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Police officers nabbed at roadblock
Four police officers Bigboy Mujende(32), Natasha Mupingo(30), Sgt Manager William (44) and Brian Mzilikazi were recently arrested for resisting arrest, bribery and impersonation.The four were ...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 07:40hrs | 10629 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Finding Zimbabweans in secret mass graves
ONE of my earliest memories is of violence and death.It happened in Harare in 1984 when I was about seven years old.I was supposed to meet a friend to play at a dump site together....Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:00hrs | 1615 | by Keith Silika
High Court reverses Mawarire's lawsuit loss
HIGH Court judge Justice Edith Mushore has rescinded a default judgment entered against #ThisFlag campaign leader and clergyman, Evan Mawarire, who had lost his $65 000 damages claim against the Zimba...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:06hrs | 2239 | by Staff reporter
Top cop takes boss to court
A TOP cop who was recently acquitted on charges of allegedly stealing guns, more than 180 live bullets and an assortment of related weaponry from the police armoury has taken his boss, Police Commissi...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:46hrs | 1028 | by Staff reporter
No passage for unregistered cars at tollgates
ALL unregistered vehicles are with immediate effect not allowed to pass through tollgates as the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) launches a blitz to ensure motorists heed the law. So far, ZRP h...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:45hrs | 704 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa implicates police officers in gold rush
Kwekwe based Sakile Mnangagwa (31) who is a business partner to Gostaff Gomo at Trump -Tower Minerals private has implicated three police officers who were involved in a gold rush at Zhangazha plot, V...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 10:33hrs | 3492 | by Tarisai Mudahondo / Simbarashe Sithole
Beitbridge-Harare Highway robbers nabbed
POLICE in Beatrice, Mashonaland East province, last week arrested four Mbare men linked to a spate of robberies targeting trucks along the Harare-Beitbridge Highway.Ngonidzashe Jeke (36), Sile...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 06:26hrs | 1936 | by Staff reporter
Shock as Joana Mamombe is arrested on hospital bed
Members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police are said to have stormed the hospital where MDC official Joana Mamombe at a medical facility where she was receiving treatment. The operation was issued...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 14:14hrs | 11798 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Six cops arrested for theft
Six armed police officers from Zimbabwe Republic Police, Sanyati were arrested for assault, unlawful entry and theft at a gold dealer's premises yesterday.According to a leaked memo seen by Bu...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 08:29hrs | 7018 | by Simbarashe Sithole/Tarisai Mudahondo
Some cheap goods can be very expensive
Sweet tongue trickster is a conman (confidence man) who can be a woman as well. They are very smart with words and can actually sell a fridge to an Eskimo whose igloo is made using ice blocks. ...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:04hrs | 120 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Top cop challenges retirement
THE officer-in-charge of Hwange Police Station Chief Inspector Samuel Tadzaushe, who is set to go on retirement this Friday, has approached the High Court challenging the decision by Police Commission...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 15:49hrs | 4181 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's close aide up for robbery
A CLOSE aide of President Emmerson Mnangagwa appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court yesterday on charges of robbery.Ardon Chipangamati (28) who works at Munhumutapa Building appeared before ...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 07:21hrs | 5212 | by Staff reporter
Fuel shortages cripple police operations
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is grappling with severe transport and fuel shortages resulting in its officers failing to attend crime scenes and other duties.This was confirmed by Home Af...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 08:28hrs | 569 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo is remembered in diverse forms fairly and unfairly
In year 1980, Joshua Nkomo was the most hated persona in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland and some parts of Midlands. The first elections were so toxic, a tribal card was key to get most of the people vote for ...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 19:54hrs | 989 | by Nomazulu Thata
BREAKING: Zimbabwe gets number plates material
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has reported that checks with Central Vehicle Registry [CVR] have revealed that they have some stocks of permanent vehicle registration plates.In a statement polic...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 12:23hrs | 6187 | by Mandla Ndlovu
US$100 million gold smuggled out of Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE is losing at least US$100 million worth of gold every month, which is being smuggled out of the country through porous borders with Government now in the process of rolling out measures to pl...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:28hrs | 450 | by Staff reporter
Zacc descends on police top brass
