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Top cop comes out guns blazing
POLICE commissioner in charge of Matabeleland North province Erasmus Makodza's lawyers have written a letter of complaint to Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga against alleged dodgy dealings by a con...Published: 15 hrs ago | 2060 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi: Tale of a brave man knocked down by ruinous sex
LIKE many of his contemporaries, Kembo Dugishi Campbell Mohadi - who hails from Mtetengwe area 40 kilometres west of Beitbridge border town along the Bulawayo highway - belongs to a generation which w...Published: 15 hrs ago | 1260 | by Staff reporter
Stop abusing Chiwenga's wife, Mtetwa tells court
PROMINENT lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa has accused the Judiciary of abusing her client, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's estranged wife Marry Mubaiwa, saying the assault case she was facing could have ...Published: 16 hrs ago | 768 | by Staff reporter
Smelly Dube court sits in hospital
In a first for the Gweru Magistrates Court, a temporary court was set up at Claybank Hospital so a magistrate could see for himself the extent of illness of an accused person who had failed to turn up...Published: 17 hrs ago | 765 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga wife's trial deferred
The trial of Marry Mubaiwa, estranged wife of Vice President Constantano Chiwenga, on assault charges yesterday failed to start after she said that she was very ill and under heavy medication and coul...Published: 17 hrs ago | 327 | by Staff reporter
Ex-NSSA boss goes after top CAs
Former National Social Security Authority (NSSA) chairman Robin Vela wants the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Zimbabwe (ICAZ) to investigate two BDO Chartered Accountants Zimbabwe partners Ngon...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 17:45hrs | 1903 | by Staff reporter
New twist to tycoon's estate
The late John Bredenkamp‘s widow, Jennifer, has filed an urgent chamber application at the High Court seeking to block her son Gavin from holding on to the family's Thetford Farm in Mazowe. The case...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 17:43hrs | 1409 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's wife seeks trial postponement
Marry Mubaiwa, the estranged wife of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, who is set be tried today on allegations of assaulting a family maid, Delight Munyoro sometime in 2019 has told the court that...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 13:32hrs | 625 | by Staff reporter
Hooker arrested over sex with 13-year-old boy seeks bail at High Court
A sex worker accused of sleeping with a 13-year-old boy she met on a dating website has launched a bail appeal at the High Court.Lawyers for Precious Teya, 26, say she had no way of knowing th...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 07:14hrs | 3356 | by Staff reporter
South Africa goes after foreigners, to review permits/visas for all foreigners
SOUTH Africa's Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has appointed a five-member committee to review permits and visas issued to most immigrants who have been in that country since 2004. He s...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:22hrs | 3005 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa to challenge placement on remand
NORTON legislator, Temba Mliswa, accused of violating Covid-19 national lockdown regulations after calling a media conference at his Borrowdale residence in Harare, is on Monday expected to challenge ...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:20hrs | 135 | by Staff reporter
Ngadziore denied bail, colleague freed
STUDENT activist Takudzwa Ngadziore was Thursday denied bail while his co-accused Tapiwanashe Chiriga was freed on $5 000 bail.The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) confirmed the develo...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:11hrs | 104 | by Staff reporter
Journalism, a new form of activism!
A polarised political environment breeds microcosms across all other subsectors of the community.As the old truism would put it, "a fis...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 00:56hrs | 434 | by Shelton Muchena
Hwange MP wades into villagers' land dispute
HWANGE Central legislator Daniel Molokele (MDC Alliance) has waded into a land dispute between a Chinese coal-mining firm and Dinde villagers who face eviction to pave way for the former to kick-start...Published: 04 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | 1221 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira's arrest warrant cancelled
The warrant of arrest for former Cabinet Minister Prisca Mupfumira was cancelled yesterday when she attended court and explained she did not deliberately abscond, but was being guided by the date spel...Published: 04 Mar 2021 at 06:20hrs | 776 | by Staff reporter
Strict measures for court attendees
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba yesterday announced strict conditions for court attendees in a statement where he relaxed some of the measures that he put in place in January to ensure that the country's co...Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 06:19hrs | 481 | by Staff reporter
Ex-army captain challenges dismissal
A FORMER captain in the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA), Solomon Ndlovu, is seeking reinstatement after he successfully appealed his six-year jail term for theft of a motor vehicle, at the High Court in ...Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 06:19hrs | 2468 | by Staff reporter
Marriages ban lifted
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba has lifted the ban on marriages and announced the resumption of normal court operations, including the offices of the Master and the Sheriff of the High Court following the r...Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 06:14hrs | 1264 | by Staff reporter
Parliament blocks increase in fines
Parliament yesterday blocked the recent increases in the standard scale of maximum fines for each level after the Parliamentary Legal Committee found the statutory instrument setting the fines defecti...Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 06:13hrs | 1216 | by Staff reporter
Do morals require a code of conduct for politicians?
