Eaglesvale headmaster up for over $870 000 fraud

THREE senior staffers at Eaglesvale High School in Harare, including the headmaster Naison Tirivavi, appeared at the Harare Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday charged with defrauding the institution of $873 840.

Tirivavi (60) is being charged alongside salaries officer Cheryl Botha (52) and bursar Charles Blessing Shokobishi (57).

The three were not asked to plead when they appeared before Harare magistrate Francis Mapfumo, who remanded them to October 30 this year on $1 000 bail each coupled with stringent reporting conditions.

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