TWO Malawian nationals intercepted at Forbes Border Post while carrying dagga with a street value of almost $1 million have been remanded in custody by Mutare magistrate Sekai Chiundura.

Alfred Manjakawana (37), a truck driver with South African-based company Zarren Transport, and Francis Sefu (29) pleaded not guilty to unlawful possession or use of the dangerous drug as defined in Section (157) (1)(a) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act Chapter 9:23.

They were remanded to May 13 for trial. Prosecutor Fletcher Karombe told the court that on April 28, 2016, police detectives in Mutare received a tip-off that there was a haulage truck en route to South Africa at Mutare Dry Depot suspected to be carrying dagga. The detectives swiftly reacted to the information and found the truck undergoing physical import clearance processes by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officials.

The duo indicated that they were carrying 1 200 bags of wheat bran from Malawi to South Africa. But their luck ran out during check process by Zimra as 38 bags of dagga were found underneath the wheat bags.

Source: NewsDay

A Zimbabwean accountant has been jailed for 12 years for fraud in the UK.

Evelyn Gore-Strachan, (41) stole £1,8 million over several years. She was jailed at Reading Crown Court. She had pleaded guilty to nine counts of fraud by abuse of position at the same court on January 26.

Gore-Strachan admitted carrying out four counts of fraud against Webtech Wireless and five against a company called Britannia Pharmaceuticals. She was charged with the offences in November last year. Between April 1, 2008, and December 31, 2012, while working as an accountant for Webtech Wireless, she defrauded the company of around £809,000 in total.

She did it by raising fraudulent invoices amounting to £130,983 payable to her own bank accounts. She also made fictitious VAT penalty notices worth £91,536 and diverted payments worth £370,737 due to HMRC in respect of VAT and PAYE to her
own accounts.

Gore-Strachan also diverted royalty payments worth £216,520 intended to be paid to a company called Globetrac to her own account. She later became a financial director of Britannia Pharmaceuticals and, between March 1, 2013, and June 30, 2015, she defrauded the company of a total of £1,000,614.

She diverted rental payments worth £189,563 due to Britannia Pharmaceuticals to bank accounts in her own name and made payments from the company worth £312,379 to bank accounts using false non-existent or genuine invoices.

She was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment for the four offences relating to Webtech and six years’ imprisonment to run consecutively for the five offences relating to Britannia Pharmaceuticals. Investigating officer, Detective Constable Stephanie Burleigh of Thames Valley Police economic crime unit, said: “This investigation uncovered deceit and fraud on a grand scale against two local employers.

“Evelyn Gore-Strachan betrayed the trust placed in her and abused her position to enrich herself and her associates.

“This has been a long and complex investigation and I trust that the conviction and sentence passed not only reassures our communities but also sends a message out that crime will not pay in the Thames Valley.” getreading

AFTER allegedly bedding his best friend’s wife,a city man was left with no option but to approach the courts for peace order for fear of his life.

All this came to light after Charles Bengeza hauled Carlington Zinyuwa to the Harare civil court accusing him of invading his peace.

“I am in need of a peace order your worship because Carlington is making my life a living hell.

“He comes to my house and work place all the time looking for me.

“This is caused by the fact that I had se_xual intercourse with his wife and I am afraid that he will do something to harm me for I do not know what he wants from me.


“All I want is for him to be barred from coming to my house and workplace without my invitation,”he said.
In response,Carlington did not dispute the allegations.

“Charles and I have been best friends since childhood but he betrayed me.I went to his house looking for him because I wanted us to talk things out.

“I want him to stop talking to my wife because he still loves her,”he said. Presiding magistrate Gamuchirai Sirwadi dismissed Charles application for failure to provide any form of abuse from Carlington.

Source-H Metro

A 24-YEAR-OLD thief who stole groceries valued over $1 300 from the newly-opened Choppies supermarket at Chitungwiza Town Centre spent the Christmas holiday in prison, after magistrate Tendai Rusinahama remanded him in custody to today for trial.

Emmanuel Gwai of Unit K, Seke, allegedly stole four bags of 10 kilogrammes of maize seed and five boxes of Protex soap from the supermarket a few days after the shop opened its doors to Chitungwiza shoppers.

Circumstances are that on December 22 at around 2pm, Gwai entered the newly-opened shop and collected the groceries from the shelves like any other shopper.

