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Jailbreaker arrested while paying friend's bail
A DARING convict Caleb Mashingaidze, who escaped from Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison last year was re-arrested at the Harare Magistrates Court while trying to pay bail for a friend he had met in ce...Published: 27 Jun 2023 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe transport woes: Women endangered by private cars
SINCE the first national lockdown in March 2020, Zimbabwean commuters in urban areas have faced transport problems. The government banned private public transport operators, allowing the ailing State-...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lockdown blues haunt diasporans returning to UK
I WILL set the scene. I'm in a hotel room on the outskirts of Heathrow. There's the occasional buzz and thunder of a plane landing and taking off. I'm banging against the windows. Don't land! The bed ...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 07:00hrs | | by Mufaro Makubika
Spy on iPhone Messages with iPhone Spy
The ability to be able to spy on a phone can be highly beneficial. As a parent, you always worry about who your children are in communication with on their phones. As an employer, you need to monitor ...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 23:05hrs | 5 | by Staff Writer
Spy on iPhone messages with iPhone spy
The ability to be able to spy on a phone can be highly beneficial. As a parent, you always worry about who your children are in communication with on their phones. As an employer, you need to monitor ...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 22:43hrs | 3 | by Staff Writer
Cocospy Review: Best mobile Spy App for parents and employers
Do you want a mobile spy app for your children and employees? You have landed at the right place where you will come to know about one of the best ...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:55hrs | 12 | by Staff Writer
'Gumbura has case to answer'
HARARE magistrate Francis Mapfumo yesterday dismissed an application for discharge filed by jailed RMG Independent End Time Message Church founder Robert Martin Gumbura, who together with his six alle...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 07:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Jailbreak attempt hits snag
An escape attempt by a prisoner serving jail time in Kwekwe for theft hit a snag after he was apprehended by alert members of the Zimbabwe Prison and Correctional Services (ZPCS). Brian Rungu ...Published: 06 Apr 2019 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Date set for Gumbura jailbreak case ruling
A Harare magistrate is on April 10 expected to make a ruling on the application for discharge at the close of the State case by jailed RMG Independent End Time Message leader Robert Martin Gumbura and...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Guards exonerate Gumbura from prison break
Two members of the Zimbabwe Prison and Correctional Services yesterday said they did not see jailed cleric Robert Martin Gumbura attempting a jailbreak at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison.Gum...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 10:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Rapist' Gumbura hires Madhuku
JAILED cleric Robert Martin Gumbura and eight fellow inmates have hired top Harare lawyer Lovemore Madhuku to defend them in a case in which they are being accused of masterminding a foiled jailbreak ...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 16:53hrs | | by NewZimbabwe.com
Gumbura hires Madhuku to challenge delayed trial
Jailed church leader Robert Martin Gumbura and his nine accomplices, who are accused of masterminding a failed jailbreak at Chikurubi Maximum Prison in 2015, have enlisted the services of constitution...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 06:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA police in explosives haul at border
THE South Africa Police Service (Saps) last week arrested seven suspected Zimbabweans after they were allegedly found smuggling 60 explosives through the Beitbridge Border Post.The suspects we...Published: 26 Jun 2018 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Prison riots caused by inmates seeking escape'
A REPORT by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Defence and Home Affairs on the attempted jail break at Chikurubi Maximum Prison in 2015 has revealed that the action was not caused by food shorta...Published: 16 Jun 2018 at 21:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gumbura in jailbreak attempt
HARARE magistrate, Francis Mapfumo will on Monday lead a team of court officials to Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison for an inspection in loco at the facility where jailed Independent End Time Messag...Published: 31 May 2018 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jailbreak pair nabbed on way to SA border
POLICE have arrested two inmates who escaped from Bulawayo Prison, along the Bulawayo-Beitbridge highway on their way to the South African border.The police apprehended the duo on Sunday, bare...Published: 19 Apr 2018 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
2 Zimbabweans in SA jailbreak
