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'Mnangagwa cannot run for a third term or benefit from term limit extension'
Zimbabwe's constitution prohibits President Emmerson Mnangagwa from running for a third term, as it limits the incumbent to two terms and forbids extensions, according to a legal expert, Matshobana Nc...Published: 24 Feb 2024 at 13:25hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
BCC proposes stringent by-laws
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has proposed new stringent by-laws that will see impounded vehicles unclaimed for 30 days being auctioned while dirty ones will be removed from the city roads or any area u...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 05:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe banishes death penalty
IT'S been 6 273 days since Zimbabwe hanged a condemned person. For the gruesome murder of Themba Nkiwane, the High Court sentenced Never Masina Mandlenkosi to death in 2002 and he was executed...Published: 24 Sep 2022 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
SRC flagged offside
FORMER Zifa president Vincent Pamire has flagged the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) offside over the lifting of a ban on some of the Zifa board members before the forensic audit on the country...Published: 10 Jun 2022 at 07:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Vic Falls Town Clerk acquitted
THE State has withdrawn before plea, charges of criminal abuse of duty as a public officer against Victoria Falls Town Clerk Mr Ronnie Dube for lack of evidence.Hwange magistrate Ms Barbara Ph...Published: 11 Nov 2021 at 06:20hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers dig in to fight Mnangagwa
AS the government moved today to gazette controversial constitutional amendments to help President Emmerson Mnangagwa consolidate power as part of his 2023 re-election bid, agitated lawyers are diggin...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls Town Clerk to spend weekend in cells
VICTORIA Falls Town Clerk Ronnie Dube, who is facing a charge of criminal abuse of duty as a public officer, will spend the weekend in cells awaiting his bail ruling on Monday. Dube (54) was arrested ...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa should seriously consider forming another party'
A ZIMBABWEAN human rights lawyer says the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa is unlikely to seek a court order to stop the Thokozani Khupe MDC-T from using the Alliance to f...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 19:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Why Bulawayo will not get a Commission
Some section of Bulawayo residents congregated at Bulawayo City Hall on Monday and passed a resolution that they want the Bulawayo City Councillors to be fired and replaced with a Commission to run th...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 18:11hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Bosso chairman okayed CEO contract termination letter'
SUSPENDED Highlanders executive committee members, Modern Ngwenya and Israel Moyo have argued that the club has failed to point at the exact stipulations of the constitution that are being used to cha...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Highlanders hearing turns into nightmare for Bosso supremo
WHAT was supposed to be a routine evidentiary participation by the Highlanders FC chairman, Kenneth Mhlophe, turned into a nightmare yesterday when the disciplinary committee presiding over the suspen...Published: 18 May 2019 at 08:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Raj Modi's election challenged in court
The High Court has set down the Bulawayo South election petition for 20 November at 10 AM. MDC Alliance losing candidate Muvirimi Francis Mangwendeza petitioned the High Court, seeki...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 18:13hrs | 15 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Lawyer quashes Chronicle report on his remarks
A Bulawayo prominent lawyer Matshobana Ncube has quashed the Chronicle report in which he is quoted as saying the commission of inquiry appointed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa was in proper co...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 06:53hrs | 4 | by Stephen Jakes
Post-poll violence probe team gets thumbs up
THE seven-member Commission of Inquiry into the violence that occurred in Harare early this month will deliver on its mandate as it consists of people of integrity who cannot be compromised, analysts ...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance seeking to overturn Modi victory
MDC Alliance candidate for Bulawayo South Muvirimi Francis Mangwendeza has petitioned the High Court, seeking to overturn results of the recently held elections in which he lost to Zanu PF candidate R...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
'MDC Alliance will win 2018 elections guaranteed,' argue Bulawayo Lawyer - Fools are stubbornly foolish
Zimbabwe is in a serious economic and political mess and one of the reasons why we are in this mess is the failure to think through our problems logically and thoroughly. Here is one typical example....Published: 20 Sep 2017 at 06:47hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