He loaded his loot into a trolley before trying to walk out of the shop.


However, luck ran out on Gwai as he was apprehended by Farai Silas Chadehama, a manager at the supermarket.

When quizzed on why he was walking out of the shop with a trolley full of unpaid for goods, Gwai produced a fake receipt.

The matter was reported to the police leading to his arrest.

Ntombikayise Nleya prosecuted.

Meanwhile, a 40-year-old farmer, who was hauled before the courts for failing to pay maintenance since July 2014, attributed his woes to climate change.

Lloyd Chou of 9833 Unit K in Seke said he was failing to realise anything meaningful out of his farming activities because of climate change, hence his maintenance arrears amounting to $2 400.

“I am realising a pathetic yield because I depend on rain-fed agriculture. I am not employed and I depend on farming,” he said, adding that there was nothing he could do to change his situation besides praying for the rains.

Chou said this when he appeared before Chitungwiza regional magistrate Tendai Rusinahama, who ordered him to pay $500 through the Clerk of Court by today.

Chou was also ordered to settle the remaining balance by January 31 or risk spending six months in prison.

Circumstances are that on January 21 2014 at Chitungwiza Magistrates’ Courts, Chou was ordered by the court to pay Angeline Mashiri $150 monthly for the upkeep of their two minor children.

He, however, failed to comply with the court order and is now in arrears of $2 400 from July 2014 to November 2015.

Mashiri reported the matter to the police, leading to his arrest.

Nleya prosecuted.

There was drama at the Mbare Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday last week when a police officer convicted of assault ran amok in court. Babra Chipatiso (28) went out of control when Mbare magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanje declared her guilty.

Chipatiso, who is stationed at Avondale Police Station in Harare, wailed uncontrollably, while refusing to leave the courtroom.

Prison officers had a difficult time trying to get Chipatiso to move and ended up cuffing her hands and legs. They then lifted her into a vehicle as she refused to walk.Chipatiso was found guilty of assaulting a community service officer at Mbare Magistrates’ Court in November this year.

Following the drama, Mr Mambanje ordered Chipatiso to be examined by two doctors to determine her mental state.



Mr Mambanje deferred the matter to today for sentence.Allegations are that Chipatiso throttled a community service officer Shingirai Matavire following a misunderstanding over community service records of an ex-convict, Solomon Mombeshora, who was convicted of culpable homicide in 2011.

Matavire’s supervisor told Chipatiso that the records she was looking for had been taken to the Harare Magistrates’ Court by the director of community service.

Chipatiso started shouting at Matavire’s supervisor accusing her of defeating the course of justice and detained Matavire’s supervisor preventing her from going to lunch.

When Matavire tried to intervene, Chipatiso throttled her.

Source-Herald

A 10-year-old girl was brave enough to remove her rapist’s mask during a rape ordeal only to discover that the perpetrator was her father’s best friend. The 32-year-old rapist was yesterday jailed for 16 years by Harare magistrate Mr Hoseah Mujaya. 

Mr Mujaya sentenced the rapist to 20 years and suspended four years on condition of good behaviour. Circumstances are that on September 21 this year at Skay Farm, Norton, the girl was alone on her way home from school.

As she approached a bushy area, she noticed a man sitting on the roadside covering his face with a blue T-shirt. Sensing danger, the girl took to her heels in the direction of her home.

The man started chasing her. He caught up with the girl and dragged her into the bush. Still covering his face, the rapist pushed the girl to the ground. In the midst of raping her, the girl was brave enough to pull off the T-shirt masking the rapist. She managed to identify him as her father’s friend.

She also managed to look at his chest and saw that he had a permanent scar and that the chest was hairy. On seeing that the girl was paying attention to details, the rapist started slapping her several times on the face and threatened to kill her if she sold him out. herald

An Epworth man was sentenced to an effective three-year jail term for illegal possession of a firearm, unlawful entry and stealing property worth $30.

In sentencing Pardon Chingono, Harare magistrate Tendai Mahwe, said he had taken into consideration the prevalence of housebreaking cases in the country and the danger to society posed by persons who unlawfully possessed guns.

“Firearms, which go into the wrong hands, are frequently used to commit serious offences and the courts should be seen to be giving deterrent sentences,” Mahwe said.

