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Musvamhiri wins case in Shiri estate wrangle
One of the beneficiaries in the late former Air Force of Zimbabwe commander and Cabinet minister, Perrance Shiri's estate, Tanaka Musvamhiri, has had a case of forgery filed against her dismissed at t...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 12:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Greedy in-laws disinherit children'
Improper handling of inheritance matters by greedy in-laws continues to haunt children, resulting in many turning destitute and becoming drug addicts, right's groups have said.They said the ri...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 07:33hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Pitfalls of Liberation Movements in Zimbabwe
This paper seeks to provide an introductory general overview of the pitfalls associated with liberation movements in Zimbabwe up to a certain historical point. However, the most accurate and u...Published: 24 Dec 2023 at 08:30hrs | 10 | by Josh Mhambi
The right to disinherit a spouse in a will and why a spouse must protect their property in marriage
A Last Will and Testament, as a legally binding document, derives its validity from adhering to the stipulations of the law. A Will that meets all the prerequisites of a valid Will cannot be invalidat...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 06:11hrs | | by Clifford Ncube
Zimbabwe won't fall prey to Western fables, fabrications
DRUMS are beating, so high to a deafening crescendo as Zimbabwe hurtles towards the 2023 elections. Of course, the ground is already uneven because President Mnangagwa has been implementing pro-people...Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Savanhu's widow in court for assault
THE widow of the late Zanu-PF politburo member Tendai Savanhu, who is accused of assaulting her stepson in a wrangle over her late husband's estate, has denied the accusation saying the two have never...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tendai Savanhu's widow in property ownership wrangle
THE late former deputy minister for Lands and Resettlement Tendai Savanhu's widow, Tendai who recently got her property attached for failing to settle rental arrears is now facing eviction from the up...Published: 17 Feb 2022 at 05:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF has no moral high ground to urge nation to honour struggle icons, as the party at forefront of abandoning heroes, and de
ZANU PF has no moral high ground to urge the nation to honour struggle icons, as the party at forefront of abandoning heroes, and deleting its own from history.There are two questions that hav...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 12:12hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Spouses can now disinherit each other
The Supreme Court has ruled that parties to a marriage are free to disinherit each other, in a landmark judgment likely to spark fierce debate. A five-judge panel of the Appeals Court unanimou...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Struggling millionaires
HIS nickname, which I find a bit harsh, is Poor Millionaire. I prefer calling him just SP - for Struggling Peter.He shares a small cabin with his younger brother at an illegal settlement adjac...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 19:02hrs | | by Black Edward
Ideas, not money is what is in short supply in Zimbabwe
The economic challenges facing Zimbabwe are not about money. Our major issue is deficiency of a supportive government with competencies to design policies that enable innovation and value creation....Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 07:03hrs | | by Brian Sedze
Chamisa legitimising neo-colonialism
Because Mother Africa's children residing at home and abroad are paying extremely close attention to Zimbabwe's upcoming harmonised elections, the individual profiles of the candidates will automatica...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Obi Egbuna Jnr Simunye
Inheritance divides bigwigs' families
Over the years, Zimbabwe has witnessed families of rich politicians who when the breadwinners die fight over their estates.When the politicians die they leave behind several children born out ...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 15:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's widow says it's a lie
The wife of the late opposition MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai is being accused by her late husband's family of kicking out the former prime minister's children from the couple's Highlands mansion, an a...Published: 28 Feb 2018 at 12:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangira family cut ties with Elizabeth Macheka
Morgan Tsvangirai's widow Elizabeth faces the spectre of being deprived of her inheritance following the death of her husband on Wednesday last week.The Daily News reported that the Tsvangirai...Published: 19 Feb 2018 at 15:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
LANDMARK: Inheritance Will without wife null, void
An Inheritance Will - which many believe is sacrosanct - can be declared invalid and overturned or amended in the best interest of the deceased's immediate family if it excludes the surviving spouse a...Published: 20 Oct 2017 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T must resolve its land dilemma
LET us open the Spectrum with something pretty banal: the challenges of Africa's economic backwardness cannot and will not be resolved on the white man's terms. Closer to home, we have determined that...Published: 15 Sep 2017 at 06:44hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
Tsvangirai clothed in borrowed robes and forgot to think beyond slogans
IT'S been many seasons ever since this column was launched, more accurately ever since I adopted it from its "tired" founder, Professor Jonathan Moyo. While I know Nathaniel to be his middle name, I w...Published: 24 Jun 2017 at 13:29hrs | 31 | by Nathaniel Manheru
High Court Judge makes landmark lobola ruling
STAYING together for decades as husband and wife without any payment of lobola, does not upgrade the relationship to a legitimate marriage for purposes of inheritance, the High Court has ruled....Published: 17 Apr 2017 at 08:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mbeki should be the last person to preach Zuma about values
That the administration of Jacob Zuma has structural flaws is no longer in dispute. But - having masterminded his accidental elevation to power - the last people to preach to Msholozi about values and...Published: 12 Apr 2017 at 20:14hrs | 1 | by Khaya S Sithole
Heroes' Day: Zapu remembers its heroes and heroines.
