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Bank sued over Zifa debt
Daisy Guest House is suing EcoBank for allowing Zifa to access funds in its account after the football-controlling body's money had been attached over their failure to pay for $161 762 in accommodatio...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:46hrs | 407 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa challenges Mohadi's $10m claim
Norton MP Temba Mliswa (independent) has filed an appearance to defend notice of the $10 million defamation litigation filed at the High Court by Vice-President Kembo Mohadi.Mohadi, through hi...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:44hrs | 1493 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe insulti cop to be reinstated
The High Court has ordered the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) to reinstate a cop who was fired from the force in 2014 for insulting former President Robert Mugabe.Chief Inspector Newton Jindu ...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:43hrs | 844 | by Staff reporter
D-Day for Supa Mandiwanzira
A HARARE regional magistrate will today deliver ruling on an application for exception of charges filed by former Information Communication Technology and Cyber Security minister, Supa Mandiwanzira, w...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:41hrs | 1668 | by Staff reporter
High Court quashes Hodzi move
THE High Court has quashed an attempt by Prosecutor-General (PG) Kumbirai Hodzi to prevent it from hearing a case in which chief law officer Chris Mutangadura is challenging his decision to unilateral...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:28hrs | 356 | by Staff reporter
Fresh land Invasions in Matabeleland
There is a new land invasion in Matabeleland, this time by the government of Mnangagwa and Zanu PF. This program is spearheaded by the district Lands office in Filabusi. On the 8th of February 2019, M...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 07:25hrs | 1239 | by MRP
Mugabe sues butchery over debt
Former President Robert Mugabe's family business, Gushungo Holdings has petitioned the High Court seeking an order to compel businessman, Blessing Murondiwa, to pay $28 000 being outstanding balance o...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:27hrs | 3976 | by Staff reporter
MDC youth leader's freedom bid deferred
RULING on the application for discharge by MDC Alliance youth leader and Highfield West legislator, Happymore Chidziva, accused of inciting violence ahead of last year's elections, was on Monday defer...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:26hrs | 283 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans be wary of Chamisa and Mnangagwa the two lawyers
I write this article with great sadness aiming to draw to your attention some alarming political posturing behavioural trends that I have deduced from analysing the rise, sustenance of political power...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 12:49hrs | 2809 | by Terence Simbi
NPA declines to prosecute CIO, MI, police 'armed robbers'
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on Tuesday declined to prosecute a team of police officers, Military Intelligence and Central Intelligence Organisation agents arrested for armed robbery....Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 09:16hrs | 2384 | by ZimLive
ZBC takes 5 ex-bosses to court over $6m prejudice
The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) has dragged its four ex-senior executives and former board chairperson Cuthbert Dube to court for allegedly illegally benefitting themselves from $6 million...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 08:46hrs | 1657 | by Staff reporter
'UK accelerates deportations of failed Zimbabwe asylum seekers'
The Home Office has been condemned for working with the Zimbabwean government to accelerate the deportation of asylum seekers despite high-profile human rights abuses in the country.Asylum law...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 20:28hrs | 1584 | by The Guardian
Lawyers speak on ZACC appointment delays
Constitutional lawyers say a delay in the appointment of a substantive anti-corruption commission is an impediment in the fight against corruption in the country.This follows the resignation o...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 14:48hrs | 593 | by Staff reporter
Is Mnangagwa's Advisory Council Legal?
