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Malaba's lawyers dress code directive reversed
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba has withdrawn Practice Direction (PD) 6 of 2020 banning tight-fitting, body-hugging and colourful attire for legal practitioners appearing before the Magistrates Courts. ...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:08hrs | 712 | by Staff reporter
Police stations get POS machines
Almost all police stations now have functioning "swipe" machines for payment of admission of guilt fines, removing the need for cash payments and associated potential corruption. Unlike previo...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:07hrs | 359 | by Staff reporter
Bring back rule of law to prosecutions
The judgement of the Honourable Chitapi J in the matter of [Saviour] Kasukuwere v Mujayi NO & Others (HH-562-19) (delivered on August 21 2019) is on the face of it scathing to the police, Zimbabwe...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:38hrs | 277 | by Tazorora TG Musarurwa
Undenge's whereabouts shrouded in mystery
A warrant of arrest has been issued against former Energy and Power Development Minister Samuel Undenge, as the State seeks to have him imprisoned for 30 months for abuse of office. The warran...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 07:40hrs | 2184 | by Staff reporter
The Dalish Nguwaya saga, Justice or scape goat
For the past few months Zimbabwe was gripped with news of corruption involving The first family in particular Collins Mnangagwa and his associate DALISH Nguwaya the local representative of a medical c...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 13:47hrs | 905 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Frank Buyanga's life in danger'
Shadowy pressure group Chapter 2 Movement has issued a statement demanding that Sandton based businessman Frank Buyanga Sadiqi be protected from powerful enemies who might use state resources to seek ...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 20:21hrs | 6083 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jonathan Moyo reports Nick Mangwana to Justice Luke Malaba
Professor Jonathan Moyo has asked Chief Justice Luke Malaba and the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission to make a follow up on allegation by Secretary for Information Nick Mangwana that the judiciary ...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 14:12hrs | 6014 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Don't raise bald accusations in court'
BULAWAYO provincial magistrate Elias Magate yesterday urged the public to trust the courts for legal remedy, but warned against raising bald accusations without supporting evidence as that put court o...Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 07:51hrs | 469 | by Staff reporter
All courtrooms to be closed today
ALL courtrooms across the country will be closed today as the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) celebrates 10 years of existence. Instead, members of the public are being invited to visit the ...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 07:44hrs | 896 | by Staff reporter
Weddings cleared
The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has removed the Covid-19-induced solemnisation of marriages moratorium bringing joy to couples who had been forced to put their wedding plans on hold. Pre...Published: 06 Jun 2020 at 07:41hrs | 1002 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's lawyer Thabani Mpofu charged over 'fake' ConCourt affidavit
Top Harare lawyer Advocate Thabani Mpofu was charged with defeating or obstructing the course of justice on Monday, accused of filing a court application last year bolstered by an affidavit by someone...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 16:49hrs | 6583 | by Staff reporter
JSC seeks ConCourt judges nominations
THE Judiciary Service Commission (JSC) is inviting members of the public to nominate suitably qualified persons to be appointed as Constitutional Court judges. The Constitutional and Supreme C...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 08:36hrs | 247 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga exposes the Mnangagwas
SOUTH AFRICA based Zimbabwe millionaire, Frank Buyanga says the recent corruption storm involving President Emerson Mnangagwa's son, Collins vindicates his earlier claims the first family was a crimin...Published: 31 May 2020 at 23:39hrs | 3620 | by Staff reporter
Tagwirei's business empire comes under scrutiny
WHEN Kudakwashe Tagwirei's father passed away in May 2018, the government came to a standstill.Cabinet was postponed, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, ministe...Published: 29 May 2020 at 08:31hrs | 2384 | by Staff reporter
Judiciary not captured, says Ziyambi
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi says the judiciary is not captured as alleged by the country's main opposition party, the MDC led by Nelson Chamisa, and civic organisations that claim it plays to the...Published: 23 May 2020 at 20:44hrs | 1529 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Supreme, Constitutional courts separated
THE Supreme and Constitutional courts will officially be separated this Friday in a development that will now see them operating independently.This comes as judges who preside over matters bro...Published: 20 May 2020 at 17:32hrs | 2769 | by Staff reporter
8 sworn in as Judicial Service commissioners
The Judicial Service Commission now has new faces following the appointment of an eight member team.Supreme Court judge Justice Chinembiri Bhunu, chief magistrate Mr Munamato Mutevedzi, Law So...Published: 13 May 2020 at 15:57hrs | 735 | by Staff reporter
