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ConCourt dismisses US$97K suit from former Old Mutual employee
The Constitutional Court (ConCourt) has dismissed a US$97,247 lawsuit filed by Christmas Mazarire, a former employee of Old Mutual Shared Service, who was challenging the computation of his retrenchme...Published: 18 Oct 2024 at 08:50hrs | 433 | by Staff reporter
ConCourt grants Umvutcha farmer's appeal over property caveats
The Constitutional Court (ConCourt) has granted an appeal to Alistair Michael Fletcher, an Umvutcha farmer, challenging a Supreme Court decision that overturned a High Court ruling regarding caveats p...Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 07:41hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's power retention moves face tricky constitutional hurdles
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's bid to seek a third term in office, which he has set in motion, faces legal hurdles because the constitution bars incumbents from benefiting from an amendment allowing a...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 20:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's gamble faces legal hurdles
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's long-standing bid to seek a third term in office faces legal hurdles amid revelations by constitutional law experts that any constitutional amendment for an extension of...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ConCourt throws out 'unfounded' application accusing Chamisa's lawyer of graft
The Constitutional Court has dismissed as "unfounded" and "devoid of any merit" an application by a man who accused prominent lawyer Advocate Thabani Mpofu of corruption and violating his rights to di...Published: 18 Jan 2024 at 17:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere's dead end
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba has dismissed without a hearing self-exiled presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere's application for leave to appeal against a Supreme Court ruling that upheld his disqual...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 18:10hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
ConCourt shutters Kasukuwere's hopes
The Constitutional Court (ConCourt) has sounded the death knell on Saviour Kasukuwere's diminishing hopes of contesting the 2023 presidential election after dismissing an application filed by the exil...Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 22:28hrs | 8 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean judges join Namibian judiciary
Two Zimbabwean judges, Justice Rita Makarau of the Constitutional Court and retired judge Justice Moses Chinhengo have been appointed to serve temporarily on the Namibian Supreme Court and High Court ...Published: 31 Mar 2023 at 07:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Call for severe sentences against armed robbers, child abusers
Courts must deliver strong judgments against people convicted of armed robbery and abuse of women and children, President Mnangagwa has said.He said this in a speech read on his behalf by Just...Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 04:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chivayo trial hits snag
THE trial of Intratrek Zimbabwe and its managing director, Wicknell Chivayo, due to start yesterday, was postponed after the State said it needed time to attend to issues the businessman raised throug...Published: 02 Sep 2022 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
'End of an era': Joyce Kazembe retire from Zec
Kazembe is the giant of modern Zimbabwe electoral landscape. For many Zimbabweans, her retirement today after 27 years of uninterrupted service at Electoral Supervisory Commission now, Zimbabwe Electo...Published: 06 Jul 2022 at 11:21hrs | 10 | by Farai Chirimumimba
Mawere demands judge's recusal
Exiled businessman Mutumwa Mawere has filed a Constitutional Court application seeking the recusal of Justice Rita Makarau in a case where the constitutionality of the Reconstruction of State-Indebted...Published: 27 Feb 2022 at 07:35hrs | 1 | 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 | 8 | by Staff reporter
Biti appeal against conviction thrown out
MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti's appeal against a 2019 conviction for illegally announcing election results has been thrown out by the High Court.High Court judges Justice Pisirayi Kw...Published: 22 Oct 2021 at 20:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Malaba case: The key actors
ZIMBABWE, for the past four months has been going through a constitutional test and legal drama following the extension of Chief Justice Luke Malaba's term in May, which was put to bed last week follo...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:20hrs | 1 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's man back in charge
AFTER a bruising battle President Emmerson Mnangagwa's agenda to retain the services of Chief Justice Luke Malaba at the helm of the administration of justice, as part of his power consolidation and r...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 18:53hrs | | 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 | 1 | 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 | 8 | by Staff reporter
The extension of Chief Justice Luke Malaba's term in office is legal
Justice Rita Makarau and Justice Bharat Patel today dismissed the high court judgement, and have today ruled that Chief Justice Luke Malaba has always been legaly in office and his tenure was extended...Published: 22 Sep 2021 at 12:49hrs | 1 | by Shelton Muchena
Malaba swears in Judge President
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba yesterday presided over the swearing in of newly-appointed Judge President, Justice Mary Zimba-Dube, making his first public appearance since the May High Court judgment that...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa makes key appointments
President Mnangagwa has appointed Justice Mary Zimba-Dube as the new Judge President, while Mrs Fortune Chimbaru becomes the new Deputy Attorney-General. Justice Zimba-Dube, who has sat as a judge of ...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa did not assent to constitutional Bill?
