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Supreme court strikes Tshabangu, Parliament speaker's appeal off the roll
The Supreme Court has struck off the roll appeals filed by self-styled Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim secretary-general Sengezo Tshabangu and the Speaker of the National Assembly, who wer...Published: 16 May 2025 at 09:46hrs | 170 | by Staff reporter
Prominent businessman being evicted from his US$1.5 million mansion
Prominent local businessman Tendai Mashamhanda is currently being evicted from his US$1.5 million mansion in upmarket Highlands following a Supreme Court ruling that he fraudulently acquired the prope...Published: 25 Jun 2024 at 12:57hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter
Farai Matsika suffers court setback in Croco Motors ownership row
The Constitutional Court Monday struck off the roll, an application by businessman Farai Matsika who was appealing a Supreme Court ruling as the legal battle for control of Croco Motors rages on....Published: 21 Mar 2023 at 08:47hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Matsika loses Croco case again
Businessman Farai Matsika has now run out of any possible legal routes in his battle with his uncle Moses Chingwena for a share of Croco Motors after the Supreme Court rejected a series of application...Published: 21 Oct 2022 at 06:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Matsika loses Croco shares dispute
Businessman Farai Matsika on Monday had his appeal against a High Court ruling that he had used fabricated documents in an attempt to wrestle a 30 percent stake in Croco Holdings thrown out by the Sup...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:06hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
CJ Malaba case stokes fire
TOP human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa has called for investigation and suspension of Judicial Service Commission (JSC) secretary Walter Chikwana over his alleged meeting with one of the judges assig...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:47hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
MDC duo acquitted after 8 years in jail
THE Supreme Court yesterday acquitted MDC Alliance activists Last Maengahama and Tungamirai Madzokere of the murder of a senior police officer after it ruled that their conviction by the High Court wa...Published: 05 Jun 2021 at 09:29hrs | 15 | 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
Supreme Court judge admits she is not computer literate
SUPREME Court judge Justice Anne Gowora yesterday shocked panelists interviewing her for possible appointment to the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) bench after she admitted that she failed to update ...Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 07:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's ally accused of grand corruption, swindle Israeli investors
A long-time ally of former president Robert Mugabe has been accused of grand corruption after he allegedly swindled Israeli investors in a lucrative gold mining venture in Midlands province.Hi...Published: 19 May 2019 at 19:39hrs | 33 | by Staff reporter
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
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 | 29 | 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 | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mangoma will whittle down presidential powers
Daily News editor Gift Phiri sits down for a wide-ranging interview with the presidential candidate for the Coalition of Democrats (CODE) — an alliance of six opposition political parties about the ...Published: 14 Jan 2018 at 08:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's ally wins back land
MAYOR Logistics Private Limited, a firm owned by Gokwe Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena, has won back its acres of land that had been illegally sold to a Chinese businessman.T...Published: 31 Jan 2017 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T Bulawayo province irked by Bhunu's 20 years jail term imposed on party members
MDC-T Bulawayo Province has said it is baffled by the ruling made by Harare High Court Judge Justice Chinembiri Bhunu who sentenced the party members who were arrested for killing a police...Published: 17 Dec 2016 at 07:24hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
PDP condemns sentencing of activists to 20 years in jail
The People's Democratic Party (PDP) strongly condemns the politically motivated judgment handed down on Monday when our senior party official Last Maengahama, Harare councillor, Tungamirai Madzokere a...Published: 13 Dec 2016 at 18:58hrs | | by PDP
MDC-T cop killers jailed 20 years each
There is no justification for killing or abusing anyone in a politically motivated terror outside the "scourge" of war, a High Court judge said yesterday.Justice Chinembiri Bhunu said Zimb...Published: 13 Dec 2016 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
High Court judge to hand down sentence on Harare residents convicted for alleged murder of Police officer
