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Zacc arrests Zimra official over fraud
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has arrested a Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) official and four clearing agents for their alleged involvement in a fraudulent smuggling syndicate ope...Published: 17 Jul 2025 at 08:46hrs | 437 | by Staff reporter
Corruption rife at Beitbridge border post
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has revealed that it has recorded 150 cases of corruption at the Beitbridge Border Post over the past four years, primarily involving collusion between Z...Published: 16 Jul 2025 at 07:43hrs | 1417 | by Staff reporter
Duo arrested for defrauding car importers of US$20,000
Two Beitbridge-based customs clearing agents, Lloyd Mawadze (36) and Lauren Mawadze (32), have been arrested for allegedly defrauding vehicle importers of nearly US$20,000 over the past two years. The...Published: 08 Feb 2025 at 12:32hrs | 150 | by Staff reporter
Chinese man on the run over rhino horns
A Chinese man, Lin Wang, is on the run after a clearing agent, Cuthbert Maoko, was arrested for attempting to facilitate the smuggling of five rhinoceros horns hidden in an owl-shaped plastic sculptur...Published: 10 Dec 2024 at 07:07hrs | 499 | by Staff reporter
Zimra issues warning to truckers at Beitbridge border post
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has issued a stern warning to truckers, clearing agents, and runners utilizing the Beitbridge Border Post, urging them to refrain from approaching the border wit...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 10:21hrs | 395 | by Staff reporter
Zimra tightens vehicle import rules
Starting July 1, 2024, Zimbabwe has implemented new regulations requiring all vehicles imported through border posts like Beitbridge and Plumtree to obtain registration and number plates from the Cent...Published: 03 Jul 2024 at 10:26hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans enjoy border digitisation gains
The digitization of the Beitbridge port of entry through the Zimbabwe Electronic Single Window (ZESW) platform is significantly improving trade facilitation and clearance efficiency. Introduced in 202...Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 07:23hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zacc taken to court over impounded truck
A LOCAL haulage transport operator, Onpat Rams Private Limited, has approached the High Court seeking the release of its truck impounded in 2021 by Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) officials...Published: 14 Feb 2024 at 04:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Truck driver arrested for cigarette smuggling
POLICE in Beitbridge have arrested a 28-year-old Zimbabwean truck driver for smuggling cigarettes stashed in a gas tanker.In a statement, national police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Pa...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 05:34hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimra struggling to clear long queues at Forbes Border Post
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has been struggling to address the long queues that have emerged at the Forbes Border Post in Mutare during the past week due to a road traffic accident at the e...Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 06:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimra closes Kariba border post
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) is on Thursday, 20 July, set to suspend the usage of the Kariba border as a crossing point for a host of stakeholders citing high traffic volumes that have stret...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 21:41hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Fuel smuggling hampers growth
FUEL smuggling into Zimbabwe is hampering the Government's revenue collection, and has become a threat to economic growth, despite tax and law enforcement authorities' efforts to curb the scourge....Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 06:46hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
ZACC targets estate agents, exchange rate manipulators
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is out to net unscrupulous real estate agents and those accused of manipulating exchange rates to illegally push large amounts of foreign currency out of...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 08:04hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge woman builds successful business empire
ONLY yesterday, Beitbridge-based businesswoman, Dr Anna Muleya (50) operated a barbershop in the border town.Today, she is a multi-award-winning successful businesswoman with a thriving busine...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 05:29hrs | 10 | 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
Zimra launches anti-graft campaign
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) has launched the #IamForZero Anti-Corruption Campaign to curb corrupt activities among its employees and stakeholders across the country.The campaign is ...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 05:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Decline in crimes involving unregistered vehicles
THERE has been a 75 percent reduction in crimes associated with unregistered motor vehicles and those without number plates such as armed robbery, rape and kidnapping in Bulawayo since a blitz was lau...Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 05:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
10k arrested weekly over number plates
OVER 10 000 motorists are arrested weekly around the country for driving unlicensed and unregistered vehicles under an ongoing operation that has nabbed 21 886 since it started on January 15.O...Published: 31 Jan 2022 at 05:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimra scales up automation
ZIMBABWE Revenue Authority (Zimra) says it will beef up its automation systems to ease pressure at the country's border posts and introduce drones to monitor smuggling at unauthorised entry points....Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 04:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Number plates now available at border posts
Permanent number plates are now available at Zimra border posts, so anyone importing a vehicle now buys the permanent plates as they clear their car through customs with temporary plates no longer iss...Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 04:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Duty-free boost for agric
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has listed import duty and Value Added Tax (VAT)-free agricultural equipment while the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development has...Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Normalcy returns at Beitbridge border
The private company managing the new Beitbridge border post terminal has largely cleared the chaos that characterised the early days of the post's opening last month and wants to increase efficiency o...Published: 03 Nov 2021 at 05:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Govt unlocks Beitbridge traffic gridlock'
THE movement of commercial trucks during the day has reached a fairly acceptable rate at the Beitbridge Border Post after the government engaged clearing agents and runners to work night shifts so as ...Published: 24 Oct 2021 at 09:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Transporters must adopt required pre-clearance processes at border
It's just over a week since the new Beitbridge Border Post freight terminal has been opened to the public and the results of improved border management systems are slowly beginning to show.Lik...Published: 22 Oct 2021 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Nick Mangwana
South Africa says Zimbabwe killing Africa trade
South Africa has accused Zimbabwe of "killing business" over border delays for haulage trucks at Beitbridge.Queues stretching for as long as 10 kilometers have developed in South Africa since ...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 22:51hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chaos at Beitbridge border post as Zimbabwe introduces new tolls
