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Court blocks estranged wife's claim to hubby's estate
A United Kingdom-based woman, Joyce Charlie, has lost her bid to be recognized as the surviving spouse of her late husband, Martin Charlie, after a lengthy legal battle in the High Court. Joyce, who h...Published: 26 Nov 2024 at 08:15hrs | 353 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to permit foreigner to hold 40% of media houses
The Government has gazetted the Broadcasting Services Amendment Bill, which seeks to modernise Zimbabwe's broadcasting laws by permitting foreign ownership of broadcasting licences of up to 40 percent...Published: 26 Nov 2024 at 08:06hrs | 103 | by Staff reporter
Know your history:- Filabusi Memorial and the Edkins Store killings
Why Visit?: - This historic site remembers one of the earliest European murders of the Matabele Rebellion or First Umvukela of 1896. There seems no doubt that the initial killings occurred on ...Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 15:48hrs | 540 | by Staff reporter
Deeds Office sucked into Harare land scam
The Harare City Council (HCC) land scam involving plots in Greendale has escalated, drawing in the Deeds Office amid serious allegations of the creation of fake deeds by individuals allegedly linked t...Published: 21 Oct 2024 at 07:51hrs | 715 | by Staff reporter
Woman grabs estate of late 'boyfriend'
A Harare woman, Portia Rudo Bvekerwa, is facing allegations of falsifying documents in an attempt to claim the estate of her late boyfriend, Stanley Phute, after reportedly staying with him for just a...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 09:00hrs | 401 | by Staff reporter
Top Zimbabwe lawyer given ultimatum
The Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) has given prominent lawyer Wilson Manase a deadline of ten days to provide an explanation for his failure to finalize the estate of the late businesswoman Jane Maisir...Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 12:43hrs | 1434 | by Staff reporter
Family fights over house acquired in 1960
A Harare family is embroiled in a long-standing legal dispute over ownership of a house acquired through the marriage certificate of one of its members in 1960. The case, which has now reached the Sup...Published: 08 Oct 2024 at 07:29hrs | 577 | by Staff reporter
'PVO Bill to define Zimbabwe's identity'
The recently passed Private Voluntary Organisation (PVO) Amendment Bill is set to transform the regulation of civic society in Zimbabwe, Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyam...Published: 30 Sep 2024 at 07:29hrs | 204 | by Staff reporter
Late businesswoman's family pushed for top lawyer's arrest
The family of the late businesswoman Jane Maisiri is calling for the arrest of prominent lawyer Wilson Manase, accusing him of mismanaging her estate since her death in 2002. Manase, appointed as the ...Published: 08 Sep 2024 at 15:16hrs | 1903 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF councillor denied bail
Seke Ward 11 councillor Patson Chipunza (Zanu-PF) appeared before Harare provincial magistrate Dennis Mangosi on charges of fraud related to the subdivision and sale of land belonging to the late form...Published: 30 Jun 2024 at 18:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Top lawyer faces probe over businesswoman's estate
Top lawyer Wilson Manase is under investigation by the Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) for allegations of mishandling the estate of the late Sandra Jane Maisiri, which he has failed to finalize for over...Published: 23 Jun 2024 at 10:42hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF councillor arrested for selling Amos Midzi's farm
A Chitungwiza councillor, Patson Chipunza, has been arrested by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) for allegedly subdividing and selling a portion of the late former Mines minister Amos Mi...Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 17:15hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Chris Kuruneri's estate in wrangle
TWO Mazowe miners have approached the High Court for a revision of judgment accusing the late former Finance minister Christopher Kuruneri of secretly acquiring an order for their eviction without the...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 04:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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
Bogus lawyer up for US$43 000 fraud
A BOGUS lawyer appeared in court yesterday for allegedly swindling his client of US$43 000.Denford Jaricha (35) is facing two counts of theft of trust property and one count of practicing as a...Published: 16 Jan 2024 at 04:39hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Widow fights eviction from stepsons
AN ELDERLY Harare woman was yesterday granted a protection order against her two stepsons who wanted to evict her from the family house after learning that she had been omitted in their deceased fathe...Published: 06 Jan 2024 at 08:43hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF official in land dispute
A RUWA farmer last week accused a Zanu-PF politician of plotting to abduct and kill her in a dispute over control of her late father's properties in Mashonaland East province.Danai Jirira said...Published: 14 Nov 2023 at 04:51hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
White farmer takes Zimbabwe land seizure fight to Supreme Court
A Gweru farmer, whose farm was seized by the government, has lodged an appeal with the Supreme Court after the High Court dropped her challenge while claiming the case was too political to be handled ...Published: 28 Feb 2023 at 19:54hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe judge dumps farm seizure challenge, says it's too political for court
HIGH Court judge Munamato Mutevedzi has abandoned a case in which a Gweru farmer is challenging the seizure of her farm by government saying the matter was too political to be handled by his court....Published: 27 Feb 2023 at 15:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Who actually overthrew Mugabe?
