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Harare to ban kombis, pirate taxis
The City of Harare has announced ambitious plans to ban commuter omnibuses (kombis) and pirate taxis (mishikashika) within the next three years, a move it says is part of efforts to transform the capi...Published: 16 Jul 2025 at 07:41hrs | 869 | by Staff reporter
3 arrested in connection with copper cable theft
In a separate incident, Zimbabwe Republic Police arrested three individuals on Monday over the theft of copper cables belonging to the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA).The suspects...Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 15:03hrs | 113 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo bans heavy vehicles from entering CBD
The City of Bulawayo has formally implemented a ban on heavy vehicles weighing more than 9 tonnes from entering the Central Business District (CBD), as part of new traffic management measures....Published: 05 Jun 2025 at 11:13hrs | 1715 | by Staff reporter
Bus rank chaos and reckless competition plague Zimbabwe's public transport sector
A disturbing video recently surfaced showing two buses dangerously tailgating and jostling for a loading bay at a terminus, rekindling painful memories of the tragic 2023 Rimbi-Zebra Kiss fatal bus cr...Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 14:18hrs | 107 | by Staff reporter
The idea of Zimbabwe and Matabeleland question
I think the best way to understand the present day manifestations and character of Matebeleland politics is to situate them properly historically and politically within the broader terrain of the deve...Published: 29 Mar 2025 at 17:01hrs | 2187 | by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Several feared dead in Harare road accident
Several people are feared dead, while others have sustained serious injuries following a tragic accident involving a commuter omnibus and a truck along Bulawayo Road in the early hours of today....Published: 19 Mar 2025 at 06:51hrs | 621 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo seeks more land to bury its dead
Bulawayo City Council has revealed plans to designate a portion of Good Hope Farm for burial services, as the city's cemeteries have run out of burial space, according to the latest council minutes....Published: 16 Mar 2025 at 09:29hrs | 317 | by Staff reporter
Zinara allocates ZiG11.6bn for road rehabilitation in 2025
The Zimbabwe National Road Administration (ZINARA) has set aside ZiG11.6 billion for the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme 2 (ERRP2) this year, marking a significant increase from the ZiG4.6 bil...Published: 12 Mar 2025 at 07:43hrs | 525 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo identifies new cemetery site
Bulawayo City Council has identified a 43-hectare site at Goodhope Farm as a potential new cemetery, with the capacity to accommodate 80,000 graves. The farm, located 17 kilometres from the city centr...Published: 12 Mar 2025 at 07:40hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter
4 dead at Christmas Pass as haulage truck rams into cars, pedestrians
Four people tragically lost their lives on Thursday after a haulage truck rammed into four vehicles and ploughed into pedestrians while descending the Christmas Pass along the Mutare-Harare Road....Published: 07 Mar 2025 at 07:05hrs | 383 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans arrested in South Africa over R500,000 mbanje haul
South African police have arrested two Zimbabwean nationals in Thabazimbi, Limpopo Province, after intercepting a truck carrying a consignment of mbanje valued at nearly R500,000. The arrests, facilit...Published: 23 Feb 2025 at 09:49hrs | 211 | by Staff reporter
Rains rekindle hope
The recent downgraded Cyclone Chido has brought much-needed relief to farmers in Zimbabwe's southern regions, rejuvenating crops, pastures, and water sources that had been under severe stress due to t...Published: 19 Dec 2024 at 16:46hrs | 269 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Haulage truck loses control kills 2 in front on Grey prison
A Haulage truck that was travelling along Harare road lost control on Wednesday afternoon and killed 2 touts who worked along the road. Fellow touts who worked with the late touts poured their condole...Published: 06 Nov 2024 at 17:09hrs | 2146 | by Staff Reporter
Ntabazinduna poised to become a smart city
The Umguza Rural District Council (RDC) is transforming the Ntabazinduna area into a smart city, with the industrial corridor along the Ntabazinduna Road turn-off from the Bulawayo-Harare Road already...Published: 19 Sep 2024 at 07:30hrs | 1106 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police arrested over 200 people during Sadc summit crackdown
State of Zimbabwe's major highways worries motoristsMotorists traveling between Beitbridge and Harare or Bulawayo are increasingly frustrated with the unfinished state of major road sections, whic...Published: 18 Aug 2024 at 13:53hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
Harare roads rehabilitation 90% complete
The rehabilitation of Harare roads needed in preparation for the hosting of the 44th SADC Summit next month is 90 percent complete and on schedule.Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga presen...Published: 17 Jul 2024 at 06:39hrs | 595 | by Staff reporter
Harare roads being dualised
Road construction in Harare has gathered pace, with car sales that had been erected along Harare-Chirundu Highway on Nemakonde Road (formerly Lomagundi Road), having been demolished to pave way for th...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 04:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Major roads in Harare closed for rehabilitation
