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Court blocks prisoners from voting
THE High Court has dismissed with costs an application by former prisoners seeking voting rights for inmates during elections.Through their lawyer Tererai Mafukidze of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for...Published: 28 Oct 2022 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Court reserves judgment in prisoners' quest to vote
HIGH Court judge Justice Munamato Mutevedzi yesterday reserved judgment in an application seeking voting rights for prisoners during elections, saying all parties involved in the matter would be notif...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 05:46hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Prisoners demand voting right
THE High Court will for the second time hear an application filed by prisoners in 2017, seeking to be allowed to vote during elections, after the judge who initially heard the matter, Justice Clement ...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 04:34hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC promises US$100bn economy
THE MDC Alliance has said if voted into power in 2023, it will transform Zimbabwe's ailing economy into a US$100 billion economy.This was said on Saturday by the party's secretary for policy d...Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 05:50hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Local oil firms push for fair play
THE Direct Fuel Import (DFI) group, which represents indigenous oil firms that have mounted legal challenges against the government to force policy changes, this week warned the Zimbabwe Energy Regula...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 19:00hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Big Zimbabwean companies are fingered in forex fiddle
TOP executives and directors from up to 20 big companies face imminent arrest following a Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) investigation into massive multi-million-dollar fraud involving the country's f...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 18:58hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Esidakeni farm former owner puts weight behind Malunga
THE former owner of Esikadeni farm, which has been at the centre of an ownership dispute pitting its local shareholders and government, has said he disposed of his stake in the dairy business to three...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 18:58hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Trust gets US$5million, collapses in 3 years
THE Marange-Zimunya Community Share Ownership Trust (MZCSOT) has collapsed only three years after the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamonds Corporation (ZCDC) injected US$5 million to prop it, a Zimbabwe Ind...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 18:58hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans abusing social media to bolster fake abuses
When many protests go unnoticed, creating drama can seem like a good strategy to draw attention. But if they become self-harming and harming others the public opinion can turn against the protestors....Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 18:57hrs | 9 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Dabengwa appointed Denmark coach
FORMER Zimbabwe national team cricketer Keith Dabengwa has been appointed head coach of the Denmark national cricket team.Dabengwa was roped in to replace British coach Ruan Louw, with effect ...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 18:57hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Tribalism cripples MDC rural penetration strategy
Sources within the MDC Alliance national and provincial structures have declared that the party's rural penetration strategy is facing serious challenges as a result of tribalism and the perceived mar...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 10:34hrs | 8 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Schoolgirl shot after police officer discharges gun to break up fight
A 16-year-old Bulawayo girl was shot on the cheek after a police officer discharged his firearm to stop a fight, her family alleges.The bullet went through one cheek and exited on the other....Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:43hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa 'compensates' Last Maengahama with National Executive post
MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa has appointed Last Maengahama, who spent 10 years in prison, only to be proven innocent this year, as the opposition party's secretary for policy and research....Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:33hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
US$12 000 compensation can't soothe activist for unjustified imprisonment
AT the age of 28, Linda Musiyamhanje was charged with the murder of a police officer and spent almost a year in prison.She left her two-year-old son in the care of her siblings and together wi...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora's MDC unperturbed by ex-inmate activists joining Chamisa
THE Douglas Mwonzora led MDC-T says it respects the decision by Last Maengahama and Tungamirai Madzokere to align themselves with the rival MDC Alliance faction following the pair's recent release fro...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 07:47hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
MDC jailbirds recount tale of horror
PAIN was scribbled all over his face as he narrated his ordeal in prison, which lasted for 10 years, served for a crime that he did not commit.MDC Alliance activist Tungamirai Madzokere finall...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 07:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's new tool against dissent
THE incarceration at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison and delayed acquittal of two opposition activists by the Supreme Court last week is symptomatic of Zanu-PF's desperate attempt to weaponise the l...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Suffering Zimbabweans not alone: UN Watch
UNITED Nations Watch executive director Hillel Neue yesterday assured Zimbabweans that they were not alone in their suffering amid human rights abuses perpetrated on political activists and civilians ...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa promises a new dawn to Maengahama
President for MDC Alliance Nelson Chamisa promised a consolatory party position to Last Maengahama who was released from jail on Friday after serving eigh...Published: 09 Jun 2021 at 21:16hrs | 9 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Chamisa demands compensation for MDC Alliance duo
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday demanded that government should compensate party activists Last Maengahama and Tungamirai Madzokere, who clocked eight years at Chikurubi Maximu...Published: 09 Jun 2021 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Swaziland born top human rights lawyer says Zimbabwe police should be sued
TOP human rights lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa says police officers who take the law into their own hands through visiting forms of brutalities on suspects or turn some incidents into political cases, must ...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 19:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Madzokere's pain over his lost wife after 10 years behind bars wrongly jailed
HARARE - Jailed for 10 years for a murder he might not have committed. Tungamirai Madzokere on Monday surveyed the ruins that are his personal life and remarked: "I lost everything."Madzokere ...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 17:08hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
MDC's Madzokere abandoned by wife
FREED MDC activist Tungamirai Madzokere carried a broken figure as he narrated how he only got to know his wife had abandoned their matrimonial home eight months ago.Dejected and seemingly out...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
CJ Malaba case stokes fire
TOP human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa has called for investigation and suspension of Judicial Service Commission (JSC) secretary Walter Chikwana over his alleged meeting with one of the judges assig...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance veterans condemn 'captured' justice system
