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Zanu-PF activist in court for defacing CCC posters
A Zanu-PF supporter was last week arraigned before Gokwe magistrate Hilary Ndlovu for defacing opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) posters.Vittalless Mukede (46) was charged under s...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 05:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Second Constitutional Amendment
A constitution, written or unwritten, is a blueprint on various national aspects such as freedom, aspirations or governance issues. Put simply, an amendment is an addition or alteration to a constitut...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 06:35hrs | | by Sharon Hofisi
Zibani withdraws Ziyambi appointment challenge
Former University of Zimbabwe law student, Romeo Zibani, has withdrawn his application challenging the constitutionality of the appointment of retired Supreme Court judge Justice Vernanda Ziyambi as a...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa violated constitution on judges
FIRED former Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa violated the Constitution when he joined a University of Zimbabwe law student's fight for the suspension of a lawful process to select the country's new ...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court trashes Zibani application
SUPREME Court judge Justice Bharat Patel says University of Zimbabwe law student Romeo Zibani's application to stop the conducting of interviews for the chief justice's post last year was based on ima...Published: 10 Nov 2017 at 05:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parly to consider Mnangagwa's controversial Bill today
The Constitution Amendment Bill (Number 1), which seeks to give the President the sole discretion to appoint a Chief Justice, Deputy Chief Justice and Judge President of his choice will be considered ...Published: 25 Jul 2017 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fired workers take Chidyausiku judgment to ILO
SACKED TelOne workers have written to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to express concern over a decade-old Supreme Court judgment validating their dismissal.The judgment wa...Published: 16 Apr 2017 at 18:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Judges shoot down Mnangagwa's plan
THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC) - which includes top judges - is resisting Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Constitutional Amendment (No 1 Bill) 2016 whose main agenda is to amend Section 180...Published: 13 Apr 2017 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unmasking Romeo Zibani
ROMEO Zibani looks like your typical local university student.Clad in a promotional t-shirt for a company he worked for sometime in 2008, Zibani insisted that his interview with The Standard s...Published: 03 Apr 2017 at 07:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chidyausiku acted lawfully on Ziyambi
LEGAL and legislative watchdog, Veritas, says retired Chief Justice (CJ) Godfrey Chidyausiku acted within the confines of the constitution when he gave retired judge, Justice Vernanda Ziyambi, a o...Published: 16 Mar 2017 at 10:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa accuse Chidyausiku of violating the constitution
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has accused Retired Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku of violating the constitution by appointing retired judge, Justice Vernanda Ziyambi to serve as an acting ju...Published: 07 Mar 2017 at 18:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa challenges constitutionality of the Supreme Court
The Justice and Legal Affairs Ministry will challenge the constitutionality of the Supreme Court bench that overturned a High Court ruling suspending public interviews to select Zimbabwe's next Ch...Published: 05 Mar 2017 at 09:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe free to name new chief justice'
DESPITE Romeo Zibani's efforts to stall the process to select the country's new chief justice (CJ) while the exercise to amend the constitution unfolds, President Robert Mugabe is free to go ahead...Published: 03 Mar 2017 at 08:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chidyausiku leaves bench a disappointed man
CHIEF Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku this week expressed grave disappointment that he was leaving the bench divided over the issue of his successor.The former Chief Justice (CJ), who retired ...Published: 02 Mar 2017 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chidyausiku investigates for criminal abuse of office
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission is said to be investigating outgoing Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku for criminal abuse of office after he appointed retired Justice Vernanda Ziyambi to t...Published: 26 Feb 2017 at 10:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Godfrey Chidyausiku under investigation
Outgoing Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku is under investigation by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) for alleged criminal abuse of office. Chidyausiku is accuse...Published: 26 Feb 2017 at 04:22hrs | | by Mary Charamba
Supreme Court slaps down Mnangagwa
GOVERNMENT'S bid to stop the constitutional process of appointing retiring Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku's successor fell flat yesterday after the Supreme Court ruled in favour of the Judicial...Published: 14 Feb 2017 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Justice Hungwe was offside, rules Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has upheld an appeal by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) against Justice Charles Hungwe's judgment which barred the holding of public interviews for the chief justice pendin...Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 13:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Law Society wades into Mugabe appointment saga
The Law Society of Zimbabwe has also waded into the Chief Justice appointment legal battle, requesting to be admitted as a friend of the court.The development comes hot on the heels of a s...Published: 06 Feb 2017 at 20:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa questions Chief Justice appointment
VICE-PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, who presides over the Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs, has stuck to his guns over the appointment of the Chief Justice (CJ) insisting that the current proc...Published: 27 Jan 2017 at 12:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa forced Chidyausiku into retiring early?
CHIEF Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku was a few months ago forced by the Ministry of Justice - overseen by Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa - to go on early retirement ahead of his departure next mon...Published: 20 Jan 2017 at 12:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Judiciary caught up in Zanu-PF's succession fights
THE internecine succession wars in the ruling Zanu-PF party have engulfed the selection of a new chief justice (CJ) to replace Godfrey Chidyausiku who retires in February.The party is spli...Published: 15 Dec 2016 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Malaba, Makarau steal limelight
DEPUTY Chief Justice Luke Malaba and Zimbabwe Electoral Commission chairperson, Justice Rita Makarau yesterday stole the limelight in public interviews for the post of Chief Justice, which falls vacan...Published: 13 Dec 2016 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe court's crisis
The hunt for Zimbabwe's new chief justice was hit by more turbulence yesterday when one of the candidates who was set to be interviewed by the Judicial Services Commission (JSC), Justice George Chiwes...Published: 13 Dec 2016 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa brews shocker
VICE-President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been accused of trying to advance his Zanu-PF factional interests after the Justice ministry's shock revelations that plans are afoot to amend the new Constitutio...Published: 12 Dec 2016 at 19:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Court halts Chief Justice interviews
Confusion over interviews for the Chief Justice position reigned supreme yesterday, after the High Court granted an order halting the process, but the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) plans to a...Published: 12 Dec 2016 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe should appoint Chief Justice,' says Mnangagwa
President Mugabe should be allowed to nominate and appoint Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku's successor as Government is in the process of amending the Constitution to introduce the enabling prov...Published: 11 Dec 2016 at 08:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chief Justice interviews matter to go for public scrutiny
The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has requested that the matter in which a University of Zimbabwe law student is seeking to stop interviews for a new Chief Justice, be subjected to public scru...Published: 09 Dec 2016 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
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