NORTON parliamentarian Temba Mliswa, who was arrested in 2021 for allegedly violating Covid-19 regulations after holding a press conference at his home in Harare, has been acquitted by the High Court. Mliswa, along with 23 other people, including journalists, were picked up at the independent legislator’s home in Borrowdale. He appeared before Harare magistrate Tafadzwa…
HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe and Police Commissioner General Godwin Matanga have each been fined $100 000 for failing to pay a US$60 000 settlement to a Zimbabwe Republic Police officer who was fired in 2010. The two, together with the director of the salary service bureau, were found to be in contempt of court…
TWENTY-three of the 25 Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) members, who were arrested two weeks ago in Budiriro, Harare, have been granted relief after Harare magistrate Yeukai Dzuda yesterday granted them $30 000 bail each. Two senior citizens, aged 72 and 81, who are part of the 25, were released on free bail.In her ruling,…
A COMMERCIAL sex worker who was arrested after being accused of helping her client in a spate of armed robberies was granted bail on Wednesday by the Harare magistrate’s court. Rutendo Hwata, 31, appeared before Harare magistrate Dennis Mangosi on Wednesday, facing charges of contravening section 4(1) of the Firearms Act. According to court documents,…
THE High Court in Harare has directed a private architect firm, Vengesayi Architects, to provide evidence showing it was owed $30 million by the Tourism ministry. This comes after the firm approached the courts in 2016, arguing that it was owed $30 million for the architectural services rendered to the ministry. According to court documents,…
A SUSPECTED serial rapist who targeted young girls in Glen View and Budiriro, Harare, has been arraigned before the Harare Magistrates’ Courts, facing eight rape and robbery charges. Crispen Bonda, 35, was arrested on Tuesday morning at Churu Farm, Glen View 1 and is believed to be connected to six counts of rape, four of…
THREE teenagers from Harare have been jailed for an effective 10 years for stealing electricity cables worth US$450 in the central business district. The trio, Richard Musunda, 18, Tatenda Nyakura, 18, and Honest Warambwa, 19, appeared before the Harare magistrate’s court recently. They were facing allegations of cutting, damaging, destroying and interfering with apparatus for…
A SUSPECT, who is believed to be part of a group that assaulted a Harare man in Mabvuku last year before dumping him along a railway line and having him run over by a train, has been arraigned before a magistrate’s court. Mesias Madongorere, 26, was arrested over the weekend and appeared before Harare magistrate…
HARARE magistrate, Yeukai Dzuda, will deliver her ruling in a bail application filed by 25 Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists on Friday. The 25, who include two party lawmakers, Amos Chibaya — Mkoba and Costa Machingauta — Budiriro, were arrested two weeks ago and face charges of holding an illegal gathering. They made an…
HIGH Court judges, Neville Wamambo and Emilia Muchawa, have granted an application filed by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) in which it sought to repeal a magistrate’s court decision which gave a South Africa-based company, L.A Africa Logistics, the authority to retrieve a truck and two trailers that had been impounded. According to court documents,…
