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Police officer arrested over armed gold mine robbery
A serving Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officer is among ten men arrested in connection with a violent armed robbery at the MMC Mining Syndicate gold mine in Mbire, Mashonaland Central. The raid, whi...Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 11:28hrs | 216 | by Staff reporter
4 year mystery: Family discovers missing cop's grave through spirit revelation
A decades-old mystery surrounding the disappearance of a Bulawayo-based police officer may finally be drawing to a close, after his family was reportedly led to a shallow grave by a spirit-possessed g...Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 12:14hrs | 1360 | by Staff reporter
Police allegedly assault Mahetshe Primary School children in Matobo
Police in Matobo, Matabeleland South, are alleged to have assaulted children at an Early Child Education school in Mahetshe.This was exposed by Mthwajazi Republic Party in a statement....Published: 04 Jun 2025 at 17:21hrs | 649 | by Stephen Jakes
Man up for domestic violence, impersonating a cop
Brian Seke, 34, from Sakubva, appeared before Mutare magistrate Ms. Perseverance Makala on charges of domestic violence, impersonating a police officer, and malicious damage to property. He was senten...Published: 28 May 2025 at 10:41hrs | 88 | by Staff reporter
'Bogus syndicates preying on public,' ZACC, ZRP
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) and Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) have confirmed co-ordinated criminal operations by fake syndicates posing as genuine officers who are targeting unsuspecting me...Published: 09 Apr 2025 at 15:23hrs | 1438 | by Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Policeman loses car to robbers in Zimbabwe
Two men, Luckmore Tasaruka (26) and Tatenda Saidi (30), from Domboshava, have appeared in court for allegedly hijacking a policeman's vehicle after hiring him for a trip to Mhondoro. The duo, charged ...Published: 21 Oct 2024 at 14:17hrs | 1361 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police hunt one of their own after maid 'raped'
A police officer has gone on the run after his wife reported him for raping their 17-year-old housemaid.Assistant Inspector Farai Mashavira, of Nkata 9 in Bulawayo, allegedly attacked the teen...Published: 18 Sep 2024 at 16:12hrs | 960 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's disgruntled cops stage uniform protests
JUNIOR police details are showing up at this year's independence celebrations inspection parades wearing clothes that do not match in a planned protests to express their disgruntlement against the esc...Published: 16 Apr 2024 at 07:59hrs | 115 | by Staff reporter
Robbers pounce on Bulawayo money changers
Two suspected armed robbers pounced on three illegal money changers operating at Bulawayo's Nkulumane Complex Thursday afternoon and got away with an undisclosed amount of money.After the raid...Published: 05 Apr 2024 at 05:59hrs | 1333 | by Staff reporter
Cop jailed 15 years for raping a student
A Rushinga-based police officer Tarisai Madondo was sentenced to 15 years in jail yesterday at Bindura regional magistrates courts after raping a low...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 07:03hrs | 22 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Police crackdown on border smugglers
ZIMBABWEAN and South African police have destroyed apparatuses found on the Limpopo River that are used for smuggling and human trafficking between the two countries.The gadgets that wer...Published: 03 Mar 2024 at 08:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Adulterous affair leads to senior cop's demotion
A SENIOR cop has been removed from his position as Officer Commanding Norton District after it was found out that he was having an illicit affair with one of his married junior officers.Chief ...Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 18:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Hopewell Chin'ono friend abducted
Suspected state security agents abducted a Harare-based construction manager - who has done a lot of building works for award-winning Zimbabwean filmmaking journalist Hopewell Chin'ono - yesterday in ...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 19:07hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police systems are crumbling
I don't know about these days, but one of the most shaming things back in the days was when a learner was sent back home because he or she didn't have a uniform.It was shaming on the learner a...Published: 26 Nov 2023 at 08:43hrs | 22 | by Tawanda Majoni
Traffic cop in court for mounting fake roadblock
A POLICE officer suspected to be part of a syndicate fleecing unsuspecting motorists along Herbert Chitepo Avenue and Leopold Takawira Street in central Harare by mounting a fake roadblock has been ar...Published: 16 Nov 2023 at 05:02hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
'Security personnel' target motorists
POLICE are looking for a syndicate of bogus police officers, soldiers and intelligence officers driving around in a black Toyota Wish "arresting" and extorting money from motorists after accusing them...Published: 14 Nov 2023 at 04:45hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Ex-soldier jailed for bashing cop
