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Amacimbi harvester killed by elephant
A woman (58) from Lukange community in Beitbridge East was trampled to death by an elephant while two other villagers watched helplessly on Saturday morning. Elisa Chivalaula died while harves...Published: 3 hrs ago | 274 | by Staff reporter
Police intensify blitz on Covid-19 defaulters
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) on Thursday night raided beer halls in Harare's suburbs in enforcement of a government directive banning public gatherings of more than 50 people to mitigate the spr...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:59hrs | 470 | by Staff reporter
Man jumps 10 floors to his death
A 29-YEAR-OLD man allegedly committed suicide by jumping from the 10th floor building in Harare's Central Business District (CBD), the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) confirmed yesterday.Police...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 15:41hrs | 3682 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cops set up Covid-19 reaction teams
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has set up reaction teams in various provinces and districts that will help in enforcing the ban on public gatherings of over 50 people, following revelations that a...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 20:14hrs | 1288 | by Staff reporter
Police to enforce Mnangagwa decree
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) says it will ensure President Emmerson Mnangagwa's decree banning gatherings of more than 100 people is religiously followed by "conducting patrols, surveillance and...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 20:52hrs | 2349 | by Staff reporter
Zimra official in US$15 000 swindle
A ZIMBABWE Revenue Authority (Zimra) officer in Beitbridge allegedly ganged up with a customs clearing agent and swindled a Harare businessman of US$15 000 after fraudulently clearing his imported car...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 20:38hrs | 528 | by Staff reporter
Police working with illegal miners at Mazowe mine
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Support Unit has been accused of working in cahoots with illegal miners at Mazowe mine despite the on-going "Operation Chikorokoza ngachipere" which has seen a...Published: 19 Mar 2020 at 13:43hrs | 878 | by Simbarashe Sithole
'ZRP shields killer cops'
FORMER police Assistant Commissioner Gideon Baloyi has exposed the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP)'s alleged underhand dealings, including cover-ups for officers who committed murder and other various ...Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 20:09hrs | 1800 | by Staff reporter
Matanga sued over botched ZRP housing scheme
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has been taken to the High Court by 23 police officers, who are demanding either built-up houses or serviced stands following a botched police housing scheme...Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 07:02hrs | 428 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's tight security raises eyebrows
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's security details went into overdrive during an event at the Zanu-PF leader's Kwekwe farm, going to the extent of using a drone in scouring for potential threats....Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 09:07hrs | 6057 | by Staff reporter
Govt to deal with corrupt fuel retailers
GOVERNMENT has activated high-level systems to deal with corrupt fuel retailers engineering artificial shortages, with strict surveillance and penalties crafted to clean up the sector.Ch...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 08:50hrs | 184 | by Staff Reporter
Cases against protestors crumble as courts acquits them
SIX people have been set free after they stood trial on charges of participating in anti-government protests staged in 2019 over the country's worsening economic crisis.Harare Magistrate Yeuka...Published: 13 Mar 2020 at 08:55hrs | 1810 | by Stephen Jakes
'Mnangagwa's govt doing everything to find Dzamara'
THE Government of Zimbabwe has put in place a taskforce of skilled detectives to investigate thoroughly the disappearance of Mr Itai Dzamara who went missing in March 2015.Information, Media a...Published: 10 Mar 2020 at 07:50hrs | 2086 | by Staff reporter
ZACC intensifies Anti-Corruption Drive
MUTARE - Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has said its holding of stakeholders meetings around the ten provinces in the country on Anti-Corruption strategy was premised on building sta...Published: 09 Mar 2020 at 09:30hrs | 1640 | by Martin Muleya
Lifestyle audits on Zimbabwe police officers
POLICE are appealing to people with information on officers living larger than their professional earnings, to come forward and assist in ongoing lifestyle audits meant to flush out and prosecute corr...Published: 09 Mar 2020 at 05:22hrs | 602 | by Staff reporter
Billy Rautenbach pays police for protection
EXPLOSIVE minutes of a meeting convened by Local Government, Public Works and National Housing minister July Moyo to resolve a land ownership row between five housing co-operatives and Billy Rautenbac...Published: 07 Mar 2020 at 09:47hrs | 1807 | by Staff reporter
'Sanctions to blame for poor rural ZRP stations'
THE government has blamed sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by western countries for its failure to fully fund Zimbabwe Republic Police rural stations.Responding recently to Senator Chief Ntabeni ...Published: 07 Mar 2020 at 06:49hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
Cop 'steals' top-of-the-range car from station
A POLICE officer allegedly stole an impounded R3 million top-of the range car kept at Beitbridge Police station after lying to a colleague that he had been authorised by his superior to remove the veh...Published: 07 Mar 2020 at 06:45hrs | 355 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga, Mohadi take gospel of cleanliness to Mvurwi, Binga
It was a hive of activity yesterday across the country as citizens took part in the national clean-up campaign, with Vice Presidents Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi leading the exercise in Mvurw...Published: 07 Mar 2020 at 06:42hrs | 129 | by Staff reporter
Green Day launched on 29 February. We make Bulawayo the cleanest city again!
