A MAN from Marlborough, Harare, has appeared before a local magistrate following his arrest after he allegedly sold auctioned items that did not belong to him. Herbert Shungu Mhundwa, 52, yesterday appeared before magistrate Dennis Mangosi facing fraud charges before he was released on a $50 000 bail. He was remanded to May 8 to…
HARARE North MP Allan Markham has filed an appeal at the Supreme Court challenging a High Court judgment which dismissed an application in which he sought the release of an electronic voters roll by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) ahead of upcoming national elections. Early this month, High Court judge Justice Never Katiyo threw out…
AT LEAST 10 Victoria Falls residents, who are challenging development projects at Cataract Island and rainforest sites in the resort city, will have their court challenge heard at the Harare High Court tomorrow. The 10 residents are Lawrence Benjamin Norton, Africa Majoni Silinganiso Jubane, Alberto De Leo, John David Glynn, Trymore Ndolo, Ephias Mambume, Joanna…
A FORMER employee at a Harare-based stock broking firm, Kudakwashe Saimon Vukomba, yesterday appeared before a Harare magistrate’s court after he allegedly defrauded the company of over $50 million. Vukomba, 30, who resigned in January this year at Morgan and Co where he was employed as a finance manager, appeared before magistrate Dennis Mangosi on…
THE Supreme Court has set aside a High Court ruling for a private company Delatfin Investments to return construction equipment it had hired from Chitungwiza Municipality. Delatfin Investments owed the local authority a front-end loader, a grader and three bulldozers after it breached an agreement that the two parties entered in 2007 for the company…
THE founder of a Harare based real estate agency, Hukuru Housing and Development Trust, Lawrence Taurai Jena appeared in court yesterday on allegations of duping a home seeker out of US$8 800 in a botched residential stand sale deal. Jena appeared before Harare magistrate Evelyn Mashavakure facing charges of fraud before being released on free…
A SECURITY guard and an employee at a leading food processing company, National Foods, have been arraigned before the Harare Magistrate’s Court after they allegedly staged a heist before stealing over US$160 000. Edward David Mudowaya, 34, employed as a guard by Safeguard Security and Charlotte Tarisai Munetsi, 36, who is National Food’s debtors’ clerk…
THE Supreme Court has ordered former Vice President Joice Mujuru and her company, Ruzirun to settle a debt owed to a couple, Sabrina and Tony Sarpo. Mujuru owes over US$226 000 to the Sarpos after she refused to use the interbank rate to pay for farming equipment that she had purchased through their company Peppy…
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere is set to know her fate on April 5 when Harare magistrate Taurai Manuwere delivers his ruling in a matter in which she is allegedly accused of communicating falsehoods. She was arrested in 2020 accused of publishing falsehoods in a case involving a woman whose child was…
A HARARE City Council employee Desmond Rutsito has appeared before the courts facing fraud charges that he allegedly sold a non-existent commercial stand to a private company. Rutsito, 48, is being charged together with suspected land baron Michael Kawanzaruwa, 37. The court heard that sometime in August 2018, Rutsito and Kawanzaruwa connived to deceive Mussa…
