NEW details have emerged that five people who were arrested last week on charges of extorting US$3 000 from a Chinese national in Harare are all police officers. This was revealed in court yesterday when it was disclosed Primrose Tarumbiswa and her alleged accomplices, Lawson Muchongwe, Perseverance Chisango, Fredrick Moyo and Weston Muzoriwa, are cops…
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) senior member Job Sikhala and Chitungwiza North MP Godfrey Sithole yesterday sought to stop the State from playing an alleged video, in which the two opposition politicians appear inciting public violence. The pair is currently facing trial before Harare magistrate Tafadzwa Miti after they allegedly incited violence that broke out…
TWO Chitungwiza Town Council senior officials, who allegedly unprocedurally created 30 commercial stands on reserved municipal land, yesterday appeared before the Harare Magistrates Court facing criminal abuse of duty charges as public officers. Chitungwiza municipality town planner, Rosemary Maridza, 41, and the council’s land survey technician, Henry Kandawasvika, 45, appeared before Harare magistrate Stanford Mambanje…
LAWYERS representing Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) senior member Job Sikhala and Chitungwiza North MP Godfrey Sithole yesterday grilled the State’s witness over statements contained in State papers. The two lawmakers are currently on trial on charges of inciting public violence after Sikhala allegedly posted a video which led to disturbances that broke out in…
POPULAR musician Progress Chipfumo yesterday appeared in court facing charges of negligent driving and causing a road accident while driving along Samora Machel Avenue, Harare, in March this year. Chipfumo appeared before a Harare magistrate where he was charged with contravening a section of the Road Traffic Act. He was released on free bail and…
THE minister of Home Affairs, Kazembe Kazembe, and police commissioner general Godwin Matanga have been ordered to pay a local company, Lovigate Incorporated, more than US$600 000 after breaching a contract for the purchase of speed enforcement cameras. Lovigate had sued the two senior government officials at the High Court, demanding US$1 956 035 for…
A HIGH Court judge acquitted a woman who killed her estranged husband in Waterfalls, Harare, while suffering a mental illness in 2021. Leoba Muzondo fatally struck Farai Tsatsa, with a metal hoe during an argument over the now deceased’s shoes that the accused was holding as security for payment for her plastic dish and a…
A MAN from Highfield, Harare, who allegedly stabbed his wife in the back and threatened to set their house on fire because he suspected she was having affairs, appeared before a Harare magistrate yesterday. Achievement Mandishara, 35, appeared before magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa, where he was charged with attempted murder and was remanded in custody after…
A 27-YEAR-OLD man has been hauled before a Harare magistrate court after he was allegedly caught trying to rape his tenant’s three- year-old daughter. Ignitious Dzemwa, 27, appeared before magistrate Stanford Mambanje last Friday and was charged with attempted rape. He was remanded in custody and ordered to file his application for bail at the…
A HARARE man appeared in court last Friday after he allegedly stole a gun from a security guard and went around threatening to shoot people. Peter Simango, 45, appeared before Harare magistrate Ruth Moyo facing three separate charges of theft and contravening a section of the Firearms Act. Simango was remanded in custody and will…
