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Court visits Mugabe's 'grave' in exhumation case
Chinhoyi Magistrate Kudzanai Mahaso has granted village head Tinos Manongovere his request for an inspection in loco at the burial sites of the late former President Robert Mugabe, following a dispute...Published: 12 Dec 2024 at 06:58hrs | 2017 | by Staff reporter
Woman in court for poisoning pupils
A 37-year-old woman from Zvimba, Paidamoyo Makayi, appeared in Chinhoyi Magistrates Court on Saturday for allegedly attempting to poison her daughter's schoolmates. Makayi, who is from Murombe...Published: 11 Jun 2024 at 06:23hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe family fails to turn up for Robert's exhumation case
THE late former President Robert Mugabe's children yesterday failed to appear in court in a case where they are seeking to stop the exhumation of their father's remains.Bona Mutsahuni-Mugabe (...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 07:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chief who pushed for Mugabe's exhumation and reburial dies
CHIEF Chidziva of Zvimba, born Johannes Jenami, has died after a long battle with a kidney problem.He was aged 92.Son to the late chief, Gibson Jenami, confirmed the passing on of his ...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 21:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe exhumation appeal withdrawn
A HIGH Court appeal by the late former President Robert Mugabe's three children against a court ruling which barred them from contesting exhumation of their late father's remains was withdrawn on Thur...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cop crashes into Chief Zvimba's car
AN un-licenced police officer has been convicted for negligent driving after he lost control of his speeding vehicle and rammed into a traditional leader's car.Nomatter Enock (35), who is at Z...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bona wins Mugabe reburial case
HIGH Court judges of appeal on Thursday ruled in favour of the late former President Robert Mugabe's children who are challenging the exhumation of their father's remains for re-burial at the National...Published: 14 May 2022 at 06:17hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Glen Norah graves to be relocated
Over 40 graves are set for exhumation from an old cemetery in Glen Norah B to pave way for the construction of houses by private property developers.The exhumed bodies will be reburied at Gran...Published: 23 Mar 2022 at 05:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's children stand their ground
CHILDREN of the late Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe have maintained that the traditional leaders who ordered the exhumation of their father's remains have no legal right to do so.This emerge...Published: 18 Mar 2022 at 05:41hrs | 11 | by Staf reporter
'Exhuming Mugabe is playing with fire'
THE late former President Robert Mugabe's family has warned traditional leaders to stop "playing with fire" by pushing for the exhumation of their father's remains from his Zvimba rural home for rebur...Published: 18 Mar 2022 at 05:40hrs | 12 | by Staf reporter
Mugabe exhumation case struck off roll
THE High Court has removed from the roll a case where former First Lady Grace Mugabe is challenging an order to exhume the remains of her late husband former President Robert Mugabe for reburial at th...Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 06:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mashonaland chiefs demand change of title to kings
CHIEFS are lobbying government to urgently change the nomenclature of traditional leaders' titles from chiefs to kings.Chief Zvimba, born Stanley Urayayi Mhondoro, is leading the lobby....Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 06:04hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe tells of 'intense mental torture'
Robert Mugabe's widow says her family has been subjected to "intense mental torture" over attempts to exhume and rebury the late former president against the family's wishes.Grace Mugabe, 56, ...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:46hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Grace approaches High Court over Mugabe exhumation
FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe yesterday filed a High Court application seeking to challenge an order by a Chinhoyi magistrate to exhume the remains of her late husband, former President Robert Mugabe...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe's bitter, vengeful spirit decimating foes'
THE late former president Robert Mugabe's family claims his spirit is causing the death of his tribesmen who are at the forefront of the exhumation of his remains.Mugabe's body was buried at h...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:22hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe burial saga in bizarre twist
Former president Robert Mugabe's family says his spirit is fighting back after "mysterious" deaths and illnesses hit families of some traditional leaders that were pushing for the exhumation of the la...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:16hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Address motives behind Mugabe exhumation