Courts resume business
COURTS are with effect from today fully operational except for solemnisation of marriages but will operate with a skeleton staff. The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has acquired Personal Protective...Published: 11 May 2020 at 08:19hrs | 443 | by Staff reporter
Courts resume operations next week
ALL courts shall become fully operational with effect from May 11 as the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) is acquiring Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for its members, including judges and magist...Published: 05 May 2020 at 07:38hrs | 379 | by Staff reporter
Released MDC activist cries foul
MDC Alliance activist Josphat "Mzaca" Ngulube claims his incarceration exposed him to the biased nature of the justice delivery service system in the country, arguing the process was frustrating for a...Published: 03 May 2020 at 09:26hrs | 1478 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga hangs on to son despite court ultimatum
BUSINESSMAN Frank Buyanga, embroiled in a bitter fight for the custody of son with ex, Chantelle Muteswa, has vowed to appeal a Thursday High Court ruling ordering him to return the minor within 24 ho...Published: 18 Apr 2020 at 07:58hrs | 348 | by Staff reporter
No joy for Justice Bere
The tribunal to investigate a complaint against suspended Supreme Court judge Justice Francis Bere will now sit after he lost his bid to get the High Court to hear as a matter of urgency his action st...Published: 17 Apr 2020 at 07:24hrs | 554 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga to return son to ex-girlfriend
The High Court on Thursday ordered millionaire businessman Frank Buyanga to return his five-year-old son to the boy's mother within 24 hours, or face contempt charges.Justice Jacob Manzunzu, w...Published: 16 Apr 2020 at 14:20hrs | 1285 | by Staff reporter
Justice Bere seeks urgent hearing
The High Court will tomorrow rule whether or not the legal challenge mounted by Supreme Court judge, Justice Francis Bere, over his disciplinary tribunal should be heard as an urgent matter. P...Published: 15 Apr 2020 at 07:33hrs | 385 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga engages Zacc over Mnangagwa's son
Controversial businessman Frank Buyanga has shopped one of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's sons to human rights and anti-corruption watchdogs, accusing him of corrupting a judge.The South Afric...Published: 09 Apr 2020 at 08:26hrs | 1785 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa reported to the Judicial Service Commission
PROPERTY mogul Frank Buyanga and ex-lover Chantelle Muteswa's child custody wrangle has taken a new twist after the businessman wrote to the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) complaining about how Pre...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 10:35hrs | 3932 | by newzimbabwe
Zanu-PF benefactor in murky Zupco bus deal
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's advisor and Sakunda Holdings boss Kuda Tagwirei, whose tentacles stretch across a vast spectrum of the economy, has been acquiring buses for Zupco's public transportatio...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 08:10hrs | 5628 | by Staff reporter
Mutevedzi appointed chief magistrate
Mr Munamato Mutevedzi has been appointed the substantive chief magistrate by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC). The post had been vacant since the resignation of Mr Mishrod Guvamombe in De...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:34hrs | 203 | by Staff reporter
Law firms shut down, JSC streamlines
SEVERAL Bulawayo laws firms have shut down their offices while the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has also streamlined operations at the courts as part of measures taken to mitigate against the spr...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:29hrs | 252 | by Staff reporter
Court official bemoans overcrowding at Tredgold
Acting chief magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi has called for the decongestion of Tredgold House in Bulawayo by removing some government departments operating there to allow more space for the provincial ...Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 20:09hrs | 711 | by Staff reporter
Chidyausiku widow case struck off the roll
HIGH Court judge Jacob Manzunzu has removed from the roll an application filed by the widow of the late chief justice and national hero Godfrey Chidyausiku.The widow is seeking an order compel...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 08:41hrs | 1022 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa orders misconduct inquiry into Supreme Court judge
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed a tribunal to look into Supreme Court judge Francis Bere's fitness to hold office after a lawyer accused him of interference in a civil case.It is th...Published: 03 Mar 2020 at 07:57hrs | 1109 | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court judge in trouble
Supreme Court judge, Justice Francis Bere, is in trouble over allegations that he interfered with a pending civil court case involving the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) and his relati...Published: 03 Mar 2020 at 05:45hrs | 733 | by Staff reporter
Judges get better with age, says JSC
THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has rallied behind government's proposed Constitutional Amendment Bill, especially on sections to do with extension of judges' tenure after reaching retirement ag...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 16:31hrs | 109 | by Staff reporter
Judges get better with age, says JSC
THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has rallied behind government's proposed Constitutional Amendment Bill, especially on sections to do with extension of judges' tenure after reaching retirement ag...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 16:31hrs | 76 | by Staff reporter
Prosecutor-General under fire
A ZANU-PF-aligned civic society organisation #308 has written to the Justice ministry, National Prosecuting Authority and the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) calling for an investigation into the c...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 07:51hrs | 1302 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths throw Tsenengamu under the bus
ZANU-PF youths have rejected a call by their suspended national commissar Godfrey Tsenengamu for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to meet his arch-rival Nelson Chamisa and invent solutions to the national...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 14:48hrs | 3943 | by newzimbabwe
Zanu-PF Youth League calls for discipline
The Zanu-PF Youth League is committed to using properly laid down procedures in fighting corruption through State institutions that were created specially to eliminate the vice, the ruling party's act...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 05:57hrs | 400 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths finger Mnangagwa allies
ZANU-PF youth leaders yesterday labelled President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ally Kuda Tagwirei "the most corrupt person in the country" at an extraordinary Press conference that also exposed growing facti...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 06:13hrs | 1115 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean judge Hungwe on edge of the bench in Lesotho
Maseru/Harare – When the Lesotho authorities decided to hire foreign judges to steer ongoing high-profile murder trials involving former high-ranking Lesotho Defence Force personnel, little did they...Published: 31 Jan 2020 at 19:00hrs | 279 | by KEISO MOHLOBOLI, NKOSANA DLAMINI, TUMISANG SERAME
Zimbabwe to recruit 200 prosecutors to fight graft
THE National Prosecution Authority (NPA) has been given the nod to recruit 200 public prosecutors for special anti-corruption courts across the country. The development comes as prosecutors se...Published: 30 Jan 2020 at 08:42hrs | 126 | by Staff reporter
Malaba, Chiweshe collide over messy Chiwenga divorce
Chief Justice Luke Malaba and Judge President George Chiweshe are on a collision course after being dragged into Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's messy divorce from his wife, Marry Mubaiwa....Published: 29 Jan 2020 at 20:39hrs | 5653 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga goes after Judge President Chiweshe
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga has raised a complaint against Judge President George Chiweshe after the judgment in a child custody case was allegedly leaked to his estranged wife, Marry Mubaiwa,...Published: 29 Jan 2020 at 07:18hrs | 2500 | by newzimbabwe
Chiwenga raises complaint against Judge President
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga has raised a complaint against Judge President George Chiweshe whom he accuses of influencing court decisions in favour of his estranged wife, Marry Mubaiwa, and le...Published: 29 Jan 2020 at 07:13hrs | 665 | by Staff reporter
'Machete violence organised, premeditated'
MACHETE violence cases being perpetrated by artisanal miners in the country are not happening randomly, but are premediated and organised, High Court judge Justice Martin Makonese has said.Off...Published: 28 Jan 2020 at 12:52hrs | 455 | by Staff reporter
Huge salaries for anti-graft officials
GOVERNMENT is taking extraordinary measures to ring-fence all officers employed by the special anti-corruption courts through paying them competitive salaries and allowances. The Government be...Published: 28 Jan 2020 at 12:36hrs | 475 | by Staff reporter
Machete violence organised and premeditated, says High Court judge
MACHETE violence cases being perpetrated by artisanal miners in the country are not happening randomly, but are premediated and organised, High Court judge Justice Martin Makonese has said.Off...Published: 28 Jan 2020 at 06:58hrs | 3568 | by Staff Reporter
Sikhala mobilises backers as trial opens today
MDC-Alliance vice chair Job Sikhala, whose trial on subversion charges kicks-off at the Masvingo High Court today, is allegedly planning to bus hordes of party supporters to create an intimidating atm...Published: 27 Jan 2020 at 06:45hrs | 664 | by Staff reporter
Constitutional changes could be Mnangagwa's Hobbesian moment
Twenty-seven is the number of changes that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration wants to make on Zimbabwe's Constitution, passed only seven years ago.The intended changes, announced o...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:21hrs | 226 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Zimbabwe braces for paperless courts
While piles of paper still rule in all Zimbabwean courthouses, the new Commercial Court Division of the High Court, which is getting ready to move at the end of the year into Bristol House now under r...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 05:55hrs | 37 | by Staff rpeorter
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