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Fire these rogue police recruits
I bemoan the fall of dignity of a once noble profession. I got recruited into Zimbabwe Republic Police in 1997 and was so much excited to be part and parcel of the police force. I was not driven or in...Published: 21 Aug 2023 at 14:14hrs | 14 | by Leonard Koni
Mnangagwa must walk the talk
The excitement from the government controlled media and the so called staunch Zanu PF supporters about President Mnangagwa's invitation to witness the cor...Published: 07 May 2023 at 07:31hrs | 3 | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwe police must root out rogue officers
A COURT in Victoria Falls has ordered Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe and police commissioner-general Godwin Matanga to pay $1,7 million dollars in damages to poet Obert Dube who was assaulted b...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 05:29hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Fraudster cop dupes victim number 9
A ROGUE police officer who was recently remanded out of custody for allegedly conning people while in uniform has allegedly struck again as he swindled a local business man of $419 760. Sergea...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Mahere has case to answer for publishing falsehoods'
HARARE regional magistrate Taurai Manuwere yesterday dismissed an application for discharge by Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson, Fadzayi Mahere, who is being accused of publishing fals...Published: 09 Dec 2022 at 05:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Plumtree: A fuel smugglers paradise
FUEL smuggling is rampant along the Zimbabwe-Botswana border, with illicit traders resorting to paying bribes to evade arrest, a practice that has seen the country losing millions of dollars in potent...Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 05:58hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe workers suffer in SA
ZIMBABWEANS, together with other foreign nationals, are continuing to bear the brunt of vigilante attacks by South African citizens, who are accusing them of taking their jobs and committing crime....Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 20:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean drivers fear being targeted by a xenophobic groups in SA
"I prayed for them to let me live because some who found themselves in similar circumstances, were reported dead," says Richard Mudhara, a Zimbabwean truck driver working in Johannesburg.He wa...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:35hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Citizen Coalition for Change the only hope
On Sunday afternoon I was closely following the three political parties which will be battling it out for by elections seat on the 26th of March 2022.It was so interesting to take note o...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 19:49hrs | 8 | by Leonard Koni
Mnangagwa orders Matanga to 'flush out rogue police officers'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday ordered police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga to flush out law enforcement agents implicated in criminal activities, describing them as "bad apples" tarnish...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
2 bogus cops arrested
Two people who were masquerading as police officers have been arrested in separate incidents in Harare after they were found extorting money from pirate taxi drivers and a suspected ‘fraudster'....Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 20:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe breathes fire to cops
Police commanders have been directed to immediately put to an end the rampant child kidnappings, ritual killings, traffic chaos caused by pirate taxis and general armed robberies targeting families an...Published: 21 May 2021 at 05:58hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Nail corrupt police'
AUTHORITIES have stepped up their efforts against graft within the police force, with Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe urging citizens to use technology to help nail rogue cops.This comes...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 18:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police warn felons, rotten cops
ANGRY authorities vowed yesterday that they would hammer perpetrators of violent crime in the country, while also dealing ruthlessly with rogue police officers caught participating in criminal activit...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 13:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate lashes out at rogue cop
A Bulawayo magistrate lashed out at a police officer who stabbed his friend with a kitchen knife on the cheek for drinking his hot stuff describing him as a "monster and rogue" cop who has dragged the...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Machete attacks resurface
THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) has raised concern over cases of violence involving machetes which have resurfaced in mining areas in Matabeleland South Province. The commissio...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 06:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Zimbabwe cops throw teargas into a bus
PASSENGERS, among them elderly women and children were Monday forced to scramble out of a fully loaded 75-seater bus at a Harare Showgrounds bus stop after a female police officer discharged a tearsmo...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 19:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police guarantees NewsDay scribe's safety
POLICE in Karoi yesterday said they had nothing against NewsDay correspondent Nhau Mangirazi and advised the journalist to report freely even about rogue State security agents.Officer Commandi...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police brutality victim breaks down in court
A COWDRAY Park woman, who was severely assaulted alongside her sister by police on allegations of violating COVID-19 lockdown regulations, broke down at the Western Commonage Magistrates Court in Bula...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:35hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Rogue police, soldiers turn to crime
More and more members of the security services are being arraigned before the courts for playing a major role in perpetrating blue-collar and violent crime.Analysts attribute the breakdown of ...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 18:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai was duped by Mnangagwa
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa revealed yesterday that his revered late predecessor, Morgan Tsvangirai, had died a bitter man after he was allegedly duped by President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his all...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 14:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa rejects 'meaningless' dialogue
OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said he would not be bulldozed into "a meaningless dialogue" with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, vowing that any talks with the Zanu-PF leader to resolve ...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa banks on peace, dialogue
President Mnangagwa has reaffirmed his commitment to peace and dialogue and maintaining an open door policy to resolving challenges facing the country. Addressing diplomats in Harare yesterday...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tells Chamisa to stop playing games and come for dialogue
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has called upon MDC Leader Nelson Chamisa to dump grandstanding strategies and join the rest of Zimbabwe in a national dialogue.President said this in a statement ...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 20:33hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Policeman shown on Sky News arrested
A member of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has been arrested for misconduct after he was shown in a video broadcast on Sky News assaulting a civilian.Following the video broadcast, Preside...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 21:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must cut loose bad police officers
Government's decision to drive vendors off the streets of the Central Business Districts (CBDs) across the whole country, especially after the outbreak of cholera in Harare, has been generally warmly ...Published: 25 Sep 2018 at 14:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rogue cops run amok in Harare
Some rogue police officers went on the rampage in Harare at the weekend - firing tear gas indiscriminately at commuters omnibus ranks before savagely assaulting revellers at night clubs.In the...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 14:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matanga warns rogue police officers
Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga yesterday warned rogue members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) that they were living on borrowed time as the force had moved a gear up to flush out unr...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 08:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Holiday death toll 'not linked' to absence of roadblocks
SOMEWHERE in this edition, we carry a story giving chilling statistics on the sharp increase in road accidents, mostly fa...Published: 02 Apr 2018 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Morgan Tsvangirai and the making of a national hero
When Elliot Manyika - with the help of Bryn Muteki - sang and danced his way to national hero status in Zimbabwe, conferred on him by the Zanu-PF politburo in December 2008, I oscillated between alarm...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 16:56hrs | 3 | by Tafi Mhaka
Soldiers fire at bus with passengers
SOME alleged members of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) stationed at various centres along highways and major cities as part of "Operation Restore Legacy", have reportedly gone on a rampage indiscri...Published: 12 Dec 2017 at 05:32hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
UPDATED: 3-hour gunfight at Chihuri's house
A rogue policeman guarding Zimbabwe Republic Police Commissioner-General Dr Augustine Chihuri's house in Borrowdale, Harare, yesterday morning ran amok after his bid to loot property from the premises...Published: 07 Dec 2017 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Gun shots at Chihuri's residence, house on fire, one dead!
