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Shock as judges from Matebeleland continue to be overlooked
Chief Justice Luke Malaba has named Justice Munamato Mutevedzi - appointed to the bench only in 2021 - as the most senior judge in Bulawayo, astounding many lawyers.Mutevedzi is replacing Just...Published: 12 Sep 2024 at 10:28hrs | 2436 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa distances self from ex-judge's ConCourt challenge
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has refused to respond to allegations by former judge Justice Erica Ndewere accusing him of using unlawful recommendations of a tribunal to remove her from office....Published: 27 Mar 2024 at 06:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
JSC calls for nomination of High Court judges
THE Judicial Services Commission (JSC) has called on members of the public to nominate suitable candidates for 10 vacancies on the High Court bench and one for the Administrative Court judge. ...Published: 15 Mar 2024 at 07:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints tribunal to probe Justice Makonese
Bulawayo High Court judge, Justice Martin Makonese, now faces a tribunal investigating his suitability for judicial office after he issued an order in a commercial dispute in which he allegedly had a ...Published: 22 Apr 2023 at 19:01hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
JSC backtracks on former judge's Merc
THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has made a U-turn on its intentions to repossess former High Court judge, Justice Erica Ndewere's Mercedes Benz after her lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa accused Chief Ju...Published: 01 Nov 2022 at 05:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
High Court rejects Mtetwa bid
The High Court has rejected the bid by activist lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa, to compel the Judicial Service Commission and President Mnangagwa to release results of interviews held six years ago for Supre...Published: 24 Mar 2022 at 05:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
No joy for Mtetwa as High Court rejects her case
The High Court has rejected the bid by activist lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa to compel the Judicial Service Commission and President Mnangagwa to release results of interviews held six years ago for Supreme...Published: 23 Mar 2022 at 20:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
No pay day for fired judge Ndewere
FORMER High Court judge Erica Ndewere, who was fired after a tribunal found her guilty of gross incompetence, has failed in her bid to compel President Mnangagwa to pay punitive costs for her suit, in...Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fired judge hands over unfinished cases
FORMER High Court judge Erica Ndewere, who was fired for incompetence, has handed over six cases she was handling to the acting Judge President, Mary Zimba-Dube.Ndewere was fired by President ...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 20:42hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Justice Ndewere fired
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has fired High Court judge, Justice Erica Ndewere, after a tribunal set up to inquire into her suitability to hold a judicial office recommended that she be removed from the bench ...Published: 18 Jun 2021 at 07:15hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Malaba fights back
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba has asked the High Court to throw out an application by a constitutional law activist for his arrest on contempt of court charges, insisting that his stay in office was legal...Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 07:30hrs | 10 | by Staff report
Judge tells Mnangagwa to probe CJ Malaba
HIGH Court judge Justice Erica Ndewere has asked President Emmerson Mnangagwa to probe the conduct of Chief Justice Luke Malaba, arguing his interference with judges' independence was a danger to the ...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police besiege suspended judge
POLICE stormed suspended High Court judge Justice Erica Ndewere's Harare house before withdrawing her security details under controversial circumstances yesterday.A truckload of plainclothes p...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CJ Malaba's anti-corruption posture unsettles many culprits?
