A TRUCK driver has been jailed for an effective 10 years after he was arrested with 741 metres of TelOne underground copper cable worth US$58 539 in his vehicle that had been vandalised in Hatfield, Harare. Brighton Manyara had denied the allegations saying he was just a “victim of both a well-designed pre-meditated plan by…
BUSINESSMAN Wicknell Chivayo and his company Intratek have been acquitted of the charge of bribing former Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) boss Stanley Kazhanje to win the Gwanda Solar Project tender. Chivayo and his firm were in the dock for allegedly paying Kazhanje US$10 000 to be favoured in the tendering process. After the prosecution had…
THE current violence rocking the ruling Zanu PF has spilled into the courts following the arraignment of the party’s Harare Province vice chairperson Godwin Gomwe for allegedly physically attacking chairperson Godwills Masimirembwa. Gomwe is facing allegations of assault after he allegedly stormed the party’s provincial headquarters fuming that he was being sidelined from attending the…
A 53-YEAR-OLD man from Stoneridge, Harare, has been slapped with a 32-year jail term for sexually abusing seven boys from his neighbourhood. Handson Chinamhora pleaded guilty to seven counts of aggravated indecent assault, but denied two of the similar offences. Regional magistrate Kudakwashe Mhere initially jailed Chinamhora to 37 years in jail before suspending five…
A MEMBER of the Zimbabwe National Army who raped his two-year-old daughter whom he shared a bed with several times in the absence of the mother has been jailed to an effective 20 years. The soldier, aged 41, had denied the allegations when he appeared before a regional magistrate, and was convicted after a full…
THE Zambia Supreme Court will next Tuesday sit to decide if it had jurisdiction when it reversed its earlier judgments compelling the…
TWO brothers from Epworth have found themselves in the dock facing robbery and murder charges for allegedly attacking motorists along the Harare-Mutare highway. William and Kudakwashe Boka were not asked to plead to allegations of robbery and murder when they appeared in court over the weekend. Prosecutors told the court that on August 13, the…
THE Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) has launched an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse, child marriages and other abuses in the apostolic sects across the country. This follows an outcry over forced child marriages after the death of 14-year-old Marange girl — Annah Machaya — while giving birth at the Johanne Marange shrine, an incident…
BUSINESSMAN Farai Jere and his company will know their fate on October 31 in a court case they are accused of swindling…
A HARARE man has appeared before the Harare Magistrates’ Courts for allegedly duping entrepreneur and businessman Philip Chiyangwa’s daughter, Cherish, of over £18 000 in a botched mining deal. Willard Munyaradzi Kachere yesterday denied the fraud allegations when he appeared before Harare magistrate Judith Taruvinga. It is the State’s case that in April last year…