HIGH Court Judge Justice Chinembiri Bhunu will on Monday 12 December 2016 sentence four Harare residents who were convicted for the murder of a Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Inspector Petros Mutedzi....Published: 12 Dec 2016 at 06:13hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Cop killers must hang, says Prosecutor
The prosecution has called for the death sentence on the three MDC-T activists who killed Police Inspector Petros Mutedza in Glen View, Harare, five years ago.Tungamirai Madzokere (41), who wa...Published: 09 Sep 2016 at 07:56hrs | | by Fidelis Munyoro
Zimbabwe succession battle shifts to judiciary
THE succession war raging in the ruling Zanu-PF party is set to shift to the third arm of government - the judiciary - as factions try to influence the choice of the candidate that will replace th...Published: 30 Jun 2016 at 09:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa challenges High Court
Dumiso Dabengwa opposition Zapu leader has filed an appeal at the Supreme Court, challenging former High Court judge Justice Chinembiri Bhunu's ruling granting the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Z...Published: 15 Oct 2015 at 08:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chinotimba wins farm wrangle against a white farmer
Buhera South legislator, Joseph Chinotimba and his son, Edwin have won a 440-hectare Hofstede farm wrangle after the High Court declared them the lawful occupiers of farm and ejected the occupier Foia...Published: 08 Oct 2015 at 18:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa asks court to postpone petition hearing
Former Mashonaland West provincial chairman Mr Temba Mliswa has asked the Electoral Court to postpone the petition hearing of the case in which he is challenging the victory of Zanu-PF's Keith Guzah i...Published: 14 Aug 2015 at 07:29hrs | | by Court Reporter
MDC-T welcomes electoral court ruling
The Tsvangirai MDC formation is applauding a ruling by High Court judge, Justice Chinembiri Bhunu that a registered voter can lawfully contest in a national assembly election in any constituency in th...Published: 08 Aug 2015 at 10:13hrs | | by Jonga Kandemiiri
Bhasikiti haunts Mugabe again
Former Mwenezi East MP Kudakwashe Bhasikiti yesterday approached the Supreme Court after the High Court on Thursday threw out a challenge against his expulsion from Zanu-PF by President Robert Mu...Published: 11 Jul 2015 at 12:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa's new voter's roll bid hits brick wall
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has unfettered discretion to use or not to use the voters' roll compiled by the Registrar General because there is no law compelling the commission to craft...Published: 10 Jul 2015 at 13:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru's ally loses ouster challenge
The Electoral Court has dismissed with costs an application by ousted Minister of State for Masvingo Province, Kudakwashe Bhasikiti Chuma, who is challenging his expulsion from Zanu-PF and subsequentl...Published: 09 Jul 2015 at 18:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
It's Zanu-PF vs Zanu-PF in Harare East
The High Court yesterday set the stage for a bruising electoral fight pitting two rival Zanu-PF parliamentary candidates when it allowed Terrence Mukupe and Mavis Gumbo to both contest the Harare East...Published: 07 May 2015 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF 'mafia club'
Hurungwe West independent parliamentary candidate Temba Mliswa yesterday denounced the ruling Zanu-PF as a "mafia club" which applied dirty tactics to crush and silence its opponents and former member...Published: 06 May 2015 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's Harare East fight rages on
High Court judge Justice Chinembiri Bhunu is today expected to give a determination in a political impasse between two Zanu-PF candidates Mavis Gumbo and Terrence Mukupe who are fighting to represent ...Published: 05 May 2015 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Suspected hubby killer granted $50 bail
HIGH Court judge Justice Chinembiri Bhunu has granted Fortunate Nsoro, the Chrtungwiza woman who allegedly killed her husband last month, $50 bail pending trial.As part of her bail conditions,...Published: 08 Apr 2015 at 08:09hrs | 2 | by Fungai Jachi
Msipa, Bvute kiss and make up
THE Crowhill Farm ownership wrangle was yesterday settled out of court when the warring parties reached a settlement which acknowledges that the upmarket property is owned by Mr Ozias Bvute and orders...Published: 15 Jan 2015 at 07:16hrs | | by Court Reporter
Cephas Msipa Jnr sued over farm
THE High Court will tomorrow hear a land dispute pitting businessman Ozias Bvute and Cephas Msipa Jnr, the son of the former Midlands governor.Bvute, the former Air Zimbabwe board chairman, wa...Published: 13 Jan 2015 at 07:05hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Youthful murderer to rot in jail
