Bulawayo24 News - Skyes! "it makes perfect sense"

Zimbabwe police under fire over fresh allegations of brutality and abuse

The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is under intense scrutiny following a series of incidents that have raised serious concerns about heavy-handed tactics, including alleged killings, torture, and assaults on schoolchildren.Human rights law…

Published: 12 Jun 2025 at 19:09hrs | 561 | by Staff reporter

Police brutality victim's family demands 'supernatural' justice

THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has been accused of covering up its officers' attack on a handcuffed suspect, who later died in holding cells at Banket Police Station, last month.The now deceased David Kanyenze (26) was assaulted by thr…

Published: 14 Nov 2023 at 05:07hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe police brutality exposed

Three members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) special constabulary details are facing severe criticism for allegedly beating a suspect to death inside the holding cells at Banket Police Station.In an attempt to hide the apparent murd…

Published: 24 Oct 2023 at 06:09hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's govt pays $300k compensation for police brutality

HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe and police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga have "hastily"paid $300 000 as compensation to two victims of police brutality to avoid imprisonment for contempt of court.Matanga and Kazembe had failed …

Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 06:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Govt pays $300,000 compensation for police brutality

HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe and police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga have "hastily"paid $300 000 as compensation to two victims of police brutality to avoid imprisonment for contempt of court.Matanga and Kazembe had failed …

Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

5 Zimbabwean entrepreneurs win big in AfCFTA Caravan Prize

The AfCFTA Secretariat rewarded winners of the AfCFTA Caravan Prize with five young Zimbabwean entrepreneurs joining a list of finalists and seme-finalists of enterprising entrepreneurs with potential to drive inter-Africa's trade.The five…

Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 06:41hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

Obert Mpofu dragged into farm wrangle

Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu has been dragged into an ownership wrangle of the hotly-contested Keshelmar Farms in Nyamandlovu after it emerged that he has been allocated over 145 hectares of the property.Government crit…

Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 06:40hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

Court orders $500,000 compensation for police brutality

HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe and Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga have been ordered to pay more than $500 000 compensation to two Beitbridge residents who were attacked by police dogs last year.Ed…

Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 06:39hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter

Man hospitalised after alleged ZRP brutality

A Masvingo â€˜illegal' money changer was left ruing his actions to evade law enforcement agents after being hospitalized at Masvingo Provincial Hospital following an alleged attack by a Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officer on Saturday Se…

Published: 22 Sep 2021 at 06:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Award winning poet drags Kazembe Kasembe, Matanga to court over police brutality

AWARD winning Victoria Falls based poet Obert Dube is suing Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe, Police Commissioner General  and five police officers who assaulted him for loitering in January on allegations he had violated a Covid…

Published: 05 Aug 2021 at 07:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

The brutality of March 11, 2007 and its impact

Back in Zimbabwe, the struggle continues.The Save Zimbabwe campaign (SZc) is a broad coalition of organisations spearheaded by the Zimbabwe Christian Alliance (CA).Its members include the factions of the MDc, other opposition parties, chur…

Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:27hrs | 6 | by Arthur G.O. Mutambara

Army brutality divides Zanu-PF

ZANU-PF is deeply divided over claims that soldiers were beating up people in GokweNembudziya with President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ally, Justice Mayor Wadyajena, saying the claim was a ploy to tarnish the country's image.Gokwe-Nembudziya se…

Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Indeed, let's tell our own true African story, including the brutality we have suffered under our 'liberators'

It was with great delight and jubilation when I learnt about the establishment of an African museum, that would tell the true African story, from the perspective of Africans themselves - as that would provide us with a long, long, long ove…

Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 16:51hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Police brutality victim breaks down in court

A COWDRAY Park woman, who was severely assaulted alongside her sister by police on allegations of violating COVID-19 lockdown regulations, broke down at the Western Commonage Magistrates Court in Bulawayo on Monday as she revealed that one…

Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:35hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabweans should take back power from political parties

For nearly four decades, since Zimbabwe attained its independence from Great Britain in 1980, real prosperity, democracy and development have alluded the majority of citizens of this nation - leaving most in a stance of hopelessness, wonde…

Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 16:12hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Zanu PF thugs brutally assault Chitungwiza Mayor

Chitungwiza Mayor Clr Lovemore Maiko was today brutally attacked by bussed Zanu PF thugs inside the municipality's Town House today.The Mayor sustained injuries and is seeking medical attention.He was attacked inside the Town Clerk's Offic…

Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 16:10hrs | 2 | by Luke Tamborinyoka

Mnangagwa's image dented by police brutality

The violent crackdown by the police on opposition activists that gathered in Harare on Friday awaiting a court judgement on a planned demonstration once again put President Emmerson Mnangagwa's commitment to reform into doubt.Police had us…

Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:48hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

Discipline mustn't be administered through brutality

The problem of child abuse is getting out of hand and our society must act now to stop the terrible crimes against innocent children.Recently, the Midlands community awoke to the shocking news that a 51-year-old school teacher had smashed …

Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 23:55hrs | | by Cuthbert Mavheko

