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Faith Zaba granted bail after 'Mafia State' Column lands her in court
Veteran journalist and editor Faith Zaba was granted ZW$200 bail on Thursday by the Harare Magistrates Court after spending three days in custody over a newspaper column in which she described Zimbabw...Published: 04 Jul 2025 at 10:49hrs | 252 | by Staff reporter
March 31 protest suspects denied bail
A group of 98 activists arrested on March 31 for allegedly participating in an anti-government demonstration have been denied bail and remanded in custody until April 24. The protest, reportedly organ...Published: 12 Apr 2025 at 09:10hrs | 52 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala details arrest drama in Penhalonga
National Democratic Working Group (NDWG) chairman Job Sikhala, a prominent activist and former MP, has recounted the events surrounding his arrest alongside 39 others during a meeting in Penhalonga, M...Published: 09 Feb 2025 at 16:34hrs | 1071 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ally granted bail after languishing in remand prison for 58 days
Former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator Amos Chibaya has finally been granted US$500 bail by the High Court.In his ruling, Justice Gibson Mandaza ordered the former Mkoba MP to d...Published: 23 Nov 2024 at 20:09hrs | 1143 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police ordered to release seized NGO gadgets
High Court judge Justice Neville Wamambo has ruled that the police must release all electronic gadgets seized from employees of the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) and the Election Resource C...Published: 08 Nov 2024 at 07:08hrs | 176 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF members use dead people's IDs to steal food aid
Some Zanu-PF supporters in Ward 19 of Zaka Central are up for stealing social welfare food aid by misrepresenting that they have more kids than they actually have, with them even using deceased people...Published: 24 Aug 2024 at 12:48hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
Ex-MP bail ruling date set
Former Budiriro legislator Costa Machingauta appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court on Tuesday, facing charges of inciting violence and disorderly conduct. His bail ruling is set for Friday,...Published: 21 Aug 2024 at 16:13hrs | 229 | by Staff reporter
'Ngarivhume was plotting protest'
A police detective testified in the Harare Magistrates Court that opposition leader Jacob Ngarivhume is a serial offender who would likely lead protests during the upcoming SADC summit in Harare if gr...Published: 11 Aug 2024 at 18:42hrs | 1609 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala faces new threats?
Veteran political activist Job Sikhala has faced relentless persecution since delivering a powerful speech exposing Zimbabwe's human rights abuses at the 16th United Nations Geneva Conference for Huma...Published: 24 Jun 2024 at 15:34hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Chibaya, 25 CCC activists trial continues
TWENTY-SIX Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists, including former MP Amos Chibaya and Costa Machingauta (Budiriro MP), appeared yesterday before Harare magistrate Sharon Rakafa on allegations...Published: 09 Apr 2024 at 06:20hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
CID request access into Takudzwa Ngadziore Facebook to unmask MP's kidnappers
Detectives investigating Takudzwa Ngadziore's abduction rang the CCC MP Friday requesting log-in details of the young lawmaker's private Facebook account ostensibly to draw some raw data in a viral vi...Published: 23 Dec 2023 at 10:09hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
CCC MP's warrant of arrest cancelled after showing up in court
CCC legislator Joana Mamombe appeared in court today and successfully had her arrest warrant revoked. Mamombe is currently facing charges related to fabricating abductions. The warrant was issued afte...Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 16:44hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police hunt for two suspects organising insurgency
Police have launched a manhunt for two suspects, believed to be CCC members, who are part of a group of political activists who are mobilising people to stage demonstrations under the guise of voter v...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 07:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Wanted Mkwananzi still to report to police
Police yesterday said they were still looking for former Tajamuka leader and newly appointed CCC spokesperson Promise Mkwananzi for defaulting court proceedings over a case of public violence he was f...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 06:50hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa must be arrested
Election Resource Centre (ERC) and Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) staff members and volunteers arrested on allegations of attempting to post the general election results have been free...Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 08:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Arrested ERC, ZESN observers ordered to lie on stomachs for three hours'
A Harare magistrate's court was Friday told of how 39 election observers seized Wednesday night by AK assault rifle wielding police officers were made to surrender their phones and passwords and furth...Published: 25 Aug 2023 at 19:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF cries foul
