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ZIDA records surge in investment licences
The Zimbabwe Investment and Development Agency (ZIDA) has reported a record-breaking increase in new investment licences in 2024, reflecting what officials describe as growing investor confidence in t...Published: 25 Jul 2025 at 09:42hrs | 76 | 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
US$2,5 million released to accelerate Lake Gwayi-Tshangani construction
Zimbabwe's infrastructure development agenda is advancing steadily, with public-private partnerships (PPPs) playing a key role in road construction and the release of US$2.5 million to accelerate the ...Published: 19 Mar 2025 at 06:51hrs | 394 | by Staff reporter
10 die in early festive road accidents
As the Christmas and New Year holidays approach, ten people have lost their lives, while several others sustained injuries, some seriously, in three separate road accidents reported this week....Published: 20 Dec 2024 at 11:03hrs | 149 | by Staff reporter
Joint venture to upgrade Harare-Nyamapanda Road
The Zimbabwean Cabinet, under the leadership of Honourable Anxious Masuka, Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development, convened to review the latest developments on the 202...Published: 07 Nov 2024 at 06:57hrs | 215 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's ZIDA attracts US$1,8bn investment
Zimbabwe attracted investments totaling US$1.8 billion in the second quarter of the year, with US$745 million in the manufacturing sector and US$282.7 million in mining. The Zimbabwe Investment and De...Published: 03 Aug 2024 at 12:26hrs | 66 | by Staff reporter
Plans to relocate tollgates at advanced stage
THE Skyline Tollgate will soon be moved to the 36km peg along the Harare-Masvingo Road, moving it outside the present urban conglomeration, while the new Shamva tollgate which was last month moved fro...Published: 29 Nov 2023 at 05:04hrs | 14 | 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 | 7 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's Renkini a white elephant as intercity buses shun it
Renkini Bus Terminus was, for years, the nerve centre for Bulawayo's transport system with people intending to travel to other cities and towns trooping to the station to board buses.Many othe...Published: 10 Feb 2023 at 05:39hrs | 10 | 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
Suspended bus operators fire reckless drivers
Suspended bus companies Zebra Kiss and Rimbi Tours have apologised and further revealed they were firing drivers who got involved in a fierce road race along the Harare-Nyamapanda road earlier in the ...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 22:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police warn drivers over speeding
ONE person died while seven others were seriously injured after a bus rammed into a tipper truck at the 160 km peg along the Harare-Nyamapanda Road.The accident happened on Tuesday at around 4...Published: 19 Jan 2023 at 07:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
27 men believed to be migrants found dead along road in Zambia
Twenty-seven bodies, believed to be of Ethiopians or Somalis, have been found dumped along a road in the Meanwood Khosi Area in Lusaka, Zambia, after apparently suffocating in a container used by huma...Published: 12 Dec 2022 at 00:49hrs | 61 | by Staff Reporter
Number plates backlog being cleared
The backlog in issuing number plates should be cleared by next month after which authorities do not expect to see any unregistered vehicle on the road as enough raw materials have been secured for the...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 06:19hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
17 die in Mutoko head-on collision
SEVENTEEN people perished in a head-on collision involving an Isuzu double cab vehicle and a BMW in Mutoko on Sunday night.The horrific accident occurred near Mazarura Farm, at the 130km peg a...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police arrest driver in kombi shooting incident
Police have arrested the driver of the unregistered kombi in which a passenger was shot and killed while another was seriously injured near Juru Growth Point along the Harare-Nyamapanda Road on Wednes...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 07:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police round up and fine vendors who cheered on Chamisa
Police in Murehwa on Monday rounded up 15 vendors suspected of having cheered on MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa when he passed through the area on Saturday.Chamisa's convoy was mobbed by s...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 07:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Getaway car catches fire
TWO suspected copper cable thieves were recently arrested after their getaway car caught fire during a high-speed chase along Harare-Nyamapanda Road. The two were fleeing the police after stea...Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 14:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Accident kills 8
Eight people have died after two vehicles heading towards Murehwa side swiped before plunging into a river at the 40km peg near Murehwa along the Harare-Nyamapanda road last night. One of the ...Published: 27 Apr 2019 at 12:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Holiday accidents kill 16
At least 16 people died in road traffic accidents since Independence Day, while 96 were left injured, police have said.A total of 192 road accidents occurred on Independence Day and Good Frida...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
A black diamond curse for Mutoko
The paradox of resource abundance typically explains the case of black granite mining in Mutoko, Mashonaland East Province of Zimbabwe. The area is home to the best black granite rock highly demanded ...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 14:32hrs | 3 | by Victor Bhoroma
Government pins development on infrastructure
