FORMER Harare City Council finance director Stanley Ndemera, who was recently sentenced to six years in prison, was yesterday brought before the courts facing more criminal abuse of office charges. In June this year, Ndemera and his accomplice, chamber secretary Charles Kandemiri, were found guilty of criminal abuse of office charges after they illegally sold…
THE fight between the 23 recalled Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) MPs and Sengezo Tshabangu, who asserts to be the opposition’s interim secretary general, continues to drag on as the High Court is set to hear another application today. The matter in which Tshabangu is seeking to block the 23 from using the party’s name…
MIGHTY Warriors coach Shadreck Mlauzi, who was a self-actor in his ongoing indecent assault trial, has found new legal representation. Mlauzi is being accused of sexually abusing the team’s fitness trainer, Brenda Chaora, while the team was in South Africa for the Cosafa women’s soccer tournament in September and October this year.The matter was supposed…
THE United Nations (UN) has called on the government of Zimbabwe to mobilise more funding towards the fight against HIV/Aids and sexually transmitted infections. This comes as Finance minister Mthuli Ncube allocated $6,3 trillion to the ministry of Health when he announced a $58,2 trillion 2024 National Budget last week.Speaking during the launch of the…
A SUSPECTED highway robber has been charged with murder after allegedly killing a man during a robbery. Farayi Chikadzi, 31, was brought yesterday before Harare magistrate Dennis Mangosi, where he was charged with one count of murder, one count of armed robbery and one count of robbery.Mangosi remanded him in custody before advising him to…
HIGH Court judge Justice Gladys Mhuri has settled a mine wrangle between two local firms — Anesu Gold (Private) Limited and Golden Reef Mining (Private) Limited — who were fighting over eight claims in Mberengwa, Midlands Province. The fight, which had sucked in former Mines minister Winston Chitando, erupted after Anesu Gold filed summons at…
HIGH Court judge Justice Esther Muremba has found Pius ‘Jamba’ Mukandi guilty of the murder of Citizens Coalition for Change activist Moreblessing Ali. Mukandi, who has been on trial for the gruesome murder and mutilation of Ali, was arrested in June last year after Ali’s body, which had been cut into three pieces, was found…
A HARARE man is currently on life support at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals (Parirenyatwa)’s intensive care unit (ICU) after he was reportedly assaulted for refusing to share his alcohol. The attempted murder suspect, Myton Mutsengi, 40, is said to have tried to kill Lancy Murombo, 38, over the weekend while he was at Bhagi area…
TWO suspected robbers, accused of stealing a car on December 1, were arrested the next day after getting caught selling the vehicle in Mbare, Harare. Ernest Bwoni, 28, and his accomplice, Thabisani Nyathi, 16, are now facing charges of robbery after allegedly stealing a Toyota IST. The State is alleging that Bwoni and Nyathi worked…
A MAN from Harare is accused of stealing $70 851 000 from Bluestreak Risk Matrics, his employer, by falsely claiming that the business was offering discounts to its customers. It is alleged that Tadiwanashe Rwazemba, 22, of Zimre Park, who is being prosecuted for theft of trust property, stole the money over the course of…