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has launched a massive crackdown targeting senior Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers implicated in corruption.Already, some of ZRP's top bra...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:28hrs | 5933 | by Staff reporter
Cattle rustlers arrested for stealing police cow
Three suspected cattle rustlers have been arrested in Marondera on suspicion of stealing a cow from a police farm just outside town limits.Wilson Madzudzu (26), Fanwell Munetsi (25) from Epwor...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 16:55hrs | 461 | by Staff reporter
ZRP ropes in Interpol
POLICE have roped in the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) and their counterparts in South Africa and Botswana to assist in locating four armed robbers who escaped arrest following...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 15:34hrs | 2473 | by Staff reporter
Top cop faces car theft charge
A TOP police officer has been accused of stealing her employer's vehicle, an Isuzu KB truck.Police have since seized the truck, worth $1 200 000, which Superintendent Modesta Manungo Masukusa ...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 14:24hrs | 1892 | by Stff reporter
Rustlers pounce on police farm
Police in Marondera, Mashonaland East province, have arrested two Harare men who allegedly stole a cow from a police farm, skinned it at night, before fleeing with some of the meat.Wilson Madz...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 14:21hrs | 427 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe and abductions
Since the beginning of the year, some people, mainly government detractors, and opposition members have claimed to have been abducted and tortured in Zimbabwe, but it is not easy to say who could be b...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 09:46hrs | 1865 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Photo of ZRP officer drinking Chibuku in uniform goes viral
The Zimbabwe Republic Police is investigating the authenticity of a photograph of a man, in ZRP uniform, holding what appears to be a Chibuku scud."We are currently investigating the authentic...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:16hrs | 6633 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi is too shallow-minded - MLF
Vice President Kembo Mohadi is correct in asking who hasn't wronged the other but very wrong in suggesting that Mthwakazi has at some point wronged someone. We have always expected such words from him...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:03hrs | 2124 | by Mthwakazi Liberation Front
'Fake' letter causes havoc in MDC-T
A LETTER allegedly exposing one of MDC-T interim secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora's aides as a police informer has become the latest source of infighting in the Thokozani Khupe-led party.The...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 11:11hrs | 3744 | by Staff reporter
Banana Republicans criminalise criticism
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police has criminalised the statement "Zanu-PF Must Go", taking it to mean inciting public violence.The curious case of legislator for Binga, Prince Sibanda, who was this...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 07:24hrs | 1014 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police warn political parties
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has warned individuals, including politicians, who are claiming that MDC councillor for Hurungwe Ward 4 Lavender Chiwaya was abducted and killed by State agents sayi...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 06:44hrs | 527 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: Tawanda Muchehiwa's gory story on how he was abducted by Ferret team
I often wake up in the middle of the night sweating profusely with a pulsating headache. At that moment, I can feel intense pain on the right side of my jaw. I never get back to sleep.I have t...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 09:49hrs | 12393 | by Tawanda Muchehiwa
Masarira pays tribute to Dzamara
Linda Masarira, leader of the opposition party, LEAD, has paid tribute to human rights activist, Patson Dzamara who succumbed to cancer earlier on today."26 August will remain forever remain a...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 23:09hrs | 1841 | by Daniel Itai
Notorious robbers nabbed in Beitbridge
POLICE in Matabeleland South on Monday arrested eight notorious armed robbers, among them a serving police officer and former cop, who have been linked to a spate of heists committed in Harare and aro...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 07:14hrs | 2282 | by Staff reporter
ZRP, SAPS steps ups joint border patrols
The Zimbabwe Republic Police and their South African counterparts have intensified joint border patrols to curb border jumping and smuggling activities, which have been on the rise along the border. ...Published: 24 Aug 2020 at 07:08hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
Judge recuses self
BULAWAYO High Court judge Thompson Mabhikwa has recused himself from the matter involving Harare lawyer Admire Rubaya and eight others involving gold theft following allegations raised against his con...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 15:26hrs | 1506 | by Staff reporter
Police officer cries out for help
Police bosses in Manicaland have been accused of neglecting a 28-year-old officer, who was brutally attacked by robbers while on duty.Rodgers chihanga, father of constable David Taruvinga Chih...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 11:19hrs | 1526 | by Staff reporter
Police speak on MDC-Alliance councillor's death
