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'We'll get him dead or alive': Reid's Mpiranya trail to Zimbabwe
A BESPECTACLED white man of medium height probably in his early 60s walks into the hotel restaurant where I am seated outside on patio couches basking in the sunshine while surfing social media platfo...Published: 35 mins ago | 128 | by Dumisani Muleya
Mnangagwa legitimacy challenger wins major battle
A Harare magistrate on Friday said former Zanu-PF activist Sybeth Musengezi was eligible for a ruling party membership in what his lawyers said was confirmation that he was facing baseless charges to ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 555 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo dragged into stand row
LOCAL Government minister July Moyo has been dragged to the High Court in a case where he faces charges of illegally allocating a piece of land belonging to a Harare businesswoman to the acting Chitun...Published: 3 hrs ago | 105 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa legitimacy challenger granted bail after more than week in custody
Zanu-PF activist Sybeth Musengezi who challenged president Emmerson Mnangagwa's legitimacy in court was granted Z$30,000 bail on Friday after more than a week in custody.Musengezi was arrested...Published: 18 hrs ago | 45 | by Staff reporter
Boardroom coup to topple Matabele leader backfires on Chamisa
When it comes to tribalism in Zimbabwe, CCC aka MDC and ZANU-PF lead. To put it in other words, ZANU-PF is the first anti- Matabele Shona project and first home for Shona supremacists in Zimbabwe and ...Published: 20 hrs ago | 560 | by Israel Dube
Borrowdale Brooke security bars Wadyajena workers
SECURITY at Borrowdale Brooke has blocked Gokwe-Nembudziya MP Justice Mayor Wadyajena's construction workers from entering the estate.This came a day after the High Court granted the Zanu-PF l...Published: 20 May 2022 at 06:32hrs | 2619 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa legitimacy challenger to spend weekend behind bars
SYBETH Musengezi, the Harare man who is appearing in court on allegations of using a fake address to join Zanu-PF structures and earn himself a position in the Youth League, will spend the weekend in ...Published: 20 May 2022 at 06:27hrs | 208 | by Staff reporter
Wadyajena defeats Munyeza, regains access to Borrowdale Brooke
Gokwe-Nembudziya MP Justice Mayor Wadyajena (Zanu-PF) has won a case against the Borrowdale Brooke Homeowners Association (BBHOA) that was accusing him of violating rules governing the residence....Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:37hrs | 835 | by Staff reporter
Masuka in court over US$94 000 loan
AGRICULTURE Minister Anxious Masuka has allegedly failed to pay back a US$94 000 loan advanced to him five years ago in the form of tobacco farming inputs.A Chinese tobacco contracting firm Ti...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:36hrs | 529 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's activists cornered
CHIEF magistrate Mrs Faith Mushure yesterday allowed a crucial State witness from Econet Zimbabwe to testify in the ongoing trial of CCC members, Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri, on charges of faki...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:33hrs | 285 | by Staff reporter
Bickering lawyers delay commencement of trial
A bitter wrangle between a public prosecutor Nathan Majuru and a defence lawyer Brighton Pabwe of Venturas & Samkange Legal Practitioners has led to two crucial trials failing to take off at Mutok...Published: 18 May 2022 at 11:48hrs | 1096 | by Simbarashe Sithole
11 Zimbabwean students in international moot competition
ELEVEN Zimbabwean students have raised the country's flag high at the 2022 High School Moot International Competition which was held virtually.Zimbabwe is the only country that will be represe...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:21hrs | 243 | by Staff reporter
Mahachi readies for court battle
WARRIORS forward Kudakwashe Mahachi has denied allegations of scalding his four-year-old son with boiling water and has threatened legal action in a bid to be allowed access to the boy.Mahachi...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:21hrs | 976 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's activists chicken out again
CCC members - Joana Mamombe and Cecelia Chimbiri - charged with faking their abductions in May 2020, yesterday mounted a bid to block a crucial State witness from Econet Zimbabwe from giving evidence ...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:18hrs | 640 | by Staff reporter
Mahachi denies allegations of scalded son with boiling water
SOUTH African-based footballer, Kudakwashe Mahachi, who stands accused of having scalded his four-year-old son Diego, with boiling water has denied the allegations.It has also emerged that con...Published: 17 May 2022 at 19:59hrs | 1165 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa challenger further detained
Zanu-PF activist Sybeth Musengezi, who challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ascendency to power, was yesterday further remanded in custody after the State requested postponement to today....Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:37hrs | 610 | by Staff reporter
US$250 000 debt chokes Zanu-PF bigwig
FORMER State Security minister and Zanu-PF bigwig Sydney Sekeramayi has been dragged to court over a US$250 000 debt he owes a friend.Sekeramayi, who is also a Mashonaland East senator, was su...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:36hrs | 1258 | by Staff reporter
