LAWYERS representing Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) MP Job Sikhala have told the court that his arrest in 2020 for allegedly inciting public violence was an act of persecution by police officers. The Zengeza West (MP), who is in remand prison, appeared before Harare magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti-Guwuriro yesterday for trial, where his lawyers cross-examined State…
FORMER police officer, Jaison Muvevi, who is in remand prison facing multiple murder and attempted murder charges, yesterday appeared before a Harare magistrate on routine remand. He was remanded to February 20 in custody. Muvevi allegedly shot and killed Crispen Kanerusine, 62, police officer Maxwell Hove, 43, and Munashe Mujanhi, 20, in Wedza last month….
BUSINESSMAN and Gokwe-Nembudziya MP, Mayor Justice Wadyajena, together with Cotton Company of Zimbabwe (Cottco) bosses — Pious Manamike, Maxmore Njani, Fortunate Molai and Chiedza Danha — is off the hook for now after the court granted the quintet’s application for refusal of further remand. This comes as the five accused had been facing fraud and…
PARLIAMENT has opposed a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) application filed by Zimbabwe Youth Action Platform chairperson Tonderai Chidawa, who is challenging the authenticity of the preliminary delimitation report that it received from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to analyse and make recommendations. Chidawa wants the ConCourt to nullify Parliament recommendations on the report, arguing that the…
A BATTLE for the control of a Gweru-based company, Greynut Investments, has escalated after the executor of the estate of the late owner Isaac Tichareva approached the High Court accusing the CEO, Tecklah Garira, of dissipating the company’s assets. Greynut Investments was owned by the late Isaiah Mudzengi. However, Tichareva is seeking the liquidation of…
HIGH Court judge, Justice Priscilla Munangati-Manongwa, has dismissed an application filed by the Harare City Council (HCC) in which it sought to retrieve a piece of land sold to a local company, Aqua-Jets, in 1992. According to court documents, HCC and Aqua-Jets entered into an agreement of sale for a piece of land measuring 14…
HARARE regional magistrate Taurai Manwere has deferred ruling of an application by Gokwe-Nembudziya MP Mayor Justice Wadyajena to today where the legislator is challenging his placement on further remand. If his application is granted, it would mean that the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) can only summon him to court when his docket is complete and…
A SECURITY guard at Shamva Gold Mine shot and killed a man who was part of a gang of illegal miners after the group had forced their way into one of the mine’s shafts in 2021. Tinashe Mugarisanwa, a guard at the mine, shot 32-year-old Remember Musariri in November 2021. This emerged after Mugarisanwa appeared…
A MINING firm, Rumgold Trading, which was conducting mining activities along the Angwa River in Makonde district, Mashonaland West province, has been ordered by the High Court to cease operations and remove its heavy machinery from the site. This comes after another mining firm, Angel Hill Mining Company, filed an application at the High Court…
THE National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has dropped charges against a Rushinga man, Robert Zakeyo, who was accused of insulting President Emmerson Mnangagwa on social media. The 44-year-old Zakeyo was due to go on trial at the Bindura Magistrates Court on Tuesday after the NPA acting ProsecutorGeneral, Nelson Mutsonziwa, issued a certificate of authority to prosecute….
