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Court ruling reopens Norton land dispute
A protracted legal battle over land rights in Norton has been reignited after the High Court ordered the reinstatement of a previously dismissed case between two rival property development companies l...Published: 16 Jul 2025 at 07:40hrs | 183 | by Staff reporter
Gono exposes former employees
Former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono has laid bare explosive allegations against his former employees Clark and Beverly Makoni, accusing the couple of fraudulently taking control...Published: 05 Jul 2025 at 14:53hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter
Digitisation of Zimbabwe Magistrates' Courts begins
The Integrated Electronic Case Management System (IECMS), a digital platform aimed at modernising Zimbabwe's justice delivery, will be rolled out in Magistrates' Courts across Mashonaland Central and ...Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 11:22hrs | 135 | by Staff reporter
Swallowfield Estates dispute reignited by EIA certificate
The long-running legal wrangle over ownership and development rights at Swallowfield Estates in Norton has taken a fresh twist following the issuance of an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) certif...Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 11:06hrs | 68 | by Staff reporter
Tanganda wins US$47,000 tea dispute
Tanganda Tea Company has won a long-running legal battle at the High Court of Zimbabwe against trader Darlington Matsitukwa, over an unpaid foreign currency debt for tea products sold for resale in Ma...Published: 09 May 2025 at 11:04hrs | 510 | by Staff reporter
Top private school put under corporate rescue
Top private school, Knowstics Academy, has been placed under corporate rescue as part of efforts to revive its operations and restore its reputation in Zimbabwe's competitive education sector....Published: 26 Nov 2024 at 08:16hrs | 827 | by Staff reporter
Businessman challenges High Court ruling after losing US$380k home
Harare businessman Frank Humbe has taken his fight for justice to the Supreme Court, appealing a High Court ruling that dismissed his application for rescission of a default judgment against suspected...Published: 29 Oct 2024 at 07:40hrs | 451 | by Staff reporter
High Court official quits over US$2 million property 'fraud'
A high-ranking civil registry official at Zimbabwe's High Court, Traver Mupita, has resigned following the initiation of disciplinary proceedings by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) concerning hi...Published: 18 Oct 2024 at 12:29hrs | 1652 | by Staff reporter
'Deal with Phala Phala, not Dr Hlophe'
The DA had better prospects of winning on the Phala Phala matter involving President Cyril Ramaphosa, which they were "flip-flopping" on, than they did on challenging uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) lead...Published: 25 Jul 2024 at 09:13hrs | 863 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe moves to digitalise magistrates courts
The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) marked its 14th anniversary by launching a campaign to digitalize all magistrates courts nationwide. This initiative aims to improve access to judicial in...Published: 11 Jun 2024 at 06:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Cowdray Park Court construction underway
The Cowdray Park courthouse in Bulawayo is set to open in the last quarter of the year despite construction delays caused by rocky terrain and water issues, according to the Judicial Services Commissi...Published: 05 Jun 2024 at 07:04hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Enos Nkala's property detroyed
THE widow of the late veteran nationalist and National Hero, Enos Nkala, has been left in shock after a tenant who was occupying the family's business premises at Mbalabala along the Bulawayo-Beitbrid...Published: 24 Mar 2024 at 14:57hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
'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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers rescue detained toddler, pregnant woman
