Courts and Crime

Several non-commissioned police officers have been transferred with immediate effect from Matapi Police Station in Mbare, Nhau has learnt. The transfers are reportedly a consequence of an “operation gone wrong” targeting over a thousand second-hand clothing bales smuggled into the station’s jurisdiction. The station is also under the spotlight for …

A BBC Panorama investigation has found evidence that suggests one of Britain’s biggest companies paid a bribe to the former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe. Documents show British American Tobacco (BAT) was involved in negotiations to pay between $300,000 and $500,000 to Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party in 2013. The documents also reveal …

Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has been dragged in the arrest of Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution in Masvingo, Ezra Chadzamira, earlier this week. The NewsHawks reports that this was revealed by a pro-Emmerson Mnangagwa faction which is blaming Chiwenga for intensifying efforts to topple the President. Chadzamira …

A Chinhoyi magistrate on Friday dismissed an appeal by the Mugabe family against a traditional court ruling ordering the exhumation of the former president Robert Mugabe’s remains. Chief Zvimba early this year ruled that Mugabe’s remains must be exhumed from his rural homestead where he was buried for reburial at …

The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has instituted legal processes to seize properties valued at US$6,5 million (ZW$75 581 395) owned by Zimbabweans in the Isle of Man. The Isle of Man is a self-governing British Crown dependency in the Irish Sea between England and Ireland. To recover the properties suspected …

The High Court has blocked the release by Zimra of vehicles imported by 53 people as it is suspected they were brought into the country using fake import licences in what is a far-reaching swathe of sneaky dealings in the vehicle import business. Zimra is holding a large batch of …

Norton Independent legislator Temba Mliswa says a majority of husbands are suffering silently at home as they are being beaten by their spouses. Mliswa called on the government to include men in Gender-Based Violence (GBV) programme as most of them were being ill-treated by their spouses or women colleagues at …

First Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa on Monday took her Nharire Yemusha sessions to Bindura in Mashonaland Central where she met hundreds of men and women at Chipadze High School under strict Covid-19 guidelines. Mrs Mnangagwa claims that her programme is targeting to restore virtuous characteristics in local women and men. In …

The second batch of seven Zimbabwean nationals who were deported from the United Kingdom last month have reunited with their families and relatives after completing a mandatory 10-day quarantine. The deportees were quarantined at the Zimbabwe Institute of Public Administration and Management (ZIPAM) in Darwendale. ZIPAM acting director-general Edgar Makande …

The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) was Monday caught up in yet another catch and release storm after its investigators pounced on Minister of State for Masvingo Province Ezra Chadzamira in a dramatic fashion but released him without charge following a cameo appearance at the Masvingo Magistrates Court. Zacc has over …