TWO Zimbabwean prisoners have escaped from Kutama Sinthumule Maximum Prison near Makhado in South Africa's Limpopo province.The two escaped together with three South Africans and a Mozambican....Published: 30 Oct 2017 at 05:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jailbreak tsikamutanda implicates prison guards
A TSIKAMUTANDA who escaped from Victoria Falls Prison last month has told a magistrate that he bribed some unnamed prison officers for them to release him.Nyasha Jabulani Nyoni (21) of BH 3 Ja...Published: 16 Oct 2017 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jailbreak carjacker at large
A NOTORIOUS armed carjacker who with a colleague escaped from police custody in dramatic style on Monday last week, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison.Detectives have since launched a ma...Published: 05 Sep 2017 at 06:31hrs | | 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
Botswana jailbreaker nabbed in Zimbabwe
A BOTSWANA national who escaped from a prison in the neighbouring country has been arrested in Zimbabwe for illegal migration.Givemore Chaloba (26) from Francistown last month fled from Ge...Published: 14 Feb 2017 at 05:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Three Notorious prisoners escape from Karoi prison
KAROI - Three Notorious D class prisoners broke the walls of Karoi prison and escaped today (Saturday).Sources close to investigations said one suspecting who is currently serving a murder sen...Published: 12 Nov 2016 at 10:52hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Jailbreaker re-arrested after attempted rape
A Chinhoyi prison inmate who escaped last week while carrying out car wash duties has been arrested while attempting to rape a woman at a farm in Alaska.Never Jonga, who was scheduled for rele...Published: 11 Jul 2016 at 06:54hrs | | by Walter Nyamukondiwa
Gumbura jailbreak case: State witness referred to Concourt
A Harare magistrate has directed a State witness in the case in which jailed Independent End Time Message leader Robert Martin Gumbura is accused of masterminding a foiled jailbreak at Chikurubi Maxim...Published: 08 Jul 2016 at 06:39hrs | | by Tendai Rupapa
Gumbura jailbreak case, witness refuses to testify
A State witness in the case in which jailed Independent End Time Message leader Robert Martin Gumbura is accused of masterminding a foiled jailbreak at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison last year, on ...Published: 21 Jun 2016 at 00:04hrs | | by Tendai Rupapa
'Haunted' prisoner dies during jailbreak
AN inmate at Khami Prison Complex on the outskirts of Bulawayo died after he allegedly fell from a four-metre wall while attempting a jailbreak.Elliot Mundoza, 27, sources from the prison said...Published: 17 Feb 2016 at 05:37hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Reminescing the Zhii era
One of the pioneers of the armed struggle that freed blacks in this country from colonial bondage was Clark Mpofu (CM) an ex-Zipra combatant. Sunday News Correspondent, Dumisani Sibanda (DS), ...Published: 07 Feb 2016 at 08:14hrs | | by Clark Mpofu
Inmates blow up prison wall, mass jailbreak
Rio de Janeiro - Inmates in one of Brazil's roughest prisons used explosives to destroy a wall and escape en masse into surrounding streets, prompting a frantic manhunt.Media footage of the br...Published: 24 Jan 2016 at 19:01hrs | | by AFP
Zimbabwe prisoners trap rats for food
Some prisoners at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison trap rats for food, one of the nine men accused of masterminding a foiled jailbreak at the prison told the court yesterday.Lucky Matambanadz...Published: 08 Jan 2016 at 05:12hrs | | by Fungai Lupande
Chikurubi inmates served relish without salt, oil
Inmates at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison were reportedly fed on relish cooked without salt and cooking oil in the week leading to Christmas holidays. This emerged yesterday when jailed...Published: 07 Jan 2016 at 12:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gumbura saga: Lawyer’s application dismissed
An application by jailed church leader Robert Martin Gumbura's lawyer to incarcerate State witness Cladius Mutizwa for saying, "I have no comment" to questions during cross examination was dismissed o...Published: 12 Dec 2015 at 11:30hrs | | by Tendai Rupapa
Mnangagwa fingered in Gumbura's coup de tat plot
Jailed Independent End Time Message leader, Robert Martin Gumbura has been accused of planning to rope in Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa to stage a coup de tat on President Robert Mugabe.&n...Published: 08 Dec 2015 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Plot to kill Mnangagwa exposed
The witness testifying in a case in which jailed church leader Robert Martin Gumbura is accused of masterminding a foiled jailbreak yesterday narrated to the court how Gumbura was working with former ...Published: 08 Dec 2015 at 03:55hrs | | by Tendai Rupapa
Gumbura accused of plotting to dethrone Mugabe's govt
Jailed Independent End Time Message leader Robert Martin Gumbura communicated with alleged coup plotter and former army captain Albert Matapo from prison cells planning on how "they" would dethrone th...Published: 04 Dec 2015 at 05:26hrs | | by Tendai Rupapa
Mujuru, Gumbura mull political alliance?
