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Zimbabwe police charge protesting teachers with disorderly conduct and contravening POSA
ZIMBABWE Republic Police (ZRP) officers on Wednesday 19 December 2018 charged 14 leaders and members of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) with contravening the Public Order and ...Published: 2 hrs ago | 488 | by Stephen Jakes
Jonathan Moyo shreds Motlanthe report
"The Report of the Kgalema Motlanthe Commission is poorly written, badly reasoned and self-contradictory. It's the worst published Report by a Commission of Inquiry since 1980," Exiled Former G40 King...Published: 2 hrs ago | 2453 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Saviour Kasukuwere now employed by a Harare court?
The former Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Saviour Kasukuwere is currently doing clerical work that is issuing, receiving forms and settling matters for hearing at Hara...Published: 3 hrs ago | 3249 | by Collen Ncube
The Gukurahundi victims demand apology and compensation
Dear Editor, As we commemorate the Matebeleland and Midlands massacres conservatively put at over 20,000 civilians on 22 December our demands for a justice cannot be ignored. The sensele...Published: 3 hrs ago | 632 | by L Dube
Zimbabwe to abolish death sentence
Dear editor, This is a step in the right direction. This issue of abolishing death penalty is a bone of contention in most jurisdictions. Some jurisdictions which pursue Sharia law, will not e...Published: 3 hrs ago | 387 | by Njabulo
Mothlante Commission Report: Equating the victim to the perpetrator - MDC
The MDC notes the release into the public domain the report of the Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the Violence of 1 August 2018, which report has confirmed what we all knew that the military shot in...Published: 4 hrs ago | 1391 | by Jacob Mafume, MDC National Spokesperson
War vets sue ZBC
An organisation calling itself War Veterans Group has dragged the ZBC to court, alleging breach of contract. The group said it entered into agreement with the public broadcaster, to flight adv...Published: 8 hrs ago | 1955 | by Staff reporter
War vets demand $13.5 billion
The country's former liberation war fighters have put President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government in a tight spot by demanding monetary and non-monetary rewards at a time his administration could ill-af...Published: 8 hrs ago | 2943 | by Staff reporter
Chief Ndiweni faces arrest
Bulawayo magistrate Gladmore Mushove on Monday issued a warrant of arrest on Chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni (54) of Ntabazinduna after he failed to appear in court to answer to allegations of ex...Published: 9 hrs ago | 2225 | by Staff reporter
Kamambo reaches out to loser Chiyangwa
NEWLY-ELECTED Zifa president Felton Kamambo yesterday paid a courtesy call on his predecessor, Philip Chiyangwa, as he commences extensive engagement processes with football stakeholders, the associat...Published: 9 hrs ago | 918 | by Staff reporter
Miner lays contempt of court charge against Nyambirai
GOROMONZI miner Phillip Makanya has petitioned the High Court to charge businessman Tawanda Nyambirai with contempt of court for ignoring a court order barring him from interfering with his mining act...Published: 9 hrs ago | 304 | by Staff reporter
Killer army pilot jailed
AN Airforce of Zimbabwe pilot, based at Josiah Tungamirai Airbase in Gweru, who allegedly murdered his girlfriend, but was given free bail by a Gweru magistrate, has been remanded in custody to Januar...Published: 9 hrs ago | 1172 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's ex-minister fights default judgment
FORMER Health deputy minister Edwin Muguti, who was recently slapped with a default judgment for failing to pay over $13 600 in rental arrears for a property he allegedly left infested with pests and ...Published: 9 hrs ago | 333 | by Staff reporter
State admits lack of documentary evidence in Mandiwanzira case
The State yesterday conceded that it did not have some of the documented evidence needed to nail former Cabinet minister Supa Mandiwanzira, who is facing charges of contracting a company he had intere...Published: 9 hrs ago | 261 | by Staff reporter
Kamambo, Chiyangwa bury hatchet
THE newly-elected Zifa president Felton Kamambo yesterday extended a charm offensive to his predecessor Phillip Chiyangwa when he paid him a courtesy call at his offices in Harare and pledged to suppo...Published: 10 hrs ago | 710 | by Staff reporter
