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nZondo Commission 'a useful distraction' from South Africa's pressing problems
Many South Africans have already drawn their conclusions regarding the judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, corruption and fraud in the Public Sector, including Organs of ...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 19:50hrs | 395 | by Sipho Seepe
Ajay Singh: The no nonsense Prosecutor
High profile criminals and persons of interest who came before the courts in the early 2000s hated state prosecutor Ajay Singh. Singh earned a reputation of being uncompromising and unwavering...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 13:16hrs | 908 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Captured judiciary: No evidence that ConCourt judges, staff leaked info about Mkhwebane's case
There is no evidence that somebody within the Constitutional Court gave confidential information to Ismail Abramjee concerning public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane's application before that court....Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 19:06hrs | 712 | by Staff reporter
High Court reserves Ndewere appeal judgment
THE High Court yesterday heard an appeal by former judge, Justice Erica Ndewere and reserved judgment on the case.Ndewere is challenging her dismissal from the bench after President Emmerson M...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:33hrs | 123 | by Staff reporter
UK Rwanda asylum-seeker flight cancelled after European court ruling
A first flight carrying asylum seekers to Rwanda as part of a controversial UK policy was cancelled on Tuesday, in an embarrassing blow to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government.The number ...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 08:13hrs | 769 | by Staff reporter
UK sends asylum seekers to Rwanda
The British government was to send a first plane carrying asylum seekers to Rwanda yesterday despite last-gasp legal bids and protests against the controversial policy.A chartered plane was to...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:26hrs | 180 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sought Magaisa's support after coup?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is said to have sought the services of vocal critics to sanitise the November 2017 military coup and while he could have succeeded in luring some, several including the la...Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 17:45hrs | 910 | by Staff reporter
Ndiweni High Court appeal fails to take off
BULAWAYO High Court judges Justices Martin Makonese and Nokuthula Moyo declined to hear dethroned Ntabazinduna Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni's appeal against conviction and sentence in his absence....Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 06:45hrs | 1013 | by Staff reporter
Protraz Hackathon: $175m up for grabs
THE Post and Telecommunications Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) has launched this year's Hackathon, with $175 million up for grabs for outstanding innovations.To participate in the Hackathon on...Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 06:43hrs | 198 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe a safe haven for wanted genocidists
The Zimbabwe government is known for deploying the Zimbabwe National Army 5th Brigade in Matabeleland to commit genocide in which over 40 000 Matabele civilians including women and children were dasta...Published: 07 Jun 2022 at 11:54hrs | 4022 | by Israel Dube
Supreme Court dismisses Ndewere's appeal against tribunal
The Supreme Court has dismissed with costs an application by former High Court judge, Justice Erica Ndewere, who challenged the tribunal hearing set by her employer against herself over misconduct all...Published: 01 Jun 2022 at 06:40hrs | 908 | by Staff reporter
Scandal-ridden Glencore has a big footprint in Zimbabwe
GLOBAL commodities giant Glencore, one of the world's largest diversified natural resource companies, currently engulfed in a corruption and bribery storm in the United States, Britain and Brazil, has...Published: 31 May 2022 at 07:37hrs | 2061 | by Staff reporter
Beer drinkers church: when the love of God and booze meet
THE inviting, melodious echoes flow downhill as we make the final ascend.In the absence of musical instruments to enhance output, they use their palms to issue out some rhythmic claps which bl...Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:41hrs | 1586 | by Staff reporter
Ex-judge dies
FORMER High Court judge Justice Michael Gillespie has died. Gillespie succumbed to cancer on April 28 and will be buried on May 31 at Southdowns Natural Burial Ground in the United Kingdom.Gil...Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:34hrs | 567 | by Staff reporter
High court overturns conviction of 'covid-19 vaccine seeking' Goromonzi residents
THE High Court has overturned the conviction of three Goromonzi residents who were fined ZWL5 000 each last year for disorderly conduct when they allegedly protested over stock outs of coronavirus vac...Published: 23 May 2022 at 14:46hrs | 870 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa assures Junta their looting rights are safe - expect zero changes from 'Change Champion in Chief'
Ignorance is a curse worse than death! The dead are not tormented by anything whereas the ignorant are forever blundering from pillar to post; excited, it does not take much to get this lot excited, o...Published: 20 May 2022 at 10:20hrs | 3167 | by Nomusa Garikai
11 Zimbabwean students in international moot competition
ELEVEN Zimbabwean students have raised the country's flag high at the 2022 High School Moot International Competition which was held virtually.Zimbabwe is the only country that will be represe...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:21hrs | 336 | 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 | 6270 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF dangles trinkets to chiefs
