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Police officer arrested for stealing two mobile phones
A police officer stationed at the Gweru Police Protection Unit (PPU), Thulani Sibanda (24), has been arrested for stealing two mobile phones on two separate occasions last week in Victoria Falls....Published: 20 May 2025 at 09:53hrs | 111 | by Staff reporter
Police officer jailed after phone theft spree in Victoria Falls
A police officer entrusted with maintaining law and order is now behind bars after being caught stealing cellphones in a brazen crime spree that shocked residents of the resort city.Thulani Si...Published: 18 May 2025 at 11:53hrs | 507 | by Staff reporter
Gweru police officer commits suicide
A Gweru-based police officer, Constable Claude Jele, tragically died while receiving treatment at Gweru Provincial Hospital (GPH) on Sunday after allegedly consuming a yet-to-be-identified poison. The...Published: 12 Mar 2025 at 11:41hrs | 758 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's Blue Movement using CCC structures
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa's newly formed Blue Movement is reportedly leveraging Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) structures to rally support, raising concerns among political analysts about ...Published: 01 Oct 2024 at 09:14hrs | 2278 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF official arrested for forgery and fraud
A former Zanu PF councillor and unsuccessful parliamentary candidate has been apprehended for fraud, accused of forging land ownership documents in an attempt to claim mining rights at a farm near Gwe...Published: 18 May 2024 at 13:04hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa turns to Tshabangu's CCC structures
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa's Blue Movement is using Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) structures to mobilise support amid concerns by political analysts that the organisation might just face t...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 04:55hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa lashes out at Mnangagwa
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters braved tear smoke, water cannon and buton attacks by police determineed to stop the opposition party leader Nelson Chamisa from addressing a campaign ral...Published: 27 Feb 2022 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Motorist sues minister, police over vandalised vehicle
A GWERU motorist has filed a notice of intention to sue Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe, Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga and the police in the Midlands province who arrested him and i...Published: 17 Feb 2022 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC squeals over govt clampdown
TWO Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC)'s top officials were yesterday arrested in what the opposition party described as a clampdown on its electoral campaigns through use of State security.C...Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Army roped in to assist in arms cache probe
Police have requested the Zimbabwe National Army to assist in investigating the case in which 507 rounds of ammunition of a PKM machine gun were unearthed in a rusty box by a farmer in Magunje last Fr...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 05:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers shoot police officers
TWO Gweru police officers are battling for life at a local private hospital after they were allegedly shot by a gang of six gunmen, while responding to a robbery at a businessman's house. Foll...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 05:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Smelly Dube denied bail over US$9 million land deals
PROMINENT Gweru businesswoman and property developer - Smelly Dube - who is the chief executive officer of River Valley Properties - has been remanded in custody to Tuesday after a Gweru court ruled t...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 07:47hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Six soldiers arrested for murder
SIX soldiers from 5:2 Infantry Battalion at Battelfields were arrested on Sunday after they besieged a village, assaulted villagers and shot at individuals who intervened in Guinea Fowl, Gweru....Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 07:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Nelson Chamisa exposes Mnangagwa'
MDC leader Nelson Chamisahas exposed President Emmerson Mnangagwa as a brutal dictator who closes space for democratic forces journalist Hopewell Chin'ono has said. Chin'ono was commenting on ...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 20:12hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe police conduct questioned
Lawyers representing Chiundura MP Livingstone Chiminan yesterday tore into Gweru police over their conduct in dealing with a case in which the legislator is accused of assault.Chimina together...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 09:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kombi runs over, injures two policemen
TWO Gweru police officers who suffered broken limbs after being hit by a commuter omnibus as they attempted to stop the driver, are battling for life.Acting Midlands provincial police spokespe...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tenant kills 89-year-old landlord
GWERU police have launched a manhunt for a 25-year-old man who allegedly attacked a couple with a machete and killed his 89-year-old landlord at Roylands Farm in Gweru recently.Provincial poli...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
War time anti-tank mine rocks Gweru police station
AN explosion which rocked Gweru Rural Police Station sending tremors across the Central Business District was allegedly caused by a war time anti-tank mine planted inside the station. The expl...Published: 29 Sep 2018 at 12:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bribe cop still on the run
A GWERU police officer, who allegedly received a $1 320 bribe to facilitate the recruitment of three prospective police officers and was issued with a warrant of arrest in February when he failed to a...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 09:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Smelly Dube faces arrest over State land 'theft'
