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Mahere remanded in custody to Friday 15 January
MDC Alliance National Spokesperson Advocate Fadzayi Mahere has been remanded in custody to Friday 15 January 2021.Advocate Mahere will spend 3 days in prison custody to Friday when Magistrate ...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 14:30hrs | 711 | by Staff reporter
'Sikhala, Chin'ono charged under non-existent falsehoods law'
MDC Alliance vice-chairperson Job Sikhala was arrested Saturday and charged with publishing falsehoods and promoting public violence the same charges laid against journalist Hopewell Chin'ono after th...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 07:47hrs | 370 | by Staff reporter
Informal traders challenge lockdown order
THE Zimbabwe Informal Sectors Organisation (Ziso) has approached the High Court challenging the constitutionality of the recently imposed 30-day lockdown by government to contain the spread of COVID-1...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:31hrs | 201 | by Staff reporter
Jailed widowed teacher out on $2 000 bail
FIFTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD widow Sheila Chirisamhuru, a Masvingo primary school teacher recently jailed 16 months for being part of an unsanctioned wage protest by restless educators, has been freed on bail...Published: 05 Jan 2021 at 15:44hrs | 1672 | by Staff reporter
NewZimbabwe.com journalist Costa Nkomo still missing
IT IS now three days since Costa Nkomo, a top journalist with NewZimbabwe.com and anchor on NewZim TV's programme ‘Agenda' went missing.Costa (30), a versatile journalist, was last seen in H...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 07:17hrs | 431 | by Staff reporter
Teacher jailed 16 months for salary protest
Human rights lawyers have filed a High Court bail appeal for a widowed primary school teacher sentenced to 16 months imprisonment after she was arrested for public violence during a "peaceful" protest...Published: 02 Jan 2021 at 07:47hrs | 678 | by Staff reporter
National pledge reciting out of order, says ConCourt
THE Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe (ConCourt) yesterday ruled the national pledge, which schoolchildren were obliged to recite during assemblies, invalid.This came after a parent, Mathew Sog...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 07:10hrs | 1106 | by Staff reporter
Judge reverses Mtetwa barring from representing Chin'ono
HIGH Court judge, Happius Zhou has set aside a ruling by Harare magistrate, Ngoni Nduna barring top human rights lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa from representing investigative journalist, Hopewell Chin'ono w...Published: 16 Dec 2020 at 06:43hrs | 1582 | by Staff reporter
'COVID-19 lockdown increased human rights abuses'
HUMAN rights groups yesterday said Zimbabwe witnessed severe increased violations of people's rights this year due to the COVID-19-induced lockdown and pleaded with government to end the use of State ...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 06:41hrs | 250 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo poly forced to readmit dismissed student
AUTHORITIES at Bulawayo Polytechnic have reversed their decision to expel a motor mechanics student for alleged misconduct after Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights intervened.Lawson Machida, a ...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 06:43hrs | 556 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance activists threaten to sue Matanga over nudes
THE police yesterday accused journalists for leaking and circulating sensitive pictures of MDC Alliance activist, Cecilia Chimbiri taken at a private hospital in Waterfalls, Harare, which they said we...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 06:18hrs | 1195 | by Staff reporter
2008 election violence victims walk away empty handed
Two MDC Alliance activists who lost livestock to Zanu-PF supporters in the violent run-up to the 2008 presidential election re-run were recently left disappointed after the court dismissed their case ...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 19:42hrs | 861 | by Staff reporter
Shot women complain against police conduct
TWO women from Hwange in Matabeleland North have petitioned the Zimbabwe Republic Police to carry out investigations into incidents in which they were allegedly shot by law enforcement officers during...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:27hrs | 888 | by Staff reporter
Toilet saves family from violent storm
GWANDA villager Absalom Sibanda says his seven-member family survived a recent violent storm by hiding in a toilet.The storm, which flattened the family's house, pounded Gwanda's ward 1 area in Matabe...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:22hrs | 494 | by Staff reporter
19 ZCTU leaders acquitted for 2018 tax protests
NINETEEN Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) leaders, who were arrested for protesting against the high cost of living and the imposition of the 2% transaction tax by President Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 05:36hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's 10-year-old insult case thrown out of court
AN attempt last week by the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to resuscitate a 2010 case where Gilbert Kagodora, the MDC Alliance secretary for information communication technology was accused of i...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:50hrs | 4667 | by Staff reporter
Nurses summoned for disciplinary hearing
THE Health ministry yesterday started sending summons to several nurses in Bulawayo for disciplinary hearing on allegations of misconduct.This comes at a time nurses at public hospitals have t...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:32hrs | 322 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: The Banana Republic of Southern Africa