Tongues were sent into overdrive in the recent past weeks amid revelations of a multitude of trysts of Zimbabwe's the third in command, Vice President Kembo Mohadi with numerous married. What started ...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 21:40hrs | 720 | by Sibusisiwe Tshuma
Govt stifling NGOs democratic space: Lawyers
HUMAN rights lawyers have criticised government for closing democratic space in the county to stifle the free operation of non-governmental organisations (NGOs).In a statement to mark the Inte...Published: 01 Mar 2021 at 04:56hrs | 146 | by Staff reporter
$200,000 fine for lockdown violation
A 40-YEAR-OLD woman from Mvuma has been fined $200 000 or six months in prison for illegally opening a bottle store during the Covid-19 induced lockdown. Plaxedes Chivera, a court heard, in Ja...Published: 01 Mar 2021 at 04:55hrs | 1310 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers urged to offer free services to inmates
LAWYERS must provide free legal services to suspects who are unable to pay as part of their social responsibility programmes for the courts to make fair decisions. High Court judge Justice Web...Published: 01 Mar 2021 at 04:52hrs | 147 | by Staff reporter
Soul Jah Love debacle exposes rot
A popular dancehall artiste, Soul Musaka, known to many as Soul Jah Love, passed on just under two weeks ago.What happened subsequently sparked the now fickle and feeble debate on the conferme...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:57hrs | 1886 | by Tawanda Majoni
Bosso member threatens court action
A CONCERNED Highlanders Football Club life member, Cornelius Ngwazana has written to the club demanding that the decision taken by the Bosso board to extend the term of office for three executive comm...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:47hrs | 392 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa's MDC now a Twitter party'
THE infighting and strategic missteps wracking the MDC Alliance are once again coming to a head, with a worried insider telling the Daily News yesterday that the coalition was becoming "a Twitter part...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 19:07hrs | 1748 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga distances govt from vaccine controversy
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has backtracked on its intention to file a lawsuit against the government after Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga distanced himself from a recent stateme...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 19:02hrs | 3405 | by Staff reporter
Youths stage a flash demo at High court
Movement for Democratic Change Alliance (MDC-A) youths staged a flash demonstration outside High court Harare on Thursday demanding the release of an activist Makomborero Haruzivishe.Haruzivis...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 16:54hrs | 1781 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Ginimbi's family questions his will
A ROW has erupted over the estate of the late socialite, Genius Kadungure - who was popularly known as Ginimbi.This comes as his family has approached the High Court seeking the removal of the...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 15:42hrs | 2899 | by Staff reporter
Govt appoints new Zimsec board
PRIMARY and Secondary Education minister Cain Mathema has appointed announced a new 14-member Zimbabwe School Examinations Council board and retained Eddie Mwenje as chairperson.The new board ...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:44hrs | 771 | by Staff reporter
SA trucker sues over Beitbridge border accident
A SOUTH AFRICAN cross-border haulage trucking company has threatened to sue Raubex Construction Company following an accident involving its truck inside the Beitbridge Border Post.Docfin Tradi...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:42hrs | 909 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe grilled over spot fines
HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe has said government is working on modalities to ensure that various methods of payment are used at police roadblocks to make it easy for payment of spot fines....Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:40hrs | 900 | by Staff reporter
Footballer kicks out cheating wife
ZAMBIA-based football star Thabani Kamusoko has kicked out his wife from his Selbourne Park suburb house in Bulawayo after his sister busted his "cheating" spouse being picked up by her boyfriend outs...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:29hrs | 1744 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe in demo demanding Matanga's resignation
MDC Alliance Harare West MP Joanna Mamombe and scores of party youths Thursday staged a flash demonstration outside the Harare Magistrates' Courts demanding the release of activist Makomborero Haruziv...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 18:38hrs | 3055 | by Staff reporter
Top cop wants ZACC officer arrested
A senior police officer Chief Superintendent Joseph Josphat Matipforo has filed a report alleging that Zimbabwe Anti Corruption (ZACC) investigator Eric Chacha is obstructing the course of justice and...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 06:21hrs | 1339 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe mulls mandatory COVID-19 vaccination
PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson George Charamba says Zimbabwe could consider mandatory inoculation against COVID-19 following resistance from some sections of the population. Zimbabwe rolled out the...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 21:55hrs | 2821 | by Staff reporter
Chombo in court for fraud, abuse of power
FORMER Cabinet Minister Ignatius Morgan Chombo today appeared in court on allegations involving illegal parcelling out of pieces of land in Harare and Zvimba Rural District during his tenure as the Mi...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 17:07hrs | 689 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate attacked with hammer over alleged affair
Police are investigating after a Mutare magistrate was attacked with a hammer by a woman accusing her of having an affair with her husband, a lawyer.Magistrate Tamara Chibindi was treated for ...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 16:55hrs | 2000 | by Staff reporter
Chombo caged
FORMER Finance minister Ignatius Chombo was last night detained at Rhodesville Police Station in Harare following his arrest on charges of fraud and criminal abuse of office over illegal parcelling ou...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 06:53hrs | 5669 | by Staff reporter
12 MDC Alliance activists granted $5 000 bail
CHINHOYI magistrate Ms Tracey Muzondo today gave bail to 12 MDC-A provincial leadership members who were arrested last Saturday in Chinhoyi for contravening Level Four lockdown regulations.The...Published: 22 Feb 2021 at 21:31hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 lockdown: How times have changed
It was after four aborted attempts at assembling that customary team of amadombo, an attempt at receiving and meeting our prospective in-laws as a non-negotiable precondition to observe the cultural r...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 07:08hrs | 186 | by Zifiso Masiye
Malaba faces a mountain to climb in his bid to stay on
ZIMBABWE'S Chief Justice Luke Malaba's has a mountain to climb in his bid to extend his reign beyond 15 May 2021 when he is due to retire at 70: he needs to overcome hurdles around Constitutional Amen...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 19:03hrs | 2171 | by Staff reporter
Row over Ginimbi's Lamborghini
There is a growing row in sorting out the estate of late businessman and socialite Genius Kadungure with his family reluctant to surrender the top-of-the range Lamborgini vehicle bequeathed to someone...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 18:59hrs | 1568 | by Staff reporter
UZ student activist granted bail
UNIVERSITY of Zimbabwe student and activist, Alan Moyo, who has been in remand prison for 75 days for allegedly calling for a revolt against the government has been granted $10 000 bail by the High Co...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 09:01hrs | 817 | by Staff reporter
No to vaccine experiments, says lawyers
LAWYERS have rejected the use of the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine on Zimbabweans without clinical trials to ascertain its efficacy and safety, which they said is tantamount to "experimenting".In...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 09:01hrs | 1360 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance official case deferred to today
MDC Alliance national council member Makomborero Haruziviishe, who was arrested on kidnapping allegations after he locked the doors at Impala Car Rental offices in protest at the company hiring its fl...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 08:59hrs | 411 | by Staff reporter
ZimRights's spot fines challenge dismissed
HIGH Court judge Justice Webster Chinamhora yesterday dismissed an application by a retired lawyer, Sheila Frances Jarvis and the Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) who were challenging pub...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 08:58hrs | 389 | by Staff reporter
MDC activist in court for kidnapping
MDC-Alliance youth activist and former Zimbabwe National Students Union secretary-general, Makomborero Haruzivishe, yesterday appeared in court on allegations of forcing his way together with others, ...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 08:10hrs | 356 | by Staff reporter
ZETDC boss granted bail over tender
ZESA Holdings' distribution arm, ZETDC's managing director Lovemore Chinaka, was yesterday granted $30 000 bail on allegations of violating tender procedures involving US$1 405 920. He was also ordere...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 08:10hrs | 410 | by Staff reporter
5 journalists detained at Mliswa farm
FIVE journalists were Friday detained by police while covering a youth government agriculture initiative at Temba Mliswa's Spring farm in Karoi.Mliswa, who is Norton legislator, was hosting a ...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 19:37hrs | 1732 | by Staff reporter
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