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Bikita soap factory sparks ownership dispute
A long-abandoned soap factory in Majaya Village, Ward 32 under Chief Marozva in Bikita West has become the centre of a dispute between the local village head and members of the community who once oper...Published: 10 Jul 2025 at 20:41hrs | 363 | by Staff reporter
Man in court for head-butting cop
A 27-year-old Harare man appeared in court on Friday facing charges of assaulting a police officer who was on patrol duty in Dzivarasekwa.Tedious Biton was arraigned before Harare magistrate S...Published: 06 Jul 2025 at 12:33hrs | 238 | by Staff reporter
Kingdom Blue boss convicted over maintenance wrangle
Flamboyant businessman Brilliant Ncube, the man behind the high-end Kingdom Blue Funeral Services brand, has been convicted of contempt of court after failing to comply with a court order to pay spous...Published: 27 Jun 2025 at 15:01hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
Security guards up for contempt of court
Two security guards, Daniel Moyana and Selinah Moyana, have been arrested and charged with contempt of court after allegedly breaching a High Court order by forcibly halting operations at a quarry min...Published: 31 May 2025 at 13:50hrs | 88 | by Staff reporter
Legal battle continues between Kingdom Blue CEO and ex-wife
The ongoing legal dispute between Kingdom Blue Funeral Service founder and CEO, Brilliant Ncube, and his estranged wife, Mrs. Sibonguthando Ncube, continues to unfold, with Ncube asserting that he has...Published: 16 May 2025 at 10:10hrs | 475 | by Staff reporter
CIO ordered to pay employee US$132,000
A High Court judge has ordered the director-general of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) to pay an employee, Tryness Kabiti, US$132,152 after her salary was unjustly reduced, marking a signi...Published: 22 Apr 2025 at 08:17hrs | 2410 | by Staff reporter
Ex-MP accuses suspected land barons of trying to overturn High Court order
Former Mount Pleasant legislator Jason Pasade has accused Eastwind Trust owners, Rodgers Pote and Trymore Arineshito, of attempting to manipulate the lower courts to reverse a High Court eviction orde...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 23:16hrs | 93 | by Staff reporter
Kingdom Blue CEO in US$6 550 maintenance battle
Brilliant Ncube, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the internationally acclaimed Kingdom Blue Funeral Service, is currently embroiled in a high-profile maintenance dispute with his former wif...Published: 12 Apr 2025 at 13:00hrs | 238 | by Staff reporter
Harare tops list of most corrupt provinces in Zimbabwe
Harare has been named the most corrupt province in Zimbabwe based on the number of complaints received by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) during the first quarter of 2025, according to ...Published: 12 Apr 2025 at 12:51hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF councillor jailed for contempt of court
Bulawayo Ward One Councillor, Josiah Mutangi, has been sentenced to 30 days in prison after repeatedly defying court orders to vacate a farmhouse at Imbesu Farm, located 25 kilometres outside the city...Published: 27 Mar 2025 at 16:10hrs | 434 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya defies court order, GetBucks seeks police intervention
Prophet Walter Magaya, the founder of the Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries, is facing allegations of defying a court order to settle a US$420,140.72 debt owed to GetBucks Microfinanc...Published: 13 Mar 2025 at 16:12hrs | 1489 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe heir's bid to reopen estate crumbles in High Court
An attempt by Tonderai Mugabe, a man claiming to be the secret son of the late President Robert Mugabe, to stake his claim on the former leader's estate ended in defeat at the High Court in Harare las...Published: 27 Jan 2025 at 08:19hrs | 566 | by Staff reporter
Axe-wielding ZANU PF Bulawayo Councillor Josiah Mutangi faces Jail over murder threats
ZANU PF Ward 1 Councillor Josiah Mutangi stands at the center of a sensational legal storm after defying multiple court orders to vacate Rosebank Farm Number 10 in Umguza. The embattled Councillor is ...Published: 03 Dec 2024 at 14:24hrs | 507 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF councillor refuses to vacate lodgings
Bulawayo Ward One Councillor Josiah Mutangi is facing possible imprisonment after being accused of defying multiple court orders to vacate a farmhouse he has been occupying illegally since July 2022. ...Published: 01 Dec 2024 at 08:52hrs | 377 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Prosecutor General faces possible jail time
Zimbabwe's Prosecutor-General, Loice Matanda Moyo, is facing the prospect of jail time after a former prosecutor, Patrobs Dube, accused her office of defying a court order to reinstate him. Dube, who ...Published: 26 Nov 2024 at 08:13hrs | 863 | by Staff reporter
High Court stops Mabvuku housing co-op land theft
The High Court has ordered the Kuyemura Housing Pay Scheme, a Mabvuku-based housing co-operative, to immediately halt its encroachment onto land owned by Eastwind Trust, a private developer. The devel...Published: 22 Nov 2024 at 07:08hrs | 400 | by Staff reporter
Julius Malema's EFF implodes
South Africa's radical opposition party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), appears to be on a downward spiral after another high-profile member defected to ex-President Jacob Zuma's party.D...Published: 09 Nov 2024 at 20:43hrs | 2194 | by Staff reporter
Nota Baloyi arrested, sentenced to 60 days in jail for contempt
