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Mliswa, Zivhu case: Judgment reserved
The High Court yesterday reserved judgment in the case in which Norton legislator Mr Temba Mliswa wants the court to dismiss Zanu-PF Chivi North MP Killer Zivhu's defamation case against him for want ...Published: 7 hrs ago | 76 | by Staff reporter
The world of online casino gaming
The generation we belong to had just started to understand something known as computer games. Our generation that would rely heavily on entertainment watching Hanna Barbara's epic creation of Tom &...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 08:21hrs | 334 | by Staff Writer
Makandiwa prophecy appeal: Judgment reserved
A Harare business couple is still pursuing its civil claim against United Family International Church (UFIC) leader Emmanuel Makandiwa and his wife Ruth after it appealed at the Supreme Court yesterda...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:09hrs | 2942 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe defends $2m defamation suit
FORMER first lady Grace Mugabe has defended a $2 million lawsuit filed against her and her son Russel Goreraza by Lebanese businessman Jamal Hamed, who accuses the two of defaming him during a legal b...Published: 02 Nov 2019 at 13:33hrs | 7364 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youth league boss arrested for cop assault
Zanu-PF youth league deputy secretary Lewis Matutu lashed out at opponents on Saturday, hours after he was detained at a police station for several hours for allegedly assaulting a police officer....Published: 02 Nov 2019 at 13:33hrs | 2162 | by ZimLive
Obert Mpofu lawsuit headache for Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa faces a headache over the legal action taken by Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu against the party's youth league deputy secretary Lewis Matutu where the f...Published: 23 Oct 2019 at 17:59hrs | 18396 | by Staff Reporter
Naming and shaming corrupt Bigwigs is not enough: They ought to rot in jail - Nomboka
Responding to a question posed by this reporter during a live interview on ‘what should have been done by seating parliamentarians which they were apparently not doing to put an immediate stop to ra...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:24hrs | 433 | by Agencies
Buyanga sues Matutu over corrupt list
Zanu-PF youth league deputy secretary Lewis Matutu has been sued for defamation by businessman, Frank Buyanga.In summons filed with the High Court last Friday, Buyanga says Matutu named him on...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 08:57hrs | 624 | by ZimLive
Grace Mugabe fights diamond dealer lawsuit
Former first lady Grace Mugabe has filed notice that she will fight a US$3.9m lawsuit in which she is being sued along with her son Russell Goreraza and the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP).Diam...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 17:15hrs | 5733 | by Staff repporter
Jacob Zuma found guilty
Former South African former President Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Mhlanganyelwa Zuma has loss a court battle where Former Tourism Minister Derek Hanekom was suing him for defamation over a lawsuit wher...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 10:09hrs | 8922 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Harare City Council faces $7m lawsuit
HARARE City Council (HCC) faces a potential $7 million defamation lawsuit from Paulos Construction over an audit report which accused the company of fraud.Paulo Construction has hit back at HC...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 08:04hrs | 176 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa has nothing to fear from a free Press, unless ...
ANY hopes of media freedom that many people nursed when President Emmerson Mnangagwa ushered in his "Second Republic" have been dashed after the Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) Bill retained autocrati...Published: 31 Aug 2019 at 18:41hrs | 1039 | by Editorial - Newsday
Pastors' plot against Prophet Isaiah Sovi in Botswana exposed
The Office of prominent controversial Prophet Isaiah Brian Sovi has reported that it has unearthed a plot by some pastors in Botswana who are pushing for his immediate arrest or deportation when he ar...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 15:17hrs | 4210 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Smelly Dube sues The Mirror for $1,5m
Gweru businessperson Smelly Dube has taken a Masvingo-based publication, The Mirror, to the High Court demanding defamation damages in the sum of $1,5 million, accusing the paper of misrepresenting fa...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:59hrs | 1034 | by Staff reporter
Kamushinda's Metbank sues NSSA for $100m
METBANK has filed a $100 million defamation claim against BDO Zimbabwe Chartered Accountants and the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) as damages over alleged false reports about the financial...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:17hrs | 572 | by Staff reporter
'Apartheid spy' sues Zuma for R500,000
Former Cabinet minister and prominent ANC member Derek Hanekom is taking former president Jacob Zuma to court to the tune of R500 000 for defamation, Business Day reported. This follows a twee...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 09:01hrs | 1382 | by Staff reporter
Demining firm disowns injured soldier
THE Development Initiative (TDI) has denied claims by a former Zimbabwe National Army member and expert in explosive ordinance disposal (EOD), who said the firm dumped him after he got injured at work...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 07:53hrs | 691 | by Staff reporter
