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'Real estate agents' up for issuing fake title deed
TWO Harare men appeared before a Harare magistrate last week for allegedly issuing a fake title deed.The two, Job Banda (52) of Chitungwiza and Tatenda Mwenyi (29) of Kuwadzana Extension appea...Published: 09 Jan 2023 at 07:00hrs | 463 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's 'fake abduction' activist says still living in terror
A Zimbabwean human rights activist who alleges she was subjected to harrowing torture after she was abducted by suspected state security services said she still lives in terror des...Published: 26 Dec 2022 at 17:38hrs | 855 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC raises alarm over new tough electoral law
The Nelson Chamisa-led Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has expressed concern over amendments to the Electoral Act, which it says could be abused by Zanu-PF to disqualify its opponents from running...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:39hrs | 578 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe can't be re-admitted into Commonwealth without strict accountability mechanisms!
I always say Zimbabwe can be a most strange place to be - if only we lived in peace and prosperity, with our fundamental rights being respected as sacrosanct.When then President Robert Gabriel...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 08:56hrs | 482 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Jacob Mudenda fights in CCC's Jasmine Toffa's corner?
As a political analyst I enjoy following debate and discussions in Parliament. I was perplexed by the events in Parliament last week when the Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda exercised his authorit...Published: 06 Nov 2022 at 11:54hrs | 938 | by Regis Charehwa
Lawfare bogs down CCC in courts
IT was a busy week at the courts for Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) officials, with Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala being denied bail for the fourth time in the case that he is being accused...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 17:20hrs | 218 | by Staff reporter
Pressure mounts on Zimbabwe's Home Affairs over Itai Dzamara
MEMBERS of Parliament on Tuesday renewed pressure on Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe to give an official update in the august House on the findings of investigations into the disappearance of a ...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:08hrs | 1974 | by Staff reporter
Biti files for ConCourt referral
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) vice-president Tendai Biti has completed giving evidence for referral of his matter to the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) on a charge of verbally assaulting a Russ...Published: 29 Sep 2022 at 05:59hrs | 707 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe, Chimbiri get High Court relief
THE High Court has granted an application for stay of proceedings in a case where Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists Joanah Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri are being accused of allegedly filin...Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 05:58hrs | 1918 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa activists abduction trial stopped
THE High Court has stopped the trial of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) members, Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri accused of faking their abduction before publishing falsehoods.This has ...Published: 26 Sep 2022 at 20:25hrs | 808 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police impunity laid bare
POLICE deputy commissioner Stephen Mutamba was added to the list of individuals reeling under the United States (US) sanctions in a move that bolstered the long-held view that the Zimbabwe Republic Po...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 19:26hrs | 813 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police chief placed on US sanctions for blocking Chamisa's rallies
POLICE chiefs have been severely punished for undermining human rights in Zimbabwe and threatening democratic processes to favour the ruling Zanu-PF party, with the United States government this week ...Published: 18 Sep 2022 at 16:58hrs | 1499 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa activist boycotts court
THE police now have leads on the whereabouts of one of the five CCC members who disappeared during their trial on charges of staging an illegal demonstration in Warren Park, Harare, in May 2020, the S...Published: 17 Sep 2022 at 06:42hrs | 182 | by Staff reporter
CCC activists says Zimbabwe courts are biased
LAWYERS representing Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) MP Joanah Mamombe and fellow party member Cecilia Chimbiri have alleged bias by the courts in the way their case is being handled.This ...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:11hrs | 269 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe bid to stop trial fails
CCC members Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri yesterday lost their bid to stop their trial, where they now have to present a defence case, saying they wanted the High Court to review the magistrate's...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:04hrs | 35 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa activists 'disappointed' as freedom bid fails
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator, Joana Mamombe, and counterpart Cecilia Chimbiri were Monday left disappointed after the court threw out an application for discharge in a case of allege...Published: 13 Sep 2022 at 06:07hrs | 3068 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa activists' have a case to answer,' says court
