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Petina Gappah ordered to pay US$18,000 to Fadzayi Mahere
The High Court of Zimbabwe has ordered writer and lawyer Petina Gappah to pay US$18,000 in damages to Nelson Chamisa ally Fadzayi Mahere following a protracted defamation lawsuit.The case, whi...Published: 31 Aug 2024 at 21:22hrs | 1059 | by Staff reporter
Mahere says Gappah apology not insincere, demands US$50,000
Lawyer and opposition figure Fadzayi Mahere has revised her claim against author Petina Gappah from US$1 million to US$50,000 in their ongoing court battle. Despite Gappah's recent retraction ...Published: 06 Jun 2024 at 08:04hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Petina Gappah retracts defamatory statements against Mahere
Lawyer and author Petina Gappah has retracted defamatory statements made against Fadzayi Mahere, concluding a prolonged legal battle.In 2018, Gappah accused Mahere of gaining admission to the ...Published: 27 May 2024 at 17:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Gappah needs mental help,' says Judge
Zimbabwean High Court Justice Joseph Mafusire says local lawyer Petina Gappah needs "psychological intervention" - mental assistance - amid her unrestrained scandalous attacks on the judge and the jud...Published: 22 Mar 2024 at 11:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa still squandering massive goodwill
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's promises to break with the past and chart a new path for Zimbabwe after the ouster of long-time leader Robert Mugabe are ringing hollow as the southern African nation fu...Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 09:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Brighton Mutebuka blocked by Hopewell Chin'ono throws bricks at Petina Gappah
1. As many of you are aware, today I was blocked on Twitter by Hopewell.2. He cited several reasons for blocking me, such as allegations that I had "gossiped" and in that "gossip", I had said ...Published: 15 Nov 2023 at 06:02hrs | 13 | by Brighton Mutebuka
Zimbabwe 5 years after Robert Mugabe - so, what has changed?
A climate of fear still lingers in Zimbabwe, five years after long-time ruler Robert Mugabe was deposed. As the country marks this milestone, few people are willing to speak openly about whether the g...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 17:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mahere vs Gappah legal fight: High Court quashes Gappah's leave to appeal bid
THE legal fight between lawyers Fadzai Mahere and Petina Gappah continues with the High Court recently dismissing an application for leave to appeal by the latter.Mahere, also opposition Citiz...Published: 25 Sep 2022 at 16:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mahere disowns her verified Twitter account
CCC spokesperson Advocate Fadzayi Mahere has publicly disowned her verified Twitter account in a desperate bid to wriggle herself from a messy defamation lawsuit that was filed by fellow lawyer Advoca...Published: 13 Jul 2022 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mahere, Gappah face off in court
HIGH Court judge Justice Joseph Mafusire has dismissed an application by lawyer and writer Petina Gappah, who is seeking further particulars in a case she is facing a US$1 million defamation lawsuit....Published: 01 Jun 2022 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa insists that his supporters must go to the polls and vote
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa has insisted that supporters must go to the polls and vote despite the claimed manipulation of election outcomes by the ruling Zanu-PF party.The Citizens Coali...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:14hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Thandiwe Newton: When little knowledge is dangerous
This week, social media got a dose of some revolting diatribes from one Thandiwe Newton, a bygone era British actress whose desperation for relevance is forcing her to utter the most outrageous things...Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 05:33hrs | | by Ranga Mataire
Mahere-Gappah $1m defamation case takes new twist
THE case in which top lawyer and civil rights activist, Fadzai Mahere has filed a $1 million defamation lawsuit against another legal practitioner Petina Gappah, has taken a new twist.Gappah h...Published: 24 Jun 2021 at 11:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Colonialist UK pushes to further isolate the Mnangagwa government
THE United Kingdom's unexpected move this week to impose sanctions on four Zimbabwean security chiefs for human rights violations - following a series of critical pronouncements in recent months - sig...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 16:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sanctions are a missed target
The US Assistant Secretary of State on African Affairs, Tibor Nagy, was recently quoted saying that the illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the West are targeted against certain individuals and c...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 10:09hrs | | by Innocent Mujeri
Zimbabwe's intellectual prostitutes and the national question
My Ghanaian broth er, Dr George Ayiteyi, was the first to connect fraudulent claims to the title of professor to Professor Jonathan Moyo as the quintessential intellectual prostitute. I scolded Ayitey...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:41hrs | | by Kenneth Mufuka
Getting it right on Mnangagwa's advisor
We wish to apologise to Dr Petina Gappah for a story published on August 23, 2019 headlined ED top adviser quits in which we erroneously stated certain facts as her reasons for not renewing her contra...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 07:46hrs | | by Editor
Police State
Within days of President Mnangagwa lecturing the West about how 'the rule of law is sacrosanct' in Zimbabwe, the police in Harare arrested representatives of rural teachers for trying peacefully to pr...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 22:37hrs | | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Mnangagwa's former advisor speaks out
Former President Emmerson Mnangagwa's former Petinah Gappah has taken Newsday journalist to the Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe over a story that he published about Gappah's resignation from Mnang...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 20:51hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Mnangagwa's aides not keen to depart from the past'
