Crime and Courts

It’s something which still haunts his family, after his brutal murder, and will ensure they don’t get any closure. His body was buried without its head. “Yes justice prevailed (after...

TAPIWA Makore Junior’s mother went through a roller-coaster of emotions in court yesterday as justice was finally delivered to the two men who killed her son for ritual purposes. She...

ZANU PF Treasurer General who also doubles as Acting Secretary for Legal Affairs Patrick Chinamasa has threatened to take the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission ZEC to court over Citizens Coalition for...

HARARE – Tapiwa Makore Snr has been convicted of the shock Murehwa ritual murder of his brother’s minor son and namesake Tapiwa Makore back in 2020. Makore was jointly charged...

Villagers believed to have been hired have allegedly assaulted Chief Murinye, Mr Ephias Munodawafa, accusing him of refusing them permission to bury a deceased relative at a place of their...

THE Supreme Court Wednesday reserved indefinitely, its judgement in a case Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) is appealing against a High Court ruling reinstating businessman Wicknel Chivayo’s controversial Gwanda solar project....

Horror as man (33) butchers wife (45) in cold blood, gets 10 years in jail A 33-year-old man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for assaulting and killing...

John Myaka, an African Christian Democratic Party councillor and pastor, was shot and killed while preaching to his congregants at his church in Nseleni Township, Richards Bay. The incident occurred...

Cornwell Junior Kasambarare, who was one of the most wanted suspected robbers in Zimbabwe, has been arrested. Kasambarare was believed to be the mastermind behind a series of armed robberies,...

FORMER nightclub manager Ronald Ngwenya’s application has hit a brick wall. He wanted to tender a previous record, from his initial rape trial, in which the magistrate recused himself. However,...

A NEWLANDS man was on Tuesday arrested for forcing a sex worker to have unprotected sex at his apartment in Harare. Thabo Nathan Nyazema’s insatiable appetite to have unprotected sex...

A court in Uganda’s Makindye division recently issued orders to the administrator of a WhatsApp group to reinstate a member who had previously been ejected from the group. The directive...

Police in Chitungwiza and Magunje are seeking information relating to twos, with suspects said to be on the run. The murder allegedly occurred on Sunday night, while the second was...

The Pretoria High Court has declared the decision by the Minister of Home Affairs to terminate the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) programme as unlawful and unconstitutional. The court has directed...

HIGH Court Judge, Justice Munamato Mutevedzi is this Thursday expected to hand down the long awaited judgement in the ritual murder case of a Murewa boy Tapiwa Makore Jnr. Tapiwa...

Failure to control temper by a Mutoko village head left him in the hands of the police after being arrested for assault. Trust Kapoka was dragged to Mutoko magistrates courts...

The High Court will Friday sit to hear an urgent application filed by Zanu PF activist, Lovedale Mangwana to have 2023 presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere disqualified from the race for...

HWANGE residents have called on the Hwange Local Board (HLB) to review its waste management by-laws to protect the environment from litterbugs.sGreater Whange Residents Trust chairperson Fidelis Chima said the...

A MENTALLY-CHALLENGED man from Chinhoyi succumbed to injuries suffered in an assault by four members of a neighbourhood watch committee members in Harare who mistook him for a thief. Donald...

A 62-year-old man was on Monday arrested for raping his daughter (15) several times since beginning of June. ‌ The victim is the biological daughter of the Ushewokunze man. The...

INTRICATE details surrounding the murder of a patron at Afro 161, popularly known as KwaBelinda on Saturday night, emerged yesterday during the suspect’s court appearance. ‌ Calisto Murawo appeared before...

MABELREIGN community have been experiencing sleepless nights and losing their belongings to armed robbers for the better part of the past week. ‌ A number of people have fallen victim...