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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 | 2422 | by Staff reporter
High Court struck off Mudzuri appeal
The High Court has dismissed Elias Mudzuri's case challenging his recall from the Senate by MDC-T president Douglas Mwonzora. Mudzuri, a former MDC-T vice president, had filed the case against Mwonzor...Published: 18 Jul 2024 at 06:44hrs | 576 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa supporters removed from CCC office
The Bulawayo High Court has granted an application by the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) represented by Sengezo Tshabangu to remove Nelson Chamisa and his alleged supporters from the party's Bula...Published: 26 Mar 2024 at 07:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu and Chamisa battle over CCC party offices, court reserves judgement
The Bulawayo High Court has reserved judgement in a case involving the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) and Sengezo Tshabangu posing as its Interim Secretary General seeking spoliation damages from...Published: 09 Mar 2024 at 10:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dr Omphile Marupi confirmed as the MP for Gwanda South
The Electoral Court has dismissed an election petition filed by a Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) member Patrick Dube, who was challenging Zanu-PF MP Omphile Marupi's election in Gwanda South last...Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 07:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Self-styled Italian Mafia boss exposed for abusing General Chiwenga's name to grab mines and companies
In a heart-pounding revelation, this reporter has uncovered the dark machinations of Francesco Marconati, a self-styled Italian Mafia Boss wreaking havoc across Zimbabwe. Marconati stands accused of s...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 10:57hrs | 3 | by George Tshuma
Harvest House fights intensify
MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora is battling to retain the party's Harvest House headquarters in Harare grabbed from the then MDC-Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa in June 2020 amid revelations that unpaid ...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 15:36hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Dingumuzi Phuti election petition goes to Supreme Court
LOSING candidate for Bulilima Constituency in the August 23-24 harmonised elections, Ms Bekezela Maplanka of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has approached the Supreme Court challenging the de...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 07:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC in another court blow
BULAWAYO High Court judge Justice Bongani Ndlovu has granted Zanu-PF Bulilima legislator Dingumuzi Phuti's application for rescission of a default judgment passed against him.A default judgmen...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 06:04hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's Dingumuzi Phuti fights court reversal of election victory
Dingumuzi Phuti, the former Zanu-PF MP for Bulilima, filed an urgent court application weekend seeking rescission of judgement after his August 23 election win was nullified by the High Court on Thurs...Published: 27 Nov 2023 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF officials implicated in voter fraud allegations
Zanu-PF officials infiltrated the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) posed as polling officers and assisted voters in voting for the ruling party in the Bulilima constituency during the August electi...Published: 24 Nov 2023 at 16:55hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
High Court orders Bulilima National Assembly election re-run
The Bulilima National Assembly election must be rerun due to electoral irregularities, the Bulawayo High Court directed in a default order granted on Thursday.The close race was won by Dingimu...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 22:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimra confiscates 80 000 smuggled phones
A Zambian telecommunications company, Rock Telecom Limited, had 80,000 mobile phones valued at US$352,930 confiscated by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) due to a failed smuggling attempt....Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwazha faction leader confronts police
The long-standing factional dispute for control of the African Apostolic Church (AAC), founded by Archbishop Paul Mwazha, has resurfaced, with one faction accusing its rivals of using the police to pr...Published: 27 Sep 2023 at 17:00hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa badly missed veterans
WITH the national election done and dusted, it has become apparent that there are several Members of the National Assembly from the ninth parliament that will not be joining the new faces at the new p...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 07:55hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo says Electoral Act has to be reviewed
Professor Jonathan Moyo says the Electoral Act needs to be reviewed and brought in line with the current constitution of Zimbabwe.The Electoral Amendment Bill, which was gazetted on November 1...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 22:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Shingi Munyeza threatens Mutemererwa's lawyer
The debt row pitying Marjorie Mutemererwa and Shingi Munyeza escalated this week with the ex SeedCo public relations manager's lawyer filing a police report against the businessman for allegedly swear...Published: 11 Aug 2023 at 18:54hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Malaba dismisses Kasukuwere reinstatement bid
