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Elephants trample cop to death
A young police officer, Constable Prince Dambe (24), was tragically killed by a herd of elephants while on patrol duty near the Forbes Border Post in Mutare on Wednesday night.Cst Dambe, who w...Published: 23 Jun 2025 at 11:44hrs | 1167 | by Staff reporter
Sanyatwe infurirates Chamisa's lawyer again
A storm of outrage has erupted after former Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) commander and current Minister of Sports, Anselem Nhamo Sanyatwe, declared during a church service that the ruling Zanu-PF part...Published: 17 Jun 2025 at 07:19hrs | 1018 | by Staff reporter
Bonyongwe, Mutsvangwa bitter feud escalates
The ongoing feud between former Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) Director-General Happyton Bonyongwe and Zanu PF spokesperson Chris Mutsvangwa has escalated, with Bonyongwe launching a scathing...Published: 15 Oct 2024 at 09:23hrs | 3962 | by Staff reporter
Augustine Chihuri's book has no useful history of policing in Zimbabwe
The History of Policing in Zimbabwe by Augustine Chihuri is a disappointing and poorly written book that fails to provide any meaningful insight into the evolution of the police force in the coun...Published: 27 Dec 2023 at 11:54hrs | 32 | by Tatenda Mashanda
Why Zanu-PF must win at any cost!
Let me start with that intellectual prostitute, Professor Jonathan Moyo, who, from his hide-out somewhere in Kenya is breathing fire and brimstone on a poor white man, David Coltart.David wrot...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 08:25hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri wins Supreme Court appeal
Former Police Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri has won the Supreme Court appeal contesting forfeiture of his properties acquired over his 25-year tenure at the helm of the Police.Justice...Published: 29 May 2023 at 19:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court rules in favour of Chihuri
Former Police Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri has won the Supreme Court appeal by the State contesting an order for forfeiture of his properties acquired over his 25 year tenure at the helm of ...Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 19:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt moves to seize Chihuri farm
GOVERNMENT is intensifying its vindictive approach to seizing farms belonging to its critics, most of whom were the late former president Robert Mugabe's loyalists in the twilight years of life and ru...Published: 16 Oct 2022 at 19:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa remains mute amid damaging accusations
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa should address the nation on the sensational rape allegations levelled against him by controversial young Zimbabwean woman Susan Mutami, who is based in Australia, analyst...Published: 31 Jul 2022 at 17:56hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Susan Mutami spills beans in tell-all sexual abuse scandal
A CONTROVERSIAL young Zimbabwean woman Susan Mutami, based in Australia, with high-level Zanu-PF and government links, has dropped a bombshell: she has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of raping a...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 07:57hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri was better, says Mliswa
Outspoken Norton legislator, Temba Mliswa has slammed the Zimbabwe Republic Police for incompetence under Godwin Matanga while saying the former Police Chief, Augustine Chihuri was better.Mlis...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 15:34hrs | 13 | by Desmond Nleya
Leave Mnangagwa out of this, Judge tells Chihuri
HIGH Court Judge Justice Pisirayi Kwenda has told former Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri to stop dragging President Mnangagwa's name into his dispute with the Prosecutor-General, who is ...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chihuri gets US$7m mansion back
FORMER ZRP boss Augustine Chihuri secured some relief Tuesday after the High Court gave him back a luxury Harare mansion valued at US$7 million.Chihuri, reportedly now based in South Africa, i...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
High Court clears Chihuri assets
The High Court has returned the properties former police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri acquired during his 25 years at the helm of the police force that were targeted for forfeiture, in what ...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 16:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri abused power, court told
FORMER Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri abused his public power as head of the police to prejudice the State of large sums in public funds channelled to five companies linked to his family and r...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chihuri wealth inquiry opens
The inquiry seeking explanation from former police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri on the sale of five properties that were part of the family's large property portfolio opened at the High Cour...Published: 26 Mar 2022 at 06:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri savages Hodzi
FORMER Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Augustine Chihuri has vehemently opposed a High Court order for his properties to be forfeited arguing it is unconstitutional.He argued that he acquired h...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chihuri says he is too rich to steal
EXILED former police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri yesterday told the High Court that he was too rich to steal from the State and the police force.Chihuri is accused of corruption inv...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Stop police brutality
There has been spiralling of political motivated violence targeting members of the opposition. This is bad publicity for President Emmerson Mnangagwa who is calling himself a new republic....Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 14:06hrs | 2 | by Leonard Koni
Chihuri fraud case further postponed
THE High Court has deferred the case of former Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri who is accused of corruption involving US$32 million to March 24.Judge Justice Pisirai Kwenda grant...Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 05:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chihuri's wealth case deferred
The hearing of the State's application for former police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri to explain how he sold five properties that were part of the family's large property portfolio, in what ...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chihuri wealth case deferred
The High Court has deferred to next month, the case in which the State is seeking explanation from former police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri on the sale of five properties that were part of...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 05:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
State seeks to recover US$32m from Chihuri
The High Court is this week expected to hear a high profile corruption case in which the State is seeking to recover more than US$32 million and forfeit numerous properties from former Police Commissi...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Discontent in ZRP over promotion criteria
Discontent is simmering in the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) over the criteria being used to promote officers across the board which some say is prone to abuse, NewsDay can exclusively reveal....Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa won't leave office after losing election?
