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Mnangagwa critic seeks SA asylum
Wellington Masiiwa, popularly known by his activist name Nyokayemabhunu, has formally applied for asylum in South Africa as he fights extradition to Zimbabwe, citing fears of political persecution....Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 15:12hrs | 402 | by Staff reporter
Anti-Mnangagwa activist fights extradition from South Africa
A South African court last week became the stage for a dramatic and tense confrontation as Zimbabwean activist Nyokayemabhunu, also known as Wellington Masiiwa, fought extradition back to Zimbabwe. Th...Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 15:10hrs | 686 | by Staff reporter
Nyokayemabhunu case in dramatic twist
The extradition case of Zimbabwean activist and outspoken government critic Wellington Masiwa, known as Nyokayemabhunu, took a dramatic and politically charged turn last week at the Randburg Magistrat...Published: 26 May 2025 at 08:10hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's anti-graft unit loses powers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's Special Anti-Corruption Unit (Sacu) has been stripped of prosecution powers in a move that leaves National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) as the sole agency to handle corru...Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matinyarare's property worth over ZW$100m forfeited
FORMER Croco Motors boss Joseph Matinyarare's properties have been forfeited to the state after a court established that he acquired them using the proceeds of crime between 2016 and 2020. The exchang...Published: 24 Sep 2023 at 09:41hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa set to announce major shakeup of government bureaucracy
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is set to implement a major shake-up of the bureaucracy in the coming weeks with several high-profile departures and appointments.Misheck Sibanda, the chief secret...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 19:44hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
High Court stops NPA from seizing 15 vehicles
Acting Prosecutor-General Nelson Mutsonziwa's attempt to confiscate 15 vehicles and two houses owned by Enmore Makarichi on suspicion of being crime proceeds has been unsuccessful. The High Court, pre...Published: 13 Sep 2023 at 18:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Prosecutors in Zimbabwe declare incapacitation
WHEELS of justice are set to grind to a halt after public prosecutors indicated they are no longer able to continue reporting for duty because of low salaries in local currency.The prosecutors...Published: 07 Jul 2023 at 07:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Foreign organisations petition Mnangagwa over Sikhala
A RECORD 18 civil society organisations from different parts of the world have petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa and key figures in his government over the growing trend of judicial persecution ...Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 07:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's CSOs flag 'judicial capture'
EIGHTEEN local and regional civil society organisations (CSOs) have petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa over what they termed "judicial capture" and pervasion of justice in the country.The...Published: 08 Jun 2023 at 09:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe magistrates urged to uphold ethical conduct
MAGISTRATES have been challenged to uphold ethical conduct in their execution of duty to ensure a corruption-free and quality justice delivery system.More than 200 magistrates from across the ...Published: 31 Mar 2023 at 07:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Property developer appeals to ConCourt for more time
Prominent property developer George Katsimberis has appealed to the Constitutional Court to be given more time to apply for leave to challenge a High Court ruling on his bid for a permanent stay of pa...Published: 06 Feb 2023 at 08:06hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Killer driver sues Prosecutor General for delaying his trial
A Zaka motorist, who allegedly caused a fatal road traffic accident which claimed three lives in 2019, has sued Prosecutor General (PG) Nelson Mutsonziwa for delaying his trial.Brian Chiwara, ...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 19:40hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's underpaid prosecutors can't resist bribes'
THE National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has admitted that State prosecutors are susceptible to bribery because of poor working conditions and low pay.Chief public prosecutor Tawanda Zvekare, ...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 08:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga bailed but remains in jail on new charges
Frank Buyanga was Friday released from a South African prison where he has been held for over a month but his freedom was immediately curtailed by new charges which were slapped on the property tycoon...Published: 09 Dec 2022 at 17:54hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri properties seizure - PG wants graft law amended
PROSECUTOR-GENERAL Nelson Mutsonziwa has called for the amendment of corruption laws to plug loopholes being used by "criminals" to keep hold of ill-gotten property as the state pushes for the seizure...Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 18:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga seeks recusal of SA judge for throwing himself into proceedings
