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Ex- prosecutor falls on hard times
FORMER prosecutor in charge of Bulawayo regional courts, Patrobs Dube, has fallen on hard times after he was fired by ex-Prosecutor-General Johannes Tomana in 2012.Dube was dismissed for leadi...Published: 06 May 2023 at 06:31hrs | 1036 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in DRC for Sadc Summit
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa arrived here yesterday for the 42nd Sadc summit that is expected to push for beneficiation of the region's vast resources and promotion of economic development, among other issues....Published: 17 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 232 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wants Zimbabweans to promote peace
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has rallied the nation to cherish peace and unite to develop the country.He said Zimbabweans need to take a leaf from the unity shown by the Johanne Marange Apostolic Churc...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:06hrs | 99 | by Staff reporter
Missing docket haunts acting PG
ACTING prosecutor general Nelson Mutsonziwa has been reported to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) by a Harare businessman on allegations of destroying a docket in a case involving ...Published: 30 May 2022 at 06:59hrs | 1033 | by Staff reporter
Florence Ziyambi battles to be Prosecutor General
Seasoned and controversial lawyer and African Anti Corruption leader Florence Ziyambi has thrown her hat in the race to replace Prosecutor General Kumbirai Hodzi.Florence Ziyambi in January 20...Published: 26 May 2022 at 11:36hrs | 2852 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Kareke heading back to court
CONVICTED child rapist Munyaradzi Kereke is heading back to court to hear his appeal against sentence and conviction at the Supreme Court.The former Bikita West Member of Parliament and advise...Published: 20 May 2022 at 06:33hrs | 2871 | by Staff reporter
Prosecutor General Hodzi quits
Prosecutor General (PG) Kumbirai Hodzi yesterday resigned from his position on medical grounds, the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) announced.Chief Secretary to the President and Cab...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:34hrs | 405 | by Staff reporter
Not blind to justice
"YOU will definitely lose cases because you will not be able to see the demeanour of witnesses."Mr Mehluli Ndlovu, a legal practitioner (44) from Njube suburb, in Bulawayo remembers how these ...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:14hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zupco boss wins US$400k lawsuit
FORMER Zupco board chairman Charles Nherera has won a claim of US$130 000 against businessman Jayesh Shah, who he was suing for causing his wrongful arrest, prosecution and incarceration.Nhere...Published: 21 Dec 2021 at 06:17hrs | 1256 | by Staff reporter
36 vie for High Court judges vacancies
Thirty-six candidates, among them regional magistrates and lawyers are jostling to fill the nine vacant positions of judges of the High Court bench, according to the list of nominated candidates short...Published: 08 Jul 2021 at 11:11hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
Constitution changes: Understanding the history and motivation
There are extensive deliberations back and forth in May, June and July 2012, resulting in Copac (Constitution Parliamentary Committee) formally adopting a draft national constitution on July 21....Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 07:56hrs | 11 | by Arthur Mutambara
Kereke's appeal thrown out
AILED former Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke has no prospects of success on appeal against a 14-year jail term for raping his then 11-year-old relative at gunpoint, the High Court has ruled, ...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 06:16hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: New envoys to strengthen trade and bilateral relations
THREE Ambassadors designate who will represent the country in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi and Zambia met President Emmerson Mnangagwa this Monday morning where they were briefed on their ...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 19:29hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's weird fight against corruption
THERE are some weird winds winds sweeping corruption in high places blowing across Zimbabwe since November 2017. No one can tell which direction the tornado will blow, but a pattern is emerging some p...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 07:25hrs | 5 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Mnangagwa deploys 5 ambassadors
President Mnangagwa has appointed five new ambassadors to replace those who have been recalled or retired.Those who have been appointed are former Prosecutor-General Johannes Tomana, who has b...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 17:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Mnangagwa appoints Johannes Tomana and Charity Charamba as Ambassadors
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed former Prosecutor-General Johannes Tomana as Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).Tomana was appointed alongside former Zimbabw...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 16:06hrs | 40 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Africa'second revolution whose time has come: Breaking-away from oppressive partisan poverty politics