“You are sentenced to 15 months in prison for unlawful entry of which three months is suspended for three years and for the
second count of unlawful possession of a firearm you are sentenced to two years in prison making it an effective three years in jail.”



The magistrate further ruled: “The Grand Power pistol that was found in your possession shall be handed over to the police, who will give it to Safeguard Security when it proves it has the licence for the fire-arm.”

It was the State’s case that sometime in October this year, Chingono, who was not represented, broke into a house in Epworth and stole property valued at $30. When the matter was reported to the police, investigations led to Chingono’s arrest.

The police went and searched his residence and they recovered some of the property, but in the process also found a gun concealed in the house for which Chingono did not have a licence.

Source-Newsday

CHIVHU - Greater Life Embasy Church founder, Takura Gaadzikwa(31), who is facing charges of raping a member of his congregation has refused the allegations and insisted that there was consent to the extent that he had time to put on two condoms in order to avoid pregnancy.

Gaadzikwa who is popularly known as Apostole Try-Emmanuel by his followers further told the court he had consensual sex three times with the complainant who is aged 19.
He insisted that the two were lovers.

The complainant who stays in Egypt, Highfields in Harare, however told the court that she was raped once.
The court, led by Prosecutor Audrey Mupini, heard that sometime after the alleged rape of July 16 2015, the complainant sent a WhatsApp message to Gaadzikwa of Greendale in Harare and informed him that she had fallen pregnant.

Gaadzikwa disputed that and told the complainant that it could not be because he wore two condoms on the two occasions that they had sex.
He said although he did not wear a condom on the third occasion occasion, he used the withdrawal method to avoid pregnancy.

"I fell in love with the complainant in April, during the Easter holidays. We visited a lot of places together during our relationship. From Aprilto July, we have been sending love messages to each other via WhatsApp," said Gaadzikwa.

Both Beatrice and her sister confirmed that there were two packets of condoms that were found by the Police at the scene of the alleged rape.

It emerged in the court that Gaadzikwa has a pending bribery case at the Harare Magistrates Court.

The sister to the complainant told the court that Gaadzikwa, who claims to be a prophet, tried to lure them for an out of court settlement on the rape case.
"He gave us money but the money was immediately taken away by the Police to be produced as exhibit at the Harare Magistrates Courts," said the complainant.

Regional Magistrate Solomon Jenya remanded Gaadzikwa out of custody to December 10 2015 for jusdgement.

It is the State case that on July 16 201, Gaadzikwa drove his motor vehicle, together with the complainant for 20 kilometres along Harare-Masvingo highway before turning right towards Marirangwe Road to Caroline Wilderness Farm.

He later stopped the car at a bushy area, came out and told the complainant to follow him further into the bush.

It is alleged that he forcibly caused the complainant to lie onto the ground and removed her panties before raping her once.

After the intercourse, Gaadzikwa dragged the complainant back to the car. On their way back to Harare, he told the complainant to keep the incident a secret and to mantain their usual relationship of 'father and daughter'

Zifa president Phillip Chiyangwa is set to lose property from his Borrowdale mansion after the now-defunct Interfin Bank obtained a writ of execution against him to recover over $4 million in debts.

In a letter addressed to the Sheriff dated December 10, 2015, Interfin Bank’s lawyers, Sawyer & Mkushi, instructed the Sheriff to proceed with attachment of Chiyangwa’s property after paying attachment fees.

Part of the letter read: “We request you to attach and remove defendant’s property at the following address: 11 Crowhill Road, Borrowdale, Harare. Enclosed is the sum of $567 as per your request. Let us have your return of service once execution has been effected.”

Attached to the letter was also a writ of execution receipt showing fees paid by the lawyers in the sum of $97.

Last month, Chiyangwa and his businesses, Pinnacle Property Holding and Native Investment Africa, lost a case at the High Court and were ordered to pay the bank $4 060 110 after failing to defend the claim.

High Court judge Justice Lavender Makoni entered a default judgment against Chiyangwa after striking off the business mogul’s appearance to defend and his plea following an application by the bank’s lawyer, Antony Chagonda.

Justice Makoni ordered: “Whereupon after reading the documents filed of record and hearing counsel, it is ordered that: (1) 2nd defendant’s (Chiyangwa) appearance to defend and plea be and are hereby struck off. (2) Judgment with costs on a legal practitioner and client scale and collection commission provided for under the Law Society of Zimbabwe by-laws (1982) be and is hereby entered against 2nd defendant for payment of: (a) $2 000 000 being capital; and (b) $2 000 000 being interest.