Ministry official off the hook
A Ministry of Mines and Mining Development official walked a free man after the court acquitted him of forging the signatures of a former minister and permanent secretary to authorise exportation of s...Published: 10 hrs ago | 314 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe colonial farmers to sue Jacob Zuma
Former South Africa president Jacob Zuma, facing 16 corruption charges and a demand to pay back as much as R32m in legal fees, may soon see his woes deepen from beyond the country's borders.Af...Published: 23 hrs ago | 3222 | by Staff reporter
Japajapa set free
CONTROVERSIAL MDC activist and businessman, Paddington Japajapa was on Monday set free by the courts after the state has dithered in its attempts to pin him on inciting violence allegations during the...Published: 23 hrs ago | 2286 | by newzimbabwe
Man claims maintenance from ex-wife
A HATCLIFFE man dragged his former wife to court claiming $300 maintenance for the upkeep of their three children.Nyasha Tanyanyiwa told the court he wanted Faith Joseph to help him take care ...Published: 23 hrs ago | 897 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest teachers again
Amalgamated Teachers Uninion of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) members have been arrested again on Tuesday after being released on Monday when the state refused to press charges against them. Nine members o...Published: 24 hrs ago | 1350 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Supa Mandiwanzira trial postponed again
The trial for former Minister of Information Communication Technology and Cyber Security Supa Mandiwanzira, who is facing charges of criminal abuse of office, has once more been postponed to this Frid...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 12:45hrs | 511 | by Staff reporter
Judicial independence non-negotiable
Judicial independence, which is critical for the sustenance of democracy, is under assault if developments at the on-going trial of MDC national chairperson Tendai Biti are anything to go by.L...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 12:43hrs | 272 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's mature politics
Given the rate at which MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa, has been touting about how much he has allegedly been soiling the party for ZANU PF, one would expect President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the revolutio...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 07:52hrs | 4362 | by Jasper Hloka
Kombi driver hits pedestrian, dumps body in the bush
A COMMUTER omnibus driver based in Harare allegedly hit a pedestrian in the central business district and took away the body under the pretext that he was taking him to hospital before dumping it in t...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 06:02hrs | 3290 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa sues council over assault
A HARARE man, James Chamisa, who allegedly suffered a severe battering at the hands of the municipal police during an operation to rid the city of vendors and touts, has petitioned the High Court, see...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 06:00hrs | 1336 | by Staff reporter
Gaddafi son refuses deportation from Zimbabwe to Libya
THE late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's adopted son, Abdallha Moussa Mone Yousuf Mouammare Aboutminiyare Al Gaddafi, who is detained at Harare Remand Prison as an illegal immigrant, was at one time d...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 05:58hrs | 1922 | by Staff reporter
Green bombers poser for Mthuli Ncube
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has given Finance minister Mthuli Ncube a fresh "headache" after its just-ended 17th annual conference resolved that government should reintroduce the national youth service p...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 05:56hrs | 3024 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's anti-graft prosecutor in bribery storm
ONE of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's anti-corruption special unit prosecutors, Zivanai Macharaga, has allegedly been accused of demanding a $20 000 bribe from a former Cabinet minister, who is facing...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 05:55hrs | 810 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate exposed on Mphoko matter?
