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Magistrate in no show for CCC activists' judgement
The much-anticipated judgment for Senator Jameson Timba and 66 other Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists has been postponed once again, following the absence of the presiding magistrate, Col...Published: 11 Nov 2024 at 15:40hrs | 936 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga''s ex-wife seeks permanent stay of prosecution
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's ex-wife, Mary Mubaiwa, has filed an application for a permanent stay of prosecution in her attempted murder case, where she is accused of attempting to kill the V...Published: 11 Nov 2024 at 15:36hrs | 2581 | by Staff reporter
Chimombe, Mpofu goats' fraud trial in false start
The much-anticipated corruption trial of Harare businessmen Moses Mpofu and Mike Chimombe, involving allegations of siphoning US$7.7 million from the Presidential Goat Pass-On Scheme, was adjourned ye...Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 07:43hrs | 145 | by Staff reporter
Chimombe, Mpofu trial kicks off this Wednesday
Jailed fraud suspects Mike Chimombe and Moses Mpofu claim their constitutional rights have been violated, adding they will raise the complaint with the court as trial starts this Wednesday.The...Published: 01 Oct 2024 at 14:08hrs | 128 | by Staff reporter
MK Party refuses to be cowed by captured Cape Town High Court
Next week's Judicial Service Commission (JSC) sitting set for October 7 hangs in the balance after the uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) revealed that it intends to appeal against last Friday's Western Cap...Published: 01 Oct 2024 at 14:03hrs | 315 | by Staff reporter
Zambia's Hakainde Hichilema threatening to delay 2026 elections
On 13 September, Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema addressed parliament in fulfilment of the Constitution that requires the president to address the National Assembly every year and provide a repo...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 14:55hrs | 654 | by Sishuwa Sishuwa
Intwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo postponed
Bulawayo's premier arts event, the Intwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo, has been postponed. Traditionally held in September, this year's edition, which was initially scheduled for 25 to 28 September, wil...Published: 18 Sep 2024 at 08:17hrs | 34 | by Staff reporter
Ntando van Moyo gig
Finally, it's happening!After disappointing fans with a postponed event, renowned comedian Ntando Van Moyo (pictured) is poised to make a grand comeback with a solo performance on 28 September...Published: 06 Sep 2024 at 07:59hrs | 147 | by Staff reporter
Timba, 77 ruling postponed - yet again
The ruling on the application for discharge by veteran opposition leader Jameson Timba and 77 others has been postponed once again, this time to tomorrow.Defense lawyers had submitted their ap...Published: 03 Sep 2024 at 15:24hrs | 342 | by Staff reporter
Billboard nuisance duo dumped by new lawyer
The trial of two Borrowdale men, Mark Strathen and Grant Russell, charged with criminal nuisance for erecting a billboard denouncing a property development company, has been postponed after their new ...Published: 19 Aug 2024 at 14:36hrs | 376 | by Staff reporter
General Sanyatwe embroiled in chieftainship row
Lieutenant General Anselem Sanyatwe, the Zimbabwe Army Commander, has become embroiled in a contentious chieftainship dispute in Nyanga. He is accused of exerting influence and attempting to dictate t...Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 10:41hrs | 46 | by Staff reporter
2024 Mine Entra postponed
The 27th edition of the mining, engineering, and transport exhibition, Mine Entra, originally planned for July 17-19 in Bulawayo, has been postponed indefinitely. The decision to postpone was announce...Published: 06 Jul 2024 at 12:22hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Questions arise over SADC Observer Mission's delayed report on SA elections
Questions are mounting regarding the delayed preliminary report from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) observer mission on the recent South African elections.South African gene...Published: 13 Jun 2024 at 11:31hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF leader issued with a warrant of arrest
Magistrate Elizabeth Hanzi has issued an arrest warrant for Zanu-PF Masvingo youth chairperson Delight Mandebvu after he failed to appear in court today.Mandebvu faces three assault charges re...Published: 01 Jun 2024 at 18:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Neville Mutsvangwa granted bail
The High Court has granted Neville Mutsvangwa and his accomplices bail set at US$1000 each after spending three weeks in remand prison.The bail decision, issued by Judge Justice Rodgers Manyan...Published: 31 May 2024 at 21:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Neville Mutsvangwa's bail ruling postponed
Neville Mutsvangwa, the son of Zanu-PF stalwarts Monica and Christopher Mutsvangwa, will remain in custody for an additional five days as his bail hearing has been rescheduled to May 27.Mutsva...Published: 22 May 2024 at 11:43hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Lessons for Nelson Chamisa
UNIVERSITY of Cape Town-based constitutional law expert Justice Alfred Mavedzenge has rallied the Zimbabwean opposition led by politician Nelson Chamisa to take lessons from events in Senegal that res...Published: 20 May 2024 at 16:50hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: Job Sikhala speech at the UN Geneva Summit
Iwant to greet you, honorable guests of this important summit for Human Rights and Democracy, from all the four corners of the world. I am Job Sikala, the surviving political prisoner from Zimbabwe. I...Published: 17 May 2024 at 16:38hrs | 33 | by Jo Sikhala
