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Zimbabwe unveils national cybersecurity strategy

The Zimbabwean government on Wednesday launched a National Cybersecurity Strategy, marking what officials described as a major milestone in safeguarding the country's digital infrastructure and online economy.The announcement was made at a…

Published: 17 Oct 2025 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter

South Africa decry 'non-existent' Beitbridge border post security

In a stark assessment, the South African Joint Standing Committee on Defence (JSCOD) and the Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans (PCDMV) have expressed grave concern over border security, warning that the country's frontie…

Published: 17 Oct 2025 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's food security strengthens

Zimbabwe's food security situation improved significantly in July 2025, driven by an above-average harvest, a stable local currency, and expanded resilience programmes, the World Food Programme (WFP) has revealed in its latest Markets Moni…

Published: 08 Sep 2025 at 13:19hrs | | by Staff reporter

WATCH: Chiwenga beefs up security, as Chigananda sneaks into tent

Vice President General (Rtd) Constantino Chiwenga has shocked mourners at the national shrine (National Heroes Acre) when he arrived in an action movie-style resemblance for the burial of late national hero (Sydney Gata) whilst escorted wi…

Published: 09 Jul 2025 at 12:21hrs | | by Gideon Madzikatidze

India backs Zimbabwe's UN Security Council seat bid

India has officially endorsed Zimbabwe's bid for a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for the 2027 to 2028 term, bolstering Harare's campaign for enhanced global representation.The endorsement was made public …

Published: 28 Jun 2025 at 14:46hrs | 42 | by Staff reporter

Matebeleland calls for transparency in army, police recruitment

Residents of Matabeleland have called for a decentralized recruitment process for civil servants, including soldiers, police officers, and nurses, amid growing concerns that the region is being overlooked in national recruitment drives.The…

Published: 17 Mar 2025 at 08:49hrs | | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's 2030 now a 'national security risk'

A resolution passed by Zanu-PF at its annual conference in Bulawayo last year calling for constitutional amendments to keep President Emmerson Mnangagwa in power until 2030 is being exploited by "a few individuals" to fuel divisions in the…

Published: 14 Mar 2025 at 07:08hrs | 2764 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF suspends 16 members for supporting independent candidates

Sixteen Zanu-PF members have been suspended for five years after being found guilty of supporting independent candidates during the 2023 National Assembly and local authority elections.Fifteen of the suspended members are from Masvingo pro…

Published: 15 Nov 2024 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe security firms rope in Police Support Unit

In response to a recent spike in nationwide robberies, security companies are partnering with the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Support Unit to enhance protection for cash-in-transit (CIT) deliveries and other high-risk operations. This c…

Published: 28 Oct 2024 at 06:58hrs | 419 | by Staff reporter

Man kills 'attacker', faces murder charge

Kelvin Kagondo, a Harare man, has been remanded in custody until July 22, 2024, on a murder charge after allegedly using deadly force in self-defense against assailants. Harare magistrate Apollonia Marutya advised him to seek bail from the…

Published: 09 Jul 2024 at 05:54hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter

Security guard dies after elephant attack

A 30-year-old woman who was on guard duty succumbed to injuries sustained when she was attacked by an elephant while at work in Hwange on Friday.The woman, Lydia Dube (30) was pronounced dead on arrival at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulaway…

Published: 26 Nov 2023 at 08:21hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Kasukuwere will return to Zimbabwe as soon as his security is assured

Exiled Independent Presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere will return to Zimbabwe as soon as his security is assured, says his spokesperson Jacqueline Sande. "Once safety measures for his security, the security of his person, have even …

Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 16:22hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa crafts crude strategy to stay in power, revels in adulation

IN December 2014, the late Zanu-PF Women's League national secretary Shuvai Mahofa collapsed after spending two hours singing and dancing in support of the then First Lady Grace Mugabe. Mahofa was among other top party officials who took t…

Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 09:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Security fears as opposition Mthwakazi activists in 'suspicious' prison transfers

THE Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) has reportedly transferred Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) activists from Khami Maximum Prison to Chikurubi and Gwanda Prisons, under unclear circumstances.In June this year, Bulawayo Ma…

Published: 01 Sep 2022 at 06:32hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Journalists at threat after governments passed cyber security laws

JOURNALISTS have been urged to protect themselves against digital surveillance threats after the country passed cyber security legislation.A statement by Fesmedia Africa yesterday said a survival toolkit has been developed in response to g…

Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:35hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter

Security - Why it Matters for Due Diligence - use a data room

After the stock market crashed in 1929, a new law was formed. The Securities Act of 1933 sought to help investors make more informed decisions. It was also made to allow more transparency, avoid fraud and other dubious activities in the sa…

Published: 28 Apr 2021 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff writer

