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Sizinda murder suspect arrested after dramatic police chase
Artwell Ndlovu (32), the Sizinda man accused of killing his older brother, Abbie Ndlovu (40), has been arrested in a dramatic takedown by police in Pumula South after days on the run.According...Published: 02 Jun 2025 at 20:14hrs | 1355 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe man mauled by police dog, denied medical attention
A Karoi man, Caleb Chinodakufa (33), is recovering from serious injuries after he was attacked by police dogs and denied medical care for several hours. Chinodakufa, who suffers from epilepsy, was lef...Published: 11 Nov 2024 at 07:10hrs | 334 | by Staff reporter
Armed robber kills police dog
Police in Beitbridge arrested an armed robber who fatally shot a police dog yesterday.Sources close to investigations said the police dog was called Dust."We lost our member of the pol...Published: 10 Nov 2024 at 15:10hrs | 2190 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Villagers fundraise to assist police dog attack victim
Villagers from Bubi, under the Bubi Community Parliament in Matabeleland North, have initiated a fundraising campaign to assist a 17-year-old boy, Sabelo Dube, who is struggling to receive medical tre...Published: 07 Sep 2024 at 10:13hrs | 264 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police unleash dogs on protesting school pupils
POLICE in Rusape allegedly set dogs on protesting students at St Faith's Mission yesterday.A short video clip of the incident, that has gone viral on social media platforms, shows police offic...Published: 15 Feb 2024 at 10:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police brutality victim heaves sigh of relief
A CHIVHU man who had been found guilty of disorderly conduct by a magistrate sighed in relief after the High Court overturned the conviction.Darlington Manjokota (31) had initially filed a cas...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZRP pays heavily for abuse
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) continues to count its losses as it is constantly found on the wrong side of the law and made to pay in cases of human rights violations.In the latest case, ...Published: 24 Jul 2022 at 10:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police dog mauls man's private parts
A Beitbridge man is lucky to be alive after he was mauled by a police dog which bit his private parts last Thursday.Police did not send to hospital the badly injured Proterge Kwangware despite...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:30hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
15 supporters arrested after violence erupts at Mandava
POLICE arrested 15 people in connection with the violence that rocked Mandava in the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match between FC Platinum and Highlanders on Saturday.Violence erupted a...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:25hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
ZRP mass displays wow Master KG
TOP South African artiste Master KG yesterday joined Zimbabweans to celebrate the country's 42nd Independence anniversary at Barbourfields Stadium in Bulawayo.Bulawayo played host to the main ...Published: 19 Apr 2022 at 06:36hrs | 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 o...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 06:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Matanga, Kazembe escape jail
HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe and police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga have paid ZW$300 000 as compensation to two victims of police brutality to avoid imprisonment for contempt of court...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:22hrs | | 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 o...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Robbers shoot dead 10-month-old baby
A 10-month-old infant was shot and killed by armed robbers who had pounced on a Macheke family in Mashonaland East Province earlier today.It is alleged that seven suspects armed with guns poun...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 18:57hrs | 2 | 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 we...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 06:39hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Cops recover 3 tonnes of mbanje
Police have arrested six suspects in separate incidents, recovering nearly three tonnes of mbanje and 75 bottles of banned BronCleer cough mixture as they intensify the crackdown against drug peddlers...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Court orders cop, govt to compensate dog bite victim
A POLICE officer and his bosses have been ordered by the court to pay $150 000 compensation to a 40-yearold Rusape man for damages suffered after he was mauled by a dog set on him by the law enforceme...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 07:29hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Man dies after police raided a nightclub