THE anti-corruption posture taken by the Judiciary has unsettled many culprits that are now resorting to social media and newspapers to attack the Judiciary, a top Government official has said. ...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 05:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Judge seeks to bloc Mnangagwa from firing her
HIGH Court judge Justice Erica Ndewere has filed an interdict against President Emmerson Mnangagwa to stop him from suspending her until Chief Justice Luke Malaba has followed correct disciplinary pro...Published: 24 Oct 2020 at 08:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Justice Francis Bere removed from office
PRESS STATEMENT BY THE CHIEF SECRETARY TO THE PRESIDENT AND CABINET RE: REMOVAL OF JUSTICE FRANCIS BERE JA FROM OFFICE Following the advice of the J...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 16:17hrs | | by STaff Reporter
Sikhala bail Judge tells CJ Malaba to 'Get off my back'
SUSPENDED High Court judge justice Erica Ndewere is paying the price for reportedly refusing to take orders from Chief Justice Luke Malaba, reminding him that the Constitution does not make provision ...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala bail judge Erica Ndewere suspended, accused of 'misconduct'
A judge who recently granted bail to MDC vice chairman Job Sikhala has been suspended by the Judicial Service Commission headed by Chief Justice Luke Malaba.Justice Erica Ndewere of the Harare...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 08:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ex-top cop on life jail freed
THE Supreme Court has acquitted an ex-top police detective who was serving life imprisonment for fatally shooting a mine worker in a fight over the ownership of a gold mine in Fort Rixon in Matabelela...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 16:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bearded pupil loses appeal
Enforcing conflicting religious beliefs of students in schools can be chaotic, the Supreme Court ruled in an appeal of a Muslim pupil who wanted to be allowed to wear beard on grounds of his religious...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 06:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Obert Gutu pours cold water on MDC 'victory'
MDC-T Vice President Obert Chaurura Gutu has pour cold water on a fake Nelson Chamisa led MDC Supreme court victory ruling that circulated all over social media on Monday evening.The fak...Published: 21 May 2019 at 11:32hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Panel of judges clears Justice Bere of wrongdoing
A PANEL of four judges appointed by Chief Justice Luke Malaba has cleared Supreme Court judge Justice Francis Bere of ethical misconduct following allegations levelled against him by Meikles executive...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 23:22hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court judge under investigation
Supreme Court judge Justice Francis Bere is under investigation over allegations of conflict of interest in a ruling he made in the more than $2 million consultancy dispute between Zimbabwe Stock Exch...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 07:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
High Court sets up commercial division
THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC) will this year set up a commercial division of the High Court to settle commercial disputes, Deputy Chief Justice Elizabeth Gwaunza has said. Officially o...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
Zimbabwe judge gets top Sadc post
FORMER Bulawayo High Court senior judge Justice Francis Bere has been elected president of the Sadc Administrative Tribunal (SadcAT) during the court's elections held in Gaborone, Botswana on Monday. ...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 05:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chief Justice Malaba vows to tackle corruption in Judiciary
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba has declared that he will leave no stone unturned in his endeavour to fight corruption within the country's Judiciary. Speaking during the commissioning of three new ...Published: 06 Oct 2018 at 08:50hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa-Khupe row: 'Zanu-PF Judge' recuses self
THE hearing of the contest over ownership of the MDC-T claimed by Mr Nelson Chamisa and Dr Thokozani Khupe, who are fighting over the party's name, symbols and logo, failed to kick off yesterday at th...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa goes back to court
The Nelson Chamisa-led faction has once again approached the High Court in its quest to bar former party deputy president Dr Thokozani Khupe's formation from using the opposition party's name....Published: 29 May 2018 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Don't entertain Khupe,' says Chamisa
Following the Supreme Court ruling that the legal fight over use of MDC-T party symbols between Nelson Chamisa and Thokozani Khupe's camps should be heard by the High Court as a matter of urgency, to ...Published: 28 May 2018 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff rpeirter
Coltart law firm ordered to pay a client +$12,000 for bungling a case
A law firm in which controversial MDC politician Mr David Coltart is a senior partner has been ordered to pay a client more than $12 000 after bungling a case. A former High Court judge, Justice Franc...Published: 26 May 2018 at 14:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
David Coltart law firm unprofessional, judge declares
A LAW firm in which controversial MDC politician Mr David Coltart is a senior partner has been ordered to pay a client more than $12 000 after bungling a case.A former High Court judge Justice...Published: 24 May 2018 at 06:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Real MDC T have been vindicated by the supreme judgement
