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London firm targets bulk-mining in Zimbabwe
Kavango Resources, a metal exploration company listed on the London Stock Exchange, is focusing on consolidating bulk-mining efforts to boost gold production in Zimbabwe, according to a report by News...Published: 18 May 2024 at 11:06hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
TTI loses case in court against Bulawayo man
A Bulawayo resident has emerged victorious in a court case against Tendy Three Investments (TTI) parking solutions, who had clamped his vehicle without legal grounds.On July 14th, Mr. Farai Mu...Published: 01 Nov 2023 at 05:46hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe targets 40 tonnes of gold in 2023
Zimbabwe's gold mining sector is targeting to raise production to 40 tonnes this year, up from 35.38 tonnes last year, an official said Tuesday.Last year's output was a record high, spurred by...Published: 25 Jan 2023 at 10:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt repossesses 80 mining concessions
THE GOVERNMENT has successfully repossessed over 80 mining concessions under the "use-it or lose-it" policy and a formal announcement will be made in due course, Mines and Mining Development Minister ...Published: 26 May 2021 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Small Claims Court jurisdiction reviewed to $300 000
The Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs has with immediate effect increased the jurisdiction of the Small Claims Courts to $300 000 from $1 000. The move is aimed at decongesting the ...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 06:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Magistrates' court claims upped to $3m
Government has increased the monetary jurisdiction of the magistrates' civil court from $300 000 to $3 million in a move set to promote access to justice and to ease pressure on superior courts. ...Published: 03 Oct 2020 at 08:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
18 000 dead voters struck off roll
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) struck off the voters' roll, more than 18 000 deceased people between January and December last year. ZEC chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba s...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youth league in Gwanda mining claim controversy
THE Zanu-PF Youth League yesterday stepped in to resolve a violent turf war between two rival youth groups in West Nicholson, Matabeleland South, after claims that one of them was using names of senio...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 10:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'defends' workers' rights
A well-organised labour system is critical in the progressive realisation of workers' rights and sustenance of business, President Mnangagwa has said. Speaking during the commissioning of a st...Published: 14 May 2019 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
EU nod for progress in Zimbabwe reforms
The European Union (EU) yesterday acknowledged that there are some positive steps towards the attainment of political and economic reforms by Zimbabwe. Speaking after meeting President Emmerso...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa takes turnaround agenda to ZITF
GOVERNMENT has taken its reform agenda to the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF), as part of efforts to lure investors and resuscitate the country's struggling economy.In a statement yes...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga says, 'Zimbabwe respects rule of law'
The government says the country's legal framework must give positive signals to would be investors that Zimbabwe respects the rule of law.The official opening of the Mutare High Court saw Acti...Published: 07 May 2018 at 14:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bishop beds nephew's wife
A SELF-PROCLAIMED bishop with an Apostolic sect in Bulawayo was disgraced by his nephew who allegedly caught him undressed in bed with his wife in the latter's matrimonial bedroom.The married ...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dr Mugabe sues PSMAS
A PROMINENT Bulawayo doctor has taken Premier Services Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) to court for blocking him from treating patients on its medical aid.In papers before the court, Dr Augustine ...Published: 30 Jan 2018 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
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Mugabe signs 3 Bills into law
PRESIDENT Mugabe has passed three Bills into law in a move that is expected to improve the ease of doing business.The National Competitiveness Commission Bill, the Judicial Laws Amendment (Eas...Published: 30 Jun 2017 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman threatens to bewitch ex
