: As will be seen below, the applicants were arrested at different times. They equally appeared for remand procedures in the Magistrates court separately. They however face the same charges. I heard their applications for bail separately and dismissed them. I gave my reasons ex tempore. On 8 January 2024, their counsel Mr Kavhumbura requested through the registrar of this court that I avail my full written reasons for those decisions in order for him to properly advise his clients. More
The accused was on 9 October 2021 charged with and convicted of unlawfully possession of two plastic satchets of dagga which weighed a combined 95 grammes. It was alleged that on 8 October 2021, at a home in Nharira, Norton, the accused was arrested while in unlawful possession of the two satchets of dagga. More
The argument which resulted in the death of Onisimo Mavhungire stemmed from a misunderstanding which the deceased had with a commercial sex worker at some beerhall in Chivhu. Ashton intervened. The insinuations are that young as he is, he also intended to hire the services of the same woman. She was a lot older than him. That the young man wanted to have sexual intercourse with someone approximating his mother’s age demonstrates the depth of love or more accurately, the bravery and possibly the depravity that today’s generation has. He and Kuda had been drinking. Most probably, they gathered Dutch-courage... More
Prosecution alleged in this murder trial, that the three accused persons Ashton Tadiwanashe Mandaza (first accused), Kudakwashe Machingauta (second accused and Taurai Dzvova (third accused) contravened s 47(1) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23] (the Code) in that on 17 May 2022 at Chivhu Location Shops, the accused persons each or all of them unlawfully and with intent to kill or realizing that there was a real risk or possibility that their conduct may cause death but continuing to engage in that conduct despite the realisation of the risk or possibility, caused the death of Tazvivinga... More
: At the conclusion of this trial, our unanimous decision was that we must as we hereby do, find the accused not guilty and acquitted of the charge of murder he was facing. More
