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Chamisa loses by-elections appeal
THE Nelson Chamisa-led Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) yesterday suffered a major blow after the Supreme Court struck off the roll its appeal against the recall of its legislators.The reca...Published: 02 Dec 2023 at 05:43hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Scramble for Rhodes' estate
Groups of people are scrambling for the multi-million-dollar estate left behind by a descendant of former colonialist Cecil John Rhodes amid reports that the Registrar of Companies has so far nullifie...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kereke's appeal thrown out
AILED former Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke has no prospects of success on appeal against a 14-year jail term for raping his then 11-year-old relative at gunpoint, the High Court has ruled, ...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 06:16hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Thabitha Khumalo and crew gets $200 bail each
MDC chairperson Thabitha Khumalo, Senator Helen Zivira and six other party activists have been granted RTGS$200 bail. They have been remanded to September 3.The MDC officials appeared ...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 16:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa stole elections' jibe, MDC chair, 7 others in court
MDC chairperson Thabitha Khumalo, Senator Helen Zivira and six other party activists are set to appear in court today facing charges of accusing President Emmerson Mnangagwa of stealing the July 30, 2...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army is not a Salvation army' - Police ruthlessly crush MDC demo
ARMED police ruthlessly clamped down on protesters who gathered in Harare city centre for the Free Zimbabwe peace march organised by the MDC yesterday using teargas, water cannons and batons on suspec...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 08:29hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo march to proceed, says Biti
Justice Joseph Musakwa on Friday threw out the MDC's urgent chamber application seeking to lift a police ban on demonstrations intended for Harare on the same day.Police used truncheons to bre...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 13:39hrs | | by ZimLive
BREAKING: High Court bans MDC demonstration
High Court Judge Justice Justice Musakwa has dismissed an MDC Alliance an MDC urgent chamber application to seeking to overturn a prohibition order by the police blocking a planned anti-Presiden...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:33hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Labour registrar ordered to reopen NEC
HIGH Court judge Justice Joseph Musakwa has ordered Labour Registrar Grace Kanyayi to reinstate the registration certificate of the National Employment Council for Engineering and Iron and Steel Indus...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 09:27hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa 'former' lawyer's multi-currency regime challenge ruled not urgent
High Court judge Justice Joseph Musakwa has ruled as not urgent an application by businessman and lawyer, Tawanda Nyambirai who was seeking an order to interdict Finance minister Mthuli Ncube and Rese...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Anti-graft body to contest Chivayo ruling
The Anti-Corruption Special Unit (ACSU) is breathing fire over the acquittal of businessman Mr Wicknell Chivayo in the $5,6 million fraud charge involving Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC)'s Gwanda solar p...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 22:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa won says court
THE Electoral Court has confirmed Dr Philip Chiyangwa as the legitimate legislator for Zvimba South, putting to rest rigging allegations by the losing MDC-Alliance candidate. Justice Joseph Mu...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chivayo blow as Judge says he must answer fraud charges
Controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo must stand trial to answer to fraud allegations levelled against him over the Gwanda solar project, a High Court judge has ruled.Chivayo is facing tw...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 09:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wicknell Chivayo cornered on fraud
THE criminal trial of Intratrek Zimbabwe (Pvt) Limited director Wicknell Chivayo will now proceed after the High Court in Harare overruled his bid to block prosecution on corruption charges involving ...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 09:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Wicknell Chivayo fails to stop trial
THE High Court has overruled a bid by Intratrek Zimbabwe Private Limited director Wicknell Chivayo to stop his criminal prosecution over the Gwanda solar project. Chivayo is facing $5,6 millio...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 21:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
High Court throws out Machaya application
Former Minister of State for Midlands Provincial Affairs Jason Machaya's bid to have his abuse of office charges dropped has flopped after the High Court threw out his application due to lack of merit...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 17:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
