Courts and Crime

The Minister of State for Masvingo Province Ezra Chadzamira has been arrested for alleged corruption involving sugarcane plots at Kilimanjaro. Early this year, there were reports of corruption in the allocation of land in Chiredzi. The allocations were spearheaded by Ezra Chadzamira and acting provincial lands officer Tendai Mumera. In …

The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) impounded eleven vehicles worth close to US$400 000 from Impala Car Rental amid reports the vehicles were fraudulently acquired, the Zim Morning Post has heard. The vehicles were impounded after Zacc launched an investigation which also involves a top Zimbabwe National Army official who played …

Israeli authorities have launched a massive manhunt after six Palestinian prisoners escaped from one of the country’s most secure jails overnight. The men are believed to have dug a tunnel from their cell over several months that led to a road outside Gilboa Prison’s walls. Officials were alerted by farmers …

Unruly health professionals are making a killing from selling Covid-19 vaccination cards to employees, university and college students desperate to get admitted back to various learning institutions. A number of tertiary institutions across the country now require students to be either fully vaccinated or be in possession of a valid …

The Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill, which seeks to punish those who abuse the social media, internet and communication networks and make the growing financial digital systems and e-commerce more efficient and better protected, has gone through Parliament and now awaits the assent of the President when it will …

A 35-year-old Harare man was treated for free at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals after he misrepresented as Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga. Marlon Katiyo, who is of no fixed abode, appeared before magistrate Dennis Mangosi charged with misrepresentation for fraud. Katiyo was remanded to today for bail ruling. It is alleged that …

Travellers who board buses, kombis and mushikashika not registered under the Zupco franchise now risk fines of $2 000 per head, as police step up operations against errant bus, commuter omnibus and private car operators who continue defying Covid-19 regulations. This comes as police are still in the process of …

Three Zimbabwean men have been arrested together with 13 other people in South Africa for stealing transformers and railway tracks in Mpumalanga province. Maxwell Muchenje (39), Maxwell Dube (32), and Witness Mbabo (27) were arrested on Monday by South Africa’s organized crime unit, the Hawks, working together with Transnet investigators. …

A 99-year lease offer letter that was issued and signed by the minister of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement Anxious Masuka to a fugitive who skipped the country 14 years ago has removed the lid on massive corruption in the ministry. According to a copy of the offer …

Child and women’s rights groups have urged the Government to immediately reform the country’s laws to outlaw child marriages and introduce stiffer penalties for abusing the girl child. This follows the death of Anna Machaya (15) who died during child birth before being secretly buried at an apostolic sect church …