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Tendai Biti loses recusal application
HARARE magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti-Guwuriro has dismissed an application by lawyer Tendai Biti demanding that she must recuse herself from a matter where the Harare East MP is accused of verbally ass...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:39hrs | 762 | by Staff reporter
Biti seeks magistrate's recusal amid bias suspicions
Prominent Lawyer Tendai Biti on Friday made an application seeking the recusal of a regional magistrate Vongai Muchuchiti Guwuriro after sighting bias in a case which he stands as the accused....Published: 25 Apr 2022 at 16:34hrs | 996 | by Paul Ndou
Magistrate refuses to step down from Mamombe case
THE presiding magistrate Faith Mushure in a matter where Harare West MP Joana Mamombe (Citizens Coalition for Change) and opposition activist Cecilia Chimbiri (CCC) are accused of falsehoods yesterday...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:44hrs | 819 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe, Chimbiri bid to delay trial flops
CCC activists, Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri, yesterday lost their bid to have Chief Magistrate, Mrs Faith Mushure, recuse herself from presiding over their case.The latest ploy has been ...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:33hrs | 65 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe, Chimbiri circus continues
CCC members Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri want Chief Magistrate Mrs Faith Mushure to step down from presiding over the matter in which they allegedly faked their abductions sometime in May 2020 s...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 13:44hrs | 792 | by Staff reporter
Botswana jails 3 Zimbabweans for rape, robbery
THREE Zimbabwean men are in Botswana's remand prison to answer robbery and rape charges.Desmond Khupe (19), Lucky Dube, (23) and Calvin Maphosa (43), who are all illegal migrants, were not ask...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 06:30hrs | 345 | by Staff reporter
Biti trial to commence on April 11
A HARARE magistrate yesterday dismissed an application by opposition politician and lawyer Tendai Biti seeking postponement of his trial on charges of assaulting a Russian national Tatiana Aleshina wi...Published: 01 Apr 2022 at 09:17hrs | 69 | by Staff reporter
Katsimberis refuses to plead as trial opens
The trial for builder George Katsimberis on allegations of duping a land developer of close to USS$1 million in a joint venture to build cluster houses in Harare's Borrowdale suburb has finally kicked...Published: 26 Mar 2022 at 06:11hrs | 85 | by Staff reporter
Mary Mliswa targets rivals in purging spree
THE infighting within Zanu-PF Mashonaland West is raging on, with an elaborate plot to suspend, and consequently remove, Zvimba district coordinating committee (DCC) chairman Bywell Mbiri sparking ren...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 08:04hrs | 1671 | by Staff reporter
Malaba slammed
JUDICIAL independence and impartiality in dispensing justice, not over-emphasis on the use of information communication technology, will provide useful tools to ensure effective administration of just...Published: 13 Jan 2022 at 16:03hrs | 1952 | by Staff reporter
2021 marks four wasted years under Cyril Ramaphosa
Concluding his tour of four African countries in Dakar, President Cyril Ramaphosa told reporters that challenges faced by his administration in 2021 "combined to create just a catastrophic year"....Published: 01 Jan 2022 at 14:16hrs | 1995 | by Professor Sipho Seepe
Zanu-PF sets poll supervising teams
Zanu-PF has put in place teams that will supervise its upcoming provincial elections, while the criteria requiring youths to have served at least four years at district level has been waived for youth...Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 07:24hrs | 112 | by Staff reporter
Guvamombe acquitted over Kasukuwere, Mandiwanzira industrial attachment
Former Chief Magistrate Mishrod Guvamombe has had corruption charges quashed in one of two cases he is facing, relating to the granting of industrial attachment to former minister Saviour Kasukuwere a...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:47hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
Esidakeni saga: 2 judges recuse themselves
TWO Bulawayo High Court judges Justices Nokuthula Moyo and Christopher Dube Banda have recused themselves in a case where Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu has been dragged to court ove...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:24hrs | 37 | by Staff reporter
Ex-minister Obert Mpofu dragged to court over Esidakeni Farm invasion
Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu has been dragged to court after settling himself on a disputed farm in Matabeleland North.The former mines minister, who already has large land...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:08hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter
US$28m in taxpayers' funds misappropriated in corrupt deal
THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Lands has recommended that the police and Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission investigate the Grain Millers' Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) and its president T...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:16hrs | 9 | 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 | 146 | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
You can't pull in croc with fish hook
IN the village, the outcome of a fishing trip to the river often meant the difference between a sumptuous meal and another dish to be tolerated just to keep the body and soul together.As pleas...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:37hrs | 7 | by Bishop Lazarus
Magistrate recuses self in Mamombe, Chimbizi case
HARARE regional magistrate Mrs Vongai Guwuriro today recused herself from presiding over MDC-Alliance members loans Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri case where they allegedly faked their abductions someti...Published: 11 Nov 2021 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Marriot loses ConCourt bid in Dynamos fraud case
DYNAMOS Football Club board chairperson Bernard Marriot Lusengo yesterday lost his bid for referral of his matter, involving the club's shareholding, to the Constitutional Court after a Harare magistr...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The ZAPU's hour of reckoning has come.
