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Zinara takes the blame for poor state of Victoria Falls road
ZIMBABWE National Road Administration (Zinara) chief executive officer, Mr Nkosinathi Ncube, yesterday apologised to stakeholders over the dilapidated state of the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls Highway, whi...Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 06:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Croco's Matsika gets a lifeline
EIGHT years after acrimoniously falling out with his cousin and Croco Holdings boss Moses Chingwena over the ownership of a busines empire worth more than US$100 million, Harare automobile tycoon Fara...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 13:52hrs | 57 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe infrastructure upgrades to boost revenue performance
GOVERNMENT expects the on-going infrastructural development projects, particularly the upgrading of major highways, to impact positively on revenue performance through improved transport and logistics...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 06:34hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
$7 billion to upgrade tollgates infrastructure
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) has set aside $7 billion for the upgrading of all tollgates across the country as part of efforts to plug revenue leakages and improve efficiency....Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA business group unhappy with rise of Zimbabwean expats
THE appointment of Sitholizwe Mdlalose as chief executive of South Africa's telecoms giant Vodacom has triggered xenophobic reactions after the country's Black Business Council (BBC) demanded that loc...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:13hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Parly clarifies Command Agriculture figures
Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has said the Government extended about $1,1 billion to private sector participants in the Command Agriculture Programme instead of the falsely touted US$3,...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 05:52hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Revisiting the Beitbridge-Harare highway
The state of the Beitbridge-Harare (A4) Highway is now a cause for concern as the number of human fatalities grows by each day due to deadly accidents in the narrow strip that links Zimbabwe and South...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 08:06hrs | | by Victor Bhoroma
Mnangagwa dumps Chinese contractor
GOVERNMENT has abandoned talks with Chinese contractor Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Group Limited (AFECC) for the dualisation of the Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu Highway, opting for local financi...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 10:35hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Intertoll transfers 72 tollgate employees
Intertoll Zimbabwe, a company contracted to collect toll fees on behalf of the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) from the nine tollgates it operates on the rehabilitated Plumtree-Mutare h...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 09:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Inept bosses cost Zinara US$200m
The Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) has suffered a financial loss in excess of US$200 million due to incompetence and lack of expertise by its senior managers to negotiate contracts ben...Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 05:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zinara board fired
THE Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development, Engineer Joel Biggie Matiza has dissolved the Zimbabwe National Roads Authority (Zinara) board. He said the entity's board, whose management ...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 06:22hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
State challenges Zinara bosses' acquittal
PROSECUTOR-GENERAL, advocate Ray Goba has petitioned the Supreme Court challenging the recent acquittal of five Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) executives, who were facing criminal abu...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 07:55hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
$206m highway crumbles before commissioning
THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Transport and Infrastructural Development has instituted an inquiry to ascertain the state and standard of the 800-kilometre Plumtree-Mutare Highway after comp...Published: 04 Mar 2018 at 17:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zinara bosses 'sourced' $2,9m from black market
Five Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) executives, charged for fraudulently transferring more than $2 million into bogus companies' accounts in a shady loan repayment deal, have been accu...Published: 31 Jan 2018 at 10:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt buys forex on black market
THE country's foreign currency squeeze has reportedly forced some government departments and parastatals to source the elusive United States dollars from the parallel market to fund their various acti...Published: 31 Jan 2018 at 05:25hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Parly probes road project delay
The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Transport and Infrastructure Development has launched a probe into delays by Austrian firm, Geiger International, to start work on the Harare – Beitbridge Hi...Published: 05 Dec 2017 at 05:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Audit unearths rot at Zinara
AN internal forensic audit on the operations of the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) has exposed massive financial abuse, including the payment of $71 million and R31 million to contract...Published: 06 Oct 2017 at 06:35hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zinara trio in forex scam
Three Zimbabwe National Road Administration (ZINARA) bosses appeared in court yesterday charged with illegally sourcing foreign currency on the pretext of servicing a $206 million loan for the rehabil...Published: 20 Jul 2017 at 06:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zinara suspends boss over bogus qualifications
Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) has suspended administration director Precious Murove for corruption and fraud after he was hired without proper qualifications.The suspensions ...Published: 14 Jul 2017 at 14:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zinara top brass suspended
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration has suspended its top brass in the finance, administration and human resources departments on charges which include violating tender and procurement procedure...Published: 30 Jun 2017 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Toll fees not enough for road rehabilitation'
ROAD maintenance across the country remains a challenge as the bulk of the money from toll fees collected is going towards the $206 million loan repayment to the Development Bank of South Africa, ...Published: 11 Feb 2017 at 09:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA tycoon bleeds Zinara
A South African businessman Mr Niko Shefer, is reportedly siphoning millions of dollars from the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) as facilitation fee for the $206 million loan accessed ...Published: 31 Aug 2016 at 06:32hrs | | by Tendai Mugabe
Intertoll collects $56 million from nine tollgates
INTERTOLL Zimbabwe has collected $56 million from the nine tollgates it operates on the rehabilitated Plumtree-Mutare highway on behalf of Zimbabwe National Roads Authority (Zinara) over the past ...Published: 16 Aug 2016 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Business Reporter.