SOUTH Africa based property mogul, Frank Buyanga, currently locked up in a South African prison, has applied for recusal of High Court judge Justice Pisirayi Kwenda in a case he is seeking freedom....Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 17:49hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Frank Buyanga attacked in SA prison
ZIMBABWEAN businessman Frank Buyanga Sadiqi, who was recently arrested in South Africa for potential extradition to Zimbabwe, has reportedly been attacked in a Johannesburg remand prison by other inma...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:06hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
NPA challenge cancellation of Buyanga's arrest warrant
THE National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has applied to the High Court challenging the cancellation of a warrant of arrest for controversial businessperson Frank Sadiq Buyanga by Harare provincial mag...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 04:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man in court for mocking Mnangagwa
A Rushinga man has been remanded out of custody to November 28 on charges of mocking President Emmerson Mnangagwa over his claims that the country has the strongest currency in the Southern African De...Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 05:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
55 000 petition Mnangagwa for Sikhala, Sithole release
ABOUT 55 000 Zimbabweans locally and abroad yesterday petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa for the second time over continued incarceration of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators Job Si...Published: 26 Oct 2022 at 05:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police boss dragged into messy court case
HARARE businessman Chemist Siziba has reached out to Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga over the alleged destruction of a docket in a criminal case involving business executives, Paul Rink Pea...Published: 01 Oct 2022 at 18:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zacc goes after court officials
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has dragged court officials including magistrates, the Judicial Service Commission (JSC), National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and acting Prosecutor-Gene...Published: 30 Sep 2022 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
High Court trashes businessman's lawsuit against PG and four magistrates
THE High Court has dismissed a lawsuit against four Harare magistrates and the Prosecutor General (PG) filed by controversial property developer George Katsimberis.Katsimberis had sued t...Published: 18 Sep 2022 at 16:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo backs under fire tycoon
LOCAL Government minister July Moyo has sprung to the defence of businessman Ken Sharpe, who is accused of manipulating the country's justice system to hang on to vast tracts of land he obtained in co...Published: 11 Sep 2022 at 15:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo says ZPC owes Intratrek US$600k as trial fails to take off
The National Prosecuting Authority on Thursday revived criminal charges against Intratrek Zimbabwe and its director Wicknell Chivayo over the stalled US$173 million Gwanda solar power project, as defe...Published: 02 Sep 2022 at 07:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zacc loses bid to prosecute own cases
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has lost its bid to be given prosecuting powers over graft cases it investigates after government set up anti-corruption courts.Zacc had requeste...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa urges Mnangagwa to suspend July Moyo
NORTON legislator Temba Mliswa has written to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) urging the immediate suspension of local government minister July Moyo to ...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 06:47hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Goblins 'besiege' school
CHURCHES and village leaders have been called for a cleansing ritual following alleged incidences of goblins sexually harassing teachers and students at Majiji Primary School in Bubi District, Matabel...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 06:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Acting PG Mutsonziwa in soup
POLICE on Wednesday last week opened a criminal docket against acting Prosecutor-General Nelson Mutsonziwa for reportedly destroying a court docket in 2014.The docket was opened at the Harare ...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 06:42hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
'Court rules delay corruption cases'
ACTING Prosecutor-General Mr Nelson Mutsonziwa has implored the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) to consider relaxing some of the court rules to speed up corruption cases that have been dragging on ...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:31hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's NPA jittery over murder suspects' fishy release
THE National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has reportedly become evasive over its failure to investigate alleged fraudulent release of suspects who killed a Chegutu man for alleged maize theft in 2003....Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Missing docket haunts acting PG
ACTING prosecutor general Nelson Mutsonziwa has been reported to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) by a Harare businessman on allegations of destroying a docket in a case involving ...Published: 30 May 2022 at 06:59hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Investor sues PG, deputy
