Search / Jurists
ZAPU demands inclusion in Gukurahundi resolution process
ZAPU and its former military wing, ZIPRA, have declared that as the primary victims of the Gukurahundi genocide, they should be involved in finding a solution arguing that current efforts to resolve G...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 16:34hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF wades into Gaza genocide
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has hailed the South African government for its application to the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague seeking the declaration of Israel's military assault on Gaza...Published: 15 Jan 2024 at 05:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sets tribunal to probe misconduct allegations against Justice Chinamora
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed a three-member tribunal to investigate allegations of misconduct against High Court Judge Webster Chinamora.The allegations stem from a complaint fil...Published: 16 Nov 2023 at 05:58hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Sham elections likely to spark uprisings - Analysts
THE failure by regional bodies to deal with disputed elections in Zimbabwe could lead to a possible revolution, a new report has warned.Zimbabwe will hold general elections on 23 August 2023 b...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 21:13hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Parliament turns heat on Mthuli Ncube
LEGISLATORS have taken Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube to task over the galloping inflation and the crumbling local currency, which they say has eroded salaries of government wo...Published: 15 Jun 2023 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa demands Mthuli Ncube explanation over unbudgeted US$400k judges pay-outs
Norton legislator Temba Mliswa has demanded the summoning of Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube to parliament to explain how he bestowed unbudgeted US$400,000 pay-outs to each of the country's judges....Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 19:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe desperately needs leadership renewal
GOOD day President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, as you are quite aware, the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) symbolises the antiquity of State-owned public institutions. It is ground...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 07:43hrs | 11 | by Cyprian Ndawana
Former Zimbabwe judge to join Kenya election petition panel
RETIRED judge and Alpha Media Holdings Ombudsman, Justice Moses Chinhengo will be part of a high-level panel that will hear the 2022 Kenya presidential election petition.Justice Chinhengo and ...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa regime on UN radar over abuses
ZIMBABWE'S legacy of gross human rights violations topped discussions at the 30th meeting of the ongoing 50th session of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council, which put the spotlight on Presid...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:31hrs | 12 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Lindiwe Sisulu hits back at Zondo
Less than a week ago, I published an opinion piece that captures the importance of where ordinary South Africans find themselves.This opinion piece is my contribution to a conversing South Afr...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:35hrs | | by Lindiwe Sisulu
SA Minister opposes court bid by Zimbabwean-born law graduates
SOUTH AFRICA'S Legal Practice Council (LPC) and the Minister of Justice are opposing a court bid by three Zimbabwean-born graduates to change legislation which bars them from practicing law in South A...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 06:44hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe envoy sweats over Ramaphosa lawsuit
HARARE'S top diplomat in Pretoria, David Hamadziripi, said this week a court case filed by Zimbabwean migrants against President Cyril Ramaphosa's administration over special work permit renewals has ...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:56hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
South Africans say #NoToZimWorkPermits, #PutSouthAfricansFirst
While many Zimbabweans have said they were edgy over the delay of their SA permits being renewed, South Africans have indicated the opposite, ...Published: 11 Nov 2021 at 08:29hrs | 14 | by Staff Reporter
Judges set wrong precedent by hearing own case
CONSTITUTIONAL Court judges who overturned a High Court ruling that Chief Justice Luke Malaba's continued stay in office beyond 70 years was illegal despite being cited have set a wrong precedent by b...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
What has gone wrong with South Africa's Constitutional Court?