Editor,Please, allow me to ask lawyers if it is legal for the president to appoint a second cabinet without wide consultations. It is obligatory for cabinet ministers to seek sound advice conc...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 10:46hrs | 646 | by Concerned Citizen
'No urgency in cremation row'
A HIGH Court judge has ruled that the application by a Bulawayo family seeking a court order blocking the cremation of the remains of their relative was not urgent. Mr Amos Nkomo died on Decem...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 07:29hrs | 253 | by Staff reporter
Dumbest looters jailed 7 years
Three hooligans involved in last month's MDC-Alliance-sponsored violent demonstrations wrote their own scripts of the popular television series "World's Dumbest Criminals" after they were given away b...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 09:59hrs | 4693 | by Staff reporter
Chief Maduna recieves death threats
Outspoken Matabeleland Chief Vezi Maduna Mafu of Filabusi has received death threats over his open stance on the Gukurahundi genocide that killed an estimated 20 000 people in Matabeleland and Midland...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 08:03hrs | 2225 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jonathan Moyo, Chiwenga court battle in new twist
Former Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo has appealed against a High Court judgement that paved the way for Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga to sue him for alleged defamation....Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 19:18hrs | 9632 | by Staff reporter
Clerics caution Chamisa, CSOs
The Dutch Reformed Church has warned the opposition and rights groups against adopting a hostile stance towards President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government, warning that doing so could inflame emo...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 06:51hrs | 3719 | by Staff reporter
Crackdown alarms Amnesty
A new briefing by Amnesty International documents how the Zimbabwean authorities have mounted a brutal crackdown and violence against protesters, using killings and torture, among other serious human ...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 06:23hrs | 399 | by Amnesty International
Losing MP granted bail
BULAWAYO South Constituency losing independent candidate in last year's harmonised elections Josphat "Mzaca" Ngulube, has been granted bail, in a case where he and 11 others were accused of fanning an...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 05:56hrs | 273 | by Staff reporter
Bushiri, Magaya and the gospel of prosperity
IT was perhaps the most striking picture that came from the spectacle that accompanied Shepherd Bushiri's appearance at the Pretoria Special Commercial Crimes Court last week.It was the pictur...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 05:50hrs | 1287 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa advised to abandon toxic politics
The Dutch Reformed Church has warned the opposition and rights groups against adopting a hostile stance towards President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government, warning that doing so could inflame emo...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 20:44hrs | 6059 | by Staff reporter
Is the 'Croc' all talk and no bite?
The first few weeks of the year in Zimbabwe have been quite eventful, for lack of a better word. We have gone through a national shutdown, where the country was temporarily sent back to the Stone Age,...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:17hrs | 2637 | by Thabani Mnyama
How to combat electoral fraud
This article proposes and outlines a possible solution to the problem of electoral manipulation in Zimbabwe. First, it explains the problem. Second, as a solution, it proffers a unique form of caretak...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:16hrs | 1342 | by Zachariah Mushawatu
'ICC threats will harden Mnangagwa'
THREATS to drag President Emmerson Mnangagwa and some of his top government officials to the International Criminal Court (ICC) over human rights violations will not solve the country's crises, but on...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:15hrs | 8030 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi demands $10m from Mliswa
VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi is demanding $10 million compensation from Norton MP Temba Mliswa (independent) for alleged defamation.Through his lawyers Mugiya and Macharaga Law Chambers, Mohadi...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:12hrs | 1469 | by Staff reporter
Supa Mandiwanzira seeks exception to charges
Former Information Communication Technology and Cyber Security Minister Supa Mandiwanzira, who is facing criminal abuse of office charges, has made an application for exception. He argued on Thursday ...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:02hrs | 251 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Govt lies about ICJ intervention in 'Public Violence Cases'
The Government of Zimbabwe, through the Deputy Minister of Information and Publicity, Nick Mangwana, has blatantly lied it was not aware that International Commission of Jurist (ICJ) had intervened an...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 19:59hrs | 492 | by Advocate Walter Nyabadza
ZANU PF Youths blast lawyers for representing protestors
ZANU PF Youth League Mashonaland West Province has condemned the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights and Doctors for Human Rights for assisting the victims of the state crackdown on citizens with medica...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 11:31hrs | 3730 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Company asks court to reject Mugabe company bid to reverse $174,000 award
A Harare agricultural products supplier locked in a debt dispute with former President Robert Mugabe's family business asked a court on Thursday to throw out an application for rescission of a default...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 10:55hrs | 812 | by ZimLive
Mnangagwa warned Hodzi
NEWLY-appointed prosecutor-general (PG) Kumbirai Hodzi got a taste of the complexities of his job when President Emmerson Mnangagwa gave him a stern warning to steer clear of corruption and to toe the...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:49hrs | 6903 | by Staff reporter
