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Zebra Kiss bus crashes near Chirundu
A Zebra Kiss bus traveling from Harare to Lusaka was involved in a serious accident late Wednesday night, just a few kilometers before reaching Marongora near Chirundu. The bus reportedly veered off t...Published: 10 Apr 2025 at 09:23hrs | 436 | by Staff reporter
Harare-Chirundu highway upgrade starts
THE long-awaited widening and upgrading of the 352-kilometre Harare-Chirundu highway has started with all the contractors on site. The upgrade has seen two of the five contractors identified t...Published: 01 Feb 2024 at 04:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cross-border trader sues bus company for $1m
A CROSS-BORDER trader who survived one of the country's worst accidents that claimed 43 lives, when a Zambia-bound King Lion bus rammed into a tree along the Harare-Chirundu Road, is suing the bus com...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 07:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Paul Siwela: fearless father of Matabeleland cause, roar 'King Lion' roar!
Hate him or love him Cde Paul Siwela is a fearless, unapologetic and very principled father of Matabeleland revolution who has been in and out of Zimbabwe prisons and courts since his teenage years. ...Published: 25 Feb 2019 at 17:37hrs | 5 | by Israel Dube
Widower sues bus company for $700k
KING Lion Bus Service (Pvt) Ltd, the firm which owns a cross-border coach that was involved in an accident killing 43 people and injuring 40 along the Harare-Chirundu Highway last year, has been slapp...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 22:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rusape bus crash declared a national disaster
Government has declared a state of national disaster an accident in which 46 people were killed when two buses side-swapped at the 166-kilometre peg along Harare-Mutare highway on Wednesday evening. ...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 05:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bus accident victims' families seek $2,2m compensation
NINE surviving spouses and three guardians of the June 2017 horror accident involving a King Lion bus along the Harare-Chirundu Highway have filed a $2,2 million compensation lawsuit from the bus comp...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
King Lion bus accident scene cleansed
A traditional cleansing ceremony was conducted this Sunday (yesterday) at Nyamakate along the Harare-Kariba highway where a King Lion bus accident claimed 43 lives in June this year.The King L...Published: 20 Nov 2017 at 18:42hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Man sues bus company over wife's death in accident
A MASVINGO man has filed a $500 000 lawsuit against the owners of King Lion Motors following the death of his wife in an horrific accident involving one of the company's buses near Nyamakate in Hurung...Published: 21 Sep 2017 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe bans buses from driving at night (9pm - 5am)
Cross-border and inter-city bus companies will be prohibited from operating between 9pm and 5am as part of measures Government is crafting to curb road carnage.Illegal taxis, commonly referred...Published: 27 Aug 2017 at 10:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Man demands $500,000 for wife's death from King Lion Bus co.
A Masvingo man is demanding over $500 000 from King Lion Bus Company following the death of his wife in the Nyamakate bus disaster in June.Mr Isaac Madungwe was married to the late Tendai Madungwe and...Published: 05 Aug 2017 at 09:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Policeman was driving the doomed CRV
A POLICE officer was driving the Honda CRV which collided head-on with a Nissan Caravan at the 60-kilometre peg along Mvurwi-Centenary Road on Monday, killing 11 people and injuring 14 others....Published: 26 Jul 2017 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
11 burn to death in kombi crash - full report
ELEVEN people were burnt beyond recognition while 14 others were seriously injured when a Honda CRV vehicle collided with a Nissan Caravan at the 60km peg along the Centenary-Mvurwi Road yesterday aft...Published: 25 Jul 2017 at 07:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Lion King bus crash blamed on speeding
Preliminary investigations into the King Lion bus accident, which killed 43 passengers and injured 33 others along the Harare-Chirundu Highway recently, was caused by a tyre burst and speeding, Transp...Published: 27 Jun 2017 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe orders 'only' 4 roadblocks per province
The Zimbabwe Republic Police will from next week unveil standard roadblocks of at least four per province, as Government responds to concerns raised by tourists and motorists regarding the prevalence ...Published: 20 Jun 2017 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's govt, police, drivers liable for the horror accidents
A fortnight ago, Zimbabweans woke up to the tragic news that 43 people had perished and 23 others seriously injured when a Zambia-bound King Lion bus veered off the road and hit a tree along the Harar...Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 10:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe petitioned to ban King Lion buses
THE Zimbabwe Passengers' Association (ZPA) has petitioned President Robert Mugabe to cancel King Lion Bus Company's operating licence after one of the firm's buses veered off the road and killed 43 pe...Published: 14 Jun 2017 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Driving public transport vehicles at night faces ban
