Court rules against law denying workers benefits

Fidelis Munyoro-Chief Court Reporter The Constitutional Court has confirmed a High Court ruling declaring unconstitutional a provision of the Reconstruction of State-Indebted Insolvent Companies Act that prevented former employees of…

High Court dismisses Fidelity bid in dispute

Fidelis Munyoro-Chief Court Reporter The High Court has dismissed an application by Fidelity Life Assurance Company of Zimbabwe Limited in which it sought to have proceedings in a long-running commercial…

Harare man who promoted himself to Deputy Chief Justice gets two years behind bars

FOR reasons best known to himself, a 23-year-old Harare man apparently looked at the country’s judicial hierarchy and decided that becoming Deputy Chief Justice Paddington Garwe was a perfectly reasonable…

‘CAB3 lawsuits procedurally defective’

Fidelis Munyoro-Chief Court Reporter In what could be the tip of the iceberg, a lawyer representing Uzumba legislator Cde Wiriranai Muchemwa has said the court application made by a voter…

Fraud suspect faces dual trial

Court Correspondent A HARARE man accused of defrauding his former employer of nearly US$11 000 is set to stand trial at the Harare Magistrates Court on July 1, while also…

20 litter bugs arrested in Harare central business district in anti-littering crackdown

Diana Nherera The Harare City Council, in partnership with the Environmental Management Agency (EMA) and the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), on Wednesday arrested 20 people for littering in the central…

Highlanders Gin manufacturers’ trial set for June 26 over alleged illicit liquor manufacturing

Danisa [email protected] THE trial of Comrades Beverages (Private) Limited, a Bulawayo-based company accused of manufacturing and selling liquor without the requisite licences and operating an unauthorised factory, is set to…

Intombi Emfitshane fined US$200 for damaging lodge property

Danisa Masuku [email protected] POPULAR Bulawayo socialite Methembe Ncube, popularly known as Intombi Emfitshane, has been fined US$200 after she damaged property during a fight at a lodge in the city’s…

Ghanaian woman fined for overstaying in Zimbabwe by more than five months

Danisa Masuku [email protected] A GHANAIAN national who overstayed in Zimbabwe by more than five months after her visitor’s permit expired has been fined US$200 by a Bulawayo court. Ms Issakara…

I WILL COMMIT SUICIDE IF YOU EXPOSE ME! Man jailed 20 years for raping and impregnating niece (15)

Ronald Mpofu, [email protected] A 31-year-old man from Dombodema in Bulilima District has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for raping and impregnating his 15-year-old niece after sneaking into her room…