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Zimbabwe prisons remain overpopulated
Zimbabwe's prison population is too high and authorities are struggling to fulfil their mandate of rehabilitating inmates, an official said on Tuesday.Appearing before a joint sitting of parli...Published: 18 Sep 2024 at 15:47hrs | 146 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe prisons get renamed
TWO prisons in Zimbabwe, Connemara Open Prison and Marondera Female Open Prison have been renamed to correctional institutions.The Zimbabwe Prison and Correctional Services in a statement on X...Published: 11 Jul 2024 at 18:18hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
United States sanctions on Zimbabwe: who is off the list, who is on?
The United States on Monday sanctioned Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa, first lady Auxillia Mnangagwa and other government officials for their alleged involvement in corruption and human...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 19:39hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Lobhengula's legacy embodied unique tactful diplomacy, military heroism
DISTINGUISHED researchers and historians have utterly dismissed the narrative that Ndebele monarch King Lobhengula Khumalo is associated with selling out to colonial settlers, arguing his distinct leg...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 05:05hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Four killed in road accident
Four people died on the spot in a road accident between a haulage truck and a Toyota Corolla at the 21km peg along Selous-Ngezi Road, Chegutu, on Tuesday night, police have reported. A Volvo r...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 21:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mr Mnangagwa, Blair is in the past, and remains there
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, with all due respect, it was an abasement for you to be ecstatic on meeting former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. As I see it, your beati...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 05:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA-registered vehicle used in Harare shoot-out recovered
The South African registered VW Polo vehicle used as a first getaway car by two suspected armed robbers who sped off during a shootout at a service station near the Exhibition Park (formerly Harare Ag...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Soldier, police officer arrested after police shootout with 'armed robbers'
A soldier and a police officer are among four suspects arrested after a police shootout with suspected armed robbers in Harare on Wednesday.A fifth suspect was killed in the incident near Show...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 18:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbery cases increased in 2021
Cases of armed robberies increased countrywide this year with criminals targeting cash-in transit vehicles, individuals and business people with large amounts of cash.Schools and cross-border ...Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 07:23hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Armed robber arrested after flaunting cash on social media
A DECISION by a suspected armed robber to flaunt his ill-gotten wealth on social media backfired after he was arrested when his picture with wads of United States dollars attracted the attention of la...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 05:29hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Power crisis pushes Blanket Mine into fresh costs
GOLD focused resources giant, Caledonia Mining Corporation says it will increase capital injections at its Zimbabwe-based Blanket Mine by 78% in 2022 due to a worsening power crisis.The New Yo...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 08:01hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'US$334k Fawcett robbery staged'
THE case in which US$334 290 was brazenly stolen from a cash-in-transit vehicle between Gweru and Kwekwe last Thursday evening, has taken a new twist with police unearthing evidence linking the Fawcet...Published: 27 Nov 2021 at 23:15hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Caledonia splurges US$4m on Zimbabwe gold mine
DUAL-LISTED resources giant, Caledonia Mining Corporation is set to buy Pan African Mining's Maligreen goldfields near Gweru to develop its second bullion assets in two decades.The asset is wo...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 19:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife officially opens female prison
Zimbabwe made history yesterday by being the first country in SADC to open a female open prison.The open prison gives credence to Zimbabwe's drive to modernise prison and correctional services...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mukudzei Mudzi and a 'distorted history’
We have learned with sorrow and sadness of the death of Cde Mukudzei Mudzi (94) the former Executive Secretary (General Secretary) of Dare reChimurenga of ZANU.Cde Mudzi's death followed that ...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 16:17hrs | 3 | by Rugare Gumbo
