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Welshman Ncube should seek political settlement with Tshabangu
PROF WELSHMAN NCUBE SHOULD FORGET HIS LOSING COURT LITIGATION AGAINST SENATOR TSHABANGU AND SEEK A POLITICAL SETTLEMENTFor Prof Welshman Ncube when it rains, it pours. The Supreme Court this w...Published: 16 hrs ago | 220 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
Mnangagwa sued
Heal Zimbabwe Trust has filed a constitutional application against President Emmerson Mnangagwa, alleging that he violated principles of public procurement accountability by enacting a law that makes ...Published: 07 May 2025 at 09:40hrs | 3530 | by Staff reporter
Huayou Cobalt bets on Arcadia Lithium Mine
Chinese battery manufacturing giant Huayou Cobalt is intensifying its focus on Zimbabwe's Arcadia Lithium Mine, as it pushes forward with a lithium sulfate project aimed at significantly reducing prod...Published: 25 Apr 2025 at 07:23hrs | 63 | by Staff reporter
High Court strikes procurement law challenge off the roll
A legal challenge mounted by Harare lawyer Mr Naison Machingauta against a controversial provision in Zimbabwe's public procurement law has been struck off the High Court roll, with the court citing c...Published: 23 Apr 2025 at 08:26hrs | 94 | by Staff reporter
All CCC positions unlawful
In a landmark ruling, the High Court in Harare has found in favor of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim secretary-general Sengezo Tshabangu, declaring that all party positions and main organs...Published: 15 Apr 2025 at 08:48hrs | 2412 | by Staff reporter
Book Review | Odyssey of Liberation: A Memoir of a Rebel Advocate
Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic, famously argued that "until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter". In his recently minted book, Od...Published: 15 Mar 2025 at 14:08hrs | 247 | by Professor Sipho Seepe
Organisational consequences of non-compliance with Zimbabwe's Data Protection Regulations
Insurance, banks, mobile service providers, funeral assurance providers, in fact any company that stores personal data, the advent of the Cyber and Data Protection Act in Zimbabwe marks a significant ...Published: 13 Mar 2025 at 16:34hrs | 180 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
USAID staff told to shred and burn classified documents
Staff at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) have been told to shred and burn classified documents and personnel files.The request raised alarm among employees and labour group...Published: 12 Mar 2025 at 10:28hrs | 1082 | by Staff reporter
Edmund Kudzayi responds to Kenneth Sharpe accusations
Statement in Response to False Accusations by Mr Kenneth Sharpe (recordings in tweet below)It has come to my attention that Mr Kenneth Sharpe has fabri...Published: 13 Feb 2025 at 11:44hrs | 749 | by Edmund Kudzayi
Bus operator ordered to pay US$145,000 for fatal crash
Mandeep Tours, a luxury bus operator, has been ordered to pay US$145,042.94 in damages to Govasberg, another bus company, for the total loss of its bus in a tragic head-on collision that claimed 13 li...Published: 10 Feb 2025 at 06:34hrs | 1016 | by Staff reporter
NGO in ED2030 pushback
A coalition of civil society organisations in Zimbabwe is reportedly coming together to form a massive movement aimed at challenging the push by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF supporters to ex...Published: 24 Jan 2025 at 07:58hrs | 276 | 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 | 381 | by Staff reporter
Zela moves to protect marginalised communities
The Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) has reaffirmed its dedication to advocating for the protection of marginalized communities, particularly women in the mining sector, amid growing conc...Published: 13 Dec 2024 at 09:41hrs | 94 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's education sector saddled with billions in debt
The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education in Zimbabwe is grappling with significant financial challenges, with debts running into billions of Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) currency, revealing the deepenin...Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 06:39hrs | 288 | by Staff reporter
Mashonaland chief in legal trouble over abuse directed at woman
The national Council of Chiefs has been petitioned to act on an errant chief who was filmed verbally abusing a woman during a village court sitting.Chief Nyamaropa, of Shamva in Mashonaland Ce...Published: 02 Dec 2024 at 16:56hrs | 1523 | by Staff reporter
Namatai Kwekweza to be issued with a new ID
Zimbabwean authorities have invited pro-democracy campaigner Namatai Kwekweza to the Registrar-General's Office to collect her new national identity card after a contentious battle over the replacemen...Published: 28 Nov 2024 at 16:26hrs | 10795 | by Staff reporter
Professor Welshman Ncube biting the hand that fed him?
