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Zanu-PF MP dies in car accident
ZANU PF Gokwe-Kabuyuni MP, Hon Leo...Published: 12 hrs ago | 2615 | 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: 18 hrs ago | 985 | 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 | 859 | 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 | 4026 | 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 | 325 | 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 | 903 | by Staff reporter
Woman killed in Beitbridge bus accident
ONE woman died on the spot, while six others were injured on Monday evening after a Harare bound MB bus they were travelling in hit a stray cow about 78 kilometres away from Beitbridge.Officer...Published: 26 May 2022 at 06:25hrs | 602 | by Staff reporter
New toll fees raise dust
MOTORISTS are crying foul after the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) hiked toll fees by 73%, which will result in long-distance transporters hiking fares.In a statement, Zinara ...Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:34hrs | 391 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe commemorates Africa Day
As Zimbabwe joins the rest of the continent today in commemorating Africa Day, Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) chairman Christopher Mutsvangwa has reprimanded regime cha...Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:30hrs | 153 | 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 | 657 | 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 | 151 | 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 | 1916 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Chief Mabhikwa dies in a car accident
Lupane traditional leader, Vusumuzi Khumalo, better known as Chief Mabhikwa has died. Chief Mabhikwa was involved in a fatal car crash. ...Published: 23 May 2022 at 10:38hrs | 5362 | 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 | 617 | by Israel Dube
Police name Colleen Bawn mine collapse victims
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has named the seven miners who lost their lives Saturday after hoisting ropes to a cage bringing them up the shaft snapped at Bucks Mine in Collen Bawn, Gwanda, Mata...Published: 19 May 2022 at 19:02hrs | 1135 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP's son jailed for killing motorist
Son to Mutoko North legislator Rambidzai Nyabote, Pardon was sentenced to an effective one-year imprisonment for killing a motorist in a road traffic accident yesterday.Mutoko magistrate Elija...Published: 19 May 2022 at 13:03hrs | 3158 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Mutoko
'Relocate vendors from Bulawayo CBD'
RESIDENTS have asked the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to relocate vendors to unoccupied industrial sites to decongest the central business district (CBD).Speaking at a virtual meeting between r...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:39hrs | 590 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Kariba activists injured in Uhuru accident seek help
Zanu-PF members from Kariba, who were recently injured in a horrific road traffic accident, are appealing for financial assistance to meet hospital bills and other needs.Among the injured is C...Published: 18 May 2022 at 18:46hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
Injured Zimbabwean civil servants fail to pay medical bills
ACCIDENT victims injured in an accident that happened in Kariba on Independence Day are failing to pay medicals bills prompting some residents to cry foul.Two Kariba residents Maxton Kanhema a...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | 1305 | by Staff reporter
Bodies of seven miners retrieved from shaft
THREE nights of pumping water out of the 240-metre-deep shaft at Bucks Mine in Colleen where seven miners have been trapped underground since Saturday were met with dead silence when the first body wa...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:20hrs | 938 | by Fungi Kwaramba
ZRP releases names of accident victims
Police have released the names of five people who were killed in a road traffic accident last Thursday when a Toyota Wish they were travelling in rammed the back of a stationary Iveco Truck which had ...Published: 17 May 2022 at 19:57hrs | 1261 | by Staff reporter
ZANU-PF official dies in car crash
ZANU PF youth secretary for administration from Tafara 1 North has reportedly died in a traffic accident this morning.The youth secretary Tatenda Gaza died on the spot while two others were se...Published: 17 May 2022 at 16:33hrs | 7630 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Hope amid fear as relatives await fate of miners
FAMILY members of seven miners from Bucks Mine in Colleen Bawn sit around small fires and watch helplessly as rescue workers go in and out of the shaft where their relatives have been trapped undergro...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:34hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
7 feared dead in mine collapse
SEVEN miners from Bucks Mine in Colleen Bawn are feared dead after hoisting ropes to a skip bringing them up the shaft from underground snapped, plunging them back on a free-fall of about 200 meters....Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:20hrs | 437 | by Staff reporter
ZRP instantly outlaws use of spikes
ZIMBABWE Republic Police (ZRP) Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has banned outlawed the use of hand held metal spikes by law enforcements agents follow...Published: 13 May 2022 at 16:57hrs | 515 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Five people perish in a Toyota Wish accident
Police in Mazowe said five people died along the Harare-Bindura highway yesterday when a Toyota Wish they were travelling in rammed into a sta...Published: 13 May 2022 at 16:46hrs | 762 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Mazowe
Parly summons Kazembe over spikes
PARLIAMENT has summoned Home affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe to explain why the police were using metal spikes to deflate "errant drivers" car tyres.Parliament raised the issue after police t...Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:33hrs | 1541 | by Staff reporter
Car accident victims struggle for compensation
MS Sibangeni Moyo (53) from Bulawayo's Tshabalala suburb says whenever she closes her eyes, the vision of an accident which killed her sister and left her wheelchair-bound comes back.She was i...Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:28hrs | 240 | by Staff reporter
One dies, four injured in Zupco freak accident
One person reportedly died while four others were injured when a commuter omnibus they were travelling on crashed on a Nissan Sunny at an intersection along the Bulawayo-Harare Road opposite Parklands...Published: 11 May 2022 at 19:20hrs | 1563 | by Stephen Jakes
