A 40-YEAR-OLD cashier at Midlands Christian College in Gweru has been arraigned before the courts on allegations of stealing $46 286 from the school coffers.
STEPHEN CHADENGA
Rumbidzai Gora was not asked to plead to the theft charge when she appeared before Gweru magistrate Judith Taruvinga on Friday.
She was remanded out of custody on $200 bail to today.
Allegations are that between January and November this year, Gora received $84 840 in tuition fees, but only banked $35 915 and converted $46 286 to her own use.
The alleged scam was only unearthed last month during an internal audit conducted by the private college, leading to her arrest.
In an unrelated incident, a 34-year-old Gweru man was on Friday sentenced to an effective 13-month jail term for stealing two 750ml bottles of cane spirits worth $5,50 each from a local supermarket.
Tawanda Sithole, a habitual pickpocket from Riverside suburb was nabbed as he walked out of the supermarket with the loot hidden in his trouser pockets.
