A HARARE man has been remanded in custody after he allegedly assaulted his wife early this month when he found her communicating with her former boyfriend. Lloyd Kudzai Mushinye, 27, appeared before Harare magistrate Dennis Mangosi yesterday and was remanded in custody pending the release of a cyber-lab report by the State. Mushinye is also…
A CHITUNGWIZA man has appeared before the Harare Magistrate’s Court on charges of forging his wife’s signature in order to secure a divorce three years after their marriage. Travolta Reginald Tonderai Chitongo, 29, was hauled before magistrate Dennis Mangosi on Friday, where he was asked not to plead before being charged with forgery. He was…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa launched a “presidential title deeds and settlement programme” yesterday and handed over 265 title deeds to residents of Epworth. He also pledged that the initiative would be beneficial to all irregular settlements around the nation. Speaking to a large crowd in Epworth, just outside Harare, Mnangagwa said the programme would help regularise…
HARARE City Council junior councillors have joined the nation’s ongoing effort to combat drug abuse by launching an awareness campaign with the theme “Above the influence”. Speaking to the Daily News on Sunday yesterday, junior council chief of committees clerk Ashley Nyovhi said the junior councillors were seeking to help learners understand the dangers of…
AN APPLICATION seeking removal from further remand filed by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga’s former wife, Marry Mubaiwa, was dismissed yesterday by a Harare magistrate. She was arrested in 2019 and faces over US$1 million in money laundering and fraud charges. During her appearance before the court yesterday, the State made an application to have the…
INCARCERATED Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) senior member Job Sikhala, who has been in remand prison since his arrest last June, has been hit with fresh criminal charges. Sikhala, who is currently on trial on three separate charges consisting of two counts of obstruction of justice and one count of incitement to violence, is now…
MOSES Ruwona, a Zanu PF member who was disqualified from contesting in the party’s internal polls in Makoni West and arrested early this month on fraud and money laundering charges, has been granted $300 000 bail. Ruwona and his accomplice Macmillan Chiweshe have been in custody since April 5 when they were arrested for allegedly…
CRIMINAL Investigation Department (CID) boss Crispen Charumbira, who was on trial on charges of obstruction of justice and corruption, has been acquitted by a Harare magistrate court. Charumbira was arrested in 2020 facing two counts of attempted obstruction of justice and two counts of obstruction of justice. Alternatively he was being charged with two counts…
ALL eyes will be on opposition leader Douglas Mwonzora’s Constitutional Court(ConCourt) application on May 8, challenging the validity of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission(Zec)’s delimitation report. Should the MDC leader’s ConCourt case be successful, this may not only result in Zec’s muchdebated delimitation report being declared null and void, but could also see the country’s upcoming…
TWO pairs of suspected motor vehicle thieves have appeared before the Harare Magistrates’ Courts in connection with the theft of cars in Glen Norah and Waterfalls both in Harare. Tendai Chaukura, 39, and Tendai Fombe, 28, are facing a charge of theft of a motor vehicle while Phinias Moyo, 28 and Edrin Kambarami, 34, are…
