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Judge berated for 'incompetent order'
IN an unprecedented move, Supreme Court judges have berated High Court Justice Tawanda Chitapi (pictured) for alleged incompetence and passing an irregular default judgement in a long-standing land ow...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zupco boss wins US$400k lawsuit
FORMER Zupco board chairman Charles Nherera has won a claim of US$130 000 against businessman Jayesh Shah, who he was suing for causing his wrongful arrest, prosecution and incarceration.Nhere...Published: 21 Dec 2021 at 06:17hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Businessman files complaint against High Court judge over property deal
HARARE businessman Kingston Hamutendi Munyawarara, the executive director of Bariadie Investments (Private) Limited, has lodged an official complaint against High Court judge Justice Tawanda Chitapi (...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
School in trouble over seized 'O', 'A' Level results
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has taken authorities at Fatima High School, Matabeleland North, to task for withholding Ordinary Level and Advanced Level examination results for two stud...Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mzembi not yet off the hook
The Prosecutor General Mr Kumbirai Hodzi yesterday got the green light to contest a recent High Court judgment clearing fugitive ex-Cabinet minister Walter Mzembi and three others of grabbing four veh...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ousted Bulawayo deputy mayor in hollow Supreme Court victory
THE Supreme Court has overturned a ruling by Bulawayo High Court judge, Thompson Mabhikwa declaring the 2018 election of former Bulawayo deputy mayor and Ward Three councillor Tinashe Kambarami null a...Published: 30 May 2021 at 09:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Let's focus on bail pending trial
BAIL law is an important aspect in the criminal justice system and must be understood by everyone so that justice may not only be done but also seen to be done.Many people have raised concerns...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 10:26hrs | 9 | by Abednicho Dube
Supreme Court slams Ndewere
The Supreme Court has blasted suspended High Court judge Justice Erica Ndewere for refusing to furnish a prisoner with a full judgment when denying him bail, saying such conduct is not expected of jud...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court throws out Chombo's appeal
Court Reporter THE trial of former Finance Minister Ignatius Chombo on charges of criminal abuse of office will go ahead after the Supreme Court threw out his appeal for permanent stay of prosecution....Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:41hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mandiwanzira cleared of corruption charges after 2 years
Former Information Technology minister Supa Mandiwanzira was acquitted on a charge of criminal abuse of office on Friday, more than two years after his arrest.The Nyanga South MP had been char...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 19:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Supa Mandiwanzira's case postponed
Harare provincial magistrate Mr Elijah Makomo on Tuesday deferred the matter of former Cabinet minister Supa Mandiwanzira to August 5 following indications that the State's application for rescission ...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mandiwanzira's Megawatt saga rages on
Former Information Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services minister Supa Mandiwanzira has approached the High Court seeking an order to dismiss the Prosecutor-General's application, whic...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Deal with corruption cases quickly: CJ Malaba
Chief Justice Luke Malaba has implored High Court judges to expeditiously deal with corruption cases to ensure that the matters are disposed of, adding its reputation "depends entirely on how these ca...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 08:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Judge raps registrar-general over citizenship
Supreme Court judge Justice Nicholas Mathonsi has come hard on registrar-general Clemence Masango, who has been denying returning Zimbabweans citizenship status, saying the move by his office is disco...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 09:13hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints 2 new Supreme Court judges
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed High Court judges Charles Hungwe and Nicholas Mathonsi to the Supreme Court after the recent public interviews, NewsDay reported.The two participated...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 07:08hrs | | 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 | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Court revises Boka's US$50 000 adultery damages compensation
A HARARE woman, Lorraine Chitereka, who was earlier slapped with US$50 000 adultery damages for bedding businesswoman Rudo Boka's husband has heaved a sigh of relief after the High Court overturned th...Published: 29 May 2019 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prosecutor investigated over Mandiwanzira's acquittal
Prosecutor-General Mr Kumbirai Hodzi has turned the sword on the prosecutor he assigned to deal with the criminal abuse case of former Minister Supa Mandwanzira and ordered investigations into his all...Published: 06 Apr 2019 at 07:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
State seeks to rescind Supa Mandiwanzira's acquittal
The State is seeking to petition the High Court for a rescission of the judgment acquitting former minister Supa Mandiwanzira of criminal abuse of office charges that was delivered on Wednesday. ...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Agribank sues Chombo over $33 000 loan
Agribank has approached the courts seeking to recover a real time gross settlement of a (ZWR) $33 720 loan advanced to former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo six years ago.The former minister...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chombo goes to Supreme Court
Former Finance and Economic Development Minister Ignatius Chombo has approached the Supreme Court seeking permanent stay of proceedings in the magistrates' court where he is facing several cases invol...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chombo was tortured, but must face trial, says Court
THE High Court has dismissed an application for a permanent stay of prosecution filed by former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo, who is facing several cases involving corruption, fraud and criminal n...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo to be extradited
GOVERNMENT has activated plans to invoke the Money Laundering and Proceeds of Crime Amendment Act to forfeit properties and assets of individuals who skip the country to escape prosecution for corrupt...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 01:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa goes after Jonathan Moyo's properties
The net is closing on fugitives who fled the country to escape justice as Government intends to invoke the Money Laundering and Proceeds of Crime Amendment Act to forfeit their properties and assets....Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 01:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Meikles suffers court setback in bid to overturn $3,6 million judgment
High Court judge Justice Nicholas Mathonsi has dismissed an application to rescind a judgment compelling Meikles to pay over $3,6 million owed to the Infrastructural Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ...Published: 26 Feb 2019 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Court stops Immigration Department hearings
