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Matsika's bid for Croco Motors hits final legal roadblock
Businessman Farai Matsika's prolonged legal battle to claim shareholding in Croco Motors has reached a conclusive end, with the High Court striking his latest case off the roll. This marks the latest ...Published: 23 Nov 2024 at 12:46hrs | 290 | by Staff reporter
Robbers raid 2 more private schools
TWO more private colleges in Ruwa and Gweru lost nearly US$17 500 cash to robbers who raided their premises recently, with police suspecting that the thieves could be working with staff.In Gwe...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 05:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa set to announce major shakeup of government bureaucracy
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is set to implement a major shake-up of the bureaucracy in the coming weeks with several high-profile departures and appointments.Misheck Sibanda, the chief secret...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 19:44hrs | | 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
Biti hit with costs for delaying US$1m defamation lawsuit
CCC politician Tendai Biti has been hit with costs incurred by Augur Investments and its owner Mr Kenneth Sharpe over the US$1 million civil lawsuit against him for allegedly defaming the land develop...Published: 10 Aug 2023 at 06:43hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF wins 3 Parly seats unopposed after High Court ruling
THE High Court yesterday nullified the National Assembly candidature of 18 members of various political parties who filed their nomination papers outside the timeframes when the Nomination Court sat l...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF activists' lawyer says they have a solid case against CCC candidates
Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Bongani Ndlovu on Thursday reserved judgement in a matter where Zanu-PF activists are seeking the disqualification of opposition candidates vying for parliamentary se...Published: 20 Jul 2023 at 18:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Late candidates: High Court to rule on preliminary points
HIGH Court judge Justice Bongani Ndlovu will today make a ruling on the preliminary points raised during arguments in an application in which 12 registered voters in Bulawayo are challenging the Zimba...Published: 20 Jul 2023 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
High Court set to rule on Zimbabwe polls nomination case
HIGH Court judge Justice Bongani Ndlovu will today make a ruling on the preliminary points raised during arguments in an application in which 12 registered voters in Bulawayo are challenging the Zimba...Published: 20 Jul 2023 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's lawyers want case against CCC candidates thrown out
Lawyers representing Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) candidates in a case where twelve Bulawayo registered voters seek their disqualification from participating in the August elections want the ca...Published: 19 Jul 2023 at 19:07hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Biti in bid to delay suit
Lawyer and politician Tendai Biti, has been accused of playing delaying tactics in his defence of a defamation suit by seeking one postponement after another.The legislator is being sued for U...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 08:10hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Biti delaying defamation trial'
Citizens Coalition for Change vice-president Tendai Biti has been accused of delaying his defamation trial by seeking postponement of the matter on various occasions.Biti is being sued for US$...Published: 05 Jul 2023 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti loses US$1m defamation appeal
THE Supreme Court of Zimbabwe has dismissed an application for leave to appeal filed by opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator Tendai Biti who is faces a US$1 million lawsuit for al...Published: 10 Jun 2023 at 17:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Notorious cattle rustler arrested over 4 beasts
Notorious alleged cattle rustler Elson Chimutunga (40) from Marondera District, was arrested yesterday after being found with two slaughtered beasts, while two live animals were tied to a tree....Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
ConCourt backs RBZ on US dollar conversion
The 2018 decision by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to convert all US dollar balances in Zimbabwean bank accounts to local currency was quite constitutional the Constitutional Court ruled yesterda...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
ConCourt sets aside RTGS/US$ High Court ruling
THE Constitutional Court (ConCourt) has set aside a landmark ruling by High Court judge Justice Joseph Mafusire who ordered CABS Bank to pay a local businessman US$142 000, which it had converted to R...Published: 31 May 2023 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF polls descend into chaos
Zanu-PF yesterday held chaotic primary elections marred by violence and vote rigging claims with some candidates' names missing from cell registers while ballots were not delivered in some areas....Published: 26 Mar 2023 at 10:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF turns Mash West into war zone
SANYATI, in Mashonaland West province, reportedly turned into a war zone this week as rival aspiring Zanu-PF candidates bludgeoned each other ahead of the party's primary elections set for tomorrow....Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Young Turks plot surprises
DAGGERS are out in Zanu-PF as aspiring youthful candidates turn on the heat on the party's old guard ahead of the ruling party's primary elections.It appears the ruling party has opened up the...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 22:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Biti's US$1m lawsuit hearing moved to March 31
THE trial of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) MP Tendai Biti (Harare East) on a charge of defaming Augur Investments owner Ken Sharpe has been deferred to March 31 after the opposition official fil...Published: 06 Mar 2023 at 17:54hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Sakunda's Dembare mediation hits a snag
THE mediation efforts by Dynamos' principal sponsors Sakunda Holdings are likely to yield no result as the warring parties in the long-standing ownership and shareholder wrangles remain poles apart....Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 06:44hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Sakunda mediate in Dembare in-fighting
Dynamos principal sponsors, Sakunda Holdings, have offered to help mediate and end hostilities by parties battling for control of the Premier Soccer League giants.The energy giants were last S...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa powers challenge judgement reserved
THE Constitutional Court (ConCourt) on Wednesday reserved judgment in a matter in which legal think-tank Veritas, and Dzivarasekwa MP Edwin Mushoriwa are challenging a law which critics say concentrat...Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Judge berated for 'incompetent order'
IN an unprecedented move, Supreme Court judges have berated High Court Justice Tawanda Chitapi (pictured) for alleged incompetence and passing an irregular default judgement in a long-standing land ow...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
US$28m in taxpayers' funds misappropriated in corrupt deal
THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Lands has recommended that the police and Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission investigate the Grain Millers' Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) and its president T...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:16hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe judges hear own appeal
SUPREME Court judges on Tuesday presided over their own appeal against a judgment by the High Court, which outlawed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's extension of Chief Justice Luke Malaba's term of offi...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:36hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Malaba crisis: Kika's lawyers ditches the case?