THE case by the now late Chief Zvimba to have the remains of the late former President Robert Mugabe exhumed from his rural graveyard in Kutama village in Zvimba and be interred at the National Heroes...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe remains saga sparks debate
The controversy surrounding the late former president Robert Mugabe's final resting place continues to haunt the country as the battle now shifts to the courts.When Mugabe died, it took nearly...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 19:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe exhumation: Grace loses court case
FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe suffered another blow as a Chinhoyi magistrate threw out her bid for judicial review of Chief Zvimba's ruling ordering the exhumation of the late former President Robert...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 21:38hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe exhumation fight rages
Lawyers representing the family of the late former President Robert Mugabe have filed an appeal against a ruling by a magistrate that they could not challenge an order issued by a traditional chief to...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 06:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Grace challenges Mugabe reburial order
THE case of the reburial of the late former President Robert Mugabe's remains has taken yet another twist after his family filed an appeal against last week's ruling by a Chinhoyi magistrate dismissin...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told to stop Mugabe remains fiasco
PreSident Emmerson Mnangagwa must intervene to stop spirited attempts to exhume former president robert Mugabe's remains for reburial at the Heroes Acre, the late strongman's family has said.A...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 09:04hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Court okays Mugabe exhumation
A CHINHOYI magistrate yesterday gave the nod for the exhumation of former President Robert Mugabe's remains from his rural home in Zvimba after dismissing an appeal filed by the late Statesman's famil...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Matabeles to disown 'gukurahundi' sellout Chiefs, blood on your hands!
Confidential information on our hands confirming that some Matabele traditional chiefs have accepted bribes from the genocidal Zimbabwe government to assist it to impose its suspicious Matabeleland ge...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 11:07hrs | 11 | by Israel Dube
Chief who called for Mugabe's genocide reburial succumbs to Covid-19
A ZIMBABWEAN chief, who was spearheading the reburial of the late former President Robert Mugabe's remains, has succumbed to Covid-19 with some of his subjects claiming that the Mugabe ancestral spiri...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 06:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's remains could still be exhumed
THE government is pressing ahead with the construction of a mausoleum for the late former president Robert Mugabe, an indication that his remains could still be exhumed.Close Mugabe family mem...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe reburial saga: Grace speaks out
FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe has broken her silence over a ruling by a traditional court that ordered that the remains of her late husband and former President Robert Mugabe should be exhumed and re...Published: 09 Jun 2021 at 07:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's children move to block exhumation
FORMER president Robert Mugabe's children have gone to court to challenge a traditional chief's controversial order to exhume the late strongman's remains.Chief Zvimba last month stirred the h...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 10:09hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's family has already shared Robert's property
RELATIVES of the late former President Robert Mugabe say they have already shared his property following his death in 2019.In a wide-ranging interview, family spokesperson, Leo Mugabe, said it...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 08:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe exhumation and the legend of Chief Zvimba
I will not enter the debate on where the late Robert Mugabe's body must be buried or reburied.Hearing the debate raging in the media reminded me of the legendary Chief Matthew or Matewu Zvimba...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:53hrs | 2 | by Tererai R. Mafukidze
Honouring Mbuya Nehanda was a coup for Mnangagwa
We, from the Zipra side of the Zimbabwe nationalist movement, do not agree with President Ammerson Mnangagwa on many issues, but on the issue of honouring Mbuya Nehanda, reclaiming our history and rew...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:50hrs | 3 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Heroes Acre without Mugabe: incomplete history of Zimbabwe
Robert Gabriel Mugabe ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years from 1980-2017 and despite being shunned by many, the nonagenarian had managed to protect the country's legacy. The late President fast tracked ...Published: 29 May 2021 at 14:05hrs | 2 | by Tatenda Murenjekwa
Professor Madhuku, thank you!