Zanu-PF commissar seeks DCC polls postponement
THE Zanu-PF commissariat department led by former cabinet minister Mike Bimha has sought permission from the party to freeze impending district coordinating committee (DCC) elections amid fears that t...Published: 03 Mar 2024 at 09:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC Glen View-40's request for removal from remand rejected
Glenview South lawmaker, Grandmore Hakata, jointly charged with 39 other Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists for holding an unsanctioned rally have had their application for refusal of furth...Published: 22 Feb 2024 at 15:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Lawyer sues journalist over 'falsehoods'
Prominent lawyer Tino Chinyoka has sued a journalist from a state owned publication for US$100 000 for allegedly publishing falsehoods where he claimed a magistrate stopped a lawyer from lying in cour...Published: 04 Feb 2024 at 17:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Biti's assault trial finally comes to an end
Tendai Biti's four-year-long assault trial has finally come to an end with Harare magistrate Mrs Vongai Guwuriro expected to deliver judgement on February 15.This came after Biti completed his...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 04:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's ex-wife forced to attend court from hospital
High Court Judge Pisirayi Kwenda accompanied Marry Mubaiwa to the hospital on Tuesday for the hearing of a case where she is accused of fraud and money laundering. Mubaiwa, the former wife of ...Published: 17 Jan 2024 at 04:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cholera fears for learners mount as schools reopen
FEARS abound that learners' lives are at risk due to the prevailing cholera outbreak as schools open tomorrow.Health experts have urged government to strengthen its surveillance and case manag...Published: 08 Jan 2024 at 05:34hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU under pressure
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), which of late has been accused of being captured by government, is facing fresh controversy after it summoned Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabw...Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 09:38hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti's assault trial deferred
THE trial of opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) top official Tendai Biti, who is accused of verbally assaulting a local businesswoman, Tatiana Aleshina, has been deferred to January 11 and...Published: 18 Dec 2023 at 04:55hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
CCC banked on ZRP blocking the Chitungwiza rally?
CCC'S MIDNIGHT POSTPONEMENT OF NELSON CHAMISA'S RALLY DUBBED, "PATHWAY TO LEGITIMACY", which had been slated for today in Chitungwiza has raised eyebrows and set tongues wagging in and outside the two...Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 20:53hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
Chamisa's Chitungwiza rally cancelled
Nelson Chamisa's rally in Chitungwiza scheduled for Sunday has been cancelled. In a statement on it's X account (formerly Twitter), the party did not provide any spe...Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 09:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti's assault trial deferred to 2024
Harare magistrate Mrs Vongai Guwuriro has deferred the trial of Tendai Biti to January 11 and 12 next year for continuation. Biti is facing charges of assaulting businesswoman and investor Mrs...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 15:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ngarivhume's appeal postponed again as prosecutor falls sick
Once again, on Thursday, the High Court had to defer the case in which opposition activist Jacob Ngarivhume is appealing his conviction and sentencing for inciting public violence. Ngarivhume ...Published: 08 Dec 2023 at 05:41hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Jacob Ngarivhume's appeal postponed again
The High Court appeal by Jacob Ngarivhume for both sentence and conviction has been postponed for the umpteenth time to Thursday 7 December 2023. The reason that was given for the postponement was tha...Published: 05 Dec 2023 at 20:33hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa, Tshabangu emissaries in crunch 'interparty' talks
There have been at least two formal meetings between Nelson Chamisa and Sengezo Tshabangu "parties", on 15 November 2023 and 16 November 2023, both in Bulawayo.The meeting on 15 November was a...Published: 30 Nov 2023 at 20:37hrs | 5 | by Jonathan Moyo
Corruption a human rights issue, says PG
Corruption in the criminal justice system value chain is a violation of human rights and might lead to the erosion of public confidence in the whole system, thereby undermining the integrity of the ad...Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 05:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
TelOne Training Centre postpones graduation
TelOne Centre for Learning has postponed its 2023 graduation ceremony, with at least 600 students now expected to graduate next year.The postponement has been necessitated by the on-going rest...Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 05:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police systems are crumbling
I don't know about these days, but one of the most shaming things back in the days was when a learner was sent back home because he or she didn't have a uniform.It was shaming on the learner a...Published: 26 Nov 2023 at 08:43hrs | 9 | by Tawanda Majoni
Biti fights in Katsimberis's corner?