The high-sounding and inspirational liberation of the entire of Africa by political parties and liberation movements that lost its cause! The law-abiding citizens that have been reduced to the level o...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 21:20hrs | 1495 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Tomana eyes comeback
Former Prosecutor-General Johannes Tomana's return to private practice hangs in the balance two years after his sacking, amid reports that the Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) is unwilling to re-admit hi...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 07:50hrs | 1019 | by Staff reporter
Ex-prosecutor boss seeks Ziyambi intervention
FORMER prosecutor-in-charge of Bulawayo regional courts, Patrobs Dube has written to Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi seeking his intervention in his seven-year-old labour dispute with the National Pr...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:52hrs | 1689 | by Staff reporter
Hodzi transfers chief law officer
THE director of economic crimes in the National Prosecuting Authority, Chief Law Officer Chris Mutangadura, has been transferred from Harare to Guruve with immediate effect, as part of an ongoing rest...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 09:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warned Hodzi
NEWLY-appointed prosecutor-general (PG) Kumbirai Hodzi got a taste of the complexities of his job when President Emmerson Mnangagwa gave him a stern warning to steer clear of corruption and to toe the...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:49hrs | 6975 | by Staff reporter
Hodzi appointed Prosecutor General
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has appointed Mr Kumbirai Hodzi as the country's new substantive Prosecutor-General and will be sworn in today at State House. Mr Hodzi has been acting PG since July 24 las...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 22:27hrs | 1034 | by Staff reporter
JSC submits 3 names for vacant PG's post to Mnangagwa
THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has forwarded names of three top performers in last week's public interviews for the vacant post of Prosecutor General to President Mnangagwa, who is expected to ...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 10:49hrs | 809 | by Staff reporter
Top lawyer gets $13,5000 for wrongful arrest, detention
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police has accepted liability over the unlawful arrest and detention of senior Harare lawyer, Mordecai Mahlangu, who was a key witness in the trial of the late former MDC treasur...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police apologise to top lawyer for wrongful arrest
The police have apologised to seasoned lawyer Mordecai Mahlangu, after conceding to wrongfully arresting and detaining him on charges of trying to obstruct the course of justice.He was arreste...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 12:42hrs | 1450 | by Staff reporter
10 lawyers including Jessie Majome battle it out for PG post
TEN lawyers will today battle it out in public interviews to select the country's new substantive Prosecutor-General in Harare. The interviews, to be conducted by the Judicial Service Commissi...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dowa, Chihuri and Tomana on trial over harassment of Mahlangu
HIGH Court Judge Justice Philda Muzofa today presided over the trial of some Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers, who are being sued by human rights lawyer Mordecai Mahlangu for the harassment he ...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 19:44hrs | 2653 | by Stephen Jakes
Prosecutor-General interviews set for next month
THE Judicial Service Commission will next month conduct interviews for the position of Prosecutor-General (PG), which fell vacant after Ray Goba resigned in August. Goba stepped down after a tribunal ...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 08:47hrs | 496 | by Staff reporter
Acting PG told he will end up like Johannes Tomana and Goba
Acting Prosecutor-General (PG) Kumbirai Hodzi met his match in the magistrates' court on Tuesday when a top Harare lawyer representing former Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere warned him to...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 14:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe PhD: Nyagura trial put on hold
The trial of suspended University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Levi Nyagura, who is accused of illegally awarding former First Lady Grace Mugabe a PhD, has been put on hold pending the determination of his applic...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hunt on for new Prosecutor-General
Government has started hunting for a substantive Prosecutor-General following the publication of the resgination of Prosecutor-General Advocate Ray Goba in the Government Gazette on Friday, a senior G...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Mnangagwa appoints acting Prosecutor General
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sworn in Acting Prosecutor General (PG) Mr Kumbirai Hodzi at State House this morning.This follows the suspension of Prosecutor General Advocate Ray Goba for m...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 11:12hrs | 2439 | by Staff reporter
Goba tribunal takes oath of office
Members of a tribunal recently appointed to inquire into the question of removal of Prosecutor-General Advocate Ray Goba from office, yesterday took oaths of office before President Mnangagwa. ...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints tribunal on Goba case
