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A High Court judge has criticised opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) senior official Tendai Biti for accusing a Harare magistrate and senior prosecutor of being biased against him. In a ruling on Biti's High Court application seeking the recusal of magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti-Guwuriro and prosecutor Michael Reza in a matter he is on trial…

Prominent lawyer and opposition former MP Tendai Biti has lost his application to have his trial on assault charges against Ms Tatiana Alishina set

A local company, Bariadie Investments (Pvt) Ltd, which is still trying to gain ownership of a Mount Pleasant property despite having lost

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By Mary Taruvinga HIGH Court judge, Tawanda Chitapi has issued an order temporarily stopping the trial of MDC Alliance MP, Joana Mamombe and fellow party activists Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova at the magistrate court. The three are accused of publishing falsehoods after allegedly faking their abduction by suspected state security agents last year. The alleged abductions happened soon after the activists had joined fellow party youths in staging an anti-government demonstration in Harare�...

By Mary Taruvinga HARARE West legislator Joana Mamombe and activist Cecilia Chimbiri will remain in remand prison after their bail appeal hearing was postponed to next Tuesday. High Court judge, Tawanda Chitapi said he was “yet to finish writing the judgement” and expects it will be ready by then. The two are being accused of breaching Covid-19 regulations after they allegedly held a press conference at Harare Magisrate’s Court during trial of a party activist. They have been languishing ...

By Staff Reporter PROSECUTOR-GENERAL Kumbirai Hodzi says he had no reason to return to law school as recently advised by High Court judge Tawanda Chitapi who had accused the public official of bungling a bail application case involving a notorious armed robber. Justice Chitapi on Thursday advised the Prosecutor General to go back to law school and familiarise himself with the country’s statutes. This was after Hodzi had allegedly messed up in a bail appeal in a case involving suspected notori...

A Zimbabwean sex worker accused of sleeping with a 13-year-old boy she met on a dating website was released on Z$10,000 bail by a High Court judge on Friday.

By Mary Taruvinga FIREBRAND MDC Alliance vice chairperson and legislator Job Sikhala has been granted $25 000 bail by High Court judge Tawanda Chitapi. Sikhala has been languishing in remand prison at Chikurubi for the past 20 days. He was arrested for allegedly publishing falsehoods in a matter involving a widely circulated WhatsApp video image claiming a baby strapped on its mother’s back was struck and killed by a baton wielding police officer who was enforcing the country’s lockdown reg...

By Mary Taruvinga JOURNALIST Hopewell Chin’ono has finally been granted $20 000 bail by High Court judge David Foroma after languishing in remand prison since January 8 this year. The judgement was delivered by High Court judge Tawanda Chitapi on behalf of Justice Foroma Wednesday morning. Foroma ruled that on top of $20 000 to be deposited with the clerk of court “conditions in ACC 72/20, his other pending criminal case will apply in this current case”. The journalist’s bail conditions...