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2023 elections, Mugabe predictive intelligence
THE leader who carries off the remarks by the late President Mugabe will likely win the 2023 elections in Zimbabwe. The leader who does not let the Mugabe decision affect him at a personal level will ...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 17:44hrs | 2582 | by Sharon Hofisi
11 candidates shortlisted for ZHRC post
ELEVEN candidates, among them, Employers Association for the Tourism and Safari Operators (EATSO) national president Mr Clement Mukwasi have been shortlisted to attend public interviews to fill two va...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:53hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
Parly shortlists 12 ZHRC candidates
Parliament is next week expected to hold interviews to fill two vacancies that have arisen in the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission.At least 12 candidates have been shortlisted for the intervie...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 05:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Idolisation of champions of corruption
We are just two days away from celebrating Zimbabwe's independence from the shackles of colonialism. For some painful years, we have been trying to decide how best we can fight the cancerous worm of c...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 08:00hrs | 1 | by Sharon Hofisi
Mnangagwa to amend Constitution to save Chamisa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa plans to amend Zimbabwe's Constitution to recognise "official opposition" in a move critics say is meant to soothe MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa, NewsDay reported....Published: 25 Sep 2018 at 07:39hrs | | 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
Zimbabwe Elections 2018: The big read
Always on guard for synonyms of the word "election", I stroked through thesauruses, translations and search icons I could lay my fingertips on. I simply fell for one word-"choice". At least chosen can...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 07:11hrs | | by Sharon Hofisi
Khupe jobless as Chamisa recalls her from Parliament
Parliament yesterday expelled MDC-T vice president Dr Thokozani Khupe after the party wrote to the National Assembly Speaker saying she no longer represented its interests.Announcing the expul...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Youth vote used to be insignificant in Zim polls
Today though, we know about 60 percent of those who registered to vote in this year's election largely fall under the youth category — never mind the constitutional definition of the term, 'youth' e...Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 05:31hrs | | by Sharon Hofisi
Villagers in fresh freedom bid
HIGH Court Judges Justice Charles Hungwe and Justice Edith Mushore will on Tuesday preside over an appeal against the conviction and sentence of four internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Chingwizi...Published: 22 May 2017 at 19:28hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
ZLHR lawyer defends Chinhoyi residents acused of insult charges
In Chinhoyi, ZLHR lawyer Sharon Hofisi is offering emergency legal services to two residents Norman Chembe aged 32 years and Tambudzai Goba aged 41 years, who are scheduled to stand trial at Chinhoyi ...Published: 11 Apr 2017 at 13:21hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Harare magistrate frees vendor
At Harare Magistrates Court, Magistrate Muzondo has set free Archford Chinyamunjiko, an informal sector trader who was arrested on 01 February 2017 and charged with assault in contravention of Section...Published: 03 Apr 2017 at 13:43hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Dozens freed on Shutdown protest charges
HARARE Magistrate Victoria Mashamba on Tuesday set free 65 residents of Epworth suburb, who had been on trial for allegedly participating in a wildcat protests held last year against police corruption...Published: 08 Mar 2017 at 06:10hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
MDC-T youth leader summoned over 2016 demonstration
MDC-T youth leader, Happymore Chidziva, was yesterday summoned to Harare Central Police Station and charged with organising a violent demonstration that rocked the capital in August last year....Published: 21 Feb 2017 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Vendors crackdown, 11 arrested, detained for disorderly conduct
ZIMBABWE Republic Police (ZRP) officers on Wednesday arrested 11 informal sector traders and ordinary citizens and charged them with disorderly conduct and assault following some skirmishes with Harar...Published: 02 Feb 2017 at 18:42hrs | 403 | by Stephen Jakes
Shoddy police work blamed for acquittals
Human rights lawyers have squarely blamed investigators for their faulty police work, accusing them of investigative amnesia and guilty omissions, which led to the absence of solid cases in the co...Published: 22 Jan 2017 at 14:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
New year starts with mass trial of pro- democracy campaigners and ordinary citizens
MORE than 100 Zimbabweans will in January stand trial on various charges related to staging protests against President Robert Mugabe’sadministration over the deteriorating political and economic...Published: 04 Jan 2017 at 19:03hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Cops target Mkhwananzi over police brutality protest
ZIMBABWEAN police on Friday 26 August 2016 charged pro-democracy campaigner Promise Mkwananzi with committing public violence following a demonstration staged this week against worsening police brutal...Published: 26 Aug 2016 at 15:30hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Opposition party supporter set free over 'Bablan' cop comments
A ZIMBABWEAN court on Tuesday 10 May 2016 set free an opposition party supporter who had been on trial for allegedly insulting a police officer, who had taken offence after being referred to as a sell...Published: 13 May 2016 at 06:34hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Court okays MDC-T demo against Mugabe
MDC-T supporters are expected to flood the streets of Harare today in a landmark protest against President Robert Mugabe's misrule after the High Court yesterday overturned a police ban on the demonst...Published: 14 Apr 2016 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lawyers file application to stop police from interfering with MDC-T march
Human rights lawyers Kennedy Masiye and Sharon Hofisi of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights have filed an urgent chamber application at the High Court this yesterday seeking to interdict the Zimbabwe R...Published: 13 Apr 2016 at 06:45hrs | 3018 | by Stephen Jakes
Ex-cop nabbed for insulting Mugabe and his wife
Harare - POLICE have arrested a former policeman for allegedly claiming President Robert Mugabe has gone insane and was now incapable of solving the country's myriad problems.Fredy Munemo, 42,...Published: 28 Feb 2016 at 09:09hrs | 4769 | by Professor Mutodzi
Zimbabwe court frees informal sector traders nabbed during dragnet arrests
The Zimbabwe Lawyer for Human Rights (ZLHR) has reported that Magistrate Arnold Maburo on Tuesday 12 January 2016 set free 14 Harare residents including some informal sector traders who were pic...Published: 14 Jan 2016 at 06:09hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Water disconnection challenged in court
COMMUNITY WATER ALLIANCE AND COMBINED HARARE RESIDENTS FILE URGENT CHAMBER APPLICATION AGAINST WATER DISCONNECTIONSCommunity Water Alliance members from Kambuzuma and Mufakose have success...Published: 01 Sep 2015 at 07:14hrs | | by Timothy Chitambure
Women's University ordered to allow Harare lawyer access to its premises
Zimbabwean High Court Judge Justice Nicholas Mathonsi on Thursday 06 August 2015 ordered the Women's University in Africa (WUA) to allow Harare lawyer, Danai Hazel Mabuto access to the university's pr...Published: 08 Aug 2015 at 08:53hrs | 3775 | by Stephen Jakes
Gumbura, 8 others protest against prison conditions
Jailed RMG Independent End Time Message leader Robert Martin Gumbura, who is serving an 40-year effective jail term for rape, yesterday filed a complaint protesting his placement in solitary conf...Published: 12 May 2015 at 06:33hrs | 4179 | by Staff reporetr
Judge commends boyfriend killer
HARARE High Court judge Justice Joseph Musakwa last week spared a convicted murderer, Stephen Sibange, from serving a jail term for killing his wife's lover, but commended him for remaining composed ...Published: 03 Feb 2015 at 07:10hrs | 3847 | by Staff reporter
Pupil sues school over expulsion
A form four pupil at Mutambara High School who was expelled from the school for allegedly being the brains behind a strike at the boarding institution in July this year, has filed an urgent chambe...Published: 19 Sep 2014 at 05:49hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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