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Zimbabwean man denied bail in SA over rape of landlord's daughter
The Atteridgeville Magistrate's Court in Pretoria has denied bail to a 55-year-old Zimbabwean national based in Saulsville, who was charged with three counts of raping his landlord's 12-year-old daugh...Published: 6 hrs ago | 459 | by Staff reporter
Mzinyathini gardens housing project halted
Hundreds of home-seekers involved in the multi-million-dollar Mzinyathini Gardens housing project are facing uncertainty after the Umguza Rural District Council (RDC) ordered an immediate halt to all ...Published: 11 May 2025 at 12:33hrs | 1054 | by Staff reporter
Njani Moyo only accorded liberation hero status
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has conferred Liberation Hero Status on the late veteran of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle, Elias Sikholiwe Njani Moyo, who passed away on April 26 at the age of 100....Published: 01 May 2025 at 16:56hrs | 2684 | by Staff reporter
Former Zapu cadre Njani Moyo dies
Elias Sikholiwe Njani Moyo, a revered figure in Zimbabwe's liberation struggle, has passed away at the age of 100. Moyo, who was sentenced to life imprisonment by the brutal Rhodesian regime in 1976 f...Published: 28 Apr 2025 at 12:19hrs | 201 | by Staff reporter
UK-based Zimbabwean landlady, tenant in nasty fallout
A UK-based Zimbabwean woman has issued a 14-day ultimatum to her tenant in Harare to pay US$3,850 in rental arrears and vacate the property following a heated dispute. The property in question is loca...Published: 12 Apr 2025 at 13:06hrs | 247 | by Staff reporter
Gweru court orders bogus lawyer to pay US$15,000
A Gweru magistrate has ordered a man who posed as a lawyer to repay US$15,000 he fraudulently obtained from a local woman in a botched divorce settlement.Takunda Manjokota, 37, was sentenced b...Published: 24 Jan 2025 at 07:54hrs | 150 | by Staff reporter
Chombo ordered to settle US$100,000 legal fees
The High Court has ordered Mashonaland West Provincial Affairs and Devolution minister Marian Chombo to pay lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa US$100,000 in legal fees accrued during her divorce proceedings with ...Published: 21 Jan 2025 at 13:48hrs | 382 | by Staff reporter
Con-artist on the prowl in Bulawayo
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has issued a warning to organizations and the public about a fraudster impersonating one of its officials. Town Clerk Christopher Dube announced that a man named Mr. Mh...Published: 18 Oct 2024 at 08:42hrs | 189 | by Staff reporter
Gweru unleashes debt collectors on defaulters
The Gweru City Council has announced that it will employ debt collectors to pursue ratepayers who have defaulted on their payments for more than two months. In a statement released on September 10, th...Published: 12 Sep 2024 at 07:15hrs | 121 | by Staff reporter
Kwashi drags Caps United to FIFA over US$46,000
Former Caps United assistant coach Tostao Kwashi has taken legal action against the club, filing a claim with FIFA to recover unpaid salaries and bonuses totaling US$46,000. Kwashi, who served...Published: 08 Sep 2024 at 19:47hrs | 2158 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: A group of artists claims non-payment for work on Madam Boss' skits
Ingwe Farm, Zimbabwe - A group of artists based in Ingwe Farm is alleging that they were not paid fairly for their work on the popular skits "Ka life kemu komboni" and "Komboni life" produced by socia...Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 20:22hrs | 728 | by Gideon Madzikatidze in Ingwe Farm
Prophet Magaya in fresh mining storm
SEVERAL people who entered into mining deals with Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) leader Walter Magaya are seeking legal recourse after failing to receive their shares, seven years after depos...Published: 12 Mar 2024 at 05:15hrs | 135 | by Staff reporter
US$10,000 bill haunts ZBC executives
The troubled Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) spent about US$ 10,000 in an attempt to recover US$900 from two employees in a case that has riled its employees who accuse the corporation's manag...Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 07:25hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
ConCourt throws out 'unfounded' application accusing Chamisa's lawyer of graft
The Constitutional Court has dismissed as "unfounded" and "devoid of any merit" an application by a man who accused prominent lawyer Advocate Thabani Mpofu of corruption and violating his rights to di...Published: 18 Jan 2024 at 17:52hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Tears of Zimbabwean single mothers in the UK
SOME Zimbabwean single mothers based in the United Kingdom (UK), struggling to secure visas for their children to join them abroad, were dealt a severe blow following the introduction of tough immigra...Published: 13 Dec 2023 at 05:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Swindlers cash in on UK's certificates of sponsorship
FOR close to two years, Maud Kwembeya (33) - of Zimunya in Mutare - has been harbouring thoughts of one day migrating to the United Kingdom (UK) in search of greener pastures.A vastly experien...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 10:33hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa wipes out political opponents
President Cyril Ramaphosa seems to have wiped out his political opponents by what many deem is the use of state organs to fight political battles. Arrests seem to have dampened the energy of the "RET ...Published: 27 Nov 2023 at 05:10hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Munyeza, wife Wilma spared jail in race to repay US$100,000 loan
