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Mandiwanzira confronts TIZ with $1m defamation suit over article
FORMER ICT minister and serving legislator Supa Mandiwanzira is demanding damages amounting to $1 million from Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ) over what he terms defamatory content against h...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 06:52hrs | 139 | by Staff reporter
Comrade Albert Matapo further exposes himself: Cannot stand critique!
This is exactly what we mean when we say we have too many pseudo revolutionaries in our midst masquerading as genuine liberators of our time. It is desperation to entertain Matapo's dreams about the f...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 17:59hrs | 2375 | by Nomazulu Thata
Confronting the scourge of persecution by prosecution
One of the most topical debates in national discourses in Zimbabwe over the last week has been around mechanisms to address and regulate the dissemination of false information and disinformation, in l...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:30hrs | 139 | by Nigel Nyamutumbu
Lecturer at Great Zimbabwe University v Student (an analysis of this case)
Dr Tapiwa Mudyahoto has a premafacie case against his former student. However, the substantial amount which he wants as compensation, might not be afforded by his former student. Again, the court may ...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 20:01hrs | 1978 | by Njabulo
Biti, MDC Alliance sued for US$1 million
PROPERTY mogul Ken Sharpe's Augur Investments is demanding USS1 million defamatory damages from the MDC Alliance and its vice president Tendai Biti for allegedly slandering his company on social media...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 07:22hrs | 3163 | by Staff reporter
Lecturer sues student for $3m
A lecturer at Great Zimbabwe University (GZU) has filed a $3 million defamation lawsuit against a female student who claimed that he failed her last year as punishment for spurning his love advances. ...Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 06:15hrs | 1799 | by Staff reporter
Zuma investigator queries NSSA audit
A SOUTH African forensic audit firm headed by a key pillar in the establishment of the Zondo Commission has rubbished a National Social Security Authority (NSSA) forensic audit by BDO Zimbabwe that im...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:47hrs | 484 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's councillor accused of stealing Pfumvudza inputs
A ZANU-PF district chairperson and councillor in Bulilima Rural District Council (RDC) has been accused of stealing farming inputs meant for the Pfumvudza/Intwasa programme.Zoolakes Nyathi, wh...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 05:55hrs | 426 | by Staff reporter
Hopwell Chinono unjustly attacks the love affair of Hodzi and Henrieta Rushwaya.
Many people do not understand the concept of Human Rights. Here is one guy that many in Zimbabwe think that he fights against injustice and violation of Human Rights of others, yet ironically tramples...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 07:28hrs | 4827 | by Njabulo.liberty
NetOne Cellular seeks Kangai defamation dismissal
NETONE Cellular (Pvt) Ltd has approached the High Court seeking an order dismissing its former chief executive officer, Reward Kangai's $2 million defamation claim.NetOne's acting board chairp...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:27hrs | 775 | by Staff reporter
Man in court over WhatsApp status blasting Mnangagwa call for fasting
A man appeared in court on Tuesday accused of "insulting the president" after posting a video WhatsApp status of a woman criticising a call by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to "pray and fast" for divin...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 18:51hrs | 1129 | by Staff reporter
Defamation wrangle sucks in Jah Prayzah
A Netherlands embassy official, Harry Davies, is being sued for US$100 000 in damages after he allegedly defamed two real estate companies in comments posted on his Twitter handle. West Proper...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 07:50hrs | 2351 | by Staff reporter
The binding African spirit in challenging the Zimbabwean crisis
The Zimbabwe African Nationalist Union Patriotic Front is indebted to the steeped bona fide pan-Africanist spirit which facilitated the convening of the interparty dialogue with our sister revolutiona...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 06:51hrs | 365 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
Vela piles pressure on BDO Zimbabwe
FORMER National Social Security Authority (NSSA) chairperson Robin Vela has threatened to sue BDO International if it fails to distance itself from a 2019 audit report by BDO Zimbabwe on the pay-as-yo...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 09:21hrs | 818 | by Staff reporter
Witchcraft accusations: Villager sues community for $900,000
A TSHOLOTSHO man accused of witchcraft, was kidnapped by fellow villagers who half-buried him in a shallow pit before sprinkling him with ashes and then urinated on him during a purported witch-hunt r...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:34hrs | 479 | by Staff reporter
Man sues tsikamtandas for defamation
A TSHOLOTSHO man, accused of witchcraft, was kidnapped by local community members and half buried in a shallow pit before he was sprinkled with ashes and urinated upon during a purported witch-hunt by...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 18:11hrs | 1468 | by Staff reporter
Gono confronts Tsvangirai's ex-advisor
