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15 CCC activists acquitted
Fifteen Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists, arrested in Budiriro for allegedly participating in an unsanctioned gathering, have been acquitted. The activists were part of a group of 25, whi...Published: 01 Oct 2024 at 09:03hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
Fight for Gwanda mine escalates amid bribery allegations
The ongoing dispute over Vubachikwe Gold Mine has escalated, with major shareholder Forbes & Thompson accusing lawyers representing Fawcett Security Operations - a creditor seeking to ...Published: 29 Sep 2024 at 11:16hrs | 214 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's Constitutional Court makes law to have eye
AfriForum reports that it has made progress towards its objective of getting the Constitutional Court to revoke Dr. John Hlophe's appointment as a member of the Judicial Services Commission (JSC)....Published: 27 Aug 2024 at 09:19hrs | 925 | by Staff reporter
'Ngarivhume stoned, injured two police officers'
The investigating officer in Jacob Ngarivhume's disorderly conduct case on Wednesday told a Harare court that the jailed politician was seen stoning two police officers in what led to his arrest....Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 12:41hrs | 771 | by Staff reporter
Tuku 'son' cannot use family name
THE late music superstar and national hero Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi's alleged son, Aaron Chaka, has suffered a blow after the High Court struck off the roll his application seeking an order compelling t...Published: 29 Jul 2024 at 04:18hrs | 933 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF-linked residents fail to grab stands
The High Court in Harare has dismissed an application by 840 house owners in Msasa Park and Chadcombe who sought to have the land their properties are built on transferred to their names without payin...Published: 25 Jul 2024 at 07:48hrs | 512 | by Staff reporter
Zimra tightens vehicle import rules
Starting July 1, 2024, Zimbabwe has implemented new regulations requiring all vehicles imported through border posts like Beitbridge and Plumtree to obtain registration and number plates from the Cent...Published: 03 Jul 2024 at 10:26hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Matinyarare in big trouble
Zanu-PF activist Rutendo Benson Matinyarare has been accused of perjury by his former lawyer after he told the Gauteng High Court in South Africa that he was unaware of a gag order issued against him ...Published: 01 Jul 2024 at 16:02hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Rapex to trap rapists, protect women
SONETTE Ehlers, a blood technician from South Africa envisioned a world free from rape and invented the rape axe in 2005, which has received mixed reactions from the public.Ehlers invented the...Published: 28 Jun 2024 at 09:59hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Constitutional Court dismisses Motsoaledi's ZEP appeal case
The Constitutional Court has dismissed Home Affairs' latest attempt to overturn a High Court judgment that found the government’s termination of the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) regime was unla...Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 10:24hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Easter traffic drops by 2,5% at Beitbridge
THE volume of travellers who used Beitbridge Border Post during the Easter holidays declined by 2,5 percent this year compared to the same period in 2023.Usually, about 8 000 people use Sadc a...Published: 03 Apr 2024 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mambo Dhuterere, wife scam church
The Dare Guru frontman, Darlington Mutseta (popularly known as Mambo Dhuterere) and his wife have been facing numerous threats of imminent arrests following their alleged failure to either allocate re...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 16:07hrs | 21 | by Paul Ndou in South Africa
'Gappah needs mental help,' says Judge
Zimbabwean High Court Justice Joseph Mafusire says local lawyer Petina Gappah needs "psychological intervention" - mental assistance - amid her unrestrained scandalous attacks on the judge and the jud...Published: 22 Mar 2024 at 11:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean permits: Helen Suzman Foundation takes on Motsoaledi in Constitutional Court
The Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) has gone to court to oppose a bid by Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi to appeal against a ruling that he may not terminate the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP)...Published: 21 Mar 2024 at 19:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Businessman demands resignation of Chief Justice Malaba
Businessman Tendai Mashamhanda is calling for Chief Justice Luke Malaba's resignation amid allegations of corruption involving a property dispute worth US$1.5 million, implicating prominent lawyers Te...Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 16:10hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
South Africa cracks down on Zimbabwean children entering the country to visit their parents
The government is cracking down on Zimbabwean children entering South Africa. These children are mostly entering the country to be with their parents over the December holidays.The use of unla...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has no record of child trafficking in SA, lies KAzembe
Zimbabwe has no record of child trafficking arising from the reported interception of 42 buses carrying 443 unaccompanied children on the South African side of the Beitbridge Border Post as was report...Published: 06 Dec 2023 at 05:02hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe debunks Motsoaledi's 443 intercepted minors in a day fiction
THE Department of Immigration, working closely with the police, has tightened screws to curb irregular migration between South Africa and Zimbabwe following an increase in travellers using the Beitbri...Published: 05 Dec 2023 at 05:40hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe immigration tightens screws as festive season begins
