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By Court Reporter HARARE – High Court has stopped proceedings in the trial of assault accused MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti pending a review of Harare regional Magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti-Guwuriro’s dismissal of his application for postponement due to unavailability of his lawyer. Biti is facing charges of assaulting a Russian lady Tatiana Aleshina outside […]

By Court Reporter HARARE – High Court has released businessman and land developer Felix Munyaradzi from remand in a case in which he was accused of defeating the course of justice. The complainant in the matter was police Commissioner Erasmus Makodza. Munyaradzi had challenged his placement on remand after being accused of interfering with witnesses […]

By Court Reporter Harare magistrate yesterday deferred to Monday the ruling on whether Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga’s former wife Marry Mubaiwa is fit to stand trial on allegations of fraudulently acquiring a marriage certificate while her husband was bedridden. On Monday, the State claimed doctors who examined Mubaiwa said she was fit to stand trial, a […]

By Staff Reporter A Harare vendor was this week lured into a lodge and raped by a man who had posed as a potential buyer of the sandals she was selling in the central business district (CBD) police has announced. The vendor, aged 18, was selling sandals near the intersection of Robert Mugabe Road and […]

By Anyway Yotamu HARARE – MDC Alliance vice President, Tendai Biti whose exception appeal was dismissed by Harare magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti Guwiriro has applied for referral of his assault case to the Constitutional Court. Biti is accused of assaulting a Russian national and controversial land baron Kenneth Raydon Sharpe’s aide Tatiana Aleshina outside the Harare […]

By Court Reporter HARARE – A bogus police officer Watson Mutondo, aged 23 has appeared before Harare magistrate Denis Mangosi Monday on murder charges after he and three other accomplices who are still at large attacked a bus conductor for operating an illegal public transport vehicle. Detective sergeant Lawrence Chademana strongly opposed bail against the […]

By Joyce Mukucha As the world is still grappling with the global Covid-19 pandemic with a plethora of countries trying to recover from the crisis, following the UN World Data Forum which kick-started yesterday, the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) said the epidemic has shown that quality data saves lives. Stefan […]

By Court Reporter HARARE – The trial of Harare land developer George Katsimberis who is accused of defrauding Pokugara Properties has been postponed to next month due to the unavailability of trial Magistrate Letwin Rwodzi. Katsimberis is embroiled in a legal battle with Pokugara Properties following a botched land deal with the company’s principal Kenneth […]

By Senior Court Reporter HARARE – Shoddy land dealings continues to haunt controversial ‘land baron’ Kenneth Raydon Sharpe business empire as the US$205 million Pomona land heist saga continues to haunt the businessman as more pressure mounts for reversal of the deal. Sharpe’s companies which include Augur Investments OU, West Properties, Sunshine Development and Pomona […]

HARARE – The late music superstar Oliver Mutukudzi’s daughter, Samantha, is claiming exclusive custody of a Maltese dog called Alvin Jazz in a messy, elongated divorce wrangle with footballer Tinashe Nengomasha. Samantha has filed a High Court application seeking a decree of divorce against the former Kaizer Chiefs playmaker. This becomes the second time she […]