Courts and Crime

A Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) investigating officer in the matter of former Public Service minister Petronella Kagonye on Tuesday said there was insufficient evidence against her in one of her cases of fraud. Kagonye, who is represented by Rungano Mahuni, is being accused of swindling Shingiriro Housing Co-operative of some …

Police have arrested 16 suspects allegedly connected with the murder of a Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporter who was murdered during a rally addressed by opposition leader Nelson Chamisa in Kwekwe yesterday. According to a police memorandum seen by Nhau, the deceased, Mboneni Ncube (30) of house number 917/19 …

Bindura BureauA 23-year-old Bindura man is expected to appear in court on Monday facing charges of malicious damage to property and physically abusing wife over watching an African Movie. State prosecutors said on February 19 this year Patience Paul (20) of A105 Chipadze Street was watching television when she was …

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has admitted top government officials were plundering gold through illegal mining activities. He warned punitive action will forthwith be taken against such errant senior public servants looting the precious mineral, a development which is retarding economic growth. Announcing measures to improve gold output in the country during …

By Selmah Mbakureva A Harare trio was sentenced 15 months in prison by Bindura Magistrate, Ruramai Chitumbura on Monday after convicting them  for two counts of unlawful entry and theft. However, three months of the sentence were suspended on condition that they would not commit the same offence within five …

By Selmah Mbakureva A Mhondoro Ngezi man suspected to be part of a gang that has reportedly caused a reign of terror in Bindura and surrounding areas was yesterday denied bail by Mashonaland Central Provincial Magistrate Tinashe Ndokera. Trust Mupedziswa (34) of Village 12 Bumbe was arraigned before Ndokera facing …

The Supreme Court on Monday applied brakes to government moves to seize a Mazowe farm owned by exiled former minister Jonathan Moyo and his wife, Beatrice. Justices Chinembiri Bhunu, George Chiweshe and Joseph Musakwa, on appeal, overturned a High Court ruling dismissing Moyo’s urgent application for an interdict against the …

THE daughter of the late property tycoon Edward Nyanyiwa Snr, commonly as Eddies Pfugari, appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court Friday charged with fraud and forgery after she presented a fake marriage certificate of her parents to the Master of the High Court in a bid to gain access to …

Goodness and Mercy Ministries leader, Prophet Tapiwa Freddy was today cleared of the rape and physical abuse charges he was facing at the Harare Magistrates Court. Harare regional magistrate Mrs Gloria Takundwa discharged Freddy after noting that the truth was not told in the whole matter. Mrs Takundwa said the …

By Pavel MwaoseniFollowing a spike in Covid-19 infections in the country the past two weeks, the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has been forced to temporarily close its head office and some of its court houses around the country. In the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health and Child Care …