Transport Minister orders highway forensic audit
TRANSPORT and Infrastructural Development Minister Dr Joram Gumbo has ordered a forensic audit to establish the correct cost of the Plumtree-Harare highway amid concerns that it could have been exagge...Published: 31 Jul 2016 at 10:28hrs | 7 | by Munyaradzi Musiiwa
Zim Parliament demands reversal of Plumtree-Mutare road tollgate deal
The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Transport has demanded that the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) reverses a deal it entered with a South African company to collect revenue a...Published: 29 Jun 2016 at 10:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt rapped over delayed completion of bridge along Mutare Road
A political and social commentator Rejoice Ngwenya has rapped the government over failure to complete a bridge along a road in Mutare for a long time."I have a complaint against the government...Published: 22 Jun 2016 at 06:51hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Tollgates scam exposed
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration could be losing thousands of dollars amid reports that some tollgate attendants are taking advantage of the weak cash collection system to swindle the authori...Published: 25 Feb 2016 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
MPs condemn Group Five over poor workmanship
SOUTH Africa-based roads engineering firm Group Five International came under intense onslaught by legislator's over melting of roads in Harare.There roads where recently rehabilitated and exp...Published: 25 Nov 2015 at 13:21hrs | 7 | by Thobekile Zhou
Makorokoza threaten $206m Bulawayo-Harare highway
A 30-kilometre stretch from Kwekwe to Munyati River Bridge along the Kwekwe–Harare highway is under threat from illegal panners and registered mines whose operations are now approaching the shoulder...Published: 26 Aug 2015 at 07:11hrs | | by Patrick Chitumba
JR Goddard completes 200 projects
A LEADING construction company, JR Goddard Contracting Company, has successfully completed at least 200 projects since its inception 32 years ago, a company official has said.JR Goddard Contra...Published: 07 Jun 2015 at 14:22hrs | 9 | by Ngonidzashe Chiutsi
Confusion over Joshua Mqabuko Street
THE rehabilitation of Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Street in Bulawayo is engulfed in confusion, amid allegations that the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara)-contracted Group Five is not committin...Published: 24 May 2015 at 09:53hrs | | by Vusumuzi Dube
Plumtree-Mutare Highway commissioning next month
WORK on the rehabilitation of the 820km Plumtree-Bulawayo-Harare-Mutare Highway is 98 percent complete with the project set for commissioning next month, Zinara board chairman Albert Mugabe has said....Published: 10 Apr 2015 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Prosper Ndlovu
BCC close J.M Nkomo Street
BULAWAYO CITY COUNCIL has closed the whole of J.M Nkomo Street to pave way for rehabilitation works by Group Five.The street was recently gazetted to reflect its change from Main Street....Published: 11 Mar 2015 at 08:35hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
'Bulawayo - Plumtree road 95% complete'
Transport and Infrastructural Development minister Obert Mpofu yesterday said the 828 km-Harare-Bulawayo-Plumtree road rehabilitation is 95% complete.The first phase was to rehabilitate, opera...Published: 13 Nov 2014 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
When men are dogs and women bitches!
