, and 34 of his supporters are set to be released from custody after being handed varied suspended sentences for ...Published: 27 Nov 2024 at 15:34hrs | 2781 | by Staff reporter
Man steals from brother-in-law
A 23-year-old man from Beitbridge, Nigel Masona, has been sentenced to 16 months in prison after he broke into his brother-in-law's house and stole ZAR 4,900 from a safe. Initially handed a 24-month p...Published: 08 Nov 2024 at 06:47hrs | 170 | by Staff reporter
'Make your daughter marry me or I will kill you'
A 34-year-old man from Gamba Village in Hwange has been fined US$150 after threatening to murder a fellow villager who refused to marry off his daughter to him. Irvine Shoko appeared at the Hwange Mag...Published: 19 Oct 2024 at 12:10hrs | 707 | by Staff reporter
Senior citizen bashes daughter-in-law
There was drama at Nyagupe village, Mudzi when a 75-year-old woman bashed her 50-year-old daughter-in-law while coming from a river.The 75-year-old mother-in-law (Elizabeth Mudzagada) was drag...Published: 29 Aug 2024 at 16:07hrs | 525 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe rendition saga ends with a suspended sentence 14 years on
Friday saw the end of the controversial Zimbabwe rendition sage, which had dragged on for nearly 14 years.The matter was even heard before the Zondo Commission, and saw former top police offic...Published: 30 Jul 2024 at 07:43hrs | 475 | by Staff reporter
WANTED: Rutendo Matinyarare facing legal woes in Zimbabwe and South Africa
Anti-sanctions activist Rutendo Matinyarare has found himself as a wanted man, with multiple cases pending against him in both Zimbabwe and South Africa. The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) o...Published: 19 Jul 2024 at 11:18hrs | 1784 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Grace Mugabe's son fails to pay maintenance
Grace Mugabe's son Russel Goreraza was dragged to Concession magistrates courts on Monday after he failed to pay a sum of $7500 maintenance.The 40-year-old Goreraza was ordered to pay $2500 ma...Published: 11 Jul 2024 at 14:26hrs | 161 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Malema ally sentenced by captured court
EFF secretary-general Marshall Dlamini has been handed an 18-month suspended prison sentence by the Cape Town Regional Court for assaulting policeman Johan Carstens in Parliament back in 2019. ...Published: 28 Jun 2024 at 11:27hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Man steals prisons' goat
A man from Beitbridge has been sentenced to nine months in jail for allegedly stealing a boer goat belonging to the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS). Wellington Mukonde (39) p...Published: 06 Jun 2024 at 07:58hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Man kills brother during fight over relish
Gweru High Court judge, Justice Evangelista Kabasa, has sentenced Nkululeko Mabhena to three years in jail following his conviction for killing his brother during a dispute over food condiments. Howev...Published: 20 Feb 2024 at 07:36hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala fined for publishing falsehoods
Opposition politician Job Sikhala was handed a wholly suspended sentence by Harare magistrate Feresi Chakanyuka.This follows his conviction for publishing falsehoods after posting on his Faceb...Published: 15 Feb 2024 at 10:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Farm invaders fined US$50
TWENTY-FOUR villagers have been convicted and fined US$50 each for invading a farm owned by the late MDC politician, Roy Bennet.They were arrested two weeks ago and appeared before Karoi magis...Published: 01 Feb 2024 at 05:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala to appeal conviction, sentence
Freed opposition politician Job Sikhala is set to appeal his conviction and sentence for public violence incitement charges, his lawyers said Tuesday.The former Zengeza West lawmaker and co-ac...Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 07:12hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala gets suspended prison sentence
Former Zengeza West MP Job Sikhala will leave prison at 8AM on Wednesday after a court on Tuesday handed down a wholly suspended two-year prison sentence following his conviction on charges of incitem...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 18:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala, Sithole sentencing today
CCC senior member Job Sikhala and his accomplice, former Chitungwiza North Member of Parliament Godfrey Sithole, will be sentenced today on a charge of inciting the public violence that broke out in N...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 04:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Binga Woman sentenced for assault and property damage
In a dramatic courtroom session on Thursday afternoon, 19-year-old Debra Munsaka from Tinde area under Chief Pashu in Binga pleaded guilty to charges of assault and malicious damage to property before...Published: 09 Dec 2023 at 16:24hrs | 12 | by Peter Matuka
Mnangagwa connections spared Rushwaya jail
A FORTNIGHT ago, we boldly declared "Rushwaya exhausts nine lives" in one of our headlines. How wrong we were!At the time, it seemed the chickens had finally come home to roost for Henrietta R...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ngarivhume appeal hearing postponed
The High Court has postponed the appeal hearing of opposition activist Jacob Ngarivhume, who is currently serving a prison sentence for incitement of violence. This delay is a result of the State's fa...Published: 24 Oct 2023 at 21:42hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Love for voting lands 82 year old in trouble
The love and passion of voting landed an 82-year-old village head in trouble after he failed to deal with the trauma living without exercising his right to vote in the last harmonised elections....Published: 23 Oct 2023 at 15:06hrs | 3 | by Desmond Nleya
Zimbabwe to hold elections under alarming human violations, claims Amnesty International
ZIMBABWE's July 2023 general election will be held under a five-year systematic, brutal crackdown on human rights, restrictions on political opposition gatherings, violent suppression of protests and ...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 06:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ngarivhume appeals against four year jail sentence
