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73 passengers escape death
SEVENTY-THREE passengers aboard a K and M bus cheated death yesterday morning after it overturned and landed on its side at the 238-kilometre peg along the Masvingo-Beitbridge Highway, police confirme...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 06:34hrs | 741 | by Staff reporter
Illegal miners threaten railway tracks
SMALL-scale chrome miners have invaded Mapanzure area in Zvishavane, Midlands Province, where they are conducting illegal mining activities along the Gweru-Zvishavane railway line, amid growing fears ...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 06:31hrs | 96 | by Staff reporter
Home Affairs minister petitioned over police conduct
THE Zimbabwe Passengers Association (ZPA) has petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe and Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga over police officers' laxity...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:49hrs | 412 | by Staff reporter
2 500 hit-and-run accidents recorded in Zimbabwe
The numbers of motorists who hit pedestrians or other vehicles on the roads and speed off without rendering assistance is now on the increase with the police recording about 2 500 hit-and-run accident...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:44hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter
Toyota Wish kills one, injures two
One person died, while two others were seriously injured in a Toyota Wish accident along Acardia dam road in Bindura today.Sources said...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 20:33hrs | 562 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Bindura
Zanu-PF MP survives road accident
Zanu-PF Mutasa South legislator Misheck Mugadza survived a road accident on Wednesday afternoon after his vehicle was involved in a head on collision with a haulage truck in Macheke, Mashonaland East ...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:42hrs | 3007 | by Staff reporter
Driver killed as bus overturns, burns
A BUS driver died on the spot while two passengers sustained serious injuries when a Gokwe-bound bus there were travelling in veered off the road, overturned and rolled several times before it caught ...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 1788 | by Staff reporter
5 drown after haulage truck, excavator collide on bridge and plunge into river in Zimbabwe
Five people drowned on Friday after a haulage truck and an excavator collided on a bridge in Beatrice, before both vehicles plunged into the Mupfure river below.Police said one survivor, a man...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 19:06hrs | 652 | by Staff reporter
Martin Dinha shoots self on the thigh fighting off armed robbers
NATIONAL Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) board chairperson and Zanu PF acolyte, Martin Dinha, is nursing injuries after he reportedly shot himself on the thigh fighting off armed robbers who attacked...Published: 28 Jul 2022 at 20:33hrs | 1554 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC fires 'warning shots'
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) was on cloud nine yesterday after thumping the ruling Zanu-PF party in weekend council by-elections, prompting it to declare that this was a harbinger fo...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 19:46hrs | 2758 | by Staff reporter
Susan Mutami spills beans in tell-all sexual abuse scandal
A CONTROVERSIAL young Zimbabwean woman Susan Mutami, based in Australia, with high-level Zanu-PF and government links, has dropped a bombshell: she has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of raping a...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 07:57hrs | 9334 | by Staff reporter
CCC, Zanu-PF to contest Gokwe-Kabuyuni by-election
IT is going to be a two-party race for the Gokwe- Kabuyuni constituency by-election following the successful filing of papers by Zanu-PF and CCC candidates during a Nomination court sitting at Gweru m...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 06:28hrs | 607 | by Staff reporter
Tenda bus accident 1 dead, 32 injured
ONE passenger perished while 32 others were injured after a Tenda bus which was traveling from Harare to Mutare overturned on Thursday in Rusape.The fatal accident occurred around 4pm at...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:34hrs | 996 | by Staff reporter
Bloodbath in Tshabalala head-on accident
A FUEL attendant who witnessed a head-on collision involving a Honda Fit and a Nissan Elgrand where Nketa Drive and Imhlotshana Road intersect near Tshabalala suburb rushed to the scene and was greete...Published: 21 Jul 2022 at 06:41hrs | 1587 | by Staff reporter
'Killer cop' granted bail
ONE of the Highglen police officers charged with causing the death of a pedestrian, Trymore Chinyamakobvu as they wrestled with a commuter omnibus driver has been granted $40 000 bail.Job Mapf...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 06:42hrs | 899 | by Staff reporter
Bogus cop in hot soup
A 30-YEAR-OLD Bindura man who purported to be a traffic cop before demanding a bribe from an accident victim has been arrested.Ke...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 00:14hrs | 771 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mliswa survives car accident
MASHONALAND West Provincial Affairs minister, Mary Mliswa-Chikoka is lucky to be alive after a speeding commuter omnibus rammed into her official off-roader, a maroon Toyota Land Cruiser Prado VX....Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 18:40hrs | 3096 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF shows mobilisation power in Gokwe?