Matanga seeks to be excused from Grace Mugabe's US$4m lawsuit
Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga, who is being sued by a Lebanese businessman together with former First Lady Grace Mugabe in a US$4 million defamation lawsuit, has approached the High Court...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 09:26hrs | 720 | by Staff reporter
Icsaz lecturer's resignation opens can of worms
The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Zimbabwe (Icasz) is under the spotlight after a former lecturer, Last Mapuranga, quit his job alleging exam fraud and poor corporate govern...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 07:50hrs | 1621 | by Staff reporter
Zifa blames Chiyangwa
Zifa has laid the blame for the country's suspension from next year's Cosafa Senior Men's tournament on the doorstep of former president, Philip Chiyangwa accusing him of making a bid to host this yea...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:22hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga claims $10m from ex-girlfriend's mother for defamation
SOUTH AFRICA-BASED Zimbabwean businessman, Frank Buyanga Sadiqi, has taken his ex-girlfriend, Chantelle Muteswa's mother, Judith Muteswa, to the High Court claiming $10 million after accusing the latt...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 08:26hrs | 505 | by Staff reporter
ICC's draconian suspension of ZC raises questions
THE timing couldn't be worse. The suspension of Zimbabwe at last week's ICC annual meeting on grounds of government interference may be seen as long overdue by many, others will argue that the ICC has...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 07:55hrs | 190 | by Firstpost.com
Mugabe's minister wins 'corpse-dumping' lawsuit
FORMER Labour and Social Welfare minister Petronella Kagonye, who was slapped with a $500 000 lawsuit for allegedly dumping a corpse at a war veteran, Oswell Gwanzura's premises in Goromonzi, has now ...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:13hrs | 401 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi ordered to pay RTGS$100 for maintenance
VICE President Kembo Mohadi's son, Campbell Junior, was yesterday ordered to pay his ex-girlfriend RTGS$100 for the maintenance of "his" 11-month-old daughter pending a DNA test to ascertain the pater...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 10:05hrs | 641 | by Staff reporter
Cde Matutu vs Dr Obert Mpofu. Naming and shaming of corrupt people wrong
Whilst the actions of the ZANU Pf youth league has to be applauded, the Youth League must be very careful when naming and shaming corrupt officials, their colleagues or people.The law states i...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 19:31hrs | 4990 | by Njabulo
Muchinguri claims $1 million defamation damages from Daily News
DEFENCE Minister, Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has filed a $1 million suit against the Daily News for alleged defamation in a case in which the private paper published an article claiming her housing coop...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:34hrs | 3173 | by newzimbabwe.com
Matutu dares Mangudya, Rushwaya
THE Zanu-PF youth league has vowed to further expose Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya and the Zimbabwe Miners Federation boss Henrietta Rushwaya's alleged corrupt deals, and expose more...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 17:22hrs | 4480 | by Staff reporter
Why Zanu-PF youths are targeting heavy weights
Zanu-PF youths threw the cat among the pigeons recently when they released a list of alleged corrupt people that included senior ruling party officials such as Obert Mpofu and Prisca Mupfumira....Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 09:20hrs | 6279 | by Staff reporter
Matutu's corruption 'name and shame' backfires
THE Zanu-PF youth league's "name and shame" exercise of alleged corrupt people has backfired after Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya and Zimbabwe Miners Federation president Henrie...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 06:44hrs | 2012 | by Staff reporter
Zifa files $4m lawsuit against Mliswa
Zifa president Felton Kamambo and his acting deputy Philemon Machana slapped Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa with a $4 million lawsuit for alleged defamation.Mliswa is alleged to have...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 06:41hrs | 405 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo begs Chiwenga for out of court settlement
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga and the exiled former cabinet minister, Jonathan Moyo, have decided to settle their defamation battle which had escalated to the Supreme Court outside court....Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 16:38hrs | 11748 | by Staff reporter
Explosive Zanu-PF politburo meeting
ZANU-PF is poised for an explosive politburo meeting today following an exposé by its youth league, which on Monday named several top party members and Cabinet ministers as fuelling corruption and th...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 16:37hrs | 3043 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga haunts Jonathan Moyo
Former Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development minister Jonathan Moyo, who is battling to defend a $5 million defamation claim filed by Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga tw...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 07:36hrs | 12335 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe slapped with US$4m lawsuit
