Crime

GRAIN Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) chairperson, Tafadzwa Musarara has petitioned the High Court seeking an order to compel suspended Zanu PF youth bosses, Lewis Matutu and Godfrey Tsenengamu to pay $10 million being defamation damages after calling him a corrupt businessman at a press conference held in Harare last week.According to court papers, Musarara said Matutu and Tsenengamu jointly ...

United Kingdom-based businesswoman and social media personality, Olinda Nyaradzo Nkomo (nee Chapel) has petitioned the High Court seeking nullification of her marriage with her husband, musician Njabulo Nkomo. According to court papers, Olinda accuses Nkomo, who is popularly known as Tytan, of fraudulently entering into marriage with her to acquire immigration papers entitling him to remain and reside permanently in ...

A Zimbabwean national allegedly killed a South African senior police officer in Diepsloot, Johannesburg on 17 January resulting in the eruption of xenophobic violence in the region. A Zimbabwean man accused of murdering a South African police officer was reportedly arrested and taken into police custody leading to residents of Diepsloot which is in north of Johannesburg accusing foreigners for ...

A massively obese Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) mufti, Shifa al-Nima was pulled from his hiding place by elite Iraqi SWAT team members in a raid on Thursday last week. The man was too large to fit in a police car and had to be put in the back of a police vehicle, wedged between a mounted machine ...

Anglican Bishop for Manicaland Erick Ruwona was arrested yesterday for corruption, fraud and abuse of office. He will appear before Mutare magistrate today facing these charges. Bishop Ruwona reportedly made all students enrolling in Anglican schools to buy bibles and hymn books or consider enrolling into other schools. The bibles were going for $800ZWL and this resulted in parents with ...

A nephew to the late former President, Robert Mugabe, Robert Zhuwawo has petitioned the High Court challenging the decision by the Ministry of Lands to reverse his offer letter for a 232 hectares farming plot in Zvimba. According to court papers, Zhuwawo said it was unlawful for the Lands minister to chase him out of the plot since he has ...

Local businessman Genius Kadungure, popularly known as Ginimbi, who recently imported a Bentley Continental GT motor vehicle has petitioned the High Court seeking an order barring the Commissioner-General of the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) from seizing the vehicle on the basis that its import duty was undervalued. According to court papers, Vehicle Theft Squad (VTS) officers accompanied by Zimra officials ...

Evan McLaurin-Nelson of California was arrested in Los Angeles on the 4th of January this year after attempting to kidnap a six year old Monique Pegram outside a pizzeria in Venice Beach. The startling surveillance footage, released by the Los Angeles Police Department, shows the would-be abductor about to grab the girl from her mother’s lap at around 7 p.m. ...

Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Norton Deport arrested four people yesterday in Norton who are accused of armed robbery and attempted murder.  The accused people, Privilege Damson (29), Casper Karuru (32) Stephen Mazambani (24) and Godwell Mukune (31) reportedly beat up and robbed Tendai Mugati of ZWL300, 00 and 40kgs of gold ore. The four, who were armed with 2 machetes, ...

An unknown gang pounced on a small farming village in the Pfigaru area yesterday where they assaulted, raped and murdered members of the same family. Two people are confirmed dead and three fighting for their lives in Chegutu and Harare Central hospitals after the gruesome attack which is now widely believed to have been motivated by gang-rape. The dead are ...