An ex-soldier Phakamani Moyo was yesterday sentenced to two years in jail by Plumtree magistrate Joshua Nembaware for bashing a police officer and refusing to be arrested over a girlfriend....Published: 31 Oct 2023 at 20:05hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Ex-soldier bashes cop, resists arrest
An ex-soldier Phakamani Moyo is in soup after he allegedly bashed a police officer and refused to be arrested over a girlfriend.The 30-...Published: 06 Oct 2023 at 22:18hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Security roadblock fleeing cop wanted
An unlicensed Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officer Felix Nyakurerwa (36) who fled from a roadblock along Harare-Mukumbura road while clad in police uniform driving a Toyota Wish with seven passenger...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 18:17hrs | 11 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Concesion
DRAMA: Wife tears apart husband's police uniform over $1
There was drama at number 7 Flamboyant Drive Amanda's, Concession where Kudzai Matsuro (22) wife to a Mvurwi-based cop Takemore Rufurwokuda (40) tore his ...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 10:45hrs | 10 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Bogus soldier, cop up for armed robbery
Two suspected robbers who stormed at a Chiweshe villager to rob him of his belongings while wearing army and police uniforms are in trouble....Published: 07 Jun 2023 at 06:40hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Shady characters around Mnangagwa
SPOTLIGHT seems to bring out the best and worst of people, and sometimes their true colours. Self-proclaimed prophet Uebert Angel is among people caught off-guard by the four-episode Al Jazeera docume...Published: 01 Apr 2023 at 07:36hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala's case is exposing the opposition
In three months' time, Job Sikhala would have clocked a full year in jail for allegedly inciting public violence and attempting to defeat the course of justice.They say, among other things, he...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Cop flees from security roadblock
An unlicensed Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officer who fled from a roadblock along Harare-Mukumbura road while clad in police uniform driving a To...Published: 20 Feb 2023 at 13:25hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole in Concesion
Cop bashed to death
A Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Officer Mandleni Ncube was bashed to death by three cousins on Christmas Day in Lupane at a local bar....Published: 04 Jan 2023 at 16:31hrs | 6 | by Simbarashe Sithole
PHOTOS: 2 Zimbabweans; 1 SA police officer arrested for robbery
Reports coming from the neighbouring South Africa indicate that two Zimbabwean nationals team other with six South Africans with one of them being a police officer to plot committing a robbery in that...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 16:47hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mass transfers rock Zimbabwe police
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has instituted an aggressive transfer of officers countrywide amid reports that the police top brass is furious about rising indiscipline, incompetence and allegatio...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 18:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
2 bogus cops arrested
TWO bogus policemen allegedly driving around Harare in their getaway car and stealing thousands of US dollars after accusing motorists of having violated traffic rules, have now been arrested, while p...Published: 15 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
CCC youth leader arrested
Citizens Coalition for Change Chitungwiza youth leader Ephrage Gwavava has been arrested this morning.CCC spokesperson Fadz...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 12:34hrs | 1 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Zimbabwe revolution is nigh
"LET the ruling classes tremble at a communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose, but their chains. They have a world to win. Workers of all countries unite!"This was Karl Ma...Published: 21 Jul 2022 at 06:43hrs | 14 | by Nomalanga Kabanzi
Zimbabwe police persecutes Chamisa's CCC, shields Zanu-PF rogue elements
POLICE are once again on the spotlight over allegations of selective application of the law where they stand accused of moving at lightning speed to arrest and lock up opposition members suspected of ...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC says Zanu PF thugs in police uniforms terrorising legislators
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Saturday claimed Zanu PF thugs in police uniforms were terrorising their legislators in Nyatsime, with one of them being robbed of a vehicle.Nyat...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 12:37hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi petitions over State brutality
THE Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa over State brutality on its members following incarceration of nine members for violence.Last week, Bulawayo magi...Published: 10 Jun 2022 at 08:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Shona judge jails Mthwakazi activists for carrying knobkerries
