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It's high time foreign governments took the lead in investigating Zimbabwe's corrupt elite
The Zimbabwe ruling elite clearly won't act against high-level corruption.There is something profoundly disturbing about the silence of Zimbabwean authorities in the wake of the damning exposĂ...Published: 03 May 2025 at 11:48hrs | 631 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Dzino thinks Mnangagwa was a minor and peripheral player in the liberation struggle
Book Excerpt from: In Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream, Volume III (Ideas & Solutions)By Professor Arthur G.O. MutambaraI later lose my autographed copy of Wilfred Mhanda's b...Published: 17 Nov 2023 at 05:36hrs | 49 | by Professor Arthur G.O. Mutambara
Mnangagwa reverses late Chidyausiku's 'errors'
The new Labour Law approved by President Emmerson Mnangagwa has made it tough for companies to undertake reckless and stage-managed retrenchments which place workers at the losing end as had become th...Published: 09 Aug 2023 at 08:09hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Bona Mugabe divorce, yet another Damascene moment for the republic
The world is not for honest people. I am convinced. Those who toil, break a sweat in various endeavours to make an honest living a...Published: 07 May 2023 at 07:22hrs | 62 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Trevor Ncube's dalliances with Mnangagwa run much deeper
This article on the mysterious and controversial relations between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and local publisher Trevor Ncube is a summary based on an extract from...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 09:22hrs | 418 | by Jonathan Mbiriyamveka
The last great war might have begun
The tongue can be a powerful weapon.It can build and destroy. It also can excite, spite and incite.And when a sharp tongue is mixed with potent ideas, it is easy to concoct a nuclear w...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 08:50hrs | 2 | by Bishop Lazi
Mnangagwa's man back in charge
AFTER a bruising battle President Emmerson Mnangagwa's agenda to retain the services of Chief Justice Luke Malaba at the helm of the administration of justice, as part of his power consolidation and r...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 18:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa doesn't want Justice Happias Zhou
REASONS why President Emmerson Mnangagwa strongly dislikes High Court Justice Happias Zhou - who led a brave judicial panel that dramatically blocked Justice Luke Malaba's controversial tenure extensi...Published: 26 May 2021 at 16:23hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Malaba key to Mnangagwa's 2023 project
FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara says President Emmerson Mnangagwa is terrified of defeat in the 2023 elections and has decided to extend Chief Justice Luke Malaba's tenure because he is ...Published: 20 May 2021 at 22:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa extends Chief Justice Luke Malaba's term of office by 5 years
President Mnangagwa has extended Chief Justice Luke Malaba's service in office for up to five years depending on yearly medical reports proving he is still mentally and physically fit to continue in t...Published: 13 May 2021 at 06:44hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chief Justice Malaba's tenure set to be extended next week
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba is on course to remaining in office beyond 15 May (next Saturday) when his tenure ends by operation of law following the passing of the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa wants Luke Malaba to stay
ON 6 April 2021, the Zimbabwean senate passed Constitutional Amendment Bill (N0.1), which had been declared null and void by the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) on 31 March 2020, after it was unconsti...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 07:56hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Police probe ZACC office break-in
POLICE are investigating a case in which unknown people reportedly broke into the office of Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) chairperson Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo over the weekend at Mt Ple...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 06:18hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Ziyambi divided over Justice Malaba retirement
WHILE President Emmerson Mnangagwa wants Chief Justice Luke Malaba to continue serving until 2023 so that he becomes his last line of defence should the presidential election be contested in court, se...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 19:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa wants Malaba to stay on 2023
DESPITE the fact that Chief Justice Luke Malaba's judicial reign is coming to an end by operation of law at midnight on 15 May 2021 when he turns 70, President Emmerson Mnangagwa wants him to stay on ...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 19:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Army, police prosecutors have 18 days to vacate courts
PROSECUTORS from the army, air force and police have 18 days to vacate the civilian courts, a development which will ensure that a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) ruling of 2019 that barred them from ...Published: 02 Feb 2021 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Mutiusinazita
Mugabe's 10-year-old insult case thrown out of court
