Death Toll From Bulawayo Explosion Rises To Two
The people are reported to have died from Saturday’s explosion at White City Stadium in Bulawayo. The two succumbed to injuries sustained when an as yet unidentified...
Crime & Courts
Bulawayo Explosion Victim Dies In Hospital
One of the people who was injured at White City Stadium when an explosion occured at a rally addressed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Saturday has died....
Chiyangwa’s Nephew Arrested Again For Card Cloning
Phillip Chiyangwa’s nephew Mike Harris Chiyangwa was remanded in custody by Harare Magistrate Rumbidzai Mugwagwa after being arrested for the third time on allegations of cloning people’s...
Zanu-PF Taken To High Court For Forcing Children To Attend Party Rallies By Teachers
The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) has taken Zanu-PF to the High Court seeking an interdict to stop the ruling party from forcing pupils to...
Murder Suspect Arrested Whilst Making False Robbery Report Against His Accomplices
Desire Mangena (22) was arrested for murder at Gokwe Police Station where he had gone to make a false robbery report against his two alleged accomplices only identified as...
Full Text: ZRP Offers “Substantial” Reward After Bulawayo Explosion, Number Of Injured Now At 49
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has offered a substantial reward following the explosion which occured at Bulawayo’s White City Stadium on Saturday. The police also revealed that...
Godfrey Chidyausiku’s Widow Takes Judicial Service Commission (JSC) To Court Over Terminal Benefits
The late Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku’s wife Farai, has petitioned the High Court seeking an order compelling the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) to facilitate payment of her husband’s...
Simon Khaya Moyo Sues Motorist For $35 000
Energy and Power Development Minister Simon Khaya Moyo through the Civil Division in the Attorney-General’s Office is suing Stanley Bareto for more than $35 000 for causing a road...
Mpofu Taken To Court By Immigration Officers Suspended For Receiving Bribes From Foreigners
Minister of Home Affairs and Culture Obert Mpofu has been taken to court by eight immigration officers who were suspended for allegedly receiving bribes from foreigners to alter...
Full Text: Zec Refuses To Release Provisional Voters’ Roll, Challenges High Court Order
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has appealed the order made by the High Court compelling them to provide independent electoral watchdog, the Electoral Resource Centre (ERC) with...
Mukupe Buys Replacement Phone After Court Orders Him To Return Phone He Allegedly Stole
Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Terrence Mukupe is reported to have bought a replacement phone to restitute NewsDay journalist Blessed Mhlanga’s wife Florence. Mukupe bought...
Minister Mukupe Sued By School Over $29 000 Unpaid Fees
Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Terrence Mukupe has been sued by his children’s school which is alleging that the minister owes $29 948 in unpaid...
Fake Zimbabwean Lawyer Arrested In Botswana
According to neigbouring country reports that Nkosana Admire Ngwenya (27) of Ngwenya and Associates and Meshack Nyakaswa (42) of Nyakaswa Legal Services were arrested on Tuesday on suspicions...
High Court Stops Mutsvangwa From Evicting Chipanga From Farm
The High Court has stopped Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister Monica Mutsvangwa from evicting former Zanu-PF youth leader Kudzanai Chipanga from his Headlands farm. Chipanga through his lawyer...
Chief Charumbira Refuses To Apologise For Supporting Zanu-PF, Fights High Court Judgement
On Monday, National Council of Chiefs (NCC) President Fortune Charumbira filed an emergency application at the High Court opposing a ruling directing him to issue an apology...
High Court Orders Four Police Officers To Pay $17 000 Compensation To Victim Of Police Brutality
Harare High Court judge Justice Pisirai Kwenda on Wednesday awarded Robson Pumero, a victim of police brutality, $17 172.18 as damages for shock, pain and suffering. The...
Full Text: Magistrate Orders Minister Mukupe To Return The Phone He Forcibly Took From Journalist
Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Terrence Mukupe has been ordered to return the mobile phone which he allegedly stole from NewsDay journalist Blessed Mhlanga’s wife...
