In a significant development for Zimbabwe's political landscape, estranged opposition leaders reunited on Friday night, ...

The Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) has commissioned a new driving school at Chikurubi Training School, ...

Spread This NewsBy Mary Taruvinga A psychiatric patient who had previously served jail time for murder has killed two more ...

Walter Mzembi will spend the weekend in remand prison after a Harare magistrate postponed his court hearing to Monday, 16 June 2025.

Simon Mann in 2009, after being released from prison in Equatorial Guinea. ... Mr. Mann in 2004 at Chikurubi Prison in Zimbabwe, where he said he was “an aristocrat in the prison hierarchy. ...

SUNGURA musician Tichaona Chacha has pledged to establish a music studio at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison aimed at assisting inmates to rehabilitate through the healing power of music. Chacha ...

“The [Chikurubi] prison has a holding capacity of 1,360 prisoners and at the time of ZHRC's visit, the prison had 2,270 inmates, making it 69.9 percent overcrowded.

On Tuesday, a Zimbabwe court sentenced opposition politician Job Sikhala to a suspended two-year prison term. This week’s sentencing means he will be freed after being jailed for 595 days.

Harare, Zimbabwe – Job “Wiwa” Sikhala has spent the last 17 months in the Chikurubi maximum-security prison, the longest stretch an opposition figure has been held in pre-trial detention in ...

At Chikurubi Maximum Prison, freed women prisoners hugged prison officers, while men rushed for the back of an open truck waiting to transport them from the jail. Others thanked President Emmerson ...

She said the amnesty would “go a long way in reducing the prison population.” Zimbabwe’s prisons have a capacity of 17,000 but hold more than 20,000 inmates.