LOCAL Government deputy minister Mariam Chombo has disclosed that government is planning to splash on traditional leaders to cushion them against economic turbulences.Chombo, who said she was ...Published: 14 May 2022 at 06:17hrs | 1087 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa cleared in controversial land deal
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been cleared in a case he was sued to explain a land deal with millionaire and land developer businessman, Ken Sharpe, by a Harare MP and two others.Allan Norm...Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:34hrs | 991 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in airport scandal application thrown out
THE High Court has dismissed an application filed by legislator Allan Markham against Aurgur Investments and President Emmerson Mnangagwa over the transfer of deed of settlement by the City of Harare....Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:33hrs | 1285 | by Staff reporter
Why others will land man on Mars whilst we still 'struggle to cross the street!'
"And we (in Africa) are still struggling to cross the street!" was the spontaneous respond of "Mwalimu" (Teacher) Julius Kambarage Nyerere, then President of Tanzania, when he learnt the American had ...Published: 11 May 2022 at 08:04hrs | 698 | by Wilbert Mukori
Naughty judges irk Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has expressed concern over rampant misbehaviour, warning he will not hesitate to remove the naughty ones from office.He was addressing delegates at the launch of t...Published: 07 May 2022 at 19:55hrs | 1636 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa claims his govt respects separation of powers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says his administration, often savaged for interfering with other arms of the state, respects the constituently provided principle of separation of powers.He warne...Published: 07 May 2022 at 19:55hrs | 878 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF moves to counter demos
THE Zanu-PF youth league has resolved to lobby the public service to only recruit party card-carrying members and graduates of the infamous Border Gezi programme as part of measures to counter demonst...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | 3229 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tells Judges to behave
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday expressed anger over the conduct of some judges after three of them were dismissed from work while another is under investigation for misconduct.Mnangagw...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:21hrs | 1754 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa too rich to send kids to government school
THE High Court has ordered Norton legislator Temba Mliswa to pay fees for his two minor children at a private school saying he is rich enough to afford it.Mliswa had challenged a magistrate's ...Published: 06 May 2022 at 19:30hrs | 762 | by Staff reporter
High Court judges corner Mliswa
THE High Court has barred Norton MP Temba Mliswa (Independent) from sending his two children to cheap government schools, saying he could afford fees at private institutions.Mliswa had challen...Published: 06 May 2022 at 06:55hrs | 2089 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's anti-corruption crusade fizzles out deplorably
HIGH-PROFILE corruption cases from as far back as 2017 are yet to be finalised, almost five years after President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised to decisively tackle graft.The development also de...Published: 03 May 2022 at 16:08hrs | 1072 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo-born Thando wows judges on The Voice Australia 2022
Thando Sikwila, also known by the mononym Thando, is a contestant in The Voice Australia. Her blind audition performance of the Chaka Khan hit I'm Every Woman has wowed all the four judges.Let...Published: 03 May 2022 at 06:45hrs | 467 | by Staff reporter
Politicised military threatens 2023 poll
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is abusing state institutions, including the military, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) and judiciary, to maintain his tight grip on power ahead of the...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:39hrs | 794 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa rewards female boxer Chiwandire with US$15,000
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday cheered the spirits of female boxer Kudakwashe "Take Money" Chiwandire with a US$15 000 reward for her exploits after winning the World Boxing Council Interim Super...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:09hrs | 170 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe introduces e-courts
ZIMBABWE will be introducing electronic courts, also known as e-courts, starting May 1.The announcement was made through Statutory Instrument (SI) 78, 79 and 80 of 2022 published in the Govern...Published: 25 Apr 2022 at 09:19hrs | 640 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa fires judge over nudes
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has fired High Court judge Thompson James Mabhikwa who was last year suspended after his girlfriend, Oratile Nare, who was then an assistant to a fellow Bulawayo judge, le...Published: 16 Apr 2022 at 08:31hrs | 2591 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe 'judicial capture' probed
PROMINENT jurists led by the Southern African Development Community Lawyers Association (Sadc LA) last week embarked on a fact-finding mission to Zimbabwe to investigate concerns about judicial captur...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 08:17hrs | 775 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants' salaries war erupts
THE ruling Zanu-PF says the opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) should call for the removal of sanctions first before advocating living wages for restless civil servants who have declared ...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 11:14hrs | 1794 | by Staff reporter
Prices in Zimbabwe run riot!
