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Mbizo legislator Settlement Chikwinya and his Redcliff counterpart, Lloyd Mukapiko, who are facing charges of subverting a constitutionally-elected Government, have been granted bail by the High Court.
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Suspended chief magistrate Mishrod Guvamombe has been cleared of any wrongdoing regarding charges that he allegedly influenced a subordinate to recuse himself in a matter he had interest in.
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A 30-year-old Zimbabwean man was last week jailed for an effective 15 years for smuggling explosives worth R200 000 into South Africa through Beitbridge Border Post.
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Former Foreign Affairs Minister and G40 loyalist Walter Mzembi is “fit as a fiddle” contrary to claims by his lawyer Mr Job Sikhala that he is critically ill and unfit to stand trial. Mzembi is facing charges of theft involving $1,6 million of trust property at Harare magistrates’ courts. The trial has had numerous postponements on the grounds that Mzembi was unfit to stand trial due to illness
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SIX serial robbers who pounced on a Mozambican family and stole property worth more than R2 million have been slapped with a combined jail term of 53 years by the High Court.
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THE trial of eight suspected Zvishavane armed robbers, among them two police officers, who allegedly raided a Chinese mining company and went away with an Isuzu pick-up truck, 48 grammes of gold, US$8 820, $6 800 bond notes and 2 155 Chinese yuan, failed to kick off on Friday last week as the prosecution was not ready.
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A HARARE magistrate has relaxed bail conditions for businessman Michael van Blerk to allow him travel to South Africa with his sick wife.
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Suspended chief magistrate Mishrod Guvamombe was yesterday arrested and charged with interfering with a magistrate involved in a matter in which he allegedly had conflict of interest. The fresh charges come barely three weeks after he appeared in court on similar charges.
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Former Finance Minister Ignatius Chombo yesterday heaved a sigh of relief after his travel documents were temporarily released. His lawyer Mr Tungamirai Muganhiri applied for the temporary release of his client’s passport from February 1 to March 30 this year to enable him to undergo medical procedures in South Africa.
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The Department of Immigration arrested four foreigners — two Britons and two Indians — in separate incidents in Harare, on allegations of violating the Immigration Act, as the operation to clampdown illegal immigrants continues countrywide.
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A 62-year-old landlord from Ascot, Gweru, has been arrested on allegations of molesting his tenant’s three year-old daughter.
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Three police guns and rounds of ammunition that were stolen during the recent violent protests were recovered at a joint army, police security checkpoint along the Shurugwi-Zvishavane Highway on Thursday.
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Two female passengers sustained gunshot wounds on Wednesday evening along the Harare-Chirundu Road after a Lusaka-bound bus they were travelling in was attacked by four armed men.
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Former Local Government Minister Saviour Kasukuwere has lost his appeal to stay the proceedings in his trial on charges of criminal abuse of office, pending a review of the same proceedings at the High Court.
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A 32-year-old maid from Waterfalls, Harare, has appeared in court on allegations of conniving with her boyfriend to steal US$23 200 from her employer’s bedroom.