Government's policy reforms which also encompasses infrastructure development is key to modernising and boosting productivity in all the productive sectors, as well as facilitating delivery of social ...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 14:37hrs | | by Rudo Saungweme
Hitch-hiker drugged, robbed along highway
Police in Mashonaland East Province are investigating a case in which a Harare man was drugged before being robbed of his belongings by unknown people along the Harare-Nyamapanda Highway recently. ...Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 05:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
8 die in Nyamapanda Road accident
EIGHT people, among them five soldiers, died on the spot while 31 others were injured following a head-on collision between an army bus and a Mutoko-bound Zebra Kiss bus along the Harare-Nyamapanda Hi...Published: 30 Apr 2018 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Govt to restructure Air Zimbabwe
Air Zimbabwe is set to be restructured amid concerns that the national carrier was bleeding State coffers through loans and subsidies, with no hope of resuscitation, Transport and Infrastructural Deve...Published: 08 Mar 2018 at 05:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gumbo raps VID
VEHICLE Inspectorate Department (VID) officers should shun corruption and improve their commitment to duty to improve their tainted image, a Cabinet Minister has said. Speaking during the Mini...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 05:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Head-on collision road accident victims named
Police have released the names of 10 people who died when a commuter omnibus evading a Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) checkpoint collided head-on with an oncoming vehicle in Murehwa on Monday mor...Published: 23 Aug 2017 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Bus accident survivor sues bus firm for $26 000
A police officer who lost his wife and daughter in a Pioneer bus accident in 2015 is suing the company for $26 000. In papers filed at the High Court, John Mapona is suing for damages for injuries suf...Published: 04 Jul 2017 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Transport ministry targets major rehabilitation projects
Transport and Infrastructural Development Minster Dr Joram Gumbo says the ministry is aware that most damaged roads have outlived their lifespan.Dr Gumbo told the ZBC News that the state o...Published: 11 Jan 2017 at 20:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe to launch $2,7 billion road project
PRESIDENT Mugabe will next week commission the dualisation of the Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu highway after the Government awarded tenders for the $2, 7 billion project to two companies from Austria an...Published: 26 Jul 2016 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Munyaradzi Musiiwa
Police, Traffic Safety Council on Easter road safety campaign
THE Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe (TSCZ), in collaboration with Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) will from tomorrow embark on road safety campaigns around the country aimed at reducing road carnage...Published: 20 Mar 2016 at 09:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare - Nyamapanda accident victims named
Police have released names of five people killed in a road traffic accident on the 23 kilometre peg along the Harare-Nyamapanda road on Friday evening.In a statement, Police Spokesperson, ...Published: 17 Jan 2016 at 18:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
15 die in Zimbabwe road accident
15 people died yesterday in a road accident which occurred along the Harare-Nyamapanda road near Nyamuwanga shopping centre in Mudzi.National police spokesperson, Senior Assistant Commissi...Published: 21 Nov 2015 at 16:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge-Bulawayo highway to be dualised
Government is expected to announce the winning bidder for the dualisation of Beitbridge -Harare and Harare-Chirundu highways in the next two weeks after which work on the massive projects will start. ...Published: 12 Oct 2015 at 06:13hrs | | by Tendai Mugabe
Bus accident, 36 injured
A total of 36 people were injured this morning, six of them seriously when a Harare-bound bus they were travelling in burst a tyre and overturned along the Harare-Nyamapanda road, 23 kilometres from ...Published: 18 May 2015 at 13:58hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
'All major roads in Zimbabwe to be dualised,' says Obert Mpofu
Government plans to dualise all the country's major roads to improve safety and infrastructure, a Cabinet Minister said recently. Speaking after touring Chivake River Bridge, in Murehwa, whi...Published: 07 Nov 2014 at 19:46hrs | | by David Shumba
3 cops die in road accident
Three police officers and a civilian, travelling to Gweru, died on Wednesday evening when their car collided with a haulage truck, killing them all on the spot, police have said.National ...Published: 15 Aug 2014 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zupco bus accident death toll now 14
The death toll in the accident involving a cross-border Zupco bus and a haulage truck along the Harare-Nyamapanda Highway on Monday has risen to 14 after another passenger died at Parirenyatwa Hospita...Published: 07 Aug 2014 at 06:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Malawian citizen jumps off moving bus, dies in Zimbabwe
A Malawian citizen died on the spot last week after jumping off a moving bus through a broken rear windscreen. Enoch Kadamanja (28) died on the spot after jumping off the bus, which was enroute to Mal...Published: 08 Jan 2013 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unemployed man (64) fending for two disabled children and a bed-ridden wife appealing for help
A Mudzi family is appealing for help from all Zimbabweans across the globe. Life will never be the same for 64 year-old Mudzi man, Titos Ndowa, after his wife who used to take care of their two disab...Published: 17 Oct 2011 at 11:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
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