A rogue policeman guarding Zimbabwe Republic Police Commissioner-General Dr Augustine Chihuri's house in Borrowdale today ran amok after his bid to loot property from the house was foiled....Published: 06 Dec 2017 at 17:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF officials in looting spree
Zanu-PF is closing the net on party officials who are in the habit of fleecing citizens and the corporate world in the name of raising funds for the governing party, the Daily News can report....Published: 29 Oct 2017 at 07:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man acquitted on charges of insulting cops
A ZIMBABWEAN court on Wednesday acquitted a Chiredzi man who had been on trial for allegedly insulting some Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers, whom he accused of collecting funds from members of...Published: 19 Oct 2017 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Man up for insulting cops
A Chiredzi man has been charged with verbally insulting police officers, after shouting in a banking hall that they were depositing cash earned through corrupt means.Zephania Virimai, 32, who ...Published: 20 Sep 2017 at 11:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man on trial for insulting 'corrupt' police officers
A ZIMBABWEAN man is standing trial after he was arrested last month for allegedly insulting some Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers, whom he accused of depositing funds collected from members of ...Published: 18 Sep 2017 at 15:41hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
CIO informer sues top cop for assault
A Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) informer Delish Nguwaya, who was arrested in dramatic fashion at the Harare Magistrates' Court last Wednesday, has filed assault charges against top detective...Published: 28 Aug 2017 at 13:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Plot to kill Fikile Mbalula
Police Minister Fikile Mbalula is embroiled in a war against rogue police spies who have threatened his life, as well as the lives of his family.City Press is in possession of a report of a re...Published: 27 Aug 2017 at 10:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police pressured to release CIO informer
The police buckled under pressure on Thursday and freed a Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) informer Delish Nguwaya, following High Court judge Charles Hungwe's order for his immediate release....Published: 26 Aug 2017 at 16:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZRP pressured to release CIO informer
HARARE - The police buckled under pressure on Thursday and freed a Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) informer Delish Nguwaya, following High Court judge Charles Hungwe's order for his immediate ...Published: 26 Aug 2017 at 12:32hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Lawyer exposes Grace Mugabe, police
LAWYERS representing Lebanese businessman Jamal Ahmed insist that First Lady Grace Mugabe invaded their client's private property and is now using "rogue elements in the Zimbabwe Republic Police" to s...Published: 13 Jan 2017 at 06:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T is not a terrorist organisation
Reports in the Sunday Mail edition of August 28, 2016 portraying the MDC as a terrorist organisation are extremely disturbing, grossly offensive and patently untrue.The fact of the matter is t...Published: 29 Aug 2016 at 08:54hrs | | by MDC-T
We are not terrorists, says MDC-T
OPPOSITION MDC-T has refuted claims that it is an terrorist organisation bent on causing chaos in the the country.Home Affairs Minister Ignatius Chombo on Sunday alleged that MDC-T train...Published: 29 Aug 2016 at 08:45hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Gunshots at Obert Mpofu's home
Chaos gripped Economic Planning minister Obert Mpofu's Harare house after a police Protection Unit officer guarding his residence berserk and shot a female colleague in a fit of rage.Constable...Published: 04 Nov 2015 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police threats spark backslash
Human rights defenders and political parties yesterday said police threats on private media journalists covering a job cuts demonstration in Harare on Saturday had exposed the State's hidden hand in t...Published: 12 Aug 2015 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Peter Tatchell was a 'journalist' too, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I know many of you were not at all taken aback with what happened in Abuja at the weekend when I was in Nigeria for the inauguration of that country...Published: 11 Jun 2015 at 09:00hrs | 2 | by CZ
Rogue cop up for armed robbery
An alleged rogue police officer from Harare, Edmore Banda is before the courts facing several charges of theft of motor vehicles.Banda (27) was arrested for allegedly committing a spate of arm...Published: 04 Dec 2014 at 15:27hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Rogue cop speeds through roadblock drums
A ROGUE police officer based in Gokwe landed himself in trouble after he was arrested for refusing to stop at a roadblock resulting in him hitting drums and sending traffic cops scurrying for cove...Published: 10 Oct 2014 at 13:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe unwittingly confirmed he had a hand in Tsvangirai's ouster
Zanu-PF's President Robert Mugabe recently unwittingly confirmed he had a hand in the shrill calls by the few, but well-oiled MDC rebels to unconstitutionally oust popular party leader, Morgan Ric...Published: 29 Apr 2014 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
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