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Mthwakazi 9 finally freed on bail
BULAWAYO High Court judge Justice Evangelista Kabasa on Wednesday granted bail to nine Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) activists who had spent several weeks at Khami Remand Prison facing public violenc...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 06:47hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Juveniles languish in remand prison
TWO Plumtree juveniles accused of murder are languishing in remand prison for a crime allegedly committed over a year ago as their case has been stalling at the courts. This was revealed...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 16:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nkayi chief taken to court over 'illegal' ruling
NKAYI traditional leader Chief Dakamela has been taken to the magistrates court by one of his subjects after he ordered that he be caned in public for assault.Tumelo Maphala was ordered to per...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 06:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
9 Mthwakazi activists seek bail
MINE members of the secessionist Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) will appear in court today for bail application following their arrest last week after they protested outside Bulawayo Central Police St...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 06:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Aliens' face challenges in registering to vote in Zimbabwe
Habakkuk Trust has hosted a Biometric Voter Registration roadshow in Bulawayo Ward 21 which houses one of the oldest communities in the city, Sizinda and Tshabalala, and has a significant portion of p...Published: 19 Jan 2018 at 10:28hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
MRP leader case postponed again
Mthwakazi Republic Party President Mqondisi Moyo's case has been postponed by Lupane court to another date amid indications he filed an application for discharge.Party spokesperson Mbonisi Gum...Published: 19 Oct 2017 at 07:30hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Mthwakazi leader's trial postponed
THE trial of Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) leader Mqondisi Moyo on charges of holding an unsanctioned meeting in Lupane, Matabeleland North province was postponed again on Monday due to the unavailsa...Published: 13 Sep 2017 at 08:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Court to deliver judgment on MRP leader Moyo
LUPANE provincial magistrate Ndumo Masuku is today expected to deliver judgment in a case where Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) leader Mqondisi Moyo faces charges of holding an unsanctioned meeting in ...Published: 31 Aug 2017 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Various factors will significantly impact the integrity of 2018 election-
The Platform for Leveraging Elections Democracy and Governance (PLEDGE) has said number of factors and processes could impact significantly on the integrity and credibility of the 2018 elections; issu...Published: 16 Jul 2017 at 09:26hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Supreme Court slaps down Mnangagwa
GOVERNMENT'S bid to stop the constitutional process of appointing retiring Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku's successor fell flat yesterday after the Supreme Court ruled in favour of the Judicial...Published: 14 Feb 2017 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matopo so called investment a set back to villagers- analyst
A social and political commentator Bekezela Maduma Fuzwayo has described what Agricultural Rural Development Authority (Arda) and Trek Petrolium regard as investment to Matobo villagers as a serio...Published: 08 Nov 2016 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Stephen jakes
Matobo land demonstration: 23 due for court
Police in Maphisa have formally charged 23 of the originally 40 villagers who were arrested before engaging in a demonstration in the growth point yesterday morning.17 others were discharged w...Published: 24 Sep 2016 at 09:13hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Matobo land demonstrations: 40 arrested
At least 40 people including MDCT Matobo senator, Sithembile Mlotshwa are in police custody following a foiled community land demonstration. Over two hundred heavily armed anti riot police off...Published: 23 Sep 2016 at 17:13hrs | 14 | by Staff Reporter
Matobo Villagers have every right to demonstrate against evictions
The Restoration Of Human Rights Matabeleland South is this morning working with the people of Matobo District who are being evicted from their villages to make way for the expansion of a government fa...Published: 22 Sep 2016 at 13:31hrs | 1 | by The Restoration Of Human Rights Matabeleland South
Zimbabwe police open fire as protests spread
Zimbabwe was yesterday tense and resembled a war zone, with police officers opening fire as they fought running battles with protesters in residential areas around Harare.The protests took...Published: 18 Sep 2016 at 10:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dozens arrested in Zimbabwe's fresh assault on citizens
ZIMBABWEAN authorities on Saturday 17 September 2016 arrested dozens of citizens including opposition political party legislators for allegedly staging anti-government protests across the troubled...Published: 17 Sep 2016 at 17:15hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Gwanda 15 released
Police in Gwanda have released the 15 people who were arrested in Gwanda this morning at a National Electoral Reform Agenda. The 15 were all released without charge after a high powered combin...Published: 17 Sep 2016 at 13:23hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Court frees Gwanda vendors for calling police officers corrupt
