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A light aircraft crashed in a remote mountainous area between Zaka and Bikita districts in Masvingo Province on Sunday morning, leaving the pilot dead and his wife seriously injured.

The National Prosecuting Authority of Zimbabwe (NPAZ) has filed an application at the Harare Regional Magistrates’ Court seeking to compel Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader Walter Magaya to enter a plea, citing a series of defence applications that have delayed the commencement of his rape trial.

The rape trial of prominent businessman and former Renaissance Financial Holdings banker Patterson Timba (59) has been postponed to March 13 by Kadoma Regional Magistrate Tandaridze Ignatius Mugova.

BULAWAYO - The High Court of Zimbabwe has dismissed an attempt by Jabulani Nkomo, son of the late Vice-President John Landa Nkomo, to claim ownership of three vehicles attached in execution of a US$62 975 debt owed by Astra Building Centre (Private) Limited, ruling that the matter had already been decided in an earlier case.

HARARE - The Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe has secured a decisive legal victory over a rival faction in a long-running dispute over its Mbare property, after the High Court of Zimbabwe granted summary judgement in its favour, describing the respondents’ repeated litigation as “vexatious” and without merit.