“(c) $60 110 being bank charges and (d) interest on the sum of $4 000 000 at the penalty rate of 10% per annum over and above the rate of interest applicable to 1st defendant’s (Pinnacle Property Holdings) overdraft from time to time from the date of judgment to date of full payment.”

The bank claimed sometime in April 2011, it extended a credit facility of $2 million to Pinnacle Property Holdings and charged total interest of $2 million and bank charges of $60 110, thereby producing a total payable amount of $4 060 110.

The bank also sought an order compelling Chiyangwa to pay legal costs after having agreed with the bank to cover such costs in the event of him defaulting.

Don’t be lied to folks,size matters!if not,then why did Sihle Moyo(30) from Inyathi leave her husband of three months Mabutho Moyo(42)?

“I have a problem your worship.My husband has a small one and it becomes weak a few minutes after we start having s.ex.After that he falls asleep next to me,”she bared her soul at Inyathi Civil court as she sought a protection order against her husband who had also become abusive.

She added that it all began when he slept with a married woman a month after the two tied the knot.

“The problem started in late September after he slept out for two days.When we tried to indulge he failed .I then questioned him and he openly told me that he suspects that he got fenced after sleeping with a married woman whose husband is in South Africa,”she said.

In a bid to save their marriage they have been to herbalists but without luck.Now Sihle is s.exually frustrated.

‘How can I stay in such a marriage when I am s.exually starved?”she asked magistrate Stephen Ndlovu.

But when “the failure to launch” husband Mabutho took to the stand ,he blamed the issue on his wife.

“Although I told her that I got fenced by a married woman I slept with,I was told by a Sangoma that she(my wife) fenced me because she wanted to re-engage with her former lover,” he said.

The presiding magistrate Stephen Ndlovu,granted Sihle an interim peace order.He instructed the couple to go for counseling and come back on 18 December.

Source-B metro

A 38-YEAR-OLD Mt Hampden man will rue the day he bit his wife’s ear following a misunderstanding over food, after being slapped with an 18-month prison term for physically abusing his partner.

The convict, Chineka Tavengerwei, a general hand at Hydon Farm, will, however, spend only 12 months behind bars after six months were suspended on condition of good behaviour.

According to the State papers, the incident leading to Tavengerwei’s arrest occurred sometime in September this year at around 7am when he had a misunderstanding with Patience Gweme on buying food.

The court heard Tavengerwei was in the habit of leaving Gweme at home without food each time he went to work.


On the day in question, all hell broke loose, when Gweme asked Tavengerwei for food and the latter was not happy, but proceeded to assault her.

The court heard, while assaulting his wife, Tavengerwei hit her several times on the head with a brick before proceeding to bite her left ear.

The matter was reported to police leading to Tavengerwei’s arrest and conviction, but in a bid to fight for his freedom, Tavengerwei recently filed an appeal against both conviction and sentence at the High Court.

He submitted through his lawyer that the crime was “committed in the heat of the moment” and although his conduct should not be condoned, a custodial sentence was too harsh under the circumstances.

Source: NewsDay

There was drama at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts yesterday when a man attacked his best friend who had just wedded his ex-wife.Cosmas Kanhonho (40) told The Herald that he separated with his wife of 17 years Agness Manjese in 2011, after she caught him with a girlfriend, but was shocked to see her wedding his best friend Bothwell Danda at the court.

When The Herald arrived at the scene, blood could be seen in the court’s ground corridor. Sources said Danda bled from the nose after the attack.It is alleged that when Kanhonho attacked Danda, Manjese had gone to their car to get cash to pay photographers and came only to find her ex-husband Kanhonho attacking her new husband.

She told police who immediately arrested Kanhonho that he was actually breaching a protection order granted to her in March.

Manjese also told police that her ex-husband had actually breached the order before, but was evading arrest.Kanhonho, however, told police that Manjese was still his wife but they were just on separation.

“Danda is my best friend and I used to take care of him at my own house. I would sometimes give him money for rentals, little did I know, he was after my wife.

