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Zimbabwe police disband Border Control Unit
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police has disbanded its Minerals and Border Control Unit (MBCU) and redeployed its members as part of a restructuring exercise to restore sanity in the police force.The ...Published: 15 hrs ago | 4587 | by Staff reporter
Mindset shift key to policing: Mathema
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) needs a paradigm shift and the necessary resources, including adoption of information communication technologies to combat 21st century crime, new Home Affairs minis...Published: 16 hrs ago | 271 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe authorities target more opposition party supporters over anti-Zec protest
ZIMBABWEAN authorities have intensified their crackdown on perceived opposition political party supporters after arresting a Harare man and charged him with committing public violence for allegedly pa...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 14:09hrs | 2197 | by Stephen Jakes
Man guns down 3 family members
Tragedy struck when three Mandigo family members were allegedly shot to death by one, Takadu Magwiro following a dispute over allegations of stolen maize, rapoko and groundnuts in Buhera.The g...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 19:13hrs | 4567 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa seems to be on track
The opposition campaigned freely across the country.The presence of regional and international observers was most welcome.However, Zec has some serious house-keeping to do in order to ...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 08:24hrs | 1965 | by Staff reporter
Cops launch countrywide roadblocks
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has launched a countrywide operation targeting unregistered vehicles and motorists who are flouting traffic regulations and endangering the lives of other road users...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:30hrs | 4075 | by Staff reporter
MDC @ 19 Celebrations postponed
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has postponed its 19th Anniversary celebrations that were slated for this Saturday 15 September 2018 due to the cholera outbreak in some parts of Harare. The A...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 10:05hrs | 2661 | by Cllr Jacob Mafume
Police block Chamisa party celebrations
POLICE have officially banned the MDC-T's 19th anniversary celebrations which were set for Gwanzura Stadium, Harare, this weekend citing a cholera outbreak which claimed has so far claimed the lives o...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 06:27hrs | 1012 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa interferes with Police on MDC Anniversary
Below is a statement released by MDC on ZRP ban of public gatherings, including the party’s anniversary celebrations.Earlier yesterday the Movement fo...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 14:33hrs | 4848 | by MDC
Mnangagwa seems to be on track - ZUNDE
It is a matter of public record that, from inception, ZUNDE fiercely and consistently fought against President Mugabe and his destructive policies. On 24 October 2013, we came together to adva...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 07:17hrs | 3391 | by Moses Chamboko
Health official arrested for stealing birth control pills
An assistant pharmacist at Sadza District Hospital in Mashonaland East province has been arrested on allegations of stealing 24 boxes of birth control pills worth nearly $3 000.Learnmore Chigw...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:33hrs | 494 | by Staff reporter
Matanga sued over botched $1,9m equipment tender
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has been taken to court by an equipment company which is seeking an order to compel the Zimbabwe Republic Police to buy its speed trap machines and printers ...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:38hrs | 1894 | by Staff reporter
Violence sells out land baron
A SUSPECTED land baron accused of illegally parcelling out land belonging to diversified group, CFI Holdings in Harare's Glen View 7 suburb has been remanded in custody after an orgy of violence....Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 07:40hrs | 1414 | by Staff reporter
Cops beat suspect to death in Bindura
Three members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) based in Bindura reportedly assaulted a suspected cellphone thief to death without officially recording the theft case in their report book on Sunda...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 18:33hrs | 1936 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Police roadblocks return
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) will from tomorrow launch a massive crackdown targeting unlicensed drivers and unregistered vehicles in a nationwide blitz that will signal the return of roadblocks,...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:46hrs | 3445 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doomed as May, Merkel back Mnangagwa
On August 28, British Prime Minister Theresa May arrived in Cape Town, South Africa, for a one-day working visit. This visit was part of a three-nation tour of South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria designed...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:04hrs | 1021 | by Tafi Mhaka
Junior cops sue over 'unlawful' salary deductions
AT least 28 junior police officers staying at Mbare Police Camp have petitioned the High Court seeking an order to compel their bosses to refund the $45 which they allege was unlawfully and wrongfully...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:01hrs | 1189 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe court sets free opposition legislator charged with public violence
A ZIMBABWEAN court has set free an opposition legislator who had been arrested for allegedly inciting his MDC Alliance party supporters to commit public violence ahead of the harmonised elections held...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 15:48hrs | 5537 | by ZLHR
Zanu-PF offices set on fire?