THE Department of Immigration, working closely with the police, has tightened screws to curb irregular migration between South Africa and Zimbabwe following an increase in travellers using the Beitbri...Published: 05 Dec 2023 at 05:18hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Swindlers cash in on UK's certificates of sponsorship
FOR close to two years, Maud Kwembeya (33) - of Zimunya in Mutare - has been harbouring thoughts of one day migrating to the United Kingdom (UK) in search of greener pastures.A vastly experien...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 10:33hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu dares Chamisa
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) president Nelson Chamisa was yesterday challenged to depose an affidavit confirming his signature on a copy of the party's constitution presented to the High Court....Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 05:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sengezo Tshabangu attaches proof of appointment
Sengezo Tshabangu, who identifies himself as the Interim Secretary of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), has strongly criticized a court appeal lodged by CCC Members of Parliament (MPs) who are ...Published: 22 Oct 2023 at 15:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CCC MPs' recall appeal must name the political party they represent
Sengezo Tshabangu, the self-styled Interim Secretary of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), has torn apart a court appeal filed by CCC MPs who are challenging their recall, claiming their request...Published: 22 Oct 2023 at 15:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC to launch nationwide protests starting Monday
The opposition party Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has declared its intention to launch nationwide protests starting on Monday in response to the recalls of its Members of Parliament (MPs) and c...Published: 21 Oct 2023 at 18:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matinyarare's property worth over ZW$100m forfeited
FORMER Croco Motors boss Joseph Matinyarare's properties have been forfeited to the state after a court established that he acquired them using the proceeds of crime between 2016 and 2020. The exchang...Published: 24 Sep 2023 at 09:41hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
High Court stops NPA from seizing 15 vehicles
Acting Prosecutor-General Nelson Mutsonziwa's attempt to confiscate 15 vehicles and two houses owned by Enmore Makarichi on suspicion of being crime proceeds has been unsuccessful. The High Court, pre...Published: 13 Sep 2023 at 18:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa faces 4 September deadline
Although the seven days within which anyone seeking to file a ConCourt application to overturn ZEC's declaration of Emmerson Mnangagwa as the duly elected President of the Republic of Zimbabwe expire ...Published: 02 Sep 2023 at 20:50hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
CCC Bulawayo disaster includes Senatorial seats
THE main opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) will not have representation in the Senate from Bulawayo after the party's 12 National Assembly candidates in the city were disqualified from t...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 21:15hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Ostallos Siziva was with Chamisa in Harare as Bulawayo Nomination Court closed at 4PM on 21 June
The eloquent and bold mendacious claim by CCC and its loquacious mouthpieces that all 12 of its parliamentary candidates whose nomination was nullified by the High Court in Bulawayo on Thursday s...Published: 29 Jul 2023 at 18:56hrs | 8 | by Jonathan Moyo
Chamisa's MP candidates' legal woes mount
A new court application has been filed at the Bulawayo High Court to prevent the 12 Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) parliamentary candidates from running in the August 23, 2023 elections.T...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 19:46hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court to rule on Kasukuwere appeal
The Supreme Court will rule tomorrow whether the appeal by independent presidential aspirant Saviour Kasukuwere challenging a High Court ruling disqualifying him from contesting the August 23 election...Published: 19 Jul 2023 at 06:37hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
Motsoaledi to apply for leave to appeal against Zimbabwean Exemption Permit judgments
Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has announced that his office will apply for leave to appeal against two Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) judgments handed down by a full Bench of the Gauteng H...Published: 29 Jun 2023 at 21:03hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Bid to reverse 2007 Harare land deal flops
A group seeking to reverse a 2007 land deal between Harare City Council and Augur Investments has, for the second time, failed to get permission to appeal against a High Court ruling dismissing it for...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
R5 billion for ex-Wenela payouts
AT LEAST 1 000 Zimbabweans who worked in South African gold mines under the Witwatersrand Native Labour Association (Wenela) are set to benefit from the provisional compensation pool of R5 billion tha...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 08:26hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Lumumba loses child custody
HIGH Court judge Justice Priscilla Munangati-Manongwa has ordered William Mutumanje, popularly known as Acie Lumumba, to return his minor child to his estranged wife Lilian Rufaro Madyara after he kid...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 06:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa unearth 'huge' election rigging scam?
