17 July: Harare Magistrates Court
STANFORD CHAMBURUKA (21) appeared before the court in connection with a guerilla attack two weeks previously on the home of Archbishop Cyril Papadopoulos of the Greek Orthodox Church, in Churchill Avenue East, Salisbury. The house was attacked with small arms and rocket fire in the early hours of 4 July.
Neither the Archbishop nor his two sisters, who were in the house at the time, were injured in the attack.
The accused was not asked to plead and was remanded in custody until the end of the month. The state's case alleges that he had accompanied a guerilla to the Archbishop's house on 4 July
17 July: Bulawayo
LOVEMORE ZISWA, a resident of the Shangani area of West Nicholson, was due to appear on charges of assisting guerillas. He was arrested at the end of April and held in Grey Street prison, Bulawayo.
27 July: Harare Magistrates Court
BERNARD NYAKUWA (phonetic), described as a trained guerilla operating under the alias of Johnny Hondo, was charged with murder and acts of terrorism. The accused, who was wounded and captured during a recent contact with security forces in the Mtoko area, is alleged to have manufactured a time-bomb which detonated in a sanitary lane between Sinoia and Victoria Streets, Salisbury, in April, and to have been responsible for a time-bomb blast at Sunray store, Mrewa, in early May.
An appeal by JACOB GIDEON RASHAYI against a total prison sentence of 26 years imposed on four counts relating to acts of terrorism was dismissed on 16 March. The accused had been convicted by the Salisbury Regional Court on 26 January, on charges of accompanying guerillas to rob and burn stores in the Chiredzi area at the end of 1977.
