THREE former police officers and a civilian, who were sentenced to death for murder in 2014, have been re-sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment each by a Harare High Court. The four, Kudzai Madziro, Leeroy Muteyera and Ronald Sambo, who were attached to the Police Support Unit in Harare were convicted together with a civilian, Emmanuel…
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) and the government of Japan say they have performed over 500 free surgeries for various ailments on vulnerable patients across the country in the past year. This comes after the Japanese government last year, through WHO, committed US$633 975 to strengthen access to safe, timely and affordable Surgical, Obstetric and…
Yvonne Ncube in BULAWAYO A GOLD panner from Nkayi village in Matabeleland North Province escaped a jail term yesterday after the complainant made an appeal to the court to spare him a custodial sentence following his conviction for attempted murder. Bongani Banda, 32, appeared before Bulawayo regional magistrate Joseph Mabeza facing a charge of attempted…
By Yvonne Ncube in BULAWAYO A 20-YEAR-OLD Bulawayo-based commercial sex worker was yesterday slapped with 350 hours community service for stealing US$540 from her client. Thubelihle Makhabo from Magwegwe suburb in Bulawayo appeared before magistrate Nomagugu Maphosa facing theft charges. She pleaded not guilty to the charge, but was convicted after a full trial. Makhabo…
By Rutendo Ngara A POLICE investigating officer Victor Mukohwa, who is probing Transform Zimbabwe leader Jacob Ngarivhume and his accomplice Kelvin Gonde, said one of the police officers who was injured on June 16 in Avondale, Harare, was stoned by Ngarivhume. He told the court that one constable Tashu was one of the two police officers…
Rutendo Ngara ngarar@dailynews.co.zw ACCESS Forex employee Brian Ch- itanda, who was stationed in Kariba, was given a suspended 24 months’ imprisonment at the Chinhoyi High Court for theft of US$9 000. The sentence came after he appealed against the magistrate’s ruling where he was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment. Another 12 months of the sen-…
Rutendo Ngara HIGH Court judge David Man- gota has acquitted a Plumtree man Fainos Mlalazi of murder charges. Mlalazi was arrested in 2020 for allegedly fatally assaulting Nkululeko Makaba with a plank on his head in Madlambuzi. Justice Mangota ruled that Mlalazi was apprehended by a mob on his way from a beer hall andhe…
POLITICAL EDITOR FOREIGN Affairs minister Frederick Shava yesterday took over the Sadc Council of Ministers chairmanship from Angola’s minister of External Relations Téte António. Speaking during the official opening of the ordinary Sadc Council of Ministers meeting at the new Parliament Building in Mt Hampden yesterday, the regional bloc executive secretary Elias Magosi said they…
Rutendo Ngara ngarar@dailynews.co.zw HARARE magistrate Fadzai Mutombeni sentenced three rapists to 35 years imprisonment each last week following their conviction on three counts. The three, Mischeck Musarurwa, 24, Kundai Zvenyika, 24 and Tinashe Bonda, 24, raped three minors in Budiriro suburb between 2022 and 2024. In her ruling, Mutombeni said despite the fact they were…
Rutendo Ngara STAFF WRITER ngarar@dailynews.co.zw A BEITBRIDGE man was sentenced to 25 year imprisonment by the Bulawayo High Court for murdering a fellow party attendee, accusing him of coming from a village with arrogant people. Fanuel Mbedzi killed the now deceased by crushing his head with stones during the night of March 28 2020. In…
