Crimes & Courts

A company director who allegedly swindled at least 17 people of more than US$102 000 in a car import scam is being hunted by the police.

GUTU - Magistrate Mitchell Panavanhu has granted US$250 bail to Gutu Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) member Goodson Matanda (51), who is charged (case no GT321/23) with allegedly assaulting a Forever Associates Zimbabwe (FAZ) member.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has controversially awarded US$400 000 housing loans to all judges in the country, three months before elections, Nehanda Radio can exclusively reveal.

South African police have confirmed the death of one of the lead investigators into the daring prison escape of rapist and murderer Thabo Bester. Police said they were investigating the circumstances around the apparent death by suicide of 59-year-old Brigadier Jackson Mkhaulesi. He was found dead in his car on Monday.

Bloemfontein High Court Judge Phillip Loubser on Monday dismissed, with costs, Dr Nandipha Magudumana’s urgent application to have her arrest declared unlawful.