ZANU-PF offices in Caledonia, on the out-skirts of Harare, were early yesterday morning burnt down in act of suspected arson. Police confirmed the burning of the building which also housed Ton...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 12:59hrs | 3697 | by Staff reporter
3 arrested after Acturus shooting
Police in Goromonzi have arrested three suspects in connection with the shooting of illegal gold panners at Acturus Mine that occurred on Sunday morning.This comes as investigations into the s...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 12:55hrs | 1463 | by Staff reporter
Post-poll violence commission criticism baseless
Following the unfortunate incident in which six people died in the post-election violence of August 1, 2018, which was instigated by the MDC-Alliance as it staged anti-Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Z...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 06:24hrs | 181 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Police, CIO sabotaged 'Zanu-PF and backed Biti' during elections
THE ruling Zanu-PF party believes it lost Harare East constituency in the July 30 elections due to sabotage by the police and Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) spy agency, NewZimbabwe.com report...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 09:25hrs | 4266 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa defies ZRP rally ban
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, is going ahead with his rally scheduled for Kwekwe on Sunday, his first since he lost the July 30 plebiscite to President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zanu-PF.Cham...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 21:19hrs | 4315 | by Staff reporter
Church dispute rages on
THE United Pentecostal Church in Zimbabwe (UPCZ) has approached the High Court seeking an order interdicting a breakaway group from disrupting church activities and harassing congregants pending an ap...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 08:56hrs | 170 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must act fast to salvage legacy
In his short, to the point, inauguration speech, President Emmerson Mnangagwa dwelt at length on his quest for free, fair, credible and non-violent elections. The non-violence was supposed to be a fea...Published: 30 Aug 2018 at 06:27hrs | 1433 | by Tapiwa Nyandoro
Cops evicted
SIX police officers accommodated at Gokwe Police Camp were on Monday made to sleep outside after being evicted to pave way for the incoming district police officer.Gokwe officer in charge alle...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 15:08hrs | 2877 | by Staff reporter
39 MDC-Alliance members on the run
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is still looking for 39 MDC-Alliance supporters who were part of a group that held an illegal demonstration early this month against the alleged delay by the Zimbabw...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:33hrs | 533 | by Staff reporter
Post-election violence reports false: ZRP
REPORTS of post-election violence being played up in the privately-owned media are fictitious and peace is prevailing across the country, the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) said yesterday. The...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:29hrs | 188 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans thrown under the bus again
The much anticipated 2018 watershed harmonised elections in Zimbabwe have come and gone. The biggest losers in this election were the electorate. They are losers because most voters don't know what ha...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 23:04hrs | 3521 | by Frazer Muzondo
Zimbabwe tops world corruption list
HARARE - Zimbabwe has been ranked as one of the most corrupt countries in the world.A survey by global watchdog Transparency International ranked Zimbabwe number 157 out of the 180 countries s...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 15:13hrs | 5680 | by Staff Reporter
Thieves raid CID farm in Marondera
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has arrested two suspected thieves after they allegedly raided the Criminal Investigations (CID) Projects Farm in Marondera and stole property and copper cables wort...Published: 25 Aug 2018 at 16:07hrs | 2481 | by Staff Reporter
Matibiri in trouble over $190 000
Police Deputy Commissioner-General, Innocent Matibiri, has been taken to court by Tian Ze Tobacco Company over a $190 000 farm inputs debt.Through its lawyers Muvingi and Mugadza, the tobacco ...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:56hrs | 4458 | by Staff reporter
Inquiry into cop 'chewing' receipt to conceal evidence blocked
THE High Court has blocked Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga from setting up a board of inquiry to probe a junior traffic cop who under-receipted a fine paid by a tourist and later swallowed ...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:48hrs | 643 | by Staff reporter
7 die in Harare Masvingo road accident
Seven people died early this morning and eight others were seriously injured when two buses side-swiped at the 98 km peg along the Harare-Masvingo highway near Pimbi River.In a statement, ZRP ...Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 18:47hrs | 4161 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa critic arrested, charged over Facebook comments