High Court quashes HIT demand for US$ fees
A-HIGH Court judge, Justice Happias Zhou has ruled that demands by the Harare Institute of Technology (HIT) for students to pay 35% of their fees in United States dollars was unlawful.This was...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:34hrs | 376 | by Staff reporter
Sekeramayi falls on hard times, fails to repay US$250,000 debt
ZANU PF politburo member, Sydney Sekeramayi has fallen on hard times and is failing to repay a US$250 000 debt to a friend.This has emerged after the friend, Exevia Maoneke, dragged him to cou...Published: 16 May 2022 at 20:52hrs | 1768 | by Staff reporter
Chegutu villagers relive night of terror
"THEY must rot in jail!" Selma Modi (38) of Kalembo Farm in Chegutu yelled as she narrated her harrowing ordeal of last Tuesday night at the hands of armed Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) personnel....Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:23hrs | 1038 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa challenger's case raises eyebrows
The court challenge over President Emmerson Mnangagwa's legitimacy took an ominous turn following last week's arrest of the Zanu-PF activist, who instituted the high profile case.Sybeth Museng...Published: 15 May 2022 at 06:15hrs | 3457 | by Staff reporter
SuperSport suspends Kuda Mahachi over child abuse allegations
WARRIORS forward Kuda Mahachi has been suspended by his South African club SuperSport over allegations of abusing his four-year-old son.The Pretoria-based outfit confirmed on Friday night they...Published: 14 May 2022 at 19:41hrs | 435 | by Staff reporter
Wadyejena threatens to sue Borrowdale Brooke Homeowners Association
GOKWE Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyejena has threatened to drag the Borrowdale Brooke Homeowners Association (BBHOA) to court for illegally deactivating his vehicle tags and relegating him ...Published: 14 May 2022 at 19:41hrs | 495 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's Matutu elbowed out of mine
FORMER Zanu-PF youth leader Lewis Matutu has been elbowed out of the late business tycoon John Bredenkamp's gold-rich Thetford Estate in Mazowe, the Zimbabwe Independent has established.This c...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:10hrs | 191 | by Staff reporter
ZRP instantly outlaws use of spikes
ZIMBABWE Republic Police (ZRP) Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has banned outlawed the use of hand held metal spikes by law enforcements agents follow...Published: 13 May 2022 at 16:57hrs | 512 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Corrupt council officials' lawyers fail to appear in court
LAWYERS representing three Mvurwi Town Council officials who allegedly stole 32 stands valued at more than ZWL$18 million which they sold to desperate stand seekers while issuing fake receipt failed t...Published: 12 May 2022 at 16:06hrs | 2139 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Bindura
Septuagenarian challenges traditional leaders' bizarre custom
A 76-year-old Nyanga man has asked a traditional leader to return his livestock and money which he paid as punishment after his 15-year-old grandson was convicted and fined for allegedly violating an ...Published: 11 May 2022 at 19:23hrs | 779 | by Stephen Jakes
Man loses livestock, US$20 to headman as fine for wearing red clothes during rainy season
A Nyanga man has taken his village head to court seeking to recover cash and livestock he paid to him as punishment for wearing red clothes during the rainy season.The 15-year old boy was conv...Published: 11 May 2022 at 09:15hrs | 760 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's ban on bank lending null and void'
LEGAL experts have dismissed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ban on bank lending as a legal nullity.The ban, meant to stabilise the local currency, was part of a raft of measures announced on S...Published: 11 May 2022 at 09:12hrs | 440 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe freezes registration of new NGOs
THE government has frozen the registration of private voluntary organisations (PVOs) and trusts, stoking fears that the President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has begun a clampdown on non-gover...Published: 10 May 2022 at 17:29hrs | 1157 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai estate: Workers claim US$150 000
THE family of the late former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe and MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai may not benefit much from the politician's estate as domestic workers and other employees are claiming sa...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:03hrs | 390 | by Staff reporter
AMH scribes arrested while covering Chitungwiza by-election
ALPHA Media Holdings journalists, Blessed Mhlanga and Chengeto Chidi, have been arrested while covering the municipal by-election in Chitungwiza.The by-election was being held in Ward 7, Zenge...Published: 07 May 2022 at 19:54hrs | 859 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate blasts lawyers
Harare magistrate Mrs Vongai Guwuriro Muchuchuti has blasted lawyers representing builder George Katsimberis for exhibiting unprofessional conduct saying they should put their house in order.T...Published: 06 May 2022 at 19:29hrs | 208 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate throws out Sikhala's application