Ruth Chinamano Ruth Lottie Nomonde Chinamano (1925-2005) was born on 16/02/1925 in Cape town South Africa. A Xhosa by birth, she grew up in East Grinqualand now (Matatiele). Like any oth...Published: 08 Aug 2016 at 22:48hrs | | by Fiso Hikwa
Malema indicating left, turning right
The recent statement attributed to South Africa's Julius Malema purporting to express solidarity with "the people of Zimbabwe" exposes the sheer duplicity of this young and impressionable politician, ...Published: 19 Jul 2016 at 06:15hrs | | by Dr Chris Mushohwe
Mugabe's government blasts Julius Malema
Government yesterday blasted South Africa's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema for openly declaring his support for violent protestors whose ill-fated "shutdown of Zimbabwe" was fund...Published: 16 Jul 2016 at 07:54hrs | | by Freeman Razemba
Father fights for access to kids in High Court
THE common law position that obliges men to maintain and provide for their children born out of wedlock but denies them inherent access to the same children has been challenged, with lawyers describin...Published: 14 Mar 2016 at 05:37hrs | | by Daniel Nemukuyu
Businessman disinherit sons for refusing to quit smoking
Johannesburg - The son of a Pretoria businessman was left out of his father's will because he refused to quit smoking, The Star reported on Wednesday.Dawid van Vuuren's smoking sons, Daniel an...Published: 04 Mar 2015 at 09:34hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Malema & EFF are what the South African masses yearn for
WHEN the Zimbabwean-born and South African domiciled businessman, Strive Masiyiwa, voiced his concern about huge youth unemployment and the wakeful nights which that caused him, little did he know he...Published: 16 Nov 2013 at 03:08hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
In or out of power, Zanu-PF cannot be wished away
Dei kuri kwedu, taidei totoimba manhanga kutapira! Roughly translated, this Shona statement says: "If it was home, we all would have already sung praises to sweet pumpkins." Of course those who hail f...Published: 07 Apr 2013 at 06:14hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Zimbabwe government 'intimidate' Mr Gay World contestant into pulling out
The grand finale of Mr Gay World came to Africa in 2012 amid reports that Taurai Zhanje, the contestant from Zimbabwe where President Robert Mugabe regularly brands gays as "worse than pigs and dogs",...Published: 10 Apr 2012 at 05:57hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Zuma is coming on a rescue mission
Russia's Putin has won a new term into Presidential Office. With that victory comes a new ogre for Europe and America, both of which are already talking of discovering Putin's vulnerabilities for a co...Published: 12 Mar 2012 at 07:24hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Mugabe, Biko and the black consciousness movement
Biko wrote quite a lot of articles on political, religious and economic issues and we feel the little we have shared with you on his works these last three weeks will help our readers to have a deeper...Published: 02 Mar 2012 at 08:04hrs | | by Bowden Mbanje and Darlington Mahuku
Revisiting of the marriage act vital in addressing inheritance
Marriage is an intensely personal matter, but the concept exists in all cultures and across all religions, although there can be argument over just how many wives a man may marry or how many husbands ...Published: 15 Nov 2011 at 10:27hrs | | by Unknown
Revolution: Betrayal versus reason
A SLAVE who does not organise his own rebellion deserves no pity for his lot. He alone is responsible for his misfortune, especially if he harbours illusions in the dubious assurances of a master's pr...Published: 28 Jul 2011 at 05:12hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
Sanctions: Political gain, civilian pain
This week, I take an unusual line from what my readers are used to. Foremost, I pilfer the title of the installment from some scholar who has devoted his energies to the study of the subject of sancti...Published: 11 Jun 2011 at 18:27hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Mixed marriage dynamicsÂ
The number of interracial marriages is increasing rapidly among Zimbabweans. When people shipped themselves abroad, records indicate that the number of interracial marriages increased a...Published: 12 Jan 2011 at 12:09hrs | 6 | by Byo24News
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