Courts and Crime

A former police commissioner and his wife have been arrested after a two-month-old baby was kidnapped at Gweru Provincial Hospital. Mekia Tanyanyiwa, who headed the Police Support Unit until his removal in 2018, was arrested on Saturday after it was established that he owns the Toyota Aqua used in the …

The Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF), which brings together the country’s army and air force wings, has fired three senior military commanders at the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) over a multi-million-dollar hard currency housing corruption scandal, in an unprecedented action against venality, security sources told The NewsHawks. The high-level sources said …

President Mnangagwa, who is in Dubai for the World Governments Summit, was yesterday charmed by artificial intelligence systems that assign police patrols across Dubai without human intervention, and vowed to get his ministers working on cooperation and training opportunities. The President said this after touring the Dubai Police General Headquarters …

Harare City Council (HCC) bosses are reportedly engaged in a bitter war over the collection of bribes from vendors operating illegal bookshops in the central business district (CBD), NewsDay has heard. The clashes allegedly started after HCC acting markets manager Collen Tongoona issued receipts to some bookshops to operate legally …

THE woman appearing in a viral video in which she is attacked by a mob that accused her of wrecking marriages in Hatcliffe Extension in Harare is alive but reportedly nursing injuries she sustained. Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has started investigations into the case in which the unidentified woman was …

Former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala has been convicted again on a charge of publishing falsehoods prejudicial to the State on his Facebook page. Harare magistrate Feresi Chakanyuka found him guilty of a 2021 tweet alleging that police had killed an infant strapped to its …

Tourism deputy minister Tongai Mafidi Mnangagwa was assaulted by one of the security personnel attached at the Zanu PF headquarters, it has emerged. Munyaradzi Mwedziwendira, who is accused of assaulting Mnangagwa and one Wellington Vengesai during a heated exchange over parking space, yesterday appeared before Harare magistrate Apollonia Marutya and …

Job Sikhala, the recently freed opposition activist who spent 595 days in pretrial detention, has confirmed that he was poisoned while in solitary confinement at Chikurubi Maximum Prison. Sikhala was reported sick in October 2023, just over 550 days into the almost two-year incarceration. He also fell ill in January …

Agriculture deputy minister, Vangelis Peter Haritatos lost maize valued at US$160 000 to some Harare millers. The millers, Edwin Mwale (41) and Kudakwashe Murehwa (46), appeared before Harare magistrate Dennis Mangosi facing charges of stealing 9 735x50kg bags of maize valued US$163 061 belonging to the deputy minister. They were …

Police have launched an investigation into a suspected ritual murder incident involving an infant whose burnt body was on Monday found hanging from a tree in Kadoma. The bod of the male infant, police said on their official X handle on Wednesday, was found in an advanced state of decomposition. …