Courts and Crime

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 …

Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe has expressed reservations about proposed amendments to the Police Act, arguing the police would be severely weakened if the Bill was passed into law in its current form. The Bill, which contains 20 clauses and fits into calls by human rights’ activists and the opposition …

The death of Anna ‘‘Memory’’ Machaya (14) while giving birth at the Johanne Marange Apostolic Church’s Mafararikwa Shrine during their Passover gathering last month has opened a Pandora’s Box after another 13-year-old girl was allegedly married off at the same time. Although the church has spiritedly denied gathering last month, …

The second group of Zimbabwean deportees from the United Kingdom arrived in the country this Thursday. The seven touched down at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport aboard a Boeing 767 aircraft. The deportees who only had small parcels with them were media shy with one of them indicating that …

Britain, which deported 14 Zimbabweans a month ago, is on Wednesday expected to send back to the southern African nation at least 20 more people with criminal records. Pardon Tapfumanei, an attorney representing some of the targeted Zimbabwean people, said the deportations are part of an agreement made by the …

Police have launched a massive operation targeting pirate taxis mostly unregistered Toyota Wish, Honda Fit and Toyota Vitz vehicles following an increase in armed robbery and rape cases countrywide, as they continue to declare war on criminals. The police are also conducting awareness campaigns urging people to desist from boarding …

By Mercy Mungoriwo The Zimbabwe Anti- Corruption Commission (ZACC) has arrested Norton Town Council Finance Director, Stephen Tendaupenyu for breaching tender procedures. Tendaupenyu is facing charges of allegedly “flouting procurement procedures during the acquisition of roller compactors for the local authority”. ZACC spokesperson Commissioner John Makamure in a statement said: …