“We used to go together at Raylton Gym and I didn’t even suspect that he was evil. When I separated with my wife she took my car and $12 000 before taking a protection order against me and I believe this was caused by Danda,” fumed Kanhonho.

He said the incident came as a shock to him since he had come to court for another business.Danda said he met Manjese in April this year and they fell in love thereof.

“I met my wife (Manjese) in April this year in South Africa and I proposed love to her. We fell in love and we came here just to consummate our union. I was surprised when Kanhonho attacked me soon after we had been photographed. He is a sour loser, the wife is now mine,” said Danda, who suffered a split lip during the attack.

Source-Herald

NOTORIOUS Zanu PF activist and suspected CIO agent Fidelis Fengu, has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for pretending to be an immigration director and forging a letter for a Chinese man who wanted a residence permit.

He will however, likely spend an effective four months behind bars after the rest of the sentence was suspended for five years on conditions.

Magistrate Tendai Mahwe also suspended another four months on condition that Fengu restitutes the complainant by the end of this month.

Delivering his ruling Monday, magistrate Mahwe considered the fact that Fengu was family man with four minor children and a first offender.

The state led by prosecutor, Francesca Mukumbiri, said cases of people masquerading as immigration officers to dupe desperate residence permit seekers were on the rise and there was need to protect the community. She said a tough sentence could help deter potential offenders.

The state proved that between 16 and 23 July this year, Fengu received US$2,000 from Guo Nyongwei to facilitate the processing of residence permit on behalf of Shu Xiaofeng. This was after Shu’s first application to the immigration office was turned down.

Fengu and his accomplice, Francis Hungwe who appeared in court in August, then produced a fake document which they photocopied and gave to Shu. They lied that the document was issued by the immigration department. Shu then presented the document to immigration department in July not knowing it was fake. The matter came to light when verification was done.

Investigations revealed that Shu had been denied a permit and had a pending appeal. Shu then narrated what had happened, leading to the arrest of Hungwe who implicated Fengu.

The name Fidelis Fengu (FF) has been linked to several Zanu PF dirty games including mysterious deaths of senior party politicians — among them retired army General Solomon Mujuru and ex-Mines minister Edward Chindori-Chininga.

Notorious faceless blogger Baba Jukwa claimed that Fengu is the one who was allegedly tasked to kill both General Solomon Mujuru and Edward Chindori-Chininga.

Baba Jukwa also wrote on his page after former RBZ Governor Gideon Gono's farm was gutted by fire alleging that Fengu was responsible.

"Saviour Kasukuwere was already pouncing on him (Gono). He dispatched Fidelis Fengu and his team to go and burn down GG’s chickens to ashes. They wanted to hit where it hurts him most. The war to assassinate GG is now intensifying. GG ran away from the country some three weeks ago to Mauritius and came back to check how his things were moving only to be pounced at by the arsonist Fidelis Fengu," Baba Jukwa claimed.

What is of interest is that Fengu, who according to Baba Jukwa, was labelled a very dangerous man, has acknowledged that the Late General Solomon Mujuru did not perish in a natural accident. Instead, he unlike many other Zanu PF officials, believes foul play was involved. What is however shocking is that he clears himself of any wrongdoing but accuses the former vice president Joice Mujuru of allegedly having a hand in the death of her husband Solomon Mujuru who died in 2011 in a mysterious inferno.

But in July 2013, Baba Jukwa said he knew what exactly happened when Solomon Mujuru was "forced" to meet his creator. Baba Jukwa also accused Fengu of burning Gedion Gono's farm.

"What truly caused the death of Retired General Solomon Mujuru remains an issue of important national inquiry. Some of us who are in the know find it difficult to suppress that information and it is high time the truth has to come out," wrote Baba Jukwa in 2013.

But one Mbya Bvukumbwe said Fengu was in the best position to know who killed Solomon and he must not divert attention and information and further accused Fengu of abducting Itai Dzamara who has been missing for over half a year.

"Its more dangerous in that the person who killed Tongogara, Chindori Chininga... and who recently abducted Itai Dzamara is the person who killed Gen Mujuru," he said.

In fact, Fengu reportedly even told another Zanu PF activist, Energy Mutodi, that Itai Dzamara had skipped the country and was hiding in Botswana. How he got to know about that, nobody knows! Had these still been Baba Jukwa days, maybe we all would have been advised accordingly.