The Bulawayo provincial executive and its subsidiary body structures has said they have been vindicated by the supreme judgement that Justice Francis Bere's judgement on Thokozani Khupe visa vis MDC-T...Published: 23 May 2018 at 12:54hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
MDC T statement on the Supreme Court Judgement
The Movement for Democratic Change yesterday received a judgement from the Supreme Court on a matter that our erstwhile colleagues had strangely appealed against when the route to what they had prayed...Published: 23 May 2018 at 12:14hrs | 1 | by Linda T Masarira
BREAKING: Chamisa wins court case against Khupe
The Supreme Court of Zimbabwe has referred the case between Nelson Chamisa and Thokozani Khupe to the High Court to be decided there. In April, the court had initially dismissed Chamisa's appl...Published: 22 May 2018 at 13:28hrs | | by A Mhlongo
Sex 'fiend' (68)'s rape conviction quashed
The Bulawayo High Court has acquitted and quashed the conviction of a 68-year-old man who was sentenced to 25 years for an alleged string of sex attacks on a 16-year-old girl.Neil Leach, of Su...Published: 16 May 2018 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe slams door on Chamisa
FORMER deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe, who now leads a splinter group of the MDC-T after the acrimonious split that followed a leadership wrangle in the aftermath of founding opposition leader,...Published: 03 May 2018 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa ill-advised on court route'
MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa and his MDC party are ill-advised in attacking the judiciary on the outcome of a recent urgent application filed by his party in which they sought to...Published: 02 May 2018 at 10:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to boot out Chinese
MDC-T president Nelson Chamisa yesterday said if voted into power he will expel Chinese investors and cancel deals Government signed with the world's second largest economy running into billions of do...Published: 02 May 2018 at 08:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa challenges Khupe verdict
MDC-T's controversially appointed president Mr Nelson Chamisa, who last week cast aspersions on the Judiciary, is now contesting a High Court verdict allowing his rival Dr Thokozani Khupe to use the p...Published: 02 May 2018 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Putting out Chamisa's lit fuse
The recent ruling by High Court judge Justice Francis Bereagainst Mr Nelson Chamisa in his crusade against Dr Thokozani Khupe should have served as a wake-up call to the young leader. Justice Bere's b...Published: 01 May 2018 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Charles, Harare (student)
Chamisa challenges High Court judgement
The legal feud for control of the MDC-T pitting Nelson Chamisa and Thokozani Khupe is far from being resolved.This follows a Supreme Court appeal against the judgement of Justice Francis Bere ...Published: 30 Apr 2018 at 16:35hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Madhuku lashes Chamisa
LAW expert Lovemore Madhuku has lashed out at the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC-T faction for criticising the ruling of the court case in which rival leader Thokozani Khupe won the battle over the use of the...Published: 28 Apr 2018 at 14:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa a sore loser, says Khupe
Dr Thokozani Khupe's MDC-T faction has cheered a recent High Court decision which ruled that an application by a rival group led by Mr Nelson Chamisa for it to stop using the party's name, logo and sy...Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 19:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to name running mate soon
HARARE - MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa will soon name his choice to serve as vice presidential running mate to better compete with President Emmerson Mnangagwa.He is said ...Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 16:45hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mudenda made a mistake by firing Khupe from parly
Former MDC legislator Norman Mpofu has said the speaker of parliament Jacob Mudenda made a mistake by firing former MDC-T Vice President Thokozani Khupe from parliament considering the fact that the c...Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 07:14hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
MDC-T applauds High Court decision
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) wishes to applaud the decision by the High Court, whose net effect is that we are a legitimate body with full rights and responsibilities as an entity under ...Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 14:45hrs | 1 | by Linda Tsungirirai Masarira
Chamisa in contempt of court?
The MDC-T faction led by Nelson Chamisa undermined the integrity of the courts and should be charged for contempt for ascribing wrong motives to a judge who presided over a case in which Chamisa sough...Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 08:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa undermines integrity of the courts
The MDC-T faction led by Mr Nelson Chamisa undermined the integrity of the courts and should be charged for contempt for ascribing wrong motives to a judge who presided over a case in which Mr Chamisa...Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Khupe agree to resolve differences
THE two warring MDC-T leaders, Nelson Chamisa and Thokozani Khupe, who are fighting over use of the opposition party's name and symbols following their acrimonious split last month, have reportedly ag...Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 07:05hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Khupe court case changes nothing, says Chamisa's faction
The Movement for Democratice Change faction led by Adv Nelson Chamisa has said "High court judgement by Justice Francis Bere may have allowed expelled members of the MDC-T to continue to abuse the par...Published: 25 Apr 2018 at 12:58hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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