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Setting the record straight on Qoki Zindlovukazi Land Projects
I would like to set the record straight on the opinion piece by Solabanye Nqabeni titled The Uphill Battle of Economic ...Published: 15 May 2025 at 18:19hrs | 1890 | by Yolandah Nyathi
Zimbabwe law allows jailed mothers can stay with children
Attorney-General Virginia Mabiza clarified that Zimbabwean law permits incarcerated mothers to keep their infants with them in prison. This statement came in response to an image circulated on X (form...Published: 31 Jul 2024 at 10:52hrs | 351 | by Staff reporter
Inmates wallow in jail without trial
NEARLY a quarter of the country's prison population is awaiting trial, with revelations that some have been in remand for more than three years.Latest data from the Zimbabwe National Statistic...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 07:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Another African honour for Simeli Dube
GWERU-based business magnate Smelly Dube has been awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year Award at the just-ended 13th African Achievers' Awards held at the House of Lords, London, the United Kingdom as ...Published: 20 Jul 2023 at 19:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
New prison garb for convicted inmates
THE Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) Tuesday introduced new prison garbs for serving inmates dumping the traditional white uniforms for males and green for females.The previou...Published: 11 Jan 2022 at 18:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe changes prison garb to orange
EVER imagined being turned away from a lunch-hour visit at a prison for donning a trendy orange jump suit and white sneakers or open-toed shoes worn by inmates in most Hollywood movies or South Africa...Published: 24 Oct 2021 at 13:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife officially opens female prison
Zimbabwe made history yesterday by being the first country in SADC to open a female open prison.The open prison gives credence to Zimbabwe's drive to modernise prison and correctional services...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 06:56hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mahere protests jail conditions
MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere will remain behind bars until Friday after a Harare magistrate deferred his ruling on the politician's application against placement on remand.The outs...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 07:53hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe prisons overcrowded'
DESPITE the release of 3 000 prisoners through the Presidential Amnesty last year, Zimbabwe's prisons are still overpopulated, with the country's correctional facilities carrying 2 382 inmates above t...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 07:46hrs | 4 | by Sytaff reporter
'Granny (95) infects grandson (9) with STI'
A 95-YEAR-OLD woman from Nkayi, Matabeleland North, allegedly "raped" her nine-year-old grandson and infected him with a sexually transmitted disease (STD).The granny met the boy when she was ...Published: 02 May 2018 at 06:59hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Ex-convicts under surveillance
Police in Masvingo will put more than 220 pardoned inmates from Mutimurefu Prison under surveillance as part of measures to reduce crime during and after the Easter holiday. President Mnangagw...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo prisons release 662 inmates
A total of 699 prisoners have been freed from Bulawayo, Hwange, Victoria Falls prisons following the Presidential amnesty, amid calls for society to accept them.The prisoners who were serving ...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 07:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Joy as inmates freed
THERE was jubilation at Mlondolozi Mental and Female Prison housed at Khami Complex as 40 female inmates who benefited from the Presidential Amnesty were released to go home yesterday.The inma...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
87 female inmates released from Zimbabwe prisons
Eighty-seven female inmates, who were serving various sentences at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison, celebrated their freedom yesterday after President Mnangagwa pardoned 3 000 inmates countrywide in...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pardons another MDC-T activist
THERE were jubilant scenes yesterday at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison as MDC-T activist Yvonne Musarurwa left the prison walls alongside 87 of the 3 000 other inmates freed under the Presidential ...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 05:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe 'prisons are not fit for human habitation,' says First Lady - please, spare us the insufferable arrogance
New brooms sweep clean! President Mnangagwa and his wife are certainly trying very hard to give credence to that maxim. "First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa took a swipe at prison authorities and th...Published: 26 Dec 2017 at 22:01hrs | 12 | by Nomusa Garikai
PHOTOS: First Lady visits Chikurubi on Christmas day
The First Lady Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa has urged women to be law-abiding citizens and desist from being habitual criminals. She made the remarks while visiting Chikurubi Female Prison wh...Published: 25 Dec 2017 at 15:58hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
'Distribution of condoms to prisoners morally wrong'
Chief Ngungumbane of Midlands has expressed concern over government plans to distribute condoms to prisoners, saying the move was morally wrong.Speaking during a legislators' workshop held in ...Published: 06 Nov 2017 at 05:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe prison system in shambles
The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has said prisons and mental hospitals have become extremely dangerous facilities operating in a perpetual state of crisis, where prisoners live in barbaric ...Published: 19 Oct 2017 at 14:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Female inmates neglected
Women inmates at Chikurubi Maximum Prison appear to have been abandoned as only one man turned up to visit his wife during the past Family Week.The situation paints a gloomy picture on how soc...Published: 07 Oct 2017 at 15:03hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Bizarre marriage . . .'Hubby' of 3 years turns out to be a woman
