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By Mary Taruvinga HARARE West legislator Joana Mamombe and activist Cecilia Chimbiri will remain in remand prison after their bail appeal hearing was postponed to next Tuesday. High Court judge, Tawanda Chitapi said he was “yet to finish writing the judgement” and expects it will be ready by then. The two are being accused of breaching Covid-19 regulations after they allegedly held a press conference at Harare Magisrate’s Court during trial of a party activist. They have been languishing in prison for close to two months after their initial bail application was turned down. Their second...

By Staff Reporter PROSECUTOR-GENERAL Kumbirai Hodzi says he had no reason to return to law school as recently advised by High Court judge Tawanda Chitapi who had accused the public official of bungling a bail application case involving a notorious armed robber. Justice Chitapi on Thursday advised the Prosecutor General to go back to law school and familiarise himself with the country’s statutes. This was after Hodzi had allegedly messed up in a bail appeal in a case involving suspected notorious armed robber, Musa Taj Abdul, his accomplices Rudolph Tapiwa Kanhanga and Godfrey Mupamhanga. Bu...

A Zimbabwean sex worker accused of sleeping with a 13-year-old boy she met on a dating website was released on Z$10,000 bail by a High Court judge on Friday.

By Mary Taruvinga FIREBRAND MDC Alliance vice chairperson and legislator Job Sikhala has been granted $25 000 bail by High Court judge Tawanda Chitapi. Sikhala has been languishing in remand prison at Chikurubi for the past 20 days. He was arrested for allegedly publishing falsehoods in a matter involving a widely circulated WhatsApp video image claiming a baby strapped on its mother’s back was struck and killed by a baton wielding police officer who was enforcing the country’s lockdown regulations at a bus stop for Bindura bound transport. The Chitungwiza lawmaker claims his arrest was p...

By Mary Taruvinga JOURNALIST Hopewell Chin’ono has finally been granted $20 000 bail by High Court judge David Foroma after languishing in remand prison since January 8 this year. The judgement was delivered by High Court judge Tawanda Chitapi on behalf of Justice Foroma Wednesday morning. Foroma ruled that on top of $20 000 to be deposited with the clerk of court “conditions in ACC 72/20, his other pending criminal case will apply in this current case”. The journalist’s bail conditions require him to surrender his passport, to report to Highlands police station in Harare every Monday...