HISTORY is crucial for every nation. To know its future, a nation must know its past. I will briefly interrogate the coup that unseated the late former President Robert Mugabe. In 2017, Zimbab...Published: 13 Jan 2023 at 20:01hrs | | by Nkwazi Mhango
Chidawu widow's sues own children over estate
THE late national hero Oliver Chidawu's widow Spiwe has approached the High Court seeking to bar her own children from accessing their father's vast wealth arguing that they had no claim to properties...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 18:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Storm brews over Oliver Chidawu estate
THE late national hero Oliver Chidawu's widow Spiwe has taken family executor Clever Mandizvidza to court, challenging a will left by her husband on the basis that it violated sections of the Wills Ac...Published: 18 Oct 2022 at 05:59hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Shiri estate in fresh storm
THE late Agriculture minister Air Marshal Perrance Shiri's children have dragged the family's executor, former Attorney General Sobuza Gula-Ndebele, to court to force him to release money held in the ...Published: 14 Oct 2022 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Scheming' lawyer granted $50,000 bail
LAWYER Norman Mugiya was yesterday granted $200 000 bail in a case he is being accused of fraud and violating the Insurance Act.Mugiya appeared before Harare magistrate Dennis Mangosi who rema...Published: 29 Sep 2022 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Secret grave exposes Chinese 'cartel's' identity fraud scam, fraudulent schemes
In a case pregnant with intrigue, bizarre episodes and curious developments involving what appears to be a sophisticated criminal Chinese cartel, the Registrar General's office was forced to cancel a ...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:30hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Perrance Shiri estate row deepens
THE late national hero and Lands and Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri's daughter, Rufaro Stephanie is seeking to bar former Attorney-General Sobusa Gula-Ndebele from administering her father's esta...Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 07:27hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
2 top cops fingered in gold scam
TWO top police officers have been implicated in a US$500 000 gold ore loot at a mine in Chiweshe, Mashonaland Central province.This allegations are contained in a letter of complaint dated Jun...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 07:40hrs | | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai estate: Workers claim US$150 000
THE family of the late former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe and MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai may not benefit much from the politician's estate as domestic workers and other employees are claiming sa...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:03hrs | | 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
Fake title deeds flood market
If you recently bought a property, are you sure it is properly registered in your name?Well, there might be need to verify this with the Department of Deeds, Companies and Intellectual Propert...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Savanhu's second wife loses bid
THE second wife of the late Minister for Lands and Resettlement Deputy Minister, Tendai Savanhu, has lost her bid to counter her eviction from her late husband's property.The widow, Tendai Sav...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 10:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ginimbi's family gets court reprieve
THE High Court granted authority to late socialite Genius "Ginimbi" Kadungure's father Anderson and sisters Juliet and Neria to save his business empire from being attached by creditors.They h...Published: 02 Apr 2022 at 07:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Savanhu's widow homeless
THE late former Zanu-PF politburo member Tendai Savanhu's widow, Tendai has been thrown out of her Glen Lorne, Harare matrimonial home by the politician's ex-wife Sabina, who is claiming ownership of ...Published: 01 Apr 2022 at 09:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZACC probes Koefman estate ownership
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission is now digging into reports that some people are jostling to grab the Mbare property popularly known as "Kwa Koefman" some, 89 years after the death of the owne...Published: 28 Mar 2022 at 06:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Scramble for Rhodes' estate
Groups of people are scrambling for the multi-million-dollar estate left behind by a descendant of former colonialist Cecil John Rhodes amid reports that the Registrar of Companies has so far nullifie...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
High Court throws out Ginimbi will
RELATIVES of the late socialite and businessman Genius "Ginimbi" Kadungure will now share his wealth to the exclusion of friends and other outsiders after the High Court nullified the dubious will tha...Published: 26 Feb 2022 at 18:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Court grants woman R10m maintenance
A Zimbabwean woman based in South Africa has won R10 Million maintenance from the estate of her late partner with whom she was cohabitating for two years.This is after that country's Constitut...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 09:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Daggers out over Gumbura estate
Tempers flared at the Master of the High Court offices yesterday as relatives of the late RGM End Time Message church founder Robert Martin Gumbura haggled over the appointment of an executor for his ...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:53hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Massive row erupts over Gumbura's estate
THE widows of the cleric Robert Martin Gumbura have chosen his nephew, Chivimbiso Thomas Nyathi to be the executor of their late husband's estate.Nyathi was appointed following a huge fight be...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:42hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Knives out over Shiri estate
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has launched an investigation into the alleged illegal sale of part of the late national hero and Lands and Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri's estate....Published: 30 Nov 2021 at 05:41hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Controversy surrounds Soul Jah Love's estate
CONTROVERSY surrounds the late Zimdancehall chanter, Soul Jah Love's estate with producers and record labels being accused of releasing the late chanter's music without the knowledge of his family or ...Published: 24 Nov 2021 at 16:30hrs | 14 | by Staff Reporter
Jail for failure to register deceased estates
Family members who fail to register the estate of a deceased relative within 14 days of death can be charged under the Administration of Estates Act with an offence that attracts a penalty of fines or...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 06:17hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Row over Shiri estate
THE family of late national hero and Cabinet minister Perrance Shiri has questioned the authenticity of documents used by the Master of the High Court Eldard Mutasa to handle his vast empire.A...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:29hrs | 1 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Ginimbi's Bentley, Rolls Royce still impounded
THE death of Harare hustler and socialite Genius Kadungure (pictured) has scuttled investigations into his alleged tax evasion, as it emerges that two of his luxury cars are still impounded by the pol...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 18:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Messy wrangle erupts over late General Mugoba's estate
A MESSY Family wrangle has erupted over the sharing of property of the late former Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) chief of staff, major general Trust Mugoba, with some family members accusing the live-i...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 07:56hrs | | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ginimbi's executor approaches Supreme Court
HARARE lawyer Patricia Darangwa has approached the Supreme Court appealing against a provisional order by the High Court barring her from executing the estate of the late socialite Genius "Ginimbi" Ka...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Executor sells house after death of breadwinner
A Luveve family in Bulawayo is currently facing eviction after the executor sold their house without consulting family members following the unfortunate passing of their father.The family told...Published: 15 Mar 2021 at 07:38hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
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