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139 file for divorce in Bulawayo in 2 months
BULAWAYO has since the beginning of the year recorded shocking divorce statistics with 139 applications filed at the High Court before the end of February.From the 139 divorces filed at the Bu...Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 04:43hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Divorce cases spike in Zimbabwe
INFIDELITY, social media abuse, poor communication, grudges and gender-based violence are among top drivers of divorces across the country with Bulawayo alone recording 658 divorces this year al...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 07:25hrs | 51 | by Staff reporter
Foreign-funded NGOs give conditional backing for Zimbabwe's Commonwealth bid
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (ZHRNGO Forum), a union of 22 rights organisations whose relationship with government have been shaky for over a decade, has expressed its support for re-admission ...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC says NO to Zimbabwe's Commonwealth return bid
"For Zimbabwe to rejoin the community of nations, it is very important for us to stop abusing citizens. You know that there are political prisoners who have been in pretrial detention for more than 14...Published: 15 Nov 2022 at 04:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Commonwealth Secretariat mission to visit Zimbabwe
The Commonwealth Secretariat is today confirming that a delegation, led by the Assistant Secretary-General, Prof. Luis Franceschi, will be visiting Harare...Published: 11 Nov 2022 at 17:50hrs | 15 | by Agencies
Zimbabwe divorce law spurs women's fight for property
When Smangele Tshuma got divorced after five years of marriage, her in-laws forced her out of the home that she had been living in with her husband in southwestern Zimbabwe and took the three donkeys ...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 17:28hrs | | by Reuters
Mnangagwa sued over appointments
Zimbabwe women Lawyers association (ZWLA) and women's academy of Leadership and Political excellency (walpe) have taken President Emmerson Mnangagwa to court for failing to observe gender balance in h...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Women sue Mnangagwa
WOMEN's representative groups have approached the High Court seeking leave to sue President Emmerson Mnangagwa for making Cabinet appointments that are not gender sensitive. Zimbabwe Women Law...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 20:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZWLA pokes holes into Marriages Bill
Zimbabwe Women Lawyers Association (ZWLA) director Abigail Matsvayi has said the Marriages Bill should clearly spell out how property acquired by spouses during subsistence of their marriage is handle...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
MPs call for review of the Termination of Pregnancy Act
LEGISLATORS have called for a review of the Termination of Pregnancy Act, which was enacted in 1977, but lawmakers say is now out of tune with the times in the face of rising illegal abortions....Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 09:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Justice Chigumba the Iron Lady of Zimbabwe election
On 30 July, Zimbabwe went to the polls which were tightly contested with a registered record of 23 Presidential hopefuls. Of these, there were two top horses, President Emmerson Mnangagwa (ZANU PF) an...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 14:18hrs | | by Elijah Chihota
Mugabe files for divorce
A HARARE couple, Kudzai Florence Mugabe (nee Ziwa) and Geoffrey Takudzwa Mugabe, are set to part ways, seven years into their marriage, after the couple's love and affection for each other hit a hard-...Published: 30 Nov 2017 at 05:14hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe divorce case sour to alarming levels
The meltdown gripping Zimbabwe's once-prosperous economy has conspired with stress, and domestic violence to cause a spike in marriage breakups with the High Court in Harare alone registering 42 divor...Published: 01 Oct 2017 at 11:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Can a child legally consent to sex?
When looking at the age at which one is legally regarded as having the ability to consent to sex, it usually sparks much debate and argument. It is, however, important that everyone has a general unde...Published: 20 Sep 2017 at 06:35hrs | | by Danai Chirawu
89 CSOs rap parly for passing Amendment bill on Chief Justice appointment
About 89 Civil Society Organisaions have rapped parliament of Zimbabwe for passing the Amendment Bill No 1 of the constitution in which it gives powers to the President to appoint the Chief Justice....Published: 28 Jul 2017 at 07:01hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Court dismiss Chimbetu's application
A Harare magistrate yesterday dismissed an application by Orchestra Dendera Kings frontman Sulumani Chimbetu for referral of his maintenance case to the Constitutional Court. Chimbetu was challenging ...Published: 13 Jun 2017 at 06:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Sexually-transmitted' grades haunts female students
TWENTY one-year-old Natasha Murenga (not real name) is a bitter young woman.Her hopes of securing a first class degree at a local university faltered after one of the lecturers demanded to...Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 11:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Female murder convict set free
A MUTARE woman on death row for the past five years after being convicted of murdering one Daniel Sithole in cold blood has been set free.Shylet Sibanda was in 2010 convicted alongside her hus...Published: 16 Jul 2015 at 08:56hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Open letter to the AU on xenophobic attacks in South Africa
MISA, along with more than 100 African human rights organisations today presented an open letter to the African Union (AU), to express their concern about the xenophobic attacks in the Republic of Sou...Published: 10 Jun 2015 at 15:49hrs | | by MISA
Lawyers challenge leaked exams re-sit
The Zimbabwe Women Lawyers Association (ZWLA) has filed an application in the High Court in terms of Section 85 of the constitution to interdict the re-sitting of the 2014 ZIMSEC O-Level English and M...Published: 20 Nov 2014 at 20:25hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Govt should compensate rape victim, Supreme Court
Fidelis MunyoroA CHEGUTU woman who was attacked and raped during a robbery eight years ago, finally got justice after the Supreme Court yesterday partially allowed her appeal for compensation for...Published: 26 Mar 2014 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim Supreme court to rule on access to legal abortion
The Supreme Court will deliver its judgment in a landmark sexual and reproductive rights case brought by the Zimbabwe Women Lawyers Association (ZWLA).The ZWLA argued that the government shoul...Published: 25 Mar 2014 at 08:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa opposes death row inmates' appeal
Emmerson Mnangagwa, the minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, and government's chief law officer Justine Ulandi, have opposed a court application by two women on death row seeking the...Published: 05 Feb 2014 at 06:48hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
1,748 maintenance cases heard in Bulawayo
THE Maintenance Court in Bulawayo has heard 1 748 maintenance cases from January to date a marked increase from last year 1 854 for the whole year.The court is hearing an average of 30 cases p...Published: 26 Sep 2013 at 13:46hrs | 1 | by Sithabile Mafu
Bulawayo records upsurge in abortion cases
BULAWAYO has recorded an upsurge in cases of abortion with more than 50 women reportedly terminating pregnancies every month.A majority of the abortions are believed to be illegally done in ba...Published: 15 Feb 2013 at 05:56hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Increase in number of women taking husbands to court over child maintenance
THE Maintenance Court housed at Tredgold Building in Bulawayo last year recorded an increase in the number of women dragging their husbands to court over the upkeep of children with 1 853 cases recor...Published: 04 Jan 2013 at 07:39hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
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