FORMER Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor, Gideon Gono was Saturday forced to defend his controversial Farm Mechanisation Programme, insisting the dishing out of millions of public funds to senior Zanu...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:27hrs | 6153 | by Staff reporter
Gono clarifies farm mechanisation
GOVERNMENT'S Farm Mechanisation Programme undertaken between 2007 and 2008 was not a loan scheme and beneficiaries were not required to pay for the equipment they received, former Reserve Bank of Zimb...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:17hrs | 677 | by Staff reporter
Was Chamisa punished for belittling Mbuya Nehanda? stranger than fiction
Last week the disputed president of the MDC A belittled Mbuya Nehanda. In his response the erection of a statute in honour of Mbuya Nehanda Chmisa said Mbuya Nehanda was not an important person and as...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 21:55hrs | 11808 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa associate distances self from Landela
BUSINESSMAN Mr Kudakwashe Tagwirei has denied any involvement in Landela Investments which is said to be involved in a Government bus deal. A local weekly reported that Mr Tagwirei was the own...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 07:51hrs | 526 | by Staff reporter
MDC A resorts to smear campaign to soil Mnangagwa's legacy
The social media was awash with news of corruption purported to be unearthed by Hopewell Chin'ono and his MDC A handlers. It was a big surprise that the target of the so called corruption was none oth...Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 14:30hrs | 5197 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mliswa to folk out $600,000 for defamation
NORTON MP Temba Mliswa (Independent), who was last year slapped with a $10 million defamation suit by BDO Chartered Accountants boss, Ngoni Kudenga, has been ordered by the High Court to pay $600 000 ...Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 07:54hrs | 2986 | by Staff reporter
Linda Masarira: please keep quiet
I was pained to see your video that was commenting about the abductions of Honourable Mamombe, Chimbiri and Marova. What is intriguing is that you are saying the young women stage-managed their abduct...Published: 18 May 2020 at 18:36hrs | 3321 | by Nomazulu Thata
Buyanga responds to The Herald article
On 1 May 2020, the Zimbabwe Herald newspaper printed an article child. It is not a criminal matter and Mr Sadiqi has not been found headlined "Buyanga a fugitive from justice: Police chief". We find t...Published: 02 May 2020 at 07:45hrs | 830 | by William Wilcock
'Change your attitude law enforcers'
On Monday the 20th of this month, High Court Judge, Jacob Manzunzu ruled in favor of freelance journalist Panashe Makufa who is also a member of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) in a case...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 08:09hrs | 420 | by Daniel Itai, Harare Zimbabwe
Grace Mugabe dismisses US$2m defamation lawsuit
Former First Lady Grace Mugabe has asked the High Court to dismiss a US$2 million defamation lawsuit filed against her by a Lebanese businessman whose houses she grabbed over a diamond ring dispute....Published: 05 Mar 2020 at 14:04hrs | 1668 | by Staff reporter
Self censorship: The bane of Zimbabwe journalism
One of the major criticisms we get as Zimbabwean journalists is that we do not do enough to cover the big stories and major on the minors, a fair criticism but that sometimes is bereft of context....Published: 05 Mar 2020 at 05:52hrs | 260 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Lewis Matutu in tribal war with Obert Mpofu?
Embattled ZANU-PF Youth leader Lewis Matutu has been accused of practicing tribalism by questioning ZANU-PF Secretary for Administration Obert Mpofu's academic credentials.Media reports recent...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 10:11hrs | 3561 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jonathan Moyo speaks on Chiwenga, Mnangagwa, Cartels and own future
Former cabinet minister, Jonathan Moyo (JM), speaks to Spotlight Zimbabwe Editor, Itai Mushekwe (IM).Professor Jonathan Moyo, thank you for giving us your time, to attend to this your first ev...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 08:45hrs | 16233 | by Staff reporter
Matutu questions Obert Mpofu degree, wealth
FORMER Zanu-PF youth league deputy secretary Lewis Matutu has questioned the party's secretary for administration Obert Mpofu's Doctor of Philosophy Degree (PHD) qualifications and his source of wealt...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 20:54hrs | 6637 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda opposes $400,000 suit
Defence Deputy Minister Victor Matemadanda has denied defaming War Veterans Pressure Group leader Amos Sigauke and has asked the ex-combatant to prove his $400 000 defamation suit.Matemadanda ...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 07:15hrs | 1253 | by Staff reporter
Bushiri threatens to sue Mukupe over 'sex with wife' message
South Africa based preacher Shepherd Bushiri, who leads the Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) church, has threatened to sue Zanu-PF's Terence Mukupe after the former Deputy Minister of Finance in ...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 05:47hrs | 3387 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Bushiri denies having sex with Zimbabwe minister's wife
Enlightened Christian Gathering leader Prophet Shepherd Bushiri has denied impregnating the wife of former Deputy Minister of Finance Terrence Mukupe. In an emotive statement written on Wednes...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 14:06hrs | 10303 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jonathan Moyo begs Chiwenga for mercy
