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Bogus policemen jailed for possessing drugs, impersonation
Three men accused of impersonating police officers and possessing dangerous drugs were yesterday sentenced in the Harare Magistrates Court. Lloyd Zvama, Clemence Manyika, and Slevester Chaire, all age...Published: 10 Dec 2024 at 07:04hrs | 201 | by Staff reporter
Bribe-taking Zimbabwean cops suspended
Two Harare-based policemen have been suspended from duty following a viral video showing them allegedly accepting bribes from motorists along the Harare-Mutare Road, near the Mabvuku turn-off. Sergean...Published: 15 Nov 2024 at 08:29hrs | 409 | by Staff reporter
Kombi crew implicated in bribing cops
A commuter omnibus (kombi) driver and his conductor have been arrested for allegedly offering bribes to two policemen, following a viral video that showed the officers accepting cash from motorists. T...Published: 08 Nov 2024 at 13:19hrs | 636 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean jailed for trying to bribe cops with only R50
A Zimbabwean man who tried to bribe two policemen with R50 has been sentenced to a R50,000 fine or five years in prison for corruption. The Giyani specialised commercial crimes court also orde...Published: 24 Oct 2024 at 17:34hrs | 1213 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF chair riled by policemen
Zanu-PF provincial chairperson for Bulawayo, Jabulani Sibanda, last week reprimanded police officers for failing to show respect during the national anthem at the groundbreaking ceremony for the civil...Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 08:01hrs | 641 | by Staff reporter
ANC mayor wants foreign nationals to be recruited as JMPD officers
Newly elected Joburg mayor Dada Morero may have started his tenure on the wrong foot.This was after he suggested that documented foreigners be recruited as Johannesburg Metro Police Department...Published: 26 Aug 2024 at 12:30hrs | 1067 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe policemen acquitted of killing armed robbery suspect
Five Bulawayo police officers - Herbert Kanyinji, Bornwell Mahachi, Amiga Shumba, Norge Rapayi, and Mbekezeli Bhebhe - have been acquitted by the High Court of charges related to the death of a suspec...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 07:46hrs | 434 | by Staff reporter
Man floors cop with punches
In Mashumba, Mzilikazi suburb of Bulawayo, a 25-year-old man named Malvin Kumalinga caused a stir by assaulting his 52-year-old uncle, Isaac Kumalinga, accusing him of witchcraft. Malvin appea...Published: 12 Jul 2024 at 08:15hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Criminals invade Bulawayo's Rangemore
RESIDENTS of Rangemore in Bulawayo have raised alarm over rising crime in the community.Speaking during a recent meeting between residents and the Zimbabwe Republic Police at Rangemore's Shiri...Published: 20 May 2024 at 08:16hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Thieves vandalise region's heroes acres
BULAWAYO, Matebeleland North and South provincial heroes acres are being targeted by thieves who are stealing plants, flower pots and floral tributes from graves.The shocking incidents have be...Published: 16 Apr 2024 at 07:54hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army captain, 3 cops up for US$60,000 heist
A ZIMBABWE National Army (ZNA)'s 3 Brigade Captain and three Mutare-based policemen have been arrested on allegations of robbing a Chinese national of US$60 000 as well as criminal abuse of office....Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 04:44hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Hopewell Chin'ono friend abducted
Suspected state security agents abducted a Harare-based construction manager - who has done a lot of building works for award-winning Zimbabwean filmmaking journalist Hopewell Chin'ono - yesterday in ...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 19:07hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF pushes for law barring opposition members 'inviting' sanctions from running in elections
Members of Parliament from Zanu-PF are advocating for legislation that would prevent opposition members, whom they accuse of inviting sanctions, from participating in elections. The proposal emerged d...Published: 03 Feb 2024 at 05:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Goods portering, a way of life in Beitbridge
RIVULTS of sweat run down her face, falling onto her dress as Mai Muku trudges the 472-metre length of the Beitbridge steel girder carrying an awkward-looking and heavy load.Apart from the bri...Published: 13 Jan 2024 at 06:49hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Court frees murder suspect after police boob
THE High Court has acquitted a murder suspect after the police submitted inconsistent evidence during trial.Tafadzwa Mudavanhu, who was represented by Freddy Masarirevhu, was being accused of ...Published: 14 Dec 2023 at 03:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa knows what to do
THE CEO Africa Round Table meeting, which was held in Victoria Falls recently week, raised some interesting questions and brought out some perspectives for our political leadership to consider....Published: 03 Nov 2023 at 14:57hrs | 14 | by Alfonce Mbizwo
