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Family acquitted of murder charges for burying prophet alive, in cleansing ceremony

Posted on June 23, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

A Muzarabani family accused of murdering a self-proclaimed prophet who had asked them to bury him alive during a cleansing ceremony have been acquitted by the High Cour appeared in court facing charges of murdering a self styled prophet, Shamiso Kamanya at Mazonde village under Chief Kasekete on the 30th of July 2012. They were acquitted by High Court judge, Justice Owen Tagu after the state withdrew the matter. The acquittal follows an application by Prosecutor…

After a fully contested trial, Cuthbert Dube is sentenced to 20 years in prison

Posted on June 23, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

Cuthbert Dube has been jailed for 20-year-jail for stealing copper cables and transformer breakers and selling them to unsuspecting customers in Harare. Dube aged 38-year-old man from Mkoba Village 1 had pleaded not guilty to two counts of contravening the Electricity Act, when he was arraigned before Gokwe-Kwekwe regional magistrate Amos Mbobo on Friday. He was convicted after a fully contested trial and sentenced to 10 years on each count and will serve an effective…

Assistant commissioner, petitions , Kembo Mohadi to probe Augustine Chihuri

Posted on June 23, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

An assistant commissioner in the Zimbabwe Republic Police, who successfully appealed against both his sentence and conviction for allegedly facilitating the release of a fraud suspect, has petitioned Home Affairs minister Kembo Mohadi to probe his boss, Commissioner-General of Police Augustine Chihuri, on allegations of corruption and crime cover-up charges for senior officers within the institution. Assistant Commissioner (Operations) Gideon Baloyi made headlines last year after being slapped with a nine-month jail term for allegedly…

‘SA Police rob VP Mphoko’s wife of goods worth over R1million’

Posted on June 23, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

Men pretending to be police officers attacked and robbed the wife of one of Zimbabwe’s Vice-Presidents and other passengers of money and goods worth over R1 million in Johannesburg this weekend. Zimbabwe has two Vice-Presidents. The vehicle in which Laurinda Mphoko, the wife of Phelekezela Mphoko, was driving was stopped at the corner of Barry Hertzog Avenue and Empire Road in Parktown on Saturday. Mphoko was on her way to the Oriental Plaza in Joburg…

Rwanda’s Intelligence Chief arrested at Heathrow under European Arrest Warrant.

Posted on June 23, 2015June 23, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

Rwanda’s Director General of National Intelligence and National Security , who also, previously served as the deputy Commander of the African Union Peace Keeping force in Darfur, was arrested at Heathrow Airport in London on Saturday under a European Arrest Warrant. The 54-year-old General Karenzi Karake, is an official, wanted on war crimes charges, who is also a member of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), appeared before London’s West Minster Magistrates Court where he was remanded in…

‘Tsvangirai won 2008, if he marched to statehouse he would have easily taken over’-Mutasa

Posted on June 22, 2015June 22, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

FORMER intelligence minister Didymus Mutasa has revealed for the first time that the MDC-T actually won the 2008 election by a narrow margin. Mutasa told the South African Sunday Independent newspaper that Zanu PF people were so shocked by the result that he, as security minister, rushed to protect President Robert Mugabe at the State House. The former Zanu PF secretary for administration added that they were “absolutely shocked” and had Morgan Tsvangirai decided to…

Prosecutor general, Johannes Tomana rules out resigning-‘Handiende!!’

Posted on June 22, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

Under fire Prosecutor General Johannes Tomana has dug in his heels declaring he would not be haunted into resigning from his post following his alleged gaffe over the age of sexual consent. Tomana last week torched a fierce storm after he was quoted as saying children below the age of 16 could legally consent to sex and marriage. He indicated his statement had been misinterpreted and politicised to force him out of government but vowed…

‘I knew nothing about gukurahundi as I was only, the speaker of parliament’-Mutasa

Posted on June 22, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

FORMER intelligence minister Didymus Mutasa has revealed his disdain for VP Emmerson Mnangagwa who is widely seen as the engineer of the demise of the Joice Mujuru faction to which Mutasa belongs. Mutasa told the South African Sunday Independent newspaper that Mnangagwa never won an election. “He (Mnangagwa) never won an election for that post. Mugabe appointed him, and he is not popular. He can’t win elections,” said Mutasa. Mutasa also revealed for the…

‘Grace Mugabe’s son ‘Russel Goreraza’ falsifies court submissions to escape jail’

Posted on June 22, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

First Lady Grace Mugabe’s first born son Russell Goreraza allegedly made misrepresentation at the Harare Magistrates Court over his marital status in a reported bid to walk away with a lenient sentence after being recently convicted of culpable homicide. Goreraza allegedly misled the court two weeks ago when he appeared before Harare provincial magistrate Vakayi Douglas Chikwekwe on a charge of fatally running over a city vagrant. However NewsDay claims that it has it on…

US $4 million disappears from war veteran’s pension and education fund

Posted on June 22, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

Mugabe’s Zanu PF regime, has initiated an audit of the war veteran’s pension and education fund in an investigation that seeks to determine what has happened to a whopping US$4 million which disappeared from the Zimbabwe’s war veteran’s pension and education fund. Currently, there are indications that the war veterans are furious due to non disbursement of their monthly payouts and education allowances for some months, a situation explained by the lack of funds. War…

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