Chief Charumbira Refuses To Apologise For Supporting Zanu-PF, Challenges High Court Order
National Chiefs Council (NCC) leader Chief Fortune Charumbira has refused to comply with a High Court order ordering him to apologise and renounce his support for Zanu-PF....
Magaya’s Application To Appeal Against Rape Case Fails
Harare High Court judge Justice Emy Tsanga dismissed an application for leave to appeal at the Supreme Court by Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries founder Walter Magaya...
Spencer Banda Assault Case: Alleged Lover Contradicts Husband, Nails Him For Assault
Sharon Mawedze, the wife of the Harare man who allegedly assaulted Star FM presenter Spencer Banda contradicted her husband Michael Mawedze’s testimony in court. Mawedze, 41, appeared...
300 Police Officers To Be Promoted
Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) sources in Harare told The Herald that 300 officers countrywide are set to be promoted by the end of this month. The sources said the...
Bank Threatens Mukupe With Imprisonment Over Debt
Defunct Trust Bank Corporation has threatened deputy minister of finance Terrence Mukupe with civil imprisonment for failing to service a $32 593 loan. The bank alleges that...
Murder-Suicide: Woman Guns Down Boyfriend Before Shooting Herself
An unidentified woman is reported to have shot her alleged boyfriend in the back of the head before turning the gun on herself at Reading House in...
Police Ordered To Release 50 000 Opposition Party Campaign T-shirts
Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Nokuthula Moyo ordered Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga to immediately release 50 000 campaign T-shirts which were seized from FreeZim Congress by police at Beitbridge Border Post on...
Police Ban Carrying Of Dangerous Weapons
In a notice yesterday, Officer Commanding Beitbridge police Chief Superintendent Francis Phiri banned the carrying of dangerous weapons with effect from June 7 to September 7. The prohibition of possessing...
Police Issue Warrant Of Arrest For MDC Alliance Candidate
The Herald reports that MDC Alliance candidate for Mutare North constituency Godfrey Munyamana is on the run after he was issued with a warrant of arrest last week...
Gumbo Speaks On Mugabe’s Son In Law Simba Chikore’s Kidnapping Case
In an interview with Daily News Transport Minister Joram Gumbo commented on Simba Chikore’s kidnapping saga saying that Mugabe’s son-in-law had “the right” to fire Zimbabwe Airways...
Old Mutual Sued For Refusing To Pay Out $30 000 Insurance
Bulawayo motorist Kennedy Senzai has taken Old Mutual insurance company, to the high court for allegedly refusing to pay out an insurance policy. Senzai wants the court...
Chombo To Stand Trial For Wearing Zanu-PF Regalia Without Authority
Harare magistrate Victoria Mashamba on Friday set July 26 as the trial date for former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo and his three accomplices, Kudzanai Chipanga, Innocent Hamandishe...
Full Text: Veritas Takes Zec To High Court Over Lack Of Transparency
Parliamentary and civic rights watchdog, Veritas has taken the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to the High Court seeking an order compelling ZEC to comply with its constitutional...
Zec Sued Over Monopoly On Voter Education
Parliamentary and civic rights watchdog, Veritas has sued the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission at the High Court over its virtual monopoly on voter education. Veritas wants the court...
Chiyangwa Sues Zanu-PF Women’s League Chairperson For $1 Million
Zanu-PF Central Committee member, Phillip Chiyangwa, has taken the party’s Harare women’s league provincial chairperson, Ratidzo Mukarati, to court demanding $1 million from her over alleged defamatory statements...
Chicken Inn Striker Sentenced To 12 Months In Prison Over Maintenance
Chicken Inn Football Club striker Obidiah Tarumbwa was sentenced to 12 months in prison when he appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Ms Rachel Mukanga for defaulting on more than $6...
High Court Orders ZEC To Provide ERC With Provisional Voters Roll Within 5 Days
Image Credit: Privilege Musvanhiri (@Musvanhiri) The High Court has ordered the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to provide independent electoral watchdog, the Electoral Resource Centre (ERC) with...
