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It's high time foreign governments took the lead in investigating Zimbabwe's corrupt elite
The Zimbabwe ruling elite clearly won't act against high-level corruption.There is something profoundly disturbing about the silence of Zimbabwean authorities in the wake of the damning exposÃ...Published: 03 May 2025 at 11:48hrs | 631 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa reverses late Chidyausiku's 'errors'
The new Labour Law approved by President Emmerson Mnangagwa has made it tough for companies to undertake reckless and stage-managed retrenchments which place workers at the losing end as had become th...Published: 09 Aug 2023 at 08:09hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
The last great war might have begun
The tongue can be a powerful weapon.It can build and destroy. It also can excite, spite and incite.And when a sharp tongue is mixed with potent ideas, it is easy to concoct a nuclear w...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 08:50hrs | 2 | by Bishop Lazi
Mnangagwa's man back in charge
AFTER a bruising battle President Emmerson Mnangagwa's agenda to retain the services of Chief Justice Luke Malaba at the helm of the administration of justice, as part of his power consolidation and r...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 18:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa doesn't want Justice Happias Zhou
REASONS why President Emmerson Mnangagwa strongly dislikes High Court Justice Happias Zhou - who led a brave judicial panel that dramatically blocked Justice Luke Malaba's controversial tenure extensi...Published: 26 May 2021 at 16:23hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa faces tough CJ choice
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is faced with a dilemma over who to appoint the new chief justice (CJ), amid indications that the recently retired Luke Malaba could ditch the fight to extend his tenure b...Published: 21 May 2021 at 06:13hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Malaba key to Mnangagwa's 2023 project
FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara says President Emmerson Mnangagwa is terrified of defeat in the 2023 elections and has decided to extend Chief Justice Luke Malaba's tenure because he is ...Published: 20 May 2021 at 22:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chief Justice Malaba's tenure set to be extended next week
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba is on course to remaining in office beyond 15 May (next Saturday) when his tenure ends by operation of law following the passing of the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa wants Luke Malaba to stay
ON 6 April 2021, the Zimbabwean senate passed Constitutional Amendment Bill (N0.1), which had been declared null and void by the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) on 31 March 2020, after it was unconsti...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 07:56hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Ziyambi divided over Justice Malaba retirement
WHILE President Emmerson Mnangagwa wants Chief Justice Luke Malaba to continue serving until 2023 so that he becomes his last line of defence should the presidential election be contested in court, se...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 19:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa wants Malaba to stay on 2023
DESPITE the fact that Chief Justice Luke Malaba's judicial reign is coming to an end by operation of law at midnight on 15 May 2021 when he turns 70, President Emmerson Mnangagwa wants him to stay on ...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 19:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's 10-year-old insult case thrown out of court
AN attempt last week by the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to resuscitate a 2010 case where Gilbert Kagodora, the MDC Alliance secretary for information communication technology was accused of i...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chidyausiku pension row settled
THE High Court has ruled that the two widows of the late former Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku are both entitled to receive the national hero's pension.the determination by Justice Jacob Ma...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 09:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt target internet users
Government is set to put in place social media abuse laws amid revelations that there is an upsurge in internet abuse and the proliferation of illegal websites.This comes on the back of a rise...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:27hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Welshman Ncube's brother appointed Supreme Court judge
President' Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday appointed Justices Nicholas Mathonsi and Charles Hungwe as judges of the Supreme Court the public newspaper The Herald has reportedJustice Math...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 19:38hrs | 13 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Security agents must stay out of judiciary system
IN February this year we published a landmark ruling by the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) which declared as unconstitutional any involvement of the police and army personnel in the country's judicia...Published: 18 May 2019 at 20:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
A deep dive into the world of the Constitutional Court
NO one can deny that this election season has been a rollercoaster and people are confused, anxious and hopeful as they face an unpredictable outcome from the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) in the pe...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:13hrs | | by Thabani Mnyama
Chamisa taken to task over mass dismissals
A workers' union has emerged pitching its narrative around the mass dismissal of workers following a Supreme Court judgment in July 2015 in which MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa was...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
Justice Mathonsi, promoted, redeployed
BULAWAYO High Court judge Justice Nicholas Mathonsi has been re-deployed to Harare where he has been elevated to the position of senior judge in charge of the Civil Division of the High Court....Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Constitutional law expert to defend expelled Khupe
Constitutional law expert, Professor Lovemore Madhuku is preparing to lodge a Constitutional Court application challenging the constitutionality of Dr Thokozani Khupe's expulsion from Parliament follo...Published: 14 Apr 2018 at 17:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Panic as net closes in on forex abusers
Despite feigning bravado in public, companies fingered in the externalisation of foreign currency and other assets are making a beeline for the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to negotiate relaxed dead...Published: 04 Apr 2018 at 12:41hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Why this same Minister all the time?
