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Friday, 03 May 2013 11:06
HARARE - Director of African Open Media Initiative (Afri-media) Stanley Sachikonye, who is accused of breaching broadcasting laws, wants the Supreme Court to determine the constitutionality of his case. Sachikonye is being charged with contravening the Broadcasting Services Act for broadcasting...Read More
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Wednesday, 17 April 2013 12:43
HARARE - Thabani Mpofu, director of research in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s office, has made an application to have his matter referred to the Supreme Court. Mpofu’s lawyer Alec Muchadehama made the application before magistrate Anita Tshuma. Muchadehama said the State,...Read More
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Tuesday, 26 March 2013 09:58
HARARE - Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku has reserved judgment in a case in which Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara is fighting Industry minister Welshman Ncube for the breakaway MDC presidency. Ncube, who is the current leader of the smaller formation of...Read More
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Thursday, 14 March 2013 10:40
HARARE - The Supreme Court has thrown out National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) chairperson Lovemore Madhuku’s appeal against President Robert Mugabe’s gazetted date for the holding of a referendum. Madhuku had first filed an urgent High Court chamber application against Mugabe and...Read More
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Wednesday, 13 February 2013 14:24
HARARE - A Chinhoyi magistrate has referred to the Supreme Court the case of four MDC officials accused of labelling President Robert Mugabe a thief. The four Eddy Ndirayire, Abel Kasure, Luxmore Zintambila and Gabriel Japan are accused of undermining the...Read More
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Thursday, 31 January 2013 10:06
HARARE - Zimbabwe's Supreme Court has backed Mines minister Obert Mpofu’s move to cancel Bearable Prospects (Bearable)’s claim to the Mwanesi iron ore reserves, which were given to Essar Africa Holdings Limited (Essar). By dismissing Rodrick Mumbire’s appeal this week, Deputy...Read More
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Thursday, 10 January 2013 11:05
HARARE - Zimbabwe's Supreme Court will next week set down a final appeal by a renegade Anglican bishop who is challenging the dismissal by the High Court of an urgent application to stop evictions from church properties he had unlawfully seized....Read More
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News » Fungai Kwaramba, Staff Writer
Tuesday, 11 December 2012 11:31
HARARAE - Ex-communicated clergyman Nolbert Kunonga’s efforts to involve President Robert Mugabe in his desperate attempt to overturn a Supreme Court ruling that stripped him of control of the Anglican Church properties came to nought yesterday. Judge president George Chiweshe sealed...Read More
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Friday, 23 November 2012 12:07
HARARE - The Supreme Court has quashed a ruling made by the Court Martial to dismiss an Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) officer over alleged negligence and failure to discharge his duties. The highest court in the land ruled that the...Read More
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Friday, 16 November 2012 11:24
HARARE - Zimbabwe's Supreme Court yesterday briefly heard and deferred a constitutional challenge by an HIV activist who wants the highest court to rule that denying treatment to people living with HIV held in either police or prison detention is unconstitutional....Read More
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Wednesday, 14 November 2012 10:48
HARARE - The Supreme Court has ruled that the Whitecliffe Farm take-over by ministry of Lands and Rural Resettlement from property developer Edward Pfugari was illegal and ordered the vacation of occupants within five days. The farm owner, 76-year-old Pfugari was...Read More
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Tuesday, 30 October 2012 10:25
HARARE - A human rights activist denied access to treatment while in detention is finally having his day in court. Douglas Muzanenhamo was arrested on February 19, 2011 and charged with committing treason together with 44 other social justice, trade union...Read More
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News » Fungai Kwaramba, Staff Writer
Saturday, 22 September 2012 15:04
HARARE - A year after Nyanga MDC activists including national spokesperson Douglas Mwonzora were held incommunicado in police custody and tortured, a Supreme Court review into whether their rights were violated during the detention opened at the Supreme Court on Thursday....Read More
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Tuesday, 18 September 2012 12:11
HARARE - The Supreme Court will on Thursday hear a case in which Nyanga North MP Douglas Mwonzora and 32 other people brutalised by state agents are challenging the constitutionality of their charges. Mwonzora and the 32 villagers, all from his...Read More
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Saturday, 08 September 2012 13:08
HARARE - A civil rights activist denied access to anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment during his detention in police cells has asked the Supreme Court to declare the action a flagrant violation of his constitutional rights and to condemn the holding cells as...Read More
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