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Boy misses cow, fatally hits colleague with stone
A 14-year-old boy from Matobo District, Matabeleland South, is being held at Bulawayo Prison facing a murder charge after accidentally killing a fellow herdboy while attempting to control cattle by th...Published: 01 Sep 2024 at 10:18hrs | 309 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's party issued a warning about a concerning period ahead for Zimbabwe
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has issued a warning about a concerning period ahead, citing the recent arrest of three opposition leaders within two weeks of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's in...Published: 15 Sep 2023 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZNA disowns shoplifting 'soldier'
THE Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) yesterday refuted claims that Sihlazuluking Ndashata, who recently appeared before a Harare magistrate for shoplifting, was a soldier.In a statement, the ZNA d...Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:45hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army raises concern over media lies
THE Zimbabwe National Army is worried about continuous publication of falsehoods and damaging statements and yesterday dealt with a story saying a soldier had been charged with shoplifting when in fac...Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
WhaWha inmates complain of mosquitoes, bedbugs
INMATES at WhaWha Prison outside the Midlands capital, Gweru, enjoyed family week during the Easter holidays where they were visited by friends and relatives.Although they were grateful for th...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bedbug outbreak hits WhaWha Prison
Whawha Prison, outside Midlands province capital Gweru, has been infested by bedbugs, Southern Eye has learnt.According to families of inmates at the jail, who spoke on condition of anonymity,...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 08:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Prison officers get training on human rights
ZIMBABWE Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) officials based in Ntabazinduna yesterday received training from the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) to capacitate them on protecting the right...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZPCS's female officer found passion in panel beating
AT around 5:30AM daily, Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) Correctional Officer Grade 1 Petronella Chadenga wakes up, does her household chores, prepares lunch boxes for her five childre...Published: 02 Apr 2022 at 06:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Women capacity building programme launched at Whawha prison
FEMALE Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) officers have been challenged to take advantage of the government's empowerment initiatives to eradicate poverty.The Young Women for Ec...Published: 24 Nov 2021 at 16:22hrs | 15 | by Staff Reporter
Escape of 3 prisoners probed
THREE inmates that were serving a combined 30 years in prison escaped from police cells in Bulawayo after being brought in for indications to answer for other crimes.Pardon Makuni (19), Menard...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 05:53hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
MP turns club house into clinic
A DILAPIDATED Pfende Club House in Gweru city's ward 2 has been turned into a clinic, easing the burden on people from the area who used to walk a long distance to Whawha Prison Clinic to access healt...Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 09:28hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
People of Godlwayo retain identity and pride
Maduna Mafu, the chief of Godlwayo, led the armed struggle of 1896 in the eastern Ndebele State, together with other leaders such as Mahlahleni Mafu, Siminzela Mathema and Fezela Khumalo.Godlw...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 10:05hrs | 92 | by Phathisani Nyathi
Paramount Chief Vezi Maduna Mafu dies
ONE of the country's longest serving traditional leaders, Chief Vezi Maduna Mafu, has died.He was 86 years old.Chief Maduna was recovering from a stroke he suffered on 18 August 2019....Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 06:52hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa's MDC controlled by G40,' says Mwonzora
MDC-T Secretary-General, Douglas Mwonzora, has alleged that the MDC Alliance is heavily influenced by elements of Zanu-PF's Generation 40 (G40) faction.G40 was said to be a group of Zanu-PF po...Published: 16 Dec 2020 at 14:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Lest we forget: Women of the struggle
Tomorrow, Zimbabwe celebrates National Heroes Day, an important day on the national calendar to honour the gallant sons and daughters of the soil who made extraordinary sacrifices to liberate the coun...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 07:26hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Pastor's wife explicit pictures leak
Explicit pictures of a pastor's wife from Gweru have leaked on social media after the woman allegedly sent the raunchy pictures to her ex-lover.The pictures of Mai Mfundisi Priscilla Mudzidzwa...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 10:27hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora is a friendly but difficult opponent
AS THE eagerly-anticipated MDC congress looms large, alliances, vitriol and realignments are taking centre stage in the country's largest opposition movement.Deputy Chief Writer Tendai Kamhung...Published: 31 Mar 2019 at 16:45hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
'Freedom that never was'
We continue chronicling the political life of Agrippa Samuriwo. The former Whawha detainee who tells our Deputy News Editor Levi Mukarati – from his farm in Chitomborwizi, Mashonaland West Province ...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 08:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Prison officer remanded over shutdown protests
A Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) officer has been arrested for allegedly conniving with suspected hooligans who participated in the violent protests that rocked Gweru, leaving a tra...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cops, accomplices mine robbery case postponed to next Friday
