A MANAGER for a Harare-based company, Delatfin Engineering, Jacob Muyambo, who is accused of defrauding the company out of US$3 million, has challenged the allegations. Muyambo, who was the finance and administration manager, was arrested last year after he allegedly edited agreements of sale for land purchases, adding housing stands that had been allocated to…
A TWENTY-TWO year-old Harare man will spend the next seven years in prison after a Harare court found him guilty of stealing a motor vehicle. It was the State’s case that on December 26 2021, Atipaishe Sibanda and his friend Brandon Gwenzi boarded Richard Chinaira’s vehicle from Mbudzi Roundabout in Harare to Chitungwiza. When they…
DIAMOND mining company, Marange Resources (Private) Limited, could end up paying US$234 500 to one Brandon Bowen after the High Court last week dismissed its application for absolution from the instance. Absolution from the instance is granted at the end of a case if neither the plaintiff nor the defendants have put forward sufficient evidence…
A 21-YEAR-OLD woman from Mt Pleasant, Harare, allegedly tried to bury her new-born baby in a hole in the ground, a magistrate’s court heard on Friday. Melissa Mutafi appeared before Harare magistrate Evelyn Mashavakure facing charges of attempted infanticide before she was released on free bail. She was remanded out of custody to May 9…
DYNAMOS Football Club chairperson, Bernard Mariot Lusengo, is being accused of illegally bestowing 51 percent of the club’s shares to himself. Lusengo, 75, was arraigned before the Harare Magistrate’s Courts on Friday facing charges of fraud. Harare magistrate Stanley Mambanje remanded him out of custody to May 3. It is the National Prosecuting Authority’s case…
ACTING National Social Security Authority (Nssa) general manager Charles Shava, who was arrested on Thursday for allegedly defrauding the organisation of over $12 million, was yesterday granted $500 000 bail by a Harare magistrate. He appeared before magistrate Stanley Mambanje who ordered him to surrender his passport as part of the bail conditions. Shava is…
HIGH Court judge, Justice Christopher DubeBanda, has tossed out an application for his recusal as the presiding judge in the murder trial of fellow judge Garainesu Mawadze’s son, Munyaradzi Mawadze. Munyaradzi Mawadze was arrested in 2020 after he and his friends, Elvis Dongo Saungweme and Dellon David Balami, allegedly murdered a Harare cellphone dealer, Sipho…
COMEDIAN and social media personality, Felistas Murata, was arraigned before the Harare Magistrates Courts yesterday facing separate charges of fraud and theft of trust property after she allegedly put up a hired motor vehicle as collateral for a loan. She appeared before two magistrates and was granted free bail on both charges. She was then…
A HARARE-BASED company, Vevhu Resources, has filed an appeal at the Supreme Court challenging a High Court order which stalls the eviction of over 4 000 families from Spitzkop Farm in Zvimba, Mashonaland West Province. This comes after High Court judge, Justice Neville Wamambo, granted an interim interdict barring the company from evicting the families…
A POLICE officer stationed at Gwanda Police Station in Matabeleland South province has been arraigned before a Filabusi magistrate’s court after he allegedly committed two counts of stock theft involving 23 cattle. In the first count, Philisani Nyoni, 35, who was in charge of livestock clearance, allegedly gave his friend eight beasts that had been…
