A STATE witness in the bail application for the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) director general, Taguma Mahonde, told the court that the accused used coercion, deception and threats to cover up his fraudulent acts. Mahonde will, however, spend the weekend in remand prison after his bail ruling was pushed to October 2. Mahonde was…
Long jail weekend for the fraud-accused Zimstat boss

Fungai Maregedze’s lawyer Derek Charamba said in acquitting Maregedze, the Masvingo regional magistrate, Innocent Bepura, had ruled that the State’s case was weak.