Gwanda magistrate Sheila Nyazombe on Tuesday acquitted two Gwanda vendors who had a feud with the police officers after calling them corrupt and deserving to be fired. The two Leonard Ndlovu a...Published: 15 Sep 2016 at 08:33hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Gwanda protesters freed on bail
TWO Gwanda activists, who allegedly taunted police officers labelling them as corrupt ahead of last Friday's foiled protest march, have been granted free bail and remanded to next Tuesday for trial....Published: 07 Sep 2016 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Arrested journalist admitted to hospital, under police guard
Bulawayo photographer Crispen Ndlovu who was arrested Wednesday for taking pictures of riot police beating activist Alfred Dzirutwe has been admitted to hospital. Ndlovu is under police guard,...Published: 01 Sep 2016 at 14:10hrs | 1 | by Thobekile Zhou
43 kids hospitalised after being teargassed in Bulawayo block of flats
More than 40 children in Zimbabwe have been admitted to hospital after inhaling teargas let off by riot police inside their block of flats in Bulawayo, a human rights lawyer has claimed.Th...Published: 20 Jul 2016 at 09:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo protestors granted bail
THE 88 protestors, including three juveniles, arrested following last Wednesday's nationwide stay-away, have been granted $80 bail each and are set to appear in court on July 21, 2016 to answer crimin...Published: 11 Jul 2016 at 13:38hrs | 1 | by Makhosi Sibanda
16 children arrested, detained over #ZimShutDown protests
BULAWAYO - Approximately 16 children have been arrested and detained together with 86 adults in connection with Wednesday's mass stay away in Zimbabwe dubbed #ZimShutDown.According to Abammeli...Published: 08 Jul 2016 at 11:49hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Coltart stands by his Gukurahundi remarks
Politician David Coltart, who is also a veteran lawyer, maintains that he stands by remarks contained in his book regarding what Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa is reported to have said in 1983, whe...Published: 27 Mar 2016 at 11:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland Region people must lobby for increase in number of science school
Abammeli Human Rights Lawyers Network official Tineyi Mukwewa has challenged the people in Matabeleland region to lobby for the establishment of more science schools so as to produce students who can ...Published: 02 Oct 2015 at 06:23hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
State security agents intimidating villagers
BULAWAYO Agenda, a civic society group, has said people claiming to be State security agents are intimidating villagers in Lupane, Matabeleland North, for attending their meetings.Bulawayo Age...Published: 28 Jan 2015 at 04:34hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Former mayor, deputy eye MDC-Renewal chairmanship
FIVE MDC-Renewal Bulawayo provincial members including former city mayor Thaba Moyo and his then deputy Amen Mpofu have reportedly shown keen interest in succeeding Kucaca Phulu as chairman.Ph...Published: 14 Jan 2015 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kucaca Phulu quits MDC-Renewal chairmanship
MDC-RENEWAL Bulawayo provincial chairperson Kucaca Phulu has reportedly stepped down from the post due to what insiders said was a conflict of interest stemming from his profession as a lawyer....Published: 07 Jan 2015 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nust castigated for demanding full fees payment to access lessons
The Southern Stars Foundation is appalled by the behaviour of the leadership of the National University of Science and Technology through its actions of denying students without full payment of regis...Published: 02 Oct 2012 at 10:37hrs | 1 | by Khumbulani Malinga
Meet the Man Behind Abammeli Human Rights Lawyer Network- Sindiso Mazibisa
Sindiso Shepherd Mazibisa (a lawyer by profession), and a Christian (End Time Message believer), was born on 16th April 1977 at Solusi Mission Hospital, in the then Bulilima Mangwe District in Zimba...Published: 15 Jul 2011 at 16:27hrs | 5 | by Prince Khumbu-Zindela Malinga
A portrait of Abammeli Human Rights Lawyers Network: Contributing to Change
Our name means "representative" or "Lawyer" in the isiNdebele language. As a human rights lawyers' network, it was important to have a name that communicates very clearly our nature as representativ...Published: 20 Apr 2011 at 04:43hrs | | by Kucaca Phulu
Zimbabwe exhumations are a Private Adventure!
THE ongoing controversial exhumations in Mashonaland Central, Zimbabwe are a private affair unknown to government, a High Court judge has said.According to a judgment by Justice Nicholas Mat...Published: 08 Apr 2011 at 04:23hrs | | by Byo24News
Abammeli argues the exhumation case, Judgement reserved
A Bulawayo judge on Wednesday reserved judgement in the application by the Zimbabwe People’s Liberation Army Veterans Trust which says the exhumations must follow a √¢‚ÇÂ...Published: 07 Apr 2011 at 07:48hrs | 2 | by Byo24News
Zipra Veterans Trust challenges exhumations
One of the top Lawyers in Bulawayo and a member of Abammeli Human Rights Lawyers Network Sindiso Shepherd Mazibisa says they (AHRLN) have been instructed by the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Z...Published: 31 Mar 2011 at 19:48hrs | | by Byo24News
UK Zimbabwe Immigration decision: Abammeli Human Rights Lawyers' view
The recent judgement handed down in the United Kingdom by an immigration judge and effectively stated that people of Matabeleland should be deported while those from other parts of the country s...Published: 18 Mar 2011 at 11:01hrs | | by Abammeli
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