Mzilikazi residents count losses after BF violence
Residents of Bulawayo's Mzilikazi high-density suburb have grown increasingly concerned about the recurring losses they suffer whenever soccer matches at the nearby Barbourfields Stadium escalate into...Published: 14 Sep 2023 at 10:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean arrested in SA driving a stolen truck
A ZIMBABWEAN man was recently arrested in Mokopane, South Africa, while driving a stolen Toyota Hilux GD-6 truck to Bulawayo, the South African Police Services (Saps) has said.The truck had be...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 08:12hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Ferret Force busts car smuggling racket
A COMBINED team of Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), military intelligence and the Zimbabwe Republic Police, known as Ferret Force, last week busted a car smuggling syndicate operating between ...Published: 16 Jun 2023 at 08:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chinese investigators arrest murder suspect in Zimbabwe
CHINESE detectives successfully investigated the murder of their two countrymen in Zimbabwe, leading to the arrest of a Chinese national.One of the accused, Chen Long (34) appeared before Hara...Published: 25 May 2023 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Robbers attack security guards, steal tobacco bales
TWENTY robbers attacked eight security guards with a pistol machetes, okapi knives and iron bars at Wilmode Farm in Mvurwi before stealing 63 tobacco bales last Friday.National police spokespe...Published: 22 May 2023 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bow out gracefully, respect voters
IT was refreshing to hear Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu telling United States President Joe Biden that, "Israel does not make policies guided by pressures from abroad." This was after Bide...Published: 04 Apr 2023 at 06:25hrs | 2 | by Mbuso Ndlovu
Zanu-PF polls descend into chaos
Zanu-PF yesterday held chaotic primary elections marred by violence and vote rigging claims with some candidates' names missing from cell registers while ballots were not delivered in some areas....Published: 26 Mar 2023 at 10:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
R30 million cigarettes smugglers bust
SOUTH Africa's crack police team, The Hawks, have arrested five suspects in connection with R30 million worth of cigarettes smuggled from Zimbabwe.Manuel Mphephu (44) Gibson Machaha (37) Moses...Published: 02 Mar 2023 at 05:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC officers, vendors hurt in dawn market raid
BULAWAYO City Council fired rubber bullets and used a fire engine to spray vendors with water after launching an operation to clear 5th Avenue of illegal activities in the early hours of yesterday, a ...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 07:03hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cops flee Ganja farming ancestral spirits
TWO police officers fleeing down a flight of stairs with stark terror written on their faces at the crack of dawn is not an everyday occurrence.What was supposed to be a routine arrest went so...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ex-cop shoots 3 dead, on the run
A FORMER police officer is on the run after he ran amok yesterday, shooting and killing three people including the Officer-in-Charge of Wedza Police Station and an apostolic sect prophet, under unclea...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
4 cops up for demaning bribe
Four police officers have been charged with theft and abuse of duty after they demanded a bribe of over US$500 from a motorist in Harare.Last week Thursday Gideon Gunda (34) from Jotsholo Poli...Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 12:51hrs | 1 | by Mzingaye Nxumalo
Mass transfers rock Zimbabwe police
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has instituted an aggressive transfer of officers countrywide amid reports that the police top brass is furious about rising indiscipline, incompetence and allegatio...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 18:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police boss dragged into messy court case
HARARE businessman Chemist Siziba has reached out to Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga over the alleged destruction of a docket in a criminal case involving business executives, Paul Rink Pea...Published: 01 Oct 2022 at 18:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ukraine now a weapons hub for international crime
At last, the West is beginning to realise what a monstrous mistake the European countries made when they started deliveries of lethal weapons to Ukraine.For experts, the situation had been cle...Published: 21 Aug 2022 at 08:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
2 bogus cops arrested
TWO bogus policemen allegedly driving around Harare in their getaway car and stealing thousands of US dollars after accusing motorists of having violated traffic rules, have now been arrested, while p...Published: 15 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
The death of the Zimbabwe dollar! Where do we go from here?
