The Respondent (plaintiff in court a quo) purchased 45 bags of 50kg PC 15 cement from N. Richards Rusape sometime in October 2017. The appellant who was employed at N. Richards agreed to look after the cement which the respondent was to collect later. The Respondent sent in One Nyakurima to collect some of the cement leaving a balance of 33 bags. Upon request to collect the outstanding cement the appellant was not forthcoming. The parties ended up convening a meeting with the manager of N. Richards Rusape. The appellant signed an acknowledgement of debt and committed to reimburse the... More
The appellant was charged with fraud as defined in s 136 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23]. The State alleged that on diverse fifteen occasions at Mutare Bottling Company, 18 Riverside Road, Mutare, appellant and his two co-accused acting in connivance and in association with each other unlawfully made representations to the complainant company by crediting various amounts of money into Ukuzenzele Marketing Enterprises’ complainant credit account purporting that Ukuzenzele had paid such amounts to complainant servicing its debts, intending to deceive complainant More
On Christmas day, 25 December 2018, the accused in the company of the deceased left Bethania Business Centre after some beer drinking. Along the way, they met up with Learnmore Chipangura who was in the company of his wife Anyway Tariro Nyamuponza, Ronald Phiri and the latter’s wife Tanyaradzwa Kachera when Learnmore Chipangura started to call the accused person by his nickname. The accused person started to shout at Learnmore not to call him by his nickname but he kept on doing so and a fight ensued. Learnmore then punched the accused who fell down and the accused then drew... More
Accused was arraigned before us charged with the crime of Murder as defined in s 47 (1) (a) or (b) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23] where it was alleged by the State that on 17 September 2017 and at subdivision 3 Larmour Estate, Old Mutare, Chief Mutasa, Penhalonga, the accused unlawfully caused the death of Blessing Kuipa by running over her thrice with a Toyota Corolla thereby causing injuries from which the said Blessing Kuipa died. The accused pleaded not guilty to murder.
The State and defence counsel produced a statement of agreed facts and... More
On 3 October 2019 at Munorwei Village, Chief Nyashanu, Buhera, all three accused who are siblings assaulted Kasirai Masawi using a log, catapult and stones all over the body leading to his death. They are now being charged with murder. More