POLICE have set free a toddler and a pregnant woman who were detained alongside other aggrieved villagers after they had protested maladministration by some school authorities at Sagambe Primary Schoo...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 05:10hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans must hold the Judiciary and ZEC accountable for contested elections
The convener of THE National Electoral Reforms Agenda (NERA) and leader of the FORUS political party, Manyara Muyenziwa, asserts that Zimbabweans should demand accountability from both the Judiciary a...Published: 21 Jan 2024 at 08:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Biti had motive to attack Aleshina'
Deputy Prosecutor-General Mr Michael Reza yesterday said opposition politician and lawyer Tendai Biti had the motive and opportunity to assault businesswoman Mrs Tatiana Aleshina after an altercation ...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 05:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The year Mnangagwa tightened grip on power
The air crackled with anticipation on November 22, 2017 as Zimbabwe witnessed a moment etched in history.Emmerson Mnangagwa, the man once cast out, returned to his homeland not as a fugitive, ...Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 12:59hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
CCC consults supporters on Parly pull-out
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) yesterday said it was consulting its supporters on the way forward as it mulls pulling out of Parliament in protest over the "sham" December 9 by-elections....Published: 14 Dec 2023 at 03:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
CCC undoing is a strategy of innovating around the familiar
To put it bluntly, Zimbabwe's main political opposition party, the CCC, in its present construct, is wasting the people's time, resources and mostly emotions as they continue to prove through unbeliev...Published: 09 Dec 2023 at 18:56hrs | 18 | by Brian Sedze
'Nothing amiss in Chinamora scenario'
THE move to have retired High Court Judge Justice Webster Chinamora remain in office to clear all reserved judgments on his desk is above the law and in line with Section 186 (7) of the Constitution, ...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 11:44hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Judge's sudden resignation opens a Pandora's box
FORMER High Court judge Webster Chinamora allegedly left a huge backlog of reserved judgments, with Delta Corporation continuing to haunt him despite his recent resignation, the Zimbabwe Independent r...Published: 25 Nov 2023 at 07:46hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
CCC moves to clip Tshabangu's reign of terror
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) has swiftly moved to clip the wings of self-imposed Secretary General Sengezo Tshabangu by filing a court challenge to interdict him from representing the oppositio...Published: 10 Nov 2023 at 06:47hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Biti's 3rd ConCourt application turned down
OPPOSITION politician Tendai Biti failed again yesterday to have points of law in his trial for verbal and threatening assault referred to the Constitutional Court, with Harare magistrate Mrs Vongai G...Published: 09 Nov 2023 at 05:53hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Fugitive killer to be extradited to Zimbabwe
Peter Dube, a suspected fugitive killer, has been apprehended in Mozambique after evading capture for two years, and he will soon be extradited to Zimbabwe.It has come to light that Dube, who ...Published: 08 Oct 2023 at 07:48hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
CCC demands fresh polls
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has demanded fresh elections supervised by the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) as the United States revealed that it was engaging regional ...Published: 30 Aug 2023 at 06:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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 | 19 | by Staff reporter
Fresh court battle to rescue Kasukuwere bid
FORMER Zanu-PF youth leader, Jim Kunaka, has approached the Constitutional Court, challenging a High Court decision barring exiled former minister, Saviour Kasukuwere, from running in the August 23 pr...Published: 30 Jul 2023 at 09:05hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Is Kasukuwere out just to spoil the broth?