NINE activists from the Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) were sentenced to varying jail terms when they appeared before Bulawayo magistrate, Mr Tawengwa Sangster.The nine who had pleaded not gui...Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 09:10hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police chiefs tell junior officers to 'stop displaying your poverty'
Police chiefs have warned poorly-paid junior officers to avoid being photographed displaying their poverty.In a leaked internal memo dated May 7, police bosses said police officers snapped tak...Published: 11 May 2022 at 19:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zacc arrests 3 bogus officers
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has arrested three people including a police officer, who masqueraded as their officials and duped a cross-border trader of US$2 000.The trio, Su...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 06:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Stop police brutality
There has been spiralling of political motivated violence targeting members of the opposition. This is bad publicity for President Emmerson Mnangagwa who is calling himself a new republic....Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 14:06hrs | 2 | by Leonard Koni
1 AM drama in Pumula East Citizens arrest cable theft cops
THREE officers based at Pumula Police Station in Bulawayo were on Sunday morning arrested for alleged theft of copper cables in Pumula East suburb.Residents arrested them at about 1AM. One of ...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 05:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare man face US$130 000 robbery charges
A-HARARE man has been arraigned before the courts over US$130 000 robbery charges.Munyaradzi Keegen Chimbarami on Monday appeared before Mbare Magistrate Nyasha Vhitorini who remanded him to M...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:44hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Court left in stitches over ZCC/ZRP uniform mix-up
A Bulawayo woman, who was found in possession of a police uniform, left the court in stitches after she claimed she mistook the police suit for a Zion Christian Church (ZCC) uniform.The galler...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:29hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe testifies on alleged abduction
MDC-Alliance legislator Joana Mamombe yesterday testified about her alleged abduction in mid-2020 to support the application by herself and alleged accomplice Cecilia Chimbiri for their charges of fak...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Guard arrested for losing firearm while drinking
A 30-year-old security officer has been arrested after losing a service firearm and failed to report to the police, while a suspected house breaker has been arrested in Concession where a police unifo...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 05:30hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Passion Java faces arrest
POLICE yesterday said they were investigating controversial self-proclaimed prophet Passion Java for contravening the Police Act after a picture of him wearing a Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) hat wen...Published: 14 Jan 2022 at 05:22hrs | 1 | 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 | 9 | 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
Kombi conductor killed by 4 bogus cops in extortion attempt gone wrong
Four bogus police officers killed a man during a botched extortion attempt, a court heard on Monday.A member of the quartet, Watson Mutondo, 23, appeared before a Harare magistrate charged wit...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZRP clamps down on protesting officers
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has threatened to clamp down on serving members who have resorted to social media to express discontent over poor salaries.Videos of police officers protesti...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Killer 'cop' in court
ONE of the four bogus police officers, who allegedly assaulted, resulting in the death an illegal commuter omnibus driver at Whitehouse Shopping Centre in Harare, yesterday appeared in court charged w...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:28hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Police bosses sweat over rampant indiscipline
GOSPEL Musician Blessing Shumba's Munyu Hauchavavi hit song has caused a stir in the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) after two officers appeared in a video lip syncing the song and displaying Zimbabwea...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:28hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Woman resists arrest, beats up police officer
A 34-year-old woman has been arrested after she assaulted a policer officer who wanted to arrest her for not wearing a face mask. The incident happened on Wednesday shortly after 9am at corner...Published: 04 Sep 2021 at 19:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
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