MAJOR roads in Harare have been closed for massive rehabilitation ahead of the 44th Southern African Development Community (SADC) Heads of State and Government Summit scheduled to be held in Harare in...Published: 28 Feb 2024 at 06:25hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
BCC moves to stem dirt, chaos and decay in CBD
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has given informal traders, kombi, bus and pushcart operators, and those involved in illegal car wash business in the city centre an ultimatum to cease their illegal activi...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 05:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to engage South Africa over Beitbridge border chaos
ZIMBABWE will engage South Africa to speed up the processing of travellers between the two countries during peak periods with an estimated 25 000 people expected to arrive today, a cabinet minister ha...Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 09:34hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Prominent farmer dies in traffic accident
A PROMINENT Insiza and former national Seedco Farmer of the Year Mr Jonathan Silumbula Nsingo on Saturday tragically died in a road traffic accident just after Chalets leisure centre along the Bulaway...Published: 06 Dec 2023 at 17:33hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Bees chase family searching for stolen cows in Bulawayo
In a suspected case of witchcraft, a Bulawayo family were last week followed by a swarm of bees while they went out in search of their stolen seven cows that went missing around June 2023.The ...Published: 06 Oct 2023 at 21:32hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo bus operators bend the rules, flout BCC by-laws
WITH the words "Inter Africa" inscribed at the back, a silver Toyota Quantum vehicle makes a sudden stop and a tout bolts out, approaches two women and asks where they are travelling to. The tout tell...Published: 15 Jul 2023 at 11:38hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Umzingwane MP embarks on roads rehab to unlock tourism, agriculture potential
ZANU-PF aspiring candidate for Umzingwane constituency Brigadier General (Rtd) Levi Mayihlome has embarked on a road rehabilitation programme targeting five prime roads which he says will unlock the t...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:41hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Some govt ministries derailing the Mnangagwa's efforts
ZIMBABWE boasts more than 60 minerals which have the capacity to annihilate poverty which is endemic among our people. The country is bedevilled by hyperinflation, prices are soaring with the breadbas...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 06:43hrs | | by Johannes Marisa
'Abandoned' luxury bus mystery on Bulawayo-Plumtree Road
ABOUT 25 kilometres before one reaches Plumtree Town along the Bulawayo-Plumtree Road, they cannot help noticing a Botswana-owned luxury bus that has been curiously parked by the road side for more th...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 06:38hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge modernisation winds up
THE US$300 million Beitbridge Border Post modernisation project has reached its final stage with contractors now winding up construction works, ZimBorders Consortium general manager, Mr Nqobile Ncube ...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 06:37hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
CAG bus fatal accident victims named
Police have named six people who died in an accident along Harare road when a CAG bus burst its tyre before overturningThe accident happened along the Harare-Mukumbura road on Saturday....Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 06:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Intercity buses turn Bulawayo CBD into a Mbare
CALL it lawlessness or chaos. This is what several long-distance bus operators plying intercity routes are turning Bulawayo city centre into.For sometime, there has been rampant illegal pickin...Published: 08 May 2023 at 06:09hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland region gets only $789,6 million for road projects
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) has disbursed $789,6 million towards road development projects in Matebeleland provinces in the first four months of this year out of a combined tota...Published: 08 May 2023 at 06:09hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
New milestones in road rehab
REHABILITATION of the Harare-Chirundu highway will begin in May, while over 39 000 kilometres of road network have been spruced up under the Emergency Roads Rehabilitation Programme 2 (ERRP 2), as Gov...Published: 30 Apr 2023 at 08:55hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe dying slowly
It was a memorable journey back to Zimbabwe five years after I left the country in January 2018 just three months after the November 2017 coup.My friend and I arrived at the Musina border post...Published: 30 Mar 2023 at 11:46hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwe govt approves construction of another Limpopo bridge
The construction of a third bridge across the Limpopo at Beitbridge between Zimbabwe and South Africa has been approved by Cabinet, as the Government moves a gear up to ensure required infrastructure ...Published: 06 Mar 2023 at 05:15hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Cop jailed 24 years over teen rape