Zanu-PF's mass mobilisation muscle and grip even at the grassroots level was again at show in Gokwe at the weekend after over 8 000 voters turned out for the Gokwe-Kabuyuni primary elections.F...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 06:09hrs | 274 | by Staff reporter
New details of 'Passion Java accident' emerge
FIFTY-seven-year-old Tangai Tandi gazes into the sky with tear-filled eyes as if to ask the heavens why."Nature has it that children bury their parents. It's painful and difficult for a parent...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:13hrs | 779 | by Staff reporter
Pedestrian crushed to death by haulage truck
A 52-year-old man died on the spot after his head was crushed by a haulage truck in Gweru on Sunday.Midlands provincial police spokesperson Inspector Emmanuel Mahoko confirmed the fatal accide...Published: 13 Jul 2022 at 07:19hrs | 488 | by Staff reporter
Passion Java pleads innocence, says he was out of the country when accident occurred
SELF proclaimed prophet Passion Java has said he was out of the country when one of his vehicles hit and killed a pedestrian along Seke road, near Jongwe corner Tuesday.The BMW vehicle, which ...Published: 06 Jul 2022 at 18:11hrs | 1660 | by Staff reporter
Two perish in a Honda Fit crash
Two people died while 7 were injured on Tuesday morning at Harmony farm in Glendale along the Harare Bindura highway when two Honda Fit vehicl...Published: 05 Jul 2022 at 22:14hrs | 2666 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Police investigating alleged Passion Java accident
POLICE are investigating an accident in which a Harare woman was Tuesday allegedly hit by one of Zanu-PF sympathiser and self-styled prophet Passion Java's cars, dying on the spot as he sped off....Published: 05 Jul 2022 at 21:06hrs | 2980 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sets Gokwe-Kabuyuni by-election date
President Mnangagwa has fixed Saturday 27 August 2022 as the date on which Gokwe-Kabuyuni by-election will be held to fill in the vacancy created by the death of Leornard Chikomba.In a Statuto...Published: 05 Jul 2022 at 07:01hrs | 292 | by Staff reporter
Car hits five students, 1 killed, 4 injured
ONE pupil died on the spot while four others escaped with injuries after they were hit by a car while waiting for transport at Zhombe East turnoff.The incident happened at a bus stop on Friday...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 19:06hrs | 1487 | by Staff reporter
21-cattle loss: 8 family members on suicide watch
MALE and female members of a Nkayi family in Matabeleland North Province, who lost 21 cattle after dozing them with a deadly grain protectant, have been sleeping in the same room since the fatal accid...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 08:33hrs | 294 | by Staff reporter
Zambia-bound truck spills 35 tonnes of sulphur
A Zambia-bound truck laden with 35 tonnes of sulphur overturned and caught fire at the 311km peg along the Harare-Chirundu Highway, near Tsetse checkpoint in Hurungwe District with preliminary investi...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 08:32hrs | 241 | by Staff reporter
Cop crashes into Chief Zvimba's car
AN un-licenced police officer has been convicted for negligent driving after he lost control of his speeding vehicle and rammed into a traditional leader's car.Nomatter Enock (35), who is at Z...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:49hrs | 2116 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo linked to inflated Belarus fire tenders scandal
LOCAL government minister July Moyo was this Monday the subject of another corruption allegation storm over the procurement of fire-fighting vehicles from Belarus.Moyo is reportedly under inve...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 06:46hrs | 1441 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Matobo chair dies in accident
Zanu-PF party Matobo district chairman Obert Moyo died on Saturday evening after his vehicle was involved in a head-on collision along the Matobo-Bulawayo road.Moyo was coming back from a cere...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 06:43hrs | 1317 | by Staff reporter
Chief Nekatamba still hospitalised
CHIEF Nekatambe of Dete, Hwange District in Matabeleland North who was involved in a car accident recently, is reportedly recovering at Mater Dei Hospital in Bulawayo where he is still admitted....Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 06:35hrs | 203 | by Staff reporter
Mutambara owned bus crash victims rise to 7
The number of people who died in a road accident in South Africa when a Harare-bound bus overturned near Makhado in Limpopo Province last week has risen from five to seven after two more people succum...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 17:44hrs | 2943 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Dembare star Mushunje dies
Former Dynamos and Ngezi Platinum Stars midfielder Barnabas Mushunje, who was now playing his trade for Northern Region Division One side Simba Bhora, has died.Mushunje (24), was involved in c...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 09:05hrs | 593 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean-born mayor Chikoto feted in UK
Newly-elected United Kingdom's Corby Town mayor, Zimbabwean-born Mr Tafadzwa Chikoto, wrote another piece of history yesterday when he was hoisted during the town's Corby Poll Fair marking the Queen's...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 19:52hrs | 385 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
5 Zimbabweans killed, 56 injured in SA accident
Five people, believed to be Zimbabweans, were killed while 56 were injured when a bus they were travelling in overturned on the N1 North outside Louis Trichardt in Limpopo on Wednesday evening....Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 07:44hrs | 600 | by Staff reporter
If Zimbabweans don't need to be reminded of painful history why does regime keep telling us about colonialism?