PARLIAMENTARY candidates for the Masvingo Urban constituency are crying foul over the illegal defacing of their campaign posters ahead of the crucial August 23 plebiscite.Three candidates; cur...Published: 04 Aug 2023 at 06:44hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
UZ students granted bail
FOUR University of Zimbabwe (UZ) students arrested two months ago for disorderly conduct were yesterday granted $500 000 bail each by High Court judge Justice Lucy Mungwari.The students were a...Published: 18 Jul 2023 at 06:23hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
'One year under arbitrary detention in my oppressor's prison'
Chikurubi Maximum Security PrisonChikurubi FarmHarareTo My DEAR Zimbabweans,Regional and Worldwide FriendsWhere ever they may be found14 June 2023DEAR Z...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 12:24hrs | 16 | by Job Wiwa Sikhala
CCC, Zanu-PF clash over violence
Opposition Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) Matebeleland North chairperson Prince Dubeko Sibanda was recently summoned by the police over a political violence incident that was recorded in Umguza....Published: 28 May 2023 at 08:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CCC, Zanu-PF activists clash in Umguza
CITIZENS Coalition for Change activists in Umguza, Matebeleland North province, clashed with Zanu-PF activists while conducting a door-to-door campaign as violence escalates going into the election pe...Published: 18 May 2023 at 05:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Minister's aide bashed for accusing Zanu-PF official of being a former MDC member
An enraged Zanu-PF District Community Coordinator chairman for Bulilima allegedly beat up ICT deputy minister Dingumuzi Phuti's aide who had accused the former of having been a member of the oppositio...Published: 15 Mar 2023 at 19:16hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Police summon, charge journalist over Mnangagwa 'escape' story
Leopold Munhende, a journalist with NewZimbabwe.com, was Monday charged by police for allegedly communicating falsehoods prejudicial to the State in a recent story carried by the online publication cl...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 17:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mahere reported wrong vehicle number plate to police
OPPOSITION Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson, Fadzai Mahere was quizzed Wednesday by officers from Chinhoyi Central Police Station's Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Law and Or...Published: 22 Sep 2022 at 06:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Bogus cop in hot soup
A 30-YEAR-OLD Bindura man who purported to be a traffic cop before demanding a bribe from an accident victim has been arrested.Ke...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 00:14hrs | 17 | by Simbarashe Sithole
CCC activists leave trail of destruction in Chitungwiza
MORE than 20 families are now homeless, businesses are still counting losses and schools have been shut down after CCC activists went on a rampage in the dormitory town of Chitungwiza on Tuesday night...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 08:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZimLive editor survives 'abduction' bid over Mnangagwa drink article
NewZimbabweVETERAN journalist and ZimLive editor Mduduzi Mathuthu has not returned to his Bulawayo home since Friday when individuals claiming to be police officers and driving unmarked vehicl...Published: 02 Jun 2022 at 06:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa challenger arrested
Zanu-PF activist Sybeth Musengezi, who challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ascendancy to the party presidency, was arrested yesterday on allegations of fraudulently acquiring the ruling party's ...Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:34hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
CCC members trial postponed again
A State witness at the trial of CCC activists Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri on charges of faking their abductions sometime in 2020 could not attend court yesterday as she was ill, forcing the mat...Published: 05 May 2022 at 07:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Police probes abducted MDC-Alliance activist
A 29-YEAR-OLD Masvingo MDC Alliance youth activist is under police investigation on charges of faking his own abduction barely a week ago, but the opposition party has rubbished the claims as ludicrou...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 20:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe's application dismissed
ACTING Chief Magistrate Mrs Faith Mushure on Friday dismissed MDC-Alliance members, Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri's application for the quashing of charges of faking their abductions saying she h...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe, Chimbiri seek exception
MDC-Alliance members Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri now want the courts to drop their charges of allegedly faking their abduction in May last year.Mamombe and Chimbiri, through their lawye...Published: 30 Dec 2021 at 07:50hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe trial moved to January
MDC-Alliance members, Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri, yesterday failed to appear in court for their hearing on allegations of faking their abductions sometime in May last year, after they both all...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:45hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Police hunt for 70 Chamisa supporters