ONE of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's top aides, Petina Gappah, has quit her trade and investment advisory role and vowed not to renew her contract after being frustrated by the Zanu PF leader's close...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 18:02hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa top advisor quits
One of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's top aides, Petin Gappah has quit her trade and investment advisory role and vowed not to renew her contract after being frustrated by the Zanu-PF leader's close l...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa left paralysed by a crisis of legitimacy
Last week on November 24 Emmerson Mnangagwa was in Murombedzi - former president Robert Mugabe's village backyard in Mashonaland West - to commemorate his chequered one year in office following his co...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 10:17hrs | | by Jonathan N Moyo
Abuse of media privilege
WHENEVER people talk about the media and journalism, phrases such as "media responsibility," "media ethics," "objective reporting," "public interest," "national interest", or "balanced coverage" are o...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 05:35hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
Mnangagwa office employee sued $1 million over tweet
TOP lawyer and civil rights activist, Advocate Fadzai Mahere is suing another legal practitioner and President Emmerson Mnangagwa's office employee, Petina Gappah, for $1 million for alleged defamatio...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Petina Gappah targets Mukupe in smear campaign?
LAWYER and writer, Petina Gappah, has reportedly been exposed for meddling in Zanu-PF internal affairs, after she allegedly attempted to use a phantom Twitter character to have Finance deputy minister...Published: 24 May 2018 at 09:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Chamisa backtracks on claims he made
MDC Alliance presidential candidate Advocate Nelson Chamisa has been exposed internationally as a serial liar following a grilling by a British journalist, forcing him to admit that he has never met U...Published: 12 May 2018 at 13:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gappah continues to defend ED's wasteful gallivanting - proof she is not just naïve but shallow minded
When it was reported that Ms Petina Gappah, the Zimbabwean international law expert and author, organised President Emmerson Mnangagwa World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland; I thought she w...Published: 07 Apr 2018 at 15:37hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Petina Gappah defends Mnangagwa's travel
Petina Gappah, the Zimbabwean international law expert who courted controversy after being hired to organise President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s participation at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, ...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 11:03hrs | | by Ndou Paul
WATCH : America's hypocrisy on Zimbabwe sanctions
WATCH : America's hypocrisy on Zimbabwe sanctionsWATCH : America's hypocrisy on Zimbabwe sanctions ...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 09:51hrs | | by Social media
Petina Gappah engaged to help Mnangagwa
Petina Gappah, the Zimbabwean international law expert who has courted controversy after being hired to organise President Emmerson Mnangagwa's participation at the on-going World Economic Forum (WEF)...Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 08:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa leads high-powered delegation to Davos
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa leads a high-powered delegation comprising Cabinet Ministers, top Government officials and private sector representatives to Davos, Switzerland, for the 48th World Economic Forum a...Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 05:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Bloody Zanu-PF, MDC primary elections loom'
A LEGISLATOR has raised the spectre of bloodshed during primary elections to select candidates for both the ruling Zanu-PF and opposition parties, but was hopeful that the general election would be re...Published: 20 Jan 2018 at 15:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa needs to explain circumstances around coup - Misihairambwi
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Member of Parliament Priscilla Misihairambwi has called for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to disclose the circumstances surrounding Operation Restore Legacy i...Published: 19 Jan 2018 at 22:03hrs | | by Farai Shawn Matiashe
International law and diplomatic immunity
Following the public display of hooliganism in a foreign land by our beloved First Lady, Dr Grace Mugabe, debate has been raging on whether First ladies are included in the "diplomatic immunity doctri...Published: 26 Aug 2017 at 19:43hrs | | by Wilton Nyasha Machimbira
By abandoning 'no reform, no elections!' so casually, MDC show their flawed character
"MDC-T secretary general Douglas Mwonzora has banned the selection of candidates who will represent the country's biggest opposition party in next year's general election amid reports that the process...Published: 30 Jan 2017 at 07:07hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Stony road ahead - Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
As we begin a new year it is difficult to imagine that it will be a happy one in Zimbabwe. Even optimists will find it hard to see anything but a stony road ahead. We at the Vigil in the ...Published: 01 Jan 2017 at 20:24hrs | | by Zim Vigil
Heroes or herods Day ...political oxymoron of the day
The people of Zimbabwe celebrate Heroes day. A day set aside to remember the lives of disciplined, dedicated and brave sons and daughters who immensely contributed to the well being of our count...Published: 08 Aug 2016 at 15:19hrs | | by Wilton Nyasha Machimbira
Sabotage through political activism should be criminalized
The wind of political hallucination and wishful thinking blowing across urban areas in Zimbabwe appears to have chipped away at the minds of most opposition activists, who are all now believing that i...Published: 12 Jul 2016 at 10:42hrs | | by Gwinyai Mutongi
Zimbabwe: WhatsApp or Whatsfear?