AN attempt last week by the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to resuscitate a 2010 case where Gilbert Kagodora, the MDC Alliance secretary for information communication technology was accused of i...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:50hrs | | 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
Chief Justice threatened
There was a report in the media in particular the Newsday Zimbabwe alleging that the suspended judge Ndewere had told off the Chief Justice. The reporter went on to say she refused instructions and th...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 12:00hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chidyausiku pension row settled
THE High Court has ruled that the two widows of the late former Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku are both entitled to receive the national hero's pension.the determination by Justice Jacob Ma...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 09:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Zowa
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has accorded a State-assisted funeral to the late deputy chairperson of the Zimbabwe Law Development Commission and a law reviser, Mr Joel Bigboy Zowa, who died last week in New Yo...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 07:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt target internet users
Government is set to put in place social media abuse laws amid revelations that there is an upsurge in internet abuse and the proliferation of illegal websites.This comes on the back of a rise...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:27hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Welshman Ncube's brother appointed Supreme Court judge
President' Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday appointed Justices Nicholas Mathonsi and Charles Hungwe as judges of the Supreme Court the public newspaper The Herald has reportedJustice Math...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 19:38hrs | 13 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Security agents must stay out of judiciary system
IN February this year we published a landmark ruling by the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) which declared as unconstitutional any involvement of the police and army personnel in the country's judicia...Published: 18 May 2019 at 20:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army, cops banned at civilian courts
THE Constitutional Court (ConCourt) has banned the use of State security agents as public prosecutors at civilian courts, saying their secondment to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) was a seri...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 09:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Con-Court bench members' profiles
Chief Justice Luke MalabaLuke Malaba was born in 1951.He received his law degree from the University of Warwick in 1974, and another law degree from the University of Zimbabwe in 1982....Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 13:07hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zibani withdraws Ziyambi appointment challenge
Former University of Zimbabwe law student, Romeo Zibani, has withdrawn his application challenging the constitutionality of the appointment of retired Supreme Court judge Justice Vernanda Ziyambi as a...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 07:16hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa taken to task over mass dismissals
A workers' union has emerged pitching its narrative around the mass dismissal of workers following a Supreme Court judgment in July 2015 in which MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa was...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
Justice Mathonsi, promoted, redeployed
BULAWAYO High Court judge Justice Nicholas Mathonsi has been re-deployed to Harare where he has been elevated to the position of senior judge in charge of the Civil Division of the High Court....Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chidyausiku's widow sues JSC over terminal benefits
THE late national hero and former Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku's wife, Farai, has petitioned the High Court seeking an order to compel the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) to facilitate payment ...Published: 23 Jun 2018 at 20:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa wants to sell us a dummy again
The MDC Alliance election manifesto which was released last week can aptly be summed up as old wine in a new bottle.Reading the MDC-T election manifesto of 2008 and its predecessor 2013 JUICE ...Published: 14 Jun 2018 at 07:20hrs | 2 | by Ngoni Masvaya
Constitutional law expert to defend expelled Khupe
Constitutional law expert, Professor Lovemore Madhuku is preparing to lodge a Constitutional Court application challenging the constitutionality of Dr Thokozani Khupe's expulsion from Parliament follo...Published: 14 Apr 2018 at 17:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Panic as net closes in on forex abusers
Despite feigning bravado in public, companies fingered in the externalisation of foreign currency and other assets are making a beeline for the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to negotiate relaxed dead...Published: 04 Apr 2018 at 12:41hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ConCourt dismisses magistrate's application
FORMER Chinhoyi magistrate Funny Nyakudya, who is facing two counts of criminal abuse of office charges after allegedly showing favour to a woman believed to be his lover in a maintenance matter, is n...Published: 22 Mar 2018 at 05:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Why this same Minister all the time?