Hopewell Chin'ono, the Zimbabwean journalist and anti-corruption campaigner was rearrested following allegations of breaching his bail conditions.Chin'ono is being charged with contempt of cou...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 14:11hrs | 1736 | by Prince Njagu
Chin'ono arrested over Chief Justice Malaba allegations
JOURNALIST Hopewell Chin'ono has been arrested over Twitter claims Chief Justice Luke Malaba was interfering with his case.Chin'ono was arrested July this year over claims of inciting public v...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 19:59hrs | 3032 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe pays police brutality victim to avoid jail
HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe yesterday rushed to pay $195 500 compensation to a Gweru-based student Simon Mandoza, who was brutalised by the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) in 2018.Kaz...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:29hrs | 1106 | by Staff reporter
Reprieve for Chitungwiza residents as municipality stops demolitionsafter lawyers intervention
CHITUNGWIZA Municipality on Sunday resolved to stop the demolition of some residents' houses after Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) threatened to sue the local authority for violating people's...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 07:59hrs | 1456 | by Stephen Jakes
Chitungwiza shelves demolition plans
CHITUNGWIZA Municipality has shelved plans to demolish houses and other buildings in 35 illegal settlements across the town after a special full council meeting held at the weekend resolved to halt th...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:21hrs | 977 | by Staff reporter
We remain the land: The endless land wars of Chipinge
To many Zimbabweans, the forecast that there will be normal to above normal rains in 2020-21 farming is sweet news. However, this does not apply to many people in Chipinge.While others are pre...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 19:10hrs | 547 | by Taruberekera Masara in Pretoria
BREAKING: Judge orders immediate release of Joana Mamombe from Chikurubi prison
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights have secured the release of Harare West MP Joana Mamombe by obtaining a court order issued by Justice Muremba for her immediate release from Chikurubi prison.&nbs...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 18:54hrs | 2561 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Court acquits man accused of demonstrating in support of Hopewell Chin'ono
Bulawayo Magistrate Shepherd Mjanja has acquitted a 22-year-old Muzingaye Thaka represented by Lison Ncube of ZLHR, who had been on trial after he was arrested on 30 July for embarking on a one-man de...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 17:18hrs | 4074 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ZLHR commemorates International day of peace
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has joined the rest of the world in commemorating International Day of Peace with a call for both state and non-state actors to embrace and strengthen the idea...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 13:11hrs | 167 | by Stephen Jakes
High Court reverses Mawarire's lawsuit loss
HIGH Court judge Justice Edith Mushore has rescinded a default judgment entered against #ThisFlag campaign leader and clergyman, Evan Mawarire, who had lost his $65 000 damages claim against the Zimba...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:06hrs | 2256 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe rights lawyers call for police restraint
LOCAL human rights groups have called out President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government for trampling on citizens' rights under the guise of enforcing COVID-19 preventive measures.The calls were m...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 06:08hrs | 450 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Shocking details on abducted MDC ladies emerge
The saga involving three arrested MDC officials Joana Mamombe, Cecelia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova has taken a new twist with a video disputing their abduction reports going viral on the internet. ...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 19:14hrs | 7733 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Job Sikhala's application for bail hits brick wall
The hearing of Zengeza West Member of Parliament and MDC Deputy Chairperson Job Sikhala bail appeal was off to a false start as it was postponed to Friday to allow for the preparation and uplifting of...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 10:56hrs | 3458 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe and abductions
Since the beginning of the year, some people, mainly government detractors, and opposition members have claimed to have been abducted and tortured in Zimbabwe, but it is not easy to say who could be b...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 09:46hrs | 1878 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Deregistered 'Swazi born' lawyer denied access to Chin'ono
INCARCERATED journalist Hopewell Chin'ono's lead counsel Beatrice Mtetwa is being denied access to her client by prison authorities at the Chikurubi Security Maximum Prison, the Zimbabwe Lawyers ...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 10:29hrs | 6975 | by newzimbabwe
Job Sikhala orders state to fumigate prison cells
A magistrate court has granted MDC Deputy National Chairman Job Sikhala a request to have Chikurubi maximum prison to be fumigated against the deadly Coronavirus. The request was given on Mond...Published: 24 Aug 2020 at 15:15hrs | 5193 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa reaches into Mugabe's tool box
FROM a university student who was thrown into remand prison on suspicion that she passed a snide remark about President Emmerson Mnangagwa's poor performance, to police officers venting their anger on...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 11:20hrs | 3454 | by Moses Matenga