A Harare-based police officer was slapped with a 24-year jail term for raping a 17-year-old girl twice during a party at his friend's house in Mahatshula North suburb in Bulawayo.Farai Mzengez...Published: 03 Mar 2023 at 18:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Buses shift to new illegal rank
PUBLIC transporters who used to operate from an illegal bus rank along Leopold Takawira Avenue near Centenary Park have moved to another illegal rank along 4th Avenue behind Eveline High School....Published: 09 Feb 2023 at 05:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe road carnage kills 20 in 3 days
MORE than 20 people have died in road accidents since Saturday, as accidents spiked ahead of the festive season, police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said yesterday."The buil...Published: 21 Dec 2022 at 20:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chariots of death' on Zimbabwe's roads
WHILE speaking at the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims (WDR) in Bulawayo recently, Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Felix Mhona revealed that 1 559 people were kille...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:08hrs | | by Pamenus Tuso
Harare - Chirundu Road upgrade set to start No Bulawayo - Beitbridge
The Government will appoint at least six contractors to work on the rehabilitation and upgrading of the Harare-Chirundu highway beginning January as the Second Republic ups the ante in the development...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 04:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Harare roads unsafe'
HARARE Metropolitan provincial secretary Tafadzwa Muguti has said the capital city's roads are no longer safe to drive on.Speaking during a tour of Satewave Technologies premises in Chisipite ...Published: 15 Nov 2022 at 04:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe transport ministry underfunded
THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Transport and Infrastructural Development says late disbursement and inadequate allocation of funds to the Transport ministry are slowing down road rehabilitat...Published: 27 Oct 2022 at 06:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo a pale shadow of its former self
IN the years gone by, Bulawayo, with its charming architecture in the form of Victorian-style buildings, stood tall across the country as a better-organised and cleanest city in southern Africa. ...Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 05:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo council in key roads upgrade
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is set to rehabilitate 14 key roads and the programme starts with immediate effect after Government recently released funds for road works that will be done until mid-D...Published: 21 Sep 2022 at 05:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge to get US$100m airport
BEITBRIDGE is set to have a state-of-the-art airport to match the standards of the modernised border post as the Second Republic steps up efforts to transform the face of the border town.Beitb...Published: 05 Sep 2022 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police raid on park pirates nets 16 buses
POLICE in Bulawayo yesterday impounded 16 buses, 13 pirate taxis and five private vehicles for picking up passengers at undesignated areas.There has been rampant picking of passengers at undes...Published: 02 Sep 2022 at 06:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa unveils new-look Beitbridge Border Post
President Mnangagwa yesterday commissioned the modernised Beitbridge Border Post and said all border posts would be upgraded to improve the quality of services in the transport sub-sector.He d...Published: 01 Sep 2022 at 06:30hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa commissions new-look border post
A NEW era beckons for Beitbridge District in Matabeleland South as President Mnangagwa is expected to visit the border town today where he will officially commission some of the completed works under ...Published: 31 Aug 2022 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
US$300m Beitbridge border upgrades come online
MATABELELAND South is poised for major economic transformation with President Mnangagwa expected to visit the province tomorrow to commission some of the completed works under the US$300 million Beitb...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 06:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man found dead in road trench
BEITBRIDGE police are investigating circumstances surrounding the death of an unidentified man whose body was found in a roadside trench in the border town."I am downloading the pictures but I...Published: 22 Aug 2022 at 07:12hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Tracker leads to recovery of stolen truck
THE owner of a South African truck that was stolen in Esigodini used a tracker to locate it and tipped off the police leading to a high speed chase along the Bulawayo-Harare road on Monday night....Published: 28 Jul 2022 at 06:34hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Buses turn Bulawayo's parks into ranks
BUSES plying intercity routes are degrading Bulawayo through picking up passengers at undesignated points, with Central and Centenary Parks along Leopold Takawira Avenue Extension losing their allure ...Published: 21 Jul 2022 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
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