SUNGURA music giant Alick Macheso has started taking new music to the people ahead of the album launch slated for June, with plans to unveil it at his favourite hunting ground — Aquatic Complex Centre — in his home town of Chitungwiza. The eagerly awaited offering, his 12th, will be launched on his 54th birthday on…
DYNAMOS Football Club chairperson Bernard Marriot Lusengo has launched a new freedom bid to have a fraud charge of allegedly allocating himself…
EX-HARARE mayor Hebert Gomba, pictured, who is facing charges of criminal abuse of office has been warned against using his lawyer’s absence to delay trial.Gomba who is jointly charged with suspended Harare City Council acting town planner Samuel Nyabezi and town surveyor Munyaradzi Bowa for allegedly converting State land to council land and parcelling it…
THE trial of a senior police officer who was accused of using a car that was held as an exhibit at a police station before being involved in an accident has been set for March 31. Kirisipeni Mutsengi, who was officer commanding CID Vehicle Theft Squad, Southerton, Harare, allegedly took and used the car which…
JUDGMENT in the matter in which Dynamos Football Club legend and junior football coach Stanley Chirambadare, pictured,who is accused of sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy under his tutelage and threatening him with death afterwards, has been set for March 15. Chirambadare is facing aggravated indecent assault allegations which he denied as a fabrication when he…
THE government has set up special courts around the country to deal expeditiously with all cases involving political violence and intimidation. In a notice gazetted at the weekend, the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) said it had designated trial magistrates for all such cases. “It is hereby declared that the Judicial Service Commission, in terms of…
A 26-YEAR-OLD man has been jailed for an effective two years for stealing a car at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport before driving on the runway as he sought an exit point. Shingirai Austin Shangu broke into the airport parking through the fence before taking control of the car which had been left by…
PARLIAMENTARIAN Job Sikhala says he will continue piling pressure on the State to prosecute or free him after a regional magistrate once again declined to let him go. Sikhala is accused of publishing falsehoods prejudicial to the State emanating from a post he allegedly made on Facebook involving a scuffle between a cop and a…
EX-FINANCE minister Ignatius Chombo’s trial in a case he is accused of defrauding the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) yesterday failed to take off at the Harare Magistrates’ Court to allow the Constitutional Court to hear it first. Chombo was set to stand trial in the matter he is accused of accessing a $14 billion…
Renowned author Tsitsi Dangarembga, who was arrested together with Julie Barnes for participating in the July 31, 2020 demonstration, has trashed the allegations, arguing there was nothing criminal about her conduct. The two were charged for allegedly participating in a gathering with intent to promote public violence, breach of peace or bigotry. But through their…
