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Supreme Court tosses out ex-St John's College paedophile coach's appeal
THE Supreme Court has thrown out an appeal against conviction and sentence by a paedophile who used to work at St Johns School in Harare who was jailed for sexually abusing four teenage boys who were ...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 16:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Tomana declared national hero
LATE Zimbabwe's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Johannes Tomana has been declared a national hero.President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, Wednesday announced the hero...Published: 10 Aug 2023 at 06:42hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Do not give the devil a foothold
It is a known phenomenon that cracks and fissures in relations and interactions allow negative energies to disrupt positivity and well-being of those around us. Absence of amicability in all w...Published: 15 May 2023 at 15:21hrs | | by TT Murisa. Chinehasha
Zacc commissioner blames law
A COMMISSIONER in the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), Jessie Majome (pictured), has conceded the institution's failure to nail down culprits that are abusing public funds and resources, bu...Published: 01 Mar 2023 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF thrives on chaos
PHEW, what a chaotic start to the year!A dazed Zimbabwe dollar is wobbling precariously into an eventful 2023, as the authorities comically plead with government contractors to desist from tra...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 05:50hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sends Mohadi to funeral of Japan's Abe
Shamed former vice president Kembo Mohadi represented Zimbabwe at Tuesday's funeral of ex-Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, ZimLive has learnt.Mohadi, who resigned in March 2020 after being ...Published: 28 Sep 2022 at 19:57hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
'Ramaphosa influenced 'sinister' corruption charges against Ace Magashule'
In arguing there is no validity to the State's case against him, suspended ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule's legal representative claimed on Tuesday his arrest was influenced by President Cyril Ra...Published: 22 Feb 2022 at 15:45hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Jacob Zuma loses arms deal court case
Pietermaritzburg judge Judge Piet Koen has dismissed former South African President Jacob Zuma application to have Prosecutor Billy Downer removed from his arms deal case alleging he and other Nationa...Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 08:24hrs | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Top prosecutors in plot to 'fix' lawyer
TWO chief public prosecutors - Rosa Takuva and Justin Uladi - could face a criminal probe after an alleged clandestine manoeuvre to "destroy" Harare lawyer Admire Rubaya was unmasked.A WhatsAp...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:15hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
'Give AG power to prosecute, enforce accountability,' says Moyo
FORMER State Enterprises and Parastatals minister Gorden Moyo has called on Zimbabwe to change its statutes and ensure that the country's Auditor-General's Office is bestowed with prosecuting powers t...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Secrets to win In 2023 Revealed
The President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa has proved the world wrong. The world expected to see Zimbabwe crumble into the dust and become obsolete. But true to his word Emerson Mnangagwa h...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 07:19hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zuma exposes prosecutor linked to CIA spies
Former president Jacob Zuma has accused prosecutor Billy Downer of turning his criminal case into "a personal legacy project of his own".Inside the Pietermaritzburg High Court, while Advocate ...Published: 26 May 2021 at 14:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Magashule 'suspends' Ramaphosa as ANC president
Suspended ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule has hit back, announcing that he has suspended party president Cyril Ramaphosa and that he would appeal his "fatally flawed" suspension.A defiant ...Published: 06 May 2021 at 06:39hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Catch and release has the prosecutor general failed the fairness test in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe legal system bleeds and limps and trudge on as it staggers towards shame and doom. The people of Zimbabwe have always pointed blood-dripping fingers in the direction of the legal system. The ...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 15:29hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
300 additional prosecutors recruited
The withdrawal of police and military lawyers seconded to the National Prosecution Authority (NPA) in line with the Supreme Court ruling has not affected the authority's operations, Prosecutor General...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prosecutors vow to resist villagisation proposal
PROSECUTORS have vowed to resist the government's move to house them in communal blocks of flats to ensure their safety and minimise contact with the public.The National Prosecuting Authority ...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Army, police prosecutors have 18 days to vacate courts
PROSECUTORS from the army, air force and police have 18 days to vacate the civilian courts, a development which will ensure that a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) ruling of 2019 that barred them from ...Published: 02 Feb 2021 at 06:43hrs | | by Mutiusinazita
NPA ring-fences prosecutors
Prosecutors will now be housed in their own blocks of flats to curb corruption and to offer protection to those handling high-profile and sensitive cases in line with President Mnangagwa's strategy to...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
NPA recruits 291 prosecutors
The highest court in the land ruled that the seconding of members of the uniformed forces to the prosecutorial unit is unconstitutional.Prosecutor-General Kumbirai Hodzi was ordered to disenga...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 17:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi defends Sacu operations
JUSTICE, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has defended the Special Anti-Corruption Unit (Sacu) housed in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's office despite public concerns that the ...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zacc targets US$7 billion assets squirreled out of Zimbabwe
THE ZIMBABWE Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) says it is stuck with 36 applications for the forfeiture of corruptly acquired assets worth US$7 billion in the country as it has no capacity to do so....Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 10:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
PG Hodzi tours courts
PROSECUTOR-GENERAL Mr Kumbirai Hodzi has embarked on a countrywide familiarisation tour of the courts to ascertain the state of affairs at the stations.Mr Hodzi was in Matabeleland North Provi...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gives ZACC arresting powers
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) - for long been rapped for being a toothless bulldog - now has arresting powers as Government takes giant strides in its quest to tackle the scourge of c...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 08:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
'ZACC should be strengthened'
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission powers should be strengthened to enable the organisation to adequately fight the scourge of corruption in the country. This was said by prospective commissioner...Published: 22 Jun 2019 at 01:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe treason trials raise fears of relapse to Mugabe years