Shall the President demonstrate to all and sundry that the war against corruption has no sacred cows, in earnest. Why should a single individual be allowed to denigrate and disrespect the whole ...Published: 25 Feb 2018 at 18:11hrs | | by Munyaradzi Mhaka
ZEC Chigumba, like Caesar's wife, must 'be above suspicion' - at least, he did not hunt for one in a brothel
"Way back in the year Before Christ, the famous Roman General Julius Caesar decided to divorce his second wife Pompeia on the basis of suspicion," Bulawayo24 reminded us.

"Caesar famously said an...Published: 05 Feb 2018 at 08:50hrs | 3 | by Nomusa Garikai
Bribery claims haunt Mnangagwa's ZEC Chairperson
Way back in the year Before Christ, the famous Roman General Julius Ceasar decided to divorce his second wife Pompeia on the basis of suspicion.Ceasar famously said any wife of his must be abo...Published: 04 Feb 2018 at 16:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints 8 new judges
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed eight new judges - six men and two women - to the High Court bench, in a move expected to reduce the backlog of cases at the superior court.The eight...Published: 13 Dec 2017 at 22:30hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Makarau forced to resign from ZEC
ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Justice Rita Makarau has signalled her intention to resign as head of the electoral body, a few months before crucial general elections whose credibilit...Published: 08 Dec 2017 at 09:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa under probe on 39 counts of fraud; Mugabe to stand trial on 20 000 murder charges
The ideology ZANU PF is a proponent of a conservative socialist ideology, Pan Africanist and anti- imperialist western values, doctrines and democracies. Pu...Published: 03 Nov 2017 at 05:38hrs | 6 | by Themba Mthethwa
Jonathan Moyo in Mnangagwa's jaws
Higher and Tertiary Education minister and politburo member Jonathan Moyo has suffered a huge setback in his attempts to avoid being arrested for corruption when the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) th...Published: 21 Sep 2017 at 14:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe to appoint Deputy Chief Justice
President Mugabe is set to appoint a Deputy Chief Justice in terms of the new Constitution following the promulgation of Constitutional Amendment (Number One) early this month, paving way for coming i...Published: 18 Sep 2017 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Prosecutor-General race gets messy
THE process to select a new Prosecutor-General (PG) has run into controversy amid revelations that the short-listed candidates did not score basic minimum percentages or points required, sparking dism...Published: 08 Sep 2017 at 17:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Charges against Chidyausiku's son withdrawn
Charges against the late former Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku's son, Tadzimirwa, who was accused of fondling a married woman's bottom in the presence of her husband at a bar in Warren Park 1, were...Published: 11 Aug 2017 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Limit number of wives a man can marry, says MPs
LAWMAKERS want laws that limit the number of wives a man can have in a polygamous marriage.Goromonzi West and Mutasa North legislators, Honourables Beatrice Nyamupinga and Luke Masamvu believe...Published: 01 Aug 2017 at 16:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chidyausiku's son in pub brawl, charged with indecent assault
THE late Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku's son, Tadzimirwa Bernard, yesterday appeared at the Harare Magistrates' Court charged with indecent assault after he allegedly fondled a fellow reveller at ...Published: 26 Jul 2017 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parly to consider Mnangagwa's controversial Bill today
The Constitution Amendment Bill (Number 1), which seeks to give the President the sole discretion to appoint a Chief Justice, Deputy Chief Justice and Judge President of his choice will be considered ...Published: 25 Jul 2017 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo has links to a foreign spy agency, Mnangagwa told Politburo
ZANU PF succession protagonists Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo came eyeball to eyeball in a titanic battle for President Robert Mugabe’s attention as t...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 12:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Politburo grills VP Mnangagwa
AS the Zimbabwe Independent accurately reported on June 23, Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa was put in the Zanu PF politburo dock and grilled on Wednesday by bitter rival Jonathan Moyo, who is bayin...Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 15:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Jonathan Moyo square-off
ZANU-PF succession protagonists Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo came eyeball to eyeball in a titanic battle for President Robert Mugabe's attention as the...Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 08:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
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