admincharges of theft and criminal defamation.
The two were arrested after being accused of possessing stolen data and publishing a defamatory story over Green Card Medical Aid Society.
They appeared before magistrate Ms Barbara Masinire who remanded them to December 12 on US$100 bail.
They were ordered to surrender their travel documents and continue residing at their given addresses until the matter is finalised.
They were ordered not to interfere with State witnesses.
Prosecutor Mr Tapiwa Kasema proposed that the Standard be barred from publishing stories referring to the matter before the court.
But Ms Masinire dismissed the application, saying Madanhire was only an employee and did not have powers to make final decisions.
He said the complainant, Dr Munyaradzi Kereke, founder of Green Card Medical Society, should seek recourse in civil courts on his request to stop publication of the stories.
Charges against Madanhire and Matshazi are being accused of stealing some private documents from Green Card Medical Aid Society.
The documents were on a desk belonging to Green Card Medical Aid Society’s acting Chief Executive Officer Mr Simon Tapfumaneyi.
Mr Tapfumaneyi had prepared the claims reports, financial statements and membership reports in preparation for a meeting with Dr Kereke.
It is alleged that Madanhire and Matshazi wrote a story containing false statements, which was later published in the Standard on November 12 headlined: “Kereke’s medical aid firm collapses”.
It is the State’s case that the two published that Green Card Medical Aid Society members had made claims of about US$121 000 when the company had collected US$87 600.
The paper reported that members of the medical aid firm were being turned away since it was failing to pay its creditors on time.
It reported that the Green Card Medical Aid Society was on the brink of collapse.
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