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Zimbabwe's aviation sector soars with 24.8% passenger traffic surge
Zimbabwe's aviation industry is showing strong signs of recovery, with passenger traffic surging by 24.8% in the first half of 2024. The Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (Caaz) revealed this posit...Published: 05 Oct 2024 at 16:36hrs | 312 | by Staff reporter
NRZ eyes new passenger coaches to win back public trust
The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) urgently needs new passenger coaches to resume its transportation services and compete with private buses in terms of ambience and speed, according to General M...Published: 22 Jul 2024 at 15:29hrs | 3507 | by Staff reporter
Tragic end to fight for passengers
A 34-year-old rank marshal from Nkulumane 12 in Bulawayo, Saul Ncube, has been arrested for attempted murder after allegedly stabbing a fellow tout during a fight over passengers. Bulawayo pol...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 07:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Illegal regime change in Zimbabwe already happened in 2017!
Recent utterances by President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have raised an issue that has bedeviled Zimbabwe for the past few decades. In his wild alle...Published: 13 Jun 2024 at 22:23hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Security roadblock fleeing cop wanted
An unlicensed Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officer Felix Nyakurerwa (36) who fled from a roadblock along Harare-Mukumbura road while clad in police uniform driving a Toyota Wish with seven passenger...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 18:17hrs | 6 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Concesion
Criminal law amendment will close loopholes, says Zanu-PF
The Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Amendment Act, which was signed into law last Thursday by President Mnangagwa, closes loopholes that were previously taken advantage of by the country's erst...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 06:52hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Cop flees from security roadblock
An unlicensed Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officer who fled from a roadblock along Harare-Mukumbura road while clad in police uniform driving a To...Published: 20 Feb 2023 at 13:25hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole in Concesion
22-seater Zimbabwean kombi with 32 passengers impounded in SA
A 22-seater bus travelling from Zimbabwe to Cape Town, South Africa, was recently stopped on N1 while carrying 36 undocumented Zimbabweans foreign passengers.Transport spokesperson Tidimalo Ch...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 14:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rhodesians conquering Antarctica tweet shakes internet
A TWEET celebrating three white people holding a Rhodesian flag at the Antarctica has shaken the social media platform, reaching over two million people most of whom have described them as ‘racist r...Published: 13 Jan 2023 at 05:52hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Passenger group urges citizens to report overcharging transport operators
THE Passengers Association of Zimbabwe (PAZ) has urged citizens to report any incidents of overcharging by commuter omnibus operators in a bid to weed out errant business practices.The call co...Published: 13 Jan 2023 at 05:51hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala case clouds Zimbabwe's Commonwealth readmission bid
UNITED Kingdom (UK)'s House of Lords member Kate Hoey has said Zimbabwe must not be re-admitted into the Commonwealth club over the country's deteriorating human rights record and continued detention ...Published: 06 Jan 2023 at 18:11hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Accident kills six, injures nine along Kwekwe-Gokwe highway
Six people died while nine others were injured yesterday when a Scania truck rammed into a Nissan Caravan at the 60 kilometre peg along Kwewe-Gokwe highwa...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 15:56hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Passengers lose cash, cellphones to robbers
A gang of four armed robbers in a red Honda Fit registration number AFD8585 offered lifts in Harare and attacked their passengers in two incidents and stole cash, cellphones and valuables.Poli...Published: 28 Nov 2022 at 04:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Passenger murdered in road accident scene bust-up
A road traffic accident scene bust-up ended in tragedy after a passenger who had joined an argument over the cause of the road mishap was beaten up by occupants of the other vehicle and later died fro...Published: 19 Nov 2022 at 17:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tout killed over passengers
A tout from Mberengwa, Honest Shoko (26) recently killed a colleague while fighting over passengers, the Zimbabwe Republic Police has announced.Midlands police spokesperson Emmanuel Mahoko con...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opposition set for Armageddon in 2023
What a hugely important and symbolic week this will be for Zimbabwe.On Tuesday, African voices, particularly those from Southern Africa, will rise to a crescendo, as they continue to speak out...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 09:08hrs | | by Bishop Lazarus
18 passengers cheat death as Harare-bound bus catches fire