Lebanese businessman Jamal Hamed has approached the High Court demanding US$4 million from former First Lady Grace Mugabe in defamation compensation and damages to his three houses that she seized....Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 06:47hrs | 7952 | by Staff Reporter
MDC councillor sweats over $7 000 lawsuit
BULAWAYO MDC Alliance councillor Clayton Zana nearly had his property attached last week after he failed to pay US$7 000 for malicious defamation to members of his burial society.The incident ...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 09:26hrs | 1427 | by Staff reporter
MDC councillor sweats over $7 000 lawsuit
BULAWAYO MDC Alliance councillor Clayton Zana nearly had his property attached last week after he failed to pay US$7 000 for malicious defamation to members of his burial society.The incident ...Published: 15 Jun 2019 at 08:59hrs | 326 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa slapped with $10m defamation lawsuit
Norton MP Temba Mliswa (independent) has been taken to the High Court by BDO Zimbabwe boss, Ngoni Kudenga, who is demanding $10 million compensation for alleged defamation.The lawsuit emanates...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 08:07hrs | 1600 | by Staff reporter
Accountant demands $10 million damages from Mliswa
THE fight between Independent Member of Parliament for Norton Temba Mliswa and BDO Zimbabwe boss, Ngoni Kudenga has spilled to the courts with the later claiming RTGS$10 million defamation damages fro...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 20:02hrs | 3544 | by newzimbabwe.com
SA billionaire sues Botswana paper for R6.7m
The newspaper that published an article accusing Bridgette Radebe of interfering in Botswana politics and claimed that her brother Patrice Motsepe smuggled R22 million to influence succession politics...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 19:53hrs | 806 | by Citizen
Mliswa tackles business tycoon Billy Rautenbach
Norton legislator Temba Mliswa is headed for a faceoff with millionaire Billy Rautenbach over accusations that the business tycoon wants to evict members of the Joshua Nkomo Housing Cooperative from t...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 15:30hrs | 2291 | by Gibson Nyathi
Killer in bid to resuscitate Mliswa claim
CHIVI South legislator Killer Zivhu (Zanu-PF) has filed for rescision of default judgment by High Court Justice Tawanda Chitapi, which dismissed his $1 million defamation claim against Norton MP, Temb...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 07:53hrs | 1026 | by Staff reporter
Court throws out Zivhu defamation claim
High Court Judge Tawanda Chitapi has thrown out a $1 million defamation claim by Chivi South MP Killer Zivhu against Norton legislator Temba Mliswa, without any costs.Zivhu was accusing Mliswa...Published: 29 May 2019 at 08:34hrs | 739 | by newzimbabwe
Politicians mustn't get away with slandering judges
The habit of the main opposition MDC of getting itself into a mess and then some rabid elements in the party blaming everyone - from the government to the courts - except themselves has to stop....Published: 10 May 2019 at 14:13hrs | 1769 | by Conway Tutani
Mnangagwa has to walk the talk
Over a year after President Emmerson Mnangagwa swept to power on the back of a military coup where he promised "a new and unfolding democracy", Zimbabwe has hardly changed.The groundwork had b...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 08:35hrs | 793 | by Editorial - The Standard
Cyberbullying and Cyber Harassment
I was approached by a fellow executive on how he could legally pursue and remove malicious information that is online. For years, Zimbabwe high profile individuals, executives and business owners have...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:30hrs | 359 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Strive Masiyiwa's court papers rejected on a technicality
The South African High Court has not accepted an application presented by Douglas Mboweni on a technicality arguing that the respondent was the CEO of Econet Wireless Zimbabwe, and was not in a capaci...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 08:22hrs | 3721 | by Staff reporter
PHOTO: Strive Masiyiwa sues Mutumwa Mawere
Econet Wireless Boss Strive Masiyiwa has formally filed his application to sue South Africa based businessman Mutumwa Mawere over defamation of character.Mawere is being sued together with Rut...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 20:58hrs | 8581 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Welshman Ncube's alleged daughter in trouble
Gugu Ncube who for a long time has claimed to be the daughter of MDC Vice President Professor Welshman Ncube might find herself in more trouble than what she bargained for when she staged a one person...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 10:37hrs | 7311 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mliswa claims $2m from Zimpapers for defamation
NORTON legislator Temba Mliswa (independent) has sued the Zimbabwe Newspapers Limited, the publishers of The Herald and The Sunday Mail, among others, for $2 million for defamation.The legisla...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe wins defamation case
MAZOWE small-scale gold miners Shephard Nyazvigo and Phillip Makanya have lost a court case in which they were demanding $100 000 compensation from former First Lady Grace Mugabe, claiming she alleged...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 10:25hrs | 2226 | by Staff reporter
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