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 | 2 | by Staff reporter
Three years for cold blooded murder
High Court judge, Justice Musakwa has today handed down a shocking four year sentence to Zanu PF murderers in a case that has left Mudzi residents and the Magura family dumbfounded.Zanu PF's C...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 18:33hrs | 1 | by MDC Communications
Mugabe ordered to pay $174 183
Former President Robert Mugabe's family business, Gushungo Holdings has been ordered to pay $174 183 to Seed Potato Co-op for seed supplied in 2015.The default judgment was entered on July 2 b...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 07:27hrs | 2 | by Staff rpeorter
War vets application thrown out
The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association's (ZNLWVA) bid to stop the election of new leadership took a new twist on Wednesday after the High Court threw out the application for proced...Published: 26 Aug 2016 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Fidelis Munyoro
War vets bid to stop leadership election takes new twist
The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association's (ZNLWVA) bid to stop the election of new leadership took a new twist yesterday after the High Court threw out the application for proce...Published: 25 Aug 2016 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
War vets on collision course
The High Court yesterday postponed to today the hearing of the war veterans wrangle over the election of new leadership of the association. The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Assoc...Published: 11 Aug 2016 at 08:08hrs | | by Court Reporter
War veterans block elections
The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association (ZNLWVA) has obtained a court order to stop a war veterans' splinter group from convening a special meeting to elect the association's new le...Published: 05 Aug 2016 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Fidelis Munyoro
HIV saves robber from life sentence
In a land mark case, HIV status spared an armed robber life sentence after the High Court condemned the man to 25 years in jail for killing a Kuwadzana resident during a robbery. Justice Joseph Musakw...Published: 02 May 2016 at 11:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
White farmer loses farm to Mugabe aide
White farmer David Connolly, who has been involved in a protracted legal battle with a top aide of President Robert Mugabe, faces eviction from his Centenary Farm in Figtree after a High Court judge y...Published: 29 Apr 2016 at 15:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
David Connolly ordered to vacate Centenary Farm
A HIGH Court judge yesterday ordered prominent Matabeleland South commercial white farmer David Connolly to vacate Centenary Farm and blasted the Deputy Minister of Agriculture Paddy Zhanda for allege...Published: 29 Apr 2016 at 06:55hrs | | by Mashudu Netsianda
Murder suspect claims torture
THE murder trial of a man who is accused of killing his business partner took a new twist last week after the High Court rejected a statement made to the police by the accused saying it was made under...Published: 29 Mar 2016 at 06:29hrs | | by Fidelis Munyoro
Mphoko's $50m claim against Daily News takes new twist
VICE-PRESIDENT Phelekezela Mphoko's $50 million claim against Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ), publishers of the Daily News, took a new twist on Tuesday last week after the publisher's lawyers...Published: 14 Mar 2016 at 06:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko, Dailynews to meet in court
Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ) - the publisher of the Daily News, the Daily News on Sunday and the Weekend Post - has pooh-poohed State media reports that the company has failed to defe...Published: 11 Mar 2016 at 11:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZRP must embrace DNA in investigations
MASVINGO province has seen a 25 percent increase in murder cases, with a High Court judge bemoaning the absence of up-to-date forensic analysis of evidence.Officially opening the 2016 legal ye...Published: 09 Feb 2016 at 05:39hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
Farm row spills into Supreme Court
The row over control and ownership of Faraway Farm in Goromonzi along Harare-Mutare Road has spilled into the Supreme Court, with BAMPH (Pvt) Ltd - a company owned by businessman Mr Afaras Gwaradzimba...Published: 11 Jan 2016 at 05:28hrs | | by Daniel Nemukuyu
Notorious armed robber gets life behind bars
A notorious armed robber Mashwell Kurauone (33) who terrorised parts of Masvingo Province and also shot at a Police detective injuring him has been sentenced to life in prison by High Court Judge, Jus...Published: 30 Nov 2015 at 12:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chombo, Chihuri faces contempt of court charges
Tendai Blessing Mangwiro has threatened to institute contempt of court charges against Home Affairs minister Ignatius Chombo and Police Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri for defying a court o...Published: 21 Jul 2015 at 07:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Aussie businessman spared Zimbabwe deportation
