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Hubby torches property in infidelity row
A GWANDA woman has been left stranded after her husband set their property on fire on Sunday morning following a dispute over alleged infidelity. The man, Amos Phiri (37) from Matshetsheni are...Published: 23 Sep 2020 at 06:02hrs | 1313 | by Staff reporter
Man bites police officer
A GWANDA man has been arrested after he bit a police officer who tried to apprehend his for assaulting his wife.Barbson Pande (40) from Jacaranda Suburb pleaded not guilty to charges of physic...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 18:35hrs | 1261 | by Staff reporter
Police officers nabbed at roadblock
Four police officers Bigboy Mujende(32), Natasha Mupingo(30), Sgt Manager William (44) and Brian Mzilikazi were recently arrested for resisting arrest, bribery and impersonation.The four were ...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 07:40hrs | 10775 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Zanu-PF militia pounce on cops
The invasion of a drug peddler's base in Kwekwe Mbizo 17 and his arrest caused violence and commotion reportedly perpetrated by Zanu PF youths yesterday.Two detectives arrested a Kwekwe drug d...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 16:33hrs | 4405 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa implicates police officers in gold rush
Kwekwe based Sakile Mnangagwa (31) who is a business partner to Gostaff Gomo at Trump -Tower Minerals private has implicated three police officers who were involved in a gold rush at Zhangazha plot, V...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 10:33hrs | 3493 | by Tarisai Mudahondo / Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa reshuffles top cops
Police officers recently arrested on allegations of abuse of office and bribery over their handling of the investigation into the illegal sale of stands in Kuwadzana in a US$1 million scam have been r...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:11hrs | 2844 | by Staff reporter
Six cops arrested for theft
Six armed police officers from Zimbabwe Republic Police, Sanyati were arrested for assault, unlawful entry and theft at a gold dealer's premises yesterday.According to a leaked memo seen by Bu...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 08:29hrs | 7018 | by Simbarashe Sithole/Tarisai Mudahondo
Sikhala approaches High Court
MDC Alliance vice chairperson Job Sikhala has taken his freedom bid to the High Court for bail appeal after he was denied freedom by the lower court on Thursday.Sikhala, who is accused of inci...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 20:10hrs | 1363 | by Staff reporter
Zacc descends on police top brass
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has launched a massive crackdown targeting senior Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers implicated in corruption.Already, some of ZRP's top bra...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:28hrs | 5933 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala says 'Cops always came to my office for lunch money'
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance vice-chairperson Job Sikhala, who is incarcerated at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison, yesterday denied charges that he evaded arrest and went into hiding before his arrest la...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:40hrs | 3238 | by Staff reporter
Police brutality victim breaks down in court
A COWDRAY Park woman, who was severely assaulted alongside her sister by police on allegations of violating COVID-19 lockdown regulations, broke down at the Western Commonage Magistrates Court in Bula...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:35hrs | 1282 | by Staff reporter
'Cops' raid village
EIGHT robbers, three clad in police uniforms, three in army uniform and two in civilian attire last week went on a robbing spree in Filabusi, stealing money, property and a car.National police...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:32hrs | 1257 | by Staff reporter
Cops, villagers flee businessman's 'goblins'
VILLAGERS and two police officers scurried for cover after they allegedly stumbled on goblins in a businessman's suitcase while searching for poison that allegedly led to the death of several communit...Published: 29 Aug 2020 at 16:44hrs | 4740 | by Staff reporter
Cops in trouble over US$15,000 bribe
TWO policemen have been arrested in Harare on allegations of receiving a US$15 600 bribe from a gold dealer they had arrested for illegal possession of 931 grammes of the metal. Constable Masi...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 06:59hrs | 2015 | by Staff reporter
Police officers extorts a gold dealer
Two police officers Masimba Kunyongana(26) and Desmond Masvimbo allegedly extorted a gold dealer Richard Dindani (39) of his money in a bid to release him from Harare Central police station on M...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 14:43hrs | 1013 | by Tarisai Mudahondo/ Simbarashe Sithole
BREAKING: Job Sikhala arrested
MDC Alliance Vice Chairman Job Sikhala has been arrested. He is attending at the police station with his lawyer, the party has said. Recently, a leaked secret police document said the cops fea...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 14:00hrs | 8294 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Overzealous cops assault top lawyer
