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ConCourt grants Umvutcha farmer's appeal over property caveats
The Constitutional Court (ConCourt) has granted an appeal to Alistair Michael Fletcher, an Umvutcha farmer, challenging a Supreme Court decision that overturned a High Court ruling regarding caveats p...Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 07:41hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Umvutcha farm dispute referred to Constitutional Court
LANDS minister Anxious Masuka has been taken to the Constitutional Court over a raging farm dispute in Umvutcha on the outskirts of Bulawayo.Farmer Alistair Michael Fletcher (81) is challengin...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:39hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
2 arrested for Umvutcha Farm invasion
Police have arrested two suspects in connection with the invasion of Umvutcha Farm on the outskirts of Bulawayo.The property has been in dispute for years after the Ministry of Lands allegedly...Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 13:43hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Panic as Kambarami's lawyer plots to collapse Bulawayo City Council
Former Deputy Mayor Tinashe Kambarami's lawyer Bruce Israel Masamvu of Masamvu & Da Silva-Gustavo Law Chambers has lodged a court application seeking to bar the City of Bulawayo from implementing ...Published: 26 Sep 2022 at 14:00hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Outrage over BCC parking funds
DELAYS by the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to use funds collected from Tendy Three Investment (TTI) to rehabilitate the city's roads has sparked outrage among residents.TTI is charging US$1 per...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
High Court blocks Umguza evictions
BULAWAYO High Court has ordered the Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development minister Anxious Masuka and the Agriculture and Rural Development Authority (Arda) to stop interfering wi...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
School in trouble over seized 'O', 'A' Level results
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has taken authorities at Fatima High School, Matabeleland North, to task for withholding Ordinary Level and Advanced Level examination results for two stud...Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nust student demands $1m for wrongful arrest
AN engineering student at the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) has filed a $1 million lawsuit against police and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) for unlawful arrest and pr...Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 06:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
NUST student off the hook
NATIONAL University of Science and Technology (Nust) student Panashe Vongai Sivandani has been removed from remand following her arrest for participating in the foiled July 31 anticorruption protests....Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
War vets face eviction
SEVERAL war veterans resettled at Umvutcha Farm in Umguza, just outside Bulawayo, have been served with eviction notices after the son-inlaw of former owner Alister Micheal Fletcher successfully chall...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 08:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cop 'insults' Mnangagwa
A POLICE disciplinary committee has dismissed an application for discharge filed by a Lupane-based officer who was arrested early this year for allegedly insulting President Emmerson Mnangagwa, by imp...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Businesswoman up for fraud
A BULAWAYO businesswoman has been taken to court for allegedly clandestinely selling her car, a Mercedes Benz worth US$28 000 to two different clients. Ms Vimbai Manemo of Khumalo suburb sold ...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 08:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Fuel shortages hit prisons
HUNDREDS of inmates detained in various remand prisons throughout the country have failed to attend court for trial due to the current fuel shortages, which have grounded the Zimbabwe Prisons and Corr...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa must rule' rant lands cop in soup
A LUPANE-BASED police officer has been arrested for allegedly insulting President Emmerson Mnangagwa and calling on him to step down in favour of opposition MDC leader Nelson Chamisa. Taison Hove (29)...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Withholding of results over fees unconstitutional'
THE High Court has declared unconstitutional the refusal by Ihlathi High School in Bulawayo to release results of an Ordinary Level candidate over outstanding fees and referred the matter to the Const...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 18:33hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Fraudster issued with warrant of arrest
A SUSPECTED fraudster in Bulawayo, Hillary Mhindurwa, who is allegedly involved in unlawful land deals amounting to $11 517 was yesterday issued with a warrant of arrest after he defaulted on appearin...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 06:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo 'land baron' out on bail
Bulawayo man who allegedly faked ownership of stands and conned four people out of $11 517 was last week granted $150 bail and remanded to October 4 for trial.Hillary Mhindurwa, represented by...Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 07:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chief Gampu sues ex-girlfriend over fraud
CHIEF Gampu, born Ashlel Sithole (73) of Tsholotsho, has taken his alleged former girlfriend to court, accusing her of swindling him of $34 900 in a house purchase deal.Soneliso Ndlovu (52) of...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Newly elected MDC Alliance councillor faces civil imprisonment
NEWLY elected MDC Alliance councillor for Ward Three and aspiring Bulawayo deputy mayor Mr Tinashe Kambarami has been issued with summons for civil imprisonment over a debt of nearly $40 000 in unpaid...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 08:54hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
$2 000 fine for breaking teen's v_rginity
A BULAWAYO married man who seduced his teenage ex-girlfriend into indulging in sex will now pay the woman $2 000 in seduction damages as compensation for breaking her v_rginity and refusing to marry h...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 07:26hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Rapist pastor takes case to Supreme Court
DISGRACED pastor and founder of Kingdom Rulers International Church in Bulawayo, Greatness Tapfuma (36), who turned a 16-year-old congregant into a sex slave, has approached the Supreme Court challeng...Published: 24 Mar 2018 at 09:04hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
False prophets under fire
A HIGH Court judge has blasted false prophets who use the Bible to perpetrate heinous crimes and hoodwink gullible and innocent people into believing in their bizarre teachings.Bulawayo High C...Published: 10 Mar 2018 at 09:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Babongile Sikhonjwa faces jail over debt
Popular Bulawayo socialite, stand-up comedian and radio presenter Babongile Sikhonjwa faces imprisonment if he fails to comply with a court order issued against him to pay outstanding money in rentals...Published: 11 Feb 2018 at 07:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Insiza South MP to pay $1 000 damages to assault victim
BULAWAYO High Court judge Justice Martin Makonese has ordered Insiza South MP Malaki Nkomo to pay $1 000 damages, in default, to his fellow party member, Norman Dlamini, after the latter accused the l...Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 09:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC senator faces jail over debt
OPPOSITION senator for Matabeleland South, Joyce Ndlovu (MDC) is facing civil imprisonment after a Bulawayo property owner sued her for outstanding rental arrears.Jitendra Investments (Pvt...Published: 02 Feb 2017 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
High Court reverses schoolboy expulsion for praying
THE High Court has ordered Roman Catholic Church-run Embakwe High School to re-admit an Ordinary-Level pupil who was expelled from the school for praying in an "unacceptable" Pentecostal way.T...Published: 22 Nov 2016 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
O-Level exam candidate sues school
AN Ordinary-Level pupil sitting for public examinations has taken Primary and Secondary Education Minister Lazarus Dokora and the Roman Catholic-run Embakwe High School authorities to court follow...Published: 14 Nov 2016 at 05:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA deportee stateless after Zimbabwe snub
A MAN who was deported from South Africa for allegedly violating the neighbouring country's immigration laws has found himself in a quandary after he was also declared an illegal immigrant in Zimbabwe...Published: 21 Jun 2016 at 09:31hrs | 1 | by Mashudu Netsianda
Judgment day for cheating wife killer
A man assaulted his "adulterous" wife with a knobkerrie before axing her to death after catching her in bed with his brother-in-law, a High Court judge heard yesterday.Bulawayo High Court judg...Published: 30 Jan 2015 at 09:42hrs | | by Mashudu Netsianda
Newly weds divorces after 5 days
IN what could be a Zimbabwean record, a couple wedded and divorced only five days later.The couple were married under the Marriage Act (Chapter 5:11) at the Bulawayo Magistrates' Courts on Ma...Published: 23 Jan 2015 at 06:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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