Australian-born Kwekwe businessman Lee Waverly John heaved a sigh of relief after the High Court struck out the Immigration Department's appeal to have him deported. The Immigration Department...Published: 21 Apr 2015 at 09:06hrs | | by Fidelis Munyoro
'The Source' hits brick wall in Econet case
A BID by Source-Net (Pvt) Ltd - a Reuters-affiliated business news agency, whose newsroom was raided by Econet recently - to have the matter referred to the Constitutional Court last week hit a brick ...Published: 08 Apr 2015 at 08:15hrs | | by Daniel Nemukuyu
Reporters humiliate Econet
ANGRY journalists from all the country's national newspapers yesterday humiliated Econet Wireless and walked out of a press conference called by executives of the mobile phone operator's banking unit...Published: 28 Mar 2015 at 09:05hrs | 2 | by Felex Share
Prof Jonathan Moyo outraged as Econet raids news agency
Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo says he is outraged by Econet Wireless's raid on Reuters affiliated news agency, The Source, saying the constitutionality...Published: 27 Mar 2015 at 05:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Econet, Steward Bank seizure court order violates freedom of expression'
ZIMBABWE business news agency, The Source, yesterday challenged a High Court order granted to Zimbabwe mobile phone operator Econet Wireless and Steward Bank to have the publication withdraw some ...Published: 21 Mar 2015 at 13:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Court orders Mohadi, Chihuri to reimburse $78 900 exhibit money
High Court judge Justice Joseph Musakwa has ordered Home Affairs minister Kembo Mohadi and Commissioner -General of Police Augustine Chihuri to reimburse about $79 000 collected from a theft suspe...Published: 20 Feb 2015 at 09:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Judge commends boyfriend killer
HARARE High Court judge Justice Joseph Musakwa last week spared a convicted murderer, Stephen Sibange, from serving a jail term for killing his wife's lover, but commended him for remaining composed ...Published: 03 Feb 2015 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gumbura bail application, judgment reserved
The Supreme Court yesterday heard a bail appeal by jailed RMG End Time Message Church leader Robert Martin Gumbura, but reserved ruling to an indefinite date. Justice Bharat Patel, in his...Published: 19 Aug 2014 at 07:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Gumbura gets the green light
Jailed RMG End Time Message Church leader Robert Martin Gumbura yesterday got the green light to contest the High Court's decision to deny him bail pending appeal. Justice Joseph Musakwa ...Published: 09 Jul 2014 at 06:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mystery grows as Baba Jukwa strikes again
The mystery surrounding Facebook blogger Baba Jukwa grew even murkier on Thursday after he posted a message on the social networking site on the same date that Sunday Mail editor, Edmund Kudzayi was g...Published: 06 Jul 2014 at 12:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Baba Jukwa' accomplice, mom-in-law to the rescue
Mother in law of Phillip Kudzayi, Virginia Rumbidzai Mutanda, has come to the accused's rescue after she offered to surrender the title deeds of a stand she owns in Bluffhill, Harare as part of the ac...Published: 05 Jul 2014 at 16:06hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
'Mai Jukwa' thrilled to be out
Sunday Mail editor Edmund Kudzayi, accused of attempting to subvert a constitutionally-elected Government and undermining the authority of the President, was in a jovial mood yesterday after being rel...Published: 05 Jul 2014 at 09:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Convicted Gumbura denied bail
The High Court has thrown out a bail application by jailed RMG End Time Message Church leader Robert Martin Gumbura because there are no prospects of success in his appeal against conviction and sente...Published: 20 May 2014 at 06:42hrs | 3 | by Daniel Nemukuyu
Gumbura bail verdict stalls due to missing evidence
HARARE - HIGH Court judge Justice Joseph Musakwa on Friday deferred the verdict on jailed rapist church leader Robert Martin Gumbura's application for bail pending appeal after it emerged some portion...Published: 29 Mar 2014 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Gumbura set to appear in court today
INCARCERATED RMG Independent End Time Message Church leader Robert Martin Gumbura is today set to appear before High Court judge Justice Musakwa for his application to be granted temporary reprieve to...Published: 26 Mar 2014 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man kills granny over witchcraft
A MENTALLY–CHALLENGED Bindura convict Lawrence Musanjiko last week escaped the hangman's noose after Harare High Court judge Justice Joseph Musakwa retained a special verdict on him ...Published: 31 Oct 2013 at 03:01hrs | 4 | by Court reporter
Rapist Chief (83) applies for bail pleading illness and poverty
Convicted rapist Chief Chitsunge (83) of Buhera has applied for variation of bail at the High Court pleading illness and poverty.High Court judge Justice Felistus Chatukuta postponed the app...Published: 10 Oct 2013 at 23:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
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