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Mnangagwa Law School nears completion in Kwekwe
The construction site of the Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa Law School at Midlands State University (MSU) in Kwekwe buzzed with activity last Thursday as workers diligently pushed forward with the ambiti...Published: 10 Feb 2025 at 06:38hrs | 485 | 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 | 157 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife visits jailed women and their children
First Lady Dr. Auxillia Mnangagwa visited Chikurubi Female Prison, demonstrating her motherly love and inclusivity by interacting with jailed women and their children. This gesture, which led to tears...Published: 03 Aug 2024 at 12:24hrs | 86 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe prisons get renamed
TWO prisons in Zimbabwe, Connemara Open Prison and Marondera Female Open Prison have been renamed to correctional institutions.The Zimbabwe Prison and Correctional Services in a statement on X...Published: 11 Jul 2024 at 18:18hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
'If Auxillia Mnangagwa does not want you at her events, then don't go'
DEPUTY Information Minister Kindness Paradza has told journalists not to force themselves on First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa, who has developed a habit of hand picking reporters she wants and chasing so...Published: 20 May 2023 at 19:15hrs | 1 | 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
No photos please, Auxillia security tells villagers
VILLAGES hoping to capture on their phone cameras a lifetime moment with First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa were left disappointed after her security aides barred them from taking pictures at a function in...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
NewsDay journalists barred from Auxillia Mnangagwa's event
JOURNALISTS from the NewsDay and other private media houses were barred from covering an event where First Lady, Auxillia Mnangagwa was commissioning a clinic at the Marondera Female Open Prison....Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 18:56hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbery cases increased in 2021
Cases of armed robberies increased countrywide this year with criminals targeting cash-in transit vehicles, individuals and business people with large amounts of cash.Schools and cross-border ...Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 07:23hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Armed robber arrested after flaunting cash on social media
A DECISION by a suspected armed robber to flaunt his ill-gotten wealth on social media backfired after he was arrested when his picture with wads of United States dollars attracted the attention of la...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 05:29hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
'US$334k Fawcett robbery staged'
THE case in which US$334 290 was brazenly stolen from a cash-in-transit vehicle between Gweru and Kwekwe last Thursday evening, has taken a new twist with police unearthing evidence linking the Fawcet...Published: 27 Nov 2021 at 23:15hrs | 12 | by Staff Reporter
Banana's widow dies
Janet Banana, the widow of Zimbabwe's first president Canaan Banana died aged 83 on Thursday, her family announced.She died at Bulawayo's Mater Dei Hospital from a kidney ailment, according to...Published: 29 Jul 2021 at 12:03hrs | 4 | 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
Ziyambi appeals for support to refurbish prisons
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has appealed to Treasury for support to set up more magistrates courts, as well as refurbish prisons which are currently in a deplorable state.In his presentat...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Dragnet closes on corrupt Zimbabwe officials'
THE Government will swoop on all corrupt and criminal elements in society despite some of them adopting modern and sophisticated ways of trying to evade arrest and milk the country's resources, Presid...Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 08:22hrs | 1 | 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
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
Kereke caught up in Parliament storm
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi was yesterday grilled in the National Assembly by Norton MP Temba Mliswa over reports that incarcerated former Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke was enjoying co...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 08:16hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to decriminalise wilful HIV transmission
Government is set to repeal a legal provision that criminalises transmission of HIV/AIDS to a partner in order to keep abreast with international standards, Parliament heard yesterday. Justice...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa drags Ziyambi into Kereke jail sex storm
OUTSPOKEN Norton MP, Temba Mliswa has accused Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi of unlawfully giving orders to Chikurubi Maximum Prison officials to allow jailed former Zanu-PF MP Munyaradzi Kereke hav...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe to demolish 'inhabitable' Harare prisons
Government is planning to demolish Harare Remand Prison as well as Harare Central Prison and construct new facilities because the current structures cannot be renovated and are unfit for human habitat...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 06:04hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe prisoners to enjoy more rights
Cabinet on Tuesday approved changes to the Prisons Act in a move that that will see prisoners being accorded constitutional rights they deserve in line with international norms and standards. ...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 06:49hrs | 3 | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gaddafi son refuses deportation from Zimbabwe to Libya
THE late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's adopted son, Abdallha Moussa Mone Yousuf Mouammare Aboutminiyare Al Gaddafi, who is detained at Harare Remand Prison as an illegal immigrant, was at one time d...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 05:58hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to build open prisons for jailed mums
THE Government intends to build more open prisons to accommodate female convicts who give birth in jail as it strives to improve the country's justice system, a Cabinet Minister has said. The ...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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
Minister sucked in sexual abuse storm
HOME Affairs minister Cain Mathema has been sucked into the row about sexual abuse at the Department of Immigration which is now at the centre of investigations by the Zimbabwe Gender Commission....Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prison boss willing to consider inmates conjugal visits
Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) Commissioner-General Paradzai Zimondi talks to the Daily News on Sunday's Tendayi Madhomu about the state of the correctional facilities in Zimbabwe....Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 14:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Africa: Beyond the captive state
The phrase "state capture" comes very easily into our formal and informal communication these days.What is not easy, however, is true understanding of what the phrase fundamentally means. In S...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:36hrs | 2 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Connemara pleads for prisoners
OFFICIALS at Connemara Open Prison in the Midlands province, said they had been rendered redundant after all 65 inmates at the institution were recently released under the Presidential Amnesty....Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 08:23hrs | | 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
Mnagnagwa cut Kereke's jail sentence?