A GRIEF-STRICKEN family is demanding justice after a relative died in custody in Murewa on Boxing Day following a police dog bite outside a nightclub, although a police statement to this publication s...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 15:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police dogs called in to control Black Friday shoppers
Bulawayo was a hive of activity on Friday morning as people thronged various retail shops with the hope to cash in on the Black Friday shopping craze.Long queues were witnessed at the city's m...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 17:04hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Cop, Zanu-PF youths in nocturnal shop raids
A JUNIOR officer stationed at Karoi urban dog section allegedly teamed up with Zanu-PF youths early this week to conduct night raids on shops in the farming town, demanding trading licences and bribes...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 08:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Notorious robbers nabbed in Beitbridge
POLICE in Matabeleland South on Monday arrested eight notorious armed robbers, among them a serving police officer and former cop, who have been linked to a spate of heists committed in Harare and aro...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's love letter
To trade fair or trade foul, that is the question.In the past week, Bulawayo woke up to that roving, rattling helicopter sound, hovering low, above her rusty rooftops…the harbinger of the ci...Published: 05 May 2019 at 10:33hrs | 13 | by Zifiso Masiye
Knife-wielding robbers waylay victims in CBD
TWO knife-wielding men allegedly attacked two men in Bulawayo's Central Business District and got away with $500 from one of their victims in separate incidents, police confirmed yesterday. Both incid...Published: 03 May 2019 at 06:44hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbery suspects arrested
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested two men suspected to be part of a gang that shot, robbed and assaulted residents in Tshabalala and Nkulumane suburbs last weekend. The gang is said to be on th...Published: 02 May 2019 at 06:35hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police dogs only trained to sniff for marijuana, says Minister
INFORMATION Minister Monica Mutsvangwa has defended Zimbabwe's recent hiring of South African sniffer dogs to help search for Cyclone Idai victims buried under rubble in areas hit by the catastrophe....Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 06:59hrs | 1 | by newzimbabwe
Meet Strive Masiyiwa and Chanakira's funder
Andrew Young, Jr has been noted as one of the major people who funded Telecoms Guru Strive Masiyiwa and Banker Nigel Chanakira, it has emerged. Shadowy Twitter character Mmatigari revealed thi...Published: 25 Feb 2019 at 14:28hrs | 12 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe protest death toll from riots rises to 12
As normalcy slowly returns to Zimbabwe after days of tensions between protesters and security forces following this week's deadly riots - human rights groups yesterday said the death toll from the cla...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 15:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe soldiers leave ugly terror trail
Horror stories are slowly emerging of how the country's trigger-happy security forces brutalised ordinary Zimbabweans this week - shooting 68 people and leaving dozens others requiring life-savi...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
172 injured people attended to, 68 gunshots wounds recorded
The Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) has said it attended to 172 people between Monday and Wednesday, of which 68 had gunshot wounds, with the affected individuals sustaining s...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 12:22hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctor group reports 68 gunshot wounds
In a grim recounting, the Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights says it has treated 68 cases of gunshot wounds amid a government crackdown on protests over a fuel price hike.Its sta...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 07:50hrs | | by AFP
Man dies receiving prayers at shrine
A MAN died while receiving prayers from an Apostolic sect prophet at a shrine near Ngundu Growth Point.Police had to be summoned to disperse a crowd that had gathered to catch a glimpse of the...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
How Mugabe survived assassination in Gutu
Kenny Constantine Mabuya, whose Chimurenga name was Cde Kenny Ridzai, makes stunning revelations about their confrontation with the British authorities after they had been sent as the advance team for...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 15:32hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Violence breaks out during Mnangagwa rally in Bindura
Chaotic scenes were seen during the ZANU PF rally where president Emmerson Mnangagwa was addressing a rally after people who were forced to attend attempted to leave the venue while the presiden...Published: 07 Jul 2018 at 19:20hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Maid beats up armed intruders
A 19-YEAR-OLD domestic worker from Bulawayo beat up two knife-wielding men and sent them fleeing after they broke into a house and tried to rape her and her employer's daughters aged seven and 14 year...Published: 24 Mar 2018 at 10:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Maid (19) beats up two knife-wielding intruders