Prominent South African music executive Nhlamulo Nota Baloyi has been sentenced to 60 days in jail after being found guilty of contempt of court. The sentencing follows Baloyi's failure to comply with...Published: 07 Nov 2024 at 11:31hrs | 706 | by Staff reporter
Torture victim awarded ZWG140,000 in damages by ZRP
A Gweru man who was brutally assaulted by police officers during the Covid-19 lockdown while queuing for money at a bank has been awarded over ZWG140,000 in damages by the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZR...Published: 06 Nov 2024 at 07:05hrs | 454 | by Staff reporter
Mutumwa Mawere appeals 6 month contempt sentence
Zimbabwean-born South African businessman Mutumwa Mawere has filed an appeal against his six-month prison sentence for contempt of court, stemming from a protracted legal dispute involving Southern As...Published: 21 Oct 2024 at 08:28hrs | 4054 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING NEWS: ZANU PF Councillor Threatens Court Officers with Axe to Resist Eviction from Umguza Farm
In a shocking turn of events, ZANU PF Bulawayo Ward 1 Councillor, Josiah Mutangi, is embroiled in a dramatic standoff after defying a court-ordered eviction from a farm he has unlawfully occupied for ...Published: 10 Oct 2024 at 22:33hrs | 2886 | by Staff Reporter
Mutumwa Mawere sentenced to 6 months in SA prison
Zimbabwean-born South African businessman Mutumwa Mawere has been sentenced to six months in prison for contempt of court, following a protracted legal battle involving Southern Asbestos Sales (Pty) L...Published: 05 Oct 2024 at 16:16hrs | 2837 | by Staff reporter
Matinyarare stopped!
A South African High Court has ruled that no amount of monetary compensation can remedy the long-term reputational damage inflicted by social media activist Rutendo Matinyarare on Innscor Africa and i...Published: 02 Sep 2024 at 06:32hrs | 1546 | by Staff reporter
Rutendo Matinyarare jailed in South Africa
Zanu PF activist Benson Rutendo Manyarare has been convicted of contempt of court and jailed for three months by a court in Johannesburg, South Africa.The sentence was wholly suspended on cond...Published: 16 Jul 2024 at 20:54hrs | 2567 | 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 | 27 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean-based Italian tycoon's son on the run
Alessandro Marconati, son of Francesco Marconati, a prominent Zimbabwean-based Italian tycoon in gold, leather products, and hospitality, is currently evading police as they seek to apprehend him for ...Published: 18 Jun 2024 at 11:14hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Italian tycoon fight for bail
Francesco Marconati, an Italian tycoon based in Zimbabwe, will appear in court this morning for a bail application ruling after spending two nights in jail for failing to complete a mandatory 105-day ...Published: 12 Jun 2024 at 12:50hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Death threats issued against Zuma, culprit still not arrested
PhD holder, Dr Simamkele Dlakavu, this weekend purportedly took to ‘X' and demanded the death and assassination of uMkhonto weSizwe Party president Jacob Zuma.Dlakavu, in a series of tweets,...Published: 12 Jun 2024 at 07:28hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Woman sells house, refuses to vacate
A woman from Harare's Kuwadzana high-density suburb has been sentenced to six months in jail for contempt of court after she refused to vacate a house she sold.Judith Musamadiya sold her house...Published: 12 Jun 2024 at 06:48hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
EXPOSED: Self-styled Italian mafia's son Alessandro Marconati hires workers to do community service for him
In a scandal sending shockwaves through the community, Alessandro Marconati, son of the notorious self-styled Italian Mafia boss Francesco Marconati, faces serious accusations of dodging his court-man...Published: 07 Jun 2024 at 13:45hrs | 209 | by George Tshuma
Ramaphosa fall: Mnangagwa scared
SOUTH AFRICA held general elections on Wednesday and results trickling in are sending shivers down the spines of regional liberation movements.The ruling African National Congress (ANC) is set...Published: 03 Jun 2024 at 08:16hrs | 2 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
King Munhumutapa challenges govt
Timothy Chiminya, who goes by the title King Munhumutapa, recently oversaw the installment of Masimba Rubatika as Chief Seke, replacing Stanley Chimanikire. Despite government dismissal of his claims,...Published: 30 May 2024 at 08:50hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
Rutendo Matinyarare drags Mnangagwa and his family into his contempt of court saga
Self professed marketing and communication strategist Rutendo Matinyarare has dragged the President and the President's family into his shenanigans. Rutendo paid a visit to Champions Milling where he ...Published: 17 May 2024 at 14:37hrs | 35 | by George Tshuma
Zimra ordered to release seized truck
The High Court has ordered the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) to release a truck and its contents seized from a driver who was facing allegations of smuggling before he was acquitted by the courts...Published: 16 Apr 2024 at 07:57hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Jacob Zuma wins
Former president Jacob Zuma can contest the elections as an uMkhonto weSizwe Party candidate, the Electoral Court has ruled. On Tuesday, the court dismissed the Electoral Commission of South A...Published: 09 Apr 2024 at 20:52hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Attempt on Zuma's life flops?
