Crime and Courts

A MAN allegedly stole a Harare businessman’s identity and went on to secure employment in the United States of America. ‌ Moses William appeared before Harare magistrate Munashe Chibanda and...

A GROUP of 38 opposition activists arrested two weeks ago on allegations of public violence have been granted bail by a Chitungwiza magistrate. The CCC activists were ordered to pay...

A Mwenezi teacher and her son are lucky to be alive after an unidentified masked man intruded into Prisca Binikwa’s home and axed her on the neck and struck her...

THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has unmasked a scam in which Council for Legal Foundation executive secretary Huggins Hardwork Duri was allegedly issuing certificates of competency to law students studying...

A DARING convict Caleb Mashingaidze, who escaped from Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison last year was re-arrested at the Harare Magistrates Court while trying to pay bail for a friend he...

TWELVE Zanu PF activists in Lambamai area, Insiza in Matabeleland South province, appeared in court last week facing a public violence charge after they allegedly harassed opposition Zimbabwe Coalition for...

HIGH Court Justice Pisirai Kwenda has dismissed an urgent chamber application by George Katsimberis who was seeking to stop his fraud trial before Harare regional magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti who he...

A Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) officer was killed following an altercation in a nightclub parking lot; it has been suggested that a SAPS officer fired the fatal shot. The...

A HARARE woman yesterday accused her boyfriend of attempting to poison her and her children. ‌ She applied for a protection order against him. Alice Mujokondo told the Harare Civil...

Mechanic charged with theft and fraud A MECHANIC, who filed a criminal complaint of kidnapping and theft against his client, was hauled to court yesterday charged with theft and fraud....

A BANK teller, Leeroy Rueben Murera, and his friend, Tizirai Ben Mudarikwa, are being accused of hacking into the core banking system and defrauding POSB. Murera and Mudarikwa were allegedly...

LAWYERS, who fraudulently got certificates from the Council for Legal Education, may be facing legal action if the arrest of the executive secretary is anything to go by. Huggins Hardwork...

A SECURITY guard was arrested on Sunday for raping a woman he caught illegally fetching firewood at a farm he was guarding in Seke. Alfred Dzenga (46), of Butler Farm,...

THE suspect in the murder of a patron at a pub in Harare on Saturday night is the brother of the businesswoman who owns the joint. ‌ He was arrested...

In a shocking turn of events, a car buyer in Arcadia recently discovered that the vehicle they had purchased turned out to be a rental car in an elaborate scam....

The High Court is set to deliver judgement on Tapiwa Makore’s suspected killers on Thursday, reported ZBC News. Justice Munamato Mutevedzi, who presided over the trial, is expected to hand...

Sitabile Dewa was content with her s3x life when she was married, but after her divorce, she found her prospects for erotic pleasure rather bleak. In socially conservative Zimbabwe, divorced...

THREE men suspected of killing a 40-year-old Chinhoyi man were last week dragged to court following their dramatic arrest at a traditional healer’s shrine, where they sought to fend off...

Former Pokugara Properties general manager Mr Michael Van Blerk last Friday told the court that it was necessary for him to jump in between Tendai Biti and Mrs Tatiana Aleshina...

A cheeky thief tricked a security guard into surrendering her pistol and keys after pretending to be the one taking over guard duties from her. ‌ Caleb Zhiwunkinyu appeared in...

A HARARE man offered US$10 per month maintenance for his minor child, saying responsibilities should be equally shared with his ex-wife. Morgan Kudakwashe was taken to the Harare Civil Court...

A Harare woman applied for a protection order against her boyfriend, saying he verbally and physically abuses her. Olivia Munemo told the Harare Civil Court that her boyfriend, Kudzanai Tigere,...