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Tendai Rupapa Senior Court Reporter The five police officers, who gouged a civilian’s right eye after assaulting him with batons at the intersection of Kenneth Kaunda Avenue and Julius Nyerere Way in March this year, were yesterday jailed for an effective one year and three months each in prison.
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Tendai Rupapa Senior Court Reporter Former Finance Minister Ignatius Chombo and ex-Zanu-PF youth leader Kudzanai Chipanga were yesterday sent to remand prison after the court threw out their application for bail and remanded them to December 8.
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Fungai Lupande Senior Court Reporter The State last week persuaded the court to impose a custodial sentence on five police officers who gouged a civilian’s right eye after assaulting him with baton at the intersection of Kenneth Kaunda Avenue and Julius Nyerere Way in March this year.
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Sheillah Mapani Herald Reporter A Harare man was last week sentenced to 15 years in prison for raping his three-year-old niece. Harare magistrate Ms Bianca Makwande sentenced the 28-year-old man to 15 years in prison, but suspended three years on condition that he does not commit a similar offence in the next five years.
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Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter A Murehwa man, who attempted to forcibly bed his mother before strangling her to death will now spend 20 years behind bars. Titus Mafuka (36) of Chidhakwa Village under Chief Chitsungo in Pfungwe, is understood to have demanded to be intimate with his mother as a way of breaking a spell she […]
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Fungai Lupande Senior Court Reporter Former Finance Minister Ignatius Chombo and ex-Zanu-PF youth leader Kudzanai Chipanga (pictured above) will appear in court today for their bail application after the duo unsuccessfully challenged their placement on remand on Saturday. Chombo, the former Zanu-PF Secretary for Administration, and Chipanga, the former secretary for the party’s Youth League, argued […]
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Fungai Lupande Senior Court Reporter Fidelity Printers and Refiners head of gold operations Mehluleli Dube is appearing at Harare Magistrates’ Court on allegations of approving a $183 000 gold purchase after police advised him to stop the transaction due to ongoing criminal investigations.
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Fidelis Munyoro Chief Court Reporter The intervention by the military to pacify a deteriorating social, political and economic environment, which subsequently led to the resignation of former President Robert Mugabe, was lawful, the High Court ruled on Saturday.
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Razemba Crime Reporter China Aid State Construction Company has been ordered to pay more than $37 000 as terminal benefits to 33 former employees. The 33 workers were previously employed as artisans during the construction of Hatcliffe High School in Harare, a project that was sponsored and constructed by the Chinese firm.
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Fortunate Gora Mash West Correspondent A ZVIMBA man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for raping his 23- year-old mentally ill niece twice. Christopher Mutandagavi (63) of Mutandagavi Village under Chief Zvimba will serve 17 years behind bars after Chinhoyi Regional Magistrate Mr Amos Mbobo suspended three years in consideration of his age, health and […]
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Sukoluhle Ndlovu Midlands Correspondent An ex-policeman, who teamed up with his two accomplices and allegedly stole seven herd of cattle in Lower Gweru, were yesterday arraigned before Gweru provincial magistrate Mrs Pathekile Msipa facing theft charges.
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Lovemore Meya Court Correspondent A Chitungwiza man, who admitted in court that he knew that his wife was a prostitute, left the gallery spellbound after he vowed to pay a bride price for her.
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Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter THE Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander General Constantino Dominic Guveya Nyikadzino Chiwenga has slapped Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo with a $5 million defamation lawsuit. Gen Chiwenga is suing over a press statement issued by Prof Moyo in July this year, insinuating
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Lovemore Meya Court Correspondent A con-woman from Chitungwiza duped 11 people of over $800 through EcoCash after indicating to her victims that she could help them get hard cash from her husband’s workplace.
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Crime Reporter MORE than 50 Zimbabweans, mostly women, have been arrested in various countries since 2012 for drug trafficking. Drug cartels have been increasingly using Zimbabweans as mules to transport hard drugs to Asian countries, where such crimes attract a death sentence or life imprisonment.