RUTENDO NGARA A HARARE businessman Luka Ignatius Fabris, who was convicted at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts last June for defrauding a local businesswoman of US$1 million, has had his conviction and sentence quashed at the High Court. In June, a regional court found Fabris and his company, Spartan Security, guilty of fraud. Then, Fabris was…
RUTENDO NGARA A HARARE man, who allegedly duped a local transporter of US$37 000, yesterday appeared at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts facing fraud charges before he was granted US$200 bail. Kudzai Chingonya was arraigned before magistrate Apolonia Marutya who remanded him to January 21, 2025. Prosecutor Rufaro Chonzi told the court that between March and…
POLICE in Bulawayo say they recorded 93 cases of armed robberies from the beginning of the year to October, as compared to 56 cases recorded last year in the same period. Speaking during a stakeholders meeting in Bulawayo yesterday, provincial police spokesperson Abednico Ncube said law enforcement agents were working hard to end cases of…
By Masimba Makwembere STAFF WRITER makwemberem@dailynews.co.zw A NYANGA motorist has been fined US$350 and barred from driving after he was found guilty of negligent driving. Lloyd Masanga of Bonde Village, was arraigned before the Nyanga Magistrates’ Court this week. According to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), on 30 January 2024 and at around 0700 hours,…
By Masimba Makwembere STAFF WRITER makwemberem@dailynews.co.zw A BINDURA man will serve the next 30 years in jail after he was found guilty at the Bindura Magistrates’ Court for raping his 13-year-old daughter and forcing her to massage his manhood. The convict and the complainant’s mother separated after which the complainant went into the custody of…
By Yvonne Ncube in BULAWAYO TWO Nkayi brothers, Japhet and Likhwa Mpofu have been sentenced to six years in prison each for culpable homicide after fatally assaulting their elder brother, Jabulani Mpofu during a family altercation. They appeared before Justice Christopher Dube-Banda at the High Court in Bulawayo. They were at first charged with murder…
Rutendo Ngara STAFF WRITER ngarar@dailynews.co.zw HARARE magistrate Collet Ncube yesterday handed a wholly suspended sentence to Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) administrator Jameson Timba and his 34 accomplices who were last week convicted of participating in an unlawful gathering last June. They had been in remand prison since then. Passing his ruling, magistrate Ncube said…
Yvonne Ncube in BULAWAYO THE High Court in Bulawayo has ordered double murder accused and prominent Gweru car dealer, Peter Dube, to undergo fresh psychiatric tests. This comes after Dube was spotted on multiple occasions drinking water from the prison toilet and conversing joyfully alone. This was also witnessed when he was in the dock…
Yvonne Ncube in BULAWAYO A POPULAR Bulawayo car dealer and socialite, Brighton Chipunza, popularly known as Dash, has been remanded in custody over alleged theft of a South African-registered Toyota Fortuner from a car wash in the city’s central business district (CBD) last week. Chipunza appeared at the Bulawayo Magistrates’ Court facing car theft charges….
Stella Madzivanyika STAFF WRITER madzivanyikas@dailynews.co.zw THE Japanese Embassy to Zimbabwe has donated two ambulances worth US$50 000 to Adult Rape Clinic as a way of contributing to the fight against Gender-Based Violence (GBV). This comes as Zimbabwe has joined the rest of the world in commemorating 16 Days of Activism Against GBV. The commemorations, which…
