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Ex-CCC organizer jailed 36 months
Tineyi Mapepa, former Mwenezi district organizer for the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), was sentenced to 36 months in prison by Mwenezi Magistrate Conceptor Ngwerume on July 16. Mapepa, 46, was ...Published: 04 Aug 2024 at 15:53hrs | 813 | by Staff reporter
'Dzamara family cry for closure'
AMNESTY International (AI) has called on the government to come clean on the whereabouts of pro-democracy activist and journalist, Itai Dzamara, who was abducted by alleged State security agents and d...Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 05:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police, lawyers clash over calling of suspects
IN a world where police enforcement is strict and unwavering, one phenomenon that stands out as peculiar and debatable is whether or not it is right for police officers to phone suspects.This was ...Published: 06 Mar 2024 at 04:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Prison officer altered inmate's medical report to claim he's deaf and stall trial
An armed robbery suspect tried to stall his trial by getting a prison officer to alter a medical report to state that he had lost his hearing, a court heard on Wednesday.Witness Nyarupa, 44, o...Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 12:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Judge's sudden resignation opens a Pandora's box
FORMER High Court judge Webster Chinamora allegedly left a huge backlog of reserved judgments, with Delta Corporation continuing to haunt him despite his recent resignation, the Zimbabwe Independent r...Published: 25 Nov 2023 at 07:46hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Whistle-blower at Harare Magistrate's Court exposes rot
An anonymous whistle-blower at the Harare Magistrate's Court has written to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission and the National Prosecuting Authority raising red flags over disappearance of evide...Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 12:28hrs | 1 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
2 businessmen acquitted of US$1m fraud charge
HIGH Court judge Justice Pisirai Kwenda has acquitted a Harare businessman Offer Sivan and Cassandra Myberg of fraud allegations involving US$1 million that were levelled against them by a fugitive fo...Published: 26 May 2023 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must relinquish Ambassador At Large Angel's appointment
Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (ZIMCODD) has appealed to the Office of the President and Cabinet to immediately relinquish Ambassador At Large for Europe and the Americas, Uebert Angel of ...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 10:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: Eight years on, authorities yet to give update on the disappeared journalist and pro-democracy activist
Eight years after journalist and pro-democracy activist, Itai Dzamara went missing authorities are yet to give progress report on their investigation efforts to ensure his family receives justice, tru...Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 09:15hrs | | by APO/Amnesty International
WATCH: SADC artists release Robert Mugabe emotional song
Artists' from Zimbabwe, Zambia and Tanzania came together to release a sombre track in memory of the late founding father of the country Robert Mugabe on the 2023 edition of commemorating his birthday...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 06:49hrs | 7 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Police spokesperson subpoenaed to testify in Mahere police 'baby murder' tweet
Police spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi has been subpoenaed to court February 17 to give his testimony in a case in which Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson Fadzayi Maher...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 19:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala's video 'inciting violence' played in court
A STATE witness was Tuesday subpoenaed to testify against detained Citizen's Coalition For Change (CCC) legislator, Job Sikhala, over a video he allegedly uploaded on YouTube with the intention to inc...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa goes after ANC's Pule Mabe
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) is probing a company with alleged links to ANC spokesperson Pule Mabe over a waste picking tender it scored in 2017.This comes after President Cyril Ramaph...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 07:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF takes villagers to traditional court for bunking party meetings
SCORES of Hurungwe villagers were Monday summoned to appear before a traditional court to explain their continued absenteeism at Zanu-PF meetings and events.About 50 people, mostly Citizens Co...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Trevor Manuel is 'hypersensitive and entitled'
Television host and businessman JJ Tabane has told the Johannesburg high court that Trevor Manuel's urgent defamation lawsuit against him smacks of a "hypersensitive and entitled" individual.T...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 09:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
CIO imposters to appear in court for fraud
UNDERFIRE Kadoma Show Society (KSS) chairman, Patson Madera (pictured) has been subpoenaed to appear in court this Thursday facing allegations of conniving with two police detectives who masqueraded a...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 08:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kamambo refuses to represent ZIFA in fraud case