MDC Alliance gives people hope - Prominent lawyer
A Bulawayo prominent lawyer Matshobana Ncube has insinuated that the recently formed MDC Alliance was giving people hope of better government to come and rescue them from the misrule by Zanu PF which ...Published: 19 Sep 2017 at 07:23hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Strange Facebook posts send family, friends into panic
THERE was widespread panic among relatives and friends of prominent Bulawayo lawyer Mr Mlweliwenkululeko Ncube yesterday following strange posts on his Facebook page, which appeared like suicide notes...Published: 05 Jul 2017 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Celebrate Malaba appointment with caution
TO avoid possible disappointment of expecting too much from the recent surprise appointment of Justice Luke Malaba by President Robert Mugabe to substantive Chief Justice (CJ), legal analysts ...Published: 16 Apr 2017 at 18:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why we should celebrate Malaba appointment
The elevation on March 27 2017 of Justice Luke Malaba to the position of chief justice for the Republic of Zimbabwe by President Robert Mugabe is both symbolic and significant in a number of ways....Published: 03 Apr 2017 at 07:29hrs | 2 | by Matshobana Ncube
Sex workers sue Chombo
SEX workers in Bulawayo have sued Home Affairs minister Ignatius Chombo for allegedly blocking their proposed protest march against discrimination and violence.This follows a directive by ...Published: 12 Aug 2016 at 08:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Teenager in court for sodomising younger brother at knifepoint
A Bulawayo teenager has been arraigned for allegedly sodomising his younger brother aged nine twice at knife point. The boy (15) who is doing Form Three was remanded out of custody after his lawye...Published: 09 Aug 2016 at 08:53hrs | | by Thandeka Moyo
Man (27) sleeps with cousin (15) because of her hips
A Beitbridge taxi driver Nobert Chauke (27) is in trouble after he was arrested for sleeping with his minor cousin aged 15 but claims he was not aware she was under age as "she also had hips and loo...Published: 04 May 2015 at 21:17hrs | | by Court Reporter
Beitbridge - Chirundu highway rehab to go ahead
THE government says it will go ahead with the rehabilitation of the Beitbridge-Chirundu road despite a 13-year long court battle that has stalled the widening of the country's busiest highway....Published: 17 Mar 2015 at 07:13hrs | 2 | by Oliver Kazunga
Zanu-PF lampoons Didymus Mutasa
ZANU-PF yesterday dismissed as "the highest form of absurdity" declarations by expelled member Didymus Mutasa that he will contest under the "original Zanu-PF" card in his former Headlands constituenc...Published: 27 Feb 2015 at 06:24hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Man attacked in a row over a girlfriend
A NYAMANDLOVU man is battling for his life at Mpilo Hospital in Bulawayo after he was allegedly severely struck by an iron bar and hose pipe by a former prison officer and a businessman during a beer ...Published: 15 Dec 2014 at 08:08hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
Bosso striker escapes rape charge
HIGHLANDERS Football Club striker Gabriel Nyoni has escaped prosecution after a woman suspected to be his girlfriend, who had laid a rape charge against him, withdrew the charge at the Western Common...Published: 11 Jul 2014 at 07:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Baba Jukwa intrigue spices Mugabe succession drama
LEGAL expert Matshobana Ncube said it is too early to conclude that two South Africa-based Zimbabwean journalists Mxolisi Ncube and Mkhululi Chimoio have been vindicated on accusations of being the pe...Published: 29 Jun 2014 at 09:39hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate accused of violating Constitution of Zimbabwe
A GWANDA resident magistrate Mr Reuben Mukavhi violated the Constitution of Zimbabwe by unilaterally authorising the detention of three suspects in police cells for more than 48 hours, a case that has...Published: 16 Jun 2014 at 09:13hrs | 3 | by Daniel Nemukuyu
Former minister acquitted of armed robbery
MOSES Mzila Ndlovu, a former co-minister of National Healing, Reconciliation and Integration is a free man following his acquittal on charges of armed robbery.Mzila Ndlovu, who is also an exec...Published: 25 Feb 2014 at 06:27hrs | | by Court Reporter
Former Minister's robbery case suffers setback
FORMER National Healing, Reconciliation and Integration co-minister Moses Mzila-Ndlovu who is charged with armed robbery and theft of property worth $427 has to wait until 24 February for a ruling....Published: 19 Feb 2014 at 17:05hrs | | by Lulu Brenda Harris
Mzila-Ndlovu armed robbery case postponed
Former National Healing, Reconciliation and Integration co-minister Moses Mzila-Ndlovu armed robbery case is far from over after a Bulawayo magistrate postponed the case to December 12, zimbabwefocus...Published: 05 Dec 2013 at 10:42hrs | | by zimbabwefocus.com
Geozing directors' property to be sold to pay clients
Geozing Pawnbrokers Private Limited that allegedly duped thousands of its clients of millions of dollars is facing a new court battle after the company's liquidators filed for an order to fo...Published: 27 Nov 2013 at 15:32hrs | 4 | by Mafu Sithabile