GWERU businesswoman and property developer, Ms Smelly Dube who is being investigated by police for fraud after she allegedly clandestinely stole State land and fraudulently sold residential stands to ...Published: 26 Mar 2018 at 06:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bribe cop still on the run
A GWERU police officer, who allegedly received a $1 320 bribe to facilitate the recruitment of three prospective police officers ,is still at large after he was issued with a warrant of arrest a month...Published: 22 Mar 2018 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Warrant of arrest for bribe cop
A GWERU police officer, who allegedly received a $1 320 bribe to facilitate the recruitment of three prospective police officers, was yesterday issued with a warrant of arrest after he failed to turn ...Published: 22 Feb 2018 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Cop shot soldier for obstructing him from arresting suspect'
A GWERU policeman who was arrested on Sunday for allegedly shooting a soldier who was trying to stop him from assaulting a suspect has said his victim had tried to obstruct him from arresting the susp...Published: 13 Feb 2018 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Soldiers shut down police station
A GROUP of Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) officers briefly cordoned and shut down Gweru Police Station in protest over the alleged shooting and arrest of a colleague on Saturday.The incident put...Published: 12 Feb 2018 at 06:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cop up for attempted murder
A Gweru police detective is reportedly being charged with attempted murder after allegedly firing a gun at a military police officer whom he accused of smoking cannabis in public last night in Midland...Published: 11 Feb 2018 at 12:11hrs | | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Married cop stars in sextape
A sex tape and n_de pictures of a Gweru policewoman Sergeant Vaidah Makozvo have leaked and gone viral on social media amid reports that her ex-lover leaked the material.Makozvo said she...Published: 30 Mar 2017 at 16:11hrs | 12 | by Staff Reporter
Notorious robbers arrested in Gweru
POLICE in Gweru have arrested four men suspected to be behind at least 200 crimes that they committed over two years, among them armed robberies and rape. They have been linked to robberies at gold mi...Published: 18 Jun 2016 at 08:46hrs | | by Richard Mwinde
Jah Prayzah arrested after tollgate fracas
TALENTED contemporary musician Jah Prayzah, real name Mukudzei Mukombe, was on Sunday arrested after allegedly fleeing police and Zimbabwe National Road Authority (Zinara) officials at the Shurugwi to...Published: 01 Mar 2016 at 05:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jah Prayzah flees cops, arrested after tollgate fracas
TALENTED contemporary musician Jah Prayzah, real name Mukudzei Mukombe, was yesterday arrested after allegedly fleeing police and Zimbabwe National Road Authority (Zinara) officials at the Shurugwi To...Published: 29 Feb 2016 at 06:25hrs | | by Munyaradzi Musiiwa/Bongani Ndlovu
MSU theology student caught with baboon's v.agina
A Midlands State University second year Theology student was nabbed with a baboon's v*gina stashed in a bag.The student was nabbed by a Gweru police constable who was on his first day on...Published: 03 Nov 2015 at 06:06hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
Cop beats up girlfriend, shoves her under bed
A Gweru police officer who allegedly assaulted his girlfriend leaving her for dead after she refused to withdraw an assault case she had earlier reported against him was yesterday back in court. ...Published: 18 Nov 2014 at 08:36hrs | | by Timoth Makohliso
Political party leader, supporters locked up
LITTLE known Transform Zimbabwe (TZ) political party leader Jacob Chengedzeni Satiya Ngarivhume and 13 party supporters were arrested and detained at the Gweru Central Police Station on charges of bre...Published: 15 Jul 2014 at 04:15hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Cop hires 13-year-old 'prostitute'
A GWERU police officer who hired a 13-year-old "prostitute" escaped the agony of jail life after the girl confessed that she lied about her age.The police officer, Patrick Manhimanzi, 23, ...Published: 25 Feb 2014 at 06:33hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Teacher admits sex attacks on 10 boys
A TEACHER yesterday pleaded guilty to sickening sex attacks on 10 school boys, telling a magistrate: "It was a mistake." Nkosiyazi Sibanda, 20, of Sikwata Village in Lower Gweru, admitted 15 ...Published: 19 Feb 2014 at 06:59hrs | 1 | by Thandeka Moyo
Vagrants syndicate in spate of break-ins
GWERU police have warned the local business community of a syndicate of vagrants which is allegedly working in cahoots with bent security guards to break into shops in the Central Business Distric...Published: 25 Nov 2013 at 02:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Baby boy dies on street pavement while mother attending to a client
A seven-month old baby boy died mysteriously while sleeping on the street pavement while its mother, an airtime vendor was attending to a client.The incident, which witnesses are now suspectin...Published: 10 Apr 2013 at 02:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
illegal pickup point haven for Gweru thieves
THIEVES in Gweru are now targeting people boarding lifts to Shurugwi at the illegal pickup point near the Roman Catholic Church's Cathedral Hall where they steal commuters' belongings, a Gweru magistr...Published: 04 Jan 2013 at 23:42hrs | | by Staff Reporter
$150 fine for Mugabe death joke
A Gweru court fined a man $150 (120 euro) for joking that President Robert Mugabe had died, a daily newspaper reported Thursday.Cleapas Manangazira, 34, was convicted for undermining the aut...Published: 07 Sep 2012 at 07:02hrs | | by AFP
Commuter omnibus crew kidnaps a cop
A Kwekwe commuter omnibus driver Taurai Jaurenji (31) and his conductor Chelton Bhango (24) have been arrested for allegedly kidnapping a police officer in Gweru and driving him to Kwekwe two w...Published: 22 Sep 2011 at 20:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
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