Journalist 'steals' security document

A journalist has appeared at the Chiredzi Magistrates Courts facing a charge of stealing a classified document from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Law and Order office at Chiredzi Police Station.Patrick Chitongo, who runs Lowv…

Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:27hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

JOC assesses border security

THE National Joint Operations Command (JOC) met in Beitbridge yesterday and committed to beefing up borderline security to control rampant smuggling of goods and irregular migration which peaks during the festive season.The meeting was att…

Published: 12 Dec 2020 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter

'Don't provoke Zimbabwe's security services'

THE deafening silence from church organisations following the killing of a soldier in cold blood in Chivhu and attempts by the opposition to protect the bandits portray their duplicity as puppets of Western nations. In a Press statement, Z…

Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter

Does Zimbabwe have the information Security and Cyber Security Experts to protect itself?

With constant headlines of electronic fraud, mobile money fraud, RTGS fraud and other means of payments that are constantly reported in the media on a daily basis. There is now a need to build a database of information security personnel a…

Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 13:39hrs | 2 | by Dr Robert Shonhiwa

'Information as a threat to national security'

We publish the full presentation by the Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Senator Monica Mutsvangwa at the Zimbabwe National Defence University in Harare last week.I want to thank the Vice Chancellor and…

Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:13hrs | 1 | by Senator Monica Mutsvangwa

Security companies stealing from employees!

It is with grave concern that the Zimbabwe Network for Social Justice (ZimJustice) notes the ever-increasing heartless, callous and downright wicked behaviour by some security firms, as they fail to pay their employees - who have served an…

Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:18hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana (ZimJustice)

Mnangagwa ups security

JOURNALISTS and some dignitaries were Thursday subjected to rigorous and humiliating body searches by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's security as they arrived for the commissioning of housing and tomato projects in Bulawayo by the state lea…

Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Unlocking Zimbabwe's tourism potential

There must be no doubt in anyone's mind that tourism continues to be one of the fastest-growing and most dynamic sectors in Africa and this must therefore necessarily include Zimbabwe. Tourism has the potential to create jobs, boost an inc…

Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 14:35hrs | 15 | by Vince Musewe

Mugabe's sons to relocate back to Zimbabwe for security reasons

The Mugabe family have dramatically expanded their property empire in the Mazowe area by giving themselves a billion dollars of government money to build a new university there to be called the Robert Gabriel Mugabe University with themsel…

Published: 14 Aug 2017 at 13:55hrs | 2 | by Zim Vigil

Zim security sector reform full of contradictions

According to the principles of Security Sector Reform as set out in the United Nation's Secretary General's 2008 report entitled Securing Peace and Development: The Role of the United Nations in Support of Security Sector Reform, Security …

Published: 16 Jun 2013 at 06:47hrs | 2 | by Tau Tawengwa

Tsvangirai a national security threat

IF there is anyone inclined to believe that Morgan Tsvangirai is fit to be elected to the office of the President of Zimbabwe in the forthcoming plebiscite, that belief must have gone up in smoke last week following Tsvangirai's criminal r…

Published: 10 Jun 2013 at 16:46hrs | | by Professor Jonathan Moyo

Zanu-PF's rejection of security sector reforms is the reason we have violence

One of the most worrying disturbances that are engulfing the Kenyan elections taking place this week is the inability of the state to protect its citizens as they cast their constitutionally protected right to vote. Recent media reports in…

Published: 05 Mar 2013 at 06:20hrs | | by Mathula Lusinga

Why MDC formations are a security threat

A political threat is a system that aims at misinformation and broadcasting of negative propaganda done by individuals, political groups and media houses.The threat comes from the fact that people will be "forced" to react either negativel…

Published: 28 Jul 2011 at 11:34hrs | | by Panganai Kahuni

Zimbabwe's CIO leaks illustrate need for security reforms

The leaked list of Zimbabwe's Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) operatives is proving that the CIO is nothing but an organisation of hired killers at the service of Robert Mugabe's political party, Zanu-PF, and therefore seriously in…

Published: 15 Jul 2011 at 21:44hrs | 7 | by Makusha Mugabe

MDC-T threat to Zimbabwe's national security

IMPERIAL Germans who have the dubious distinction of twice starting two catastrophic world wars in 1914 and 1939 have a warped saying âˆšÂ¢â€šÃ‡Â¨â€šÃ„Ã¹ whose fatal logic best explains how and why the embattled Prime Minister Morgan Tsvan…

Published: 03 Jul 2011 at 05:58hrs | | by Prof Jonathan Moyo, MP

Zanu-PF, Brigadier General Nyikayaramba the only threat to national security: MDC-T

From the further utterances that he has made in the state newspaper, The Herald, today, Brigadier-General Douglas Nyikayaramba and all those who have chosen him to  speak on their behalf, including  Zanu-PF pose  the real&nb…

Published: 23 Jun 2011 at 17:11hrs | | by MDC-T

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