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Jailed Zimbabwean killed in Botswana prison fight
A Zimbabwean prisoner was killed by his Motswana cellmate after a brawl ensued between the two in the dead of night on Sunday at a prison in Maun, Botswana.The Zimbabwean has since been identi...Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 16:55hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Abednico Ncube for Vice Presidency
Gone are the days when leadership was based on qualities, qualifications and to some extent anointing. Leadership came with a responsibility of protecting the interests of those being led. The recent ...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 10:06hrs | | by Mthabisi Mathuthu
Mnangagwa petitioned to decongest prisons
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights (ZHR) NGO Forum yesterday petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa to pardon some prisoners in order to decongest the correctional facilities in line with COVID-19 safety prot...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 10:12hrs | | by Citizen
'Zanu-PF to blame for COVID-19 deaths'
MDC ALLIANCE vice-president Tendai Biti has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government of deliberately imprisoning opponents and critics in COVID-19-infested jails as a way of exterminating the...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mafume's former cellmates die of Covid-19
Three former cellmates of Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume succumbed to Covid-19, a court heard on Monday.Mafume was not in court for his routine remand. His lawyer Tendai Biti told magistrate Vongai...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 11:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mahere protests jail conditions
MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere will remain behind bars until Friday after a Harare magistrate deferred his ruling on the politician's application against placement on remand.The outs...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 07:53hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mahere says police cells are 'unbearable'
MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere, who was Tuesday remanded in custody to Friday on charges of publishing falsehoods, complained in court of the deplorable state of cells at the Harare Central ...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 16:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Resident files assault, torture charges against police officer
BULAWAYO resident, Edmore Moyo Makonese filed a complaint against a police officer Constable Samuel Marava for assault, torture and denial of medical attention.Makonese filed the complaint at ...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 08:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rapist convict sodomises cellmate
A Harare Central Prison convict on the verge of finishing serving a 10-year jail term for rape, was on Friday slapped with two more years for sodomising a fellow inmate.Farai Makwiyana (48) ap...Published: 15 Aug 2017 at 00:15hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Inmates 'kill' cellmate for refusing to join jailbreak
THREE dangerous criminals - one of them on death row - allegedly killed a fellow cellmate in cold blood at Wha Wha Medium Prison in Gweru after he refused to join their plot to break out of prison....Published: 20 May 2017 at 12:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mbeki should be the last person to preach Zuma about values
That the administration of Jacob Zuma has structural flaws is no longer in dispute. But - having masterminded his accidental elevation to power - the last people to preach to Msholozi about values and...Published: 12 Apr 2017 at 20:14hrs | 1 | by Khaya S Sithole
Quicksand sinking & mirages: Inside Zanu PFs long history of infighting
A long read on Zanu Pfs 54 years of bitter infighting, betrayal and power games. There is no iota of doubt that...Published: 03 Apr 2017 at 15:40hrs | | by Maynard Manyowa
Sodomites attack Zanu PF Commissar
Alleged sodomites at Bulawayo Prisons battled with caged ZANU-PF Bulawayo Provincial Youth Deputy Commissar Tichaona Chikwava for about three hours at the cell last week, a court heard. C...Published: 03 Apr 2017 at 03:19hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Teenager hangs self in police custody
A 19-YEAR-OLD Mahusekwa man allegedly hanged himself from a police cell window at the weekend following his arrest on domestic violence charges.Although Mashonaland East acting provincial ...Published: 23 Aug 2016 at 10:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Suspect found hanging in a cell
A 43-year-old man from Mahalapye was found hanging in a cell at the Urban Police station last week Wednesday. Mmegi reported that the man was a suspect in a Yaris car theft at the time of dete...Published: 06 Apr 2016 at 15:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Pandemonium at Bulawayo Central Police Station
There was pandemonium at Bulawayo Central Police Station yesterday after relatives of a detained suspect were told that their family member had died suddenly while in police cells.There was pa...Published: 05 Nov 2015 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Inmate beats up cellmate for refusing to share a cigarette
A MURDER suspect who is in remand at Gwanda Prisons has been sentenced to a year's imprisonment for attacking a cellmate, leaving him with loose teeth following a misunderstanding over a cigarette....Published: 01 Jun 2015 at 09:46hrs | | by Marvelous Moyo
Khami inmate sneaks into cellmate's blankets, sodomises him
AN inmate at Khami Prison on the outskirts of Bulawayo sneaked into his cellmate's blankets while he was fast asleep and forced himself on him.The victim sustained anal bruises and bled profus...Published: 23 Nov 2013 at 03:29hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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