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Delta tax burden could soar to US$329m
Beverage giant Delta Corporation Limited risks a staggering US$329 million tax liability for its financial year ended March 31, 2025, if it loses ongoing court appeals against additional tax assessmen...Published: 16 May 2025 at 10:32hrs | 432 | by Staff reporter
'Rapist' teacher loses labour court appeal
A teacher, who lost his appeal at the Labour Court after being dismissed by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education on allegations of raping a student, has turned to a traditional court seekin...Published: 04 Apr 2025 at 10:45hrs | 734 | by Sgtaff reporter
Prominent lawyer cleared following gold theft trial storm
Harare lawyer Admire Rubaya has been cleared of any wrongdoing following a successful Supreme Court appeal against a lower court's decision to try him and three others for allegedly defeating the cour...Published: 20 Mar 2025 at 09:15hrs | 390 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu reports Welshman Ncube
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) self-imposed secretary-general Sengezo Tshabangu has filed a formal complaint against party leader Welshman Ncube with the Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ), accusing N...Published: 24 Jan 2025 at 07:56hrs | 1349 | by Staff reporter
Sengenzo Tshabangu dumped by lawyers
The lawyers representing self-styled CCC Interim Secretary General Sengezo Tshabangu and his colleague Senator Nonhlanhla Mlotshwa in the battle for the soul of CCC Messrs Ncube Attorneys firm have du...Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 19:00hrs | 3805 | by George Tshuma
Sengezo Tshabangu withdraws his Supreme Court appeal
Interim Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Secretary General Sengezo Tshabangu has withdrawn his Supreme Court appeal against a High Court judgment that nullified his changes to the party's parliamen...Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 12:49hrs | 1957 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe man jailed 10 years in US$2.7 million ZB Bank heist set free
Tendai Zuze, who was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison for his alleged involvement in the 2021 US$2.7 million ZB Bank highway cash heist, has been acquitted by the High Court on appeal aft...Published: 17 Dec 2024 at 08:21hrs | 1235 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's disqualified ally takes case to Supreme Court
The disqualified independent candidate for the Victoria Falls City Council Ward 1 by-election, Ephias Mambume, has filed an appeal at the Supreme Court challenging the High Court's decision to bar him...Published: 22 Nov 2024 at 15:10hrs | 254 | by Staff reporter
Court disqualifies Chamisa's candidate over unpaid council bills
The High Court has disqualified independent candidate Mr. Ephias Mambume from contesting the November 30 Victoria Falls City Council Ward 1 by-election, following an electoral petition filed by Zanu-P...Published: 21 Nov 2024 at 06:23hrs | 112 | by Staff reporter
Mugodhi's son loses Supreme Court appeal ending power wrangle
Washington Mugodhi, the son of the late Bishop Tadeu Mugodhi of the Mugodhi Apostolic Faith Church (MAFC), has suffered another legal blow after the Supreme Court dismissed his appeal against a High C...Published: 16 Nov 2024 at 18:21hrs | 1024 | by Staff reporter
Tomana loses Supreme Court US$114,000 debt appeal
The late Zimbabwean ambassador Johannes Tomana lost his Supreme Court appeal against Tian Ze Tobacco Company over a debt of US$114,749.80 for farming inputs. Tomana had contested a High Court judgment...Published: 16 Aug 2024 at 08:42hrs | 691 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko loses Supreme Court appeal
The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko, who was challenging the rejection of his discharge application by both the magistrate and the High Court. Mphoko ...Published: 07 Jun 2024 at 07:33hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimra caught offside
A Zambian firm, Rock Telecom Limited, has won a Supreme Court appeal after the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) seized its consignment of 96,820 mobile phones imported from China. Initially, the Hig...Published: 04 Jun 2024 at 11:50hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Kereke still a free man after losing Supreme Court appeal
Munyaradzi Kereke, convicted of child rape, remains free despite losing his appeal at the Supreme Court. Despite facing a 10-year prison term, he should have reported to serve the remaining 20...Published: 03 Jun 2024 at 17:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
CID officer loses appeal against 30-year sentence
A FORMER Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officer has lost a Supreme Court appeal against his 30-year sentence for unlawful entry and murder.The Supreme Court bench composed of Justice ...Published: 21 Mar 2024 at 08:46hrs | 37 | by Staff reporter
Harare businessman loses US$1,5 million home
Prominent Harare businessman, Tendai Mashamhanda has lost his bid to save his US$1,5 million upmarket home after Supreme Court judges ruled he acquired the property fraudulently while under judicial a...Published: 24 Feb 2024 at 14:01hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa MPs' Supreme Court appeal trashed