TWO overzealous members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) were yesterday slapped with a ZWL $2000 fine or 3 months imprisonment each by Gokwe magistrate Hilary Ndlovu for assaulting a Kwekwe based...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 00:08hrs | 5102 | by Simbarashe Sithole
'Corrupt' police officers nabbed at roadblock
Two Bindura cops were arrested at a road block along Batanai Road yesterday.According to police documents seen by Bulawayo24.com the tw...Published: 16 Aug 2020 at 20:05hrs | 5214 | by Simbarashe Sithole/Tarisai Mudahondo
Rogue cops ruin man's life
48-year-old employee of platinum mining giant Unki Mines is demanding justice after he was brutalised by police in April this year while queuing at a bank in Gweru.Amos Siska, a rock support a...Published: 16 Aug 2020 at 08:18hrs | 854 | by Staff reporter
2 cops kidnapped by motorist
Two police officers were allegedly kidnapped on Tuesday night by a motorist they had stopped at a check point in Harare city centre set up to enforce the 6pm to 6am curfew.The motorist, 31-yea...Published: 15 Aug 2020 at 16:55hrs | 773 | by Staff reporter
Police dismiss Jonathan Moyo lies
POLICE have dismissed claims by one of the G40 kingpins and self-exiled former Cabinet minister Professor Jonathan Moyo that some of its officers in Plumtree, Matabeleland South, were defying orders f...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 06:50hrs | 1459 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police fret over curfew breakers
Curfew breaking is widespread in Harare, with a growing number of cars seen driving around northern suburbs late at night, although shopping centres are abandoned in these suburbs, and with vending an...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 06:43hrs | 724 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda miners disarm police to release friend
SIX miners, among them a woman, have been arrested for allegedly attacking three police officers and damaging a vehicle they were using in protest to the arrest of their workmate.Tawanda Msima...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:12hrs | 416 | by Staff reporter
13 arrests as army, police quash demo
PEACEFUL protesters, among them prominent novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga and MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere, were arrested yesterday as heavily armed soldiers and police crushed the planned pro...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:04hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe election system free and fair and adopted by the world.
Despite the negative publicity Zimbabwe receives from only the west its electoral system has actually been adopted by so many countries and this model is now used worldwide. The concept of election ob...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 21:23hrs | 3252 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Armed police officers storm ZimLive Editor Mduduzi Mathuthu's house
Armed members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police stormed the house of Mduduzi Mathuthu the Editor of online publication ZimLive. Mathuthu posted on Twitter that: Police at my house....Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 17:17hrs | 2778 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Police keen to interview activists
POLICE are keen to interview some political activists including MDC Alliance vice chairman Mr Job Sikhala. Other activists being sought by cops are Mr Makomborero Haruziviishe, Godfrey Kurauon...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 09:17hrs | 717 | by Staff reporter
Armed state agents storm Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation Director's house
The Director of Dumiso Foundation Mthulisi Hanana has alleged that suspected state agents broke into his home on Tuesday morning in a bid to abduct him over the #ZANUPFMustGo masks that he has been ac...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 13:54hrs | 3168 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Man kills self after losing US$1 200 to soldiers, cops
A CHITUNGWIZA man Cloudy Tasukwa reportedly committed suicide at the weekend after soldiers and police enforcing lockdown regulations reportedly swooped and robbed him of US$1 200, the victim's family...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:29hrs | 2319 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC sucked in land scam
MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa has been sucked into the latest swirl of residential stands allocation scam in the capital city, amid revelations that the opposition has been stripping the counc...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:25hrs | 1434 | by Staff reporter
Fugitive Murderer surrenders himself to cops
A Kwekwe based murder suspect Tatenda Moyo surrendered himself to the police from his hiding base on Saturday.Moyo alleged...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 16:09hrs | 2193 | by Tarisai Mudahondo and Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa's lockdown is clumsy, weird
ONE thing that the "new dispensation" of President Emmerson Mnangagwa will always be remembered for with frustration and contempt is its clumsy articulation of policy.You would have thought th...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:15hrs | 5396 | by Tawanda Majoni
'Brutal' shona police officers fail to have case dismissed
THE trial of six police officers who allegedly brutalised two women from Bulawayo's Cowdray Park suburb for allegedly violating lockdown regulations started on Wednesday. The police officers' ...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 07:41hrs | 820 | by Staff reporter