An idiom goes, love is blind.Some say when in love, the glare can be too bright it can blind a person. For others love is blind to reason and common sense.True that if you love someone...Published: 10 Dec 2016 at 16:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Government in bid to establish open prison for female inmates
Government is planning on having an open prison for female inmates as part of a strategy to rehabilitate and integrate them back into society. According to Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Se...Published: 01 Oct 2016 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Prisoners' children get more time
THE Prisons and Correctional Services Bill has widened the rights of women as well as infants living with them, with the time a child can spend with a parent in jail being raised to five years. Previo...Published: 27 Jul 2016 at 07:55hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
Prison inmates to get wages
FAR reaching changes to the Prison Act will see prisoners being employed and paid in a move that will assist them to pick up the pieces when they leave jail.ZPCS director legal services Senior...Published: 26 Jul 2016 at 06:56hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
Zambia's prisoners hailed for producing more food
Zambia's prisoners have been hailed by their government for working hard which have seen the nation doubling its food production to a point that has seen the country exporting food to Zimbabwe....Published: 16 Jun 2015 at 06:20hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Man who posed as housemaid jailed
A man who pretended to be a girl and got employed as a housemaid before he was unmasked at a police station has been slapped with an effective three- month jail term.Leon Muzhuzha lied to the...Published: 28 May 2015 at 06:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe tops on child marriages
Zimbabwe is among top countries in the world still practicing child marriages, standing at 31%, president of the senate Edna Madzongwe said on Friday.Opening a parliamentary workshop in ...Published: 30 Aug 2014 at 08:26hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Open jail for Zim female inmates
The Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) plans an open prison system for female inmates, including those on death row, ZPSC Commissioner-General Retired Major-General Paradzai Zimondi has...Published: 16 Jul 2014 at 09:18hrs | 1 | by Nyemudzai Kakore
Open female prison blocked by pregnancy fears
ACTIVISTS have claimed that a proposed open prison for women is failing to take off because authorities are allegedly concerned that, if released, inmates would likely come back pregnant, creating mor...Published: 02 Jul 2014 at 08:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Prison a blessing in disguise'
IMAGINING incarceration in Zimbabwe prisons always invokes sad feelings from members of the public.One would always think about the lice-infested blankets, sodomy, food shortage, sickness and ...Published: 07 Jun 2014 at 08:38hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
NGO introduce washable pads for women and girls
Most women and young girls in Lupane area in Matabeleland North can now afford to practice high hygienic standards following the introduction of a cost effective washable sanitary pads by a local ...Published: 23 Apr 2014 at 18:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Gvt plans open prison for Marondera
Government is planning to set up an open prison in Marondera in a bid to decongest the country's holding facilities.Deputy Minister of Justice legal and Parliamentary Affairs Fortune Chasi...Published: 01 Apr 2014 at 13:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dudu Manhenga misses out on Mugabe amnesty
JAZZ songbird, Dudu Manhenga missed out on the recent Presidential pardon which saw more than 2 000 prisoners being freed as she was out on bail. Had the songstre...Published: 23 Feb 2014 at 10:36hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
Pardoned prisoners sing Mugabe praises
Pardoned female prisoners at Chikurubi Maximum Prison yesterday showered praises on President Robert Mugabe as they walked out of prison, thanking him for the amnesty.Fe...Published: 18 Feb 2014 at 16:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe releasing 2 000 prisoners today
More than 2 000 serving inmates, mostly females and juveniles, are expected to walk out of the country's prisons free today after benefiting from the Presidential pardon.President Mugabe exten...Published: 17 Feb 2014 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe prison officials loot donations
Zimbabwe Prison Services officers are reportedly taking for their own use the goods donated to inmates, the Zimbabwean reported.Testimonies by former prisoners indicate that for a long time of...Published: 08 Oct 2013 at 03:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Beatrice Mtetwa won't relent despite Zimbabwe arrest
As Zimbabwe approaches watershed elections, a renowned lawyer at the forefront of defending human rights activists, vowed never to give up - even after her own arrest earlier this year.Beatric...Published: 19 May 2013 at 07:17hrs | | by Sapa-AFP
Open prison for female offenders mooted
FEMALE prisoners are set to benefit from the open prison system as government moves to implement the pilot project for females at St Thomas Prison in Marondera amid concerns of serious food shortages ...Published: 04 Oct 2012 at 09:00hrs | | by Court Reporter
Khami Prison escapee captured
POLICE in Bulawayo have re-arrested one of the three dangerous criminals who escaped from Mlondolozi Prison, which is housed at Khami Prison Complex.Bulawayo provincial police spokesperson Ins...Published: 20 Apr 2012 at 05:28hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
3 dangerous prisoners escape from Khami prison
THREE dangerous criminals have escaped movie-style from Mlondolozi Prison housed at Khami Prison Complex on the outskirts of Bulawayo, a senior Zimbabwe Prison Service (ZPS) officer confirmed yesterda...Published: 18 Apr 2012 at 04:21hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
80% of inmates in Binga and Hwange prisons facing rape charges
A parliamentary committee on Human Rights has revealed that an estimated 80 percent of inmates in Hwange and Binga prisons are facing rape charges.Committee chairperson Misheck Marava told Se...Published: 29 Mar 2012 at 12:10hrs | | by Thomas Jubane
MDC-T activists denied access to medical attention 'but given pain killers'
Eight MDC-T activists who are in remand prison on allegations of murdering a police officer in Glen View, Harare are being denied access to medical attention by prison officials despite a court ruling...Published: 15 Jul 2011 at 11:41hrs | | by MDC-T
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