Recalled legislators and senators from the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) must once again submit their appeal to the Supreme Court, marking the third attempt, as their recent application was dism...Published: 22 Feb 2024 at 15:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Reprieve for Masvingo illegal settlers
A MASVINGO magistrate has suspended the eviction of hundreds of illegal settlers pending the determination of their High Court appeal against government's decision to remove them from their homes....Published: 17 Feb 2024 at 17:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala to appeal conviction, sentence
Freed opposition politician Job Sikhala is set to appeal his conviction and sentence for public violence incitement charges, his lawyers said Tuesday.The former Zengeza West lawmaker and co-ac...Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 07:12hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Drama-filled 2023 ends in tears for CCC
POLITICS, according to social scientists, is loosely translated as a battle to control resources with man putting political contestation as a means to ensure equitable distribution of whatever is foun...Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 18:22hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu's by-elections challenged
A ZIMBABWEAN based outside the country has lodged a formal complaint with the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) questioning the legality of the recent by-elections and the legitimacy of the indi...Published: 19 Dec 2023 at 06:16hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Dingumuzi Phuti election petition goes to Supreme Court
LOSING candidate for Bulilima Constituency in the August 23-24 harmonised elections, Ms Bekezela Maplanka of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has approached the Supreme Court challenging the de...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 07:24hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Jacob Ngarivhume's appeal postponed again
The High Court appeal by Jacob Ngarivhume for both sentence and conviction has been postponed for the umpteenth time to Thursday 7 December 2023. The reason that was given for the postponement was tha...Published: 05 Dec 2023 at 20:33hrs | 13 | by Staff Reporter
Mutumbuka loses Supreme Court appeal against the fraudulent sale of his home
INDEPENDENT Zimbabwe's first Education minister Dzingai Barnabas Mutumbuka has lost his Supreme Court appeal against the fraudulent sale of his Chisipite home by a team of fraudsters working in cahoot...Published: 05 Dec 2023 at 05:21hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Thabani Mpofu tackles Tshabangu
THE crucial Supreme Court appeal by 14 main opposition CCC legislators against their arbitrary recalls by an opposition activist upheld by the High Court will be heard this week after their lawyer Adv...Published: 29 Nov 2023 at 15:13hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Thabani Mpofu tears Tshabangu recalls apart
Advocate Thabani Mpofu, one of Zimbabwe's most prominent lawyers, has ruthlessly torn asunder opposition political activist Sengezo Tshabangu's case of recalling main opposition CCC MPs, senators and ...Published: 24 Nov 2023 at 17:48hrs | 87 | 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 | 2 | by Staff reporter
How much is Zanu-PF paying for SADC silence, asks Namibian's Swartbooi
Namibian opposition leader Bernadus Swartbooi has raised concerns about how Zimbabwe and the ruling Zanu-PF party seem to enjoy the protection and silence of the Southern African Development Community...Published: 29 Sep 2023 at 06:31hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
'Advocate' Chamisa's CCC says Zimbabwe Judiciary captured
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) says it has not approached the Constitutional Court to challenge President Emmerson Mnangagwa's controversial victory because the country's Judiciary is "captur...Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 06:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe polls to go ahead without provision of updated voters' roll
The general elections in Zimbabwe are going ahead in about a week's time.This after the opposition failed to obtain an up-to-date voters' roll from the Zimbabwe Election Commission (ZEC)....Published: 16 Aug 2023 at 06:54hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
12 CCC candidate to know their fate tomorrow midday
The Supreme Court will deliver its judgement at midday on Thursday in the appeal by 12 CCC National Assembly candidates from Bulawayo who are fighting their disqualification from August 23 poll by the...Published: 02 Aug 2023 at 18:13hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere takes poll fight to Sadc
EXILED former Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere says he has appealed to the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) to rescue his presidential bid after he was disqualified by the High and Sup...Published: 02 Aug 2023 at 07:02hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbavwe sleepwalks into another unfair, discredited election
AS Zimbabwe sleepwalks into yet another sham election, amid the brazen subversion of citizens' constitutional right to vote for representatives of their choice, the 23 August polls are already irretri...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 21:12hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's 12 disqualified candidates' appeal hearing set for Wednesday