Eighteen passengers early today cheated death after a Harare-bound BM Transport bus they were travelling on caught fire on the outskirts of Masvingo city along the Harare-Masvingo highway.All ...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 18:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's airline passengers to rise 80%
AIR passenger numbers into Zimbabwe's airports will rise above pre-pandemic levels this year, as traffic improves in the aftermath of hard lockdowns globally, Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (Caa...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 09:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Precedent that undermines credibility of Human Rights Council
On April 7, the UN General Assembly decided to suspend Russia's membership in the Human Rights Council. This establishes a destructive precedent not only for the future of the Human Rights Cou...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Alfred de Zayas
When the police officer is actually a thug
CRISES bring out the best or worst in people.Well, for Britain, the current fuel shortages have brought out the bad and nasty side of a people that we are told are supposedly more civilised th...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:10hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
Three die in a road accident
THREE people died while three others are battling for life after a Toyota Allion they were travelling in hit a hump at 30 kilometer peg along Mazowe Cente...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 20:39hrs | 9 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Transport crisis now a security threat: Passengers
THE Passengers Association of Zimbabwe (PAZ) has petitioned Parliament to intervene and help end the country's worsening public transport situation which has resulted in commuters falling victim to mu...Published: 27 Aug 2021 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Madhuku says Zimbabwe's proposed Patriotic Bill is dangerous
Zimbabwe is planning to introduce a law to punish people who are deemed "unpatriotic" because they criticise the country when abroad - and it has left activists feeling nervous.Constitutional ...Published: 12 May 2021 at 10:44hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's plan to outlaw 'unpatriotic acts'
Zimbabwe is planning to introduce a law to punish people who are deemed "unpatriotic" because they criticise the country when abroad - and it has left activists feeling nervous.Constitutional ...Published: 12 May 2021 at 08:28hrs | | by BBC
Two die, eight seriously injured in separate accidents
TWO people died and eight others are hospitalized in separate road traffic accidents on Wednesday in Mashonaland Central province....Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 21:53hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zupco snub leaves commuters stranded
Commuters from Robert Sinyoka in Bulawayo were yesterday left stranded in the CBD after ZUPCO withdrew its buses citing bad roads. Robert Sinyoka and Mazwi village are peri-urban settlements a...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
20 passengers miss flights after NHS bungling
DISGRUNTLED Ethiopian Airways passengers yesterday expressed disappointment over what they said was poor service delivery by the National Handling Services (NHS), which closed airport check-in bays ea...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kombi operators deal with potholes
A team of kombi operators in Highfield, Harare gave back to the community by filling potholes at Machipisa shopping centre on Friday morning.The good Samaritans told Bulawayo24.com that pothol...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 10:11hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimra finally clears stranded travellers
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) staff in Beitbridge have finally processed the customs procedures for 366 Zimbabweans returning from South Africa in 12 buses whom they had refused to clear on S...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 06:26hrs | 8 | by Staff writer
Emirates in passenger ill-treatment storm
A UNITED KINGDOM (UK) based Zimbabwean woman living with disability has taken Asian airline, Emirates, head-on over her alleged ill-treatment by the cabin crew on her flight to Harare two years ago....Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Africa has no divine duty to heed the West
IT'S quite refreshing that many Africans - both black and white - have refused to submit to Eurocentrism, where all things from the West are viewed in utopian terms in which everything is projected as...Published: 03 May 2019 at 06:48hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Assange arrested
Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has been arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.Mr Assange took refuge in the embassy seven years ago to avoid extradition to Sweden over a sexual ass...Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 11:03hrs | | by BBC
'We saw fire consume fellow passengers'
A SOMBRE atmosphere fills the air as relatives and passers-by watch in disbelief at the charred remains of a bus which has somewhat been turned into a mass grave.The remains of people that hav...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 07:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fastjet set to fly 500,000 passengers on its Zimbabwean routes this year.