'MDC formations will follow the dinosaurs,' says Moyo
The former director of policy and research co-ordination in Professor Welshman Ncube's MDC, Mr Qhubani Moyo, who resigned from the party at the end of September, openly confesses that he has been char...Published: 14 Oct 2013 at 05:31hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Chombo is lost on mayors,' says MDC-T
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai says his "appointment" of mayors for major cities is above board and Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo must stop politicking. MDC-T has said Chombo's p...Published: 29 Aug 2013 at 05:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T can nominate mayor outside the elected councillors, says legal experts
Legal experts said the party with the highest number of National Assembly seats in a particular province can nominate a non-executive mayoral candidate outside the elected councillors.Accordi...Published: 29 Aug 2013 at 05:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Welshman Ncube's lawyers win Nomination Court appeals
THE Electoral Court sitting at the High Court in Bulawayo yesterday heard 24 appeals by aspiring candidates whose nomination papers were rejected by the Nomination Court on 28 June. The appel...Published: 09 Jul 2013 at 05:46hrs | 4 | by Court Reporter
Electoral Court hears over 20 petitions
THE Electoral Court sitting at the High Court in Bulawayo yesterday heard 24 appeals by aspiring candidates whose nomination papers were rejected by the Nomination Court on 28 June. The appell...Published: 08 Jul 2013 at 21:07hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Law firm messenger to represent MDC-T in harmonised elections
Former Phulu, Ncube and Partners messenger is set to contest in the harmonised elections after winning the ticket to represent the Movement for Democratic Change led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangi...Published: 07 Jul 2013 at 19:50hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Bulawayo National Assembly candidates
NATIONAL ASSEMBLYNketa ConstituencyEliphas Mashaba ...Published: 04 Jul 2013 at 05:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mzila-Ndlovu case postponed
THE trial of National Healing, Reconciliation and Integration Co-Minister Moses Mzila Ndlovu, who allegedly threatened to shoot two firewood poachers, before allegedly robbing them of $365, car keys, ...Published: 02 Jul 2013 at 20:26hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo Province candidates list out
A TOTAL of 70 candidates from 13 political parties, together with some running as independents have entered the National Assembly race in Bulawayo while 126 will battle it out in the council elections...Published: 02 Jul 2013 at 04:10hrs | 17 | by Temba Dube
Mayor wins against Chombo suspension
SUSPENDED Gwanda Mayor, Mr Lionel De Necker won a last-minute High Court Chamber application on Friday to compel the nomination court to accept his papers. Mr De Necker was suspended from his...Published: 01 Jul 2013 at 05:27hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Home Affairs minister, wife face imprisonment
HOME Affairs minister Kembo Mohadi's wife and son have defied a High Court order granted more than a year ago and face the prospect of three months in prison, as lawyers are pushing the court to uphol...Published: 26 Jun 2013 at 03:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prominent human rights lawyer to represent MDC in Nkulumane
Bulawayo-based human rights lawyer, Matshobana Ncube of Phulu and Ncube will represent the Weshman Ncube led MDC in the Nkulumane constituency. He joins his partner Kucaca Phulu who will be contesting...Published: 25 Jun 2013 at 06:08hrs | | by Ndou paul
Sindiso Mazibisa to contest MDC primaries
A prominent Bulawayo lawyer Sindiso Mazibisa...Published: 21 Jun 2013 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mzila-Ndlovu charged with armed robbery and theft of property worth $427
NATIONAL Healing, Reconciliation and Integration co-minister Moses Mzila-Ndlovu has been charged with armed robbery and theft of property worth $427.Mzil...Published: 21 Jun 2013 at 05:08hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Nust 'tribal bias' against Mat'land students unfounded
The National University of Science and Technology (Nust) recently came under fire for alleged bias against students from Matabeleland region.A small coterie of influential people and the civil...Published: 03 Jul 2012 at 07:33hrs | | by Unkown
8 women die daily from pregnancy complications
AN AVERAGE of eight women and 100 children die every day from pregnancy related complications and common, preventable disorders respectively. This is according to statistics obtained from the Zimbabw...Published: 12 Jun 2012 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Trial of 'tribalistic' activist postponed
The trial of prominent, Victoria Falls civil activist, Esau Ncube who is on a charge of fanning tribal hatred was on Tuesday postponed to April 5 at the request of his lawyer who was tied up with othe...Published: 28 Mar 2012 at 14:14hrs | 3 | by Thomas Jubane
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