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Zimbabwe police to thwart Sikhala, Ngarivhume protests
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) reassured the nation of its commitment to maintaining peace and security amidst calls for unsanctioned protests by ex-convicts and political activists Jacob Ngarivhu...Published: 06 Jul 2024 at 12:32hrs | 83 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's amnesty for rapists hitting victims harder
EMELKA (not real name) was only 11 years old when a 59-year-old villager forced himself on her. The villager repeated the attack several times, threatening to kill the young girl using witchcraft if s...Published: 27 May 2023 at 09:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's mandatory 15-year jail terms for rapists
Those convicted of rape or aggravated indecent assault will soon face minimum mandatory 15-year jail terms under proposed amendments to the criminal code set to be enacted to arrest the rising number ...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF gets strict on candidates
Zanu-PF Midlands provincial leadership has said the party is going to employ a rigorous vetting exercise on cadres who intend to contest in the upcoming central committee elections as the revolutionar...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 05:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
2 ex-convicts in court for robbery
TWO ex-convicts appeared in court on Friday, facing charges of robbery. Three more accomplices are still at large. Joseph Phiri (44) and Michael Mandoro (46) of Unit H, Seke, Chitungwi...Published: 27 Feb 2022 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
REVEALED: America panics over ZANU PF...funds #OperationDudula
As Zimbabwe continues to neutralize the 22 year illegal USA sponsored sanctions propelling the Americans into a frustration mode, a despairing America is turning to ex-convicts, fraudsters, gold digge...Published: 20 Feb 2022 at 17:13hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Sibanda
Fleeing ex-convict gunned down
An ex-convict, who had been on the run since 2013 for several cases of attempted murder, theft and assault, was shot and seriously injured by the police after he attempted to jump off a moving vehicle...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
4 armed robbers from SA injured in police shootout
FOUR habitual armed robbers operating from South Africa and strongly suspected of being behind a spate of robberies in Zimbabwe targeting cash were on Wednesday night seriously injured following a sho...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
10 more ex-convicts deported from South Africa
South Africa on Monday deported 10 Zimbabweans who completed serving their sentences in correctional facilities around Limpopo province. The group arrived in police vans, along with 60 others ...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 14:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
66 SA deportees test COVID-19 positive
Health officials in Beitbridge have put into isolation 66 Zimbabweans who tested positive for Covid-19 during screening soon after arriving from South Africa on Thursday.The group is part of 2...Published: 09 Jul 2021 at 21:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-convicts sentenced to life in jail
TWO Bulawayo ex-convicts, who robbed an elderly man of his cellphone and clothes before they killed and dumped his naked body in a bushy area, were on Wednesday sentenced to life in jail.Perfe...Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Amnesty beneficiaries linked to grisly Bulawayo murder
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested two ex-convicts who were released from prison under Presidential amnesty recently in connection with one of four grisly murders committed in the city last week....Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa allows criminals and ex-convicts to contest its primaries
LIKE its Zanu PF rivals, the opposition MDC-T party led by Advocate Nelson Chamisa is allegedly allowing criminals and ex-convicts to contest party primaries to choose candidates for general elections...Published: 19 May 2018 at 15:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
24 pardoned inmates back in jail
A TOTAL of 24 inmates including five women who were released on Presidential Amnesty are back in prison hardly two weeks after gaining freedom.A record 4 912 prisoners have been released from ...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-convicts under surveillance
Police in Masvingo will put more than 220 pardoned inmates from Mutimurefu Prison under surveillance as part of measures to reduce crime during and after the Easter holiday. President Mnangagw...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
I was rejected after prison, says: Dudu Manhenga
JAZZ songbird Dudu Manhenga has revealed that life was not rosy for her after her release from prison, as she was rejected by business partners as she got a taste of the stigma that ex-convicts face a...Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 09:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wicknell not in hiding
CONTROVERSIAL businessman, Wicknell Chivayo has dismissed reports that he is on the run following Operation Restore Legacy by the Zimbabwe Defence Forces last week, which targeted criminals around Pre...Published: 27 Nov 2017 at 14:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Notorious thieves hauled to court
Guruve based notorious thieves were hauled at Guruve magistrate court facing 16 counts of unlawful entry and theft of goods worth US$6000 today.Dudzai Shikisha from Chikonyora village together...Published: 07 Jun 2017 at 19:22hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Prostitutes provide home to sex starved ex-cons
