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Botswana vote shaken up by angry ex-president
Botswana holds a presidential election on Wednesday energised by a campaign by one previous head-of-state to unseat his handpicked successor whose first term has seen rising discontent amid a downturn...Published: 29 Oct 2024 at 09:21hrs | 3293 | by AFP
Zanu-PF activist in court for defacing CCC posters
A Zanu-PF supporter was last week arraigned before Gokwe magistrate Hilary Ndlovu for defacing opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) posters.Vittalless Mukede (46) was charged under s...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 05:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kika's application kicked out by ConCourt judges as lawfare escales in Zimbabwe
Constitutional Court judges dismiss an application by lawyer Musa Kika for their recusal from hearing a matter brought by Zanu-PF activist Marx Mapungu, seeking confirmation that CJ Luke Malaba's term...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 15:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Madhuku files ConCourt application defending Malaba, Mnangagwa
Constitutional lawyer Professor Lovemore Madhuku drew fire on Sunday after taking up a case that seeks to nullify the High Court ruling that ended Luke Malaba's tenure as Zimbabwe's Chief Justice befo...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mr Yada Yada slays the slay-queens
Slay queens are now popular all over the world and they are said to be young and naive girls who apparently do not date broke men. They spend hours on Snapchat and Instagram showing off things they do...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 07:57hrs | | by Nigel Siziba
Kevin Makhosi names his clothing line after his totem
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening, talking of fashion Nambini Clothing like o...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 10:36hrs | 2 | by Nigel Siziba
Dweezy Boi does it again
After landing a lucrative deal with OneBeat Dylan Nyambe also known as Dweezy Boi Wonder has proved to them that that they did not make a mistake signing him as he dropped his latest extended play (ep...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 12:21hrs | | by Nigel Siziba
Magret Mwamuka to perform in five cities
THE award winning gospel artist Magret Mwamuka will perform in five major Cities within a month as a way of preaching the word of God.In an interview she said it has always been her dream to d...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 10:28hrs | 2 | by Nigel Siziba
The Second Constitutional Amendment
A constitution, written or unwritten, is a blueprint on various national aspects such as freedom, aspirations or governance issues. Put simply, an amendment is an addition or alteration to a constitut...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 06:35hrs | | by Sharon Hofisi
Profiles of Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court judges
Nine Constitutional Court (ConCourt) judges will today preside over a matter which will decide on who will lead Zimbabwe for the next five years. Chief Justice Luke Malaba will lead a cast of eight ju...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:26hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's fate lies with 9 judges
ZIMBABWE'S estimated 14 million citizens are today holding their collective breaths as the Constitutional Court bench made up of nine men and women sit to make a determination in one of the greatest p...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
A deep dive into the world of the Constitutional Court
NO one can deny that this election season has been a rollercoaster and people are confused, anxious and hopeful as they face an unpredictable outcome from the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) in the pe...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:13hrs | | by Thabani Mnyama
Zibani withdraws Ziyambi appointment challenge
Former University of Zimbabwe law student, Romeo Zibani, has withdrawn his application challenging the constitutionality of the appointment of retired Supreme Court judge Justice Vernanda Ziyambi as a...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa violated constitution on judges
FIRED former Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa violated the Constitution when he joined a University of Zimbabwe law student's fight for the suspension of a lawful process to select the country's new ...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court trashes Zibani application
SUPREME Court judge Justice Bharat Patel says University of Zimbabwe law student Romeo Zibani's application to stop the conducting of interviews for the chief justice's post last year was based on ima...Published: 10 Nov 2017 at 05:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parly to consider Mnangagwa's controversial Bill today
The Constitution Amendment Bill (Number 1), which seeks to give the President the sole discretion to appoint a Chief Justice, Deputy Chief Justice and Judge President of his choice will be considered ...Published: 25 Jul 2017 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fired workers take Chidyausiku judgment to ILO
SACKED TelOne workers have written to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to express concern over a decade-old Supreme Court judgment validating their dismissal.The judgment wa...Published: 16 Apr 2017 at 18:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Judges shoot down Mnangagwa's plan
THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC) - which includes top judges - is resisting Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Constitutional Amendment (No 1 Bill) 2016 whose main agenda is to amend Section 180...Published: 13 Apr 2017 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Battle over Zimbabwe deputy chief justice looms
AFTER the swearing in of Luke Malaba as the substantive Chief Justice (CJ) next week, the battleground in the Zanu PF factional fights will now shift to the appointment of a Deputy Chief Justice, ...Published: 06 Apr 2017 at 17:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chief Justice Malaba swearing in on Thursday
VICE President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is also responsible for the Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, has said the new Chief Justice Luke Malaba will be sworn in at State House ...Published: 04 Apr 2017 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unmasking Romeo Zibani
ROMEO Zibani looks like your typical local university student.Clad in a promotional t-shirt for a company he worked for sometime in 2008, Zibani insisted that his interview with The Standard s...Published: 03 Apr 2017 at 07:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chidyausiku acted lawfully on Ziyambi
LEGAL and legislative watchdog, Veritas, says retired Chief Justice (CJ) Godfrey Chidyausiku acted within the confines of the constitution when he gave retired judge, Justice Vernanda Ziyambi, a o...Published: 16 Mar 2017 at 10:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo shocked and embarrassed!
I had no comment after my 3rd reading of VP Mnangagwa's affidavit in Zibani's latest ConCourt case. Now I feel numb, shocked & embarrassed!...Published: 07 Mar 2017 at 21:28hrs | | by online
Mnangagwa accuse Chidyausiku of violating the constitution
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has accused Retired Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku of violating the constitution by appointing retired judge, Justice Vernanda Ziyambi to serve as an acting ju...Published: 07 Mar 2017 at 18:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa challenges constitutionality of the Supreme Court
The Justice and Legal Affairs Ministry will challenge the constitutionality of the Supreme Court bench that overturned a High Court ruling suspending public interviews to select Zimbabwe's next Ch...Published: 05 Mar 2017 at 09:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe free to name new chief justice'
DESPITE Romeo Zibani's efforts to stall the process to select the country's new chief justice (CJ) while the exercise to amend the constitution unfolds, President Robert Mugabe is free to go ahead...Published: 03 Mar 2017 at 08:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chidyausiku leaves bench a disappointed man
CHIEF Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku this week expressed grave disappointment that he was leaving the bench divided over the issue of his successor.The former Chief Justice (CJ), who retired ...Published: 02 Mar 2017 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chidyausiku investigates for criminal abuse of office
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission is said to be investigating outgoing Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku for criminal abuse of office after he appointed retired Justice Vernanda Ziyambi to t...Published: 26 Feb 2017 at 10:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Godfrey Chidyausiku under investigation
Outgoing Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku is under investigation by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) for alleged criminal abuse of office. Chidyausiku is accuse...Published: 26 Feb 2017 at 04:22hrs | | by Mary Charamba
Mugabe faces new hurdle
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe, whose path to appoint a new chief justice (CJ) was cleared last week after the Supreme Court unanimously quashed a High Court judgment suspending public interviews held in...Published: 24 Feb 2017 at 13:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zibani's backers are ignorant, says Jonathan Moyo
Zibani who with support of Justice Minister sought to block CJ appointment of next CJ, is back in court accusing CJ of abusing office!...Published: 24 Feb 2017 at 11:43hrs | | by twitter
Law student sues Chief Justice Chidyausiku
Fourth year University of Zimbabwe law student, Romeo Taombera Zibani has dragged outgoing head of the judiciary, Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku to the Constitutional Court for allegedly uncons...Published: 23 Feb 2017 at 11:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court slaps down Mnangagwa
GOVERNMENT'S bid to stop the constitutional process of appointing retiring Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku's successor fell flat yesterday after the Supreme Court ruled in favour of the Judicial...Published: 14 Feb 2017 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Justice Hungwe was offside, rules Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has upheld an appeal by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) against Justice Charles Hungwe's judgment which barred the holding of public interviews for the chief justice pendin...Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 13:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ruling on Chief Justice interviews today
