Crimes & Courts

The January 16 shooting in Guinea Fowl, of Tatenda Munetsiwa by 52 Infantry Battalion soldiers who were reacting to a report of theft of copper cables, was a case of mistaken identity.

Nearly two months after a 16-year-old boy went missing from Crowborough, the mother is now receiving text messages demanding a ransom of R50 000 from the boy’s cellphone number, confirming the senders have his phone.

Police have arrested a Plumtree businesswoman and her two accomplices for allegedly beating a suspected burglar to death.

A Beitbridge magistrate on Thursday jailed for an effective four months two cross-border transporter operators commonly known as Omalayitsha who were arrested while facilitating the illegal migration of seven foreigners from Zimbabwe to South Africa.

Lisani Nleya the man in police custody for the horrific killing of his parents in Empandeni, Mangwe District in Matabeleland South Province, is said to have told close contacts in South Africa that he was going to kill them and bragged about how he did it afterwards.