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Senior Court Reporter
A regional magistrate yesterday said he was not “comfortable” to rule on former Chitungwiza Town Clerk Godfrey Tanyanyiwa’s application for discharge until he watches a video which one of the witnesses claimed to have recorded. Tanyanyiwa is facing various counts of criminal abuse of office
Rapist teenager to be caned
Court ReporterA 13-year-old boy will receive five strokes of the cane after being convicted of raping a seven year old girl. The boy will be canned by a designated officer at the Harare Remand Prison. Chitungwiza magistrate Ms Sandrah Mupindu ordered that he receives corporal punishment since he did not
Police destroy thousands of pirated CDs, DVDs
Herald ReporterAbout 250 000 pirated copies of music CDs, DVDs and films were last week destroyed by police at Harare Central Police Station. The copies were seized during police raids in greater Harare following tip-offs from the public. Other items that went up in smoke included CD covers and sleeves.
Man kills lover’s kids, commits suicide
Chinhoyi BureauA JILTED Kadoma man reportedly killed his estranged girlfriend’s two children with poison, before taking his own life last Thursday. The man administered cyanide in the children’s freezits, before taking the dangerous chemical, himself. Manuel Dube (45) of Milverton Farm in Kadoma had a
80 more touts arrested
Crime ReporterPolice arrested 80 more rank marshals in Harare over the weekend as the crackdown on touts to restore sanity at ranks continues. Yesterday’s arrests bring to 546 the number of touts arrested so far. Harare provincial police spokesperson Chief Inspector James Sabau said the crackdown was
Pair narrowly escapes imprisonment
Court ReporterTWO Beatrice teenagers narrowly escaped jail for raping their neighbour’s five-year-old daughter after they were sentenced to a wholly suspended five-year prison term. The minors aged 15 and 16 denied the rape charges when they appeared before Chitungwiza magistrate Ms Sarah Mupindu.
Sugarcane farmers to rake in US$100m
Masvingo BureauAbout 1 000 resettled sugarcane farmers in the Lowveld will rake in at least US$100 million from their crop on completion of a cane fields replanting programme by Tongaat Hullet currently underway. The cane fields replanting and rehabilitation programme will be done over the next three years.
‘Tsvangirai to share property with Locardia’
Lloyd Gumbo Herald Reporter
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is officially a polygamist and last Saturday’s customary handover ceremony of Elizabeth Macheka endorses his traditional marriage to Locardia Karimatsenga, legal experts have said.
PM Tsvangirai’s planned white wedding to Ms Elizabeth Macheka was cancelled after the High Court on Saturday morning upheld an earlier ruling by the magistrates’ court in favour of Ms Karimatsenga’s interdict to stop the wedding.
Yesterday, Ms Karimatsenga’s lawyer, Mr Everson Samukange of Venturas and Samukange said his client was officially Mr Tsvangirai’s first wife, as recognised by the courts.
“Saturday’s ceremony with Ms Macheka actually recognised our client’s right as Mr Tsvangirai’s wife.
“As far as we are concerned, our client is still married to Mr Tsvangirai as his first wife. Ndiye amaiguru.
“Our client was never divorced. What happened yesterday (Saturday) actually allows Mr Tsvangirai to marry more women, but they will all know that there is amaiguru who is our client,” said Mr Samukange.
He said should the PM wish to divorce Ms Karimatsenga, they would have to share everything they acquired together.
Former Attorney-General Mr Sobusa Gula-Ndebele said under customary law union, the PM was allowed to marry as many wives as he wished.
“Customary law union allows one to marry more than one woman. If he married both women as we have heard from the courts and the newspapers, then he has them both as his wives.”
Mr Andrew Chigovera, who is also former Attorney-General said: “Customary marriage is potentially polygamous. If assuming the PM has some
PSC rejects ZOU graduates
Takunda Maodza Senior Reporter
THOUSANDS of teachers who attained a Diploma in Education from the
SA deploys soldiers to Marikana
MARIKANA — At least a thousand soldiers were deployed in Marikana on Saturday evening, the South Africa