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba has dismissed without hearing an application by former Zanu-PF youth leader, Jim Kunaka, who was seeking the reinstatement of self-exiled former minister, Saviour Kasukuwere,...Published: 10 Aug 2023 at 06:45hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere fights for spot on Presidential ballot paper
FORMER Zanu-PF political commissar Kasukuwere has filed an application seeking direct access to the Constitutional Court following the dismissal of his appeal by the Supreme Court last week.&n...Published: 02 Aug 2023 at 07:07hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere scares the living daylights out of Mnangagwa
EVEN though independent presidential election candidate Saviour Kasukuwere has been barred by the courts from contesting the 23 August election, he has managed to prove a point in a short space of tim...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 21:17hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Fresh court battle to rescue Kasukuwere bid
FORMER Zanu-PF youth leader, Jim Kunaka, has approached the Constitutional Court, challenging a High Court decision barring exiled former minister, Saviour Kasukuwere, from running in the August 23 pr...Published: 30 Jul 2023 at 09:05hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere bites the dust
Independent presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere is now out of the race for the country's top office in August 23 elections after the Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal filed by the exiled pol...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 21:07hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
D-Day for Kasukuwere
EXILED presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere will know his fate today when the Supreme Court makes a ruling on his bid to contest for the presidency on August 23.Kasukuwere approached the ...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere to know fate Friday
INDEPENDENT presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere will know his fate Friday when the Supreme Court is expected to hand down its judgment on his appeal challenging the High Court's decision to remo...Published: 27 Jul 2023 at 20:15hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Judiciary under spotlight
SINCE assuming power in 2017 through a coup and the subsequent controversial election victory in 2018, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's rule has been marred by allegations of compromising the independen...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 06:40hrs | | by Simbarashe Tembo
Kasukuwere appeals bar to contest 2023 rat race - HC judge was compromised - to equally compromise SC judges. It's muddle!
Saviour Ksukuwere was one of the late dictator Robert Mugabe's key players in the creation and retention of the de facto one party state in Zimbabwe. He (Kasukuwere) never imagined even for a minute t...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 10:17hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Kasukuwere remains a candidate in the election
Zanu-PF activist Lovedale Mangwana, who is battling to block independent presidential election candidate Saviour Kasukuwere from running in the 23 August crucial poll, has had his High Court applicati...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 08:26hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere gets court reprieve
INDEPENDENT presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere has been granted temporary reprieve after the High Court struck off the roll an application for execution of a judgment granted in favour of a Zan...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 06:51hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
The evolution of Zimbabwe's voters' roll
A SHORT HISTORY ON THE EVOLUTION OF ZIMBABWE'S VOTERS ROLL AND WHY SECTION 23(3) OF THE ELECTORAL ACT IS OUTDATED, PURPOSELESS, UNREASONABLE AND UNCONTITUTIONAL.IT WOULD BE INSTRUCTIVE and use...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 11:57hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
Justice Mangota given house hours before Kasukuwere hearing, court hears
A High Court judge was given a house by the state on the same day he was due to hear an application by a Zanu-PF activist seeking to have Saviour Kasukuwere barred from running for president in the Au...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 11:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere ceased to be a registered voter, says Judge
INDEPENDENT presidential election candidate Saviour Kasukuwere's unexpected entry into the cutthroat race against President Emmerson Mnangagwa and main opposition CCC leader Nelson Chamisa is fuelling...Published: 23 Jul 2023 at 16:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Kasukuwere's nomination was invalid'
ZIMBABWE's Supreme Court, which usually makes fair decisions except on major politically sensitive cases, faces a stern credibility test on 27 July when it decides the fate of independent presidential...Published: 23 Jul 2023 at 16:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere will return to Zimbabwe as soon as his security is assured
Exiled Independent Presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere will return to Zimbabwe as soon as his security is assured, says his spokesperson Jacqueline Sande. "Once safety measures for his s...Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 16:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Supreme Court faces a stern litmus credibility test on 26 July