THE economic malaise has deepened in recent weeks as the cost of living is spiralling out of control with prices soaring by about 30% during the first week of April. This has plunged households into e...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 08:22hrs | 1012 | by Staff reporter
Marry Chiwenga: When chickens come home to roost
MARRY Mubaiwa most definitely has the right to be flown to her own preferred destination, China or anywhere else, as her estranged husband has.She, of a truth, has the right to be treated and ...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 06:50hrs | 3103 | by Staff reporter
Challenging election results
ELECTIONS are prone to be disputed. Electoral petitions to challenge any part of the election process are allowed in terms of the Electoral Act. There are also criminal remedies if there has been a br...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 06:47hrs | 273 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Mnangagwa appoints tribunal to look into removal of judge Edith Mushore from office
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has issued a proclamation appointing a tribunal chaired by Retired justice Maphios Cheda to inquire into the removal from the bench of High Court judge Edith Mushore...Published: 05 Apr 2022 at 14:38hrs | 1798 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa fails to decimate opposition
THE Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) was the biggest winner in last weekend's by-elections, with Zanu PF coming a humble second while the MDC-T performed dismally despite the state pouring money i...Published: 02 Apr 2022 at 07:28hrs | 2479 | by Staff reporter
Deputy Sheriff fired
Divorce orders obtained fraudulently by some greedy men with a view to stripping their spouses in the Diaspora of matrimonial property, are now on the increase amid reports that a Deputy Sheriff was r...Published: 02 Apr 2022 at 06:56hrs | 213 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira, Masoka corruption trial to restart
THE Judicial Services Commission (JSC) has acceded to the restarting of former Cabinet minister Prisca Mupfumira and former Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare permanent secretary Ngoni Masokas'...Published: 28 Mar 2022 at 06:43hrs | 154 | by Staff reporter
By-election winners, losers must work jointly
Results for most of the by-elections for 28 National Assembly seats and 105 local authority seats, mostly in city councils and municipalities, will be announced today and only 133 candidates are going...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:28hrs | 168 | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court withholds judgement in Obert Mpofu appeal over Esidakeni eviction
The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved judgement in an appeal brought by Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu and his wife, Sikhanyisiwe, challenging their eviction from a farm they occupi...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:02hrs | 133 | 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 | 326 | 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 | 888 | by Staff reporter
March 26 by-elections: Safe and swing national assembly seats
Battles between different political parties and independent candidates will play out in one of the most important by-elections in decades this March 26 as these by-elections will not only deliver a re...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 13:48hrs | 813 | by Farai Chirimumimba
Mnangagwa's borehole drilling scheme begins
The Presidential Borehole Drilling Scheme has started as Government seeks to provide clean water to urban areas after successive opposition led councils have failed to ensure potable water for residen...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 05:37hrs | 94 | by Staff reporter
18 judges appointed to Electoral Court
Eighteen judges of the High Court have been named by Chief Justice Luke Malaba to constitute the Electoral Court that will operate from March 1 to August 30 this year in terms of the Electoral Act....Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 05:37hrs | 59 | by Staff reporter
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