I am writing from Dubai in the Middle East. One of the admirable qualities of Muslim society is their harsh treatment of malefactors. I was surprised to find that children leave their bicycles outside...Published: 01 May 2022 at 11:19hrs | | by Kenneth Mufuka
Cops flee roadblock
SPECIAL security forces on an operation against smuggling and illegal cross-border travel yesterday fled a roadblock just outside Beitbridge after a raid by officials believed to be investigating corr...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ukraine war: Zimbabwean students relive horror
It has been six days since she left Ukraine, but 19-year-old Blessing Mushipe is still terrified.The medical student at Karazin National University in Kharkov, Ukraine's second largest city, s...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, break these chains
ONE of Zanu-PF's defining traits is impunity - accentuated by the party leaders' utter disdain for the rule of law and constitutionalism.The primitive arrogance is on display everywhere. Someo...Published: 29 Jan 2022 at 14:34hrs | 1 | by Brezh Malaba
Zanu-PF tells US to move with the times
INSTEAD of poking its nose in the country's democratic and electoral processes, the United States should take full advantage of the engagement and re-engagement drive extended by the Second Republic t...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 05:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'No storage fees on impounded vehicles'
Police have said they don't charge storage fees on cars that are being impounded during the ongoing blitz that has netted 6 000 cars.The operation is targeting unlicensed, uninsured, unregiste...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is it too late for Mnangagwa to reverse course?
All reasonable men know that the people of the Rainbird are the "wisest" among the Bantu. I was made aware, quite recently that they also have a weird sense of humour. When a bad character meets his f...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 08:59hrs | 10 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Zimbabwean man shot dead after a confrontation with SA cops
AN unnamed 34-year-old Zimbabwean man was last Friday shot dead by South African police in the Erasmia area, Limpopo province.The man was reportedly among suspects aged between 26 and 51 years...Published: 02 Nov 2021 at 05:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Killer 'cop' in court
ONE of the four bogus police officers, who allegedly assaulted, resulting in the death an illegal commuter omnibus driver at Whitehouse Shopping Centre in Harare, yesterday appeared in court charged w...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:28hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Carjacking syndicate busted
SEVEN suspected car jackers, including four employees of a local car sale, believed to be part of a syndicate that has been targeting and stealing vehicles parked at houses and business premises in an...Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 07:26hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Top cops steal smuggled goods
TWO top Beitbridge cops are in trouble after they allegedly connived to smuggle and steal goods that were later intercepted.The pair, Inspector Elias Maomba (force number 047527J), attached to...Published: 23 Jul 2021 at 09:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Blacks being murdered by Indians in South Africa, SA media on mute - graphic videos
Reports from South Africa are that 15 black people murdered by Indians in Phoenix in the KwaZulu Natala province.Wednesday was the bloodiest in the days of violence and ...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 10:01hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
'South Africa needs a total judicial and system overhaul and transformation'
It's not just the Zulus, it's the generality of the South African masses that are living pathetic lives in desperation, poverty, hunger, joblessness and in a continuous state of debt with no hope for ...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 14:25hrs | 1 | by Linda Tsungirirai Masarira
Robbers loot $55 million in Bulawayo
ARMED robbers in Bulawayo stole cash and valuables worth a total of $54 962 918 between March and June this year, in a four-month crime wave that saw 32 armed robberies committed around the city....Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 10:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police shooting victim case rages
THE family of Abel Gumbo, who was gunned down by police at Lutumba in Beitbridge on May 27 this year, has formally complained to the law enforcement agency saying they believed that he was murdered....Published: 30 Jun 2021 at 17:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police act on armed robberies
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has instructed all his provincial commanders to deploy special units to robbery hotspots in an effort to tackle increasing armed robbery cases. Comm-...Published: 18 Jun 2021 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Most wanted serial armed robber arrested
Another wanted serial armed robber, Alouis Nyamadzawo who has been on the police's most wanted list for committing a spate of armed robbery cases after being released on bail pending appeal in 2019, h...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 18:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Smuggling cartels control Mutare
CARTELS smuggling fuel and second-hand clothes into the country have become powerful and daring to an extent of hiring earth-moving equipment to clear and periodically repair gravel roads connecting i...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
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