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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...Published: 11 Jul 2025 at 08:39hrs | 341 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe prisons remain overpopulated
Zimbabwe's prison population is too high and authorities are struggling to fulfil their mandate of rehabilitating inmates, an official said on Tuesday.Appearing before a joint sitting of parli...Published: 18 Sep 2024 at 15:47hrs | 156 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe crime rate surges
ZIMBABWE has recorded a 21,5% jump in crime to 221 596 from 182 427 previously recorded in the last quarter, latest Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) figures have revealed.Th...Published: 19 Mar 2024 at 12:57hrs | 2 | 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
Smelly Dube inducted into African Leaders Hall of Fame
Businesswoman and philanthropist Smelly Dube was last Thursday inducted into the African Leaders Hall of Fame at the African Business Summit in Accra, Ghana.Dube, who is the CEO of River Valle...Published: 23 Jul 2023 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa grants non-violent prisoners amnesty
AN amnesty has been granted to a range of prisoners serving time for non-violent offences with President Mnangagwa exercising executive clemency to release inmates who had served at least one third of...Published: 13 May 2023 at 18:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Female CCC members fondled in prison vehicle'
LAWYERS representing 25 members of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) who were arrested last week in Harare's Budiriro suburb have accused the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services wardens o...Published: 24 Jan 2023 at 05:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
WhaWha inmates complain of mosquitoes, bedbugs
INMATES at WhaWha Prison outside the Midlands capital, Gweru, enjoyed family week during the Easter holidays where they were visited by friends and relatives.Although they were grateful for th...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Prisoner with hermaphroditism gives ZPCS headach
The Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) is having a headache with a stock theft suspect who has both male and female reproductive organs Bul...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 21:01hrs | 4 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Mutoko
Govt urged to accelerate Marriages Bill
THE Women's Coalition of Zimbabwe (WCoZ) has urged the government and parliament to speedily conclude crafting of the Marriages Bill to aid the fight against Gender Based Violence (GBV).Speaki...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:15hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Women's organisations plead with Chiwenga
A COALITION of women's rights organisations has pleaded with Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga to allow his estranged wife, Marry, to have access to the couple's children.Marry claims that s...Published: 25 Sep 2021 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prisoners freed under Presidential Amnesty
SCORES of prisoners who qualified for release under the Presidential Amnesty on Tuesday were freed from various prisons yesterday afternoon. Government gazetted the legal instrument that saw s...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 07:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Delta Beverages donate to prison inmates
DELTA Corporations, a multi-national beverages company yesterday donated uniforms and sanitary wear worth $200 000 to the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) to improve the welfare of fe...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 06:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zacc probes Mupfumira prison conditions
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) yesterday descended on Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison to investigate allegations that incarcerated former Tourism and Hospitality Industry minister Pr...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 10:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Time for concrete action to end period poverty
There seems to be an erroneous feeling of respite amongst some menstrual health activists and stakeholders regarding the removal of duty and VAT on selected imported sanitary wear products by governme...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 07:46hrs | 1 | by Theresa Farai Nyava
'Mnangagwa ouster plotters' granted ZWL$1k bail
Two civil society leaders, who are facing charges of trying to subvert President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government, were yesterday released on ZWL$1 000 bail each after the Prosecutor-General's (PG) Off...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Latest on 7 activists arrested for plotting to overthrow Mnangagwa
The case of womens' rights activist, Stabile Dewa, who was arrested on Monday, May 27, 2019 and charged with plotting to overthrow President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government was heard today at the Hara...Published: 29 May 2019 at 16:53hrs | 1 | by CiZC
Inside the MDC VPs race
The MDC led by Nelson Chamisa will hold its elective congress in May, and four of the candidates for the vice presidency are females, Tracy Mutinhiri, Paurina Mpariwa, Lynette Karenyi Kore, and Lillia...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 08:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Conjugal rights not a priority: ZPCS
ZIMBABWE Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) has said reforms to include prisoners enjoying conjugal rights are not a priority, but the focus was on equipping inmates with life skills that would ...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt the worst human rights abuser'
OPPOSITION MPs yesterday labelled the Zanu-PF government as the worst human rights abuser in the country.This emerged during a debate on the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) report on t...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 12:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fostering gender equality by eradicating period poverty
Again, it is that day of the year when we commemorate International Women's Day, a day that we also take stock of the victories that have been won for girls and women so far. And again, there is not m...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 08:41hrs | 1 | by Theresa Farai Nyava
Fostering gender equality by eradicating period poverty
Again, it is that day of the year when we commemorate International Women's Day, a day that we also take stock of the victories that have been won for girls and women so far. And again, there is not m...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 09:57hrs | | by Theresa Farai Nyava
Zimbabwe govt must compensate victims of army rape
Women rights activists have petitioned government to compensate women who were allegedly raped during a brutal crackdown by the military to crush protests against fuel prices.Dozens of women m...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 20:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Panties for female prisoners
