Teacher in court for fraud

Answer Sithole
Efforts by a Mutare woman to acquire a plasma television set  hit a brick wall after she was conned of $414.
Mazvita Samanga (30), a teacher at Chirarwe Secondary School, is alleged to have told Portia Nyangani  that she was a trader who was into buying and selling and she could bring her a plasma  television set.
It is alleged that she told the victim she would buy her goods in Dubai but didn’t give her residential address and is believed to have done the plasma deal at CABS bank Mutare at an unknown date and disappeared, until investigations were made about her whereabouts.

Samanga appeared before magistrate Mrs Sekai Chiundura at Mutare Magistrates’ Court on September 4, facing charges of extorting money from Nyangani.

She denied all the charges.
Samanga said: “I don’t even know the accuser personally and what she is saying never happened.”
The charges Samanga was facing were not supported by any evidence that points to the act of extortion, resulting in Mrs Chindura ordering the release of the accused on free bail and the matter was adjourned to September 17 for trial.