Twenty people have been charged with treason since the beginning of the year, prompting critics to draw parallels between President Emmerson Mnangagwa's rule with that of his predecessor Robert Mugabe...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:37hrs | | 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
No more excuses in fighting graft
PROSECUTOR-GENERAL Kumbirai Hodzi yesterday said the public no longer tolerated excuses in the fight against the scourge of corruption which is contributing to the economic woes facing the country....Published: 25 May 2019 at 15:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Security agents must stay out of judiciary system
IN February this year we published a landmark ruling by the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) which declared as unconstitutional any involvement of the police and army personnel in the country's judicia...Published: 18 May 2019 at 20:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
PG's appointment challenge develops hiccups
The challenge on the appointment of Prosecutor General (PG) Kumbirai Hodzi, which was set to commence yesterday at the Constitutional Court (ConCourt), failed to materialise after it emerged that the ...Published: 16 May 2019 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mangoma, Zesa bosses deny fraud charges
Former Energy minister Elton Mangoma on Thursday said charges that he unprocedurally awarded a $3 million contract to a South Korean firm have been fabricated, based on falsehoods and designed to hara...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prosecutor investigated over Mandiwanzira's acquittal
Prosecutor-General Mr Kumbirai Hodzi has turned the sword on the prosecutor he assigned to deal with the criminal abuse case of former Minister Supa Mandwanzira and ordered investigations into his all...Published: 06 Apr 2019 at 07:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nyagura blames Mugabe
Suspended University of Zimbabwe (UZ) vice-chancellor Levi Nyagura yesterday said he was being wrongly charged for illegally awarding former First Lady Grace Mugabe a PhD, insisting that the latter's ...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
New dispensation rejects corruption
The advent of the new dispensation in November 2017 has seen a new impetus in the fight against the scourge of corruption. Right beginning with his inauguration speech on 24 November 2017, President M...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 12:25hrs | 9 | by Bevan Musoko
Zimbabwe army, cops banned at civilian courts
THE Constitutional Court (ConCourt) has banned the use of State security agents as public prosecutors at civilian courts, saying their secondment to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) was a seri...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 09:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare lawyer takes Mnangagwa to ConCourt
A HARARE lawyer, Joshua Chirambwe, has petitioned the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) seeking the nullification of Kumbirai Hodzi's appointment as the substantive Prosecutor-General (PG).Chira...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 08:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
No court joy for Kasukuwere
Former Local Government Minister Saviour Kasukuwere has lost his appeal to stay the proceedings in his trial on charges of criminal abuse of office, pending a review of the same proceedings at the Hig...Published: 30 Jan 2019 at 22:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa left paralysed by a crisis of legitimacy
Last week on November 24 Emmerson Mnangagwa was in Murombedzi - former president Robert Mugabe's village backyard in Mashonaland West - to commemorate his chequered one year in office following his co...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 10:17hrs | | by Jonathan N Moyo
'Chamisa's actions smacked of a fake leader'
The move by MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa to reject his supporters who demonstrated on August 1 has exposed him as a "political viper" who can sacrifice anyone in his camp when it suits him, p...Published: 20 Nov 2018 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's anti-graft fight unconvincing
FOR splurging £16 million (US$21 million) on pricey jewellery and vintage wines over a decade, a British woman became the first target of a law seeking to dissuade criminals from enjoying their ill-g...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 12:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa finally breaks free of Mugabe shodow
After 56 years of working under Mugabe, ED finally breaks free from the ambits of his master and successfully established himself in one year. November has become a month which will be r...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 07:00hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
PG reads riot act on corrupt public prosecutors
ACTING Prosecutor-General, Kumbirai Rwodzi yesterday read the riot act on public prosecutors who engage in corrupt activities, saying they tarnished the judiciary's image.Addressing prosecutor...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF lawyer guns for Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's lawyer in the just-concluded presidential election challenge, Advocate Lewis Uriri, yesterday challenged the Zanu-PF leader's authority to appoint a special anti-corrupt...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
The day every Zimbabwean became a lawyer
Winners are takers, how can losers determine the pace of the game. If indeed the spaghetti boy on a bullet train is not the Emperor today, how can he lay claim to the crown? One has to be in i...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 20:29hrs | | by Tondorindo Murisa
'State not paying for Mnangagwa anti-graft unit'
GOVERNMENT is not paying the lawyers and prosecutors who form President Emmerson Mnangagwa's controversial crack anti-corruption unit, Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi said at the weekend.Ziya...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Goba 'burn his fingers' in Magaya rape trial
Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader, Walter Magaya's lawyer, Thabani Mpofu yesterday accused Prosecutor-General (PG) Ray Goba of abusing his prosecutorial duties after he insiste...Published: 07 Jun 2018 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's anti-corruption unit illegal
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's decision to create a Special Anti-Corruption Unit in his office has sparked controversy, with legal experts questioning the constitutionality and legality of appointing ...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 10:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's unit an attack on prosecutorial independence
The exercise of public power is subject to the law and must therefore comply with the constitution, which is the supreme law.Tererai MafukidzeThat is a fundamental principle of constit...Published: 24 May 2018 at 13:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Special anti-graft unit to reinforce Zacc operations'
The Special Prosecuting Unit is not meant to supersede or undermine the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission, but to reinforce its operations by ensuring a well-coordinated and comprehensive approach w...Published: 23 May 2018 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
'No more affidavit case withdrawals'
THE Prosecutor-General (PG) Advocate Ray Goba has ordered prosecutors to immediately stop complainants from withdrawing matters before the court through affidavits saying the practice had no legal gro...Published: 26 Jan 2018 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa anointed remains PG
ADVOCATE Ray Hemington Goba remains the substantive Prosecutor-General of Zimbabwe and his removal from office was done unlawfully, the High Court has ruled.High Court judge Justice Priscila C...Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 04:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
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