Jailed Independent End Time Message leader, Robert Martin Gumbura, communicated with former Vice President Dr Joice Mujuru from prison cells through letters, strategising on how they were going to for...Published: 02 Dec 2015 at 05:34hrs | | by Tendai Rupapa
Gumbura's youngest and 11th wife pregnant, 2 years after Gumbura's incarceration
Jailed Independent End Time Message leader Robert Martin Gumbura's youngest and 11th wife on Wednesday appeared to be pregnant as she attended her husband's trial at the Harare Magistrates' Court....Published: 07 Nov 2015 at 07:05hrs | 1 | by Fungai Lupande
Gumbura smuggled 960 bricks of cigarettes into prison
Jailed Independent End Time Message leader Robert Martin Gumbura, who had bodyguards and a secretary in prison, allegedly smuggled 960 bricks of cigarettes into Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison, the ...Published: 06 Nov 2015 at 05:16hrs | | by Fungai Lupande
Prison officers begged for tea from 'godfather' Gumbura
Prison officers begged for tea from jailed Independent End Time Message leader Robert Martin Gumbura, who was regarded as a godfather at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison, the court heard yesterday....Published: 04 Nov 2015 at 05:25hrs | | by Fungai Lupande
Jailbreak suspect denied bail
A Harare magistrate yesterday dismissed a bail application by convicted Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison jailbreak suspect Lucky Mhungu (38) saying he was a menace to society.In his ruling, M...Published: 16 Oct 2015 at 06:21hrs | | by Fungai Jachi
Chikurubi jailbreak politically motivated, says witness
The Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison jailbreak trial on Monday took a new twist after a witness requested maximum protection saying the foiled jailbreak was politically motivated as it involved high ...Published: 14 Sep 2015 at 23:24hrs | | by Fungai Lupande
'Police Support Unit killed prison inmates'
Lucky Mhungu, one of the prisoners accused of inciting and masterminding the attempted jailbreak at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison earlier this year, told Harare magistrate Francis Mapfumo on F...Published: 07 Sep 2015 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prison officer's wives jibe blamed for failed jailbreak
A prison officer who mocked inmates at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison saying his colleagues were having quality time frying sausages with the prisoners' wives while they rotted in prison triggered ...Published: 07 Sep 2015 at 06:40hrs | | by Fungai Lupande
Mugabe appoints two ministers
President Mugabe yesterday appointed Clifford Sibanda as Minister in Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa's office while Tabitha Rudo Kanengoni-Malinga becomes Minister in VP Phelekezela Mphoko's office....Published: 04 Sep 2015 at 06:29hrs | | by Zvamaida Murwira
Magistrate recuses self in Gumbura jailbreak case
Magistrate Tendai Mahwe recused himself from the trial of jailed rapist cleric Martin Gumbura and eight others on charges of inciting and masterminding an attempted jailbreak at Chikurubi Maximum Secu...Published: 21 Jul 2015 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe inmates to get new prison uniform
Prisoners in the country's jails are set to get new clothes as the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) has bought 34 000 metres of fabric.Scores of inmates are exposed...Published: 14 Jul 2015 at 09:48hrs | | by Staff Reporter
No meat for Chikurubi inmates for three years
PRISONERS at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison have gone for three years without testing meat, a senior prison official revealed on Monday.Inmates only had meat for the first time last week on...Published: 23 Jun 2015 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Peter Tatchell was a 'journalist' too, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I know many of you were not at all taken aback with what happened in Abuja at the weekend when I was in Nigeria for the inauguration of that country...Published: 11 Jun 2015 at 09:00hrs | | by CZ
Zimbabwe prisoners forced to eat 'own excreta'
Two of the nine prisoners accused of plotting a jailbreak at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison two months ago have claimed they were tortured and forced to eat their own excreta by prison of...Published: 15 May 2015 at 08:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gumbura, 8 others protest against prison conditions
Jailed RMG Independent End Time Message leader Robert Martin Gumbura, who is serving an 40-year effective jail term for rape, yesterday filed a complaint protesting his placement in solitary conf...Published: 12 May 2015 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporetr
'Chikurubi jailbreak politically was meant to embarrass Mugabe'
The jailbreak attempt at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in March was politically-motivated and involved members of the security forces who worked with the inmates in a bid to embarrass Preside...Published: 12 May 2015 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
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