High Court judge Justice Chinembiri Bhunu recently sentenced to life without parole a 23-year-old serial robber and murderer for killing a Harare woman, Jean Chindinda, by stabbing her several tim...Published: 08 Dec 2014 at 08:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu ignored Ex-ZMDC boss's advise
FORMER Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC) chief executive officer Dominic Mubaiwa yesterday accused his former boss, ex-Mines minister Obert Mpofu of ignoring his advice against dealing wi...Published: 28 Oct 2014 at 05:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Consultation and legislation before prepaid water
Water Minister and his Local Government counter part are quick to declare and order councils to introduce prepaid water meters to boast councils' revenue collection.The Ministers' instruct...Published: 03 Oct 2014 at 10:47hrs | | by Bekezela Maduma Fuzwayo
Obert Mpofu must explain the $600 000 legal fees, say Court
The High Court ruled yesterday that former Mines and Mining Development Minister Obert Mpofu must explain himself for authorising payment of $600 000 as legal fees to a Harare law firm under unclear c...Published: 28 Aug 2014 at 06:22hrs | 2 | by Daniel Nemukuyu
MDC-T's Jameson Timba loses election petition
The Electoral Court has dismissed MDC-T candidate Mr Jameson Timba's challenge of the July 31 2013 election results for the National Assembly in Mt Pleasant constituency and upheld the victory of Za...Published: 19 Aug 2014 at 07:29hrs | | by Fidelis Munyoro
Obert Mpofu asked to explain US$600K legal fees
The Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Development, who is former Mines and Mining Development minister, Dr Obert Mpofu, has come under fire for allegedly instructing ZMDC and two other mining c...Published: 04 Aug 2014 at 14:13hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Murderer gets a wholly suspended sentence for poisoning his son
A 25-year old suicidal Uzumba man was lucky to escape jail for negligently killing his one and a half year old son with poison after the court gave him a wholly suspended sentence.Taurai Mukam...Published: 24 Jul 2014 at 16:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu fails to testify in the $2 billion fraud case
Former Minister of Mines and Mining Development, Dr Obert Mpofu, who had been summoned to testify in the $2 billion Lovemore Kurotwi and Dominic Mubaiwa diamond mining fraud trial failed to testify as...Published: 23 Jul 2014 at 19:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Good Corporate Integrity Should Rule Public Office
The grilling of the High Court Judges, Justice Charles Hungwe, Justice Bhunu, and Labour court Judges Euna Makamure and Mercy Moya-Matshanga, by the Judicial Service Commissioners during public in...Published: 17 Jul 2014 at 11:07hrs | | by Suitable Kajau
Man kills neighbour over trousers
A Sanyati teenage killer on Tuesday escaped capital punishment and was slapped with a nine-year effective jail term after he was convicted of murdering his neighbour who accused him of stealing h...Published: 10 Jul 2014 at 09:04hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu to appeal in court, accused of $10 million bribe
The National Prosecution Authority will soon summon former Mines and Mining Development Minister Obert Mpofu to testify in the $2 billion diamond fraud case in which Core Mining and Mineral Resources ...Published: 08 Jul 2014 at 06:10hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Man kills woman to settle $6,50 debt
A 23-year-old Glen View man has been convicted of murder with actual intent after he fatally stabbed a female resident in a bid to steal her personal items and raise $6,50 to settle a debt. ...Published: 04 Jul 2014 at 08:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophet Makandiwa summoned to court over murder
High Court Judge, Justice Chinembiri Bhunu, Tuesday agreed to summon United Family International Church (UFIC) headed by Emmanuel Makandiwa to testify in the trial of seven MDC-T youths accused of th...Published: 11 Jun 2014 at 10:28hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Soldier jailed over witchcraft murder
A BULAWAYO-based soldier, who fatally assaulted his uncle over witchcraft allegations, has been jailed 15 years by the High Court.Washington Majuru of Imbizo Barracks attacked his father's br...Published: 09 Jun 2014 at 06:45hrs | 7 | by Daniel Nemukuyu
Gunman jailed for killing uncle over witchcraft
A BULAWAYO-based soldier who fatally assaulted his uncle over witchcraft allegations, was yesterday jailed 15 years by the High Court. Washington Majuru, who is based at Imbizo Barracks, atta...Published: 07 Jun 2014 at 08:34hrs | 7 | by Daniel Nemukuyu
BCC to stop disconnecting water
BULAWAYO City Council says it has stopped disconnecting water for residents defaulting on paying bills following a High Court ruling last month that declared it unconstitutional.High Court jud...Published: 01 Jun 2014 at 07:33hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
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