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Outrage over sex offenders' pardoning
HUMAN rights lawyers yesterday expressed concern over the recent pardoning of jailed sex offenders under Presidential amnesty.On May 12, President Emmerson Mnangagwa gazetted Clemency Order No...Published: 31 May 2023 at 07:01hrs | 357 | by Staff reporter
Parent sues Zimsec for discrimination
GOVERNMENT and the Zimbabwe Schools Examinations Council (Zimsec) have been dragged to court for discriminating against students in private schools in the payment of examination fees for Grade Seven, ...Published: 13 May 2023 at 18:27hrs | 122 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says workers are wheels of change
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday pleaded with the country's workforce to join in the fight for the removal of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government fo...Published: 02 May 2023 at 09:01hrs | 661 | by Staff reporter
Fadzayi Mahere appeals conviction and sentence
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) national spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere has filed an appeal at the High Court after her conviction for publishing falsehoods with an intention to undermine the police....Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 20:02hrs | 1088 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wife's official meddling intensifies
First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa's meddling in government affairs intensified this week after she flew out of the country with her twin sons Sean and Collins to hold separate meetings with Belarus Presid...Published: 18 Apr 2023 at 20:01hrs | 1740 | by Staff reporter
HIV transmission case stopped at High Court
THE High Court has stopped the prosecution of a Harare woman who is facing a charge of deliberately infecting her partner with HIV.Lindiwe Ndhlovu was arrested in March 2022 and charged with d...Published: 12 Apr 2023 at 07:27hrs | 1259 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa ratchets up political persecution, claims ZLHR
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Rights (ZLHR), an organisation that protects and defends human rights through sustainable litigation, has raised concern over the continued prosecution of perceived opponents ...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 17:00hrs | 411 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe elections will be held between July 26 and August 26
This year's harmonised elections will be held between July 26 and August 26, Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has revealed.President Mnangagwa is expected to p...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 13:23hrs | 1131 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in desperate need of national leaders not Mafia bosses and gang leaders!
It was the most heartbreaking sight - as images of a collapsed primary school in my home city of Kwekwe made the rounds across the country. In fact, the stab to my heart was made more excrucia...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 09:17hrs | 285 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
High School faces lawsuit over uniform
GOROMONZI High School faces a lawsuit after it barred two pupils it recently admitted for Form One over their parents' failure to buy school uniforms from the boarding school, at about twice the price...Published: 12 Jan 2023 at 11:22hrs | 1070 | by Staff Reporter
Clergyman convicted over an anti-government protest
A 52-year-old clergyman and an apostolic sect leader, has been convicted over holding an anti-government protest.Kanyenzura Parere, a Bishop of Mirirai Jehovha Apostolic Church was convic...Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 16:56hrs | 669 | by Staff reporter
Draconian PVO Bill passed, shrinking democratic space to a singularity point. CCC will participate in 2023, regardless. Why?
"Zimbabwe democratic space narrows ahead of 2023 polls" screamed the Bulawayo24 article!"In December alone, critical developments that undermine democracy have unfolded. Most notably, th...Published: 27 Dec 2022 at 19:14hrs | 1574 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa's wife steals limelight in meddling
WHEN the 2017 coup that toppled the long-time ruler Robert Mugabe unfolded, military commanders and top Zanu-PF officials announced that one of the reasons for the ouster was to stop the then first la...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:39hrs | 3296 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers demand repeal of Mnangagwa insult laws
ZIMBABWE rights lawyers have want the government to repeal the law which criminalises insulting or undermining the authority of the President against citizens who express themselves on matters to do w...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:16hrs | 127 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala a habitual offender
Empty vessels make a lot of noise. CCC interim vice national chairperson, Job Sikhala, has of late been making unfounded claims about the country's judiciary as being captured.This is stemming...Published: 09 Dec 2022 at 05:11hrs | 415 | by Zivanai Dhewa
2023 elections cost US$116m
ZIMBABWE'S 2023 general elections are expected to gobble up ZW$76 billion (US$116 million).The country will hold presidential, parliamentary and local government elections simultaneously, most...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 18:10hrs | 274 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe, Matanga taken to court
