Tarisai Machakaire

The High Court yesterday stopped the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) faction led by Lucia Matibenga from recalling Harare mayor Jacob Mafume and councillors for Mutare and Bulawayo.

A POLICE shooting victim is demanding US$5 000 damages from the law enforcement agency after he was shot by a uniformed cop at a roadblock in October last year.

FIREBRAND MDC deputy national chairperson, Job “Wiwa” Sikhala, was finally released from remand prison yesterday after the High Court granted him bail, the Daily News reports.

TWO primary school pupils from remote Nenguwo Village in Manicaland who were unable to receive online or electronic lessons during the coronavirus (Covid-19)-induced lockdown period have sued the Education ministry for neglecting them…

THE War Veterans Pressure Group is challenging in the High Court a US$3,5 billion deal that will result in the government paying compensation to white former commercial farmers who lost their land during the country’s agrarian reform at the…

THE Health ministry has been sued over increasing mortality rates and maternal deaths that resulted from alleged closure of municipal clinics since July.

WOES continue to mount for Vice President Constantino Chiwenga’s estranged wife, Marry, after she was hit with a US$6 000 lawsuit for failing to pay for water supplied to her.

THE Human Rights NGO Forum has bemoaned the government’s lack of responsiveness to incidents where the public’s constitutional entitlements were being infringed by suspected law enforcement agents.

LAWYERS for incarcerated MDC deputy national chairperson, Job “Wiwa” Sikhala,  say his health is continuing to deteriorate after prison authorities allegedly barred him from accessing a private doctor, the Daily News reports.

JAILED former President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s top aide Douglas Tapfuma, pictured, yesterday applied for bail pending appeal against conviction and a six-year prison term for criminal abuse of office.

THE High Court yesterday postponed to tomorrow the bail appeal for MDC Alliance deputy national chairperson Job Sikhala who is facing charges of inciting public violence ahead of the foiled July 31 protest.

WOMEN’s representative groups have approached the High Court seeking leave to sue President Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, for making Cabinet appointments that are not gender sensitive.

FORMER Harare mayor Hebert Gomba, pictured, and five recalled MDC-Alliance councillors have approached the High Court challenging the decision and seeking to be reinstated to their positions.

KNOWE Residents and Ratepayers Association (Knowe) has lost a High Court bid to have the son of the late Edward Nyanyiwa, popularly known as Eddies Pfugari, ordered to serve his father’s 90-day civil imprisonment.

THE High Court has thrown out a bid to assume directorship of Eddies Pfugari (Pvt) Ltd by the late founder Edward Nyanyiwa’s daughter, Henrietta, on an urgent basis and struck the matter off the roll.

POLICE have separately arrested three suspected carjackers who recently attacked motorists before fleeing with their cars.

FORMER University of Zimbabwe vice chancellor Levi Nyagura has suffered a huge blow after the High Court dismissed his acquittal bid in a case he is accused of unlawfully granting former first lady Grace Mugabe a doctorate.

HIGH Court judge, Justice Pisirai Kwenda, yesterday roasted the State for preferring a fraud case against businessman and CAPS United owner Farai Jere, saying there is a disconnection between allegations and the charge.

LAND baron Felix Munyaradzi has been sued for $2 million in defamation damages after allegedly filing a false complaint and causing the arrest of one of his clients.

JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, pictured, has filed for divorce from his wife Florence who is also former deputy prosecutor-general, after allegedly spending six years living separately and not enjoying conjugal rights.

THE High Court has upheld a decision to suspend Zesa Holdings executive chairperson Sydney Gata, pictured, pending investigations into abuse of office allegations.

Government should ratify United Nations conventions against torture or inhuman treatment as well as the international convention for the protection of all persons against enforced disappearances, civil society organisations have said.

MINES and Mining Development minister Winston Chitando has been taken to court for allegedly delaying issuing a coke export licence to Hwange Coal Gasification Company (Pvt) Ltd (Hwange).

RIGHTS groups have bemoaned government’s failure to end the strike by nurses and doctors at a time when Zimbabwe is struggling with the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.

RESIDENTS associations and civil society organisations across the country have raised concern over the recalling of councillors by the MDC faction headed by Thokozani Khupe.