South Africa ranked the most dangerous country - report
SA roads have been ranked the most dangerous to drive in out of 52 countries, according to a survey conducted by Zutobi, an online driver's education company. The survey considered factors inc...Published: 11 May 2022 at 18:21hrs | 2008 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF quakes over shutdown
Zanu-PF Bulawayo provincial leadership has been shaken by recent calls for a national shutdown by pressure group Pachedu and number of student organisations.The calls for a shutdown arose from...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:10hrs | 2607 | by Staff reporter
Time to protect people from their churches
VERY little is known about one of the worst religion-related mass murders and tragedies that occurred in Uganda in 2000 in which 700 Ugandans died. More is known about the 1978 Jonestown massacre in G...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:20hrs | 384 | by Miriam Tose Majome
UFP statement on the Mutare fatal accident caused by police spikes
The United Freedom Party (UFP) notes with great concern the fatal accident where four people died and eight were seriously injured when police threw a spike on a moving commuter omnibus near Mutare on...Published: 06 May 2022 at 13:34hrs | 1216 | by UFP
DOP president sobs in court
Democratic Opposition Party (DOP) president Peter Harry Wilson has been found guilty of culpable homicide after his wife died in a horrific car accident in which they were involved.Wilson (62)...Published: 05 May 2022 at 18:47hrs | 899 | by Staff reporter
'I was run over by 2 cars in an accident' Byo artist Pronix opens up
Bulawayo based Afro Jazz sensation Pronix (real name Prosper Ndebele) was run over by two cars during an accident that almost left him crippled for life. The artist who was brought to prominen...Published: 05 May 2022 at 16:45hrs | 657 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ZRP blitz claims four lives as Kombi overturns after cop throws spike
THE ongoing police blitz against commuter omnibuses and pirate taxis has claimed its first victims after a police officer threw a spike at a moving minibus, resulting in it overturning and killing fou...Published: 04 May 2022 at 20:07hrs | 1996 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents call for traffic circles
BULAWAYO residents have proposed the construction of traffic circles (roundabouts) along the city and main roads to curb fatal accidents at intersections following a horrific accident that killed six ...Published: 02 May 2022 at 08:03hrs | 329 | by Staff reporter
Aggrieved motorist sues city of Harare and govt for gross negligence
A ZIMBABWEAN motorist is suing City of Harare and Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure Development for more than US$15 000 in damages caused to his vehicle which fell into an open and unmarked dit...Published: 01 May 2022 at 20:50hrs | 741 | by Stephen Jakes
Man killed with hammer in cigarette fight
A dispute over a cigarette ended in murder after a Filabusi man struck another with a hammer on the head.Police on their twitter page confirmed the incident which occurred at Sidzibe Business ...Published: 01 May 2022 at 14:14hrs | 527 | by Staff reporter
Police officer dies in accident
A POLICE officer died yesterday morning after he was involved in an accident when his car collided with a Zupco bus along Khami Road in Bulawayo.National police spokesman Assistant Commissione...Published: 01 May 2022 at 11:15hrs | 332 | by Staff reporter
100-ambulance boost for health sector
GOVERNMENT has taken delivery of 100 ambulances that are set to be distributed across the country's 10 provinces soon as authorities ramp up efforts to improve service delivery at public health instit...Published: 01 May 2022 at 11:09hrs | 96 | by Staff reporter
Minor dies in scotchcart accident
A six year old from Mbire district died in a donkey drawn scotch cart accident on Thursday.According to police the now deceased Lucia Z...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 19:28hrs | 453 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
'Clive Chigubu last joke mocked Zim health system'
It begins with a C. It isn't Clive or Chigubu. It's cancer. That he was in pain and couldn't get medical attention should never escape our minds. That he had been booked for an appointment and arrived...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 08:32hrs | 683 | by Robert Mukondiwa
Zimbabwean mechanic dies in freak work accident in Botswana
A Zimbabwean aged 50 employed as a mechanic by the Mupane Gold Mine in Botswana died while pumping a Load Haul Dump (LHD) loader tyre that exploded on him.Mupane general manager, Cedric Samtol...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 07:16hrs | 1133 | by Stephen Jakes
Hit and run driver kills 30-year-old Bulawayo man
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has reported that it is investigating a suspected hit and run road traffic accident in which the body of a 30-year-old man was found lying in the middle of the road near S...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:17hrs | 915 | by Mandla Ndlovu
PHOTO: 5 people burnt to death at Mbalabala-Masvingo road
Five people were burnt beyond recognition after being involved in a road accident along Masvingo-Mbalabala Road on Tuesday afternoon. According to police, a Toyota Mark X from Masvingo collide...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 08:34hrs | 1858 | by Mandla Ndlovu
One dies in a head on collision accident
ONE person dies while seven others among them five family members from Cowdray Park cheated death by a whisker when a Toyota Vitz collided head on with their Mazda Familia at a 70km peg along Harare- ...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 08:04hrs | 802 | by Stephen Jakes
Six Harare poly staff escape death by a whisker
Six Harare polytechnic members escaped death by a whisker when the bus they were travelling on was involved in an accident on Sunday.The driver of the bus lost control of the bus at 374 km on ...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 10:32hrs | 2251 | by Stephen Jakes
2 dead as train ploughs into Honda Fit at Harare railway crossing
Two people were killed when a train ploughed into a vehicle at a railway crossing in Harare on Tuesday morning.The driver of a Honda Fit vehicle drove into the path of the train at a railway l...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:52hrs | 1039 | by Staff reporter
Tanker explodes on Harare-Chirundu highway
A tanker ferrying an unidentified hazardous substance exploded while in motion along the Harare-Chirundu highway on Sunday.In a statement, the Environmental Management Agency (EMA), said the e...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:39hrs | 1188 | by Staff reporter
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