CHIEF magistrate Faith Mushure has dismissed an application for discharge filed by Citizens Coalition for Change members Joanah Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri who are being accused of spreading falsehoo...Published: 13 Sep 2022 at 06:02hrs | 332 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe, Chimbiri put to their defence as discharge application dismissed
A court in Harare on Monday dismissed an application by Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) duo Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri for discharge at the end of the prosecution case in their ongoing tri...Published: 12 Sep 2022 at 19:07hrs | 382 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala's application against prosecutors thrown out
THE application by CCC members Job Sikhala and Godfrey Karakadzai Sithole for their prosecutors to be jailed for contempt of court because they have yet to give the pair the documents they need for th...Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 06:20hrs | 125 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe, Chimbiri ruling postponed
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) members Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri's ruling in an application for discharge has been postponed to Monday after the deputy chief Magistrate Faith Mushure fai...Published: 09 Sep 2022 at 19:55hrs | 300 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe, Chimbiri fake abduction case winds up
THE deputy chief magistrate Faith Mushure is expected to hand down her ruling in a case Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) officials, Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri are being accused of fabricati...Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 17:29hrs | 1240 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's Makomborero Haruzivishe snubs court, warrant of arrest issued
AN arrest warrant has been issued against Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist, Makomborero Haruzivishe after he failed to attend court Tuesday.Haruzuvishe is jointly charged with CCC ...Published: 06 Sep 2022 at 19:09hrs | 584 | by Staff reporter
State closes case in Mamombe, Chimbiri 'fake' abduction
The state has closed its case in a matter in which Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator Joana Mamombe and her party comrade Cecilia Chimbiri are being tried for allegedly lying about their a...Published: 17 Aug 2022 at 18:49hrs | 1004 | by Staff reporter
'Police trying to cover up Mamombe, Chimbiri abduction'
POLICE have been accused of trying to cover up the abduction of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists Joanah Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri who were found dumped in Muchapondwa village in Bindur...Published: 17 Aug 2022 at 06:39hrs | 665 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC activists dismiss video evidence against them
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) activists Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri have dismissed video evidence from State witness Detective Chief Inspector Richard Muvhuro as "a story of ghosts" which...Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 06:41hrs | 960 | by Staff reporter
CCC duo dismisses video in fake abduction case
A LAWYER representing Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Joannah Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri yesterday dismissed video evidence submitted by the State linking the duo to charges of faking abduction ...Published: 28 Jul 2022 at 06:39hrs | 796 | by Staff reporter
Biti applies for third recusal of magistrate in a stalingrad move
In another bid to delay trial Tendai Biti today, for the third time, applied for the recusal of Harare regional magistrate Mrs Vongai Guwuriro Muchuchuti after she ruled that he should finish up his a...Published: 28 Jul 2022 at 06:34hrs | 191 | by Staff reporter
Court accepts pictures as exhibit in CCC members trial
THE State yesterday tendered into court record as evidence pictures taken from CCTV footage extracted from shops at Belgravia, in Harare, where CCC members Joana Mamombe and Cecelia Chimbiri were alle...Published: 28 Jul 2022 at 06:33hrs | 255 | by Staff reporter
State plays video in CCC fake abductions case
THE State yesterday played one of the video footage extracted from Bon Marche Supermarket at Belgravia Shopping Centre in Harare, where CCC members Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri, accused of fakin...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:26hrs | 220 | by Staff reporter
'Police are employed to defend Mnangagwa'
A POLICE officer stunned the court yesterday when he told Harare magistrate Taurai Manuwere that law enforcement agents were employed to defend President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Violet Kadiki...Published: 21 Jul 2022 at 06:45hrs | 1641 | by Staff reporter
Police officer testifies in trial of CCC members
ASSISTANT Inspector Tevedzerai Shonhai, who led a police reaction team from Warren Park police station in Harare on the day five CCC members allegedly staged an illegal demonstration during the lockdo...Published: 21 Jul 2022 at 06:39hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter
State allowed to play incriminating footage in CCC case
A COURT yesterday allowed the State to play CCTV footage extracted from shops in Belgravia shopping centre in Harare where CCC members Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri, accused of faking their abduc...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:29hrs | 636 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala, Sithole complain of being denied access to lawyers while at remand prison