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has said his party has unearthed a vote rigging scheme by the ruling party Zanu-PF ahead of the general elections set for August th...Published: 19 May 2023 at 20:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bona Mugabe divorce, yet another Damascene moment for the republic
The world is not for honest people. I am convinced. Those who toil, break a sweat in various endeavours to make an honest living a...Published: 07 May 2023 at 07:22hrs | 2 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Girlfriend in court over fraudulent estate claim
A woman believed to be a girlfriend of a recently-deceased Harare man appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court for allegedly tendering fraudulent documents to the Master of the High Court to claim a s...Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare doctor forges medical papers to help suspect skip bail
A medical doctor at Sally Mugabe hospital in Harare is in trouble after he allegedly forged medical affidavits claiming that a Chinese suspect arrested for illegal possession of rhino horns was sick....Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 08:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
ConCourt blocks bid to trash Zimbabwe's delimitation report
The Constitutional Court (ConCourt) has rejected an attempt by a Zanu-PF activist to force dumping of the current constituency boundaries delimitation report citing alleged constitutional violations d...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 15:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa violates the Zimbabwe Constitution
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa almost certainly violated the delimitation process by not following constitutional requirements, while brazenly subverting the constitution at critical junctures, renderin...Published: 26 Feb 2023 at 10:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala application dismissed
CCC national deputy chairperson Job Sikhala, facing a pair of trials on obstructing justice and on inciting violence, is still applying for postponements as he seeks to have the High Court and the Con...Published: 21 Feb 2023 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parly Speaker dismisses Zanu-PF activist's claim as delimitation report row rages
THE Parliament of Zimbabwe has hit back at Zanu-PF member, Tonderai Chidawa, who dragged the legislature to court for accepting what he claimed to be a flawed Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) Preli...Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 05:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Challenge against Zec presses on
WHILE Senate has approved the delimitation report, which is now before President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Harare voter Tonderai Chidawa, represented by Lovemore Madhuku, is pressing ahead with his challeng...Published: 24 Jan 2023 at 16:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ConCourt refuses to hear constituency boundaries case
The Constitutional Court yesterday refused to hear on an urgent basis an application by a Harare man seeking to compel the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission to restart from scratch the delimitation of con...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
ConCourt hears case by Zanu-PF activist that could upend delimitation
The Constitutional Court on Thursday began hearing an application by a Zanu-PF supporter seeking to force the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to restart the process of delimitation of constituency...Published: 19 Jan 2023 at 13:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Voters roll a mess, claims Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF has admitted that the voters roll to be used in next year's polls is a mess and needs serious scrutiny and audit for it to be credible.Section 35 of the Electoral Act gives the Zimbabw...Published: 01 Nov 2022 at 05:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matsika suffers another blow in wrangle over Croco
Businessman Farai Matsika suffered another blow after the Supreme Court threw out his application where he sought to snatch a 30% Croco Motors' stake from his cousin Moses Chingwena.Matsika so...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa activists abduction trial stopped
THE High Court has stopped the trial of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) members, Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri accused of faking their abduction before publishing falsehoods.This has ...Published: 26 Sep 2022 at 20:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti faces deregistration as a lawyer
FORMER Finance minister Tendai Biti faces deregistration as a lawyer after local businessman Tendai Mashamhanda reported allegations of misconduct against him to the Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) and ...Published: 22 Sep 2022 at 06:05hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
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