The city of Bulawayo was once recognized as the cleanest city in the world. Until 90s, the city proudly ranked as the cleanest city in the region. Now most Bulawayo residents look around them, feel ov...Published: 05 Mar 2020 at 18:57hrs | 1416 | by Keep Africa Beautiful
Cop steals car from police station
A POLICE officer allegedly stole an impounded R3 million top-of the range car kept at Beitbridge Police station after lying to a colleague that he had been authorised by his superior to remove the veh...Published: 05 Mar 2020 at 18:26hrs | 1205 | by Staff reporter
Former Minister survived assasination from Zimbabwe army
Former Deputy Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education Dr Godfrey Gandawa survived a state-sponsored assassination attempt in 2018 after he fell out with the President Emmerson Mnangagwa led governme...Published: 05 Mar 2020 at 14:46hrs | 6830 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Human rights lawyer, trade unionists charge with plot to foment civil disobedience
ZIMBABWEAN authorities on Wednesday accused a human rights lawyer and some trade unionists of plotting to foment civil disobedience in the country after they were allegedly caught in possession of a b...Published: 05 Mar 2020 at 08:57hrs | 623 | by Stephen Jakes
Maengahama, Madzokere in fresh freedom bid
THE Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved judgment on an appeal filed by two political prisoners, who are seeking their release from prison, where they are detained since 2016 after they were convicted an...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 06:59hrs | 532 | by Steve Grays
4 year old boy shoots himself
The Zimbabwe Republic Police have reported that a four-year-old boy has shot himself while playing with his father's gun. The boy succumbed to the injuries and died.Said the police, "O...Published: 03 Mar 2020 at 14:34hrs | 1897 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe army to monitor social media
THE Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) commander Edzai Chimonyo says the military would soon start snooping into private communications between private citizens to "guard against subversion," alarming media...Published: 03 Mar 2020 at 07:35hrs | 1209 | by Staff reporter
Police, MDC youths in violent clashes over Sikhala
HEAVILY-armed police yesterday fought running battles with MDC youths, following a raid on the Chitungwiza residence of the main opposition party's national vice chairperson Job "Wiwa" Sikhala....Published: 02 Mar 2020 at 09:41hrs | 2557 | by Staff reporter
27 machete killings in Silobela alone
HOME Affairs deputy minister Mike Madiro on Thursday told Senate that machete-wielding gangsters committed 27 murders in Silobela alone from January 2019 to date.He was responding to a questio...Published: 02 Mar 2020 at 09:08hrs | 508 | by Staff reporter
MaShurugwi kill 35, rape 15
AT least 35 people were killed while 15 women were raped in the last 13 months by infamous machete wielding gangs commonly known as MaShurugwi, Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Deputy Minister Micha...Published: 02 Mar 2020 at 07:25hrs | 1260 | by Staff Reporter
Fuel cheats exposed
FUEL retailers could be hoarding fuel for speculative purposes or diverting the commodity to either the black market or service stations that sell in foreign currency amid revelations they drew down i...Published: 01 Mar 2020 at 08:49hrs | 4008 | by Staff Reporter
PHOTO: Police smash windows of ZUPCO bus
A ZUPCO bus was vandalised in Chitungwiza on Saturday during running battles between the police and the MDC Youths after the police besieged the house of MDC leader Job Sikhala in the morning. ...Published: 29 Feb 2020 at 17:23hrs | 9835 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ZRP no longer visible in communities
Today I sent representatives to participate at the Njube - Lobhengula Constituency local peace committee that works under Zimbabwe Christian Alliance, where I am also an active member of the committee...Published: 29 Feb 2020 at 07:33hrs | 331 | by Presia Ngulube
BREAKING: Police besiege Job Sikhala's house
Reports coming from Chitungwiza indicate that members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police Support Unit have besieged the house of MDC official Job Sikhala in ChitungwizaAn MDC Youth off...Published: 29 Feb 2020 at 06:14hrs | 5963 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Woman arrested for trying to sell a gun in Harare
Details of the Zimbabwe Republic Police in Harare have arrested a woman who was trying to sell a CZ pistol type of gun. She was working with two men who are her co-suspects. Reporting on the m...Published: 28 Feb 2020 at 15:39hrs | 3164 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ZRP must embrace social media platforms
SOCIAL media platforms are powerful ways for organisations to reach their audiences, so if you want a successful organisation you cannot afford to ignore social media. The Zimbabwe Republic Police is ...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 22:28hrs | 1056 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Zanu-PF councillor jailed over cop assault