Zimbabwe's Supreme Court - which usually makes fair decisions except on major politically sensitive cases - faces a stern litmus credibility test on 26 July when it is expected to decide the fate of i...Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 08:01hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere's fate imminent
INDEPENDENT presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere's case where he is seeking the nullification of the High Court ruling that removed him from the ballot will now proceed after the Supreme Court ru...Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 06:39hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere seeking to block urgent hearing of his Supreme Court appeal
EXILED former cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere is seeking to block an urgent hearing of his appeal challenging a High Court ruling blocking him from contesting as a presidential candidate.K...Published: 19 Jul 2023 at 06:50hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere nullification debate rages on
LEGAL think-tank Veritas says a High Court judgment which nullified exiled former Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere's nomination was "wrong on several accounts".High Court judge Justice Davi...Published: 19 Jul 2023 at 06:49hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court to rule on Kasukuwere appeal
The Supreme Court will rule tomorrow whether the appeal by independent presidential aspirant Saviour Kasukuwere challenging a High Court ruling disqualifying him from contesting the August 23 election...Published: 19 Jul 2023 at 06:37hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
Law barring Zimbabweans from voting over lengthy absence challenged
A law under which Zimbabweans who are absent from the country for a continuous 12 months can be stripped of their voting rights and prevented from running for political office has been challenged as u...Published: 18 Jul 2023 at 17:39hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Kasukuwere court ruling threatens diaspora voters'
THE High Court ruling barring former Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere from contesting in the August 23 polls is likely to have far-reaching implications on Zimbabweans in the diaspora who wish to p...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 07:00hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's desperate bid to block Kasukuwere goes a gear up
A Zanu-PF activist, who successfully challenged former Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere's nomination as a presidential candidate, now wants the courts to stop Kasukuwere's name from being ...Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:21hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere aides taunt Mnangagwa over poll ban
Independent presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere's campaign team believes President Emmerson Mnangagwa initiated the election ban order on his former ally out of fear of losing the poll to the ex...Published: 15 Jul 2023 at 11:19hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere supporters upbeat despite setback
SELF-EXILED former Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere's campaign team in Bulawayo says it will forge ahead with election campaigns for their leader, despite the High Court nullifying his candidacy....Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 08:59hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere back on ballot paper, says lawyer
INDEPENDENT presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere is back on the ballot paper after his legal team successfully appealed the nullification of his nomination at the Supreme Court on Thursday....Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 07:49hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
'Kasukuwere appeal defective, doomed'
The High Court decision to nullify the nomination of presidential aspirant Mr Saviour Kasukuwere is legally sound and the appeal which the politician seeks to file is destined to fail, a legal expert ...Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 07:42hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere launches Supreme Court appeal
Saviour Kasukuwere will "fight to the bitter end" to stop his name being removed from presidential candidates for the August 23 election, aides said on Wednesday after he launched an appeal against a ...Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 13:31hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere fights back
SELF-EXILED former Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere's bid for the country's presidency appears ruined after the High Court in Harare nullified his nomination.Undaunted by the ruling, Kasuku...Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 'Tyson' knocked Out!
SELF-exiled independent Presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere's hopes of participating in the August 23 harmonised elections were dashed following the nullification of his nomination by the High C...Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 06:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere to appeal disqualification
Zimbabwe's 'independent' presidential election candidate Saviour Kasukuwere says he is appealing the High Court judgment barring him from standing in the cutthroat poll on 23 August....Published: 12 Jul 2023 at 18:01hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere's supporters forge on without him
SELF-EXILED former Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere's supporters say they will continue campaigning despite the State having indicated that their leader has pending allegations of corruption and ab...Published: 11 Jul 2023 at 07:42hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
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