HIGH Court judge, Justice Siyabona Musithu, has blocked Lands minister Anxious Masuka from cancelling a lease agreement belonging to former Grain Marketing Board (GMB) chief executive Samuel Muvuti and his wife Joylene for their farm in Mazowe, Mashonaland Central Province. The couple, owners of HolmeHead Farm, had filed a court application after Masuka wrote a…
FOUR men allegedly followed a Criminal Investigations Department (CID) police officer from Highfield in Harare to his home in Chitungwiza before stabbing and robbing him of US$140 and his service firearm. Munyaradzi Chatonzwa, 43, Sydney Rande, 32, Mark Tatenda Chingombe, 32, and Simbarashe Steven Ota, 34, stand accused of attempted murder, theft of a fi…
THREE former police officers, who were sentenced to death in 2014 by then High Court judge Hlekani Mwayera, have escaped death sentences after Supreme Court judges ruled that their cases should be brought back to the High Court for fresh sentencing. Kudzai Madziro, Leeroy Muteyera and Ronald Sambo, who were attached to the Police Support…
A CHIREDZI man faces theft charges after he allegedly stole US$10 000, which was part of some cash that he had been given by his employer to deliver to Harare. Peter Dhliwayo, 34, of Maverick, Chiredzi, appeared before Harare magistrate Dennis Mangosi yesterday before he was granted US$100 bail. Dhliwayo stands accused of stealing US$10…
ZIMBABWE National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) director general Taguma Mahonde, who was arrested last week on fraud charges, was yesterday granted a US$200 bail. Mahonde, who is facing fraud and contravening the Prevention of Corruption Act charges and an alternative obstruction of justice offence, was arrested by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc).He made his initial appearance…
HARARE Magistrate Clever Tsikwa has ordered the State to return US$234 000 cash that was seized from four men who were arrested in connection to the ZB Bank armoured truck heist that occurred in 2021. The four, Trymore Chapfika, Tozivepi Chirara, Dennis Madondo and Tatenda Gadzikwa, had filed an application for disposal after they were…
THREE police officers were arrested over the weekend after they were connected to a man who allegedly tried to use a fake Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) identification card in a car sale deal. The three, Peter Maodzeka, Nyasha Ndumo, Luckmore Makwara, together with their accomplices, Tinashe Mhere and Raymond Banda, were arraigned before Harare Magistrate…
A WOMAN from Budiriro, Harare, reported her husband of less than two months to the police after he allegedly raped her eight days before they began co-habitating. The man, Owen Goche, 38, appeared in court on Friday facing a rape charge before he was granted US$50 bail by magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa and remanded to November…
THE trial of jailed socialite Felistas Murata – better known as Mai Titi – on a fraud charge has been postponed to October 6 to allow the State to subpoena its witnesses. The matter was supposed to commence last Friday before Harare magistrate Yeukai Dzuda, but was postponed to Friday. “The State is applying for this…
THREE suspected armed robbers, who were believed to be involved in the US$2.7 million ZB Bank armoured truck heist that occurred in 2021 have been found guilty, while four other accused persons have been acquitted. The mastermind, Shadreck Njowa, together with Tendai Zuze and Neverson Mwamuka were convicted by Harare magistrate Clever Tsikwa on Friday…
