adminUpper courts on vacation
Senior Reporter THE country’s upper courts of law yesterday went on vacation and they will resume normal operations for the third term of the year on September 2. The Constitutional…
Election fraud culprits in custody
Tendai Rupapa Senior Court Reporter A Harare man who was arrested on allegations of committing election-related offences has been ordered to pay US$100 fine while six others were remanded in…
Grandpa (73) jailed for sodomy
Court Reporter A 73-YEAR-OLD man from Seke who sodomised his deaf and dumb eight-year-old grandson will spend the next six years behind bars. The man who blamed his actions on…
Hot chase over conjugal rights
Court Reporter AN elderly Harare woman yesterday told the court that she jumped over a pre-cast wall with her husband of 33 years in hot pursuit wielding a hoe after…
Unlicensed driver locked up
Court Reporter An unlicensed commuter omnibus driver who attempted to run over two police officers for stopping him at a roadblock in Chitungwiza was yesterday sentenced to an effective four…
Adulterous lover kills partner
Herald Reporter Police in Gweru have arrested an adulterous woman from Lower Gweru after she allegedly poisoned her 37-year-old boyfriend with the help of his friend and dumped his body…
In court for refusing to pay lobola
Fungai Lupande Court Reporter A Harare woman yesterday brought her live-in boyfriend to court so that he could be ordered to marry her after unsuccessful attempts to get him to…
Hubby tired of making police reports
Court Reporter A SENIOR citizen from Mbare almost brought court proceedings to a standstill when he demanded his stepdaughter to get out of the court room, accusing her of having…
US$25 000 lands engineer in the dock
Senior Reporter A SITE engineer of a construction company who allegedly hired out company equipment and pocketed the proceeds amounting to more than US$25 000 has appeared in court charged…
Special women’s seats round off National Assembly at 270 Members
Herald Reporter WITH the division of the 60 seats reserved for women and elected by proportional representation in each province, the final composition of the National Assembly is 197 seats…