YOU win in court but I will beat you spiritually!A Bulawayo man is having sleepless nights after his ex-lover allegedly threatened to bewitch him following their break-up.Sam Hadebe, w...Published: 23 Jun 2017 at 08:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe legal costs too high, says Mnangagwa
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has concurred with sentiment from the public that the legal costs in Zimbabwe are too high.Debating a report of the portfolio committee on Justice, Legal ...Published: 06 Apr 2017 at 14:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe court acquits ex-Rhodesia premier's grandson
A Bulawayo magistrate has acquitted former Rhodesian Premier Howard Unwin Moffat's grandson, Robert Bruce, of charges of illegal occupation of gazetted land.Bruce has since 2015 been embro...Published: 30 Mar 2017 at 06:47hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Rhodesian premier’s grandson back in court over farm
EX-RHODESIAN premier, Howard Unwin Moffat’s grandson, Robert Bruce, who has for a long time been embroiled in a farm dispute with the late ex-Zipra official and State security agent, Collen Shav...Published: 11 Feb 2017 at 09:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe intensifies anti-fraud fight
Zimbabwe is intensifying its fight against fight against white collar crimes as part of strategies to improve the ease of doing business and lure foreign investors.President Robert Mugabe ...Published: 11 Oct 2016 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sell new police vehicles and pay teachers, say Raymond Majongwe
PROGRESSIVE Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) secretary-general Raymond Majongwe has made an appeal to Government to sell off new Zimbabwe Republic Police new patrol vehicles and channel the mone...Published: 06 Sep 2016 at 12:13hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Govt warns schools against fee increments
THE Government has warned schools not to increase fees as the third term begins tomorrow, saying those that do so without approval would be dealt with severely.In an interview yesterday, the D...Published: 05 Sep 2016 at 06:45hrs | | by Oliver Kazunga
Video conferencing for Zimbabwe courts
The judiciary system is set for reformation through specialised extensions of the High Court with some business previously confined to the civil courts qualifying to be heard by superior judicial offi...Published: 28 Aug 2016 at 10:10hrs | 1 | by Levi Mukarati
Mugabe assents to three Bills
President Mugabe has assented to three Bills that were recently passed by Parliament, while two Bills have been gazetted and would be tabled before the august House soon for debate. The Head of State ...Published: 27 Aug 2016 at 07:49hrs | | by Zvamaida Murwira
Mangwe schools defy Govt, engages debt collectors
MORE schools in Mangwe District are defying a Government directive by engaging debt collectors to force parents to pay school fees.Sanzukwi Secondary School has now taken this route after Bhul...Published: 24 Aug 2016 at 06:32hrs | | by Sukulwenkosi Dube-Matutu
Rhodesia Premier's grandson refuses to vacate farm
A BULAWAYO woman has taken Shangani commercial farmer, Bruce Moffat to court seeking an order directing his eviction from the disputed Oaklands Farm.Sibongile Shava, in court papers, says she ...Published: 16 Jun 2016 at 14:21hrs | 1 | by Mashudu Netsianda
Rural schools defy Dokora directive
SCHOOLS in Mangwe District have defied a government directive not to engage debt collectors to force parents to pay school fees for their children.Schools that include Bhulu Primary School and...Published: 15 Jun 2016 at 06:50hrs | | by Sukulwenkosi Dube
Illegal for schools to hire debt collectors, says Dokora
THE Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Lazarus Dokora, has said it is illegal for schools to take parents who default paying school fees to debt collectors. In an interview on the si...Published: 31 May 2016 at 06:42hrs | | by Richard Muponde
Zimbabwe opens first post-independence High Court
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday launched the country's third High Court, 122 years after the last was set up in Bulawayo. In his keynote address at the official opening of the new Masvingo...Published: 31 May 2016 at 06:40hrs | | by George Maponga
HIV positive woman dies after suing councillor for revealing her status
THE woman who accused a councillor of revealing her HIV status has died.The 34-year-old from Belfast in Mpumalanga died on Monday night, just a month after she took Councillor Sonto Radebe to ...Published: 27 May 2016 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Soldier fails to pay rentals