GWERU regional magistrate Pathekile Msipa last Friday postponed to next Friday the trial of two police officers based in Mberengwa, who allegedly ganged up with 14 accomplices and raided a Chinese min...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC Midlands plots demo over Chibaya, activists detention
MIDLANDS South MDC members have threatened to stage a protest over the continued incarceration of party organising secretary and Mkoba MP, Amos Chibaya, Chiwundura legislator, Livingstone Chimina and ...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Captured prison escapee battling for life
ONE of the three prisoners who jumped off a moving vehicle in transit from Chikurubi Maximum Prison to Whawha Prison over a fortnight ago, before being captured last week, is battling for life due to ...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 08:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mujumi jailed 12 months over contempt of court
A MASHAVA miner, Takunda Mujumi, has petitioned the High Court seeking rescission of judgment after he was slapped with a 12-month jail term for interfering with SMM Holdings mining claims despite a c...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:28hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Miner jailed 1 year over contempt of court
A MASHAVA miner, Takunda Mujumi, has petitioned the High Court seeking rescission of judgment after he was slapped with a 12-month jail term for interfering with SMM Holdings mining claims despite a c...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 08:41hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Fugitive prisoner named
THE Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) has launched a manhunt for Timothy Munhare, the surviving convict who jumped off a moving vehicle in Lalapansi in the Midlands province, while bei...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 07:59hrs | 2 | by Staff rpeorter
Prison break criminals face more charges
THREE hard-core criminals who allegedly assaulted prison officers while on transit before jumping off a moving prison truck, were convicts with a combined jail term of 126 years, The Zimbabwe Prisons ...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 09:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prisoners jump off moving truck, flee
AN unknown number of inmates yesterday jumped off a moving prison transfer truck ferrying them between Harare and Whawha prisons.Circumstances surrounding the escape were still sketchy yesterd...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 08:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teenage boy to be caned for sodomy
GWERU regional magistrate Pathekile Msipa has ordered a 13-year-old boy (name withheld) to receive three cane strokes at Whawha Prison for sodomising his family neighbour's three children aged nine, s...Published: 03 Nov 2018 at 09:18hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Connemara pleads for prisoners
OFFICIALS at Connemara Open Prison in the Midlands province, said they had been rendered redundant after all 65 inmates at the institution were recently released under the Presidential Amnesty....Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 08:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Machaya re-arrested
FORMER Midlands Provincial Affairs Minister and Senator for Gokwe, Jason Machaya, who has been in remand prison since Christmas Eve, tasted freedom for only 10 minutes on Thursday before being re-arre...Published: 06 Jan 2018 at 09:12hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Detained former Minister hospitalised
Former Minister of State for Midlands Provincial Affairs and Senator for Gokwe Jason Machaya was yesterday admitted at Gweru Provincial Hospital after he was taken ill while in detention at WhaWha Pri...Published: 02 Jan 2018 at 23:09hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Ex-convict arrests prison escapee
An ex-convict smarting from serving a jail term at Zvishavane Prison turned hero when he apprehended a prison escapee he found walking on the streets, a few days after he left him behind bars....Published: 23 Oct 2017 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe narrates passion for the Midlands province
President Mugabe yesterday said he had a special connection with the Midlands province after he spent his youthful days in the province as a teacher and later as a prisoner.Addressing delegate...Published: 02 Sep 2017 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Liberation war hero Cde Tshaka laid to rest
Liberation hero, Mtate Jonathan Tshaka who died on the 13th of this month was buried at the Bulawayo provincial heroes' acre in Bulawayo.The late Tshaka was described as a soft spoken person w...Published: 20 Aug 2017 at 19:33hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Kenny Ndlovu declared a liberation war hero
LIBERATION war hero Kenny Ndlovu, who spent more than 10 years as a political prisoner in Rhodesia, was laid to rest yesterday at the Provincial Heroes' Acre in Bulawayo.During the burial, a Z...Published: 21 Jun 2017 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Trial date set for Mvuma Killer Driver
The trial of Regis Mungwari (29) a driver of Transmech Logistics a South Africa-registered haulage truck, which on 05 April 2017 sideswiped a Johannesburg-bound Proliner bus, killing 21 people on the ...Published: 15 May 2017 at 07:34hrs | | by Stsff Reporter
Mvuma bus accident investigations continue, driver locked up at Whawha prison
Regis Mungwari (29), the "Killer Driver" of South African registered haulage truck which belongs to Transmech who is facing 20 counts of culpable homicide was yesterday escorted by Mvuma Police, clad ...Published: 12 Apr 2017 at 10:48hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Teen suspects on the run after gang rape
FOUR Gweru teenagers aged 18 and 19 allegedly drugged and gang raped a 15-year-old girl whom they had invited to a beer drinking party.One of the accused, Emmanuel Mandizvidza of Mkoba Vil...Published: 07 Mar 2017 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Heroes' Day: Zapu remembers its heroes and heroines.