Shall the President demonstrate to all and sundry that the war against corruption has no sacred cows, in earnest. Why should a single individual be allowed to denigrate and disrespect the whole ...Published: 25 Feb 2018 at 18:11hrs | | by Munyaradzi Mhaka
ZEC Chigumba, like Caesar's wife, must 'be above suspicion' - at least, he did not hunt for one in a brothel
"Way back in the year Before Christ, the famous Roman General Julius Caesar decided to divorce his second wife Pompeia on the basis of suspicion," Bulawayo24 reminded us.

"Caesar famously said an...Published: 05 Feb 2018 at 08:50hrs | 3 | by Nomusa Garikai
Bribery claims haunt Mnangagwa's ZEC Chairperson
Way back in the year Before Christ, the famous Roman General Julius Ceasar decided to divorce his second wife Pompeia on the basis of suspicion.Ceasar famously said any wife of his must be abo...Published: 04 Feb 2018 at 16:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Exclusive courts to try graft cases
The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) is establishing specialised anti-corruption courts throughout the country so that justice is expeditiously served on perpetrators of graft.The first two s...Published: 16 Jan 2018 at 07:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints 8 new judges
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed eight new judges - six men and two women - to the High Court bench, in a move expected to reduce the backlog of cases at the superior court.The eight...Published: 13 Dec 2017 at 22:30hrs | | by Staff Reporter
The Zezurization of The Zimbabwean State
Anyone who dreams of partitioning this country along tribal lines or whatever means is possessed by Legion." (Biblical man possessed by many demons)These words came out of the foul-mouthed and...Published: 29 Nov 2017 at 15:06hrs | 1 | by Israel Dube, MLO Secretary for Information and Publicity
Mnangagwa wakes up after 37 years to find that Zimbabwe is a Zezuru dynasty
When Emmerson Mnangagwa was elevated to the post of Vice President, Karangas and a few others who do not have full knowledge of their own party, including Mnangagwa, himself, exploded into wild celebr...Published: 06 Nov 2017 at 15:30hrs | 1 | by Israel Dube
Mnangagwa under probe on 39 counts of fraud; Mugabe to stand trial on 20 000 murder charges
The ideology ZANU PF is a proponent of a conservative socialist ideology, Pan Africanist and anti- imperialist western values, doctrines and democracies. Pu...Published: 03 Nov 2017 at 05:38hrs | 6 | by Themba Mthethwa
Makarau calm amid raging storm
For a woman in the eye of a storm, Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Rita Makarau's calm and cheerful demeanour belies the raging tempest swirling around her.In a country where v...Published: 25 Sep 2017 at 12:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo in Mnangagwa's jaws
Higher and Tertiary Education minister and politburo member Jonathan Moyo has suffered a huge setback in his attempts to avoid being arrested for corruption when the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) th...Published: 21 Sep 2017 at 14:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Karangas wake up after 37 years to find that Zimbabwe is a Zezuru dynasty
When Emmerson Mnangagwa was elevated to the post of Vice President, Karangas and a few others who do not have full knowledge of their own party, including Mnangagwa, himself, exploded into wild celebr...Published: 11 Sep 2017 at 11:16hrs | | by Israel Dube
Zimbabwe Prosecutor-General race gets messy
THE process to select a new Prosecutor-General (PG) has run into controversy amid revelations that the short-listed candidates did not score basic minimum percentages or points required, sparking dism...Published: 08 Sep 2017 at 17:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parly to consider Mnangagwa's controversial Bill today
The Constitution Amendment Bill (Number 1), which seeks to give the President the sole discretion to appoint a Chief Justice, Deputy Chief Justice and Judge President of his choice will be considered ...Published: 25 Jul 2017 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T goes back to ConCourt
THE opposition MDC-T is going back to the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) demanding that Zimbabweans in the Diaspora be allowed to vote in the watershed 2018 general elections in line with the dictate...Published: 08 Jul 2017 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's boot licker bays for Jonathan Moyo's head
WAR veterans' leader Christopher Mutsvangwa yesterday accused Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo of abusing his friendship with the late Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku to escape jail over accu...Published: 04 Jul 2017 at 16:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe to appoint Supreme Court judges
