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Zimbabwe faces cyber-security threats

Zimbabwe is facing increasing cybersecurity threats due to heavy reliance on international digital servers for storing national and personal data, a senior gove

Published: 09 Oct 2025 at 10:10hrs | 101 | by Staff reporter

Is Southern Africa a hub for organised crime?

A new report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime has ranked Southern Africa as one of the world's most significant hubs for illicit trade.The study highlights the region's central role in trafficking networks, fr…

Published: 02 Sep 2025 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter

Toy guns fuel crime wave in Zimbabwe

A worrying crime trend is emerging in Zimbabwe's Midlands Province, where robbers are increasingly turning to fake firearms to terrorise communities.Once dismissed as toys or harmless props, the replicas now look so realistic that victims …

Published: 31 Aug 2025 at 21:22hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter

Man torches villager's house over memory card dispute

BINDURA - Failure to control emotions over a memory card misunderstanding has landed Tatenda Nyamayaro (20) of Chipfurutse village under Chief Dotito (Mt Darwin) in jail upon conviction for setting fire, which gutted fellow villager, Press…

Published: 02 Aug 2025 at 21:55hrs | 234 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole

Harare crowned Zimbabwe's crime capital

Harare has officially emerged as Zimbabwe's crime capital, topping the list of prison admissions and leading all ten provinces in criminal activity, according to a damning new report from the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat).D…

Published: 11 Jul 2025 at 08:39hrs | 349 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe crime wave increases 33,7% in Q1

More than 310,800 criminal cases were reported across Zimbabwe between January and March 2025, marking a sharp 33.7% increase compared to the 232,593 cases recorded in the last quarter of 2024, according to the Zimbabwe National Statistics…

Published: 03 Jul 2025 at 12:40hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter

Crime hits Nketa suburb

Councillor Aleck Ndlovu of Ward 25 has issued a public appeal to the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) to intensify both day and night patrols in his ward, citing a surge in criminal activities, including robberies and machete gang attacks.Ad…

Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 12:09hrs | 322 | by Staff reporter

Masvingo crime spree suspect arrested in Ngundu

Police have arrested a 29-year-old man believed to be the mastermind behind a wave of violent crimes that have terrorised communities across Masvingo Province since last year.Tafadzwa Janyure Zimirenyika was apprehended on June 19 in Ngund…

Published: 26 Jun 2025 at 17:21hrs | 252 | by Staff reporter

Gunfire and fear: Bulawayo grapples with a surge in deadly crime

The streets of Bulawayo have become a theatre of escalating gun violence, with a recent spate of chilling incidents raising alarm over public safety and law enforcement's growing vulnerability. The brutal murder of Sergeant Abel Masava on …

Published: 05 Apr 2025 at 08:38hrs | 366 | by Staff reporter

Surge in crime puts police under spotlight

An alarming 11 percent rise in robberies and a 6 percent increase in road traffic accidents, which have resulted in 1,352 fatalities, have raised urgent concerns for Zimbabwe's law enforcement agencies. The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) i…

Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 09:05hrs | 255 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's gun amnesty fails to bring down violent crime

A PRESIDENTIAL amnesty on illegal firearm holders has done little to stop violent crime as Zimbabwe continues to witness armed robberies.President Emmerson Mnangagwa in August last year declared an amnesty on all illegal firearm holders to…

Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 18:25hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter

Matebeleland South records increase in crime

Police in Matebeleland South say the province recorded a 10% increase in crime during the first quarter of the year.Acting provincial spokesperson Assistant Inspector Thandolwenkosi Moyo said the law enforcement agency is engaging communit…

Published: 21 May 2023 at 08:09hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

2 Zimbabweans, 5 SA police crime gang nabbed

IN a sting operation this week South African Police Services (Saps) arrested two Zimbabweans and five Saps serving members over a violent crime wave in Johannesburg's Fordsburg area.In a statement, Saps spokesperson for Johannesburg Metrop…

Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

CCC's shameful politicisation of crime

THE arrest of a machete gang behind the death of Lobengula West businessman Langelihle Dube early this month and a spate of robberies around the city has brought relief to residents who had long suffered from their reign of terror.Dube, po…

Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 06:45hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

150 000 arrested for border crimes

POLICE have arrested over 150 000 people in an operation targeting border crimes.In January last year police launched operation "No to cross border crimes" to fight border related crimes such as smuggling and border jumping among others.In…

Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 18:32hrs | | by Staff reporter

Ramaphosa 'concealed a crime', says former spy boss

Former State Security Agency (SSA) director-general Arthur Fraser has opened a criminal case against President Cyril Ramaphosa.Fraser's attorney, Eric Mabuza, confirmed to News24 on Wednesday his client went to Rosebank police station to o…

Published: 01 Jun 2022 at 21:20hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Is it a crime to publish false news?

EARLIER this month, reports circulated on social media alleging that a police officer in Harare had struck a woman with his baton and killed a baby strapped on her back. The police issued a denial, saying that the police officer had tried …

Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 06:25hrs | 12 | by Veritas

Same crime two laws, what a shame!

Dear ZRP Commissioner GeneralThe publication in today's Chronicle of the arrest a fraudster who cheated a home seeker of R470 000 left me with a lot of questions on the universal application of the law especially by our policemen hence my …

Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:49hrs | 2 | by Munya Shumba

Fighting crime is everyone's child

Our ZRP is a hard working entity no wonder they are always on the United Nations tick list. On the other hand the Criminal Investigation Department has managed to account for most criminals chasing them from every corner, never letting the…

Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 20:04hrs | 1 | by Tondo Murisa

Zimbabwe's national 'air crime'

When we read of criminal syndicates of the western world, we always envision Al Capone and the Italian Mafia as the apex of organised crime.In Zimbabwe, the mafia is our inept selfish government that thrives on exorbitant unjustifiable exp…

Published: 31 May 2018 at 12:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF and crimes against humanity - The way forward

Zimbabwe is burning and demonstrations have become the order of the day. Zanu-PF has failed Zimbabweans and they have no solution to the economic problems people are facing. They have resorted to their old ways of doing things ie intimidat…

Published: 16 Apr 2017 at 18:25hrs | | by Tendai Mazenge

Draft Zimbabwe cybercrime bill misplaced and violate rights

The Zimbabwe Computer Crime and Cyber Crime Bill is a totally misplaced intervention by the government and a total violation of the citizensâ€™ basic fundamental rights and freedoms as enshrined in the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (N…

Published: 12 Aug 2016 at 14:33hrs | 1 | by Benedict Sibasa

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