ZANU-PF Chinhoyi ward 11 councillor, Voster Mashevedzanwa (41) has been sentenced to four years in jail by Chinhoyi magistrate Tapiwa Banda for assault and resisting arrest.Mashevedzanwa toget...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 06:18hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
'Heavy police presence shows Zimbabwe regime is panicking'
POLICE have increased their presence in and out of Harare in apparent readiness to quash attempts by restless opposition supporters and workers in the wake of threats of massive protests to pressure P...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 07:10hrs | 4432 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe loses US$3bn to illicit financial flows
ZIMBABWE has lost over US$3 billion to illicit financial flows through tax evasion, smuggling, corruption, fraud, drug trafficking and money laundering, Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) chai...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 05:52hrs | 103 | by Staff reporter
US$7bn loot stashed in foreign lands:, says ZACC
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) says it has identified over US$7 billion in cash and properties stashed outside the country by former and current senior Government officials and captain...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 05:50hrs | 556 | by Staff reporter
WANTED: Bekani Bekithemba Dube wanted for murder
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has reported that it is appealing to the members of the public to assist with information that may lead to the arrest of one Bekani Bekithemba Dube (32) of Som...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 19:29hrs | 2209 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Anti-graft fight no longer a Zacc, ZRP thing'
Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) spokesperson John Makamure yesterday said the anti-graft body and the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) were unable to deal with highly connected cartels at the...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 06:54hrs | 276 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe Kazembe hit with another $1.1 million lawsuit
HOME Affairs Minister, Kazembe Kazembe and Police Commissioner General Godwin Matanga have been jointly slapped with a US$1,1 million lawsuit by a miner who claims that they barred him to operate with...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 06:29hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest 2 retailers over roller meal sales
Police swooped on National Foods Limited and Blue Ribbon Industries over the weekend amid reports some milling companies are withholding from the market roller meal produced under the special Governme...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 06:15hrs | 748 | by Staff reporter
ZRP recovers more than 5 000 tonnes of mealie meal
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police has recovered more than five thousand tonnes of mealie meal from millers suspected to have been meant for the parallel market.In a statement, ZRP National Spokespe...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 18:17hrs | 4934 | by Staff reporter
Another MDC gathering banned
POLICE yesterday banned the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC women assembly rally slated for Harare's Warren Park suburb.In a letter dated February 21, written by the police to the women assembly, the a...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 07:14hrs | 1291 | by Staff reporter
Soldier assaults patrons after failing to 'catch'
A SOLDIER based in Hwange went berserk and randomly assaulted patrons at two nightclubs after his love proposals were turned down by female revellers.As if that was not enough, Philani Nyoni (...Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 08:25hrs | 620 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police launch blitz on protesters
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) arrested 34 suspects on Thursday night as part of a crackdown on MDC youths who participated in a flash demonstration in Harare on Wednesday.According to the...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 16:48hrs | 604 | by Staff reporter
Armed cops rob miner
THREE police officers have been arrested on charges of robbing a Guruve miner of 92 grammes of gold and US$2 700 at gunpoint.Happymore Gwande (35) of Nyabira ZRP, Ronald Masendeke (29) of ZRP ...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 16:33hrs | 289 | by Staff reporter
Wave of arrest in Zimbabwe as authorities clamp down on dissent
ZIMBABWEAN authorities have stepped up their onslaught against dissent after arresting a total of 47 people in one day for allegedly participating in anti-government protests over the country's worsen...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 08:52hrs | 3148 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa's govt warns Chamisa
GOVERNMENT yesterday said it is ready to thwart any unsanctioned dissent in the wake of threats by the country's opposition political party - the MDC - to unleash crippling protests in a bid to push P...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 05:51hrs | 5879 | by Staff reporter
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