Rape, brutality as soldiers crash protests

THE violent clampdown on protesters by soldiers and the police has left deep scars and trauma on children and women who were beaten up, raped or were forced to watch as their husbands, fathers or brothers were assaulted and tortured.Tendai…

Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 19:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe police brutality: A personal encounter

SOMETIMES it is very easy to dismiss reports or allegations of brutality and inhuman treatment perpetrated against ordinary citizens by the police, who are constitutionally mandated to, apart from fighting crime, provide security and prote…

Published: 25 Sep 2018 at 07:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Police brutality victim freed

Esigodini magistrate Tawanda Muchemwa has freed a suspected Mberengwa gold dealer who was allegedly beaten by police while in custody at Esigodini police base.Muchemwa last month ordered the accused, Siziba Bvute, 35, to be taken to hospit…

Published: 06 Dec 2017 at 14:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Churches call Mugabe to order

Zimbabwe's main Christian denominations long regarded as supporting President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF regime have broken their silence and demanded the Zanu-PF leader to urgently get off his high horse and initiate dialogue with dissenting…

Published: 16 Sep 2016 at 08:42hrs | | by Staff reporter

About 380 people injured between January and August due to police brutality

Heal Zimbabwe Trust has reported that a total of approximately 380 people were injured between January and August 2016 with 161 being victims of police brutality and some form of organised violence particularly by ZANU-PF members who abduc…

Published: 14 Sep 2016 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes

Manheru justifies the unprovoked police brutality

The Mugabe 'official' view of the chaos in Harare on Friday is that it was the work of paid demonstrators for the imperialist West aiming at regime change. And, as everyone has learnt from the Herald, regime change is un-African.This is no…

Published: 28 Aug 2016 at 19:17hrs | | by Zimbabwe Vigil

Zimbabwe is a shameful haven of human brutality, political and economic failure

Since when have donkeys and dogs shared bedroom and one expected a full and happy rest from all of such species together?  While both dog and donkey are animals, never though can they stand side by in support of one another except to …

Published: 23 Aug 2016 at 07:24hrs | 1 | by Andrew Manyevere

Register to vote out brutality, Zapu

Zapu members were part of a large crowd that packed the court to support the people of Makokoba who are accused of protesting against corruption, the economic meltdown and the general brutality of the Mugabe regime. The court was full with…

Published: 25 Jul 2016 at 13:37hrs | | by Mkhululi Zulu

Heal Zimbabwe condemns police brutality.....its unconstitutional!!!

Heal Zimbabwe has expressed grave concern over the conduct of anti-riot police during the recent wave of protests that took place across the country in the past weeks.In a statement HZT said in crushing some of these demonstrations, they u…

Published: 19 Jul 2016 at 05:57hrs | | by Stephen Jakes

MDC Women Assembly condemn police brutality

The MDC Women Assembly strongly condemns police brutality on peaceful protesters throughout the country in the past week and the arrest of a number of activists, among them Pastor Evan Mawarire of ThisFlag movement, for their role in the m…

Published: 14 Jul 2016 at 09:47hrs | 2 | by Thamary Chimanzi

Police brutality continues in Matabeleland North

Just a week after the transfer of Zanu-PF apologist and controversial Matabeleland North police commander senior assistant commissioner Edmore Veterai, members of a Bulawayo based NGO have been arrested for holding a workshop in Lupane.Nat…

Published: 30 Mar 2012 at 13:54hrs | 1 | by Thomas Jubane

Search / Brutality

Get latest news by email:

One-stop border post at Beitbridge

ZESA to replace old prepaid electricity meters

Missing person alert

Bulawayo hit by 2 armed robberies, losses exceed US$30k

Fast-food levy nets US$1 million for Treasury in 6 months

Process to gazette slashed levies begins

Victoria Falls to host high-stakes conference

2 die in Bulawayo hit-and-runs

Lovers found dead in suspected murder-suicide

Zimbabwe's World Tourism Expo ends on a high note

Zimbabwe's informal economy a risk to anti-money laundering drive

Advocate Mpofu takes on State House security guards

Chinese nationals fined only US$150 for cocaine in the Banana republic

Zimbabwe grain import ban affecting SA farmers

7 dead in Masvingo-Beitbridge road crash

No excuses will end Zimbabwe's electricity shortages without accountability, investment, and reform

Zim schools to introduce anti-sanctions curriculum, from ECD

National Sports Stadium rehab will be completed by year-end

High Court nullifies US$140,000 property sale in divorce dispute

Bulawayo records major HIV decline

Elderly overlooked in HIV prevention

Tagwirei publishes snakebite management guidebook

General Mutamba honoured with Zimbabwe's top policing award

Woman found buried in garden, stepdaughter arrested

Zimbabwe's highways double as drug pipelines

Zimbabwe accelerates school construction drive

Married woman caught pants down

Mnangagwa caps 640 HIT graduates

Zim medics become lifeline for migrants in South Africa

Man arrested for highlighting poor sanitation at Registrar's office

News Team

Advertising