Crimes & Courts

HARARE - The High Court will rule on Monday on whether jailed Zanu PF linked businessmen Moses Mpofu and Mike Chimombe can appeal their US$7 million fraud convictions to the Supreme Court.

HARARE - The trial of beleaguered Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries leader Walter Magaya on new rape charges set to run from 16-19 February is likely to open a Pandora's Box on the dodgy church which insiders say has deteriorated into a brothel where single and married women visited for prosperity gospel sermons, healing, sex and money.

HARARE - Testimony presented by the State in the High Court on Wednesday suggested that former Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi did not have direct legal authority to dispose of government property, with witnesses outlining that such powers rest with accounting officers within the civil service.

GWANDA - The High Court of Zimbabwe has been urgently approached to intervene in a dispute involving the alleged unlawful seizure of Vubachikwe Mine, amid claims that a group of Zanu-PF thugs forcibly imposed themselves on the mining operation without any lawful authority.

HARARE - A High Court dispute involving a US$105,000 property deal and a subsequent US$360 million cession has ended with the court cancelling an earlier order that forced the transfer of a Borrowdale Brooke property that the judge ruled never legally existed.