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga and Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe have been sued over their arbitrary ban on a demonstration against the looting of diamonds in Marange and failure b...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 05:09hrs | 648 | by Staff reporter
ZRP officer faces grim prospect of his pay being garnished for torturing civilian
A ZIMBABWE Republic Police (ZRP) officer could soon have his monthly salary garnished to pay up ZW$400,000 damages to a Chitungwiza man, Ednock Dube, who he tortured for violating Covid-19 curfew regu...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 05:02hrs | 786 | by Staff reporter
Man in court for insulting Mnangagwa
A Hurungwe man who was angered that his name was omitted from a list of Cotton Presidential scheme beneficiaries has appeared in court facing charges of insulting President Emmerson Mnangagwa....Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 05:06hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
Man in court for mocking Mnangagwa
A Rushinga man has been remanded out of custody to November 28 on charges of mocking President Emmerson Mnangagwa over his claims that the country has the strongest currency in the Southern African De...Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 05:17hrs | 2801 | by Staff reporter
NGO gives ZEC a 7 day ultimatum to release voters roll
POLL based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Election Resource Centre (ERC), has given the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) a seven-day ultimatum to release an electronic copy of the delimitatio...Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 18:50hrs | 682 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police pays ZW$1 million compensation to victim of 2018 shooting
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has paid ZW$1 million compensation to a man who was shot and injured by a constable in 2018, two years after the case was brought to the courts by the Zimbabwe Lawye...Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 05:17hrs | 1538 | by Staff reporter
Police to be sued over spike throwing deaths
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) says it will sue police over a case where four lives were lost and 10 people were injured in Mutare, after police threw spikes on a speeding commuter omnib...Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 05:11hrs | 366 | by Staff reporter
ZLHR receives funding from US to fund subversive activities?
A senior official with the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), Mr Macdonald Moyo, yesterday allegedly admitted that the organisation receives direct funding from the United States government to ...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 06:42hrs | 93 | by Staff reporter
ZLHR on the payroll of the United States?
IN a shocking admission, Mr Macdonald Moyo of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights has admitted that his organisation is on the payroll of the United States, bringing to the fore the nexus between so...Published: 29 Oct 2022 at 19:36hrs | 302 | by Staff reporter
Court blocks prisoners from voting
THE High Court has dismissed with costs an application by former prisoners seeking voting rights for inmates during elections.Through their lawyer Tererai Mafukidze of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for...Published: 28 Oct 2022 at 06:28hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter
Rogue Zimbabwe civil society sponsor accusations of shrinking democratic space and protests
JUSTICE Ministry Permanent Secretary, Virginia Mabhiza has told African Union (AU) that concerns raised over Zimbabwe's shrinking civic space and protests against the intended Private Voluntary Organi...Published: 26 Oct 2022 at 06:03hrs | 574 | by Staff reporter
List of people and organisations who participated in the sanctioning of Zimbabwe
FORMER Masvingo Urban legislator, Tongai Matutu, has published a long list of eminent opposition politicians he claims were at the forefront inviting "hurtful" sanctions on Zimbabwe.Last week,...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 06:16hrs | 2765 | by Staff reporter
Chief Justice sets up committee to debate continued use of 'outdated' colonial hairpiece
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba has set up a Judicial Wigs Committee (JWC) to investigate whether the hairpiece, worn at official functions by judges of higher courts, is still necessary.Announced b...Published: 21 Oct 2022 at 06:14hrs | 571 | by Staff reporter
High Court outlaws Zupco monopoly
A BULAWAYO High Court judge has stripped the Zimbabwe United Passengers Company (Zupco) of its monopoly in the public transport business.Justice Evangelista Kabasa said COVID-19 lockdown regul...Published: 21 Oct 2022 at 06:09hrs | 733 | by Staff reporter
Rights lawyers successfully challenge two-year ZUPCO monopoly
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has ended public transporter Zupco's two-years long monopoly after successfully challenging provision of the Public Health (COVID -19) Prevention, Containm...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 21:07hrs | 324 | by Staff reporter
Students arrested over fees demonstration
SIX Great Zimbabwe University (GZU) students were on Monday arrested for allegedly demonstrating against a recent fees hike by the institution.The six students are; Kimberly Joni, Ernest Liyal...Published: 18 Oct 2022 at 19:06hrs | 390 | by Staff reporter
Muzarabani villagers face eviction
HUNDREDS of villagers in Mashonaland Central province face eviction to pave way for expansion of Muzarabani growth point.The affected villagers through their traditional leaders have sought as...Published: 14 Oct 2022 at 05:53hrs | 536 | by Staff reporter
Sex workers 'rob' client
