Chikurubi Prison

Notable prisoners

• Roy Bennett, Zimbabwean politician and former colonial policeman
• Simon Mann, British mercenary and former British Army officer
• Munyaradzi Kereke, former wealthy businessman, former Zanu PF MP, and former advisor to retired Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono, sentenced in 2016 to 10 years in jail after being convicted of raping his then 11-year-old niece, at the end of a decade-long legal campaign to bring him to justice despite him allegedly being protected by police and the Attorney General's office. Kereke has apologised to "Gono and the government but not to his victims".
• Former Army Captain Albert Matapo, and six others, Emmanuel Marara, Oncemore Mudzurahona, Partson Mupfure, Nyasha Zivuku, Rangarirai Mazivofa and Shingirai Webster Mutemachani, ended up spending seven years in Chikurubi Prison for alleged involvement in the 2007 Zimbabwean alleged coup d'état attempt. They were accused of planning a coup d'état to replace Robert Mugabe by Emmerson Mnangagwa, but claim they were only trying to form a new political party, and deemed Mnangagwa as bad as Mugabe, and potentially even worse. No treason trial took place, for lack of evidence, and they were released on March 1, 2014, and subsequently launched their new political party. Matapo later described the prison as "hell".
• Chidhumo and Masendeke, the only criminal duo who launched the only successful prison break of the Chikurubi Prison.