MDC Alliance Hurungwe Ward 4 councillor Lavender Chiwaya binged on a known illicit brew with friends hours before his corpse was discovered a few metres from his home, police has said.In a sta...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 11:13hrs | 383 | by Staff reporter
Overzealous cops assault top lawyer
TWO overzealous members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) were yesterday slapped with a ZWL $2000 fine or 3 months imprisonment each by Gokwe magistrate Hilary Ndlovu for assaulting a Kwekwe based...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 00:08hrs | 5102 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Council proposes MOU with companies on recycling waste
Bulawayo City Council have signed a memorandum of Understanding with companies that want to recycle waste.This is indicated in the latest council minutes."Council already had proposals...Published: 19 Aug 2020 at 07:48hrs | 548 | by Stephen Jakes
Lawyers representing police officers who abused Cowdray Park women fear for their lives
Lawyers representing dump six Bulawayo police officers who are accused of brutally assaulting two Cowdray Park women, Nokuthula and Ntombizodwa Mpofu have stepped down from the case citing reaso...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 13:32hrs | 3916 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe men can be jailed for failing to assist police in arresting suspects
Zimbabwe's Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act [Chapter 9:07] makes it a crime for Zimbabwean men aged 16-65 if they refuse to work with law enforcement agents in arresting a suspected criminal. ...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 09:40hrs | 4534 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Cop arrested for inciting colleagues to revolt
A junior police officer in Plumtree has been arrested for allegedly using social media to incite members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) and Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) to defy orders from thei...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 07:22hrs | 1215 | by Staff reporter
Is Hopewell a scribe or activist?
SINCE the arrest of journalist, Hopewell Chin'ono last month, Zimbabwe has witnessed an overflow of copious amounts of social media vitriol being freely splashed around against President Emmerson Mnan...Published: 16 Aug 2020 at 16:10hrs | 3431 | by Khumbulani Vodloza Sibanda
Lawyer pushes for judge's arrest
PROMINENT Harare lawyer Admire Rubaya has filed a criminal complaint against Bulawayo High Court judge Thompson Mabhikwa for allegedly abusing public office after he ordered his "unjustified" 10-day i...Published: 16 Aug 2020 at 15:58hrs | 4619 | by Staff reporter
2 cops kidnapped by motorist
Two police officers were allegedly kidnapped on Tuesday night by a motorist they had stopped at a check point in Harare city centre set up to enforce the 6pm to 6am curfew.The motorist, 31-yea...Published: 15 Aug 2020 at 16:55hrs | 773 | by Staff reporter
34 border jumpers arrested
POLICE have intercepted 34 suspected border jumpers and arrested two haulage truck drivers on allegations of smuggling bales of clothes, electrical gadgets, skin lightening creams and various prohibit...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 09:24hrs | 517 | by Staff reporter
MDC leader's wife arrested for reporting that her husband was abducted
The wife of Tamuka Denhere the MDC Secretary for Security and Defence for Mkoba District was arrested on Thursday after going to report that her husband was abducted by suspected state agents. ...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 16:49hrs | 9659 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Police dismiss Jonathan Moyo lies
POLICE have dismissed claims by one of the G40 kingpins and self-exiled former Cabinet minister Professor Jonathan Moyo that some of its officers in Plumtree, Matabeleland South, were defying orders f...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 06:50hrs | 1459 | by Staff reporter
Police act on fake roadblocks
Rogue police officers have been putting up illegal roadblocks and conducting patrols countrywide to extract bribes from the public, but the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is urging those who suspect t...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 06:48hrs | 1686 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo's 'false' claims rubbished
THE police have dismissed claims by one of the G40 kingpins and self-exiled former minister Professor Jonathan Moyo that some of its officers in Plumtree, Matabeleland South were defying orders from s...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 16:16hrs | 4836 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala throws Zimbabwe police in panic mode
The Zimbabwe Republic Police says it is worried that the MDC National Chairperson Job Sikhala is organizing popcorn protests all over the country. A secret police document posted b...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 12:51hrs | 22843 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BVTA condemn harassment of vendors by police
Bulawayo Vendors and Traders Association (BVTA) have strongly condemned an incident of violence that occurred to one of the vendors and the systematic harassment of vendors and informal traders in the...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 09:39hrs | 846 | by Stephen Jakes
13 arrested along Limpopo River
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) on Friday arrested 13 people along the Limpopo River for violating coronavirus (Covid-19) regulations.Among those arrested, one had 125 litres of fuel which ...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 16:14hrs | 608 | by Staff reporter
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