A HARARE magistrate yesterday dismissed opposition leader Job Sikhala's application challenging the use of a flash disk as evidence in a case he is facing a charge of inciting public violence....Published: 06 May 2022 at 06:56hrs | 687 | by Staff reporter
ZUPCO faces court action over failing public transport system
The Passengers Association of Zimbabwe (PAZ) has given the government and ZUPCO a 24-hour deadline to provide adequate public transport in urban areas or face being dragged to court.The police...Published: 05 May 2022 at 20:58hrs | 751 | by Staff reporter
CCC members trial postponed again
A State witness at the trial of CCC activists Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri on charges of faking their abductions sometime in 2020 could not attend court yesterday as she was ill, forcing the mat...Published: 05 May 2022 at 07:09hrs | 264 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's anti-corruption crusade fizzles out deplorably
HIGH-PROFILE corruption cases from as far back as 2017 are yet to be finalised, almost five years after President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised to decisively tackle graft.The development also de...Published: 03 May 2022 at 16:08hrs | 1054 | by Staff reporter
ZLHR pay tribute to brave journalists
ON World Press Freedom Day, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has paid tribute to the brave media practitioners in Zimbabwe and across the globe, who continue to pursue the truth despite the pe...Published: 03 May 2022 at 15:07hrs | 115 | by Stephen Jakes
CCC MP helps youth acquire IDs
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator Sichelesile Mahlangu is using her own personal money to assist youth to acquire the national identity documents.Mahlangu said some youths said th...Published: 03 May 2022 at 14:52hrs | 441 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe teachers down chalks
WORKERS yesterday accused government of making empty promises on improved wages and conditions of service for "too many years", as teachers declared "incapacitation" again.With schools opening...Published: 03 May 2022 at 06:53hrs | 4263 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe MPs get a salary of US$180' Temba Mliswa reveals
Norton Member Temba Mliswa says many Members of Parliament are impoverished because they are paid slightly above US$180 for the hard work they do in formulating laws and policies in parliament. ...Published: 02 May 2022 at 11:42hrs | 5274 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Peter Ndlovu fails to pay maintenance...children drop out of school
Celebrated Zimbabwean soccer star and Mamelodi Sundowns team manager Peter Ndlovu has been dragged to court by one of his baby mamas who is pleading with the courts to grant her an order barring Ndlov...Published: 02 May 2022 at 08:55hrs | 8026 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Aggrieved motorist sues city of Harare and govt for gross negligence
A ZIMBABWEAN motorist is suing City of Harare and Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure Development for more than US$15 000 in damages caused to his vehicle which fell into an open and unmarked dit...Published: 01 May 2022 at 20:50hrs | 741 | by Stephen Jakes
ZLHR salutes all workers for resilience
ON this International Workers Day, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has saluted all workers in Zimbabwe for their immense contributions to the country and their resilience in the face of the e...Published: 01 May 2022 at 20:48hrs | 137 | by Stephen Jakes
Tortured and abused teacher wins compensation
A ZIMBABWEAN court has ordered authorities to pay $200 000 to a teacher who was arrested, tortured and abused by some Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers three years ago.Munyaradzi Masiyiw...Published: 01 May 2022 at 20:41hrs | 719 | by Stephen Jakes
Zim authorities rescind dismissal of traditional leaders sacked for resisting partisan manipulation during elections
ZIMBABWEAN authorities have reinstated six traditional leaders to their positions as village heads after rescinding their illegal and unceremonious dismissal which took place seven years ago.T...Published: 01 May 2022 at 20:38hrs | 636 | by Stephen Jakes
Chin'ono seeks police protection
JOURNALIST and political activist Hopewell Chin'ono's lawyers yesterday wrote to the police seeking to stop a Zanu-PF youth league member from invading his rural plot to "steal" his goats in Murewa to...Published: 01 May 2022 at 11:29hrs | 379 | by Staff reporter
Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni says he is still the chief of Ntabazinduna
Dethroned Ntabazinduna chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni says he is still the traditional leader of his area despite moves by the government to strip him of his powers.Ndiweni, who is in ex...Published: 01 May 2022 at 11:24hrs | 347 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's wings clipped
The High Court says Finance minister Mthuli Ncube usurped Parliament's powers through a statutory instrument that created a new taxation regime for the fuel industry two years ago.On June 5, 2...Published: 01 May 2022 at 11:23hrs | 498 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa wins $200 000 lawsuit against Kazembe Kazembe
The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) is celebrating after its Deputy Secretary General Munyaradzi Masiyiwa was granted ZWL200 000 compensation fees by a Harare court for bein false...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 09:47hrs | 2302 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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