THE High Court has settled the long-standing battle for the control of the Mugodhi Apostolic Faith Church after it dismissed an application filed last year by the church’s self-proclaimed leader Tonnie Sigauke. In her judgment, High Court judge, Justice Esther Muremba, said Sigauke had no legal authority to file the application on behalf of the…
ZANU PF factional wars are intensifying despite a recent stern warning by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to ambitious bigwigs who stand accused of inflaming divisions in the former liberation movement. So hot have the ruling party’s ructions become, that the infighting in Mnangagwa’s own home province of Midlands is increasingly said to be getting out of…
CONGREGANTS who have not yet received their Covid-19 jabs are now allowed to physically attend church services following a High Court ruling which upheld a Harare man, Obert Kondongwe’s application challenging a government directive demanding only fully vaccinated people to go to places of worship. In the interim ruling handed down yesterday, the High Court…
HUMAN rights activist, Alice Kuvheya, has filed a High Court application challenging the legality of Statutory Instrument (SI) 95 of 2021, which allows the government to monitor and record citizens’ mobile communication data, among other things. In her application, Kuvheya cited Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa, pictured, and the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz)…
A HARARE woman Thandiwe Shumba has approached the High Court demanding US$30 000 in adultery damages from her husband’s workmate and second wife, Regina Jaravaza, accusing her of being a home wrecker. On Tuesday, Shumba told the court that she became suspicious of the relationship between Jaravaza and her husband, Cloddie, after she saw the…
A MANYAME Rural District Council employee Flossy Chavarika has written to the local authority demanding US$20 000 in damages from the council for causing her arrest at the beginning of this month. Through her lawyers — Thoughts Deme Attorneys at Law — Chavarika’s September 6 letter addressed to the chief executive officer Farirai Guta said that her…
FORMER Vice President Joice Mujuru has successfully stopped the sale of her property worth over US$200 000 to settle a debt owed to a local agriculture company. In the stay of execution application, Mujuru and her company Ruzirun Investments (Private) Limited were the applicants, while Peppy Motors (Private) Limited, trading as Agritech, Sabrina and Tony…
THE Harare City Council (HCC) has taken Massbreed Investments, which trades as FAW Zimbabwe, to the High Court demanding the delivery of 15 trash compactors purchased from the company in 2017. According to court summons filed last week, HCC contracted Massbreed and paid US$3 095 514 for the delivery of 30 refuse compactors, but the…
THE Passengers Association of Zimbabwe (Paz) has sued commissioner general of police Godwin Matanga in the High Court seeking an order barring the police from arresting passengers who board buses that are not registered under the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco). This comes as the government declared that only buses registered under Zupco were allowed…
A FORMER Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) employee, Tapuwa Evans Chidemo, who was slapped with a six-year jail term for stealing nearly US$1,2 million from the taxman’s bank account, has lost his appeal against the conviction. High Court judge Pisirayi Kwenda and a fellow justice, Felistus Chatukuta, who is now on the Supreme Court bench, dismissed…