THE Parliament of Zimbabwe has conceded that President Emmerson Mnangagwa did not assent to the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No.1) Bill before it became an Act, paving way for a potentially int...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 20:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's new tool against dissent
THE incarceration at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison and delayed acquittal of two opposition activists by the Supreme Court last week is symptomatic of Zanu-PF's desperate attempt to weaponise the l...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Madzokere's pain over his lost wife after 10 years behind bars wrongly jailed
HARARE - Jailed for 10 years for a murder he might not have committed. Tungamirai Madzokere on Monday surveyed the ruins that are his personal life and remarked: "I lost everything."Madzokere ...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 17:08hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
CJ Malaba case stokes fire
TOP human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa has called for investigation and suspension of Judicial Service Commission (JSC) secretary Walter Chikwana over his alleged meeting with one of the judges assig...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa polled 33% to Chamisa's 66%, claims Jonathan Moyo
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is in the eye of a storm after is-suing a bizarre release responding to allegations of poll theft against MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's reported victory ...Published: 07 Jun 2021 at 06:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance veterans condemn 'captured' justice system
THE MDC Alliance Veterans Activist Association (VAA) yesterday blasted the country's justice system saying it was compromised to the extent that innocent people clocked several years in jail without p...Published: 07 Jun 2021 at 06:07hrs | | 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
'Excelgate: How Zimbabwe's 2018 Presidential Election Was Stolen' - so will 2023, 41 years and penny hasn't dropped
Zimbabwe's next elections are due in July 2023, just over two years from now. The nation is being reminded of how the 2018 elections were rigged."The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) was on...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 13:19hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
MDC duo acquitted after 8 years in jail
THE Supreme Court yesterday acquitted MDC Alliance activists Last Maengahama and Tungamirai Madzokere of the murder of a senior police officer after it ruled that their conviction by the High Court wa...Published: 05 Jun 2021 at 09:29hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
ZEC rubbishes Jonathan Moyo's voter fraud book claims
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) was on Friday forced to address the damaging allegations raised by Professor Jonathan Moyo, who in his newly-published book, offers a gripping account of the el...Published: 05 Jun 2021 at 09:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
16 Supreme, Constitutional Court judges file appeal
APPEALS filed at the Supreme Court challenging the High Court ruling nullifying the extension of Chief Justice Luke Malaba's term of office will be heard in due course, the Judiciary Services Commissi...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Malaba's case will definitely be heard'
APPEALS filed at the Supreme Court challenging the High Court ruling nullifying the extension of Chief Justice Luke Malaba's term of office will be heard in due course, the Judiciary Services Commissi...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa doesn't want Justice Happias Zhou
REASONS why President Emmerson Mnangagwa strongly dislikes High Court Justice Happias Zhou - who led a brave judicial panel that dramatically blocked Justice Luke Malaba's controversial tenure extensi...Published: 26 May 2021 at 16:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa faces tough CJ choice
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is faced with a dilemma over who to appoint the new chief justice (CJ), amid indications that the recently retired Luke Malaba could ditch the fight to extend his tenure b...Published: 21 May 2021 at 06:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Judges have final say on Malaba case, says Govt
GOVERNMENT said it would leave Supreme Court judges to decide whether or not they could hear government's appeal against a ruling suspending President Emmerson Mnangagwa's extension of former Chief Ju...Published: 21 May 2021 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's ConCourt appointments draw criticism
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa this week flexed his muscles by appointing five judges to the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) at a time Zimbabwe is paralysed by a constitutional crisis triggered by a rec...Published: 21 May 2021 at 06:08hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Govt pooh-pooh claims of a constitutional crisis
THE High Court's decision that the recent constitutional amendment allowing judges to opt to serve to 75 if in good health does not apply when it comes to Chief Justice Luke Malaba and any other sitti...Published: 21 May 2021 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
5 ConCourt judges sworn in
FIVE Constitutional Court (ConCourt) judges were Thursday sworn in at a ceremony presided over by Acting Chief Justice Elizabeth Gwaunza.The five are are; Ben Hlatshwayo, Paddington Garwe, Ann...Published: 20 May 2021 at 18:12hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
New era for Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court
The Constitutional Court will, with effect from today, have a substantive bench following President Mnangagwa's appointment of five judges to the highest court in the land.Justices Paddington ...Published: 20 May 2021 at 05:57hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints 5 ConCourt Judges, rejects Justice Zhou for retiring CJ Malaba
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa Wednesday appointed five new Constitutional Court judges to fill in the vacant posts since May 2020.The appointed new ConCourt judges are; Paddington Garwe, Rita M...Published: 19 May 2021 at 18:37hrs | 1 | 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
More trouble for Malaba as lawyers gird up for fight
TWO lawyer groupings, one in Harare and another in Bulawayo, are preparing to challenge the passing of the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 1) Bill in parliament last Tuesday, a move which pote...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 16:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa wants Luke Malaba to stay
ON 6 April 2021, the Zimbabwean senate passed Constitutional Amendment Bill (N0.1), which had been declared null and void by the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) on 31 March 2020, after it was unconsti...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tramples on constitution over Malaba
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba is back on track after a temporary derailment of a controversial extension of his tenure linked to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's 2023 re-election bid.This comes afte...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jailed MDC activists appeal to Malaba over delayed ruling
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba has been asked to look into a year-long delay on pronouncement of judgment on an appeal by incarcerated MDC activists Tungamira Madzokere and Last Maengahama.The two ...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chief Justice Luke Malaba sweats over looming retirement dilemma
ZIMBABWE'S Chief Justice Luke Malaba - who by operation of law retires at midnight on 15 May 2021 when he turns 70 years old - faces the biggest question of his long professional career as a judicial ...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 15:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Judge forced to halt Guvamombe trial
HIGH Court judge Justice Felistas Chatukuta was yesterday forced to halt the trial of former chief magistrate Mishrod Guvamombe after it emerged that she had breached procedure by hearing the matter i...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 16:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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