HARARE – Core Mining director Lovemore Kurotwi says government lawyers representing Marange Resources are clandestinely trying to influence his business partners outside the country to nail him in his ongoing trial. The former mine proprietor, hounded out in the mining company in 2010 on allegations of fraud, says the lawyers are using unscrupulous means to…
HARARE – Three Kadoma family members are to stand trial today after they allegedly murdered a man they accused of stealing their goat. Mathew, Edith and Webster Mujuru will appear before High Court judge Felistas Chatukuta on murder charges. The trio is jointly charged with Norman and Oliver Gwanyanya, Tapera and Jephias Masocha and an…
BULAWAYO – Sibangilizwe, son to the late vice president Joshua Nkomo, has warned Zimbabweans against promoting divisions along ethnic lines but to rally their energies towards creating a united nation. He told more than 500 people gathered at Stanley Square in Bulawayo to celebrate the life of the former vice president that Zimbabweans should not…
BULAWAYO – A Plumtree man living with HIV, who claimed his dead wife was haunting him to be intimate with his 17-year-old daughter in order to be cured of the virus, has appeared in court. The 45-year-old man who cannot be named to protect the victim appeared before Bulawayo regional magistrate Collect Ncube facing two…
HARARE – A Harare woman on Monday won a protection order against her husband Hardlife Makuyana who she claimed teamed up with his new wife to violate her. Magistrate Milton Serima granted the protection order in favour of Zvondai Sithole. Sithole, who has four children with Makuyana, told the court that incidences of violence started…
HARARE – A man living with HIV has been dragged to court by his HIV negative girlfriend for forcing her to have unprotected sex. Kimleen Chando of Glen Norah on Monday approached the Harare Civil Court after receiving threats of violence and physical abuse. Magistrate Milton Serima granted the protection order in favour of Chando…
BULAWAYO – Civic society groups gathered in Bulawayo last Friday during a one day conference where they launched an election campaign dubbed Feya Feya which seeks to ramp pressure on political parties to allow conditions that promote free, fair, peaceful and credible polls. Our Senior Assistant Editor Guthrie Munyuki attended the launch and below are the…
BULAWAYO – A coordinator of the Zimbabwe Ex-combatants Investment Fund (Zexcom) is in trouble with the law after he allegedly embezzled over $18 000 of the organisation’s funds. Shelter Mpofu (age not given) appeared before Bulawayo Magistrate Crispen Mberewere on two counts of fraud and contempt of court. The court heard that between February 2…
BULAWAYO – A leader of liberation war veterans says President Robert Mugabe is still fit to seek re-election and will remain in power until he dies. Jabulani Sibanda, the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association leader told journalists on the sidelines of the sitting of the Nomination Court that his members would ensure Mugabe retains…
HARARE – A High Court judge has freed a Masvingo man who resisted arrest before bashing to death a police special constabulary unit member in 2009. Isaac Chironda walked free after he managed to prove before High Court judge Susan Mavhangira that during the time of the offence, he was mentally ill. Chironda was accused…