A Harare woman has started an initiative to raise panties for the female prisoners at Chikurubi Maximum prison.The organiser of the initiative, Riana Moss said she was touched by the plight of...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 14:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Posa going nowhere soon'
IN the past few months, the Justice ministry has dominated public debate regarding a number of issues pertaining to its operations. These issues range from combating corruption, alignment of laws with...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 14:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Removal of duty and VAT on sanitary wear imports not an end in itself
We applaud Treasury for its commitment in the 2019 National Budget that it will prioritise integration of gender across all sectors of the economy critical for achieving equitable, sustainable and inc...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 07:54hrs | 3 | by Theresa Nyava
Remove pink tax on menstrual products to foster gender responsive budgeting
Sanitary Aid Zimbabwe (SanAid) is a not-for-profit organisation which supports girls in Zimbabwe to stay in school by providing free sanitary pads and menstruation health education. We also support fe...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 10:15hrs | 1 | by Theresa Farai Nyava
Lack of funds scuttle open prison plans
JUSTICE, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister Ziyambi Ziyambi told Parliament on Wednesday that lack of funds was hampering plans to establish more open prisons where female prisoners incarcerated...Published: 29 Sep 2018 at 13:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC ex-convict blasts Mugabe regime
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC T) ex-convict Yvonne Musarurwa castigated Mugabe regime saying they wrongly convicted her for the murder of a police officer Inspector Petros Mutedzi.Sp...Published: 26 Mar 2018 at 06:51hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
'I was 19 when I killed'
AFTER spending a decade in prison, a Kwekwe woman has been given a new lease of life.Shylet Sibanda (32) had been confined to the walls of prison for what would appear to be the rest of her li...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 14:59hrs | 1 | 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 reverses sentence for prisoners sentenced to death
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has commuted prison sentence to life for inmates who have stayed on the death row for over 10 years.Announcing the amnesty, Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Servi...Published: 21 Mar 2018 at 14:58hrs | | by Simiso Mlevu
Mnangagwa grants amnesty to 3,000 inmates
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reportedly granted amnesty to 3,000 inmates.Sometime in February 2018, Mnangagwa approved government plans to decongest the country’s prisons by granting an ...Published: 21 Mar 2018 at 14:55hrs | 6 | by Ndou Paul
Zanu-PF MP fears for her life
GOROMONZI West MP, Biata Nyamupinga (Zanu-PF) has accused businessman and musician Energy Mutodi of wreaking havoc in her constituency, in an effort to elbow her out ahead of elections.Nyamupi...Published: 20 Mar 2018 at 06:15hrs | 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
Mugabe empties jails
AS news filtered at Chikurubi Maximum Prison that President Robert Mugabe had pardoned hundreds of convicted criminals, incarcerated Johanne Masowe eChishanu apostolic sect leader Ishmael Chokurongerw...Published: 29 May 2016 at 10:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe sets free all female prisoners
President Robert Mugabe has pardoned more that 2000 inmates under a presidential pardon. However, prisoners on death row and those with history of escaping from prisons are no...Published: 26 May 2016 at 07:09hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
Huge win for Limpopo, Mpumalanga and North West prisoner in athletics
HUNDREDS of prisoners went on the run this week, and all the warders did was stand around and watch."It was hard but, I made it. It is an achievement for me," Gloria Moagi, 25, from Polokwane,...Published: 07 Feb 2016 at 10:19hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Vampire killer' terrorises Khami Prison inmates
A MAN, dubbed the vampire killer, who sent police officers fleeing from Mvuma Police Station after vomiting blood and licking it up a few months ago is reportedly terrorising inmates and warders at Kh...Published: 12 Oct 2015 at 07:07hrs | 3 | by Oliver Kazunga
Zimbabwe's last woman on death row 'saved'
Zimbabwe no longer has female prisoners on death row in compliance with the new constitution.The country's sole female prisoner on death row has been removed after her sentence was commuted to...Published: 15 Jul 2015 at 14:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Female MPs hand panty pads to Mnangagwa
The tempo in Parliament was raised to interesting levels during this weeks' questions without notice session when female parliamentarians took Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Em...Published: 05 Mar 2015 at 09:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
36 toddlers living in prisons with jailed mothers
The country's prisons have recorded a dramatic increase in the number of children living with their convicted mothers barely a year after more than 60 children were released together with their parent...Published: 20 Jan 2015 at 04:26hrs | 1 | by Nyemudzai Kakore
Female prisoners flood Zim jails
ABOUT 156 female prisoners have returned to prison again - at Chikurubi Female Prison more than a year after 195 of them were freed by President Mugabe in terms of section 112 (a) and (d) of the Z...Published: 08 Oct 2014 at 05:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean prisoners forced to stay undressed
Inmates in Zimbabwe's Prison and Correctional Services facilities are forced to stay undressed owing to inadequate supply of uniforms, legislators heard yesterday. Zimbabwe Association for Cri...Published: 07 Aug 2014 at 06:20hrs | 4 | by Zvamaida Murwira
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
Grace Mugabe calls for prison reforms
The First Lady Grace Mugabe has said it is unfair to jail mothers with their babies. Convicted female prisoners are routinely locked up with their young children unless they consent to leave thei...Published: 26 Apr 2014 at 19:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare women 'no longer want to wash their private parts'
A Harare based Female Prisoners' Support Trust director, Rita Nyamupinga, allegedly told the capital city's mayor Bernard Manyenyeni that women in the big city "no longer want to wash their private ...Published: 10 Mar 2014 at 20:31hrs | 3 | 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 go wild
FEMALE prisoners from Khami Maximum Prison who benefited from the presidential pardon on Monday created a spectacle in the city, as they broke into song and dance, chanting Zanu-PF slogans while celeb...Published: 19 Feb 2014 at 10:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe urged to pardon three remaining women prisoners
AN organisation that deals with the rehabilitation of women ex-prisoners has appealed to President Robert Mugabe to extend clemency to the three women prisoners who are on either death row or life im...Published: 19 Feb 2014 at 09:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
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