Crimes & Courts

Zandile Khumalo, one of the people that was in the house when Senzo Meyiwa was shot and killed, on Wednesday identified accused number two, Bongani Sandiso Ntanzi, as one of the pair of assailants that broke into the Khumalo family home and tried to rob them before the former Orlando Pirates goalkeeper was fatally shot.

The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) have named three of the four victims of a fatal road accident which occurred along the Harare-Mutare Road near the Mabvuku turn-off on Monday at around 0530 hours.

Zanu-PF Goromonzi West MP and aspiring candidate for Bikita South, Energy Mutodi is suing opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa and three others for US$5 million over what he says is a defamatory video circulating on social media purporting that the former Deputy Information Minister was torturing an opposition activist.

Former Deputy Mayor of Bulawayo, Gift Banda, appeared in a Bulawayo court, facing allegations of failing to fulfill his financial responsibilities towards his 13-year-old child, whom he fathered out of wedlock during a widely publicized love affair in 2009.

Police in Bindura, Mashonaland Central province are looking for Edmore Dube (22) in connection with the murder of 81 year-old Luiza Nyakata, who was attacked with a wooden log all over the body on Friday.