Police arrest 51-year-old man for drunk and reckless driving after he crashed into Zuma's armoured state vehicle.South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma survived a car accident after a vehi...Published: 29 Mar 2024 at 19:28hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Matinyarare's 'Innscor has destroyed the taste of Zim food' comments cause consternation
If Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE)-listed food giant Innscor was hoping to avoid press scrutiny, it could hardly have chosen a more self-destructive path than seeking a gag order against journalist Rute...Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 21:20hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths in violent clashes
Zanu-PF supporters were left nursing injuries after a violent encounter over a residential stand owned by a deceased party supporter in Grobly Park, Waterfalls in Harare.Zanu-PF shadow council...Published: 03 Mar 2024 at 08:49hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Matanga told to guard Chitando's docket
A FIRM embroiled in a fight for control of gold claims at a Bindura mine has petitioned the commissioner general of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Godwin Matanga, over a docket opened against form...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 17:27hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mbalula exposes Ramaphosa's plan to arrest Zuma since 2018
Former minister of sports and recreation, Fikile Mbalula, has revealed that the African National Congress (ANC) has been plotting to arrest former president Jacob Zuma from as early as 2018. Mbalula c...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 13:25hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
CCC accuses Jacob Mudenda of doing Zanu-PF bidding
ZIMBABWE'S main opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) has accused the Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda and the President of the Senate Mabel Chinomona of acting in contempt of ...Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 14:30hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's 18 MPs bite the dust
National Assembly speaker Jacob Mudenda has upheld his controversial expulsion of 18 CCC legislators who were Tuesday permanently ejected from the legislative house moments after court halted further ...Published: 15 Nov 2023 at 18:22hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Court clears ZAPU official of contempt of court charges
Andrew Ndlovu, the ZAPU National Secretary for Security and Internal Affairs, who had been facing contempt of court charges after his arrest in April of this year in connection with a property dispute...Published: 27 Oct 2023 at 19:31hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
LEAKED: CCC 'legal case' for foreign run fresh election
NB: Finally, the cat is out of the bag. Below is the CCC 'legal case' against Zimbabwe's sovereignty, which calls for foreigners to organise and conduct fresh elections in Zimbabwe.The entire ...Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 23:01hrs | 1 | by Jonathan Moyo
Court clears ZEC to receive postal votes by 20 August
Justice Tawanda Chitapi has this afternoon dismissed with no order as to costs an urgent application by Saviour Kasukuwere asking the High Court in Harare to set aside Statutory Instrument (SI) 140A o...Published: 11 Aug 2023 at 18:48hrs | 11 | by Jonathan Moyo
CCC candidate up for contempt of court
Throwing his wife out of their matrimonial home has landed CCC National Assembly candidate for Mutoko East, Yeukai Kaseke, before a magistrate on charges of contempt of court for defying a court order...Published: 31 Jul 2023 at 06:52hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zondo's court says Zuma must go back to prison
The Constitutional Court dismissed the Department of Correctional Services' application for leave to appeal a ruling that former president Jacob Zuma must go back to prison.In the ruling hande...Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 16:04hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga in another bid to block extradition to Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWEAN businessman Frank Buyanga incarcerated in South Africa has launched a fresh bid in the High Court to avert extradition to his home country.Buyanga has been in a Johannesburg prison ...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 06:26hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi appeal against enacting ministers' misconduct Bill upheld
The Supreme Court has upheld an appeal by the justice minister and the attorney general who were both challenging a High Court order directing them to draft a code of conduct Bill for senior governmen...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 19:58hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Arrests on perpetrators is not political
As the nation draws closer to the much-awaited 2023 harmonised elections, whose date President Mnangagwa is yet to announce, Government detractors who consist mainly of opposition parties such as the ...Published: 12 May 2023 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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