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Courtney Matende Midlands Reporter A teenager from Zhombe was fatally shot in the head by a farm security guard after he allegedly trespassed onto a farm while looking for stray cattle. Acting Midlands provincial police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Ethel Mukwende confirmed the incident which occurred on Tuesday at around 9pm at Hopton Sub-Division 3 Farm, […]
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Bridgette Moyo Midlands Reporter A Redcliff tout has been sentenced to an effective 10 months in jail for fondling the breast of his co-tenant’s 16-year-old domestic worker. Admire Gumorazvo (23), who resides in Makokoba Rutendo in Redcliff, appeared before Kwekwe magistrate Ms Vimbai Mutukwa, charged with one count of indecent assault and was convicted after […]
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The State is seeking to petition the High Court for a rescission of the judgment acquitting former minister Supa Mandiwanzira of criminal abuse of office charges that was delivered on Wednesday. The decision was granted in default after all the listed respondents — trial magistrate Mr Elijah Makomo, Prosecutor-General Mr Kumbirai Hodzi and the National Prosecuting Authority — failed to make representations on the matter.
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BULAWAYO had the highest number of convictions over public violence which occurred from January 14 to 16 this year, accounting for 225 of the 375 cases, according to the police.
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The Zimbabwe Republic Police is conducting a joint annual operation with Interpol, code-named “OPSON VIII” which targets fake and substandard food and beverages in the country and the region. Criminal Investigations Department (CID) spokesperson Detective Inspector Portia Chinho yesterday confirmed that the operation was underway.
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Former First Lady Grace Mugabe began studies at the University of Zimbabwe for her Masters in Social Studies a year before her application for post graduate admission was submitted, processed and accepted, the court heard yesterday. According to the prosecution, at all the relevant times, the registration process, application and the purported study by Mrs Mugabe was not known at the UZ’s Faculty of Social Studies.
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An MDC-Alliance official from Mashonaland West Province was recently attacked with machetes by suspected party hooligans for questioning the conduct of district elections to choose delegates to the party’s national congress set for May. Enock Muraga, an MDC-A branch chairman in the Turf area of Mhondoro-Ngezi, was assaulted hours after a dispute with party members over the handling of the elections last Saturday.
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MDC Alliance's Zengeza East legislator Goodrich Chimbaira and ward 14 councillor Chengetai Nyagondo are scheduled to appear before Chitungwiza resident magistrate Mr Nyasha Vitorini charged with public violence.
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Former Minister Supa Mandiwanzira heaved a sigh of relief yesterday after the High Court acquitted him on one of the criminal abuse of office charges involving a $218 million auditing contract signed by NetOne and a South African company.
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Police yesterday arrested MDC-Alliance legislator for Zengeza East, Goodrich Chimbaira (47) and the party’s Chitungwiza Ward 14 councillor Chengetai Nyagonda (48) on charges of public violence that occurred at the party’s Ward 17 councillor Fungai Magadzire’s home in Chitungwiza on Saturday.
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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 issued with an arrest warrant after he refused to be part and parcel of the ongoing case.
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The MPOENGS police officer who allegedly sexually molested 21 pupils while conducting an investigation into sexual abuse at a local primary school has appeared in court facing aggravated indecent assault charges.
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There was drama at the Gweru courts when two of five suspected MDC hooligans fainted after being jailed for three years for public violence. The two failed to come to terms with their sentence. Prison officers had a torrid time in resuscitating the convicts, who only regained consciousness after a while.
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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 eight other inmates accused of attempting to escape from prison.
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Prosper Dembedza Court Correspondent TWO suspected commercial sex workers whose video torched a storm on social media recently beating up a man with cooking sticks accusing him of infidelity appeared in court last week. The two identical twin sisters — Shyleen and Shylet Nyangade (22) from Kambuzuma — were facing assault and extortion charges when […]