For many years, our Constitutional Court basked in glory. It was lauded worldwide. Its judgments were studied in legal academies around the world. Many of our judges were in demand to teach seminars o...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 07:53hrs | 8 | by Ziyad Motala
Jacob Zuma is not to blame for South Africa's mess
At the time of going to press, over 100 people had been killed and hundreds hospitalised after riots and protests related to the imprisonment of former South African president Jacob Zuma.Don't...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 08:06hrs | | by Kenneth Mufuka
Zimbabwe judges in the dock next week
TOP Zimbabwean judges of the highest court in the land - including Deputy Chief Justice Elizabeth Gwaunza - will inadvertently be in the dock next when they hear an application by a Bulawayo man Marx ...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 20:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
When the judiciary abuses the liberators; Revolution under attack (The Zuma debacle)
When I was a prosecutor in the 1990's in Zimbabwe we had some prosecutors and lawyers who would come into court and make submissions which will be aimed at the people sitting in the gallery. They were...Published: 04 Jul 2021 at 08:42hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Judiciary being corroded by political expediency
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, societal harmony is under threat as the Judiciary, which essentially should be independent from interference, is being corroded by political ...Published: 09 Jun 2021 at 07:17hrs | | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Ziyambi's rants reflective of state siege on judiciary
THE angry outburst by Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi (pictured) following the landmark ruling by the three High Court judges, rendering null and void the decision by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to ...Published: 21 May 2021 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti bitten by that which he went hunting for
Tendai Biti was a legislator (among others) who partnered with foreign governments to collectively punish innocent Zimbabweans by inviting sanctions, in an attempt to coerce people to vote for his par...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 05:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told release Chin'ono, Mahere, Sikhala
AMNESTY International has demanded that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration immediately and unconditionally releases incarcerated opposition leaders, MDC Alliance vice-chairman, Job Sikhala ...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Corruption busting whistle-blower app launched
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has, in partnership with various stakeholders including Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ), launched an online whistle-blower platform to encourag...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 20:05hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ZUNDE condemns violation of the rule of law in Zimbabwe
On 24 November 2017, Zimbabweans United for Democracy (ZUNDE) issued a press statement in which we welcomed the fall of President Robert Mugabe and congratulated the incoming administration. We genuin...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 06:17hrs | | by Moses Chamboko
Chin'ono, Ngarivhume in 4th bail bid
Incarcerated investigative journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and opposition politician Jacob Ngarivhume who are being charged with inciting the public to commit public violence when they called for protest...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
African jurists angry over Mtetwa 'victimisation'
THE Africa Judges and Jurists Forum (AJJF) has called on the Zimbabwean government to immediately stop victimising human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa and blocking her from representing detained journ...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Justice Malaba will uphold rule of law
ZIMBABWE has a role to define its own destiny regarding promotion of rule of law and access to justice, with development partners only expected to render financial or technical support to implement th...Published: 28 May 2019 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa's anti-corruption crusade is fast-losing steam
The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) launched the special anti-corruption courts with fanfare slightly more than a year ago, but a cocktail of challenges is retarding the prosecution of graft-accused...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 08:27hrs | | by Charles Laiton
Zimbabwe must improve justice accessibility: EU
The European Union (EU) has challenged Zimbabwe to step up efforts to remove barriers in accessing justice for everyone regardless social status.Speaking at the launch of the Zimbabwe Ezekiel ...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 17:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Govt lies about ICJ intervention in 'Public Violence Cases'
The Government of Zimbabwe, through the Deputy Minister of Information and Publicity, Nick Mangwana, has blatantly lied it was not aware that International Commission of Jurist (ICJ) had intervened an...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 19:59hrs | | by Advocate Walter Nyabadza
'Justice Malaba instructed magistrates to deny protestors bail' Jonathan Moyo alleges
Exiled former Cabinet Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has alleged that Chief Justice Luke Malaba instructed magistrates to deny bail to persons accused of taking part in the violent protests that...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 09:52hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Biti case brings Zimbabwe judiciary under spotlight
The on-going trial of MDC deputy national chairperson Tendai Biti has exposed the politicised and cavalier attitude of a prosecution service that has long been captured by elements that protect and pr...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 17:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Judges lock horns
A battle of the titans has ensued between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the highest court in the land after the first citizen threw down the gauntlet by accusing some of the Constitutional Court (C...Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 19:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chief Justice Luke Malaba: Where is the full judgment to Chamisa's election challenge?
The Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe, led by Chief Justice Luke Malaba, is yet to deliver full judgment in Advocate Nelson Chamisa's elections petition,it has emerged. This comes almost three (3) mont...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 07:12hrs | 2 | by Walter Nyabadza
2% tax headache for Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government violated the law by gazetting a legal instrument that put into force the 2 cents tax on electronic transactions as part of a cocktail of austerity measures, f...Published: 14 Oct 2018 at 09:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa, my door is open,' Mnangagwa invited - to what end, another de facto one-party dictatorship
The International Commission of Jurists under the auspices of the African Judges and Jurists Forum has endorsed the Constitutional Court Judgment which declared President ED Mnangagwa the duly elected...Published: 26 Aug 2018 at 23:07hrs | 1 | by Walter Nyabadza
Let parties gracefully accept court verdict
THE nation is gripped with the unfolding Constitutional Court (ConCourt) case, where MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is seeking to overturn Emmerson Mnangagwa's presidential electoral victory, whic...Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 06:42hrs | | by Editorial - newsday
Profiles of Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court judges
Nine Constitutional Court (ConCourt) judges will today preside over a matter which will decide on who will lead Zimbabwe for the next five years. Chief Justice Luke Malaba will lead a cast of eight ju...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:26hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's fate lies with 9 judges
ZIMBABWE'S estimated 14 million citizens are today holding their collective breaths as the Constitutional Court bench made up of nine men and women sit to make a determination in one of the greatest p...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa faces moment of truth
MDC Alliance presidential hopeful Nelson Chamisa faces his moment of truth today when his team of top local and regional lawyers take to the centre stage at the Constitutional Court (ConCourt), seekin...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:23hrs | | by Stff 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
AJJF jurists jet in to observe ConCourt proceedings
The Africa Judges and Jurists Forum (AJJF) has dispatched senior judges and jurists to observe MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's presidential court challenge against President-elect Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
ICJ Delagation Arrives in Harare ahead of Chamisa Poll Challenge
I can confirm that the three member delagation of African Judges and Jurists sent by the International Commission of Jurists is now in Harare ahead of tomorrow's high stakes hearing.The delega...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 19:20hrs | | by Walter Nyabadza
Chamisa's foreign lawyers cornered
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa's bid to engage five foreign lawyers in his presidential election challenge could hit a brick-wall, as they are yet to be cleared to pract...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Emminent African Jurists to Observe Chamisa Poll Challenge.
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) is sending emminent african jurists to observe Zimbabwe's disputed poll challenge set for Wednesday 22 August, 2018.A delegation consisting of Afr...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 21:35hrs | | by Walter Nyabadza
ICJ to observe Chamisa poll challenge
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) will be sending a delagation of emminent jurists to Zimbabwe to observe Advocate Nelson Chamisa's Constitutional Court challenge set for Wednesday 22 Augu...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 08:50hrs | 1 | by Walter Nyabadza
ICJ to observe Chamisa poll challenge
DEAR EDITOR,The International Commission of Jurists will be sending a delagation of emminent jurists to Zimbabwe to observe Advocate Nelson Chamisa's Constitutional Court challenge set for Wed...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 06:23hrs | | by Walter Nyabadza
Zimbabwe opens anti-corruption courts
The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has officially opened Anti-Corruption Courts in Harare and Bulawayo, with the prosecution, making an undertaking that any property acquired by the suspect through...Published: 30 Mar 2018 at 08:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is being betrayed by the MDC - The opposition must think outside the box
Morgan Richard Tsvangirai stands as a giant in Zimbabwe politics. More than any other, he has taken the fight up to ZANU PF for the last 18 years and he has paid dearly for his courageous stance. At a...Published: 14 Feb 2018 at 10:09hrs | | by Tapson Muchena
Load More Stories