A 19-YEAR-OLD domestic worker from Bulawayo beat up two knife-wielding men and sent them fleeing after they broke into a house and tried to rape her and her employer's daughters aged seven and 14 year...Published: 24 Mar 2018 at 07:04hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Police brutality victim demands $33 000
A VICTIM of police brutality has taken the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) to the High Court demanding $33 000 compensation, after a police officer allegedly unleashed a dog on him during a musical sho...Published: 22 Mar 2018 at 06:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The Mnangagwa Administration, brute force and reform hypocrisy
The regime has gone to town celebrating their first 100 days, a period of mediocrity and a total failure to break from the past.In ZANUPF the more things change the more they remain the same, ...Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 09:20hrs | 1 | by PDP
Cops go on rampage in suburb
SEVEN people were injured when armed police officers allegedly ran riot at a bottle store in Makokoba and indiscriminately attacked revellers.Residents said the cops were on a revenge mission ...Published: 15 Dec 2017 at 05:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
BaKalanga braved the chilly weather to attend MRP rallies
Mthwakazi Republic Party President Mqondisi Moyo and his lieutenants, spent the weekend in Plumtree particularly Bulilima East constituency where they addressed scores of villagers.Other senio...Published: 31 Oct 2017 at 07:10hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Hostage situation at UK shopping mall ends
Officials say the hostage incident at a bowling alley near Birmingham has ended with the arrest of a gunman.The West Midlands Ambulance Service said two people who had been held hostage at a b...Published: 22 Oct 2017 at 20:38hrs | | by AP
Madlela makes top cops dance
Ngamnanka uSaMamoe hit-maker Madlela Skhobokhobo stole the show on Saturday at the 18th edition of the Zimbabwe Republic Police Commissioner-General's Funfair in Bulawayo, after sending the crowd into...Published: 11 Sep 2017 at 05:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Two cops arrested after setting police dogs on miners
Two Zimbabwe Republic Police officers from Murehwa were arrested after letting loose police dogs on mine employees, demanding promised allowances after duty on Friday.Sources close to investig...Published: 06 Aug 2017 at 09:03hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Businessman demands $33,000 from Chombo over dog bite
GOKWE businessman, Orene Rukwana, has filed a $33 210 lawsuit against Home Affairs minister Ignatius Chombo after he was allegedly bitten by a police dog, which was unleashed by a law enforcement agen...Published: 27 Jul 2017 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Couple lose $80 000 to armed robbers
A Harare couple lost $80 000 cash in Madokero suburb to armed robbers on Saturday, as it emerged that businesspeople who do not bank money are being targeted by criminals.Police sources said r...Published: 08 Jun 2017 at 06:34hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Gang of armed robbers arrested
Mbare Police Dog Section based at Waterfalls Police Station have arrested five armed robbers and recovered knives, knobkerries and axes that were used to attack residents in the suburb at night. Polic...Published: 31 May 2017 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere accused of sabotage
At least 74 female members of Rass Mining Syndicate in Bindura, who are accusing Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere of "sabotaging their project", have filed an application seeking the inter...Published: 11 May 2017 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Better to die in battlefield'
COMRADE Gilbert Musekiwa Simon Majiri, whose Chimurenga name was Chabudaishudhu Kufahakuurayi is an unassuming war veteran. Born in 1938, Chabudaishudhu who now stays in Mvurwi, grew up in Shamva,...Published: 12 Mar 2017 at 08:57hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF youths arrested after trying to invade Mujuru ally's farm
A group of ZANU PF youths are in custody at Mvurwi police station allegedly after trying to invade a member of Zimbabwe People First's farm in Velvekia, Guruve, Mashonaland Central province.A ...Published: 12 Jan 2017 at 23:22hrs | 1 | by Ndou Paul
Food thief wreaks havoc
Mvurwi police are hunting for a thug who is said to be armed with a machete, and an axe and living in the bush, stealing people's food and other valuables in their absence.The police dog secti...Published: 04 Dec 2016 at 21:44hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Man caught with head, skin of a bull
A 28-year old Mvurwi man is in police custody after stealing a bull from Hariana farm in Mvurwi Mashonaland Central province today (Wednesday).It is alleged Kudakwashe Kwaramba stole a bull be...Published: 23 Nov 2016 at 13:44hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
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