Bredenkemp faces US$4m fraud

Senior Court Reporter
BUSINESSMAN John Arnold Bredenkamp last week appeared in court facing fraud charges involving over US$4 million he allegedly swindled a fellow businessman in a loan agreement.

Mabika acquitted of stock theft

From Abel Zhakata in Mutare
SUSPENDED Zanu-PF Manicaland vice-chairperson, Dorothy Mabika, has been acquitted of stock theft and obstruction of justice charges she was facing.
Mutare magistrate, Mrs Sekesai Chiwundura, cleared Mabika of the charges yesterday as the defence counsel, Mr Tinofara Hove of Hove and Partners was about to call his sixth

Luck runs out for car robber

Innocent Ruwende Senior Court Reporter
ZEC chairperson Justice Rita Makarau’s registration book was allegedly used to cover up a car theft by a suspected robber who intended to sell a car they got from a heist.
Gilbert Zvaita (41) was not formally charged with unlawfully entry charges when he appeared before Harare magistrate Ms Anita Tshuma who remanded him in custody to July 19

Unlicensed kombi conductor jailed

Court Reporter
AN unlicensed commuter omnibus conductor who knocked down a nine-year-old girl, resulting in the minor sustaining a fractured arm and bruises was last week sentenced to an effective three months in prison.

Chairman acquitted

Court Reporter
AN MDC-T Chitungwiza Ward 24 chairperson who was facing charges of assaulting a relative of one of the party’s aspiring councillors, accusing her of forging names of people on the electoral college was last week acquitted.

Illegal voter registration backfires

From Abel Zhakata in Mutare
FOUR suspected MDC-T activists yesterday appeared before a Mutare magistrate facing charges of unlawfully conducting voter education without authority from the Zimbabwe Election Commission.

Tongai Muzenda: It runs in the family

Fortious Nhambura
It runs in the family. He is in politics to keep his late father Vice President Simon Muzenda’s vision for Gutu and the country alive.
Forty-seven-year old Cde Tongai Muzenda wants to leave an indelible mark on Gutu West and Masvingo.

MDC-T manifesto founded on crisis

Rangu Nyamurundira

Egypt is in renewed crisis, after we thought its “Arab Spring” had facilitated the return of democracy. The year-old democracy now sees the people embark on a new spring, albeit coup, against an incumbent democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, who is the product of their freely expressed political will.

Zanu-PF oils victory machine

Makomborero Mutimukulu

The Zanu-PF juggernaut can also be complacent, sickeningly complacent. Zimbabwe’s history is laden with examples of what the liberation party is capable of achieving when it pulls together in one direction.

No room for lone rangers

Johannes Chinotimba

The late outspoken Zanu-PF leader Cde Eddison Zvobgo used to warn fellow party members that no matter how much they are frustrated, quitting the party should never be an option. This was apt advice for those who recently filed their papers with the Nomination Court to contest as independents.

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