THE war-of-words, pitting Zanu-PF and MDC Alliance sympathisers following the win by an opposition leader in Zambia's presidential elections, rages, with President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson in...Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 16:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Corruption in the Zimbabwe Republic Police a smoke without fire
In Zimbabwe, it is very rare for politicians holding ministerial positions or senior officers to resign on their own without a hint of scandal. So it has ...Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 19:51hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
A plot to dethrone Matanga from police exposed
Once again social media was abuzz with Twitter messages spread by Temba Mliswa attacking the Police Commissioner-General Godwin Tandabantu Matanga. Themba is a big mouth and an attention seeker who ha...Published: 27 Jun 2021 at 23:12hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
MP rekindles push for closure of police training depot
MAGWEGWE legislator Anele Ndebele has renewed calls for the closure of Ntabazinduna Police Training Depot in Umguza district, Matabeleland North province, saying it should be turned into a youth vocat...Published: 13 Mar 2021 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police Commissioner General Godwin Matanga a hero in the making
The Police Commissioner General Mr GodwinMatanga is a gentle giant but brutally effective. The United Kingdom of Britain imposed sanctions on three security chiefs plus a minister of state sec...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 09:38hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Matanga orders Jonathan Moyo rape probe
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has directed police in Bulawayo to look for veteran modelling instructor Ms Sipho Ncube-Mazibuko as part of investigations following her rape allegations aga...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police follow up on Jonathan Moyo rape claims
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has directed police in Bulawayo to look for veteran modelling instructor Ms Sipho Ncube-Mazibuko as part of investigations following her rape allegations aga...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 07:21hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Brig-Gen Moyo national hero
Decorated military commander, Brigadier-General Collin Moyo (Retired), who died in Harare last Friday, has been declared a National Hero. Defence and War Veterans Affairs Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kas...Published: 11 Jan 2021 at 07:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Anti-graft crack team seizes $2 billion assets
A CRACK team made up of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has seized luxury homes and top-end vehicles wor...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Sanction are causing incapacitation and fuelling corruption' - do tell, what incapacitations diamonds looters are suffering
”There is a relationship between sanctions and corruption, whereupon due to incapacitation of Government or the private sector to provide competitive salaries in the region, workers end up engaging ...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 16:28hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Interpol declines Zimbabwe requests to arrest former Mugabe ministers
Zimbabwean authorities' attempts to employ Interpol to secure the return to Zimbabwe of former top officials of ousted president Robert Mugabe have hit a brick wall.In one such case, the inter...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 08:24hrs | 2 | by ZimLive
SADC Summit to call for Zimbabwe sanctions removal
The SADC Heads of State and Government summit scheduled for this weekend in Dar e Salaam, Tanzania, is expected to push for the removal of illegal and ruinous sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the West...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 08:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
General PV Sibanda to succeed Mnangagwa as President?
Commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces General Philip Valerio Sibanda may succeed President Emmerson Mnangagwa as President of the party and subsequent of the country a Senior journalist Mduduzi has...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 14:36hrs | 14 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chihuri named in vehicle service scandal
FORMER Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri allegedly used a Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) account with Mercedes-Benz dealer, Zimoco, to have his fleet of private motor vehicles serviced, a ...Published: 22 Jun 2019 at 15:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Court orders govt to compensate MDC-T activist ZWL$13k
High Court judge Justice Nyaradzo Munangati-Manongwa has ordered Home Affairs minister Cain Mathema, Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga and Prosecutor-General Kumbirai Hodzi to atone for the i...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Augustine Chihuri faces arrest
FORMER Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri and two serving senior officers face arrest on charges of criminal abuse office following completion of investigations into their cases. Ch...Published: 30 May 2019 at 07:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Hunt for Mugabe's top cop begins
FORMER Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri and two serving senior officers face arrest on charges of criminal abuse of office following the completion of investigations into their cases. ...Published: 30 May 2019 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chihuri not in Malawi, says Electoral Commission
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has described as baseless media reports that former Zimbabwe's Commissioner-General of Police, Augustine Chihuri, was in Malawi.The MEC also refuted claim...Published: 21 May 2019 at 09:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri faces deportation from Malawi
The country's vice president who is also UTM Party leader Saulos Chilima told the nation on Sunday that a Zimbabwean national Augustine Chihuri who is in the county to help Democratic Progressive Part...Published: 19 May 2019 at 18:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri opts for out of court settlement
Exiled former police commissioner general Augustine Chihuri is now settling a claim in which he was dragged to the High Court for allegedly impounding five cars and a house from a Harare businessman....Published: 17 May 2019 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Charity Charamba redeployed
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is set to have a new national spokesperson after Commissioner Charity Charamba was redeployed to the Staff College as Principal.Charamba, the face of the ZRP...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 18:26hrs | 1 | by ZimLive
Ex-cop sues Mathema, Matanga for contempt of court
A FORMER police officer, who was arrested after testifying against fellow cops, has sued Home Affairs minister Cain Mathema and Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga for contempt of court after t...Published: 23 Feb 2019 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gets fresh chance from EU
In a rare piece of good news for President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his under pressure administration, he has been given a stay of execution by the European Union (EU), whose Parliament had proposed tou...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 12:07hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe junta escapes EU sanctions noose
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and his top lieutenants in the military have been left out of the European Union (EU)'s latest sanctions list despite widespread calls for their censure over the army's re...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 10:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa escapes fresh EU sanctions
Zimbabwe's leaders escaped fresh sanctions by the European Union on Monday despite growing repression.The EU Parliament last week called for individual sanctions to be widened against top gove...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 23:38hrs | 4 | by ZimLive
Chihuri and Bonyongwe removed from sanctions list
The European Union has announced that it has removed former Police Chief Augustine Chihuri and former Spy Boss Happyton Bonyongwe from the sanctions list.EU said the two are no longer in gover...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 17:53hrs | 6 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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