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21 km of Hwedza - Mushandirapwe road opened to traffic
Transport and Infrastructure Development Minister Felix Mhona officially opened a newly upgraded 21-kilometer stretch of the Hwedza-Mushandiramwe road today. The upgrade was carried out by Mas...Published: 21 Aug 2024 at 16:19hrs | 583 | by Staff reporter
Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Botswana mull tripartite rail project
Mozambique is negotiating the upgrade of the regional railway system from Beira through Zimbabwe to Botswana, including a proposed new line into central Botswana, according to President Filipe Nyusi. ...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 07:42hrs | 35 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe starts railway line repairs
Work has started to repair the country's railway network in line with the national vision to modernise infrastructure, Transport and Infrastructure Development Minister Felix Mhona told the National A...Published: 21 Jun 2024 at 11:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
3 die in NRZ crash
THREE National Railways of Zimbabwe workers perished following a fatal train accident which occurred between Mutare and Machipanda at around 9 pm last night.In a statement, the NRZ said prelim...Published: 20 Feb 2024 at 09:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, Mozambique agree to refurbish, expand rail link
Zimbabwe and Mozambique have agreed to refurbish and extend the 10km railway line that stretches from Machipanda to Mutare within the next three months.Both Transport Ministers yesterday confi...Published: 20 Jan 2024 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to support Mozambique ports project
Speaking during a wide-ranging press briefing at the ruling Zanu-PF party headquarters in Harare yesterday, national spokesperson Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa said a number of ports are under dev...Published: 16 Jan 2024 at 04:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Forbes Border Post starts 24-hour service
FORBES Border Post just outside Mutare will be running 24 hours from Monday to cope with the growth in haulage truck traffic and use of Beira port, Zimbabwe's closest access to the sea.Forbes ...Published: 13 Jan 2024 at 06:47hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Manhize production expected to start in February 2024
Production at the Dinson Iron and Steel Company plant in Manhize, Mvuma is expected to commence in February next year with the company targeting to produce three iron and steel products by October....Published: 29 Dec 2023 at 06:58hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's billion-dollar petroleum pipeline project on course
PROCUREMENT of equipment that will be used in the construction of Zimbabwe's second petroleum pipeline project valued at over US$1 billion is on course, the deal maker of the lucrative project told th...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 11:46hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe ally ready to come back to Zimbabwe
FORMER Manicaland Minister of State for Provincial Affairs Ms Mandiitawepi Chimene, who is currently holed up in self-imposed exile in Mozambique, says she is ready to come back home, claiming she is ...Published: 24 Nov 2023 at 05:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rehabilitaterail line boon for Zimbabwe - Mozambique trade
ZIMBABWE, as a land-linked country, continues to benefit from use of Mozambican ports, railways and road infrastructure for the movement of both imports and exports, and, in that regard, the commissio...Published: 24 Nov 2023 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tells exiled Mandi Chimene to come back home
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has told exiled G40 politician Mandi Chimene to "come back home" after the former Zanu-PF rivals met in Mozambique Thursday through the facilitation of the neighbouring co...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 22:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZimbabwePorts of entry get boost
GOVERNMENT has started overhauling and refurbishing three of the country's major ports of entry and highways that connect Zimbabwe to the region.The country is looking to cement its status as ...Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 09:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man killed over maize plants, onions and sugarcane
A 79-year-old man was killed in Mvurwi on Friday after he was accused of uprooting some maize plants, onions and sugarcane from the assailant's garden.Police have since arrested Francisca Muto...Published: 24 Apr 2023 at 20:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa salutes private sector
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday saluted the country's private sector which has risen to the occasion through the production of the majority of goods found in local supermarkets.This is testimony...Published: 11 Mar 2023 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mozambique decline to hand over fugitive Wedza triple murder suspect to Zimbabwe?