POLICE have launched a manhunt for over 70 MDC Alliance supporters who engaged in a voter registration campaign in Chitungwiza over the weekend.Seven activists were arrested and yesterday, fiv...Published: 19 Oct 2021 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mamombe ruling tomorrow
MDC-Alliance legislator Joana Mamombe will know her fate tomorrow when the court is expected to make a ruling on State's application for the revocation of her bail on the basis that she failed to abid...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance MP case deferred to Monday
MDC Alliance legislator Joanah Mamombe, who is accused of defaulting on her reporting conditions, will know her fate on Monday after she submitted her evidence.The State is seeking the revocat...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cops in trouble for stealing tobacco bales
TWO top Marondera detectives who, after intercepting more than 100 stolen tobacco bales, connived with the armed robbers, sold the loot and shared the proceeds were last week arraigned before regional...Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 05:50hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Top cops in daring robbery
Two top Marondera detectives allegedly intercepted more than 100 stolen tobacco bales and connived with the armed robbers to sell the loot before sharing the proceeds.Tapera Bvunzawabaya (36) ...Published: 29 Aug 2021 at 07:20hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Matanga sued US$45,000 for wrongful arrest
A HARARE man, Phinias Nyambi has slapped Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe with a US$45 000 lawsuit over his arrest in 2019.Nyambi endured a month at Harare Remand Prison before he w...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 08:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean secrets leaked to a high profile sexivist
Zimbabwe has once again woken up to some Twitter messages sent by the ever attention seeking Susa Mutami. It is important to understand who Susan Mutami is. She is if you remember the official mistres...Published: 28 Apr 2021 at 07:04hrs | 7 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Susan Mutami slaps Kazembe with US$50 000 claim
CONTROVERSIAL Zimbabwean socialite and businesswoman, Susan Mutami has slapped Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe with a US$50 000 claim for unlawful arrest early this year.Also being sued ...Published: 26 Apr 2021 at 20:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Is secession the only thing that could free Matabeleland?
KALIQUNYE means "cut it" - in this case, cut the country, divide it. It is a demand for independence by the people of Matabeleland or Mthwakazi Republic Party.what the party is advocating for ...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 07:37hrs | 13 | by Thandekile Moyo
Mamombe, Chimbiri in fresh bail bid
MDC-ALLIANCE'S Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri launched a fresh bail bid on the grounds of changed circumstances yesterday. The prosecution is still opposed to the granting of bail on the g...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:14hrs | 9 | by Staff repporter
'Maldives 6' file US$300 000 lawsuit against Kazembe
THE six human rights activists who were arrested in 2019 on allegations of plotting to subvert a constitutionally-elected government after they attended a human rights workshop in Maldives have filed ...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi activists bail ruling on Friday
BULAWAYO magistrate Tawengwa Sangster is Friday expected to deliver his ruling in a case in which nine activists of firebrand opposition Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) are seeking bail following their...Published: 18 Mar 2021 at 17:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chin'ono arrested again
FIREBRAND journalist Hopewell Chin'ono has been picked up by the police again, this time for allegedly falsely claiming police in Harare had struck and killed an infant with a baton stick.Chin...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 16:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti slaps Russian woman with $15 million counter-suit
MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti has filed a Z$15 million counter-lawsuit against a Russian woman who accused him of assault after calling her a "very stupid idiot," leading to his arrest last ...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 16:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti, MDC Alliance sued for US$1 million
PROPERTY mogul Ken Sharpe's Augur Investments is demanding USS1 million defamatory damages from the MDC Alliance and its vice president Tendai Biti for allegedly slandering his company on social media...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 07:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ZRP redeploys 84 senior cops
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has redeployed 84 senior police officers throughout the country.Commissioner Moses Magandi has been moved from Gweru to head the Criminal Investigations Department...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 23:09hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF government scoring own goals
This is pure and refined drama which is being exposed to the majority of Zimbabweans and must be rejected the people are being subjected to.At the time Zimbabweans thought the government was n...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 08:36hrs | 13 | by Leonard Koni
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