The ZAPU National Elective Congress starts tomorrow on the 28th October 2021 at Bulawayo Amphitheatre and it will run until the 30th. The first day is earmarked for receiving delegates from various br...Published: 27 Oct 2021 at 19:57hrs | 15 | by Thulani Nkala
Mafume seeks recusal of magistrate
SUSPENDED Harare mayor Jacob Mafume yesterday applied for recusal of the magistrate presiding over his charges of allegedly defeating the course of justice after interfering with a key witness, saying...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti's application for recusal opposed
The State has vigorously opposed an application by MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti to have Harare magistrate Mrs Vongai Muchuchuti recuse herself from presiding over his assault matter....Published: 22 Oct 2021 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti corners magistrate, prosecutor
TENDAI Biti, the MDC Vice President has accused Harare Magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti and Deputy Prosecutor Michael Reza of being biased after she forced him to stand in the dock without his lawyer....Published: 19 Oct 2021 at 20:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti wants magistrate removed
MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti has made another application for the recusal of Harare magistrate Mrs Vongai Muchuchuti from his assault case arguing that she would not give him a fair trial....Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 19:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti assault case postponed to next week
THE State has challenged Tendai Biti's seventh application for postponement of trial in a case the MDC Alliance vice-president is accused of assaulting a Russian national, Tatiana Aleshina at the Hara...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Businessman files complaint against High Court judge over property deal
HARARE businessman Kingston Hamutendi Munyawarara, the executive director of Bariadie Investments (Private) Limited, has lodged an official complaint against High Court judge Justice Tawanda Chitapi (...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:24hrs | 142 | 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 | 8 | by Staff reporter
Judges set wrong precedent by hearing own case
CONSTITUTIONAL Court judges who overturned a High Court ruling that Chief Justice Luke Malaba's continued stay in office beyond 70 years was illegal despite being cited have set a wrong precedent by b...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Forum maintains stance on Malaba
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (NGO Forum) is maintaining its objection to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's decision to extend Chief Justice Luke Malaba's tenure with five years, despite the Consti...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 19:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chief Justice Luke Malaba is legit, ConCourt rules
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba will now stay in office for five more years after the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) yesterday overturned an earlier ruling by the High Court that his continued stay in offi...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Concourt clears Chief Justice Malaba
Chief Justice Luke Malaba will now serve in line with the Constitution until his 75th birthday in May 2026 after the Constitutional Court yesterday overturned a High Court order and confirmed that all...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cheda withdraws from Justice Mabhikwa tribunal
Retired judge Maphios Cheda has recused himself from a tribunal appointed in June to look into Justice Thompson Mabhikwa's fitness to hold office.President Emmerson Mnangagwa has named another...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 19:47hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints new chair for Justice Mabhikwa tribunal
President Mnangagwa has appointed retired judge Justice November Mtshiya to chair the tribunal to investigate the suitability of suspended High Court Justice Thompson Mabhikwa to hold a judicial offic...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 19:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chin'ono seeks magistrate's recusal
JOURNALIST Hopewell Chin'ono's lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa yesterday asked the presiding magistrate to recuse herself since her impartiality was compromised because of her previous averments.Chin'...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Top cop pleads 'not guilty' as graft trial gets underway
Matabeleland North's top police officer went on trial on Monday accused of irregularly granting his girlfriend use of a police farm.Commissioner Erasmus Makodza pleaded not guilty to charges o...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 20:56hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF scuttled Nkayi development'
FORMER Nkayi South MP Abednico Bhebhe has alleged that developmental projects that he initiated during his tenure as MP from 2000 to 2009 were scuttled by the Zanu-PF government for political reasons....Published: 09 Aug 2021 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bigwigs in messy sugar tender storm
A group of transporters linked to Zanu PF bigwigs have allegedly threatened sugar-producing giant Tongaat Hullet with unspecified action if it fails to award them tenders. In May, the sugar producer f...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lessons from SA social unrest
THE turmoil in South Africa following the recent jailing of former president Jacob Zuma and subsequent social unrest characterised by rioting and looting for many other reasons - including deprivation...Published: 17 Jul 2021 at 15:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Malaba case in new twist
ZIMBABWE Human Rights NGO Forum executive director Musa Kika yesterday snubbed a Constitutional Court hearing which sought to reverse a High Court order dismissing the extension of Chief Justice Luke ...Published: 17 Jul 2021 at 08:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Biti trial fails to take off
The trial of MDC-Alliance vice president Tendai Biti on allegations of manhandling a Russian national during an altercation outside Harare Magistrates Court hit another brick wall yesterday after his ...Published: 17 Jul 2021 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Malaba crisis: Kika's lawyers ditches the case?
Lawyers for rights lawyer Musa Kika notify Constitutional Court they will not file papers or appear in court Friday after judges refused to recuse in challenge brought by Zanu-PF supporter Marx Mapung...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 17:47hrs | 38 | by Staff reporter
Malaba case 'now lawfare' says Govt
THE battle to ensure Chief Justice Luke Malaba stays in office intensified yesterday, with top government officials describing the ongoing Constitutional Court (ConCourt) challenge as "lawfare."...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance trio's trial postponed
REGIONAL magistrate Mrs Vongai Guwuriro yesterday postponed to next month the matter in which MDC-Alliance members, Joana Mamombe, Netsai Marova and Cecilia Chimbiri, are alleged to have faked their a...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
ConCourt judges to decide on Chief Justice Malaba
The Constitutional Court will now decide the validity of the High Court order blocking Chief Justice Luke Malaba from opting under the Constitution to stay in office for an additional five years after...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Constitutional Court judges to decide on Chief Justice Malaba
The Constitutional Court will now decide the validity of the High Court order blocking Chief Justice Luke Malaba from opting under the Constitution to stay in office for an additional five years after...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Fresh headache for Malaba
ZIMBABWE Human Rights NGO Forum executive director Musa Kika yesterday filed a fresh application seeking the recusal of judges set to preside over a case where a Zanu-PF activist wants the Constitutio...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 09:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Sending Jacob Zuma to jail was not a wise move'
EFF deputy president Floyd Shivambu has accused the Constitutional Court of using apartheid tactics to imprison former president Jacob Zuma for 15 months for contempt of court.Shivambu also cr...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 19:46hrs | 1 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
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