DRIVING public transport vehicles at night may soon be a thing of the past if Government approves recommendations made by the Civil Protection Unit.The decision to lobby Government against nig...Published: 14 Jun 2017 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff Report
Villagers deny stealing cash, goods from bus accident scene
VILLAGERS living close to the site where a King Lion bus rammed into a tree in the Nyamakate area last Wednesday night, killing 43 people on the spot, have denied reports they stole cash and goods bel...Published: 12 Jun 2017 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Crash victims' relatives still to account for cash, belongings
Relatives of some of the victims of the Nyamakate bus disaster have said they are yet to account for cash and personal belongings of their deceased relatives, four days after the accident.Most...Published: 12 Jun 2017 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Fit all public buses with speed governors'
All public buses must be compulsorily fitted with devices that stop them going over speed limits as a road safety measure to cut deaths from road accidents, the Passenger Association of Zimbabwe (Paz)...Published: 11 Jun 2017 at 12:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Ban night-driving'
Government should seriously consider banning use of public service vehicles at night as part of measures to reduce road traffic accidents, a senior police officer has said.This follows a serie...Published: 11 Jun 2017 at 10:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Calls for speedy action to reduce road carnage
Parliamentarians have called for the speedy computerisation and integration of the country's transport management system to reduce road carnage attributable to human error and unroadworthy vehicles. ...Published: 10 Jun 2017 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
LIST: 35 bus crash victims positively identified
Police have released the names of some of the victims of the Nyamakate King Lion bus disaster, which killed 43 people on Wednesday night and left over 30 others injured.40 of the 43 deceased p...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 19:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Bus driver was speeding'
The driver of the 69-seater King Lion bus which killed 43 people mostly cross border traders and injured 31 others on Wednesday night was reportedly speeding despite pleas from passengers to exercise ...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 08:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZAPU Youth Front mourns 43 King lion crash victims
ZAPU youth front mourns the 43 crash victims who perished on their way to Zambia next to Nyamakate shops when King Lion driver lost control and veered off the road killing 43 people including himself....Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 07:55hrs | | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo
Mugabe mourns 43 crash victims
PRESIDENT Mugabe last night expressed shock and sadness at the tragic loss of lives in the horror bus crash that claimed 43 lives and injured 33 others along the Harare-Chirundu Highway on Wednesday n...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 05:32hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
ICTA statement on Nyamakate King Lion Bus Accident
As the organisation, We have been saddened by the death of 43 passengers in the King Lion's Nyamakate accident today. It is with deep pain to acknowledge that 40 of the deceased were Cross-Border Trad...Published: 08 Jun 2017 at 18:22hrs | | by Denis Juru
LISTEN: Eyewitness reacts to 'King Lion' bus accident, over 40 people die
Eyewitness reacts to bus accident that claimed over 40 people....Published: 08 Jun 2017 at 14:37hrs | | by Staff Reporter
BREAKING: Zimbabwe bus accident kills 43
Forty-three people died on the spot while several others were injured in a traffic accident involving a Zambia bound King Lion bus in the Nyamakate area in Hurungwe last night.Police spokesper...Published: 08 Jun 2017 at 10:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
David Pocock flies to Zimbabwe to hunt for Rhino poachers
Battered and bruised with two black eyes, a broken nose and bandaged fingers, you'd expect Wallabies superstar David Pocock to put his feet up while he's got the chance.But Pocock is not what ...Published: 08 Nov 2015 at 09:46hrs | 1 | by Liam Croy
Zambia crash victims identified
Four Zimbabweans who died in an accident involving a Zimbabwe-bound King Lion bus in Zambia have been positively identified while concerted effort is being made to identify the remaining bodies. ...Published: 21 Jul 2015 at 07:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Police confirm King Lion bus accident
Lusaka Province Police Commissioner Charity Katanga has confirmed the King Lion bus accident which occurred on Sunday morning along Chirundu Road.Katanga told The Herald: "I can conf...Published: 19 Jul 2015 at 23:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Bus accident, 11 die on the spot - Photos
7/19/2015, 4:55 PM - +263 7* *** ****: Those who have relatives and friends on board king lion bus from Lusaka Zambia to Harare Zimbabwe please ch...Published: 19 Jul 2015 at 21:27hrs | 4 | by Concerned Citizen
Bus conductor impregnates 6 teens
A 26-YEAR-OLD bus conductor who allegedly preys on minors has reportedly impregnated six teenagers in Bulawayo's Mzilikazi and Makokoba suburbs. The six teenagers are all expecting, while the...Published: 05 May 2014 at 06:29hrs | 3 | by Yoliswa Dube
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