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End Time Message leader Gumbura, serving 40 year imprisonment, is sued for US$74 000 in unpaid school fees for his several children

Posted on October 9, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

It never rains, but pours for jailed RMG Independent End Time Message leader Robert Martin Gumbura who is being sued over unpaid school fees for his several children to the tune of $100 000. While languishing in prison over rape, Gumbura has been slapped with a $74 000 lawsuit over an unpaid debt to Idem Trading Private Limited. Gumbura is serving a 40-year prison term for raping three congregants and illegally possessing pornographic material. He was…

MDC T leader, Tsvangirai’s, humiliation at denial of access to inarcerated MDC T members at Chikurubi Maximum prison

Posted on September 17, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

The MDCT leader, Richard Morgan Tsvangirai came face to face with the full wrath of Zanu pf’s lack of constitutionalism when officials denied him access to MDCT officials recently convicted over the murder of Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Inspector Petros Mutedza at Glenview 3 shopping centre five years. Tsvangirai wanted to see incarcerated, Phineas Nhatarikwa, Last Maengahama, Yvonne Musarurwa and MDCT councillor Tungamirai Madzokere but the prison officials, a law unto themselves, refused him…

Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) represents 70 protesters jailed at Harare Central and Chikurubi prisons

Posted on August 28, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

The organisation said among the 70 people, who are all represented by Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) are “senior citizens” including Rihana Mhondiwa aged 68 years of Warren Park high-density suburb, Fredman Mbanjeshoma aged 68 years of Mabvuku high-density suburb, Isaac Muronzi aged 52 years of St Mary’s high-density suburb in Chitungwiza, Lucky Mutakuragumbo aged 52 years of Glendale and some informal traders, security guards and some unemployed people, who were rounded up…

A (51) Year Old Bulawayo, Soldier On Death Row Is Pardoned After 26 Years

Posted on June 5, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

IN 1990, the Government introduced an economic blueprint — Economic Structural Adjustment Programme — which became commonly known as Esap. Esap would grow in popularity to become one of the most commonly talked about economic blueprints after Independence. Even today it is still being discussed as the starting point of the economic path the country travelled through since then. While for many Zimbabweans, 1990 is remembered for Esap, for Edmos Hadebe, then a 25-year-old young man…

‘Zimbabwe’s Multimillion Dollar Power Contracts Awarded To Drug Dealers, Corrupt, Bankrupt Companies’

Posted on May 4, 2016May 4, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

ZIMBABWE has put $600 million worth of the country’s critical power projects in the hands of a middleman accused of drug trafficking, and awarded big contracts to companies that are bankrupt or facing corruption charges, it can be revealed today. With the country desperate to rebuild its decaying energy infrastructure, dozens of foreign companies have tendered for lucrative Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) contracts to refurbish existing power stations and build new plants. The bulk of…

Starving Chikurubi Prison Inmates Trapping Rats For Food

Posted on January 8, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

Some prisoners at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison trap rats for food, one of the nine men accused of masterminding a foiled jailbreak at the prison told the court yesterday. Lucky Matambanadzo (39), who is a self actor, made the revelations while cross-examining a State witness Claudius Mutizwa. Each prisoner will be accorded the opportunity to cross-examine the State witness. Matambanadzo is jointly charged with Robert Martin Gumbura, Blessing Chauke (25), Lucky Mhungu (38), Taurai Dodzo…

Corruption: Chikurubi Rears & Slaughters Livestock- Prisoners Denied Meat (3Years)

Posted on July 6, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

TOP Prison officials at Chikurubi Maximum and prison farm are under fire from Commissioner General Paradzai Zimondi following reports that inmates at the institutions have gone for three years without eating meat. It has emerged that Chikurubi actually rears and slaughters cattle and pigs regularly but the meat has not been accounted for, raising fears the inmates’ share is being looted. Highly placed sources at the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services HQ in Harare told…

Human Rights Commission Finds, Archaic Bucket Toilets At Chikurubi Prison

Posted on July 2, 2015July 2, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has said it was shocked to note that inmates at Chikurubi Maximum Prison are using the buckets to relieve themselves in their cells. “The commission was disturbed to hear and not that most cells had no toilets and inmates resorted to the use of buckets,” said ZHRC chairperson Elasto Mugwadi. “The bucket system is supposed to be considered archaic in a developed and civilized society as our country.” Mugwadi made…

‘MPs ignorant of their roles & constituency needs’-Professor Lovemore Madhuku

Posted on June 26, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

MPs have a minimal understanding of their roles and the needs of their constituents, a problem which contributes towards lack of development in the country, a leading academic and politician has said. University of Zimbabwe law lecturer, Professor Lovemore Madhuku, said this during a breakfast meeting Wednesday organised by Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights in Harare. Addressing parliamentarians, Madhuku said, “Most of the MPs think they represent their parties and forget they are voted for…