{"id":238280,"date":"2026-07-08T06:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-jsc-to-introduce-mobile-courts-in-harare-to-tackle-case-backlog\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T06:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:41:10","slug":"zimbabwe-jsc-to-introduce-mobile-courts-in-harare-to-tackle-case-backlog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-jsc-to-introduce-mobile-courts-in-harare-to-tackle-case-backlog\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: JSC to Introduce Mobile Courts in Harare to Tackle Case Backlog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) is set to introduce mobile courts in Harare as part of efforts to reduce case backlogs and improve access to judicial services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Speaking on the sidelines of a magistrates&#8217; swearing-in ceremony in Harare on Monday, Chief Magistrate Vongai Guwuriro Muchuchuti said the initiative aims to decentralise the Magistrates&#8217; Courts and ease pressure on existing court stations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">&#8220;We are in the process of establishing what we call mobile courts,&#8221; Muchuchuti said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size:...<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607070256.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) is set to introduce mobile courts in Harare as part of efforts to reduce case backlogs and improve access to judicial services. Speaking on the sidelines of a magistrates&#8217; swearing-in ceremony in Harare on Monday, Chief Magistrate Vongai Guwuriro Muchuchuti said the initiative aims to decentralise the Magistrates&#8217; Courts and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,30127,6683,8732,500,12016,7029,6261,257,254,11164,4686,421],"class_list":["post-238280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-backlog","tag-case","tag-courts","tag-harare","tag-introduce","tag-jsc","tag-mobile","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tackle","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}