ZPC Boss Says Undenge Did Nothing Wrong, Says Anti Corruption Boss Is Forcing Him To Testify
Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) managing director, Noah Gwariro has said that former energy minister Samuel Undenge did nothing illegal in instructing him to enlist the services of...
Mnangagwa Orders Police To Investigate 2 Year Old Glendale Boy’s Murder
In a statement, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said he had ordered the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) to investigate the murder of a two year old boy in Glendale....
ZRP To Undergo Restructuring, Some Senior Positions To Be Abolished
A document from the Chief Staff Officer planning and development Senior Assistant Commissioner Elliot Mind Ngirandi titled “Proposed Restructuring of the Zimbabwe Republic Police, Central Planning Committee Number...
Henrietta Rushwaya Dragged To Court By Small Scale Miners, Accused Of Attempting To Take Over ZMF
Former Zifa chief executive officer, Henrietta Rushwaya has been taken to court by a group of small scale miners who are accusing her of attempting to take over as...
Updated:Saviour Kasukuwere Found Not Guilty In Border Jumping Case
Former Zanu-PF national political commissar and G40 member Saviour Kasukuwere has been acquitted by Harare Magistrate Josephine Sande of border jumping. Kasukuwere was facing charges of contravening...
Chicken Inn Striker Found Guilty Of Defaulting On Maintenance Payments, Faces Jail
Chicken Inn striker Obadiah Tarumbwa was convicted on charges of maintenance default by Bulawayo magistrate Miss Rachel Rumbidzayi Mukanga after his arrears reached $6000. The footballer was...
Go Arrest Mugabe For Border Jumping, He Is No Longer President: Kasukuwere’s Lawyer On Selective Prosecution
Former cabinet minister Saviour Kasukwuere’s lawyer Jonathan Samukange has challenged the state to arrest former president Robert Mugabe for crossing the border illegally. Samukange said that the...
High Court Overturns Conviction Of Activists For Watching Arab Spring Videos, Plotting Against Mugabe
High Court judges Justice Charles Hungwe and Justice Neville Wamambo have overturned the conviction and sentence of 6 democracy campaigners, led by Munyaradzi Gwisai. The six were...
Zimra Officials Arrested For Facilitating Smuggling Of Building Material Worth $20 200
Wisdom Matsekedza (35) and Muchineripi Hokonya (32) who are both Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officials at Beitbridge Border Post were arrested by the Ferret team for facilitating...
Man Breaks Into House, Sleeps On Sofa
Nqobizitha Dube (26) was arrested after he allegedly broke into a house in Pumula South suburb on Saturday night, selected a comfortable sofa and slept. The owner of...
Grace Mugabe’s Son Russel Fails To Pay Rent For Three Years
Former First Lady Mrs Grace Mugabe’s son, Russel Goreraza, faces eviction from a city flat over rent arrears amounting to $65 801. Goreraza did not pay rent...
Augustine Chihuri, Matshiya Face Contempt Of Parly Charges After Contradicting Evidence
The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy has said that contempt of Parliament charges may be preferred against either former police commissioner Augustine Chihuri or Home...
High Court Orders MDC-T To Hold Fresh Primary Elections In Mabvuku After Candidate Sues Party
High Court judge Justice Clement Phiri has nullified the MDC-T’s endorsement of Barnabas Ndira as the party’s candidate for Mabvuku Ward 21 in the local government elections....
Magistrate Inspects Kasukuwere’s House In Border Jumping Case, 113 AK 47 Rounds Discovered At His House
Harare Magistrate Josephine Sande has carried out an inspection in loco at former cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere’s house located at Number 4 Deny’s Close Glen Lorne Harare....
Police Officers Urged To Be Professional During And After Elections
ZRP Commander 2018 Harmonised Elections Committee Senior Assistant Commissioner Erasmus Makodza urged police officers to be professional to ensure the credibility and security of the elections. He urged...
Chase Skuza Arrested On Stage, Sentenced To 7 Months In Prison
Musician Nicholas Chase Skuza was arrested while performing on stage and sentenced to 231 days in prison for failing to pay $2 900 to a South-Africa based truck...