LOW cost airline Fastjet says it is on course to fly almost 500 000 passengers on its Zimbabwean routes this year.Hein Kaiser, the group's spokesperson, said the regional airline carries aroun...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 14:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
NRZ opens premier coaches to individual passenger bookings
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has opened its premier class coaches to individual passenger bookings following demand for the service by travellers. Prior to this decision the premier...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 06:46hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
CEO reassures all fastjet passengers
Fastjet - the budget African airline founded by Stelios Haji-Ioannou - reassuring all fastjet passengers, the travel industry and our partners that the company will continue to operate in a state of '...Published: 30 Jun 2018 at 19:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe leaves passengers stranded
Scores of passengers were left stranded at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport yesterday morning after an Air Zimbabwe flight to Bulawayo took to the skies two hours earlier than scheduled....Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 08:42hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
NRZ records 50% surge in passengers
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has recorded a 50% increase in the number of passengers using its trains following the deployment of new coaches early this year, an official has claimed....Published: 02 Jun 2018 at 15:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pedestrian dies, 7 passengers injured in overtaking crash
The wreckage of the commuter omnibus which fatally struck a pedestrian before it crashed injuring seven passengers along the Bulawayo-Tsholotsho RoadAN overtaking commuter omnibus fatally ...Published: 11 Apr 2018 at 07:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Drivers, passengers injured in traffic accident
A NUMBER of people were injured in a pile-up after a Landela Masuwe Lodge staff bus rammed into a Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission Distribution Company (Zetdc) truck that had hit a donkey-drawn scotc...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe should be jailed for his murderous crimes
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is now 93-years-old, and one can not help wondering when he will face justice for all the murderous crimes he committed on the people of this country.Have the ...Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 07:54hrs | | by Kelvin Kudenga
FBI director threatens WikiLeaks, Assange
FBI Director James Comey lashed out at WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, calling the anti-secrecy organisation a hostile intelligence service and suggesting that Assange would have been taken ...Published: 05 May 2017 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
CIA's biggest spying secrets revealed by Wikileaks
WikiLeaks has released a huge set of files that it calls "Year Zero" and which mark the biggest exposure of CIA spying secrets ever.The massive set of documents - over 8,000 pages in all -...Published: 08 Mar 2017 at 13:13hrs | | by theindependent
WATCH: Saudi Arabia and Qatar funding ISIS and Clinton
Whistleblower Julian Assange has given one of his most incendiary interviews ever in a John Pilger Special, courtesy of Dartmouth Films, in which he summarizes what can be gleaned from the tens of tho...Published: 05 Nov 2016 at 17:47hrs | | by youtube
Hillary Clinton and ISIS funded by same money
In the second excerpt from the John Pilger Special, to be exclusively broadcast by RT on Saturday, courtesy of Dartmouth Films, Julian Assange accuses Hillary Clinton of misleading Americans about the...Published: 04 Nov 2016 at 11:16hrs | | by RT
Internet Surveillance not peculiar to Zimbabwe
Internet surveillance propounded by the Computers crimes and cyber crimes bill, is not peculiar to Zimbabwe. The global powers, like the US government, which claim to practice the most advanced democr...Published: 19 Aug 2016 at 07:47hrs | | by Sparkleford Masiyambiri
The case for Internet regulation
The Internet is not only a conduit of nefarious activities but a domain of sophisticated crime which any nation would need to regulate. Other countries have already addressed this by putting in place ...Published: 16 Aug 2016 at 06:48hrs | | by Nick Mangwana
Zupco bus with Regina Mundi pupils catch fire
The Zimbabwe United Passangers Company known with the acronym ZUPCO (in picture) went in up in flames this afternoon along Nyamayendlovu road.The bus was carrying school children travelling ...Published: 02 May 2016 at 16:00hrs | 6 | by Thobekile Zhou
Luxury coaches in trouble for picking passangers at Bulawayo hotels
LUXURY coaches that pick and drop passengers at some of Bulawayo's hotels are likely to face the full wrath of the law after it emerged that it is illegal to rank at these sites as no bus - be it luxu...Published: 03 Jan 2016 at 10:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe explains mid-air raw sewage mishap
Air Zimbabwe yesterday played down a mid-air mishap which happened on Sunday where raw effluent reportedly gushed out of its Johannesburg-bound plane's toilet bowl and spilled into the cabin. Passange...Published: 09 Dec 2015 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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