In a strange twist. Three of the four people arrested in Chiwenga cellphone robbery were not present at the robbery. One of the robbers has already pleaded guilty and is to be sentenced today.
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Key events for today
1. Mnangagwa to address war veterans at the national Sports Stadium
2. Lungu dies at Mediforum in Pretoria.
Trending Topics
1. Time Bank revises its $38 Billion proposal to the Zimbabwe government
2. Shoko slams Emmerson Mnangagwa Junior for sponsoring a new NGO, COZLWVA.
3. Sebastian Magacha slammed for neglecting his six year old daughter.
4. Kuda Mahachi, the former Warriors player, has been ordered by Bulawayo magistrate Shepherd Mnjanja to pay US$320 in monthly maintenance for his two kids. Mahachi was dragged to court by his ex-wife Marita Ndlovu who wanted US$620. But Mahachi is disputing the partenity of the younger child.
However, Mnjanja ordered Mahachi to pay for DNA tests after which the maintenance will either be scrapped or increased depending with the outcome.
3. Mzingwane High school congratulatory supplement. The school runs a bus service that servies two secondary schools and three primary schools. Headmaster is Stanley Tizora.
4. Magacha neglects daughter. he has been taken to the Harare Civil Court where the mother is seeking maintenance. he met the woman in 2018 and last contributed in 2023. Magacha is currently married and has a 3 year old child with his new wife. The woman is demanding $250 maintenance,
5. Gerald Mlotshwa leaves the SRC. Gerald Mlotshwa and his board have bid farewell to the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC). This follows the expiry of their second term on May 31.Prominent Harare lawyer Mlotshwa and his team were first appointed by then Minister of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation, Kirsty Coventry, on May 31, 2019 to lead the country’s sports regulatory body. The board included Allen Chiura, Colleen de Jong, Gail Van Jaarsveldt, Karen Mutasa, Nigel Munyati, and Titus Zvomuya. Eltah Nengomasha joined as director-general and an ex-officio member.
Business
1. African sun to sell it Caribbea bay Resort and Monomotapa Hotel as tourism collapses in Zimbabwe.
Africa
1. Duma Boko arrives in Las Vegas, USA. Botswana Newspaper Publishers Association slams Duma Boko
2. The JSE has fined AYO Technologies R500 000 for failing to disclose the terms of a settlement agreement with the PIC. The company has been trading under a cautionary since March 2023 due to legal proceedings between the company and the PIC and GEPF. The JSE said the company deprived shareholders of information.
Community
Notes
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Chiwenga
HARARE provincial magistrate Ms Ethel Chichera has convicted a man who stole cellphones worth over US$ 15 000 from a shop that is owned by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga’s wife, Colonel Miniyothabo Baloyi Chiwenga.
Succeed Mukaro pleaded guilty to unlawful entry charges and was remanded in custody until tomorrow for sentencing.
Prosecutor Ms Polite Chikiwa said on May 31st at around 1500hrs, Ossie Shone, the supervisor of the shop that is in Borrowdale, Harare, knocked off and secured the property by closing all windows and locking the door. He took the keys with him.
On the same day at around 1910 hours, Mukaro proceeded to the complainant’s shop and broke the front glass wall to gain entry.
He stole phones worth US$15 915 and went away.
On June 3, detectives received information that some cellphones that were suspected to have been stolen were being sold in Harare’s central business district.
Detectives located Blessed Luciano, a cellphone dealer. They managed to recover some phones from him.
It was established that the cellphones were part of complainant’s stolen property. They interviewed Luciano and he indicated that he had bought the cellphones from one Isaac Craig Chaza.
On the same day, detectives posed as potential buyers and lured Chaza. He came in the company of Strive Makangira, and the detectives also recovered some phones from him.
The detectives interviewed Chaza about the source of the cellphones and he indicated that Mukaro had given him to sell them on his behalf.
Chaza and Makangira led detectives to Joina City Mall, where Mukaro was arrested.
They also recovered some phones from him. More phones were recovered at his place of residence in Domboshava.