One seemingly innocuous detail from history I always want to share with Zimbabweans relates to the relationship between a few whites in Bulawayo and King Lobengula soon after the signing of the fatefu...Published: 09 Jul 2016 at 08:26hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Has Zimbabwe become a nation of jokers?
In African literary discourse, the centre is the locus-standi that bestows an identity, integrity and legitimation of one's perception of his or her environment. In other words, the centre is the spac...Published: 09 May 2016 at 06:29hrs | | by Lovemore Ranga Mataire
Coltart: (Hi)story and our story as Africans
As I sit down to write this piece, it is February 18, 1978, and David Coltart has just taken off for South Africa, to start his university studies at UCT, the University of Cape Town. He leaves behind...Published: 07 May 2016 at 20:11hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
People must take back national agenda in 2016: Biti
PDP President Tendai Biti on Thursday urged Zimbabweans to create a new narrative in 2016 in order to avert an implosion that has been caused by Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF.Biti said this at a S...Published: 18 Dec 2015 at 14:13hrs | | by PDP
'I will quit politics if MDC-T contests by-elections,' says Sikhala
MDC-T National Executive Member Job "Wiwa" Sikhala has vowed he will quit politics if his party reverses its resolution not to contest any elections in the country until some unmentioned electora...Published: 20 Mar 2015 at 08:07hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Hifa reimburses Freshlyground fans
The Harare International Festival for the Arts (Hifa) is refunding all music fans that had purchased tickets in advance for the Freshlyground concert.The controversial South African group were...Published: 07 May 2014 at 16:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Charamba speaks on Mugabe mystery
President Mugabe's spokesperson George Charamba yesterday said the 89-year-old leader was completing his annual leave at his Borrowdale home, quashing speculation that he had either died or was very...Published: 16 Jan 2014 at 09:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
NoViolet Bulawayo walks in Tsitsi Vera's footsteps
BULAWAYO has produced some groundbreaking artistes whose presence has been a noteworthy blessing to the country's arts and culture scene. In the arts, the City of Kings has been a shining jewel that h...Published: 14 Dec 2013 at 06:05hrs | 1 | by Auxilia Katongomara
Mugabe's election victory is defeat for democracy
Award-winning Zimbabwean author and lawyer, Petina Gappah, on why Robert Mugabe's election victory is a devastating loss for democracy and for the country. Early on Thursday morning, the day ...Published: 04 Aug 2013 at 04:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Morgan Tsvangirai - Small man in a big chair
Before Morgan Tsvangirai entered the world of governance he enjoyed a rather stupendous mass of sympathy support, both at home and abroad. This was precisely because opposition politics was merely ab...Published: 17 May 2013 at 05:24hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
The rehabilitation of Robert Mugabe
HE has been a schoolteacher, freedom fighter and political prisoner. He has gone from admired independence leader to despised autocrat. Now a life that spans nine decades could be about to add its l...Published: 11 May 2013 at 21:45hrs | | by The Guardian
WikiLeaks: the implications for Zimbabwe by Prof Jonathan Moyo
Lecture delivered by Tsholotsho North MP Professor Jonathan Moyo (Zanu PF) at the Sapes Seminar Series in Harare on September 29, 2011, under the topic: ‘The WikiLeaks Saga: National, ...Published: 03 Oct 2011 at 07:12hrs | | by Professor Jonathan Moyo
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