So, the Zimbabwe ruling establishment believes that the people of this country - especially, those who suffered the brunt of the regime's unimaginable cru...Published: 31 May 2022 at 19:48hrs | 819 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
JSC, former judge fight over vehicle
THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has filed an urgent chamber application at the High Court to repossess a Mercedes Benz vehicle issued to former judge, Justice Erica Ndewere who was dismissed las...Published: 31 May 2022 at 06:29hrs | 625 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP dies in car accident
ZANU PF Gokwe-Kabuyuni MP, Leonard Chikomba has died.He was 67.ZANU PF Midlands Provincial Chairperson, Senator Larry Mavima said Hon Chikomba died in a car accident this evening...Published: 30 May 2022 at 07:18hrs | 1923 | by Staff reporter
3 Zimbabweans die in SA crash
A YOUNG Zimbabwean couple based in Cape Town, South Africa, and a friend died last week in an accident which occurred just outside Polokwane in South Africa's Limpopo province.The couple, Wend...Published: 30 May 2022 at 07:02hrs | 1276 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF is intolerate, period!
LAST week we expressed our serious reservations over the ruling Zanu-PF's conduct as far as respecting this country's laws after its women's league members unlawfully used a school bus to travel to Fi...Published: 30 May 2022 at 07:01hrs | 305 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP dies in car accident
ZANU PF Gokwe-Kabuyuni MP, Hon Leo...Published: 29 May 2022 at 00:34hrs | 4569 | by Staff reporter
Pedestrian dies in a hit and run accident
A 53 YEAR-OLD Bindura man was hit and run by an unkwnon motor vehicle on Wednesday night and died upon admission at Bindura hospital.De...Published: 28 May 2022 at 19:07hrs | 1527 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Command burial as Chiwenga presides over chief's burial
VICE PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga is today expected to preside over the burial of Chief Mabhikwa of Lupane at his rural home in Jotsholo, Matabeleland North. President Mnangagwa yesterday ac...Published: 28 May 2022 at 08:49hrs | 1296 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF plays fast on Chamisa
ZANU PF Mazowe district has reportedly hijacked the memorial service of the late Shelton Zongoro who was fatally run over by a ZANU PF official in March at Chaona growth point in Chiweshe, Mazowe ward...Published: 27 May 2022 at 13:22hrs | 4171 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zanu-PF setting very bad example
A BUS belonging to a school in Masvingo was this week involved in a serious accident. Aboard the bus were some women who are members of the ruling Zanu-PF party.The women were on their way to ...Published: 27 May 2022 at 06:49hrs | 387 | by Staff reporter
Chief Mabhikwa: cause of death revealed
The late Chief Mabhikwa of Lupane lost a lot of blood after being involved in a head-on collision with a haulage truck on Sunday night leading to his death, his family has said, citing post-mortem res...Published: 27 May 2022 at 06:45hrs | 1102 | by Staff reporter
Gone too soon! Chief Mabhikwa (28) dies in horror car crash
CHIEF Mabhikwa of Lupane who died yesterday after his vehicle crashed head on with a haulage truck on Sunday night has been described as a humble cultural preservationist of outstanding leadership qua...Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:21hrs | 678 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga mourns accident victims
Acting President Constantino Chiwenga has consoled families of the four people who died in an accident involving two Zupco buses yesterday along the Harare-Chirundu highway.In a statement last...Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:18hrs | 154 | by Staff reporter
7 dead, 32 injured in Zupco buses head-on collision
Seven people died while 32 others were injured this morning after two Zupco buses collided head-on along the Harare-Chirundu Road.The accident occurred around 7.45am at the 101km peg.N...Published: 23 May 2022 at 12:44hrs | 1945 | by Staff reporter
Boardroom coup to topple Matabele leader backfires on Chamisa
When it comes to tribalism in Zimbabwe, CCC aka MDC and ZANU-PF lead. To put it in other words, ZANU-PF is the first anti- Matabele Shona project and first home for Shona supremacists in Zimbabwe and ...Published: 21 May 2022 at 16:12hrs | 636 | by Israel Dube
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