Victims of triple murder suspect Jaison Muvevi could wait for many months, even years, to get justice after Mozambican authorities said they would try him on gun charges.Muvevi was on the run ...Published: 16 Jan 2023 at 18:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Works affect Forbes Border Post
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) says installation works for an automatic high-rapid speed boom barrier at Forbes Border Post have affected the border post's traffic handling capacity.Fo...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 04:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Machipanda border post to operate 24/7 from December
THE Machipanda border post in Manica province, the main crossing point between Mozambique and Zimbabwe, will start operating 24 hours a day from December this year. Currently the border post o...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga pleads with business
VICE-President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday pleaded with the business community to practise "ethical business ethos" and desist from unjustified price hikes.Officially opening the internatio...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 09:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, Mozambique push for one-stop border posts
Zimbabwe and Mozambique are pushing for the implementation of agreed projects including the setting up of a pair of one-stop border posts at Forbes-Machipanda and Nyamapanda-Cuchamano and the construc...Published: 11 Nov 2021 at 06:19hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Turkish investors arrive for NRZ deal
The recapitalisation of the National Railways of Zimbabwe is pacing up, with representatives of the Turkish construction company Yapi Merkezi that is keen to invest in the railway firm, arriving in Zi...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
New dry port identified in Marange
GOVERNMENT has identified a site to construct a new dry port to cater for commercial cargo between Zimbabwe and Mozambique via Forbes Border Port near Mutare.The new site has been identified i...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 07:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
War vets want more cash
WAR veterans in Karoi have demanded more cash from Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, instead of being given loans for income-generating projects.The issue arose during a public hearing on the 202...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rehabilitation of Beira-Zimbabwe railroad underway
The Mozambique Ports and Railway Company (CFM) on Wednesday started to replace tracks on the railway line connecting the port city of Beira to Machipanda, on the border with landlocked&nbs...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 16:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Forbes Border Post imports decline by 40%
Forbes Border Post has recorded a 40% decline in cargo imports to a daily average of 200 this year from 330 in 2018, statistics from the Mutare Dry Port show. The current figure grew from low daily vo...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 21:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZAPU RSA provincial press statement on the province's roadmap to provincial conference and national congress
Zimbabwe African People's Union South Africa Provincial leadership Council sat on 04 October 2020 to take stock of the progress that has been made and the shortfalls that still need to be covered. ...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 13:20hrs | 1 | by Cde Godfrey Viki
Mealie meal price set to go up
THE Grain Millers' Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) says the country should brace for an increase in the price of mealie meal in the next few days in line with the new producer prices. In an int...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
List of Zimbabwe police officers being transferred
FROM COMPOL [HRA] TO ALL STNS CLASS ‘A’ RDO TM 375/18 DD 11/10/18'IMMEDIATE'SUBJECT: TRANSFERS: OFFICERS AND...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 20:02hrs | 11 | by Compol HRA
Zanu-PF activist nabbed over PRC posters
A Zanu-PF activist based in Zaka was arrested for allegedly pulling down campaign posters for opposition People's Rainbow Coalition (PRC) parliamentary candidate, Peter Mahlekete.Edward Chipan...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt mulls 3 more border posts
GOVERNMENT is set to establish three new ports of entry along the Zimbabwe-Mozambique border to facilitate the smooth flow of goods and people between the two countries. The initiative is part...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Setback for Kasukuwere
Work towards the rehabilitation of the country's main border posts will now be handled exclusively by the ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development, without the involvement of the ministry...Published: 19 Jun 2017 at 13:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF war: Chingosho-Chipanga feud escalates
ZANU-PF legislators for Makoni West and Headlands, Cdes Kudzi Chipanga and Chris Chingosho respectively are embroiled in a bitter war of words with the latter accusing the former of trespassing into h...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 11:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
NRZ asset register in shambles
THE rundown National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) is sitting on countrywide real estate estimated to be worth more than $150 million, with the potential to raise at least $5 million in rentals monthly....Published: 22 Apr 2017 at 10:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chipanga chides Zanu-PF radicals
As the Zanu-PF factional fights continue to take intriguing twists and turns, the party's youth leader, Kudzai Chipanga (KC) has vowed to crush any party guru who poses a direct threat to Presiden...Published: 23 Jan 2017 at 05:38hrs | 1 | by Xolisani Ncube
Mbira outfit to express more on Zimbabwe
Zee Guveya and Heritage Survival Band with a female Mbira maestro Millicent Chipanda has thrown in another hit single about the Zimbabwe situation. The song touch on the nerve of Zimbabwe ...Published: 10 Aug 2016 at 15:27hrs | | by Mbizo Chirasha
Man 'steals', buries stillborn corpse
IN a bizarre case, a man from Bulawayo misrepresented himself as the father of a stillborn child before taking the body from Mpilo Central Hospital mortuary and burying it at Luveve Cemetery.T...Published: 01 Jun 2016 at 06:53hrs | | by Tanaka Mrewa
Magistrate chides man over $20 upkeep offer
A MAGISTRATE has chided a 26-year-old man from Bulawayo who still lives with his parents after he offered to pay $20 for the upkeep of his five-year-old child.Busani Chipanda was dragged to co...Published: 20 May 2016 at 06:30hrs | | by Tanaka Mrewa
War veterans demand open discussion on Mugabe succession
Some war veterans in Manicaland say they want to be part of an open debate on President Robert Mugabe's succession.The former freedom fighters say an open debate will curb the worsening politi...Published: 01 Dec 2015 at 20:27hrs | 1 | by Loirdham Moyo
Zanu-PF primaries candidates list (2013)
ZANU PF LIST OF RECOMMENDED CANDIDATES FOR THE 2013 HARMONISED ELECTIONSMASVINGO...Published: 21 Jun 2013 at 13:41hrs | 86 | by Staff Reporter
Wife 'baptises' hubby with bucket of urine
A WOMAN who poured a bucket of urine on her husband after an altercation over a pencil escaped jail when she was found not guilty and acquitted. Fortunate Charakupa 37, was on Friday found not...Published: 27 Sep 2011 at 12:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jailed for caressing someone's wife
A CHEEKY Highfield man had the guts to caress a married woman's buttocks and went on to bash her husband into unconsciousness! The disrespectful drunkard will languish behind bars for the next 20 mon...Published: 06 Jun 2011 at 18:23hrs | 1 | by CS
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