A LOCAL investor is suing the Prosecutor General Nelson Mutsonziwa and his deputy Michael Reza for causing his prosecution over what he believes is an unsubstantiated allegation.Joseph Richard...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:21hrs | 60 | by Staff reporter
Race for Prosecutor General heats up...as new dark horse emerges
The promotion of Nelson Mutsonziwa to serve as acting Prosecutor General came as a timely move as the appointing authority goes through a list of potential candidates to fill up the post which was lef...Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 13:53hrs | 13 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa tightens firm chokehold on Jonathan Moyo
FORMER cabinet minister, MP and Zanu-PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo, who escaped by death by a whisker when the army stormed his home and that of a friend guns blazing during the 2017 military coup...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:39hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Hodzi's dramatic fall from grace
FORMER Prosecutor General (PG) Kumbirai Hodzi was dramatically forced to step down as the head of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who&...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 18:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa agents hunt for Jonathan Moyo
From fierce clashes in the Zanu-PF politburo meetings after a bitter political fallout over a hotly contested leadership succession during the late former president Robert Mugabe's rule to resorting t...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 19:22hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo hunter named acting prosecutor general
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday named Nelson Mutsonziwa as the acting prosecutor general, following the involuntary resignation of Kumbirai Hodzi last week.Mutsonziwa is the deputy pro...Published: 09 Mar 2022 at 07:31hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints top State Attorney as acting prosecutor general
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed top state attorney, Nelson Mutsonziwa, as the acting prosecutor general.The appointment was confirmed by the chief secretary to the president and cab...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 18:10hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa out to fix me,' says Kasukuwere
EXILED former Local Government minister and Zanu-PF commissar Saviour Kasukuwere yesterday hit back at President Emmerson Mnangagwa, saying the extradition order his administration was seeking from th...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 07:00hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa initiates Kasukuwere extradition
South Africa has been asked to extradite former Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere to Zimbabwe to answer to four counts of criminal abuse of duty as a public officer. The first three counts a...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Prosecutors declare incapacitation
The Prosecutors' Association of Zimbabwe (PAZ) has petitioned Prosecutor-General (PG) Kumbirai Hodzi, declaring incapacitation to discharge their mandate due to poor conditions of service.In a...Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 14:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rape accuser exonerates Prophet Magaya
THE woman who accused Prophet Walter Magaya of raping her yesterday came out in the open and exonerated the man of the cloth saying that she was worried the Acting Prosecutor General was pursuing ...Published: 02 Dec 2016 at 05:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa fingered in Tomana saga
VICE-President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been accused of trying to spring suspended prosecutor general Johannes Tomana free from criminal charges, according to shock government correspondence seen by...Published: 22 Oct 2016 at 17:33hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF implodes over Jonathan Moyo's graft probe
The probe by authorities into alleged corruption by Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo has heightened fears within President Robert Mugabe's brawling Zanu-PF that the ruling party is on the v...Published: 10 Oct 2016 at 12:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa angers Mugabe
AN ANGRY President Robert Mugabe has ordered an investigation into a complaint by Higher Education minister Professor Jonathan Moyo that the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc)'s investigat...Published: 09 Oct 2016 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tomana's trial date set
The trial date of Prosecutor-General Johannes Tomana, accused of releasing two suspects linked to an alleged attempt to petrol-bomb the First Family's Alpha Omega Dairy, has been set for April 27....Published: 08 Mar 2016 at 05:30hrs | | by Tendai Rupapa
Deputy AG assaulted
Deputy Prosecutor-General (DPG) Florence Ziyambi was allegedly physically manhandled by Colonel Solomon Siziba, who is an administrator on secondment to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), a...Published: 23 Mar 2015 at 07:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
High Court job interviews billed for today
FORTY-SIX candidates that were nominated for appointment to fill six vacancies on the High Court bench in line with the new law will be publicly interviewed today by the Judicial Service Commission (J...Published: 28 Oct 2014 at 06:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
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