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Tendai Rupapa Senior Court Reporter Two suspected con-artists allegedly swindled three people in Harare of more than $5 000 through card cloning and used the proceeds to gamble at a local casino.
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Fungai Lupande Senior Court Reporter Gospel musician-cum-politician Elias Musakwa, who has hosted “noisy” weddings at his house, yesterday dismissed the “noise” allegations as mere politics pitting the complainant’s father and deputy minister of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development (Cropping Production) Davis Marapira.
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Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter The Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare has been slammed for bungling, which has seen the clandestine registration of a trade union without following the provisions of the law.
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Fungai Lupande Senior Court Reporter Police allegedly turned away a 19-year-old woman, who was reportedly raped by Lieutenant-Colonel Rangarirai Kembo, claiming they did not work on Sundays, a Harare court heard yesterday.
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Primrose Nyanzero Herald Reporter A 23-year-old man from Chikaka Village in Seke demanded sex and money from his neighbour’s wife.
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Razemba Crime Reporter Police have named seven of the 11 members of an apostolic sect, who were killed last week when a lorry they were travelling in burst a tyre, veered off the road and plunged into a gorge in Kamativi.
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Patrick Chitumba Midlands Bureau The driver of the South Africa-registered haulage truck, which side-swiped a Johannesburg-bound Proliner bus, killing 31 people on the spot and injuring 40 near Mvuma in April, has pleaded guilty. Regis Mangwari, who had been pleading not guilty since the commencement of his trial two months ago, on Friday told Mvuma resident magistrate […]
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Sharon Chiware Midlands Bureau A 33-year-old man from Mvuma allegedly raped his employer’s eight-year-old daughter five times, a Gweru court heard. Norman Garai (33) of plot 65 Nyagari Village, Mvuma, pleaded not guilty when he appeared before Gweru regional magistrate Mr Morgan Nemadire last week. He was remanded in custody to October 3 for trial.
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Munyaradzi Musiiwa Midlands Reporter A beer binge by two airmen ended tragically in Kwekwe last week when one of them went berserk and murdered his colleague for allegedly stealing a six-pack of Golden Pilsener.
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Lovemore Meya Court Correspondent An unlicensed 21-year-old commuter omnibus driver has landed himself in trouble after he allegedly kidnapped three Chitungwiza municipal traffic police officers, who had arrested him for violating traffic regulations. Tanaka Chibanda of Mayambara Village, Seke, who is employed by MuZion Transport, appeared before Chitungwiza resident magistrate Mr Francis
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Fungai Lupande Court Reporter The trial of Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) Lieutenant Colonel Rangarirai Kembo, who allegedly raped his 19-year-old housemaid, has started in camera. The prosecutor Mr Timothy Makoni told the court that the complainant was a vulnerable witness and was being kept at a safe-house.
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Victor Maphosa Herald Reporter An Innscor Africa employee, who allegedly swindled the company of raw materials worth $47 000, has appeared in court facing fraud charges.
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Patrick Chitumba Midlands Reporter AN unlicensed Zimbabwe Republic Police constable has been sentenced to an effective nine months in jail for causing an accident that killed three people in Kwekwe.
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Tendai Rupapa Senior Court Reporter Two suspected female fraudsters formed a bogus organisation called Cattle Ownership Society and allegedly lured civil servants to join and contribute monthly subscriptions on the understanding that they would get cattle each year.
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Herald Reporter High Court judge Justice Charles Hungwe has ordered the immediate release of a Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) informer, who was on Wednesday violently arrested at court, likening the conduct of the arresting details to that of robbers.