BREAKING: Job Sikhala's lawyer arrested
There was high drama at the Harare Magistrate court on Saturday when one of Job Sikhala's lawyers Jeremiah Mutongi Bamu was briefly arrested by the police.He was however, later released. ...Published: 22 Aug 2020 at 10:19hrs | 8779 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ZHRC raises alarm over gross human rights violations
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) yesterday expressed concern over gross human rights violations in the country, calling on authorities to respect the rights of citizens as enshrined in the ...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 07:45hrs | 472 | by Staff reporter
Beatrice Mtetwa can't wash her hands like Ponthias Pilato in the Bible
BEATRICE Mtetwa has been permanently barred from representing Hopewell Chin'ono after a Harare court found the top rights lawyer to have abandoned professional conduct but developed personal interest ...Published: 19 Aug 2020 at 08:20hrs | 9751 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe divisions deepen as activists decry 'rampant abuses'
Facing high triple-digit inflation, a currency capitulation and corruption allegations, Zimbabwe has become fertile ground for civil unrest.a government crackdown on peaceful protesters and th...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 07:29hrs | 619 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Covid-19 restrictions legal, says High Court
GOVERNMENT regulations restricting business hours to between 8am and 3pm to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic are not in violation of the country's laws, the High Court has ruled. The r...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 07:21hrs | 496 | by Staff reporter
Tall tales of an evil regime in Harare
Life is a tapestry that is woven out of various religious, political, cultural and normative beliefs and persuasions.As is often clichéd, variety is a major spice that leavens and livens life...Published: 16 Aug 2020 at 08:12hrs | 323 | by Staff reporter
Hopewell Chin'ono to learn his fate on Tuesday
Journalist Hopewell Chin'ono will remain in prison at least until Tuesday, August 18, after magistrate Ngoni Nduna postponed a ruling into a prosecution application for defence lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa ...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 17:40hrs | 2261 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Court bars journalists, lawyers from attending Hopewell Chin'ono's hearing
Harare Magistrate Ngoni Nduna has barred members of the public from attending the court hearing of journalist Hopewell Chin'ono.According to the ruling journalists and lawyers that are not par...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 16:07hrs | 1783 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jubilation as court frees 7 accused of plotting to remove Mnangagwa
There was jubilation in the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights ranks after a Harare court ended the prosecution of 7 activists who were accused of plotting to remove President Emmerson Mnangagwa. ...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 11:31hrs | 14885 | by Mandla Ndlovu
D-day for Hopewell Chin'ono
Journalist Hopewell Chin'ono is having his fresh bid for freedom heard at the Magistrate on Wednesday.He is appearing at Rottenrow Magistrates Court represented by senior journalist Beatrice M...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 10:24hrs | 5098 | by Mandla Ndlovu
PHOTO:Hopewell Chin'ono and Jacob Ngarivhume in maximum prison
Journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and Transform Zimbabwe President Jacob Ngarivhume are being held at Chikurubi Maximum Prison where they are being remanded pending their separate trials for inciting publi...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 16:05hrs | 6447 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Persons with disabilities concerned about Zimbabwe human rights violations
Zimbabweans had yet another opportunity to define their destiny as a collective when they exercised their constitutional right to choose a leader of their choice. The July 2018 elections had new conte...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 11:35hrs | 1011 | by Tsepang Nare and Abel Mavura
Prisons dismiss Chin'ono , Ngarivhume discrimination report
THE Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) which has not been spared by the Covid-19 scourge, does not discriminate against any inmate but will take appropriate measures that include cuttin...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 12:07hrs | 1468 | by Staff reporter
Chin'ono, Ngarivhume denied jerseys, food
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZHLR) has raised concern over the ill-treatment of remanded journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and opposition politician Jacob Ngarivhume, who were last week taken to ...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 11:50hrs | 715 | by Staff reporter
ZLHR concerned about treatment of Chin'ono and Ngarivhume in prison
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) is concerned about the treatment of freelance journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and Jacob Ngarivhume, the leader of Transform Zimbabwe political party, who are curr...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 13:59hrs | 1255 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe lawyers challenge regulated business hours
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights has taken the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) and National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to court challenging timelines that dictate that businesses should close ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 17:18hrs | 603 | by Staff reporter
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