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has appointed a three-member tribunal to establish whether or not suspended Prosecutor-General Advocate Ray Goba is still fit to continue as the country's prosecution boss....Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 13:08hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Ray Goba risks losing his job
PROSECUTOR-general Ray Goba risks losing his job after the Judiciary Service Commission (JSC) asked him to give reasons why a tribunal should not be set up to investigate his suitability to hold offic...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 08:47hrs | | by Staff Reporter
WikiLeaks: 25 most corrupt ministers and public figures in Zimbabwe
These individuals will never be prosecuted by the Mnangagwa government because he is involved with entirely all of them. Either they were in the deal together or they know too much of his own dirty de...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 11:06hrs | 40326 | by WikiLeaks
Mugabe Dairy bombing suspects freed
Two soldiers who were accused of trying to petrol-bomb the former First Family's Alpha Omega Dairy Farm were yesterday set free by a Harare magistrate after spending two years on remand.Silas-...Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 19:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
How Grace Mugabe poaching claims benefit Mnangagwa
THE headline on the Herald could not have made it clearer: Police tighten noose on Grace Mugabe.The newspaper, for 37 years the mouthpiece of Robert Mugabe's government, is now the voi...Published: 14 Apr 2018 at 06:41hrs | 3807 | by Keith Somerville
How Grace Mugabe poaching claims benefit Zimbabwe's new president
The headline on the Zimbabwe Herald could not have made it clearer: "Police tighten noose on Grace Mugabe."The newspaper, for 37 years the mouthpiece of Robert Mugabe's government, is now the ...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 13:45hrs | | by Keith Somerville, University of Kent
Kereke appeal judgement reserved
The High Court has reserved judgment in the case in which convicted rapist and former Bikita West Member of Parliament Munyaradzi Kereke is appealing against both conviction and the 10-year imprisonme...Published: 12 Apr 2018 at 06:57hrs | 514 | by Staff reporter
Uncertainty grips NSSA
Labour and Public Service Minister Petronella Kagonye has said despite the shakeup at National Social Security Authority, which claimed the scalps of chairman Robin Vela and general manager Elizabeth ...Published: 12 Apr 2018 at 06:53hrs | 633 | by Staff reporter
Victory for Tomana
Former Prosecutor-General Mr Johannes Tomana has scored another victory after the Supreme Court threw out the prosecution's application for leave to appeal against a High Court decision to nullify all...Published: 12 Apr 2018 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi kicked out
Deputy Prosecutor-General Florence Ziyambi has been removed from the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) due to alleged bad blood between her and her superior, Ray Goba.She has been re-assign...Published: 22 Mar 2018 at 06:16hrs | 3478 | by Staff reporter
Tomana, Chihuri civil trial back in court
The Supreme Court has referred back to trial the case in which former Prosecutor-General Johannes Tomana and former Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri are facing a $...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnagnagwa cut Kereke's jail sentence?
Convicted rapist and former Member of Parliament for Bikita West Munyaradzi Kereke has had three years of his 10-year sentence cut by prison officials on account of good behaviour, the Daily New...Published: 03 Mar 2018 at 11:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tomana now a free man
Former Prosecutor-General Mr Johannes Tomana breathed a sigh of relief yesterday after the High Court dismissed all the criminal charges he was facing. Mr Tomana had approached the court seeki...Published: 13 Feb 2018 at 05:22hrs | 826 | by Staff reporter
Tomana want case dropped
Former Prosecutor-General Johannes Tomana, who is accused of criminal abuse of office, has approached the High Court seeking the dismissal of the charges over the State's failure to prosecute him with...Published: 06 Feb 2018 at 05:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Judiciary capture complete as PG Goba is sworn in
Advocate Ray Hemington Goba was yesterday sworn in as the country's substantive head of prosecutions after a tumultuous month, which saw his appointment hang in the balance.Last month, former ...Published: 05 Dec 2017 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Visually impaired Bulawayo lawyer makes legal history
A VISUALLY impaired prosecutor who was denied full access to the courts since 2006 because of his condition has been finally granted permission to prosecute after the Prosecutor-General Advocate Ray G...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 05:39hrs | 1567 | by Staff reporter
Chombo's case continues to suck in more and more people
The ongoing trial of former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo on corruption and fraud charges is likely to open a can of worms as it continues to suck in more and more people every week.Chombo ...Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 12:24hrs | 9426 | by Staf reporter
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