THE MDC Alliance Veterans Activist Association (VAA) yesterday blasted the country's justice system saying it was compromised to the extent that innocent people clocked several years in jail without p...Published: 07 Jun 2021 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC duo acquitted after 8 years in jail
THE Supreme Court yesterday acquitted MDC Alliance activists Last Maengahama and Tungamirai Madzokere of the murder of a senior police officer after it ruled that their conviction by the High Court wa...Published: 05 Jun 2021 at 09:29hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says Zanu-PF brutality could plunge Zimbabwe into Mozambique chaos
MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa says the country risked plunging into extremism just witnessed in neighbouring Mozambique if the ruling Zanu-PF party persists with its brutal politics.The ...Published: 19 Apr 2021 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Haruzivishe represents everything wrong about opposition politics
A young member of the MDC formation led by Nelson Chamisa, Makomborero Haruzivishe, was sentenced to 14 months in prison by the Harare Magistrates Court this week for inciting public violence. ...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:16hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Jailed MDC activists appeal to Malaba over delayed ruling
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba has been asked to look into a year-long delay on pronouncement of judgment on an appeal by incarcerated MDC activists Tungamira Madzokere and Last Maengahama.The two ...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa tells Mnangagwa to stop violence
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to stop violence in the country, arbitrary arrests, abductions and torture of civilians under his watch as suc...Published: 23 Dec 2020 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa requests Zimbabweans to pray for Joana Mamombe
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has urged Zimbabweans to pray for jailed MDC MP Joana Mamombe and other political prisoners who are languishing in prison. In a Twitter post on Saturda...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 11:06hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Acquittals prove political abuse of the courts
While we welcome the good news of the acquittal of Honourable Settlement Chikwinya and Lloyd Mukapiko on spurious charges of incitement to commit public violence; we have to place it on record that th...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 17:15hrs | | by Innocent Gonese
'Chamisa is a master of empty promises'
MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa has earned himself several sobriquets, all deriving from his knack for lying with a straight face.The youthful opposition leader has become a habitual liar and a mas...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says Zimbabwe prisons in sorry state
MDC activists jailed for the murder of police inspector Petros Mutedza in Glen View in 2011, together with other inmates, are living in squalid and overcrowded conditions at the Chikurubi Maximum Secu...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 10:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa descends on Zimbabwe prisons
Today President Nelson Chamisa visited MDC members who are incarcerated for political reasons. He was accompanied by the party Deputy Spokesperson Luke Tamborinyoka, Secretary for Public Service and S...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 14:57hrs | | by Maureen Kademaunga
MDC Reading protest and fundraiser
MDC Reading has just held its first demonstration since the end of the National Congress held in Zimbabwe, where the young and vibrant leader Nelson Chamisa was democratically elected as its President...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 19:40hrs | 3 | by Thabo Makuyana
Three years for cold blooded murder
High Court judge, Justice Musakwa has today handed down a shocking four year sentence to Zanu PF murderers in a case that has left Mudzi residents and the Magura family dumbfounded.Zanu PF's C...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 18:33hrs | | by MDC Communications
MDC demos: Time youths refused to be used
The MDC Alliance (MDC A), leader, Nelson Chamisa was defeated by President Emmerson Mnangagwa during the 30 July both in the ballot booth and at the Constitutional Court on 24 August. Instead of grace...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 14:12hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Con-Court bench members' profiles
Chief Justice Luke MalabaLuke Malaba was born in 1951.He received his law degree from the University of Warwick in 1974, and another law degree from the University of Zimbabwe in 1982....Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 13:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Profiles of Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court judges
Nine Constitutional Court (ConCourt) judges will today preside over a matter which will decide on who will lead Zimbabwe for the next five years. Chief Justice Luke Malaba will lead a cast of eight ju...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:26hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's fate lies with 9 judges
ZIMBABWE'S estimated 14 million citizens are today holding their collective breaths as the Constitutional Court bench made up of nine men and women sit to make a determination in one of the greatest p...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance neglects jailed cop killers
TWO MDC Alliance activists serving 20-year jail terms each for killing a police officer have accused the opposition party of neglecting them, NewZimbabwe.com reported.Last Maengahama and Tunga...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim prisoners in long wait over voting fate
HIGH Court Judge Justice Clement Phiri has reserved judgment after presiding over the hearing and determination of an application filed by some prisoners seeking an order compelling Zimbabwean authori...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 18:16hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
High court hears prisoners petition to vote
HIGH Court Judge Justice Clement Phiri will on Wednesday preside over the hearing and determination of an application filed by some prisoners seeking an order compelling Zimbabwean authorities to allo...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 15:49hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa pardons another MDC-T activist
THERE were jubilant scenes yesterday at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison as MDC-T activist Yvonne Musarurwa left the prison walls alongside 87 of the 3 000 other inmates freed under the Presidential ...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 05:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gumbura, Kereke miss out of Mnangagwa amnesty
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa released Wednesday a female prisoner jailed 20 years for killing a police inspector as part of a general amnesty which will benefit some 3,000 inmates, NewZimbabwe.co repo...Published: 22 Mar 2018 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa grants amnesty to jailed MDC-T activist
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has granted amnesty to Yvonne Musarurwa, one of the three MDC-T activists serving a 20-year jail term for killing Harare police Inspector Petros Mutedza in 2011.MD...Published: 03 Mar 2018 at 08:42hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Mnangagwa must pardon political convicts'
Acting MDC-T president Elias Mudzuri yesterday visited his party's three incarcerated activists at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison, amid hope that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government would rev...Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mudzuri visits detained MDC cadres
Acting MDC President Hon. Engineer Elias Mudzuri today spent over three hours with the three MDC activists currently languishing at Chikurubi Maximum security prison on trumped-up charges of murder....Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 14:38hrs | | by Luke Tamborinyoka
MDC-T a key player in the mass action to dethrone Mugabe
The MDC-T has declared that it was a key player in the historic demonstration that led to the fall of former President Robert Mugabe.Party secretary general Douglas Mwonzora said through it's ...Published: 24 Nov 2017 at 07:18hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
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