Politician Tendai Biti, while presenting his defence on assault charges, has introduced what he has described as an illegal action by the City of Harare in demolishing a showroom built by George Katsi...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 05:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Diarrhoea outbreak forces Mkoba Teachers College closure
Health authorities have temporarily suspended lectures at Mkoba Teachers College after a diarrhoea out break at the institution.In a statement, Midlands provincial medical director, Dr Marry Muchekeza...Published: 15 Nov 2023 at 18:22hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
High Court clips Tshabangu's wings blocks further recalls of CCC MPs
HIGH Court judge, Justice Tawanda Chitapi has barred further recalls of main opposition party, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators, senators and councillors. This comes...Published: 14 Nov 2023 at 20:16hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Judge under probe for making phantom ruling
JUDGE President Mary Zimba-Dube is now investigating a case in which High Court judge Webster Chinamora gave a ruling in a case he never heard involving Balwearie (Pvt) Ltd, and has written to lawyers...Published: 13 Nov 2023 at 21:25hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF wins Gutu West parly seat
Zanu-PF has retained the Gutu West National Assembly seat after its candidate Cde John Paradza resoundingly won the parliamentary by-election that was held yesterday.Paradza,who is also the ru...Published: 12 Nov 2023 at 11:46hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Biti's 3rd ConCourt application turned down
OPPOSITION politician Tendai Biti failed again yesterday to have points of law in his trial for verbal and threatening assault referred to the Constitutional Court, with Harare magistrate Mrs Vongai G...Published: 09 Nov 2023 at 05:53hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Artuz leader in court for 2016 'murder'
Harare police have announced that their investigation into the 2016 murder case involving Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union (Artuz) leader Obert Masaraure is still ongoing. Masaraure is accused of kill...Published: 01 Nov 2023 at 05:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF ready for by-elections
Zanu-PF is fully prepared for the upcoming by-elections in various categories, including senatorial, parliamentary, and local authority positions across the country, according to the party's National ...Published: 30 Oct 2023 at 05:13hrs | 3 | by Staff reporte
Chamisa says Zimbabwe is a big prison
In a recent social media exchange, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa drew a disheartening comparison between Zimbabwe and a vast prison, stating, "Zimbabwe is just such a big p...Published: 28 Oct 2023 at 16:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-Chiwenga's wife hires new lawyer
Marry Mubaiwa, the embattled former model currently facing a range of alleged charges, has retained Harrison Nkomo as her new legal counsel. This choice comes in the wake of Beatrice Mtetwa, her previ...Published: 27 Oct 2023 at 18:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's ex-wife tells court to 'do as you wish'
Yesterday, Marry Mubaiwa, the former spouse of Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, instructed Harare Magistrate Feresi Chakanyuka to proceed as he saw fit after her attorney disassociated from her ca...Published: 27 Oct 2023 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jacob Ngarivhume's appeal postponed
Justice Benjamin Chikowore has postponed Transform Zimbabwe leader Jacob Ngarivhume's appeal against public violence conviction to 14 November 2023.It is now over six months since Ngarivhume w...Published: 25 Oct 2023 at 20:58hrs | | by Muridzo F
Ngarivhume appeal hearing postponed
The High Court has postponed the appeal hearing of opposition activist Jacob Ngarivhume, who is currently serving a prison sentence for incitement of violence. This delay is a result of the State's fa...Published: 24 Oct 2023 at 21:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Artuz leader files for exception to obstruction charge
Obert Masaraure, the leader of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz), filed an application for an exception before Harare magistrate Feresi Chakanyuka in a case involving the obstru...Published: 16 Oct 2023 at 20:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC MPs, activists' trial deferred
The trial of six Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists and two party legislators from Bulawayo, who are accused of criminal insult and defacing campaign posters, has been postponed. The trial ...Published: 16 Oct 2023 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
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