HIGH COURT YET TO DECIDE WHICH IS THE LAWFUL CCC IN HCH 6872/23: ONE WHOSE MAIN DEPONENT IS JAMESON TIMBA OR ONE WHOSE ONLY DEPONENT IS SENGEZO TSHABANGU.Will the real or lawful CCC please sta...Published: 26 Nov 2024 at 14:38hrs | 1101 | by Jonathan Moyo
Zimbabwe Prosecutor General faces possible jail time
Zimbabwe's Prosecutor-General, Loice Matanda Moyo, is facing the prospect of jail time after a former prosecutor, Patrobs Dube, accused her office of defying a court order to reinstate him. Dube, who ...Published: 26 Nov 2024 at 08:13hrs | 861 | by Staff reporter
New Zimbabwe High Court Judge faces scrutiny over lawsuit against CIMAS
Justice Phillipa Phillips-Sadza, appointed to the High Court bench in June this year, is embroiled in a legal dispute with CIMAS, a prominent medical aid society, over an alleged mishandling of her me...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 13:17hrs | 966 | by Staff reporter
ZESA singlehandedly destroying Zimbabwe: The shocking truth behind the power crisis
In Zimbabwe, there is a harsh reality that every citizen faces: power outages, or "load shedding," are an almost daily occurrence. Power cuts, sometimes lasting up to 18 hours, have become the...Published: 12 Nov 2024 at 21:07hrs | 3689 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chiyangwa's 250,000 stands projects raises alarm
A Harare-based liberal think tank, the Coalition for Market and Liberal Solutions (Comaliso), has raised concerns over the feasibility of businessman Phillip Chiyangwa's ambitious 250,000 housing stan...Published: 12 Nov 2024 at 10:59hrs | 1017 | by Staff reporter
South Africa apex court reverses GMO approval
After an arduous nine-year legal battle, a full bench of the supreme court of appeal (SCA) has set aside the commercial approval of a drought-tolerant genetically modified (GM) variety of maize....Published: 04 Nov 2024 at 10:44hrs | 1917 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa demands apology, reparations from Britain for colonial atrocities
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has called on the British government to formally apologize for the historical injustices endured by indigenous Zimbabweans during the colonial era, which spanned from 1890...Published: 01 Nov 2024 at 06:33hrs | 505 | by Staff reporter
The PVO Bill is a threat to Zimbabwe's democracy
The recent passing of the Private Voluntary Organization (PVO) Bill by the Zimbabwe Senate has sparked widespread concern among civil society organizations and democracy advocates. The bill, w...Published: 18 Oct 2024 at 21:07hrs | 396 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Tshabangu disputes Welshman Ncube's acting presidency
The leadership crisis within the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has intensified, with Sengezo Tshabangu, who claims to be the Interim Secretary General of the party, denying that Professor Welshm...Published: 08 Oct 2024 at 18:45hrs | 1991 | by Staff reporter
Hichilema alarmed by prospects of defeat and prosecution for corruption
When Zambia experienced democratic backsliding between 2011 and 2021, the deliberate use of legal mechanisms to weaken opposition parties played a central role. Lawfare has been a constant theme of Za...Published: 07 Oct 2024 at 17:08hrs | 2651 | by Sishuwa Sishuwa
High Court rescinds Assemblies of God default judgment
The High Court has overturned a default judgment that had been passed against leaders of the Assemblies of God - Spiritual Movement (AoG-SM), sparing them from eviction from their church premises in M...Published: 28 Sep 2024 at 12:11hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
Shock as judges from Matebeleland continue to be overlooked
Chief Justice Luke Malaba has named Justice Munamato Mutevedzi - appointed to the bench only in 2021 - as the most senior judge in Bulawayo, astounding many lawyers.Mutevedzi is replacing Just...Published: 12 Sep 2024 at 10:28hrs | 2435 | by Staff reporter
Hope at last for Zimbabweans in South Africa
In November 2021, South Africa's Department of Home Affairs (DHA) abruptly announced that it would not extend the Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEP), leaving hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans scrambl...Published: 11 Sep 2024 at 11:52hrs | 6705 | by Staff reporter
MP's challenge on constitutional right against Zimra dismissed
The High Court has dismissed an application challenging the requirement to provide 60 days' notice before initiating proceedings against the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra). Opposition leg...Published: 20 Aug 2024 at 10:38hrs | 112 | by Staff reporter
Attempts to name-drop Zanu-PF in land dispute fail
Attempts by approximately 850 stand owners in Msasa Park, Chadcombe, to transfer ownership of their properties without paying market prices and related costs were dismissed by the High Court. The owne...Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 08:06hrs | 87 | by Staff reporter
IEC has asked Electoral Court to refuse to accept MK Party's withdrawal
The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) has asked the Electoral Court to refuse to accept the MK Party's withdrawal of its court case to set aside the elections, saying the party made "serious ...Published: 06 Jul 2024 at 12:53hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Hlophe's name will be on JSC list
The decision on whether Dr John Hlophe will be designated to the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) may be heading for a legal showdown after six legal NGOs urged the Speaker of Parliament to not appoi...Published: 04 Jul 2024 at 11:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Accident victim loses US$234,000 claim against bus operator
