‘NONSENSE,…Police don’t force motorists to pay spot fines or impound vehicle’-Gen Com, Augustine Chihuri

‘NONSENSE,…Police don’t force motorists to pay spot fines or impound vehicle’-Gen Com, Augustine Chihuri

Instead, he said motorists pay the fines voluntarily for their traffic offences. POLICE Commissioner General, Augustine Chihuri has denied that police officers force motorists to pay spot fines or impound vehicles. Instead, he said motorists pay the fines voluntarily for their traffic offences. Comm Gen Chihuri said this in his Notice of Opposition to an application by Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ) filed at the Bulawayo High Court  last month seeking an order barring the police…

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Home Affairs minister Mohadi’s wife Senator Tambudzani Mohadi has threatened to drag Grace Mugabe to court over a farm dispute.

Home Affairs minister Mohadi’s wife Senator Tambudzani Mohadi has threatened to drag Grace Mugabe to court over a farm dispute.

Senator Tambudzani Mohadi has threatened to drag First Lady Grace Mugabe to court over a farm dispute. Mohadi is in court in a bid to wrestle away a Gwanda farm from a white commercial farmer George Watson. In an apparent attempt to intimidate  Bulawayo High Court judge Nokuthula Moyo, Mohadi took to 16 Zanu PF women’s league members to  court excluding her lawyer. Judge Moyo would have non of it.Said Judge Moyo “the court doesn’t…

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Farmer Conolly’s Article On His Centenary Farm In Figtree , Grabbed By Chief Secretary To Mugabe And Cabinet

Farmer Conolly’s Article On His Centenary Farm In Figtree , Grabbed By  Chief Secretary To Mugabe And Cabinet

Below an opinion article by David Connolly written on 26 February 2016, where he narrates the Centenary farm issue and farming in Zimbabwe.   Liberating Zimbabweans from “mental colonisation” by ZANU PF   The most dangerous form of colonisation in my view, is the colonisation of the mind. While physical colonialism had drawbacks for people who were colonised, it is important to acknowledge that the colonists also brought many benefits. These included western medicine, formal…

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White Farmer Loses Farm To Deputy Chief Secretary To President And Cabinet, ‘Ray Ndhlukula’

White Farmer Loses Farm To Deputy Chief Secretary To President And Cabinet, ‘Ray Ndhlukula’

White farmer David Connolly, who has been involved in a protracted legal battle with a top aide of President Robert Mugabe, faces eviction from his Centenary Farm in Figtree after a High Court judge yesterday ruled that his occupation of the disputed property was illegal. Connolly, through his company, JC Connolly and Sons (Pvt) Ltd, has since 2014 been locked in a bitter land wrangle with the deputy chief secretary to the President and Cabinet,…

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Jonathan Moyo Sues Zimdef For US$102 218, 01 & Farm And City Centre

HIGHER and Tertiary Education minister, Jonathan Moyo, has dragged Zimbabwe Newspapers to the High Court  over unpaid Manpower Development Fund contributions to the tune of US$102 218 and US$28 392 respectively. Moyo also took Farm and City Centre for the same ‘crime’. In terms of Section 53 of the Manpower Planning and Development Act, the minister is empowered to impose levy by a statutory instrument payable to the Zimbabwe Manpower Development Fund (Zimdef). Moyo said…

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Welshman Flees After Representing Lunga In Victory Against Angry War Vets,

Welshman Flees After Representing Lunga In Victory Against Angry War Vets,

PROMINENT lawyer Professor Welshman Ncube yesterday sneaked out of the Bulawayo High Court through a back door with the help of police following threats by a group of war veterans who had lost a case. The group, comprising about 30 ZEXCOM Foundation Fund Limited shareholders, caused a scene at the High Court yesterday soon after they lost a case against Barbra Lunga, the company’s liquidator, in the fight over the control of company properties. Prof…

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1,102 Zimbabwean Couples Registered For Divorce Over Last Six Months

1,102 Zimbabwean Couples Registered For Divorce Over Last Six Months

A record 1 102 couples have registered to terminate their marriages at the High Court in Harare and Bulawayo with 173 divorces already granted since January this year.According to High Court records for January to July this year, a total of 820 couples approached the High Court in Harare seeking to have their marriages cancelled and 129 of them had their marriage certificates officially terminated.Bulawayo High Court also received 282 divorce requests and has so…

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