TRUCK drivers are spending up to 10 days at the Beitbridge border post as toll company Zimborders, which has been awarded a contract by the Zimbabwean government to upgrade the border post, began coll...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 06:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Truckers face Beitbridge chaos
When it was controversially awarded a US$240 million contract to upgrade the Beitbridge border post in 2018, the Zimborders Consortium said it would provide "world class border facilities that optimis...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 19:32hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Congestion locks up Beitbridge
CHAOS has rocked Beitbridge Border Post where haulage trucks are taking up to five days to be cleared after Zimborders, a private company contracted to upgrade the border on a build operate and transf...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimra throttles smugglers' breathing space
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) will with effect from tomorrow introduce tight import regulations that will minimise the smuggling of commercial cargo by syndicates working with freight forward...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 21:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pre-training on new border traffic flow gathers momentum
The training of border agencies at Beitbridge Border Post has gathered moment as the Government prepares to open the newly built commercial freight terminal at Sadc's busiest inland port of entry....Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 10:12hrs | 48 | by Staff Reporter
LSU in unscrupulous procurement deals, authorities unfairly suspend transport officer
LUPANE State University (LSU) under the administration of Vice Chancellor Pardon Kuipa has again been caught in an unscrupulous goods procurement process and construction project without following ten...Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 14:42hrs | 55 | by Stephen Jakes
Covid-19 induced border delays irk cargo drivers
HAULAGE truck drivers are facing delay challenges along entry and exit points owing to a series of restrictive measures imposed by the government to curtail the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19)....Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 07:56hrs | 10 | 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
Vehicle registration
CLIENTS are advised that they can register newly imported or freshly built motor vehicle at selected Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) offices nationwide. All that clients need to do is bring two set...Published: 27 May 2021 at 07:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Vehicle theft case exposes smuggling racket at Plumtree border
A case of theft of a vehicle at Plumtree Border Post could have exposed a vehicle smuggling racket after the car was recovered in Harare at the residence of a man once accused of importing cars under ...Published: 23 May 2021 at 07:37hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Anticipated delays at Beitbridge border post
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) wishes to advise all travellers, importers, exporters, transporters, clearing agents and the general public that due to ongoing extensive construction work at Be...Published: 02 May 2021 at 09:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt increases Covid-19 vaccination sites
THE Government has introduced more Covid-19 vaccination sites across the country as part of efforts to decentralise the process and decongest existing service points. Wilkins Hospital, which h...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 07:49hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
31 shipping agents released without charge
THIRTY-ONE shipping agents arrested in a combined operation between the Zimbabwe Republic Police, the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) and the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority were released on Tuesday without c...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
31 shipping agents arrested at Beitbridge Border Post
OPERATIONS at the Beitbridge Border Post were disrupted yesterday when police and army swooped on 31 shipping agents, accusing them of being undesired elements in a protected area.Shipping age...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Massive bloc thrusts Zimra under spotlight
GOVERNMENT says the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) must be prepared to play a crucial role in facilitating the shipment of bigger cargo volumes as regional trade grows under the African Continenta...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Border corruption distresses minister
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has bemoaned the rampant corruption being experienced at Zimbabwe's ports of entry, which he says is prejudicing the country of billions of dollars.The Treasury c...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 18:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zambia defers 'closing' of Victoria Falls border to trucks
THE Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) has indefinitely deferred restriction on commercial goods in and out of Zimbabwe through the Victoria Falls Border Post which had been set to be implemented tomorrow...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lockdown reprieve for customs clearing agents
Government has revised lockdown regulations and classified customs clearing agents and freight forwarders operating inland and at the country's ports of entry/exit as essential service providers in a ...Published: 22 Feb 2021 at 21:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zambia bans haulage trucks from crossing Victoria Falls Border Post
Zambia has announced restrictions on exports which will see commercial trucks being banned from using the Victoria Falls Border Post with effect from the first of March, amid an outcry from citizens w...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 20:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Curfew affects cargo movement across borders
Tight enforcement of the Zimbabwean and South African curfews has been delaying cargo traffic at Beitbridge, with freight forwarders prevented from moving trucks across the border during curfew hours,...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 05:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lockdown fatigue kicks in
The Herald Herald Reporters More people and vehicles are flouting Covid-19 lockdown rules as evidenced by a flurry of movements in residential areas and the Harare central business district. Manufactu...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 08:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police, army restore sanity in Beitbridge
THE Beitbridge Border Post chaos that dominated news headlines worldwide in the last week ended yesterday as the last in the long queue of south-bound vehicles were cleared into South Africa.T...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 20:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimra rubbishes SA minister's claims on border chaos
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has dismissed claims by a South African government minister that congestion at Beitbridge Border Post is attributable to the use of a manual system to clear comm...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 tests cause traffic jam at Beitbridge Border Post
BEITBRIDGE Border Post is experiencing a truckers' bottleneck on the South African side, which has caused a gridlock and has affected the smooth flow of traffic from the Zimbabwean side.Travel...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 06:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimra reverts to manual clearance
Zimra is now implementing manual clearance as a temporary reprieve for transporters and clearing agents waiting for their required online profiles from the authority so they can use the automated e-ro...Published: 09 Dec 2020 at 05:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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