Many prostitutes who spoke to Bulawayo24.com in major cities admitted to keeping ex-convicts in their homes.Many people who come from prisons reportedly end up living in the homes of sex worke...Published: 10 May 2017 at 06:54hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Why Jonathan Moyo won't support Mnangagwa,
Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo's public spats with Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa have intensified since the minister's arrest last year on charges that he abused money from t...Published: 22 Jan 2017 at 15:17hrs | | by Everson Mushava
Ex-convicts back behind bars
TWO ex-convicts who were recently released from Gwanda prison through the Presidential amnesty were on Thursday back behind bars after one of them was apprehended wearing their victim's stolen clothes...Published: 18 Jun 2016 at 11:08hrs | | by Richard Muponde
Death row prisoner tastes freedom after 26 years
IN 1990, the Government introduced an economic blueprint - Economic Structural Adjustment Programme - which became commonly known as Esap. Esap would grow in popularity to become one of the most commo...Published: 05 Jun 2016 at 11:18hrs | | by Robin Muchetu
140 Zimbabwean criminals deported
THE South African government is expected to deport this weekend 140 Zimbabweans who have finished serving various jail terms for breaking that country's laws. It is understood that the deportees will...Published: 06 Feb 2016 at 09:38hrs | | by Thupeyo Muleya
'I have special place in my heart for inmates,' says Calaz
HIGH-FLYING Zimdancehall champion, Tawanda "Seh Calaz" Mumanyi has opened up on his close association with convicts and ex-convicts-commonly referred to as "Mabhanditi" in social circles- whom he is k...Published: 31 Dec 2015 at 18:07hrs | | by Virimayi Nzira
Met department warns of heavy rains and flash floods
Beitbridge - A total of 49 Zimbabweans, believed to be mostly ex-convicts, jumped off moving buses as they were being deported from South Africa by road on Thursday morning. The group was amon...Published: 12 Dec 2015 at 09:03hrs | 2 | by Elita Chikwati
49 Zimbabwean deportees jump off moving buses
Beitbridge - A total of 49 Zimbabweans, believed to be mostly ex-convicts, jumped off moving buses as they were being deported from South Africa by road on Thursday morning. The group was amon...Published: 12 Dec 2015 at 08:55hrs | | by Thupeyo Muleya
South Africa to deport Zimbabweans every week
The South African government will soon be deporting Zimbabwean illegal immigrants every fortnight as they heighten efforts to decongest Lindela Transit Holding Centre in Johannesburg, an official ...Published: 03 Jul 2015 at 08:50hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Police summon producer of Vapostori film
Police have allegedly summoned theatre producer Silvanos Mudzvova over the launch of his KuMasowe play DVD scheduled for Thursday in Harare.Although police were not immediately available ...Published: 07 Aug 2014 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
17 Mugabe Amnesty beneficiaries back in prison
A total of 17 prisoners who were among the thousands granted freedom under the 2014 Presidential Amnesty are back behind bars for committing various crimes barely a month after their release....Published: 23 Mar 2014 at 07:17hrs | | by Itai Mazire
Mugabe urged to pardon three remaining women prisoners
AN organisation that deals with the rehabilitation of women ex-prisoners has appealed to President Robert Mugabe to extend clemency to the three women prisoners who are on either death row or life im...Published: 19 Feb 2014 at 09:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe releasing 2 000 prisoners today
More than 2 000 serving inmates, mostly females and juveniles, are expected to walk out of the country's prisons free today after benefiting from the Presidential pardon.President Mugabe exten...Published: 17 Feb 2014 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
1 200 Zimbabweans deported from South Africa
SOUTH Africa last week deported more than 1 200 Zimbabweans through Beitbridge Border Post bringing to 35 031 the total number of illegal immigrants brought home since the neighbouring country resumed...Published: 27 Aug 2012 at 02:28hrs | | by Beitbridge Reporter
SA deports more border jumpers
SOUTH Africa on Tuesday deported 587 Zimbabweans through Beitbridge Border Post, bringing to 25 827 the total number of illegal immigrants brought home since the neighbouring country resumed the exerc...Published: 07 Jun 2012 at 05:01hrs | | by Beitbridge Reporter
'General populace should stop the stigmatisation of ex-inmates' says Rev Pashapa
Zimbabwe Prison Ministries chairperson, the Reverend Dr Noah Pashapa, urged society to complement ZPS efforts by embracing former offenders. He spoke at The Walk of Crime Reduction, which w...Published: 28 May 2012 at 06:31hrs | | by Mafu Sithabile
Ex-convicts repatriated from SA turn to crime in Zim
Ex-convicts and border jumpers repatriated from South Africa are reportedly turning to crimes such as robbery, housebreaking and thefts in Beitbridge town, police have said. So far 28 ex-con...Published: 29 Apr 2012 at 23:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA deports 6 500 Zimbabweans
The South African government has deported 6 500 Zimbabweans who failed to regularize their papers.The Assistant Regional Immigration Officer at the Beitbridge Border post Charles Gwede said th...Published: 15 Dec 2011 at 04:07hrs | | by staff reporter
Zim deportees subjected to inhuman treatment by SA authorities
State media reports that scores of undocumented Zimbabweans are routinely subjected to inhuman treatment by South African authorities before they are deported back home through Beitbridge Border Post....Published: 13 Dec 2011 at 21:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
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