A soldier allegedly failed t pay rentals and was hauled before the small claims court by his former land lord.Tendai Mupamhanga who is stationed in Kwekwe was dragged to court by his former la...Published: 26 May 2016 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Small claims court amounts reviewed
THE government has reviewed amounts that can be claimed at the Small Claims Court from $250 to $1,000. The new amount was announced through Statutory Instrument 34 of 2016. The statutory instr...Published: 19 Apr 2016 at 06:47hrs | | by Tanaka Mrewa
Small claims courts set up countrywide
The Overseer of the Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, Emmerson Mnangagwa, has set up small claims courts countrywide to deal with small civil cases.In a Statutory Instr...Published: 25 Mar 2016 at 11:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
1ns and 2s with DJ-Sticha - What to do if you think you're being ripped off by a venue
When booked to perform live or Dj at a certain venue, the last thing you need yikugijimisa iorganizer or promoter after the gig usufun' imali yakho, uzothol' ukuthi that very night kwamele udlulele ph...Published: 22 Feb 2016 at 09:43hrs | 2 | by DJ-Sticha
Chief Sibasa's methods irritate parents
CHIEF Sibasa's popularity ratings are sinking to microscopic levels ever since he assumed the unofficial duty of schools debt-collector two years ago.He does not squirm while donning his "borr...Published: 11 Feb 2016 at 09:57hrs | 2 | by Kamangeni Phiri
Maid caught engaging in sex on employer's new blanket
A Cowdray Park woman who was caught engaging in sex on her employer's new $50 blanket has appeared in court.The ex-housemaid, Violet Hove who was reportedly was dragged to the Small Cl...Published: 28 May 2015 at 08:18hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Moffat evicted from Nyamandlovu farm
Bruce Moffat, the white commercial farmer from Insiza, who is the grandson of a former Rhodesian Prime Minister, has been evicted from Oaklands Farm which was acquired by the government for re...Published: 11 Mar 2015 at 20:01hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Inheritance row spills into court
Two brothers have dragged each other to court over the sharing of rentals from their late parents' house. Nehemiah Sithole of Gwanda told the court that his brother, Aven of Tshabalala suburb, was app...Published: 07 Mar 2015 at 14:42hrs | | by Thubelihle Mabhena
Ex Rhodesian PM's grandson resists farm eviction
A LONG standing land dispute pitting a Bulawayo woman and an Insiza white commercial farmer who is the grandson of a former Rhodesian Prime Minister spilled into the courts yesterday.Bruce Mof...Published: 04 Mar 2015 at 11:09hrs | | by Mashudu Netsianda
Man to sue sangoma over botched manhood enlargement job
A disgruntled and angry Gaborone man has threatened to haul a Zimbabwean traditional doctor to court over a botched manhood enlargement job.Koma, 32, is planning to drag Dr. Mutambara, 48 to a...Published: 15 Jan 2014 at 15:35hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Man (66) sells matrimonial home, elopes with small house
A 56-year-old Bulawayo woman and her children are on the verge of destitution after her husband of 39 years sold their matrimonial home and eloped with his small house. The woman, Naomi Gota...Published: 02 Jan 2014 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Polygamist seeks daughter's eviction for not greeting him
A POLYGAMIST from Bulawayo has dragged one of his daughters to court seeking consent to evict her from his house claiming that she is being disrespectful as she does not greet him.Mr Makura Ti...Published: 21 Nov 2013 at 00:51hrs | 3 | by Court reporter
50 men dragged to court for maintenance on a daily basis
Approximately 50 men are dragged to the Harare Civil Court for maintenance on a daily basis, a 2012 record has shown.This suggest that an estimated 14 000 maintenance files were opened last ye...Published: 04 Mar 2013 at 13:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dube and Mujuru in wrangle over Makokoba flat
TWO families sharing a flat in Makokoba suburb of Bulawayo are locked in a wrangle over the flat, which they both claim is theirs after inheriting it from their parents.The two feuding parties...Published: 30 Dec 2011 at 23:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
New Consumer Bill,'... stop counterfeit drugs entering Zimbabwe'
Zimbabwe's Consumer Protection Bill is yet to be finalised, the bill will empower the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe and is aimed at breaking new grounds on consumer rights-related issues.The M...Published: 24 Jan 2011 at 23:55hrs | | by Byo24NEWS
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