ZIMBABWEAN authorities have arrested Munyaradzi Shoko, the leader of the Children of Zimbabwe War Veterans' Association (Cozwa), a known critic of President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa and charged him wi...Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 07:21hrs | 22493 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe police on high alert: Charamba
The Zimbabwe Republic Police and other security services will be deployed and on high alert to maintain law and order during today's hearing of the Presidential election petition filed by MDC-Alliance...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:01hrs | 218 | by Staff reporter
Electronic gadgets banned from Con-Court
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has released a statement informing people who will be attending the Constitutional Court on 22 - 23 August 2018, that they will not be allowed to carry electronic gadgets ...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 16:55hrs | 2531 | by Ndou Paul
MDC Alliance neglects jailed cop killers
TWO MDC Alliance activists serving 20-year jail terms each for killing a police officer have accused the opposition party of neglecting them, NewZimbabwe.com reported.Last Maengahama and Tunga...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 07:24hrs | 1606 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga represents the 'New Disorder' not New Dispensation
While the nation awaits eagerly in anticipation of a typical Chief Justice Maraga (Kenya's Chief Justice) style and caliber of overturning presidential election results from our apex court on Tuesday,...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 08:03hrs | 10689 | by Knowledge Hakata
Police boss blocked from probing cop
BULAWAYO High Court judge Justice Martin Makonese has blocked Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga and a Chief Superintendent Nyapfuri from setting a board of inquiry to probe a junior cop, Vusu...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 05:57hrs | 1085 | by Staff reporter
Psychological evaluation for 'car thief'
A BULAWAYO magistrate has ordered that a suspected car thief undergo psychological evaluation before standing trial.Lesley Ndebele (24) from 138341 Pumula Suburb, who initially appeared in cou...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 06:35hrs | 302 | by Staff reporter
Police denies abducting Tendai Biti
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) yesterday blamed immigration officials for handing over MDC Alliance principal Tendai Biti, arguing they were the ones who took the accused from the Zambian authorit...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 08:05hrs | 533 | by Staff reporter
Top MDC Alliance official charged over Zim 'fake' election results
ZIMBABWEAN authorities have charged Morgen Komichi, the National Chairperson of the MDC Alliance party with violating the country's electoral laws after he allegedly interrupted the 2018 harmonised el...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 13:53hrs | 5825 | by Stephen Jakes
Opposition legislator charged over elections protest
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) on Thursday 16 August 2018 charged Costa Machingauta, an opposition MDC Alliance party legislator for Budiriro constituency with public violence for allegedly partic...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 08:47hrs | 1364 | by Stephen Jakes
Leaked document reveals 29kg gold stolen from police
About 28.5297 kilograms of gold was reportedly stolen from Zimbabwe Republic Police, (ZRP), Mineral Boarder Control Unit (MBUC), Plumtree on Wednesday.According to a leaked police memorandum, ...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 18:35hrs | 3391 | by Simbarashe Sithole
General Valerio Sibanda blames MDC Alliance
The commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF), General Philip Valerio Sibanda, has blamed opposition political parties for the ugly scenes of violence witnessed in Harare just after the July 30 h...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 06:37hrs | 4302 | by Staff reporter
Massive reshuffle of senior cops in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP)has reshuffled at least 700 senior officers from ranks between superintendent and senior assistant commissioner as part of an ongoing restructuring exercise. Of the 7...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 06:08hrs | 607 | by Staff reporter
Matanga warns unbecoming officers
POLICE Commissioner General Godwin Matanga has said police officers should shun behaviour that may put the name of the force into disrepute.In a speech read on his behalf by Officer Commanding...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 06:53hrs | 615 | by Staff reporter
Be vigilant, promoted ZRP officers told
The survival of the police force largely depends on the ability of officers to deal with challenges, be able to scan the environment and act accordingly, Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 06:33hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter
Army chief assures the nation
Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) Commander General Philip Valerio Sibanda yesterday assured the nation that the country remains safe and secure despite the recent politically motivated violence that erup...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 06:32hrs | 1156 | by Staff reporter
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