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe will soon appoint judges to the Supreme Court, almost a year after they were publicly interviewed by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC), despite the constitution requiring t...Published: 30 Jun 2017 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hunt for Zimbabwe's new Prosecutor-General begins
The Judiciary Service Commission (JSC) has begun the hunt for the new Prosecutor-General (PG) after it issued a notice inviting nominations for candidates seeking to fill one of the country's coveted ...Published: 20 Jun 2017 at 13:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo rushed to the wrong court
HIGHER and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo rushed to the Constitutional Court challenging the lawfulness of his arrest when a magistrate could h...Published: 15 Jun 2017 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
D-Day for Jonathan Moyo on whether he should be prosecuted or not
THE Constitutional Court will today determine whether or not Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo should be prosecuted on allegations of s...Published: 14 Jun 2017 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Serious jockeying for Tomana's job
Before the dust has even settled following the axing of former Prosecutor-General (PG) Johannes Tomana, serious jockeying for the top post has started in earnest, as rival factions within the warring ...Published: 13 Jun 2017 at 10:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T wants referendum
Government must conduct a referendum on the proposed Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 1) Bill, and the fate of the proposed constitutional reform must hinge on the public verdict, an opposition...Published: 13 Jun 2017 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo arrest case set down for hearing
THE case in which Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo is contesting the constitutionality of his arrest for allegedly swindling the Zimba...Published: 02 Jun 2017 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Calls for Mugabe to set tone of forthcoming elections
President Robert Mugabe and leader of the ruling Zanu PF party kicks off his 'Meet the youth' rallies in Marondera on Friday 2, June and has been challenged to deplore violence.The rally is se...Published: 01 Jun 2017 at 09:16hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Chidyausiku defended land reform - Mugabe
President Robert Mugabe yesterday hailed the late retired Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku for ruling that the government may acquire land and agriculture equipment seized from white-owned farms....Published: 14 May 2017 at 15:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe heaps praises on Chidyausiku
President Robert Mugabe yesterday delivered one of his shortest public speeches which only lasted about 20 minutes as he officiated at the burial of the late retired Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku ...Published: 14 May 2017 at 15:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe gives full honours to Chidyausiku
National Hero Godfrey Chidyausiku was a distinguished lawyer, legislator and politician who gave legal standing to the Fast-Track Land Reform Programme, President Mugabe has said.The President...Published: 14 May 2017 at 15:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mass service for Chidyausiku
A mass is planned for the late retired Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku at Chishawasha Mission on Friday.Chidyausiku died on Wednesday last week, in South Africa, after battling w...Published: 10 May 2017 at 14:07hrs | 1 | by Thobekile Zhou
Chidyausiku 'hero' for supporting ruinous farm seizure - he sold-out and was richly rewarded
"Hero: a person who is admired for their courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities," according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Robert Mugabe has just declared the late Chief Just...Published: 10 May 2017 at 05:51hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mugabe told Chidyausiku to defy land seizure rulings
President Robert Mugabe has confessed to giving the late retired Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku unconstitutional Executive orders to okay the seizure of white-owned farms.Commenting on the ...Published: 09 May 2017 at 16:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
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