A CRIMINAL Investigation Department detective has been arraigned before a Harare magistrate court after he allegedly tried to solicit a bribe. Clever Daika, 59, who is a member of the Commercial Crimes Division, was arraigned before magistrate Tafadzwa Miti facing charges of extortion. He was remanded in custody to today for a bail application hearing….
A HARARE man has appeared in court after he allegedly killed a peace-maker who stopped him from attacking his ex-wife. Edison Sani, 42, appeared before magistrate Dennis Mangosi facing charges of murder. He was remanded in custody to April 4 and was ordered to approach the High Court for bail. The State alleged that Sani…
Yvonne Ncube in BULAWAYO A TWENTY EIGHT-YEAR-OLD man from Magwegwe suburb in Bulawayo has been taken to court after he allegedly sodomised a colleague who had demanded his money back. Sipho Ndlovu appeared before Bulawayo Regional magistrate Joseph Mabeza facing a sexual abuse charge. He pleaded not guilty. It is the State’s case that on…
A POLICE officer, who is on suspension after he was allegedly found in unlawful possession of a pangolin, has been arrested after he was implicated as being part of a gang that broke into a house in Belvedere, Harare, last month and made off with US$7 650. Walter Chanhuwa of ZRP Highfield, together with his alleged…
HIGH Court judge, Justice Priscilla Munangati-Manongwa, has granted an order declaring that the clause used by the Douglas Mwonzora-led opposition MDC’s congress to expel its vice president, Elias Mudzuri, on January 21, 2023 is constitutionally invalid. Clause 11 of the party’s constitution provides that the outfit’s members who take matters to the court and the…
EMELDA Marizani, a Chivhu woman who was arrested in 2020 for killing four of her daughters in cold blood, has been found guilty and convicted by the High Court and she will be sentenced on March 24. Marizani was facing quadruple murder charges after she slit her daughters’ throats and set the house on fire….
NEW details have emerged in the trial in which Vice President Constantino Chiwenga’s former wife, Marry Mubaiwa, is accused of attempting to murder the retired army general while they were in South Africa in 2019 where he was seeking medical treatment. During cross-examination before Harare magistrate Feresi Chakanyuka yesterday, the State’s second witness, Tawanda Dzungudza,…
A CHIVHU woman, Emelda Marizani, is set to know her fate tomorrow at the High Court as it is set to deliver its judgment on her quadruple murder charges. Marizani, who was arrested in 2020, is currently in remand prison after High Court judge, Justice Munamato Mutevedzi reserved his ruling in November last year to…
A MAN from Bikita in Masvingo province has been sentenced to 36 years in prison after he was found guilty of raping his nine-year-old stepdaughter. It was the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA)’s case that the man, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the minor, raped the child on three separate occasions at…
A ZANU PF aspiring parliamentary candidate for Epworth Constituency has been dragged before the Harare Magistrates’ Courts after he allegedly assaulted Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) officers in Epworth on Monday. Kudakwashe Damson, 39, who is also the ruling party’s Harare provincial political commissar, appeared before Harare magistrate Dennis Mangosi facing charges of willful interruption, destruction,…
