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NewsDay
March 6, 2018
The three — Givemore Charamba (now director of operations in Immigration), Steven Museki (director administration) and Clemence Masango (principal director) — were described by the workers as “having joined Immigration from the police wearing sun-scorched suits and residing at Chikurubi PoliceÃâà...
Nehanda Radio
March 3, 2018
Thereafter, I went to Chikurubi Maximum Prison and I was happy to hear that I had been handed a reprieve to serve 15 years,” said Chuma better known as Mambo to his close associates. His nickname comes from great King Mambo and it fits well with his rise from misery to glory on his coming out of jail.
DailyNews
March 3, 2018
HARARE - Convicted rapist and former Member of Parliament for Bikita West Munyaradzi Kereke has had three years of his 10-year sentence cut by prison officials on account of good behaviour, the Daily News can report. The businessman has also been removed from the D Class section at ChikurubiÃâà...
NewsDay
March 3, 2018
MDC-T leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday confirmed that Musarurwa was set to be released from Chikurubi Female Prison under a presidential amnesty yesterday. “Yes, it's true one of our jailed cadres, Yvonne, has been released, but we are lobbying government to release the other two because as far asÃâà...
PaZimbabwe
February 22, 2018
Former mercenary Simon Mann who spent seven years in Zimbabwe maximum security Chikurubi prison after a failed coup in Equatorial New Guinea reveals in a book he wrote in jail that many days 20 men die in Chikurubi. He says 5 inmates die per day. Last year in February, ZPCS failed to takeÃâà...
NewsDay
February 15, 2018
CHIKURUBI female prisoners were in for a treat on Valentine's Day on Wednesday after Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's wife, Marry, donated groceries, computers and ... Chikurubi Female Prison officer-in-charge Mary Misihairambwi expressed concern at the deplorable condition of prison cells.
The Herald
February 15, 2018
Chikurubi Female Prison inmates on Wednesday received a special Valentine's Day treat from Musha Mukadzi Foundation patron Mrs Marry Chiwenga, the wife of Vice President General Constantino Chiwenga (Retired). Mrs Chiwenga donated goods worth thousands of dollars, which comprised fiveÃâà...
PaZimbabwe
February 15, 2018
Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services Commissioner General Retired Major General Paradzai Zimondi said the living conditions for female inmates call for an urgent infrastructure facelift. Chikurubi Female Prison has a holding capacity of 320 inmates. Currently it has 187 inmates against a staffÃâà...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International
February 8, 2018
In 2011, an MSF medical team was shocked by what they saw during a visit to the overcrowded Chikurubi Maximum Security Security Prison's Psychiatric Unit on Harare's outskirts. Here's what happened next. Cover photo: Patient sitting in the courtyard of the Harare Central hospital Psychiatric Unit.
The Zimbabwean
November 9, 2017
United States citizen and projects officer at Magamba Network Trust, Martha O'Donovan (25) has been granted bail, after spending almost a week at Chikurubi Female Prison. O'Donovan is charged with subverting a constitutional government through masterminding a social media campaign to overthrowÃâà...
NewsDay
November 1, 2017
OVER 200 mentally-challenged inmates are held up at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison due to failure by the Mental Health Review Board to sit and determine ... Due to failure by the board to sit among other challenges, Chikurubi is over-crowded with 2 675 inmates, against a carrying capacity of 1 360.
DailyNews
December 31, 1999
According to complaints lodged before the committee by the workers, the trio “joined Immigration from the police wearing sun-scorched suits and residing at Chikurubi Police Camp, but now own mansions in Harare.” The committee launched its investigation in response to workers' complaints that MasangoÃâà...
The Zimbabwe Mail
December 31, 1999
New MDC-T leader Nelson Chamisa has revealed that party activist Yvonne Musarurwa is set to be released from Chikurubi Female Prison after she was granted amnesty by President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Musarurwa together with Tungamirai Madzokere, Phineas Nhatarikwa and Last MaengahamaÃâà...