Woman stabs live-in boyfriend to death
A 31-YEAR-OLD Victoria Falls woman allegedly fatally stabbed her live-in boyfriend with a kitchen knife for refusing to open the door for her when she arrived home at night from a beer drink. ...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 07:42hrs | 1250 | by Staff reporter
Cops 'trying to avoid prosecution' for brutality
THE State yesterday accused six Bulawayo police officers of employing delaying tactics to avoid prosecution on charges of brutally assaulting two Cowdray Park sisters under the veil of enforcing COVID...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 08:44hrs | 958 | by Staff reporter
Pressure mounts over killer cop
POLICE are yet to identify the officer involved in the fatal shooting of a Bulawayo man with a senior official claiming provisions of the Inquest Act have now been invoked to ensure the case is not sw...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 19:01hrs | 4318 | by Staff reporter
Cops arrested after fighting over gun
Two Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers stationed at Chombira, Chiweshe were arrested recently after they allegedly fought for a gun.Luiz Manhezho (36) and Bernard Chibundu (30) are set to...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 11:37hrs | 5187 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mphoko wants charges dropped
FORMER vice president Phelekezela Mphoko, pictured, who is facing allegations of criminal abuse of office after he allegedly ordered the release of two Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:45hrs | 495 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers offer $15 bribe to police
An attempt to bribe police detectives by four armed robbers landed them in soup.The matter came to light at Guruve magistrates courts o...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 13:29hrs | 3182 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Robbery syndicate hit Bulawayo
Parking in Bulawayo's city centre has turned into a nightmare for motorists who risk having their cars broken into or being robbed at gunpoint. A robbery syndicate is targeting unattended cars parked ...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 06:55hrs | 1075 | by Staff reporter
Cowdray Park police brutality case postponed to July
The case in which six police officers are accused of brutally assaulting two Cowdray Park women for allegedly violating Covid-19 lockdown regulations is now to set to commence on July 13.This ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 20:58hrs | 960 | by Staff reporter
Police Officers confront Matanga
A GROUP of police officers who were recently transferred to stations outside Harare have revealed how they are being victimised for allegedly not thwarting MDC demonstrations, the High Court heard. ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 17:22hrs | 1754 | by Staff reporter
1 111 cops resist transfer
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga (pictured) was on Friday left with egg on the face after more than 1 111 junior officers successfully challenged their "intermittent transfers" at their own...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 08:17hrs | 5990 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's sex vendors on streets despite virus restrictions
Forced to stay home for weeks without any source of income, Zimbabwe's sex workers, like many other informal traders, are beginning to defy the country's lockdown and return to the streets.Ris...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 14:45hrs | 2040 | by AP
Cops bash Gwanda magistrate
GWANDA magistrate, Ndumiso Khumalo, who was battered by police in April following his arrest over suspected robbery, has lodged a complaint for the violation of his rights.Khumalo filed his compla...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 09:38hrs | 1036 | by Staff reporter
Cops expose whistleblowers
POLICE in Karoi have come under fire for reportedly revealing the identities of whistleblowers who caused the arrest of a returnee who had evaded mandatory quarantine.The female suspect slippe...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 07:59hrs | 1619 | by Staff reporter
Cops says Mnangagwa is a 'used condom', arrested
A HARARE police officer was taken to Zanu-PF headquarters for interrogation when he was arrested last week for calling President Emmerson Mnangagwa a "used condom".Shungudzemoyo Kache was late...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 08:59hrs | 6546 | by Staff reporter
Impunity won't go unpunished
One of the alleged first causalities of the police brutality under the lockdown was Levison Ncube, a 25-yearold Bulawayo man, who was assaulted by police officers.Ncube was walking his girlfri...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 08:52hrs | 289 | by Staff reporter
Army, police deny Chamisa HQ siege
THE Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) and the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) have both denied claims they have seized control of MDC's Harvest House headquarters, now rechristened Morgan Richard (MRT) Hou...Published: 06 Jun 2020 at 07:46hrs | 2101 | by newzimbabwe
Lawyers demand prosecution of abusive cops
LAWYERS representing a Beitbridge man alleging police brutality have bemoaned the inordinate delays in taking the officers to court.Jabulani Mzinyathi of Garikayi and Company acting on behalf ...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 09:02hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
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