Peter Musindo's claim against Mukumba Brothers bus operator, Inter Africa Bus Service, for damages resulting from a road accident has been dismissed by the High Court due to procedural lapses. Musindo...Published: 20 Jun 2024 at 07:28hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Statement on voice messages circulating on social media
It has been brought to my attention that there are voice messages purportedly being attributed to me which are circulating on various social media platforms. In these 'voice notes' I am alleged to hav...Published: 12 Jun 2024 at 13:33hrs | 2 | by Madzibaba Wicknell Munodaani Chivayo
Residents risk losing properties over unpaid bills
The Bulawayo City Council has warned that thousands of residents may lose their properties if they default on paying their bills.Over 2,000 households have already had their water supplies dis...Published: 21 May 2024 at 08:17hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Biti dumps CCC
FORMER Finance minister and Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) co-vice-president Tendai Biti, has dumped the main opposition political party saying he is taking a sabbatical away from politics as he ...Published: 10 Apr 2024 at 06:05hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
SAP in hot water over dodgy deal with Zimbabwe
Multinational software giant SAP is in hot water over allegations that it used code names and set up a shelf company in Botswana to circumvent European Union (EU) sanctions imposed on the Zimbabwean g...Published: 08 Apr 2024 at 11:04hrs | 35 | by Staff reporter
Biti's defamation appeal dismissed
High Court judge Justice Gladys Mhuri has dismissed an application for rescission of the default judgment filed by lawyer Tendai Biti following the dismissal of his other application for exception in ...Published: 03 Apr 2024 at 18:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Harare mayor reads riot act
HARARE City Council will soon embark on human rights refresher courses for its municipal police following rampant cases of violence against vendors and taxi operators.This was revealed by Hara...Published: 26 Mar 2024 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Why a farmer is riding from Zimbabwe to Windhoek on a horse
When Ben Freeth headed west on horseback from the derelict Mount Carmel farm near Chegutu in Zimbabwe on 28 November, he had to lay low. For about 800km, Freeth avoided roads and stuck to the bush, fo...Published: 12 Mar 2024 at 20:05hrs | 9 | by GroundUp
ZMC threatens to muzzle the press on Gukurahundi genocide reporting
THE Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) chairperson, Professor Ruby Magosvongwe, says media houses which refuse to sign the controversial code of conduct produced by the commission and an unrepresentative...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 09:09hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe seeks to control Gukurahundi genocide coverage process
The Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) chair Professor Ruby Magosvongwe says media houses which refuse to sign the controversial code of conduct produced by the commission and an unrepresentative clique ...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 20:49hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Coltart demands action on sewers
Bulawayo Mayor Cllr David Coltart has called for the speedy rehabilitation of burst sewer pipes to curb the potential spread of cholera around the city.Cllr Coltart, addressing the city father...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 14:22hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zec hit with over 100 lawsuits
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has revealed that it attracted over 100 court cases over the secrecy and controversy surrounding its handling of the August 2023 elections with some still pendi...Published: 11 Feb 2024 at 21:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Parliament tears into court e-system
THE Parliamentary Legal Committee (PLC) has thrown a wrench into the US$3,8 million Integrated Electronic Case Management System (IECMS), issuing a scathing report that questions the fairness and acce...Published: 08 Feb 2024 at 04:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZESA technicians arrested in stand-off with top prosecutor Reza
Two ZESA technicians were arrested and later released on Sunday after they were blocked from accessing a house in Harare's Kambuzuma suburb where faulty underground cables have left a shopping centre ...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 06:04hrs | 2 | 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
Mnangagwa appoints Health Service Commission
The new Health Service Commission, which assumes full control of the staff in the State health services, has become active with the appointment of Civil Service Commission chair Dr Vincent Hungwe as c...Published: 06 Jan 2024 at 08:41hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu received free legal services from Advocate Uriri
CCC activist Sengezo Tshabangu has disclosed that prominent lawyer Lewis Uriri provided him with pro bono legal services when the party took legal action against his authority to recall its Members of...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 10:51hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
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