SELF-EXILED former minister and Zanu-PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo is seeking to apologise to Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga after accusing him of using a ghost writer for his doctoral ...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:42hrs | 11072 | by Staff reporter
Matutu, Tsenengamu censure a master-stroke for Zanu-PF
It is Monday February 3, 2020 and I see two esteemed comrades getting into the Media Centre in Harare. They arrive in five-minute intervals, much to the excitement of the who-is-who in the media indus...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 05:55hrs | 531 | by Tafadzwa Mugwadi
Maize meal 'cartel' boss evades MPs over US$27m RBZ payment
Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) chairman Tafadzwa Musarara, accused of running a cartel by the Zanu-PF Youth League two weeks ago, on Tuesday ducked out of appearing before a parlia...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 10:40hrs | 2048 | by Staff reporter
Axed Zanu-PF youth leaders in extortion storm
TWO of the three former Zanu-PF youth leaders, who were axed from their positions last week, allegedly extorted goods and services from businessman and Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) cha...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 06:07hrs | 4238 | by Staff reporter
Man challenges RG's $3,5m defamation suit
The Harare man being sued for $3,5 million defamation damages by Registrar-General Clemence Masango is defending himself and has asked for evidence that he did say what was alleged. Godwine Mu...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 05:36hrs | 198 | by Staff reporter
'Biased' Judge Dhaya Pillay is 'good friends with Zuma's enemies'
Judge Dhaya Pillay is "biased" against former president Jacob Zuma because she is "good friends" with Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan and ANC national executive committee member Derek Hanek...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 07:44hrs | 701 | by Staff reporter
The regime is alien to transparency, accountability
THE ruling Zanu-PF party members have been giving Zimbabweans comic relief in the past few months, making the right noises about transparency and accountability in government and the economy, but ques...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 06:12hrs | 303 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
'Mnangagwa following Mugabe's playbook'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been accused of following the autocratic rule of the now late former President Robert Mugabe.The accusations were made by an international human rights organis...Published: 03 Feb 2020 at 06:21hrs | 2446 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa's graft commission yet to meet
A ZANU-PF commission of inquiry set up by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in August last year to investigate bigwigs accused of corruption by the party's youth league has not met since then to deal with ...Published: 29 Jan 2020 at 14:42hrs | 196 | by Staff reporter
Mutodi's $40,000 lawsuit hearing set for Thursday
Deputy Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Energy Mutodi will on Thursday be defending a $40 000 defamation lawsuit filed against him by former Minister of Defence Dr Sydney S...Published: 28 Jan 2020 at 12:28hrs | 297 | by Staff reporter
Sekeramayi, Parirenyatwa defamation claim hearing set for Thursday
HIGH COURT judge, Jesta Charehwa will Thursday hear a case in which Information Deputy Minister Energy Mutodi is challenging a $40 000 defamation claim lodged by former Defence Minister Sydney Sekeram...Published: 28 Jan 2020 at 12:26hrs | 303 | by Staff reporter
ZBC faces million-dollar lawsuit
A GWERU-BASED land developer, Smelly Dube, has demanded that the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) retracts a story in which it claimed she had been subpoenaed by the Land Commission and has int...Published: 23 Dec 2019 at 15:49hrs | 1577 | by Staff reporter
Police brutality frighten women off politics, says Mafume
Police brutality against women witnessed during the recent Hope of the Nation address by Nelson Chamisa in Harare represents the many threats that discourage female participation in political activiti...Published: 14 Dec 2019 at 08:16hrs | 239 | by Staff reporter
Vela sues Nssa boss, claims $5m for defamation
FORMER National Social Security Authority (Nssa) chairperson Robin Vela has filed a $5 million lawsuit against his successor, Cuthbert Chidoori, for allegedly causing the publication of a story claimi...Published: 09 Dec 2019 at 07:20hrs | 335 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda faces $400k defamation suit
Defence deputy minister Victor Matemadanda has been taken to court by fellow war veteran, Amos Sigauke who is claiming $400 000 damages for criminal defamation.Sigauke recently issued summons ...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:40hrs | 229 | by Staff reporter
Registrar General claims $3,5m for defamation
REGISTRAR-GENERAL Clemence Masango is claiming $3,5 million in defamation damages from a Harare man who allegedly called him a corrupt government official.Masango recently issued summons again...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:40hrs | 248 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda faces $400,000 defamation suit
Defence deputy minister Victor Matemadanda has been taken to court by fellow war veteran, Amos Sigauke who is claiming $400 000 damages for criminal defamation.Sigauke recently issued summons ...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 06:43hrs | 1980 | by Staff reporter
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