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Blessed Mhlanga takes freedom bid to the Constitutional Court
Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) journalist Blessed Mhlanga, who has been detained for over a month, has filed papers seeking the Constitutional Court's intervention to challenge the law under which he was ...Published: 12 Apr 2025 at 13:08hrs | 95 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi, Machaya defend Patriot Act
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi and Attorney-General Prince Machaya, have came out in defence of the controversial Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Amendment Act saying it does not violate huma...Published: 14 Nov 2023 at 04:52hrs | 14 | 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
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 | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's draconian law challenged in court
Some sections of the newly enacted Criminal (Codification and Reform) Act that provides for a death sentence for Zimbabweans that are deemed unpatriotic are now being challenged in court, a few days a...Published: 23 Jul 2023 at 08:13hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Electoral uncertainty is a form of rigging
FOR any election to be adjudged as free, fair and credible, it has to have a certain level of certainty in how it's called, conducted and results announced. However, in Zimbabwe's case nothing is cert...Published: 23 Jun 2023 at 06:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mbare houses declared a state of emergency
Mbare's New Line area has been declared a state of emergency by the Government which has subsequently ordered that devolution funds be redirected to refurbish housing, sewer systems and enhance garbag...Published: 07 Jun 2023 at 06:03hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi appeal against enacting ministers' misconduct Bill upheld
The Supreme Court has upheld an appeal by the justice minister and the attorney general who were both challenging a High Court order directing them to draft a code of conduct Bill for senior governmen...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 19:58hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa foul law saga deepens
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has not formally withdrawn the controversial legal instrument that sought to hide the Health and Child Care ministry's procurement processes with new information indicatin...Published: 14 May 2023 at 11:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
NGOs meet Mnangagwa over PVOs Bill
CIVIL Society Organisations (CSOs) on Friday met President Emmerson Mnangagwa in a last-minute bid to lobby him to stop signing the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Amendment Bill into law....Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 07:40hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi, Machaya in contempt of court
HIGH Court judge Justice Jacob Manzunzu has ruled that Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi and Attorney-General Prince Machaya breached their obligations after they failed to enforce laws compelling gove...Published: 18 Oct 2022 at 06:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints AG office board
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed a four member Attorney-General (AG)'s office board to provide oversight and supervisory roles to the office.The board will be chaired by Attorney-Gen...Published: 17 Oct 2022 at 06:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi faces arrest
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi and Attorney-General Prince Machaya face arrest for contempt of court after they defied a ruling ordering them to craft a code of conduct for the country's Vice-Presid...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:11hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Court orders code of conduct for VPs, ministers
HIGH Court judge Justice David Mangota yesterday ordered government to craft a law within 45 days stipulating the code of conduct for Vice-Presidents, ministers and deputy ministers.Mangota ma...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 06:40hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Schools sport remains on hold
GOVERNMENT has said sporting activities in schools remain on hold in the coming few weeks due to a possible surge in Covid-19 cases associated with winter. In her post-Cabinet briefing yesterd...Published: 11 May 2022 at 09:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF goes after unpatriotic Zimbabweans
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's ruling Zanu-PF party purportedly plans to fast-track a controversial law that would punish citizens deemed "unpatriotic".The National Assembly last week adopted ...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:43hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Varakashi4ED petition attorney general to expedite patriotic bill
Zanu-PF's social media brigade, Varakashi4ED, has petitioned attorney general Prince Machaya compelling him to expedite the drafting of the controversial patriotic bill.If passed into law, the...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 06:37hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Pastor sues Ziyambi, Machaya
CHIVHU-based cleric Abinel Mukaro has dragged Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi and Attorney-General Prince Machaya to the High Court over "unreasonable" court fees, which he said impeded people from a...Published: 14 Feb 2022 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fight for Caps turns ugly
THE government's fight to control pharmaceutical giant Caps Holdings from its previous majority shareholder Frederick Mutanda has turned ugly amid claims that there have been threats to kill the busin...Published: 07 Feb 2022 at 05:15hrs | 1 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Ziyambi chickens out of controversial Bill
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has refused to gazette a Bill meant to strip the Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) of regulatory powers as sought by a Harare lawyer.Joshua Chirambwe had approache...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 05:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi hits back at Chirambwe
JUSTICE minister, Ziyambi Ziyambi has hit back at Harare lawyer, Joshua John Chirambwe's application that he mounted with the High Court last month challenging the legality of the Law Society of Zimba...Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 16:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar challenge thrown out
The challenge by a Harare lawyer to invalidate civil penalties imposed on businesses or individuals refusing to accept local currency suffered a stillbirth after the High Court threw out the applicati...Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 05:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Court throws out challenge to exchange control ammendments
THE High Court has dismissed an application by human rights lawyer Obert Shava, challenging the constitutionality of Statutory Instrument (SI) 127 of 2021 which imposes civil penalties on those found ...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 05:40hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
LSZ dismisses lawyer's court application
THE Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) yesterday dismissed as absurd, unconstitutional and unlawful a High Court application by Harare lawyer Joshua Chirambwe that seeks to strip the association of its pow...Published: 21 Dec 2021 at 06:15hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Law Society of Zimbabwe could be stripped of legal profession regulatory monopoly
The Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) could lose its authority as the sole body regulating the legal profession after a Harare lawyer challenged a law that established it.Joshua Chirambwe, in a Hi...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:49hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Court reserves judgement in asset declaration lawsuit