The Supreme Court will this Wednesday hear the appeal by 12 Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) aspiring MPs who were blocked from taking part in the August 23 election because their nomination papers...Published: 31 Jul 2023 at 18:18hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police warn Kasukuwere supporters
THE police have warned that perpetrators of political violence before, during and after elections will face the full wrath of the law.The warning comes after presidential aspirant Saviour Kasu...Published: 29 Jul 2023 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC vows diplomatic remedies to reverse poll ban on 12 party candidates
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has vowed to exhaust both legal and regional diplomatic remedies to reverse the shock ouster of 12 party candidates from contesting for Bulawayo parliamentary seats...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 21:07hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
CCC candidates in Bulawayo barred from contesting, appeals ruling
The High Court in Bulawayo has nullified the nomination of the 12 CCC candidates from contesting in the harmonised elections following a court appeal by ZANU PF.The CCC candidates and ZEC lost...Published: 27 Jul 2023 at 15:00hrs | 14 | by Desmond Nleya
Kasukuwere remains a candidate in the election
Zanu-PF activist Lovedale Mangwana, who is battling to block independent presidential election candidate Saviour Kasukuwere from running in the 23 August crucial poll, has had his High Court applicati...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 08:26hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere gets court reprieve
INDEPENDENT presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere has been granted temporary reprieve after the High Court struck off the roll an application for execution of a judgment granted in favour of a Zan...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 06:51hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora hits back at Witness Dube
Party leader Douglas Mwonzora has hit back at his former national information and publicity secretary saying Witness Dube and the dozen MPs who defected have been "bought" by Zanu-PF: "Some top MDC le...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 11:51hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere billboards upset Mnangagwa's govt
GOVERNMENT has angrily reacted to campaign billboards mounted by self-exiled former minister Saviour Kasukuwere's campaign team, and has ordered advertising companies to seek approval first befo...Published: 20 Jul 2023 at 06:57hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere seeking to block urgent hearing of his Supreme Court appeal
EXILED former cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere is seeking to block an urgent hearing of his appeal challenging a High Court ruling blocking him from contesting as a presidential candidate.K...Published: 19 Jul 2023 at 06:50hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
EFF fights in Kasukuwere's corner, calls on Chamisa to support his battle
SOUTH AFRICAN opposition, Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has castigated attempts by Zimbabwe's ruling party Zanu-PF to elbow out its erstwhile commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere, from the Presidential rac...Published: 19 Jul 2023 at 06:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's presidential poll battle intensifies
THE court battle being waged by Zanu-PF proxy Lovedale Mangwana to bar independent presidential election candidate Saviour Kasukuwere from the race is intensifying and getting increasingly desperate....Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 13:53hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's desperate bid to block Kasukuwere goes a gear up
A Zanu-PF activist, who successfully challenged former Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere's nomination as a presidential candidate, now wants the courts to stop Kasukuwere's name from being ...Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:21hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Battle to bar Kasukuwere from the race is intensifying
The court battle waged by Lovedale Mangwana to bar independent presidential election candidate Saviour Kasukuwere from the race is intensifying. Mangwana is alleged to be acting on behalf of h...Published: 15 Jul 2023 at 11:55hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere aides taunt Mnangagwa over poll ban
Independent presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere's campaign team believes President Emmerson Mnangagwa initiated the election ban order on his former ally out of fear of losing the poll to the ex...Published: 15 Jul 2023 at 11:19hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere launches Supreme Court appeal
Saviour Kasukuwere will "fight to the bitter end" to stop his name being removed from presidential candidates for the August 23 election, aides said on Wednesday after he launched an appeal against a ...Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 13:31hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Faz manipulates voters' roll, claims CCC
THE opposition CCC fears the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is manipulating the voters' roll in favour of Zanu-PF, hence the commission's failure to avail the electronic copy to candidates, a sen...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 14:25hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
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