SUSPENDED Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) president Felton Kamambo yesterday refused to represent the country''s football mother governing board in a trial on fraud charges involving US$35 000 sa...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Prophets' drownings: Chief demands 20 cattle
Chief Makuni, Chaora Nicholas Musika (81), has summoned leaders of the Johanne Masowe eJerusalem Church to appear before his court today for desecrating the sacred Mhungumwe pool on the confluence of ...Published: 04 Nov 2021 at 06:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court judge to testify in Mubaiwa case
SUPREME Court judge Justice George Chiweshe is expected to testify in a court hearing where Marry Mubaiwa allegedly misrepresented to him when he was Judge President that Vice President Constantino Ch...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cop arrested for receiving money to influence magistrate, prosecutor
A POLICE officer based in Ruwa has appeared before Harare magistrate Dennis Mangosi facing criminal abuse of office charges after he allegedly received money meant to influence the magistrate to deny ...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Notorious robbers' trial stalls
THE trial of alleged armed robbers, who are accused of besieging gold miner and cleric Mathias Madziwanzira's home and stealing cash among other goods two years ago, failed to kick off again last week...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 08:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Magistrates warned against humiliating chiefs
Chief magistrate Mr Munamato Mutevedzi has warned magistrates against summoning chiefs to court to defend decisions they would have made at their courts, describing the practice as "disrespectful" and...Published: 17 May 2021 at 06:40hrs | | by Staf reporter
Econet unveils AI-powered Chatbot 'Yamurai' to enhance customer experience
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe has launched a customer service enhancing Chatbot named Yamurai, to empower its customers and improve their customer experience.Econet said the Artificial Intelligence...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 17:42hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Covid-19 grips six High Court judges
THE High Court in Harare has been thrown into turmoil after six judges and several officials were placed on quarantine after contracting Covid-19 or coming into contact with infected persons, it has e...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 16:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
New rules for lawyers, litigants
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba has announced that lawyers and litigants filing urgent chamber and bail applications at superior courts are no longer allowed to attend hearings to make oral representations ...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe court business suspended
Chief Justice Luke Malaba has suspended all regular court operations and scaled back other courthouse activities, with the Sheriff and Messenger of Court ordered to stop evictions and executions, foll...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 23:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Miner pleads with Mines ministry to resolve impasse
A MINER from Inyathi, Bubi district in Matabeleland North has pleaded with the Mines and Mining Development ministry to intervene and resolve his mine dispute with a private-owned company linked to fo...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 07:16hrs | | by Ngoni
The inscrutable Mr Trump!
*This letter uses American jargonIt took me sometime to figure out why the inscrutable, rascally US President Donald J Trump drives so many elites into a lunatic frenzy until I read a post fro...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 11:09hrs | | by Kenneth Mufuka
Kambarami 'back in office'
Ousted Deputy Mayor, Tinashe Kambarami is challenging his removal from office.Ousted Bulawayo Deputy Mayor, Tinashe Kambarami has challenged a High Court ruling that rendered his election into...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 18:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Poll ghost haunts Mnangagwa
A NEW case study done by exiled former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo, a political science professor, in collaboration with publisher Ibbo Mandaza, under his Southern African Political Economy Trust (...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Economic isolation is hindering Zimbabwe's transformation
Since the election of a new government for Zimbabwe one year ago, the administration of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, in which I serve, has begun reforming our land policies, changing laws, and commen...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 08:20hrs | | by Foreign Policy
An open letter to Magistrate Gladmore Mushove
It is our belief that you sit in court to deliver true justice to all who place themselves above the law, without you being influenced by any one in which-soever way or on tribal lines. Therefore magi...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 17:23hrs | 1 | by MLF
Chief Ndiweni judgment date set
CHIEF Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni together with his 13 subjects, who are facing charges of allegedly destroying a villager's property in Ntabazinduna, will know their fate on August 15. Ndi...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe takes offence at US posturing