Professor Madhuku,I have just finished an article that comprehensively commented on a legal position regarding the exhumation of Robert Mugabe. Your legal stance is commendable, the widow Grac...Published: 27 May 2021 at 05:47hrs | 17 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mugabe reburial order outrageous and unlawful, says Madhuku
An order for the exhumation and reburial of former President Robert Mugabe issued by a traditional chief this week is "outrageous" and "defies common sense and logic," constitutional law expert Profes...Published: 26 May 2021 at 06:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's family vows to challenge exhumation ruling
LATE former president Robert Mugabe's nephew, Leo Mugabe says the family of the once fierce ruler will challenge the ruling by a Zvimba traditional chief to have his uncle's remains exhumed and reburi...Published: 25 May 2021 at 13:28hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zvimba chief orders Mugabe reburial
A ZVIMBA traditional leader has ordered the exhumation and reburial of former State President Robert Mugabe at the National Heroes Acre.This is according to a letter by the defiant traditional...Published: 24 May 2021 at 18:41hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe exhumation saga sucks in Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been sucked into the exhumation of the late former president Robert Mugabe's remains saga after it emerged he chaired a high-level meeting of the deceased strongman's ...Published: 21 May 2021 at 06:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Grace snubs Mugabe's reburial hearing
FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe has failed to turn up for a hearing before a Zvimba traditional Chief's court after being summoned for burying her late husband and late former President Robert Mugabe a...Published: 20 May 2021 at 18:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
G40 resorts to voodoo conspiracies
When the weekly Standard newspaper published a story on 2 May 2021 to the effect that a Zvimba villager, Tinos Manovengere, was not happy with the burial of former President Robert Mugabe, G40 members...Published: 18 May 2021 at 06:42hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mugabe exhumation bid chief bribed, says Chidakwa
FORMER Mines and Mining Development minister, Walter Chidakwa has described the attempt to desecrate late former President Robert Mugabe's grave as a "shameful drama by money-mongers seeking undeserve...Published: 17 May 2021 at 18:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe to be exhumed as Grace gives up?
After seriously looking at the summonses chief Zvimba issued on Grace Mugabe the former First Lady one is left wondering does chief Zvimba understa"nds his duties. Zvimba District is a district ...Published: 14 May 2021 at 08:13hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mugabe's ghost torments Chief Zvimba and Grace Mugabe
The late president of Zimbabwe cde Robert Gabriel Mugabe has refused to exit the lime light. Now he has ignited a huge traditional problem for the nation and the world. Mugabe has proved to be a sourc...Published: 13 May 2021 at 21:54hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa wants poll charm from Mugabe's corpse, nephew claims
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is behind a bizarre push to exhume the remains of Robert Mugabe in the vain belief that his predecessor was buried with a mystic scepter, or "tsvimbo yaMambo" in the Shona...Published: 13 May 2021 at 18:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Hands off Grace, says the Mugabes
THE late former President Mugabe's family yesterday rubbished moves by a Zvimba traditional leader to summon former First Lady Grace Mugabe to appear before his traditional court on a charge of "impro...Published: 13 May 2021 at 06:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe petitioned over 'courtyard' burial of Robert
A Zimbabwean chief has summoned former First Lady Grace Mugabe to appear before a village court to answer charges of "inappropriately" burying the country's late former president, Robert Mugabe, at th...Published: 12 May 2021 at 10:46hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Fresh war erupts over Mugabe remains
A fresh war has erupted over the burial of the late president Robert Mugabe with a Zvimba villager dragging the erstwhile strongman's widow Grace to a traditional court over the matter.M...Published: 02 May 2021 at 08:52hrs | 8 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Dotito
Mnangagwa's utterances constitute a threat to free expression
MDC ALLIANCE leader Nelson Chamisa has dragged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to court over allegations of electoral malpractices, including abuse of traditional leaders among other issues.In an...Published: 30 Jun 2018 at 17:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Zanu-PF and chiefs sued
THE opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has hauled President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ruling Zanu PF party to court in the hunt for an order compelling them not to engage in electoral ma...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 16:06hrs | | by Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights
Mnangagwa, Zanu-PF and chiefs sued over electoral malpractices
THE opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has hauled President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ruling ZANU PF party to court in the hunt for an order compelling them not to engage in electoral ma...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 15:59hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Chiyangwa exposes chiefs
Zifa president Phillip Chiyangwa has described chiefs and village heads as his foot soldiers after he won the Zanu-PF primary elections to represent the ruling party in the Zvimba South constituency d...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 09:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
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