FORMER Citizens Coalition for Change MP Amos Chibaya and his four accomplices have had their 2025 conviction for conducting an unlawful gathering overturned by the High Court.Chibaya and his colleagues, Costa Machingauta, Monica Mukwada, Aletta Viremai and Lancelot Tungwarara, were last year convicted by magistrate Sharon Rakafa and sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment and ordered…

HARARE regional magistrate Esthere Chivasa yesterday dismissed an application by clergyman Walter Magaya, where he was seeking referral to the Constitutional Court.Magaya filed an application for referral to the highest court in a matter where he is accused of raping four congregants after the court ruled that the matter should be heard in camera.Magaya raised…

A 48-YEAR-OLD Bulawayo man who was convicted of indecently assaulting a minor, has lost his appeal against both conviction and sentence at the High Court.Henry Nherera, who was convicted on two counts of indecent assault and aggravated indecent assault, was jailed 12 and 15 months respectively at the West Commonage magistrate’s court.Aggrieved by the magistrate’s…

THE government’s proposed plans to scrap the Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) are retrogressive and will erode decades of hard-won progress for women’s rights in the country.So warns the ruling Zanu PF’s miffed women’s league, which also stresses the fact that the ZGC was established after a spirited fight by key stakeholders to have it certified…