TORMENTED journalist Hopewell Chin'ono will spend his third night in state custody after a Harare magistrate was Thursday forced to postpone the scribe's bail ruling when detectives brought him to court late. Chin'ono is facing charges of defeating the course of justice. The state, led by Audrey Chogumaira, said Chin'ono created a network with some National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) officers who would often give him inside information on the operations of the judiciary. Chin'ono was earlier arrested in July on charges of inciting public violence ahead of the foiled July 31 anti-corruption protests which had been organised by the opposition and civil society organisations. He went on to spend nearly two months in remand prison before being granted a $10 000 ba
A filabusi man has been arrested after he allegedly fatally struck his neighbour with a brick on the head after accusing him of drinking his beer without permission. Melusi Ngwenya (32) of Lunyame Village was not asked to plead when he appeared before Gwanda magistrate, Miss Lerato Nyathi facing a murder charge. He was remanded in custody to November 10. Prosecuting Miss Ethel Mahachi said Ngwenya was drinking beer with Mr Sibusiso Dube (28) and Mr Oliver Ndlovu (29) when a misunderstanding arose between them and Ngwenya struck Mr Dube with a brick on the head. “On 10 August 2019 at around 8PM Ngwenya, Mr Dube and Mr Ndlovu were drinking beer at Lunyame Business Centre. Ngwenya left his beer and went to relieve himself and left his beer behind with Mr Dube and Mr Ndlovu. When h
TENSIONS are running high in the structures of the Midlands provincial of the MDC Alliance after former Kwekwe Central MP, Blessing Chebundo led some senior party officials to secretly meet with MDC-T interim leader Thokozani Khupe and forge a unity pact. Chebundo, until recently, a staunch supporter of Chamisa, led a delegation of MDC Alliance officials who included some Kwekwe Town councillors, to a meeting with Khupe. Insiders said at the meeting held at Khayalethu Gardens, the councillors pleaded with Khupe not to recall them from the local council. Khayalethu Gardens is owned by Kwekwe mayor Angeline Kasipo. Dozens of MDC Alliance MPs and councillors have been recalled from Parliament or local authorities on the instructions of Khupe who said they were no longer MDC-T members.
OLD Citrus Farm in Chinhoyi owned by controversial businessman-cum-politician Phillip Chiyangwa was Monday afternoon turned into a war zone after illegal settlers stormed the property and disarmed firearms from two security guards before kidnapping and heavily assaulting them. The illegal settlers, numbering over 100 families, were evicted from the farm a fortnight ago after they had allocated themselves plots on land on owned by the property mogul. The farm measuring 3, 477, 46 hectares is at the centre of endless court battles between Chiyangwa and Chinhoyi Municipality. The families were kicked-off the farm by the Messenger of Court with help of police and suspected Zanu PF functionaries who unleashed violence, thereby forcing occupants to scurry for cover in the nearby mountai
Zimbabwe police have arrested investigative journalist, Hopewell Chin´ono on contempt of court charges, his lawyers said Tuesday. Chin´ono recently spent nearly six weeks in prison on accusations of supporting an anti-government protest. He was released on bail in September pending trial. Chin´ono is being held at a police station in the capital, Harare, said Roselyn Hanzi of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, an organization representing the outspoken journalist. He was charged with contempt of court for making a post on Twitter that allegedly impaired the dignity of Zimbabwe´s Chief Justice Luke Malaba, said Hanzi. If convicted Chin’ono faces a fine or up to one year in prison, according to the charge, she said. Chin’ono is one of Zimbab
FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa, who was fingered alongside her son Collins as owners of the gold bars weighing 6kg intercepted at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport last Monday, yesterday challenged the police to prove that she was an accomplice in the foiled attempt by businesswoman Henrietta Rushwaya to smuggle the mineral. Auxillia absolved herself and her son, and dared the Zimbabwe Republic Police to "clarify" how she was fingered by Rushwaya's alleged accomplice Gift Karanda (44), who told police detectives that the gold, worth over US$300 000, belonged to her and Collins. She also claimed her son Collins, was a "hard-working individual" and was not involved in any illegal activities. This was after a leaked internal police memorandum seen by New
Police are worried that Tafadzwa Shamba (40), the prime suspect and witness in the ritual murder of seven-year-old Tapiwa Makore (Junior), could be leading investigators on a wild goose chase owing to his suspected mental condition. xactly 46 days since the murder took place, police are yet to conclude investigations on account of Shamba’s “unreliable” and “incoherent evidence”. There have also been inordinate delays in releasing the results of forensic tests done on dismembered body parts recovered near the crime scene. Police detectives recovered the torso and legs, which are believed to belong to the deceased, and submitted them for DNA tests to ascertain whether or not they belonged to the minor. A head — believed to be of another minor &mda
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, who in March this year suspended the entire Masvingo provincial executive for fanning factionalism, has relieved provincial chairperson James Gumbi of his duties replacing him with former senator Misheck Marava on interim basis. Four provincial executive members were summoned to Harare for a hearing and only Gumbi was suspended. Provincial secretary for information Derrick Charamba, provincial secretary Erium Musendekwa and provincial treasurer Innocent Munhazo were reportedly pardoned. Gumbi, a man of means who helped fund party programmes in the province, told TellZim News he accepted the decision and will work with the new leadership. "The party is bigger than me and I was informed of the decision which I am going to follow. The party
IN another move to further disempower the MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa, the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T yesterday removed Hwange Central MP Daniel Molokele from the chairmanship of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Higher and Tertiary Education. Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda yesterday announced that Molokele had been removed and replaced by Lindiwe Maphosa, who crossed over to the MDC-T. Maphosa came into Parliament in 2018 through a proportional representation (PR) seat under the MDC Alliance party list. The other replacements that were made to chairmanship of committees were, however, of MPs that were recalled from Parliament recently. In his announcement, Mudenda said: “The MDC-T has nominated the following to be chairpersons of committees; So
An associate of Zimbabwe Miners Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya implicated first lady Auxillia Mnangagwa and her twin son, Collins, after Rushwaya was arrested for gold smuggling on Monday, it has emerged. An internal police memo seen by Zimbolive says after Rushwaya’s arrest at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport with 6kg of gold in her handbag, Gift Karanda tried to intercede on her behalf. Karanda, 44, allegedly told police officers that the gold Rushwaya was carrying “belonged to the First Lady and one Collins, a son to the First Family who was supposed to have brought it but due to other commitments had requested Rushwaya to transport it on his behalf.” Collins, who was previously linked to a Covid-19 procurement scandal involving US$60 m