Two CCC legislators Job Sikhala and Godfrey Karakadzai Sithole, accused of inciting members of the public to cause violence that left a trail of destruction to properties in Nyatsime, Beatrice also ap...Published: 07 Jul 2022 at 07:58hrs | 171 | by Staff reporter
CCC pair rejects incriminating video footage
CITIZENS Coalition for Change activists Joanah Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri, who are accused of faking their abductions, have rejected the submission of a video footage as evidence in their trial....Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 06:48hrs | 812 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe, Chimbiri seek to block damning video evidence
CCC members Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri, accused of faking their abductions in May 2020, yesterday mounted a bid to block the State from playing and tendering into court record CCTV footage obt...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 06:44hrs | 353 | by Staff reporter
State witness admits to lying in CCC activists protest case
A-STATE witness in the trial of opposition MP Johana Mamombe and four others who are accused of violating COVID-19 regulations yesterday admitted in court that he lied while giving his statement to th...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:44hrs | 1157 | by Staff reporter
Trial of CCC members opens
FIVE CCC members accused of staging an illegal demonstration in Warren Park, Harare, during the national lockdown in 2020, yesterday denied the charges when their trial opened at the Harare Magistrate...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:41hrs | 157 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe, Chimbiri demand original CCTV gadget
OPPOSITION activists Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri have demanded the original CCTV gadget used to extract footage that the State wants to put as evidence.They face charges of faking their...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 07:38hrs | 184 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe gets 48hrs to view incriminating CCTV footage
CCC members Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri have been granted two days to go through three sets of CCTV footage recorded in three businesses in and around the fast food outlet in Belgravia, Harare ...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 07:31hrs | 323 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe, Chimbiri seeks more time to view CCTV footage
CCC members Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri have requested the court to allow them two days to go through three CCTV footage that was recorded at businesses surrounding the fast food outlet where t...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 18:19hrs | 631 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe nailed by owner of the Mercedes Benz in fake abduction trial
NEW details emerged yesterday during the trial of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) members Joana Mamombe (Harare West MP), Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova who are accused of faking their abducti...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 06:49hrs | 3361 | by Staff reporter
Fake abductions trial continues
TWO men who installed CCTV cameras at a food outlet in Belgravia, Harare, where CCC members Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri allegedly bought food late in the afternoon they allegedly claimed to hav...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 06:43hrs | 218 | by Staff reporter
Phone call records expose State
PHONE call records from Econet Zimbabwe have exposed possible State involvement in the abduction of two Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists in May 2020.A State witness, who is a secu...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:36hrs | 1624 | 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 | 295 | 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 | 648 | by Staff reporter
CCC members bid to stall trial hits snag
CCC members' bid to stall trial proceedings in a matter they are accused of staging illegal demonstrations in Harare in May 2020 yesterday hit a snag after the court dismissed their application noting...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:31hrs | 79 | by Staff reporter
Witness in Mamombe, Chimbiri falsehoods case vanishes
A police officer who is set to stand as a witness in a case in which Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) officials, Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri are being accused of publishing falsehoods has va...Published: 06 May 2022 at 06:57hrs | 1938 | 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 | 277 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate refuses to step down from Mamombe case
THE presiding magistrate Faith Mushure in a matter where Harare West MP Joana Mamombe (Citizens Coalition for Change) and opposition activist Cecilia Chimbiri (CCC) are accused of falsehoods yesterday...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:44hrs | 822 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe, Chimbiri bid to delay trial flops
CCC activists, Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri, yesterday lost their bid to have Chief Magistrate, Mrs Faith Mushure, recuse herself from presiding over their case.The latest ploy has been ...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:33hrs | 65 | by Staff reporter
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