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The weaponization of the law and relentless persecution of dissent in Zimbabwe's 'Second Republic'
THE persecution never appears to end. The recent arrest of and denial of bail to renowned journalist Blessed Mhlanga has brought a disturbing trend in Zimbabwe to the fore. Since the a...Published: 02 Mar 2025 at 18:09hrs | 360 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mamombe, Chimbiri trial date set
Harare regional magistrate Mrs Marehwanazvo Gofa has set September 19 as the trial date for Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri on allegations of insulting police officers.The two are facing charge...Published: 11 Sep 2024 at 12:19hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe's accomplices acquitted
Harare West legislator Joanah Mamombe was ordered to present her defense after the close of the State's case, while her co-accused Cecilia Chimbiri, Lovejoy Chitengu, and Stanley Manyenga were acquitt...Published: 14 Jun 2024 at 07:18hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Ruling in Joana Mamombe and others' case deferred
Harare Provincial Magistrate Mr. Taurai Manuwere has postponed the ruling in the case involving CCC legislator Joana Mamombe and her co-accused to June 13, as one of the defendants is currently taking...Published: 12 Jun 2024 at 06:25hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Lessons for Nelson Chamisa
UNIVERSITY of Cape Town-based constitutional law expert Justice Alfred Mavedzenge has rallied the Zimbabwean opposition led by politician Nelson Chamisa to take lessons from events in Senegal that res...Published: 20 May 2024 at 16:50hrs | 46 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa boasts of being Zimbabwe's 'CIO Godfather'
BY his own admission this week, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is the architect of Zimbabwe's brutal security system which has left a trail of human rights violations, abductions, forced disappearances ...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 06:46hrs | 3 | 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
Colonial masters say Mnangagwa's despotic rule is worse than Mugabe
MEMBERS of the United Kingdom's House of Lords have described President Emmerson Mnangagwa's so-called second republic as worse than that of Robert Mugabe in terms of authoritarian rule and repression...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 14:21hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
British House of Lords members says Mnangagwa is worse than Mugabe
British House of Lords members, who are life peers, including vocal former Labour Vauxhall MP for 30 years Baroness Kate Hoey, have gravely condemned exacerbating authoritarian political repression in...Published: 07 Jul 2023 at 18:40hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Joana Mamombe and Cecelia Revai Chimbiri not off the hook yet
While Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) lawmaker Joanna Mamombe and fellow party activist Cecilia Chimbiri were still busy celebrating their acquittal and freedom, the National Prosecuting Auth...Published: 05 Jul 2023 at 16:02hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's Mamombe and Chimbiri acquitted
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) lawmaker Joana Mamombe and fellow party activist Cecilia Chimbiri heaved a sigh after the High Court found them not guilty of faking their 2020 abduction.Th...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 17:17hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe's passport request dismissed
OPPOSITION legislator, Joana Mamombe currently facing a slew of criminal charges had her request for temporary release of her passport dismissed because her co-accused skipped the country after applyi...Published: 07 Jun 2023 at 06:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa dumps Gladys Hlatshwayo
CCC leader, Nelson Chamisa has reportedly listed five women that he said must have automatic entry into the parliamentary race for Harare constituencies which he deems safe.According to the so...Published: 28 May 2023 at 08:24hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Haruzivishe takes Sikhala's case to British Parliament
EXILED opposition activist Makomborero Haruzivishe took the matter of Job Sikhala's prolonged political imprisonment to the British Parliament on 19 April 2023, hoping to increase international awaren...Published: 28 Apr 2023 at 20:22hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe's passport application dismissed
The application by CCC Member of Parliament Joana Mamombe for the temporary release of her passport to visit Kenya for a training conference has been dismissed by Harare magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanj...Published: 19 Apr 2023 at 06:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's 'fake abduction' activist says still living in terror
A Zimbabwean human rights activist who alleges she was subjected to harrowing torture after she was abducted by suspected state security services said she still lives in terror des...Published: 26 Dec 2022 at 17:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe can't be re-admitted into Commonwealth without strict accountability mechanisms!
