HARARE – The Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) has over the years deregistered 29 lawyers while it is probing 14 others over alleged misconduct, the organisation’s latest report revealed. According to the August 2017 report, the highest number of attorneys that were banned from practicing was recorded in 2016, when eight lawyers — Kadandara Lawrence,…
HARARE – Gospel’s first family, Charles and Olivia Charamba, will make a sensational return to the dormitory town of Chitungwiza where they are set to publicly launch their albums Abba Father and Voice of Miriam respectively at Aquatic Complex on Saturday. The Charambas used to stay in Chitungwiza’s Seke, Zengeza and St Mary’s suburbs a…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) has launched a nationwide campaign to raise public awareness and encourage people to register to vote in the mobile voter registration currently underway. Last week, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) launched the long-anticipated mobile Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) campaign, preparing to come up with a new voter’s roll…
HARARE – Experts have issued a fresh warning that the country is now a touch away from an economic disaster similar to the meltdown of 2008 when local inflation hit world record levels and supermarket shelves went empty for months on end. This comes as there is growing panic among jittery Zimbabweans who are stampeding…
HARARE – The much-talked about grand coalition of opposition parties which is seen as the only real chance of bringing to an end President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF’s uninterrupted rule in next year’s elections, continues to face challenges with fresh problems rocking Tendai Biti’s People’s Democratic Party (PDP) over the mooted electoral pact. Biti,…
HARARE – Pre-trial detainees claim an acute shortage of anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) has hit the country’s prisons and correctional facilities, and is now threatening their survival. While tendering their mitigation factors, and as they appear in court for bail hearings or during sentencing, prisoners have of late relayed fears of having their lives cut short…
HARARE – In 1787 in Britain, news reporters were first officially welcomed into the proceedings of Parliament. And on the first occasion, Edmond Burke (1729 – 1797), an Irish statesman, writer and philosopher who, after moving to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the…
HARARE – With President Robert Mugabe set to appoint a deputy chief justice (CJ) any time from now, legal experts say pending court applications challenging the passage of Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment Bill No. 1 will not block the process. In terms of the Constitution that came into effect in 2013, the CJ and his…
HARARE – Opposition leader and former vice president Joice Mujuru is not pinning her hopes on the Coroner’s Office Bill to finally bring closure to the mysterious death of her husband, Solomon, who died in an inferno at their Beatrice farm in 2011. If anything, the former ruling Zanu PF stalwart — unceremoniously fired by…
HARARE – In the main, Zimbabwe’s economic challenges are rooted in the lack of confidence on the part of locals and foreigners alike, which confidence evaporated because of the country’s toxic politics. Our Tsikamutanda brand of primitive politics premised on feja-feja and witch-hunting in Zanu PF and other opposition political parties has shut the country’s…