Nkomo 1983 Prophetic Letter to Mugabe
DR. JOSHUA M. NKOMO2 Stevenage RoadEast Ham E6 2WLLondon United Kingdom7th June 1983 Dear Robert,1. I write to you as a citizen of Zimbabwe and one of the leade...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 13:58hrs | 12 | by Dr Joshua M Nkomo
The life of Misheck Velaphi Ncube: Connecting the dots
ORBITUARYMisheck Velaphi Ncube was buried at the National Heroes Acre in Harare on May 9, 2019, a well-deserved recognition from the ruling party and the state for his contribution to the libe...Published: 26 May 2019 at 13:49hrs | | by Ernest Malandu, Vivian Siziba and Strike Mkandla
Misheck Velaphi Ncube Obituary: Connecting the Dots
Misheck Velaphi Ncube was buried at Heroes Acre in Harare on 9 May 2019, a well-deserved recognition from the ruling party and the state for his contribution to the liberation and independence of Zimb...Published: 19 May 2019 at 20:59hrs | 6 | by Iphithule Maphosa
'Zimbabwe prisons overcrowded'
DESPITE the release of 3 000 prisoners through the Presidential Amnesty last year, Zimbabwe's prisons are still overpopulated, with the country's correctional facilities carrying 2 382 inmates above t...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 07:46hrs | | by Sytaff reporter
Minister fouls Mnangagwa's plans fouled by Owen Ncube
ZIMBABWE's efforts to attract much-needed investment are being undermined by a fatal combination of executive folly and policy inconsistencies - that have seen international investors being warned aga...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 17:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dreaded CIO Minister in fresh mine wrangle storm
Minister of State Security in the Office of the President Owen Mudha Ncube has been fingered in the mine wrangle that is happening at Gaika gold mine in Kwekwe.In a letter that is circulating ...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 15:28hrs | 8 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mugabe commissioned gukurahundi genocide reports 'have been lost'
Reports of two government commissions of inquiry into post-independence massacres in Matabeleland and the Midlands "have been lost", the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) says it has...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 19:49hrs | 1 | by ZimLive
Mnangagwa, Mugabe carefully planned Gukurahundi genocide
THE Gukurahundi genocide, in which an estimated 20 000 Zimbabwean citizens were killed by a crack parallel army unit, the Fifth Brigade, in the early 1980s, was carefully planned, well before dissiden...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 11:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Surviving Ian Smith's hit list
We continue chronicling the political life of Jane Ngwenya. This week Ngwenya narrates to our Deputy News Editor Levi Mukarati of her release from Gonakudzingwa Restriction Camp and fleeing Rhodesia u...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 10:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to build open prisons for jailed mums
THE Government intends to build more open prisons to accommodate female convicts who give birth in jail as it strives to improve the country's justice system, a Cabinet Minister has said. The ...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Minister sucked in sexual abuse storm
HOME Affairs minister Cain Mathema has been sucked into the row about sexual abuse at the Department of Immigration which is now at the centre of investigations by the Zimbabwe Gender Commission....Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prison boss willing to consider inmates conjugal visits
Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) Commissioner-General Paradzai Zimondi talks to the Daily News on Sunday's Tendayi Madhomu about the state of the correctional facilities in Zimbabwe....Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 14:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Connemara pleads for prisoners
OFFICIALS at Connemara Open Prison in the Midlands province, said they had been rendered redundant after all 65 inmates at the institution were recently released under the Presidential Amnesty....Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 08:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Omega Sibanda sings for his supper
ZIFA vice-president Omega Sibanda came out guns blazing after the Sports Commission sports body's chairman Edward Siwela met with members of the 11-member committee that was appointed to try and norma...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Amokachi charms Chiyangwa
FORMER Nigerian football superstar Daniel Amokachi headlined a Moroccan delegation that was in the country at the weekend to present the North African country's 2026 World Cup bid to ZIFA president Ph...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo letter to Robert Mugabe from exile in the UK
JOSHUA M. NKOMO2 Stevenage RoadEast Ham E6 2WLLondon E6 2WLUnited Kingdom7th June, 1983INFORMATIVE LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER MUGABEDear Robert,1. I write...Published: 26 Mar 2018 at 11:00hrs | 2 | by Joshua M. Nkomo
Mnagnagwa cut Kereke's jail sentence?
