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Freeman Razemba Crime Reporter Zimbabwe Republic Police and their South African counterparts have increased patrols along the Beitbridge Border Post in an effort to curb rampant cross-border car theft, following a new trend of criminals using donkeys to pull stolen cars across the Limpopo River into Zimbabwe.
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Tendai Rupapa Senior Court Reporter Three former Delta Beverages workers yesterday appeared in court on allegations of swindling their employer of more than $700 000.
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Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter— JUSTICE is now literally for sale at the lower courts and senior lawyers, who still value their ethics frequent superior courts, the Judicial Service Commission heard yesterday. Candidates vying for the esteemed office of the Prosecutor-General told the panel of interviewers chaired by Chief Justice Luke Malaba that
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Innocent Ruwende Senior Reporter Home seekers, especially those in the Diaspora, are losing thousands of dollars to bogus land developers, who are selling non-existent residential stands after using social media to post beautiful pictures of completed houses and images of road construction.
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Freeman Razemba Crime Reporter TWENTY-THREE people have so far been killed this year after they were attacked by animals in separate incidents countrywide. According to statistics from Zimparks recorded between January and July 20 this year, 22 other people were also injured during the attacks.
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Lovemore Meya Court Correspondent A Five Fold Ministries pastor allegedly raped a congregant, who is now pregnant, on five occasions. Admire Maurukira (29), reportedly committed the offence with the help of his friend, Kudakwashe Rwodzi, who is also a pastor. This was after Rwodzi locked the two inside a house in Chitungwiza, resulting in
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Fungai Lupande Court Reporter A 25-year-old paedophile, who sodomised 11-year-old twins several times while helping them with homework was yesterday sentenced to 40 years in prison. Harare magistrate Ms Lucy Ngwari imposed a 55-year jail term on Philip Mutasa, but suspended 15 years.
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Andile Tshuma Chronicle Reporter A GOKWE family lost all its four daughters, three of them minors, after they were allegedly beheaded and their bodies burnt beyond recognition in a hut. The incident occurred last Friday at Chirima Village under Chief Mukoka area in Gokwe South. The motive for the killings is not known yet known, but the family
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Freedom Mupanedemo Midlands Bureau A SATANISM scare has gripped Mkoba suburb in Gweru after a 47-year-old man died, three days after two orphaned children under his custody went hysterical and allegedly foretold his death. As Benjamin Mandigo’s body lay at Gweru Provincial Hospital Mortuary yesterday, following his death on Sunday,
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Mashudu Netsianda Senior Reporter A ZIMBABWEAN pastor and his wife were shot and killed by two armed robbers in South Africa while their two daughters, one of them aged three years, watched helplessly.
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Fidelis Munyoro Chief Court Reporter The High Court has warned it will not fold its arms and let society drift into immoral decadence under the canopy of ill-perceived rights. Justice Hlekani Mwayera said the matrimonial bond was undeniably protected by the Constitution which sanctions the marriage institution. She said this while awarding $8 000 to Georgina Njodzi who […]
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Victor Maphosa Herald Reporter Gospel musician Elias Musakwa has been issued with a warrant of arrest by a Harare magistrate for failing to appear in court to answer to allegations of threatening to shoot a neighbour over a dispute.
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Noah Pito in Hurungwe A woman has appeared before a Karoi magistrate charged with the murder of her grandson whom she alleged had been sired by her husband. The magistrate Mr Sam Chitumwa remanded Susan Madeko (62) of Tanhara Village under Chief Dandawa to August 31, after advising her to apply for bail at the High […]
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Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter— PUBLIC interviews to select a new Prosecutor-General will proceed today, with seven candidates eyeing the post after one of them withdrew from the race on the 11th hour. Mr Jacob Manzunzu, who is awaiting results of another interview that he participated in last year for the post of a High Court judge, […]
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Fungai Lupande Court Reporter The court yesterday turned down a request by an ex-British soldier, accused of allegedly manufacturing dangerous drugs at his house, to know the whistleblower.