Chikurubi Maximum Security prison

TWENTY-ONE prison inmates, including one female, have escaped from correctional facilities countrywide since the beginning of this year due to negligence of guards who now face disciplinary action.
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Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison has gone for 10 years without running water while most prisons in the country are facing water woes after local authorities and the Zimbabwe National Water Authority disconnected supplies.
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HARARE - Chikurubi Prison, Zimbabwe’s maximum security jail, located about 15 kilometers east of the country’s capital Harare, is amongst the country’s 40 jails accommodating an estimated 17,000 prisoners in total.
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HARARE - Two prisoners escaped from Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison Farm on Wednesday afternoon after they allegedly attacked a prison officer with a hoe, leaving him for dead. The escape was first reported on the Nehanda Radio Citizen…
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A sombre atmosphere engulfed Warren Park in Harare today as thousands of MDC-T activists including party president Morgan Tsvangirai laid to rest Rebecca Mafikeni, who died in custody at the hands of Mugabe’s regime.
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Freed MDC-T activists Memory Ncube (in red and white dress) and Linda Musiyamanje (yellow dress) are welcomed by Memory’s son Timmy Bradley Marufu as they make their exit from Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison. (Picture by NewsDay)
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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s wife Elizabeth Macheka hit back at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison guards and officials who tried to humiliate her by attempting to stop her visiting some of the 29 MDC-T activists who are in custody.
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The family of an alleged coup plotter jailed in 2007 has claimed that an attempt was made on his life inside Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison last week. Retired army Captain Albert Matapo and six others had been accused of leading a plot…
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SW Radio Africa journalist Lance Guma speaks to former student leader Hopewell Gumbo, one of 6 activists charged with treason after addressing a February meeting in Harare where video footage of protests in Egypt and Tunisia was screened.
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