THE High Court has reserved judgement in a matter in which an opposition legislator launched a lawsuit against the government's failure to actualise a law that forces public officials, including Presi...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:42hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers' body under siege
THE Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ)'s existence as the country's sole regulatory body for legal professionals is under threat after Harare lawyer Joshua Chirambwe yesterday challenged the status quo at ...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:25hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe judges hear own appeal
SUPREME Court judges on Tuesday presided over their own appeal against a judgment by the High Court, which outlawed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's extension of Chief Justice Luke Malaba's term of offi...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:36hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
SC hears Malaba judgment appeal
The Supreme Court is today expected to hear the appeal against the urgent High Court judgment over the extension of Chief Justice Luke Malaba's service by another five years.Justice, Legal and...Published: 16 Nov 2021 at 05:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Court reserves judgement in asset declaration lawsuit
THE High Court has reserved judgement in a matter in which an opposition legislator launched a lawsuit against the government's failure to actualise a law that forces public officials, including Presi...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:59hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
MPs challenge sweeping Presidential powers
THE continued use of Presidential Powers Temporary Measures Act by President Emmerson Mnangagwa is unconstitutional, legislators have argued in court.High Court judge Justice Philda Muzofa res...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 17:57hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Teacher drags Chiwenga to court
A KWEKWE-based primary school teacher, Mercy Mjikwa, has dragged the Health Minister Constantino Chiwenga to court over new Covid-19 rules targeting unvaccinated citizens.In an urgent chamber ...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and dodgy Zanu-PF characters
WHEN Zanu-PF activist Marx Mupungu filed a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) application in June seeking to quash the High Court judgment by the three brave judges who had barred Chief Justice Malaba fr...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:21hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says judicial independence guaranteed
President Mnangagwa yesterday told the Southern Africa Chief Justices' Forum jointly hosted by Zimbabwe and Zambia in Victoria Falls that the Second Republic would continue respecting the independence...Published: 25 Sep 2021 at 05:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in Victoria Falls for conferences
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa arrived here yesterday evening ahead of a double-header official opening of the Southern Africa Chief Justices' Forum (SACJF) and Institute for Chartered Governance and Accountancy...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:12hrs | | by q
Companies challenge ZCTU over unvaccinated workers
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU)'s court challenge against compulsory vaccination of workers has suffered a major blow after government and several private entities cited as respondents di...Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 06:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Employers adopt no jab, no entry policy
TAKING a cue from government, several companies in Zimbabwe are making proof of vaccination a prerequisite for employees to enter their premises in a bid to curb the spread of the novel virus....Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
BaTonga communities sue for lack of development
HAVING been displaced during the construction of the Kariba Dam and now living at the peripheries of Zimbabwe's largest hydro-electric power project, Kariba, it is only logical that the Batonga people...Published: 31 Jul 2021 at 05:50hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe judges in the dock next week
TOP Zimbabwean judges of the highest court in the land - including Deputy Chief Justice Elizabeth Gwaunza - will inadvertently be in the dock next when they hear an application by a Bulawayo man Marx ...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 20:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's daughter, hubby challenge farm downsizing
THE late former President Robert Mugabe's daughter Bona and her husband Simbarashe Mutsahuni have approached the High Court challenging the statutory instrument (SI) 41 of 2020 published to reduce the...Published: 17 Jun 2021 at 06:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Malaba not guilty
UNDERFIRE Chief Justice Luke Malaba yesterday escaped jail time after the High Court ruled that he was entitled to return to work after appealing a High Court ruling that the extension of his term of ...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo man files pro-Malaba appeal
A BULAWAYO man has filed a Constitutional Court application seeking an order nullifying a ruling by three High Court judges that sought to disqualify Chief Justice Luke Malaba from office.Mr M...Published: 07 Jun 2021 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MP sues Mnangagwa
CHITUNGWIZA North legislator Godfrey Karakadzai Sithole has taken President Emmerson Mnangagwa to court for assenting to the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No.1) Bill, which he argues was illegal...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 18:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti vows to scuttle Malaba's ambitions to remain as Zimbabwe's chief justice
Harare lawyer Tendai Biti, has vowed he, and his legal team will continue defending the country's Constitution and scuttle Luke Malaba's ambitions to remain as Zimbabwe's chief justice.On 15 M...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 10:10hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Malaba crisis: Drama at contempt hearing
THERE was drama yesterday after one of the three judges designated to hear an application seeking the arrest of Chief Justice Luke Malaba recused himself after confirming that he had met with the head...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 07:18hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
High Court reserves judgment on Malaba contempt of court charges
TWO High Court judges Thursday reserved to next week their judgment in an urgent application filed last week by the Human Rights NGO Forum demanding the imprisonment of Luke Malaba of being contempt o...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Malaba crisis: Mnangagwa shunts judges
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is today expected to swear in six judges of the Supreme Court from the High Court bench who will be expected to preside over the government's appeal against a ruling by th...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 07:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Lawyer challenges SI127/2021 constitutionality
LAWYER Obey Shava yesterday filed a High Court application challenging the constitutionality of Statutory Instrument 127 of 2021 gazetted by government last week.SI127of2021 is seen as an atte...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 07:07hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Malaba fights back
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba has asked the High Court to throw out an application by a constitutional law activist for his arrest on contempt of court charges, insisting that his stay in office was legal...Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 07:30hrs | 10 | by Staff report
Malaba defends decision to cling on as Chief Justice
LUKE Malaba says he remains Chief Justice as last month's landmark High Court ruling declaring his continued tenure unconstitutional, was being appealed against at the Supreme Court.Malaba was...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
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