FORMER Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko's son, Siqokoqela, has been freed from remand prison after successfully challenging the revocation of his bail by a Bulawayo magistrate at the High Court. ...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 07:15hrs | 2283 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa lies that he wants to concentrate on MP post
LOSING Zifa president Philip Chiyangwa claims the reason he withdrew from a re-run with new Zifa boss Felton Kamambo in Sunday's elections is because he wants to invest his time as a Member of Parliam...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 05:50hrs | 1039 | by Staff reporter
Ex-MP 'denied' sex, rights seeks divorce
FORMER Luveve-Cowdray Park Member of Parliament, Ntandoyenkosi Mlilo, has approached the High Court seeking the dissolution of his marriage to his wife of 11 years for allegedly denying him conjugal r...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 05:49hrs | 1521 | by Staff rpeorter
Lawyer wins $20 000 suit for wrongful arrest
THE High Court has ordered a Harare family to pay damages amounting to $20 000 to a lawyer it got arrested on unfounded fraud allegations. Mr Tinashe Zenda Hungwe, who was appointed executor t...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 05:45hrs | 533 | by Staff reporter
Doctors' strike legal, says court
The Labour Court ruled on Friday that the ongoing strike by doctors was legal.The Court threw out an application in which the Health Services board (HSB) sought to have the strike deemed illeg...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 20:50hrs | 2137 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa fingered in ZBC saga
Suspended ZBC head of news and current affairs Tazzen Mandizvidza's mounted after he wrote to Presidebnt Emmerson Mnangagwa reporting that his bosses were unfairly treating him. It has been revealed. ...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 17:52hrs | 5249 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ARTUZ teachers not charged, proceed with march
The state has declined to prosecute nine members of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ), who were arrested on Saturday while marching from Mutare to Harare.The teachers, w...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 17:04hrs | 879 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko's son freed on bail
FORMER Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko's son, Siqokoqela, has been freed from remand prison after successfully challenging the revocation of his bail by a Bulawayo magistrate at the High Court....Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 16:11hrs | 927 | by Staff reporter
Intercape driver arrested trying to skip border to Zimbabwe
South African police early today arrested the driver of an Intercape bus which killed nine Zimbabweans, among them a toddler, in a road accident near Polokwane on Friday last week.The bus was ...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 15:48hrs | 2411 | by STaff reporter
Chidhakwa magistrate recusal bid fails
An application by former Mines and Mining Development Minister Walter Chidhakwa to have Harare Magistrate Mr Nyasha Vitorini recuse himself on his case has failed.Chidhakwa through his lawyer ...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 15:43hrs | 367 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa declares war on 'secessionists': fire will be met with fire!
President Mnangagwa's angry outbursts at Zanupf conference on Friday shows without any modicum of doubt that Matabeleland restoration cause puts the fear of God in him and his cabinet.MLO is a...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 10:21hrs | 4846 | by Israel Dube, Secretary for Information and Public Affairs
Chiwenga threatens to 'pay back (for illegitimate verdict) in hard coin' - shoot to kill, no doubt
"Cde President, you personally stretched out your hand to the opposition after Zanu PF's July 30 landslide victory. But the opposition spurned that hand," said VP Constantino Chiwenga at the Annual Za...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 07:44hrs | 9323 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Open Letter to Motlante
Date: 15th December 2018 Mr Kgalema Motlanthe Chairman of The Zimbabwe...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 07:29hrs | 2592 | by The 1893 MHRRM-UK Leadership
Chamisa to humiliate Mudzuri?
The fate of MDC Alliance vice president Eng Elias Mudzuri will now be decided by opposition leader Mr Nelson Chamisa after the national council referred disciplinary issues against the former Harare m...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 05:44hrs | 4149 | by Staff reporter
The West judges Zimbabwe differently
The Western world judges Zimbabwe at a higher standard than it does other African countries, and that's not entirely a bad thing.The temptation is to demand that the European Union (EU) and th...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 05:40hrs | 3424 | by newZWire
Protesting teachers buoyant despite arrests
MEMBERS of the Amalgamated Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) have vowed to proceed with the salary caravan march today, despite their leaders being arrested and hauled before the courts.Nine ...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 05:23hrs | 1920 | by Staff reporter
Johane Masowe apostolic sect in land wrangle
JOHANE Masowe Echishanu Nyenyedzi Nomwe Church has approached the High Court challenging an order given to expelled church members empowering them to be the rightful owners of a housing co-operative f...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 05:22hrs | 528 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa rejects amendment to block Chamisa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF party has rejected a proposal from its affiliate, the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA), to raise the age limit for presidential asp...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 05:04hrs | 7230 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa is THE problem
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is no longer a factor in solving Zimbabwe's problems and neither is he worthy talking to over governance. He is a waste of time. For President Mnangagwa to dialogue ...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 05:01hrs | 2005 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Zanu-PF, MDC Alliance to share $8m
Zanu-PF and MDC-Alliance will share $8 million allocated to political parties by Treasury under the Political Parties Finance Act. Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube set ...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 04:53hrs | 1326 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwig evicts 18 families
Anna Kwavakona held one of her one-year-old twin babies in her arms while her other children clutched to her dress as she stood in front of a tent shelter perched by the roadside on the outskirts of B...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 17:01hrs | 5328 | by Staff reporter
Bev's pregnancy claim revisited
Singer Andy Muridzo says pole dancer Beverly Sibanda aka Bev's claim that she was pregnant with his child actually boosted his ratings contrary to what many people thought.Andy grabbed hea...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 14:20hrs | 2909 | by Staff reporter
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