Courts and Crime

Bindura Bureau The Zimbabwe Republic Police(ZRP) has launched a manhunt for a gang of three unknown highway robbers targeting motorists plying the Harare Mvurwi/Centenary road in Mashonaland Central. They are allegedly robbing both motorists and passengers of their belongings and in some instances attempting to rape some of their female …

By Bindura BureauA 39-year-old Chipadze man is lucky to be alive after his wife’s ex-husband stabbed him several times for denying him access to the lady. This was heard at the Bindura magistrate court Thursday where the accused Kudzai Mvula (26) appeared before magistrate Ruramai Chitumbura facing assault charges. The …

Bindura Bureau Bindura magistrate Samantha Dhlamini yesterday remanded two men in custody for allegedly stealing three broiler chickens from Chipadze Farm. Appearing for the State, Chipo Chinoda told the court that on September 2 this year, the duo comprising of Brian Tanasi (28) and Tadiwanashe Nyakudya (38) stole three broilers …

A parliamentary public hearing on the re-introduction of the National Youth Service was abandoned in Bulawayo on Tuesday after Zanu PF activists physically attacked participants who opposed the programme. A man had his shirt torn and was left bleeding on the neck in ugly scenes which brought proceedings to an …

The son of Zimbabwe’s former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko has been arrested by police in Bulawayo on rape charges. Mr Siqokoqela Mphoko is expected to appear in court this afternoon to face the rape allegations, according to national police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi. “Siqokoqela Mphoko was this morning arrested …

Prisons in Zimbabwe are failing to meet the dietary scale for children staying with their incarcerated mothers contrary to the prison policy and procedures, a report compiled by a Senate Thematic Committee on Gender and Development revealed. In some cases, prison officers made some contributions to assist the children with …

Gokwe-Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena, who is jointly charged with Cotton Company of Zimbabwe bosses on fraud and money laundering involving over US$5,8 million, had his passport temporarily released to allow him to travel to the United Kingdom and Germany on Parliament business. Harare regional magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanje released …

Zimbabwean courts have handed jail sentences of up to six months on 148 undocumented Malawians who were apprehended at different points in Chivhu and Murewa enroute to Beitbridge where they intended to cross into South Africa illegally. The foreigners were handed prison terms ranging from four to six months pending …

Thulisile Dube, who vanished after a night out with friends last Saturday before being found dead in her car on Tuesday was murdered, law enforcement sources told ZimLive on Friday. The main suspect in her murder, 28-year-old Michael Farai Mutasa, has committed suicide. Police are holding Mutasa’s girlfriend identified only …

A fleet of haulage trucks belonging to the Member of Parliament for Gokwe-Nembudziya, Justice Mayor Wadyajena, through his company Mayor Logistics, can now be seized by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) and held pending the outcome of a fraud trial of Wadyajena and four top Cotton Company of Zimbabwe managers …