The Supreme Court will today determine the "correctness or otherwise" of a decision by High Court judge Justice Charles Hungwe to suspend public interviews in the selection of a new Chief Justice ...Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa faces acid test
Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa faces an acid test tomorrow when the Supreme Court hears an appeal against a ruling that sought to stop the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) from rolling out a ...Published: 12 Feb 2017 at 09:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Law Society wades into Mugabe appointment saga
The Law Society of Zimbabwe has also waded into the Chief Justice appointment legal battle, requesting to be admitted as a friend of the court.The development comes hot on the heels of a s...Published: 06 Feb 2017 at 20:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mtetwa bids to protect supremacy of the constitution, contests, High court order interdicting JSC from conducting interviews for
HUMAN rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa has filed an application in the Supreme Court seeking to be admitted as a friend of the court (amicuscuriae) in an appeal in which the Judicial Service Commissi...Published: 02 Feb 2017 at 05:58hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa questions Chief Justice appointment
VICE-PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, who presides over the Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs, has stuck to his guns over the appointment of the Chief Justice (CJ) insisting that the current proc...Published: 27 Jan 2017 at 12:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa forced Chidyausiku into retiring early?
CHIEF Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku was a few months ago forced by the Ministry of Justice - overseen by Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa - to go on early retirement ahead of his departure next mon...Published: 20 Jan 2017 at 12:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Court gives JSC 15-day ultimatum
The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has been given 15 days to file heads of argument for the case in which it is challenging the High Court decision to stop public interviews to choose the count...Published: 14 Jan 2017 at 08:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF factions battle it out for chief justice post
The intense battle over the appointment of Chief Justice (CJ) Godfrey Chidyausiku's successor is taking an increasingly factional dimension as the warring Zanu-PF camps believe the head of the judicia...Published: 13 Jan 2017 at 11:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Judiciary caught up in Zanu-PF's succession fights
THE internecine succession wars in the ruling Zanu-PF party have engulfed the selection of a new chief justice (CJ) to replace Godfrey Chidyausiku who retires in February.The party is spli...Published: 15 Dec 2016 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Malaba, Makarau steal limelight
DEPUTY Chief Justice Luke Malaba and Zimbabwe Electoral Commission chairperson, Justice Rita Makarau yesterday stole the limelight in public interviews for the post of Chief Justice, which falls vacan...Published: 13 Dec 2016 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe court's crisis
The hunt for Zimbabwe's new chief justice was hit by more turbulence yesterday when one of the candidates who was set to be interviewed by the Judicial Services Commission (JSC), Justice George Chiwes...Published: 13 Dec 2016 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa brews shocker
VICE-President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been accused of trying to advance his Zanu-PF factional interests after the Justice ministry's shock revelations that plans are afoot to amend the new Constitutio...Published: 12 Dec 2016 at 19:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Court halts Chief Justice interviews
Confusion over interviews for the Chief Justice position reigned supreme yesterday, after the High Court granted an order halting the process, but the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) plans to a...Published: 12 Dec 2016 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe should appoint Chief Justice,' says Mnangagwa
President Mugabe should be allowed to nominate and appoint Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku's successor as Government is in the process of amending the Constitution to introduce the enabling prov...Published: 11 Dec 2016 at 08:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chief Justice interviews in limbo
The pending interviews for four nominated candidates seeking to be appointed to the post of Chief Justice through a public interview process scheduled for Monday the 12th of December are in limbo ...Published: 10 Dec 2016 at 17:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF want to give Mugabe power to handpick judiciary bigwigs
GOVERNMENT has crafted a Bill to amend the Constitution with a view to give the President unfettered discretion to handpick a Chief Justice, Deputy Chief Justice and Judge President of his choice ...Published: 10 Dec 2016 at 16:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
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