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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 | 363 | 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 | 600 | 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 | 4960 | 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 | 3114 | 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 | 4431 | 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 | 6206 | 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 | 1983 | 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 | 377 | 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 | 11669 | 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 | 3019 | 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 | 12236 | 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 | 7893 | 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 | 1401 | 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 | 308 | 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 | 1580 | 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 | 3507 | 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 | 786 | 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 | 2239 | 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 | 1007 | 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 | 692 | 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 | 1747 | 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 | 787 | 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 | 323 | 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 | 3654 | 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 | 8554 | 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 | 7269 | 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 | 469 | 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 | 2212 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF activist sues Gweru lawyer for US$2,7m
ZANU-PF activist and losing candidate in the ruling party primary elections for Gweru Urban, Tinomudaishe Chinyoka has filed a $2,7 million defamation lawsuit against Gweru-based lawyer Brian Dube....Published: 25 Feb 2019 at 08:19hrs | 603 | by Staff reporter
ZBC set for major overhaul
INFORMATION minister Monica Mutsvangwa says Zimbabweans must brace themselves for a raft of media reforms as her ministry moves to align various laws with the constitution.Mutsvangwa (MM) told...Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 06:51hrs | 1451 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa lawyer sues accuserZimLive
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's lawyer Tinomuda Chinyoka is suing Gweru lawyer Brian Dube for defamation.Chinyoka claims Dube falsely accused him of assaulting him inside a court building on Mo...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 10:01hrs | 399 | by ZimLive
Thomas Mapfumo claims $1,2 million defamation damages
United STATES-based Zimbabwean Chimurenga music guru, Thomas 'Mukanya' Mapfumo has approached the High Court seeking over $1,2 million from a local journalist for allegedly defaming him following the ...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:13hrs | 1520 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo lawsuit crumbles
Former Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo's $9 million defamation lawsuit against Zimbabwe Newspapers (1980) and its journalists crumble...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:08hrs | 2011 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa challenges Mohadi's $10m claim
Norton MP Temba Mliswa (independent) has filed an appearance to defend notice of the $10 million defamation litigation filed at the High Court by Vice-President Kembo Mohadi.Mohadi, through hi...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:44hrs | 1748 | by Staff reporter
Chinotimba disgusted by Mliswa, Nduna 'idiotic' behaviour
ZANU-PF MP for Buhera South, Joseph Chinotimba says he was ashamed of the riotous behaviour of fellow legislators Dexter Nduna and Temba Mliswa who came close to trading blows beginning of this week....Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:40hrs | 2099 | by newzimbabwe
WhatsApp gives away Mliswa's shady deals
NORTON legislator Temba Mliswa, who is in the eye of a storm for allegedly soliciting for a bribe from a local businessman, has claimed to belong to very powerful cartels after being cornered by fello...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 16:12hrs | 6941 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo, Chiwenga court battle in new twist
Former Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo has appealed against a High Court judgement that paved the way for Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga to sue him for alleged defamation....Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 19:18hrs | 9793 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi demands $10m from Mliswa
VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi is demanding $10 million compensation from Norton MP Temba Mliswa (independent) for alleged defamation.Through his lawyers Mugiya and Macharaga Law Chambers, Mohadi...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:12hrs | 1495 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa invites lawsuit by 'godfather of smuggling' Mohadi
Kembo Mohadi has "a litany of corruption allegations trailing him", Norton MP Temba Mliswa (Independent) said on Saturday as he invited a lawsuit from the Vice President.Mohadi has served Mlis...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 09:18hrs | 2459 | by ZimLive
Makandiwa court ruling challenged
A Harare business couple which lost a $6,5 million claim against United Family International Church (UFIC) leader Emmanuel Makandiwa and his wife Ruth, over an alleged false prophecy, has approached t...Published: 30 Jan 2019 at 22:55hrs | 783 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa reforms pledge hollow'
GLOBAL human rights watchdog, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has dismissed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's reform pledge as a paper tiger devoid of implementation since he came into office, with his regime a...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 11:04hrs | 340 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo cornered
Former Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo - who was slapped with a $5 million defamation suit by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga - h...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 08:26hrs | 4191 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo gets ultimatum to defend Chiwenga’s $5 million lawsuit
SELF-EXILED former Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo has been given a 10-day ultimatum by the High Court to defend a $5 million defamation lawsuit filed by Vice-President Constantin...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 08:18hrs | 1855 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo vs Chiwenga: High Court rules
FUGITIVE politician Professor Jonathan Moyo, who was slapped with a $5 million defamation suit by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, has a case to answer and must face civil trial, the High Court ha...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 07:16hrs | 2080 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Prophet Makandiwa cleared over 'fake prophecies'
United Family International Church leader Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa and his wife, Ruth, who were being sued for US$6,5 million over alleged "fake prophecies" have been cleared of any wrongdoing. ...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 16:00hrs | 5128 | by Staff reporter
'Dodgy' NGO blasts Mnangagwa's government
A recently released annual World Report by Human Rights Watch, a United States-based organisation, said President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other senior officials in his administration have failed to liv...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 12:23hrs | 1217 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Noyo exposes Madhuku, Madhuku exposes Jonathan Moyo
SELF-EXILED former Cabinet Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo, who turns 62 yesterday, may have had a birthday he would want to quickly forget after Professor Lovemore Madhuku exposed him for stretching...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 07:44hrs | 8003 | by Staff reporter
Mutare town clerk defends $120 000 defamation lawsuit
MUTARE town clerk Joshua Maligwa, who was last month slapped with a $120 000 lawsuit for allegedly defaming Shitazburg Enterprises director Anderson Mwashita, has filed a notice to defend himself....Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 17:23hrs | 182 | by Staff reporter
'Go to hell Strive Masiyiwa' Jonathan Moyo says as he spills more beans
...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 18:45hrs | 18179 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's ally sued for defamation
The minister of State for Midlands Province Larry Mavhima is being sued for alleged libellous statements he made against a local property development firm.According to court papers, Mavhima wa...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 21:08hrs | 632 | by Staff reporter
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