Mandiwanzira seeks exception to graft charges
Former ICT minister Supa Collins Mandiwanzira yesterday filed an application for exception to the charges that he corruptly engaged a South African company, Megawatt to do consultancy work for NetOne ...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:42hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter
Zim Judge to deal with army killings in Lesotho
Top judge Justice Charles Hungwe is in Lesotho as one of the foreign judges who will preside over the politically sensitive criminal cases involving politicians and members of Lesotho's army, police, ...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:35hrs | 606 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Police challenge assault victim's $13k compensation award
Home Affairs minister Cain Mathema and the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga have petitioned the High Court seeking to reverse a $13 500 compensation granted to a 64-y...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 07:36hrs | 620 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wins court challenge
Prosecutor-General Kumbirai Hodzi yesterday had the last laugh after the Constitutional Court (Concourt) ruled that an application challenging his appointment to the esteemed offices was filed out of ...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 07:25hrs | 1580 | by Staff reporter
Body stuck as cremation divides family
A Bulawayo man's body is stuck in mortuary due to family squabbles, with his surviving spouse and daughter demanding cremation while other members are opposed saying it is alien to their culture. ...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 07:14hrs | 969 | by Staff reporter
Chitungwiza deputy mayor granted bail
Suspended Chitungwiza Deputy Mayor Jabulani Mtunzi, who is facing allegations of inciting protesters who went on a rampage and destroyed Makoni Police Station during protests that rocked the dormitory...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 22:51hrs | 784 | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa to hand himself over to the police
Notorn Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has, through his lawyers, written to the Zimbabwe Republic Police indicating that he is willing to turn himself to the police after hearing that a report of so...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 12:14hrs | 6497 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bank seeks Rushwaya's incarceration over $174k debt
Tetrad Investment Bank, which is under provisional judicial management, has petitioned the High Court seeking the incarceration of Kadoma gold miner, Jameson Rushwaya over a $174 000 debt.Thro...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:34hrs | 1955 | by Staff reporter
MDC youth leader seeks discharge
LAWYERS representing MDC Alliance youth leader and Highfield West MP Happymore Chidziva, accused of inciting violence ahead of last year's elections, on Monday applied for discharge at the close of th...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:23hrs | 555 | by Staff reporter
Youth League rallies behind Mnangagwa
The Zanu-PF Youth League yesterday reaffirmed its full support for President Mnangagwa's efforts at turning around the economy and urged the nation to be united, peaceful and focused. The leag...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 07:55hrs | 156 | by Staff reporter
'Justice Malaba instructed magistrates to deny protestors bail' Jonathan Moyo alleges
Exiled former Cabinet Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has alleged that Chief Justice Luke Malaba instructed magistrates to deny bail to persons accused of taking part in the violent protests that...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 09:52hrs | 6517 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bushiri to pay R50 000 daily for legal fees
Enlightened Christian Gathering leader Prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife Mary Bushiri have enlisted the services of South Africa's top legal bulldog Advocate Barry Roux.South Africa media ...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 08:22hrs | 10247 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Businessman challenges civil imprisonment over $4,7m debt
BUSINESS mogul Munner Kamruddin Kazi, whose business deal with Oman-based investor Thamer Said Al Shanfari collapsed, has petitioned the High Court seeking rescission of judgment in a matter in which ...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 06:45hrs | 811 | by Staff reporter
Tsholotsho RDC CEO resigns
TSHOLOTSHO Rural District Council (RDC) Chief Executive Officer Mr Themba Moyo, who is facing allegations of fraud and misconduct, has resigned with immediate effect. His problems started when an audi...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 22:35hrs | 801 | by Staff reporter
Two Harare protestors jailed for 30 months
Harare Magistrate Victoria Mashamba on Monday sentenced two residents Shadreck Asani Daniel Shingirayi to serve 30 months in prison and suspended 12 months.The pair was convicted for committin...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 14:25hrs | 2480 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Tendai Biti to hear his fate on 18 February
Harare Magistrate Gloria Takundwa on Monday announced that she will hand down her ruling on 18 February 2019 in a matter where MDC National Deputy Chairperson Tendai Biti is accused of contravening th...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 14:08hrs | 1532 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mliswa speaks on $400 000 bribery claim
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has rubbished as smear campaign reports that he wanted a bribe from businessman James Ross Goddard who wanted to mine coal at Hwange Colliery.Mliswa is...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 09:38hrs | 4123 | by Mandla Ndlovu
South Africa to seize Bushiri's assets including luxury cars, private jet
Not only are the preacher and his wife facing fraud and money-laundering charges, but their assets are also up for seizureAs controversial "prophet" Shepherd Bushiri and his wife Mary fight fo...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 08:33hrs | 15268 | by City Press
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