TODAY I was very fatigued as I finished a walk through the Forbidden City in Beijing, China. It was very exciting to hear of how the Chinese Emperors of old lived large and in excessive opulence. The ...Published: 21 Sep 2014 at 11:05hrs | 2 | by Rev Paul Bayethe Damasane
Govt to establish 30 more tollgates
Government plans to establish 30 more tollgates, bringing the number to to raise more money to develop infrastructure, Herald reported.About $3 million is raised monthly from tollgates and...Published: 18 Sep 2014 at 01:55hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Finance Minister Chinamasa got it right!
On 1 September 2014, Daily News, reporting on the aftermath of President Robert Mugabe's State visit to China under the headline, Mugabe returns from China with signatures, reduced the Presidentia...Published: 03 Sep 2014 at 11:02hrs | 2 | by Tawanda Museve
Two more toll gates open
Government has operationalised two toll plazas which were constructed as part of the ongoing US$206 million Plumtree-Bulawayo-Harare-Mutare road rehabilitation project.The Ministry of Transpor...Published: 01 Sep 2014 at 18:34hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Obert Mpofu's tollgate fee figures do not add up
TRANSPORT minister Obert Mpofu's defence of the tollgate fees hike has shocked many Zimbabweans after he claimed $40 million cannot develop more than 20km of tarred road.Mpofu's explanation f...Published: 25 Jul 2014 at 08:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Plumtree-Mutare road rehab to be completed by December
Group Five, the company rehabilitating the Harare-Bulawayo-Plumtree and the Harare-Mutare roads, says it expects the project to be completed by December this year.The two strategic arteries pr...Published: 14 Jul 2014 at 16:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tollgate staff cries foul
THE Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) has been rocked by a labour dispute with employees manning its tollgates after the road company allegedly breached its contractual agreement over sa...Published: 25 Apr 2014 at 11:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare - Bulawayo road rehabilitation by May
Rehabilitation of the stretch of road from Samuel Parirenyatwa to Cement side along the Bulawayo-Harare road will be complete by end of May this year, the Bulawayo City Council has said.In a n...Published: 01 Apr 2014 at 08:39hrs | 1 | by Tendayi Madhomu
Zim fuel prices go up
THE price of fuel could marginally rise today by one and two cents per litre for diesel and petrol respectively as the government introduces a levy to raise funds to finance the 820km Plumtree-Mutare...Published: 01 Jan 2014 at 10:29hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Huge road projects set for Matabeleland
Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Dr Obert Mpofu on Sunday said government has invited tenders from potential investors for the completion of outstanding road projects in Matabeleland...Published: 30 Dec 2013 at 00:01hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Group Five resumes road rehabilitation work in Zimbabwe
GROUP Five, the South African firm contracted to rebuild the highway from Plumtree to Mutare has resumed work after the Government and the Development Bank of Southern Africa South (DBSA) resolved a ...Published: 09 Dec 2013 at 02:00hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
'Budget should prioritise recapitalising Bulawayo firms'
THE 2014 national budget statement should be hinged on funding infrastructure development projects and recapitalising strategic companies in Bulawayo, industrialists said yesterday. Finance and Econom...Published: 06 Dec 2013 at 06:38hrs | 4 | by Business Reporter
Plumtree - Mutare road rehabilitation resumes
Work on the rehabilitation of the Plumtree-Bulawayo-Harare-Mutare highway is set to resume this week after the government, the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) and Group Five agreed on the ...Published: 02 Dec 2013 at 15:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe road projects plunge into funding problems
THE joint venture between the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) and a South African company Group Five Limited to rehabilitate the Plumtree-Bulawayo-Harare-Mutare highway has plunged int...Published: 29 Nov 2013 at 05:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tollgates to help curb car theft, says official
GOVERNMENT will soon install an electronic system at toll gates where stolen vehicles will be identified when they pass through as part of measures to curb car thefts.This was said by the per...Published: 19 Nov 2013 at 03:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
South Africa ready to help Zimbabwe get out of election mode
SOUTH Africa is prepared to help Zimbabwe get out of election mode and start moving forward economically through enhancing trade and investment partnerships between industries of the two countries, So...Published: 19 Oct 2013 at 20:50hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
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