THE sound of the gauntlet that presidential hopeful, former cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere threw only last month has refused to die down.After his shock announcement that he would be cont...Published: 08 Jul 2023 at 10:01hrs | 12 | by Kudakwashe Gwabanayi
Post nomination report exposes Zanu-PF violence during process
AN observation report has exposed Zanu-PF intra-party violence that occurred during the nomination court processes after some disgruntled members in Mashonaland West tried to submit their selection pa...Published: 29 Jun 2023 at 06:27hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Election candidates disqualified over missing names on voter's roll
FAILURE by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission to avail the voters roll to political parties has emerged as one of the contributing factors to the disqualification of candidates during the nomination co...Published: 28 Jun 2023 at 20:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zec yet to release voters roll
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is yet to furnish political parties with copies of the voters roll as it is still verifying nomination papers for all candidates.The nomination courts s...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 06:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Parliament decides on election nomination fees
PARLIAMENT is today expected to decide on election nomination fees following an order by the Constitutional Court after hearing an application that said the amount of money required was beyond the rea...Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 06:39hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF abusing the courts, Mnangagwa challenger
Zanu-PF former youth member Sybeth Musengezi yesterday accused the ruling party of abusing court processes to solve internal party issues.Musengezi said this through his lawyer Nqobani Sithole...Published: 19 May 2023 at 20:43hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Biti moves to derail assault trial
FORMER Finance minister Tendai Biti yesterday filed an urgent chamber application to stop his trial in a case where he is accused of verbally assaulting local businesswoman, Tatiana Aleshina.I...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Stop bribing Zimbabwe prosecutors'
THE National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) of Zimbabwe has warned the public against bribing officials, especially prosecutors to fast-track cases as it is a criminal offence.The authority said ...Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 07:59hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe closing gender gaps in technology, says Mutsvangwa
The Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Senator Monica Mutsvangwa says the Second Republic is actively working towards bridging gender gaps which exist in innovation and tech...Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 23:14hrs | 14 | by Staff Reporter
Sikhala allies give up on court processes
IMPRISONED Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) politician Job Sikhala's allies yesterday said they had given up on the legal route to secure his release, claiming the Judiciary is captured.On ...Published: 06 Jan 2023 at 18:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Sikhala a victim of his own mischief'
JUSTICE Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has described jailed Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator Job Sikhala as a theatrical character, who is "author of his own situation".The minister s...Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 05:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
State responds to Sikhala application
HARARE magistrate Mrs Tafadzwa Miti's ruling in dismissing Job Sikhala's bail application on changed circumstances wherein he is accused of inciting public violence in Nyatsime has no bearing on the o...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 04:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Electricity blackout stops Sikhala's bail bid
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator Job Sikhala has been remanded further in custody after his bail hearing failed to start due to power outages that affected court processes.Sikhal...Published: 19 Nov 2022 at 06:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ZACC hit by resignations
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission has been losing highly skilled workers trained in investigating cases of corruption, especially cyber crimes, making it harder to track down and deal with sophi...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti protests
FORMER Finance minister Tendai Biti yesterday protested against alleged moves by a Harare land developer to run commentaries in the Press on an ongoing court case in violation of the law.Biti ...Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 05:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Buyanga blames Mnangagwa family for arrest
BUSINESS mogul Frank Buyanga, who is involved in a nasty fight over the custody of his minor son with ex-girlfriend Chantelle Muteswa, is languishing in jail after he was denied bail by a South Africa...Published: 15 Nov 2022 at 04:54hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Court hears ex-judge Ndewere's arguments
THE High Court on Monday heard arguments by former judge Justice Erica Ndewere who is seeking to retain a Mercedes Benz vehicle which she used during her tenure.The Judicial Service Commission...Published: 26 Oct 2022 at 05:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Magistrates allege State capture of the Judiciary
SOME magistrates have alleged State capture of the Judiciary, and accused senior officials in the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) of corruption and interference with court processes.In an op...Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
No hope for Zimbabwe Exemption Permit holders?
THE National Employers' Association of South Africa (NEASA) has called on its members to check Zimbabwean employees' documentation ahead of the expiry of the Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEPs) in Decem...Published: 01 Oct 2022 at 18:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC demands US$60 million for power station
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has insisted that they will only part with the title deeds of the Bulawayo Power Station if the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) concedes to pay US$60 million in royalties....Published: 25 Sep 2022 at 16:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council to operate without deputy mayor
THE Bulawayo City Council will be operating without a deputy mayor until the High Court deals with a number of applications relating to who should take over the position between councillors, Mlandu Nc...Published: 11 Sep 2022 at 09:58hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF knives out for Wadyajena
SENIOR Zanu-PF officials in the Midlands province are reportedly baying for Gokwe-Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena's blood and are seeking his expulsion from the ruling party for his alle...Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi denies government meddling in Sikhala, Mubaiwa court cases
Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has vehemently denied claims of either government or Zanu-PF meddling in court processes involving prominent opposition politician Job Sikhala and Marry Mubaiwa, ex-wi...Published: 04 Sep 2022 at 15:28hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
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