Convicted rapist and former Member of Parliament for Bikita West Munyaradzi Kereke has had three years of his 10-year sentence cut by prison officials on account of good behaviour, the Daily New...Published: 03 Mar 2018 at 11:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'fingered' in Kereke freedom bid
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's name has been dragged into a case in which former Bikita West MP Munyaradzi Kereke is making frantic efforts to secure his freedom, claiming the 14-year jail sentence he...Published: 03 Mar 2018 at 11:29hrs | | by Staff rreporter
Zimbabwe immigration staffers lament 'pre-colonial slavery' conditions
IMMIGRATION staffers have requested to meet Home Affairs minister Obert Mpofu to voice their concerns over alleged unfair treatment by their bosses.The staffers, in a leaked memo dated Decembe...Published: 26 Jan 2018 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
'I miss sex,' says Gumbura
JAILED former RMG End Time Message leader, Robert Martin Gumbura, said he misses sex and wishes he could have had an opportunity to have some during the recently held family week.Gumbura, who ...Published: 02 Nov 2017 at 15:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Alfred Nikita Mangena: Unique ZAPU Soldier
Lookout "Mafela" Masuku Memorial Lecture SeriesDelivered by ZAPU President Dr. Dumiso DabengwaIbhetshu likaZulu, Fidelity Towers, Bulawayo, 28 October, 2016Distinguished GuestsColl...Published: 31 Oct 2016 at 07:08hrs | 37 | by Dumiso Dabengwa
'Joshua Nkomo saved Zimbabwe from civil war'
This year on April 5, Ibhetshu likaZulu gave me the honour to deliver the inaugural Lookout "Mafela" Masuku memorial lecture. This year is the 20th anniversary of the untimely death of Lt General Look...Published: 30 Oct 2016 at 12:17hrs | | by Dumiso Dabengwa
Jailbird gets Dembare call-up
A Harare Central Prison inmate, who was prepared to strut it out barefoot before a well-wisher lent him a pair of cleats ahead of a social match against his idolised Dynamos side, is now on cloud ...Published: 11 Oct 2016 at 13:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
A letter from Robert Mugabe
Then on 8 February a major fight erupted at Connemara barracks between Kwekwe and Gweru in the Midlands province between ex-Zanla and Zipra guerrillas. Although that fighting at Connemara was quas...Published: 17 Jul 2016 at 12:32hrs | | by David Coltart
Norman Mabhena: The honour and price of principle in Zimbabwe
After more than three decades since we attained independence from colonial rule in 1980, there is a steady depletion of the ranks of those who stood up to be counted without counting the cost to thems...Published: 09 Jul 2016 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Dr. Strike Mkandla
Dumiso Dabengwa's Lookout Masuku memorial lecture
ZIMBABWE AFRICAN PEOPLE'S UNION (ZAPU) 15 JMN Nkomo Street/Connaught Avenue, Bulawayo Lookout "Mafela" Masuku Memorial Lecture Presentation Notes by ZAPU President Dr. Dumiso Dab...Published: 06 Apr 2016 at 08:18hrs | 5 | by Dr. Dumiso Dabengwa
Open female prison blocked by pregnancy fears
ACTIVISTS have claimed that a proposed open prison for women is failing to take off because authorities are allegedly concerned that, if released, inmates would likely come back pregnant, creating mor...Published: 02 Jul 2014 at 08:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The British engineered Gukurahundi Massacres
I understand how people hate Robert Mugabe but, to publish this report as a factual report is a horrible crime against the people of Zimbabwe. I can only assume you were neither witnesses to the t...Published: 26 Apr 2014 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by Brian Sherif
Black empowerment activist rapes daughter, murders pregnant wife
BULAWAYO - Judgment day for black empowerment activist Sonny Chasi who is being charged with the murder of his pregnant wife and raping his daughter six times has been set by the courts for Febr...Published: 02 Feb 2014 at 14:32hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Activist made daughter bath in semen
Sonny Kuzomunhu Chasi, 73, of Richmond in Bulawayo, raped his daughter and then made her bath in his semen, a court heard. ...Published: 29 Jan 2014 at 07:21hrs | | by Chronicle Court Reporter
Joshua Nkomo writes Mugabe from London (1983)
DR. JOSHUA M. NKOMO 2 Stevenage Road East Ham E6 2WL London E6 2WL United Kingdom 7th June, 1983 INFORMATIVE LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER MUGAB...Published: 24 Dec 2013 at 18:53hrs | | by SW Radio Africa
Why ZAPU entered into the Unity accord of December 1987
Zimbabweans seem to have developed amnesia over the real reasons why ZAPU (Zimbabwe African People's Union) entered into the unity accord of 22nd December 1987.ZAPU was the main nationalis...Published: 21 Dec 2013 at 04:03hrs | 25 | by LLOYD MSIPA
Zanu-PF snubs Canaan Banana memorial
ZANU-PF snubbed the memorial service of Zimbabwe's first president Reverend Canaan Banana held at the Mzilikazi Methodist Church in Bulawayo on Saturday.Former Zanu-PF politburo member and Zap...Published: 11 Nov 2013 at 11:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Another Zupco bus accident, 3 people dead
Three passengers on board a Nissan Vannette perished on the spot and another one was seriously injured when their vehicle collided head on with a Zupco bus near Munyati River along the Kadoma - Kwekwe...Published: 12 Jan 2013 at 17:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Connemara accident victims named
POLICE have released the names of the four family members who died when a pick-up truck was involved in a head-on collision with a bus near Connemara on Monday morning. One of the victims in t...Published: 09 Jan 2013 at 06:02hrs | 1 | by Crime Reporter
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