Lawyers for rights lawyer Musa Kika notify Constitutional Court they will not file papers or appear in court Friday after judges refused to recuse in challenge brought by Zanu-PF supporter Marx Mapung...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 17:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Malaba case 'now lawfare' says Govt
THE battle to ensure Chief Justice Luke Malaba stays in office intensified yesterday, with top government officials describing the ongoing Constitutional Court (ConCourt) challenge as "lawfare."...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ConCourt judges to decide on Chief Justice Malaba
The Constitutional Court will now decide the validity of the High Court order blocking Chief Justice Luke Malaba from opting under the Constitution to stay in office for an additional five years after...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Constitutional Court judges to decide on Chief Justice Malaba
The Constitutional Court will now decide the validity of the High Court order blocking Chief Justice Luke Malaba from opting under the Constitution to stay in office for an additional five years after...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 06:53hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Malaba crisis: Drama at contempt hearing
THERE was drama yesterday after one of the three judges designated to hear an application seeking the arrest of Chief Justice Luke Malaba recused himself after confirming that he had met with the head...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Judge recuses self in Malaba case
The urgent application in the High Court by the executive director of an NGO to have Chief Justice Luke Malaba found in contempt of court and jailed is now being heard by just two judges after Justice...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nyaradzo Funeral sued for releasing funeral claim funds to wrong client
CHIREDZIA well-known Chiredzi sugarcane farmer and war veteran, Boniface Mutemachani and Nyaradzo Funeral Services are in a nasty fight as the former claims the latter disbursed his reimbursement to t...Published: 20 May 2021 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Switch of bank accounts to Zimdollars valid, Supreme Court rules
Sums in accounts denominated in US dollars were legally converted to sums denominated in Zimbabwe dollars in terms of a Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe directive when the local currency was reintroduced, the...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 05:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira seeks magistrate's recusal
THE trial of former Public Service minister Priscah Mupfumira, who is jointly charged for graft with former ministry secretary Ngoni Masoka, on two counts of criminal abuse of office continued yesterd...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira case to continue 'at all costs'
Chief Magistrate Mr Munamato Mutevedzi has expressed concern over delays in the trial of former Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Prisca Mupfumira and her ex-Permanent Secretary Ngoni...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira trial fails to kick off
THE trial of former Cabinet Minister Prisca Mupfumira and ex-Public Service Commission secretary Ngoni Masoka failed to kick-off again this morning after the former's lawyer failed turn up because of ...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 20:32hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko's trial continues in camera
Former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko's trial continued yesterday in camera at the Harare Magistrates Court. Mphoko is facing criminal abuse of office charges after he allegedly instructed ...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mphoko's trial to be heard in camera to protect state secrets
The State yesterday successfully applied for proceedings in the trial of former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko be heard in camera to ensure the protection of State secrets. Mphoko is facing...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere set free
The High Court halted former local government minister Saviour Kasukuwere's trial on Wednesday after ruling that charges filed by prosecutors did not disclose an offence.A magistrate's refusal...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 16:20hrs | | by ZimLive
Ex-top cop on life jail freed
THE Supreme Court has acquitted an ex-top police detective who was serving life imprisonment for fatally shooting a mine worker in a fight over the ownership of a gold mine in Fort Rixon in Matabelela...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 16:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Supa Mandiwanzira's case postponed
Harare provincial magistrate Mr Elijah Makomo on Tuesday deferred the matter of former Cabinet minister Supa Mandiwanzira to August 5 following indications that the State's application for rescission ...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Scandal prone Zinara caught up in yet another murky deal fiasco
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) could have lost US$5,2 million in a murky deal which was supposed to see a 'controversial third party' earn a US$5 million kickback as a condition fo...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 17:53hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mandiwanzira gets long remand
THE trial of former ICT minister Supa Mandiwanzira, who is accused of fraudulently appointing his personal assistant to the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory of Zimbabwe (Potraz) board was yest...Published: 05 Jun 2019 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe goes after Chamisa?
MDC-T president Dr Thokozani Khupe says last week's High Court ruling, which nullified the ascendency of her bitter rival, Mr Nelson Chamisa to the helm of the party, rightfully placed her back in cha...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mandiwanzira seeks release of his passport
The trial of former ICT, Postal and Courier Services Minister Supa Mandiwanzira kicked off this Tuesday at the Harare Magistrates Court with the accused seeking the release of his passport.Mea...Published: 07 May 2019 at 21:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wadyajena Parly committee bunks GMAZ hearing
THE Tafadzwa Musarara-chaired Grain Millers' Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) yesterday turned up in Parliament to be grilled by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Lands and Agriculture on issues ...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Supa seeks acquittal on graft charges
Former Minister Supa Mandiwanzira, who is embroiled in a $218 million-consultancy scandal, is seeking acquittal on charges of corruption, arguing the indictment is defective. Mandiwanzira is o...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
White Zimbabwean farmer fights eviction at High Court
Magistrate Geraldine Mutsotso last week found commercial farmer Shane Warth of Lot 12 of lot 15 of NRA Mpapa in Mwenezi of failing to move away from land gazetted by government before slapping him wit...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 21:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Supa Mandiwanzira's passport return bid deferred
A HARARE magistrate deferred until next week a decision on whether to release a passport to ex-Cabinet minister Supa Mandiwanzira, facing charges of criminal abuse of office. Mandiwanzira, who...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 21:31hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
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