BULAWAYO High Court judge Justice Maxwell Takuva has ordered the Immigration Department to stop unlawful disciplinary hearings of eight of its Victoria Falls officials, who were being accused of fraud...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 13:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cop shoots soldier
HIGH Court Senior Judge, Justice Nicholas Mathonsi has upheld a ruling by the Gweru Magistrate Court to fine a police officer, Detective Constable Gift Gorongonya $400 for shooting a soldier following...Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 19:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dembare in deep $250,000 trouble
The 2019 Castle Lager Premier Soccer League season is set to start on a bad note for the country's biggest football club, Dynamos, after a local financial institution petitioned the High Court seeking...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Judge bars Immigration Department from conducting hearings
BULAWAYO judge, Justice Nicholas Mathonsi on Friday ordered Immigration Department bosses to stop conducting disciplinary hearings against eight Victoria Falls workers with whom they are embroiled in ...Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 19:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Withholding of results over fees unconstitutional'
THE High Court has declared unconstitutional the refusal by Ihlathi High School in Bulawayo to release results of an Ordinary Level candidate over outstanding fees and referred the matter to the Const...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 18:33hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Man breaks into neighbour's house, 'rapes, robs' daughter (15) at knife-point
A BULAWAYO man allegedly broke into his neighbour's house during their absence and raped their 15-year-old daughter who was sleeping in her bedroom before robbing her of $10 at knifepoint. Thi...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 08:52hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Girlfriend killer refuses death sentence
A GWERU man who was last year sentenced to death by hanging for petrol bombing and killing his estranged girlfriend and her cousin has approached the Supreme Court challenging his sentence. Ga...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 22:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Court scraps way leave tax on ZETDC
Local authorities across the country are set to lose a combined $16 million annually in potential revenue after the High Court scrapped way leave tax on the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distr...Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Dead man' battles 64 cents pay-off
FORMER PG Industries (Zimbabwe) Limited marketing director Nkululeko Mabhena, who has been battling his former employers PG Industries for 18 years, has accused Justice Nicholas Mathonsi and Lawrence ...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
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
Uncle beds nephew's wife and brags, stabbed to death
A MAN from Matobo District who fatally stabbed his uncle with a knife for allegedly boasting that he was having an affair with his wife has been sentenced to 25 years in jail.Steven Tshuma (32...Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Infant killer jailed
A WOMAN from Kezi who subjected her three-year-old step granddaughter to torture and physical abuse for soiling herself resulting in the toddler's death, has been sentenced to seven years in jail....Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
High Court dismisses appeal by 2 convicted serial burglars
THE High Court has dismissed an appeal against conviction and sentence by two serial burglars who stole $80 000 after raiding two supermarkets, including aspiring Zanu-PF Bulawayo South aspiring MP, R...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gold panners jailed 25yrs for gruesome murder
BULAWAYO High Court judge Justice Nicholas Mathonsi has said the courts are tired of the surge in gruesome murder cases perpetrated by gold panners who do not show remorse or respect for the sanctity ...Published: 31 May 2018 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-airline boss wants $10 000 from ex-wife
PROMINENT Bulawayo businessman and former South African Airways (SAA) boss, Mr Elphas Mavune Maphisa has approach the High Court challenging a ruling by a magistrate blocking him from demanding about ...Published: 14 May 2018 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cop loses fight against bosses
A POLICE officer accused of conniving with accomplices to rob the late founder of His Presence Ministries International Apostle Charles Chiriseri's corpse of $200 following an accident that claimed hi...Published: 17 Apr 2018 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Court reverses decision to relocate LSU lecturers, students
THE High Court yesterday reversed the decision by the Lupane State University (LSU) management to relocate students and lecturers in the Department of Development Studies from Bulawayo to the Lupane m...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Smelly Dube faces arrest over State land 'theft'
GWERU businesswoman and property developer, Ms Smelly Dube who is being investigated by police for fraud after she allegedly clandestinely stole State land and fraudulently sold residential stands to ...Published: 26 Mar 2018 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rapist pastor takes case to Supreme Court
DISGRACED pastor and founder of Kingdom Rulers International Church in Bulawayo, Greatness Tapfuma (36), who turned a 16-year-old congregant into a sex slave, has approached the Supreme Court challeng...Published: 24 Mar 2018 at 09:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
False prophets under fire
A HIGH Court judge has blasted false prophets who use the Bible to perpetrate heinous crimes and hoodwink gullible and innocent people into believing in their bizarre teachings.Bulawayo High C...Published: 10 Mar 2018 at 09:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Court stops farm evictions
NEARLY 400 families illegally occupying Heany Junction Farm in Umguza district, Matabeleland North got a reprieve after the High Court temporarily blocked Government from evicting them without a court...Published: 15 Dec 2017 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rape teacher loses appeal
THE High Court has rejected an appeal against conviction and sentence by a Victoria Falls teacher serving an effective eight years in jail for sneaking into his tenant's 15-year-old epileptic daughter...Published: 23 Nov 2017 at 05:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
HIV+ man's jail term for infecting partner reduced
AN HIV positive man heaved a sigh of relief after the High Court reduced his 10-year sentence to two years for allegedly infecting his partner with the virus.Nevison Mpofu (39) filed an appeal...Published: 22 Nov 2017 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere challenges Kombayi reinstatement
UNDER-SIEGE Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere has threatened to appeal a High Court order compelling him to reinstate Gweru mayor Hamutendi Kombayi and ward 4 councillor Kenneth Sithole, fi...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 05:05hrs | | by Satff reporter
Corrupt cops fail to dodge sentence
THE High Court has rejected an appeal against sentence and conviction by two fired police officers from Plumtree who were each jailed for 24 months after they were caught on camera extorting $20 from ...Published: 02 Nov 2017 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
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