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Zinara gets thumbs-up
The Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) has received parliamentary approval after effectively addressing concerns raised in the latest report by Auditor-General Rheah Kujinga regarding its...Published: 05 Nov 2024 at 08:23hrs | 221 | by Staff reporter
Zinara and VID deal raises eyebrows
The country's roads administrator, Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) assigned the Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) to collect transit and overload fees without a contract, a new report...Published: 25 Sep 2022 at 16:47hrs | 2 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
'Dubious' contractors prejudice Zinara of US$71,5 million
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) could have been prejudiced of about US$71,5 million in special projects undertaken with a number of "questionable and dubious" contractors between 20...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zinara has turned a new leaf
THE Grant Thornton Forensic Audit commissioned by the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development in 2016 highlighted several corporate governance deficiencies at the Zimbabwe National Road ...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zinara executives victimised for transferring Mugabe linked employees
Zimbabwe National Road Administration (ZINARA) executives, Adam Zvandasara and Gilfern Moyo, yesterday told the court that they were being victimised for implementing board resolutions and policies th...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zinara committee audit report questioned
The credibility of a report compiled by a committee appointed by former Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Dr Joram Gumbo to study the findings of an audit by Grant Thornton on the ope...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 05:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa hearing fails to kick off
A hearing for the suspended Zimbabwe National Road Administration chief executive Engineer Nancy Masiyiwa has opened a can of worms as it emerged that the parastatal is refusing to release an audit re...Published: 08 Oct 2018 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zinara's Infralink challenges $934 000 judgment
The Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara)'s special purpose vehicle Infralink (Pvt) Ltd has petitioned the High Court seeking rescission of judgment in a matter where it was ordered to pay a...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 06:48hrs | 2 | 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 | | by Staff rpeorter
Zinara in bid to conceal graft
THE Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) board has lifted the suspension order imposed on four senior managers who were sent home last year on alleged misconduct charges, arguing "the cases...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 14:49hrs | 1 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Zinara exonerates execs in fraud case
The case of five Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) executives accused of allegedly fraudulently transferring more than $2 million into bogus companies' accounts in a shady loan repayment ...Published: 31 Jan 2018 at 05:55hrs | 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 | 2 | 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 | | 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
'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 | | by Staff reporter
SA tycoon clears air on Zinara deal
South African businessman Mr Niko Shefer, who facilitated the $206 million for Zinara to refurbish the Plumtree-Mutare Highway, yesterday said he has renegotiated his facilitation fee from two to 1,3 ...Published: 01 Sep 2016 at 06:31hrs | 4 | 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
25 Zinara staff suspended over toll fees scam
The entire staff complement of about 25 people manning a toll plaza in Mutare were recently suspended for stealing toll fees, in a scam that could be happening at other toll sites, legislators hav...Published: 16 Aug 2016 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Zvamaida Murwira
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 | | by Munyaradzi Musiiwa
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 | | by Thobekile Zhou
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 | | by Prosper Ndlovu
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 | | by Staff reporter
Plumtree-Mutare road rehabilitation project collapses
THE $206 million Plumtree-Mutare road rehabilitation project has stopped after lead contractor, Group 5 of South Africa pulled out after Zimbabwe defaulted on loan repayments to the Development Bank o...Published: 23 Jan 2014 at 07:18hrs | 1 | 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 | | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Tollgate revenue set to increase
The Zimbabwe National Road Administration says it will double revenue collection from highway tollgates following the computerisation of the road fee collection points. Speaking on the sideli...Published: 02 Sep 2013 at 04:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zinara to computerise all tollgates
IN a move that will effectively stop motorists from driving unlicenced vehicles on the country's highways, the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) will soon computerise all tollgates....Published: 01 Aug 2013 at 04:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe secures $147m for Harare - Bulawayo dualisation
Government has secured the critical US$147 million funding for the dualisation of the Harare-Bulawayo highway, while it is also evaluating expressions of interest from companies that intend to work on...Published: 14 Apr 2013 at 07:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
World-class roads for Zimbabwe by 2020
It is generally contended that Zimbabwe can be a transportation hub for the region because of its centrality, and over the past couple of years the work that the Ministry of Transport, Communications ...Published: 14 Apr 2013 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Infralink road project comes to life
South African company, Group Five on Wednesday announced the launch of the R1.8bn Infralink road construction project in Zimbabwe. This coincided with the opening of the Ntabazinduna Toll Plaza near ...Published: 11 Apr 2013 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's first Toll Plaza opens in December
Zimbabwe's first state-of-the-art toll plaza will open in December this year along the Harare-Bulawayo highway, a senior Government official said yesterday.Zimbabwe National Road Administratio...Published: 07 Sep 2012 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe tollgate fees likely to rise
Tollgate fees are likely to increase after the construction of new state-of-the-art toll plazas on the country's highways that has started with a pilot project along the Bulawayo - Harare highway....Published: 30 Aug 2012 at 18:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe highway rehab shrouded in confusion
CONFUSION reigns in the dualisation of the Plumtree-Mutare Road amid reports that the road will be partially dualised and rehabilitated.Director of Roads in the Ministry of Transport, Communic...Published: 27 Jun 2012 at 09:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Byo - Hre highway set for dualisation
The highway linking Plumtree and Mutare is now set for dualisation between Harare and Bulawayo as Government's Infralink Project changes scope from rehabilitation only.Infralink is a joint ven...Published: 12 Apr 2012 at 21:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Group Five deal will not dualise Zimbabwe roads
Tthe signing of a deal between Zimbabwe and SA's Group Five for the rehabilitation of the Plumtree-Mutare highway has been viewed as the single largest infrastructural development project after the c...Published: 26 Jun 2011 at 05:39hrs | 6 | by .
Zinara secures US$207m
ZIMBABWE National Road Administration (Zinara) has sourced a US$207 million loan facility from the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) for the rehabilitation ...Published: 28 Nov 2010 at 10:09hrs | | by Augustine Moyo and Darlington Musarurwa
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