JUDGEMENT has been reserved in a matter jailed Transform Zimbabwe leader, Jacob Ngarivhume is seeking bail pending appeal against his conviction and sentencing.Ngarivhume is accused of inciting pu...Published: 07 Jun 2023 at 06:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF denies accusations of judicial capture
RULING party Zanu-PF says the judicial system in the country is independent of political interference despite widespread accusations of capture by the opposition and civil society organisations after ...Published: 08 May 2023 at 06:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Crackdown on political opposition exposes Mnangagwa'
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Zengeza West MP Job Sikhala, party spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere and Transform Zimbabwe leader Jacob Ngarivhume were recently convicted of various charges.Nga...Published: 07 May 2023 at 07:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala's conviction rocks Zimbabwe opposition and civil society
THE conviction of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC)'s Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala on Wednesday has rocked the opposition and civil society, with critics saying it showed an intensifying crac...Published: 04 May 2023 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ngarivhume jailed 4 years over 2020 nationwide protest call
Opposition politician Jacob Ngarivhume has been jailed four years.This follow his conviction on charges of inciting public violence after calling for nationwide protests on July 31.He ...Published: 28 Apr 2023 at 18:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
No joy for girlfriend basher
A HARARE man, who was convicted of domestic violence after he assaulted his live-in girlfriend, had his appeal dismissed by the High Court.The man, Denton Leslie Boschie, who was convicted on ...Published: 04 Apr 2023 at 06:32hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
UK's deportations deal with Zimbabwe putting lives at risk
In the four years since she arrived in the UK, 56-year-old Josephine Sipiwe Jenje-Mudimbu's life has shifted from one of hope to one of daily, grinding fear.Josy, as she's better known, is an ...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:16hrs | 18 | by Raoul Walawalker for Open Democracy
Zimbabweans led mail interception fraudsters who terrorised northern England
Proceeds of crime proceedings have begun against mail interception fraudsters who targeted mainly rural addresses across the North East.Two leading members of the gang were jailed and three ac...Published: 06 Oct 2022 at 06:07hrs | 1 | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's ex-convict ally implicated in Cottco scandal
GUTAI Lisa-Marie Maropafadzo of Maropafadzo Energy (Pvt) Ltd , an ex-convict close to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his family whose company is implicated in the US$5 million Cotton Company of Zimb...Published: 28 Aug 2022 at 19:10hrs | 38 | by Staff reporter
Gudyanga appeals jail sentence
High Court judge Justice Pisirayi Kwenda will today hear an appeal by former Mines secretary Francis Gudyanga who is challenging his two-and-half-a-year sentence for criminal abuse of office.H...Published: 21 Jul 2022 at 06:42hrs | 79 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans convicted over identity and credit card fraud in the UK
A gang of fraudsters targeted rural County Durham addresses in order to intercept their post and steal identities.The five men, some of whom are refugees from Zimbabwe, stole post and got hold...Published: 15 Feb 2022 at 07:17hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mwazha's son cited for contempt as battle rages on
The battle for the control of African Apostolic Church led Archbishop Paul Mwazha continues unrelenting as the court-recognised faction filed a motion for contempt against one of the leader's sons, Al...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Biti appeal against conviction thrown out
MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti's appeal against a 2019 conviction for illegally announcing election results has been thrown out by the High Court.High Court judges Justice Pisirayi Kw...Published: 22 Oct 2021 at 20:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jacob Zuma is not to blame for South Africa's mess
At the time of going to press, over 100 people had been killed and hundreds hospitalised after riots and protests related to the imprisonment of former South African president Jacob Zuma.Don't...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 08:06hrs | 1 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Lessons from SA social unrest
THE turmoil in South Africa following the recent jailing of former president Jacob Zuma and subsequent social unrest characterised by rioting and looting for many other reasons - including deprivation...Published: 17 Jul 2021 at 15:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
On unfair treatment of Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma: A personal view
Zuma and all the ANC chaps are not holy, including the late Mandela. What is at issue or at play here is whether Zuma is being treated fairly in comparison with others! A number of apartheid criminals...Published: 04 Jul 2021 at 12:19hrs | 2 | by Thembani Lukhuni Sibhalwa Dube
Man jailed for slapping Macron
A 28-year-old Frenchman who described himself as a right-wing or extreme-right "patriot" was sentenced to four months in prison yesterday for slapping President Emmanuel Macron in the face.Dam...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
UK-based Zimbabwean man jailed after driving family for shopping in ambulance
A MAN has been jailed after a second-hand ambulance carrying a family was stopped by police near a supermarket.Blessing Mukaukirwa, 32, of no fixed address, was stopped near Asda in Harpurhey,...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 18:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
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