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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Cops run for life
POLICE in Tsholotsho had to call for reinforcements from the Bulawayo Dog Section to subdue and arrest a man from Sipepa who ran amok and disarmed two officers before spearing one of them in the butto...Published: 18 Nov 2016 at 05:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Highlanders vs Dynamos - Live updates
Highlanders 2 - 1 DynamosHighlanders beat Dembare for the second time this season. Bosso came froma goal gown but scored two goals in two minutes to take the leadGame over90'+1...Published: 11 Sep 2016 at 14:02hrs | 3 | by Sports reporter
Rouge cop set police dogs on neighbours in personal quarrel
A rouge police officer Constable Effete Mhike abused state resources by setting police dogs on villagers before firing teargas on them. Mhike was settling a long dispute with his neighbours in Gokwe....Published: 11 Sep 2016 at 08:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
ZAPU Headquarters raided by ZANU PF police
In what was a vivid reminder of the early 1980s Gukurahundi that was waged on ZAPU by Robert Mugabe's ZANU, anti riot police in Bulawayo today raided ZAPU Party Regional Headquarters. The poli...Published: 02 Sep 2016 at 15:30hrs | 10 | by Iphithule Thembani kaMaphosa
Zimbabwean protestors ready to die
Despite suffering savage beatings, ongoing harassment by authorities and being locked up for fighting for change in the country over the past few weeks, protesting democracy activists say they are rea...Published: 11 Jul 2016 at 13:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe police set dogs on protestors'
The Zimbabwe Republic police has been accused of setting their dogs on protestors they had arrested after conducting door-to-door raids in the Harare suburbs of Mabvuku, Zimre Park and Epworth in the ...Published: 07 Jul 2016 at 21:32hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
104 Epworth, Mabvuku protesters appears in court
One hundred and four people from Epworth and Mabvuku in Harare linked to Monday's public violence against police roadblocks appeared in court yesterday and were remanded in custody to today for bail h...Published: 07 Jul 2016 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Fungai Lupande
Zimbabwe protests - 'This is the end game'
While social media updates flowed fast and furious on developing unrest in the Zimbabwe capital Harare on Monday, the ruling party's own paper The Patriot peacefully tweeted a link to its story on...Published: 04 Jul 2016 at 20:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe loyalist Mutodi claims war vets seek new order
President Robert Mugabe loyalist Energy Mutodi has claimed that the war veterans were seeking a new order after realising that Mugabe is now increasingly siding with a G40 faction that is linked to hi...Published: 03 Mar 2016 at 05:37hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Prophet Magaya's PHD puts lives of congregants at risk
The Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) ministries led by Prophet Walter Magaya has been accused of putting the lives of its congregants at risk of being run over by cars as they flooded the Simon...Published: 09 Sep 2015 at 07:37hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Where are the jobs, Zanu PF? - Open Letter
International Labor Day: 1st May 2015, where are the jobs, Zanu PF? First letter to the 95% of the working population who are not working in Zimbab...Published: 17 Apr 2015 at 10:23hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Chaos at Rufaro, match kicked off 30 minutes late
CHAOTIC scenes were the order of the day at the Bob 91 Super Cup final showdown between bitter rivals Dynamos and CAPS United at Rufaro as the tournament's organisers were once again found wanting for...Published: 09 Mar 2015 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Augustine Hwata and Takudzwa Chitsiga
Anti Kaukonde demo in Marondera - Live updates
Hundreds of war veterans and Zanu-PF supporters from the country's provinces descended on Mashonaland East provincial capital Marondera from Monday morning to mount a siege on provincial party chairp...Published: 10 Nov 2014 at 14:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police dogs maul 3 suspected copper thieves
THREE suspected copper thieves, hospitalised after being allegedly mauled by police dogs as they tried to escape arrest, were yesterday remanded to their beds at a Bulawayo hospital.The fourth...Published: 21 Jun 2014 at 10:24hrs | 1 | by Auxilia Katongomara
Prophet Makandiwa brings Harare to a standstill
Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, turned into a boom city yesterday, with Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa's Judgement Night 2 at the National Sports Stadium being the major draw card.Makandiwa, a larger-...Published: 20 Apr 2014 at 13:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Five-months pregnant woman raped
A five-months pregnant woman, whose pleas not to be raped were ignored by armed attackers, is said to be severely traumatised after her ordeal at a guest lodge in Hazyview at the weekend....Published: 08 Oct 2013 at 05:55hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Police dog catches cattle rustlers slaughtering a stolen beast
THREE cunning cattle rustlers were last week ambushed by police detectives and details from the dog section while slaughtering a stolen beast on the summit of a mountain range in Mutare's Dangamvura h...Published: 07 May 2013 at 11:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Interview With Zapu Europe Vice Chairperson Mr Karimanzira
Today on the hot seat I have Mr Panyika Anselm Karimanzira, who is the ZAPU Europe Vice Chairperson. Mr Karimanzira reminisces of his childhood days at Thornhill Airbase in Gweru, he further goes on t...Published: 25 Apr 2013 at 21:53hrs | | by Thulani Nkala
Another armed robber shot in the stomach during a shoot-out
Notorious armed robber Richard Timba's road ended on Saturday afternoon when he was nabbed after a shoot-out with detectives in Queensdale.Timba (48) failed to evade the alert detectives as th...Published: 08 Jan 2013 at 11:22hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Police launch manhunt for three fugitive robbers
POLICE have launched a manhunt for two of the three armed robbers who were recently involved in two shootouts and a high-speed chase with detectives in Harare city centre. According to police the whe...Published: 07 Jan 2013 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Charles Mabika bitten by police dogs
Veteran football journalist Charles Mabika, reporter Langton Nyakwenda and a Dynamos marshal were at the receiving end of police dog bites as they tried to find their way into the stadium.Mabi...Published: 20 Nov 2012 at 03:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
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