Convicted rapist and former Member of Parliament for Bikita West Munyaradzi Kereke has had three years of his 10-year sentence cut by prison officials on account of good behaviour, the Daily New...Published: 03 Mar 2018 at 11:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'fingered' in Kereke freedom bid
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's name has been dragged into a case in which former Bikita West MP Munyaradzi Kereke is making frantic efforts to secure his freedom, claiming the 14-year jail sentence he...Published: 03 Mar 2018 at 11:29hrs | | by Staff rreporter
Zimbabwe immigration staffers lament 'pre-colonial slavery' conditions
IMMIGRATION staffers have requested to meet Home Affairs minister Obert Mpofu to voice their concerns over alleged unfair treatment by their bosses.The staffers, in a leaked memo dated Decembe...Published: 26 Jan 2018 at 05:54hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
MLF calls on Ramaphosa to help with arrest of Mnangagwa
The Hon Cyril RamaphosaDeputy President of the Republic of South AfricaAfrican National Congress Presidential CandidateDear Sir,The People of Matebeleland (Mthwakazi) in presen...Published: 20 Nov 2017 at 09:42hrs | | by Andrea Sibanda, Secretary General
'I miss sex,' says Gumbura
JAILED former RMG End Time Message leader, Robert Martin Gumbura, said he misses sex and wishes he could have had an opportunity to have some during the recently held family week.Gumbura, who ...Published: 02 Nov 2017 at 15:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to set up open prison for women
ZIMBABWE’S prison population now stands at 19 521 inmates - 434 female - Justice ministry secretary, Virginia Mabhiza told Parliament on Tuesday.Mabhiza had appeared together with Deputy Com...Published: 04 May 2017 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jailbird gets Dembare call-up
A Harare Central Prison inmate, who was prepared to strut it out barefoot before a well-wisher lent him a pair of cleats ahead of a social match against his idolised Dynamos side, is now on cloud ...Published: 11 Oct 2016 at 13:34hrs | | 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
Mugabe, war vets fight overshadows Heroes' Day
In August 1997, President Robert Mugabe suffered the biggest embarrassment at the Heroes' Acre in Harare when war veterans drowned his speech with protest songs.The former fighters were angry ...Published: 07 Aug 2016 at 11:02hrs | 15 | by Paidamoyo Mazula
Thoughtless politics is Zimbabwe's downfall - Welshman Ncube
Opposition MDC leader Welshman Ncube has applauded Zimbabweans for shrugging off passive nature and adopted an aggressive character. Ncube said the move has taken a short period to occur. The country ...Published: 05 Aug 2016 at 13:19hrs | 3 | by Thobekile Zhou
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
Mugabe gives subdued grave yard speech
President Robert Mugabe gave probably one of his subdued grave yard speech at the National Heroes Acre at the burial of Dr Sikhanyiso Ndlovu today.Mugabe (91) stuck to his 'correct' prepared s...Published: 19 Sep 2015 at 12:13hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Sikhanyiso Ndlovu burial - live update
12:05 President Mugabe has finished his address.12:04 We say goodbye to him as a free and emancipated people..he goes to rest a happy and fulfilled fighter for freedom. He leaves behind a free...Published: 19 Sep 2015 at 10:44hrs | | by Costa Mano and Lincoln Towindo
Mugabe mourns Sikhanyiso Ndlovu
President Robert Mugabe has sent a message of condolence to the Ndlovu family following the death of former cabinet minister and Politburo member, Dr Sikhanyiso Ndlovu.Dr Ndlovu died on ...Published: 16 Sep 2015 at 19:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
UZ students squatting like rats
It's difficult to imagine: 38 university students sharing a four-bedroomed house in Harare's plush Mt Pleasant suburb, something which poses health risks and psychological problems resulting from over...Published: 05 Sep 2014 at 12:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai, the best since sliced bread
The highly compromised elections of the 31st of July 2013, which were meant to produce stability and an election whose outcome is beyond reproach, brought about a huge apprehension in the country....Published: 20 Aug 2014 at 09:13hrs | | by Dlayila Omuhle
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
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