FIVE sex workers plying their trade in Harare's Avenues red-light district have been charged with robbery after they reportedly accused their client of messing their sheets and forced him to pay US$80...Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 06:01hrs | 1198 | by Staff reporter
Villagers forced to pay US$25 for rain making ceremony
A headman in Mutasa district, Manicaland allegedly forced his subjects to pay US$25 each per homestead towards a traditional rain-making ceremony known as Mukwerera in Shona in Honde Valley....Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 07:57hrs | 434 | by Staff reporter
High Court berates magistrate over CCC activist's conviction and imprisonment
HARARE Magistrate Judith Taruvinga is facing a backlash for convicting Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist Makomborero Haruzivishe who was recently acquitted by the High Court.Haruziv...Published: 05 Oct 2022 at 06:44hrs | 4821 | by Staff reporter
High Court drops charges against Chamisa's activist
The High Court has dropped charges against âself-exiled' firebrand Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist Makomborero Haruzivishe in a case where he was convicted of inciting public violence....Published: 22 Sep 2022 at 18:32hrs | 1064 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's activist arrested for insulting Mnangagwa
A KADOMA Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) member Emmanuel Manguda has been charged with posting an image deemed derogatory to President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Manguda, an interim CCC Kadoma dis...Published: 22 Sep 2022 at 06:06hrs | 986 | by Staff reporter
Mudenda rejects opposition legislators' PVOs Bill plea
SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda has rejected calls by opposition legislators to recommit the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) Amendment Bill to the Committee Reading Stage after c...Published: 22 Sep 2022 at 06:02hrs | 307 | by Staff reporter
Arrested UZ student granted $10 000 bail
UNIVERSITY of Zimbabwe student Tsitsi Mutamba has been granted bail after spending four days in a police cell.She was arrested last Friday for allegedly sharing a message on a Whatsapp group, ...Published: 22 Sep 2022 at 06:01hrs | 228 | by Staff reporter
Robayi bash, injure UZ students during flash protest over fee hike
Police, popularly known as orobayi, Monday beat up and injured three female University of Zimbabwe (UZ) students who were part of a group of 14 learners arrested during a flash campus protest over a s...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 06:02hrs | 1014 | by Staff reporter
16 UZ students arrested for staging fees protest
SIXTEEN University of Zimbabwe (UZ) students were arrested Monday for participating in a protest that erupted at the Mt Pleasant campus to press for a cut in tuition fees.The group is expected...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 05:56hrs | 604 | by Staff reporter
Clergyman drags Ziyambi to Court over litigation fees
A CHIVHU pastor has dragged justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi to the High Court, challenging court user fees in a case he won against the government.Abinel Mukaro won a US$73,000 lawsuit agains...Published: 07 Sep 2022 at 06:48hrs | 339 | by Staff reporter
ZEC brushes aside nomination fees challenge
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has stuck to its guns over hefty nomination fees for aspiring candidates, which recently caused a public furore.The elections management body, however, ...Published: 04 Sep 2022 at 07:57hrs | 517 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe poll fees too costly'
THE cost of contesting elections in Zimbabwe is now the highest in Africa, a data analysis of the new candidate nomination fees set by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has shown.Zec's n...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 06:44hrs | 501 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala, Sithole treated like hardcore criminals
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) members of Parliament Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole who are incarcerated on charges of inciting public violence are being treated like hardcore criminals and the...Published: 21 Aug 2022 at 10:05hrs | 764 | by Staff reporter
Chitungwiza acting mayor claims he is being sabotaged
ACTING Chitungwiza mayor, Kelvin Mutimbanyoka says council employees, including management, were sabotaging an on-going operation against illegal structures."I have realised that a lot of coun...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:39hrs | 338 | by Staff reporter
'Virtual courts may infringe rights'
MEMBERS of the public yesterday said the introduction of virtual courts could infringe on the rights of accused persons.This came out during a public hearing on the Judicial Laws Amendment Bil...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:42hrs | 315 | by Staff reporter
Harare cancels Pomona waste deal
The Harare City Council has resolved to cancel the Pomona waste management deal that was imposed on the local authority by the Local Government ministry.Council had resolved to suspend the 30-...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:28hrs | 1149 | by Staff reporter
Police brutality victims challenge Police Act
SOME victims of the 2018 police shootings have challenged the constitutionality of discriminatory provisions in the country's Police Act.Tomorrow, High Court judge Justice Siyabona Musithu wil...Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 06:38hrs | 243 | by Staff reporter
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