Embattled businessman Shingi Munyeza and his wife, Wilma, were spared jail by the High Court last Friday after a former neighbour they owe US$100,000 filed an application to have them committed to pri...Published: 20 Nov 2023 at 22:08hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti in US$231,000 fraud storm
Tendai Biti, a senior member of the Citizen for Coalition for Change (CCC), is currently facing a major crisis, as he has become embroiled in an alleged US$231,000 fraud case. This investigation invol...Published: 01 Nov 2023 at 14:16hrs | 39 | by Staff reporter
Gweru in traffic lights U-turn
GWERU City says it plans to negotiate with a Chinese contractor the local authority had contracted to install traffic lights after the two fell out over the deal and took each other to court.S...Published: 31 May 2023 at 07:05hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
'UK-based Zimbabwean caregivers being exploited'
SOME Zimbabwean caregivers in the United Kingdom (UK) are allegedly subjected to, among other ill-treatments, unfair labour practises such as working for long hours on poor wages and sacked from work ...Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 05:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA-based Zimbabweans appeal for legal fees
THE Zimbabwe Exemption Permit Holders Association (Zepha) says it has no funds to support its court challenge seeking an urgent order to assert the rights of children with parents that are in South Af...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 06:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe school headmasters face the sack over illegal fees hikes
HEADS of Government schools who defy laid down guidelines in hiking fees will be deemed to have committed acts of misconduct and will be liable to disciplinary action, which may include dismissal, whi...Published: 13 Jan 2023 at 05:45hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Bogus 'police officer' robs woman of US$98K in a Ponzi scheme
A-RUWA man who impersonated a police officer and robbed her of US$98 000 in a botched Ponzi scheme was today arraigned before Harare magistrate Dennis Mangosi to answer to the charges.The susp...Published: 24 Nov 2022 at 04:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's lawyer says he faces 'extortionate' means
PROMINENT attorney Advocate Thabani Mpofu, involved in a wrangle with Zimbabwean-Croat Joseph Crnkovic, a former finance officer for Chegutu-based mining company Dallaglio Investments, over allegation...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:13hrs | 33 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's lawyer Zacc in crosshairs
TOP lawyer, Advocate Thabani Mpofu is in Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc)'s crosshairs following allegations that he received "an inducement" from accused persons to conceal racism and human...Published: 26 Sep 2022 at 06:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Fake lawyers on the prowl'
THE Zimbabwe Law Society has warned the public against hiring "touts" masquerading as lawyers as cases of people being conned by fake lawyers increase."The public is being warned to desist fro...Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Welshman Ncube fails to pay Mphoko's US$1,5 million
FORMER Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko and his son Siqokoqela have escalated their fight to recover about US$1,5 million from their former lawyer Welshman Ncube, with the matter set to be heard at t...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 08:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Lawyer arrested for theft
A lawyer in Chinhoyi has been arrested on allegations of stealing more than $100 000 from a client after being given an ATM card to settle legal fees.Burukai Muchadzireva (42) is still assisti...Published: 15 Feb 2022 at 05:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man fraudulently acquires 'dead' SA-based businessman's farm
A BULAWAYO man allegedly faked the death of a South Africa-based businessman and fraudulently took ownership of his farm in Umguza District, Matabeleland North, through a court order.Zephaniah...Published: 01 Dec 2021 at 05:37hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Bogus lawyer in court for fraud
A Harare man, who allegedly masqueraded as a lawyer and was paid US$3 000 for his "services", appeared before a Harare court on Friday charged with fraud.Beven Chipunza (32) of 1206 Crowboroug...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 07:42hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Explosive dossier exposes Chiadzwa gems tax sleaze
A whistleblower has submitted an explosive dossier to the Zimbabwe revenue Authority (Zimra) providing insight into how diamond mining firms in the Chiadzwa diamond fields in Manicaland, evaded tax ob...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Top lawyer faces de-registration
A WELL-KNOWN Harare lawyer, Charles Chinyama is facing imminent de-registration after being found guilty of six counts of unethical conduct for fleecing clients of money running into thousands of Unit...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 08:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
What you need to consider before hiring a slip and fall attorney