GOVERNMENT has criticised the placement on sanctions of Zimbabwe's Ambassador-designate to Tanzania, Anselem Sanyatwe, and his wife Ms Chido Machona, by the United States on allegations that the forme...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 07:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa should release Chihambakwe, Dumbutshena commissions reports
This is the third in a series of a document on submissions made by chiefs from Matabeleland and Midlands provinces to President Emmerson Mnangagwa on the occasion of his meeting with them at the State...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chronicles of a Trial Observer
Observing a trial in Zimbabwe's courts is an eye-opening exercise to the commendable progress the Judicial Services Commission has made in addressing the key challenges that the sector faces as well a...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 13:06hrs | | by Richard Mugobo
Obert Mpofu subpoenaed again
NTABAZINDUNA Chief Nhlanhlayemangwe Felix Ndiweni's case of malicious damage to property was on Wednesday postponed after key witness, former Home Affairs minister Obert Mpofu failed to show up, promp...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 09:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mavhaire fined $20 for refusing to be subpoenaed
Former Energy and Power Development Minister Dzikamai Mavhaire has been fined $20 by Harare Magistrate Hosea Mujaya for refusing to be subpoenaed in court. He is expected to appear as a state ...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 16:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nyagura's term at UZ will not be renewed
SUSPENDED University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Vice Chancellor, Professor Levi Nyagura, is set to leave the institution at the end of this year and the institution of higher learning has since started hunting ...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Mugabe face subpoena over Grace's PhD
Suspended University of Zimbabwe vice-chancellor Levi Nyagura has insisted that the doctor of philosophy (PhD) degree he allegedly awarded to former First Lady Grace Mugabe single-handedly remains val...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 12:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nyagura blames Mugabe
Suspended University of Zimbabwe (UZ) vice-chancellor Levi Nyagura yesterday said he was being wrongly charged for illegally awarding former First Lady Grace Mugabe a PhD, insisting that the latter's ...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
State witness exonerates Mugabe's son-in-law
A POLICE officer who was called in to testify against, former President Robert Mugabe's son-in-law Simbarashe Chikore on charges of unlawful detention, has instead exonerated the former Air Zimbabwe c...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 06:56hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Mugabe son in-law case: Elusive witness worries investigator
The trial of former president Robert Mugabe's son-in-law Simba Chikore, who is accused of kidnapping his employee - Bertha Zakeyo - at Zimbabwe Airways offices, continued yesterday with the investigat...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu to testify in Ndiweni case
Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu, was on Wednesday issued with summons to appear before the Bulawayo Magistrates' Courts to testify in a case where he is accused of inciting a Ntabazin...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 18:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lawyer declines to testify against Mugabe's son-in-law
A Harare lawyer has refused to testify against former president Robert Mugabe's son-in-law Simba Chikore as a State witness to establish an essential fact of the Zimbabwe Airways senior staff row as w...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 17:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe son in-law trial continues
The trial of former President Mugabe's son-in-law Simba Chikore yesterday continued with an inspection in loco held at the secret Zimbabwe Airways premises in Chishawasha.Chikore's lawyer Jona...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 14:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chief Ndiweni's warrant of arrest cancelled
BULAWAYO magistrate Gladmore Mushove has cancelled a warrant of arrest he recently issued against Ntabazinduna Chief Felix Ndiweni for failing to appear in court last month.The court has set J...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 09:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Motlanthe's rushed report raises eyebrows
THE speed with which the Kgalema Motlanthle commission of inquiry into the August 1 fatal shooting of six civilians wound up its probe on Tuesday, compiled its executive summary and presented it to Pr...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Editorial - newsday
'Kasukuwere delaying day of reckoning'
The State has accused former Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere of boggling the court with frivolous applications in an effort to delay the commencement of his trial and his "day of reckoning."...Published: 29 Nov 2018 at 12:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chigumba's 'good sex' court case collapses
ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission chairperson Justice Chigumba did not turn up Wednesday for the trial of a Harare socialite accused of insulting her, resulting the latter walking away from court a free m...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 22:52hrs | | by newzimbabwe
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