Ruth Chinamano Ruth Lottie Nomonde Chinamano (1925-2005) was born on 16/02/1925 in Cape town South Africa. A Xhosa by birth, she grew up in East Grinqualand now (Matatiele). Like any oth...Published: 08 Aug 2016 at 22:48hrs | | by Fiso Hikwa
Norman Mabhena: The honour and price of principle in Zimbabwe
After more than three decades since we attained independence from colonial rule in 1980, there is a steady depletion of the ranks of those who stood up to be counted without counting the cost to thems...Published: 09 Jul 2016 at 06:31hrs | 5 | by Dr. Strike Mkandla
Cops recover $42,000 loot from robber pair
POLICE in the Midlands province have recovered property worth more than $42,000 from two notorious Bulawayo armed robbers. Shadreck Chiduza, 49, of O-50 Njube suburb and his accomplice Killias...Published: 15 Jun 2016 at 06:46hrs | 2 | by Givemore Godzi
Teenager maid killer remanded in custody
A 14-year-old Gweru boy who allegedly murdered a 41-year-old family maid over a memory card, and stayed with the body for about 20 hours has been remanded in custody.The boy (name withheld) of...Published: 09 Jan 2016 at 07:18hrs | 2 | by Elizabeth Tsuro
Prison boss 'bonks married subordinate in exchange for protection'
A MARRIED senior official at Whawha Prison on the outskirts of Gweru allegedly demanded and had sex with a subordinate who is also married, to shield her from a disciplinary hearing.Sources at...Published: 05 Dec 2015 at 07:31hrs | | by Patrick Chitumba
'Chamisa talk, I act,' says Mwonzora
Summary of the political history of Douglas Mwonzora1988- Led University of Zimbabwe student demonstrations against state corruption and plans by Mugabe to establish a One Party state in Z...Published: 26 Oct 2014 at 11:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
The history of harassment of Douglas Mwonzora by the State
The abuse of the criminal justice system by the state and Zanu-PF to silence the opposition is the most well-known trick in Zimbabwean politics. Indeed it is one of the oldest tricks in the world....Published: 17 Oct 2014 at 08:07hrs | | by Douglas Mwonzora
Tuku breaks silence on 'fake' honorary degree
SUPERSTAR musician Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi yesterday broke his silence over the controversial honorary degree recently conferred on him by a suspected bogus organisation, International Institute of Phi...Published: 11 Jul 2014 at 11:29hrs | 1 | by Everson Mushava and Silence Charumbira
Prisoner escapes after being caught having sex with calf
AN inmate at WhaWha Prison was so embarrassed after he was caught being intimate with a calf in a cattle pen at the prison farm that he escaped from the correctional facility. In shame, th...Published: 23 Jan 2014 at 20:07hrs | | by Mafu Sithabile
Prison officer left for dead in Chikurubi jailbreak
TWO prisoners escaped from Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison Farm on Wednesday afternoon after they allegedly attacked a prison officer with a hoe, leaving him for dead.Carrington Mutambarika ...Published: 24 Oct 2013 at 20:35hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Prisoner up for murder
A WhaWha Prison inmate was arrested a few days after his release for allegedly fatally striking an 85-year-old man with an axe. Tonic Manjona (27) a theft convict was reportedly on his way ho...Published: 10 Oct 2013 at 23:49hrs | | by Mafu Sithabile
Two men arrested after attempting to trick an elderly blind relative to sale her house
POLICE in Gweru have arrested two men for allegedly tricking their elderly blind relative to sale her house to two different people. The two were arrested after their relative, Lizzy Mhike (76), who ...Published: 18 Jun 2013 at 00:17hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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