Getting serious injuries due to someone else's negligence is always stressful. This is because you need to be hospitalized and it can drain you financially because of the inability to continue working...Published: 05 May 2021 at 15:22hrs | 2 | by Staff writer
Sheriff attaches Justice Ndewere's 2 vehicles
A HIGH Court sheriff on Monday broke into suspended judge Justice Erica Ndewere's residence and attached two motor vehicles to recover legal fees won by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) against h...Published: 29 Apr 2021 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff writer
Divorce blow or couples
THE Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) yesterday announced a new fee structure for its members that will see couples intending to divorce paying as much as US$2 000 or its equivalent - $170 000 in local cu...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 09:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora tries to come clean over accusations
THE MDC-T owes US$100 000 to its lawyers who include constitutional expert Lovemore Madhuku, Kholwani Ngwenya, Nomatter Kadoko, and another lawyer only named as Mtungura, it has emerged.This w...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 06:23hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean tycoon in messy divorce
A Zimbabwe-born millionaire-cum-politician has been held in contempt of court for owing about 1323 000 in child maintenance in a divorce settlement matter. The man, who cannot be named to prot...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 20:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nasty legal showdown at Doves
DOVES Life Assurance Company (Doves) shareholders are embroiled in a nasty High Court battle after Farai Matsika allegedly tried to elbow out his partner Phibeon Busangabanye.Matsika and Busan...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ibutho leNqama press release on Chief Ndiweni issue
Monday 19 August 2018Hundreds of Mthwakazi people residing in Johannesburg in South Africa converged at Joubert Park Johannesburg on Sunday 18 August 2...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 14:02hrs | 2 | by Ibutho leNqama Spokesperson
Old Mutual responds to Zimbabwe shareholder who want the Board to resign
Thank you for responding to my request for the Chair and the Board to resign. I am aware that you could not say much because this issue is before the High Court. For you to suggest that these court pr...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 19:19hrs | 1 | by Old Mutual
Peter Moyo tightens screws on Trevor Manuel
Axed Old Mutual chief executive Peter Moyo has launched a fresh legal battle to get his job back.Moyo, 56, on Monday approached the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg to have the country...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:50hrs | | by iol
Zimbabwean shareholder seeks ouster of Trevor Manuel from Old Mutual
THE labour row, rocking international financial conglomerate, Old Mutual has taken a sinister twist with a Zimbabwean shareholder now seeking the ouster of former South African Finance Minister Trevor...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 16:26hrs | 1 | by newzimbabwe
Old Mutual Chairman and Board of Directors should immediately resign
Dear Editor, As a shareholder and insurance policy holder of Old Mutual Plc I am requesting the Chairman Trevor Manuel and the board directors of Old Mutual Plc to immediately resign and call...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 13:16hrs | 1 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
NPA prosecutor seeks to clear self
National Prosecution Authority (NPA) prosecutor Edmore Nyazamba, who was arrested for allegedly failing to respond to an application filed by former Information Communication Technology minister Supa ...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Judge orders Moyo to be reinstated as CEO of Old Mutual
The South Gauteng High Court has ordered Old Mutual and respondents to temporarily reinstate Peter Moyo as CEO, who was fired in June and to put a halt on any decision to replace him. It also ordered ...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 14:39hrs | 15 | by CNBC Africa
Law Society of Zimbabwe hikes legal fees
THE Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) has announced new tariffs to be charged by lawyers ranging from RTGS$180 to $2 100 per hour from the least to the most qualified lawyer with effect from this month. &...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 08:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Peter Moyo vs. Old Mutual: 7 key factors as they head to court
Ex-Old Mutual CEO Peter Moyo heads to court on Tuesday to challenge his dismissal by the financial giant.The legal wrangle centres around the blue-chip company's dismissal of its former chief ...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 08:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jobless and witless Sikhala
Well, when I see jobless and witless Sikhala what comes to mind are Tom and Jerry gimmicks! The MDC-Alliance might have tried hard to openly disown him on his utterances, but we are not fooled...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Peter Moyo has 'inflated sense of self-importance' says Old Mutual
Old Mutual lambasted what it called former CEO Peter Moyo's "inflated sense of self-importance" as the company opposed a legal bid he launched against his dismissal.In an answering affidavit f...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 20:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
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