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By Tendai Maronga Harare – A High Court Judge on Tuesday barred lawyers for a top official of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party charged with treason from using fake emails bearing the name of Attorney General (AG) Johannes Tomana to cross-examine a state witness. In a ruling that appeared to cripple efforts by lawyers […]
By Nelson Banya HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s High Court on Wednesday admitted disputed email evidence implicating opposition politician Roy Bennett in a plot against President Robert Mugabe’s government. Bennett, a white farmer and a senior official in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), faces a possible death penalty if convicted of illegal […]
HARARE – The trial of MDC treasurer-general and deputy Agriculture minister-designate, Senator Roy Bennett resumed at the High Court with the State producing a video of its star witness Peter Michael Hitschmann. In the video taken at Adams Army Barracks in Mutare, in March 2006, Hitschmann who was shown in leg irons was making indications to […]
MUTARE – A former soldier who was jailed for possessing an arms cache, was released on Thursday and vowed not to be a state witness in the trial of MDC Deputy Minister of Agriculture designate Roy Bennett in October. State prosecutors say Peter Michael Hitschmann is the key witness in the trial of Bennett, facing […]