I always say Zimbabwe can be a most strange place to be - if only we lived in peace and prosperity, with our fundamental rights being respected as sacrosanct.When then President Robert Gabriel...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 08:56hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Lawfare bogs down CCC in courts
IT was a busy week at the courts for Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) officials, with Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala being denied bail for the fourth time in the case that he is being accused...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 17:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti files for ConCourt referral
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) vice-president Tendai Biti has completed giving evidence for referral of his matter to the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) on a charge of verbally assaulting a Russ...Published: 29 Sep 2022 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mamombe, Chimbiri get High Court relief
THE High Court has granted an application for stay of proceedings in a case where Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists Joanah Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri are being accused of allegedly filin...Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa activists abduction trial stopped
THE High Court has stopped the trial of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) members, Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri accused of faking their abduction before publishing falsehoods.This has ...Published: 26 Sep 2022 at 20:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa activist boycotts court
THE police now have leads on the whereabouts of one of the five CCC members who disappeared during their trial on charges of staging an illegal demonstration in Warren Park, Harare, in May 2020, the S...Published: 17 Sep 2022 at 06:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
CCC activists says Zimbabwe courts are biased
LAWYERS representing Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) MP Joanah Mamombe and fellow party member Cecilia Chimbiri have alleged bias by the courts in the way their case is being handled.This ...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:11hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe bid to stop trial fails
CCC members Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri yesterday lost their bid to stop their trial, where they now have to present a defence case, saying they wanted the High Court to review the magistrate's...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa activists 'disappointed' as freedom bid fails
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator, Joana Mamombe, and counterpart Cecilia Chimbiri were Monday left disappointed after the court threw out an application for discharge in a case of allege...Published: 13 Sep 2022 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa activists' have a case to answer,' says court
CHIEF magistrate Faith Mushure has dismissed an application for discharge filed by Citizens Coalition for Change members Joanah Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri who are being accused of spreading falsehoo...Published: 13 Sep 2022 at 06:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe, Chimbiri put to their defence as discharge application dismissed
A court in Harare on Monday dismissed an application by Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) duo Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri for discharge at the end of the prosecution case in their ongoing tri...Published: 12 Sep 2022 at 19:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe, Chimbiri ruling postponed
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) members Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri's ruling in an application for discharge has been postponed to Monday after the deputy chief Magistrate Faith Mushure fai...Published: 09 Sep 2022 at 19:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mamombe, Chimbiri fake abduction case winds up
THE deputy chief magistrate Faith Mushure is expected to hand down her ruling in a case Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) officials, Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri are being accused of fabricati...Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 17:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's Makomborero Haruzivishe snubs court, warrant of arrest issued
AN arrest warrant has been issued against Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist, Makomborero Haruzivishe after he failed to attend court Tuesday.Haruzuvishe is jointly charged with CCC ...Published: 06 Sep 2022 at 19:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
State closes case in Mamombe, Chimbiri 'fake' abduction
The state has closed its case in a matter in which Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator Joana Mamombe and her party comrade Cecilia Chimbiri are being tried for allegedly lying about their a...Published: 17 Aug 2022 at 18:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Police trying to cover up Mamombe, Chimbiri abduction'
POLICE have been accused of trying to cover up the abduction of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists Joanah Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri who were found dumped in Muchapondwa village in Bindur...Published: 17 Aug 2022 at 06:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC activists dismiss video evidence against them
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) activists Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri have dismissed video evidence from State witness Detective Chief Inspector Richard Muvhuro as "a story of ghosts" which...Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC duo dismisses video in fake abduction case
A LAWYER representing Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Joannah Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri yesterday dismissed video evidence submitted by the State linking the duo to charges of faking abduction ...Published: 28 Jul 2022 at 06:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Biti applies for third recusal of magistrate in a stalingrad move
In another bid to delay trial Tendai Biti today, for the third time, applied for the recusal of Harare regional magistrate Mrs Vongai Guwuriro Muchuchuti after she ruled that he should finish up his a...Published: 28 Jul 2022 at 06:34hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Susan Mutami saga: 'Mnangagwa must resign, or bring back Mohadi!'
SOCIAL media users have demanded President Emmerson Mnangagwa to either resign from office or bring back his tainted deputy Kembo Mohadi, who quit his job after a dramatic expose' of his sexual shenan...Published: 24 Jul 2022 at 10:06hrs | 43 | by Staff reporter
State plays video in CCC fake abductions case
THE State yesterday played one of the video footage extracted from Bon Marche Supermarket at Belgravia Shopping Centre in Harare, where CCC members Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri, accused of fakin...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Police are employed to defend Mnangagwa'
A POLICE officer stunned the court yesterday when he told Harare magistrate Taurai Manuwere that law enforcement agents were employed to defend President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Violet Kadiki...Published: 21 Jul 2022 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police officer testifies in trial of CCC members
ASSISTANT Inspector Tevedzerai Shonhai, who led a police reaction team from Warren Park police station in Harare on the day five CCC members allegedly staged an illegal demonstration during the lockdo...Published: 21 Jul 2022 at 06:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
State allowed to play incriminating footage in CCC case
A COURT yesterday allowed the State to play CCTV footage extracted from shops in Belgravia shopping centre in Harare where CCC members Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri, accused of faking their abduc...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CCC pair rejects incriminating video footage
CITIZENS Coalition for Change activists Joanah Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri, who are accused of faking their abductions, have rejected the submission of a video footage as evidence in their trial....Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe, Chimbiri seek to block damning video evidence
CCC members Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri, accused of faking their abductions in May 2020, yesterday mounted a bid to block the State from playing and tendering into court record CCTV footage obt...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
State witness admits to lying in CCC activists protest case
A-STATE witness in the trial of opposition MP Johana Mamombe and four others who are accused of violating COVID-19 regulations yesterday admitted in court that he lied while giving his statement to th...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Trial of CCC members opens
FIVE CCC members accused of staging an illegal demonstration in Warren Park, Harare, during the national lockdown in 2020, yesterday denied the charges when their trial opened at the Harare Magistrate...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe, Chimbiri demand original CCTV gadget
OPPOSITION activists Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri have demanded the original CCTV gadget used to extract footage that the State wants to put as evidence.They face charges of faking their...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 07:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe gets 48hrs to view incriminating CCTV footage
CCC members Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri have been granted two days to go through three sets of CCTV footage recorded in three businesses in and around the fast food outlet in Belgravia, Harare ...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 07:31hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe, Chimbiri seeks more time to view CCTV footage
CCC members Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri have requested the court to allow them two days to go through three CCTV footage that was recorded at businesses surrounding the fast food outlet where t...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 18:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe nailed by owner of the Mercedes Benz in fake abduction trial
NEW details emerged yesterday during the trial of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) members Joana Mamombe (Harare West MP), Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova who are accused of faking their abducti...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 06:49hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Fake abductions trial continues
TWO men who installed CCTV cameras at a food outlet in Belgravia, Harare, where CCC members Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri allegedly bought food late in the afternoon they allegedly claimed to hav...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 06:43hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Phone call records expose State
PHONE call records from Econet Zimbabwe have exposed possible State involvement in the abduction of two Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists in May 2020.A State witness, who is a secu...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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