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Harare sets 3 year deadline for kombi ban
The City of Harare has unveiled a draft master plan (2025–2045) proposing the phasing out of commuter omnibuses (kombis) from the capital's roads within three years, sparking sharp debate among comm...Published: 24 Aug 2025 at 09:49hrs | 1013 | by Staff reporter
ZRP faces rising corruption, public safety at risk
Zimbabwe's police service, once hailed as a guardian of law and order, is increasingly under scrutiny as allegations of corruption threaten public safety. Under Commissioner-General Stephen Mutamba, r...Published: 20 Aug 2025 at 09:37hrs | 363 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest 143 touts in sweeping crackdown
Police in Harare have arrested 143 touts this week in a major operation aimed at curbing harassment of passengers and restoring order in the city’s chaotic public transport system.The crackd...Published: 09 Aug 2025 at 09:52hrs | 236 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo launches blitz on pushcart operators
In a bold move to restore order in the city centre and clamp down on illicit activities, Bulawayo City Council (BCC) yesterday launched a sweeping operation targeting pushcart operators and street ven...Published: 09 Aug 2025 at 09:48hrs | 156 | by Staff reporter
Pirate taxis continue to wreak havoc on Zimbabwe's roads
Zimbabwe's roads remain a death trap as pirate taxis, commonly known as Mushikashika, continue to wreak havoc through reckless driving, causing chaos, traffic congestion, and endangering the lives of ...Published: 15 Jul 2025 at 08:34hrs | 899 | by Staff reporter
BCC, TTI launch crackdown on illegal taxis
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) and Tendy Three Investments (TTI) have teamed up for a joint operation aimed at curbing the growing problem of illegal taxis, locally known as Mshikashika, in the city ...Published: 12 Mar 2025 at 11:39hrs | 571 | by Staff reporter
Police target 13 550 unregistered kombis
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has launched an extensive operation targeting more than 13,500 unregistered commuter omnibuses (kombis) and pirate taxis in Harare. The crackdown aims to restore ord...Published: 15 Jan 2025 at 05:49hrs | 336 | by Staff reporter
'Taxi rank' chaos in Bulawayo CBD
Bulawayo's city centre is facing significant disruption as kombi crews, illegal taxi operators, and inter-city buses continue to flout traffic regulations and city by-laws, particularly during peak ho...Published: 29 Oct 2024 at 07:39hrs | 306 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council not going back on decongesting CBD
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) says there is no going back in decongesting the city centre and has directed informal traders and taxi operators to move to newly upgraded Egodini Terminus and other de...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 06:56hrs | 9 | 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
Bulawayo traffic lawlessness continues unabated
DRIVING on Bulawayo's roads in the Central Business District is now a nightmare as rowdy push-cart operators, pirate taxi drivers, kombi and bus crews flout traffic rules and regulations as the city f...Published: 11 Jan 2024 at 05:13hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police blitz leaves commuters stranded
Thousands of commuters in Harare and other urban areas were left stranded on a recent day when the police launched an operation targeting unlicensed commuter omnibuses and pirate taxis. While authorit...Published: 14 Sep 2023 at 06:39hrs | | 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
100 pirate taxis impounded in clampdown
POLICE in Bulawayo yesterday impounded more than 100 pirate taxis and two buses for violating the traffic regulations and using undesignated areas in the city centre as pick-up and drop-off points...Published: 22 Sep 2022 at 05:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Traffic nightmare as kombi crews create 6th Avenue rank
DRIVING on Bulawayo's streets has become nightmarish as rowdy kombi crews violate road rules causing congestion.Roads such as 6th Avenue Extension and Herbert Chitepo streets from 5th Avenue t...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:05hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
2 die in bizarre Harare CBD incidents
VENDORS and kombi crews who work close to the Robert Mugabe Road and Julius Nyerere Way intersection in the Harare central business District (CBD) were yesterday left bewildered after four people coll...Published: 28 Aug 2022 at 08:15hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Tshova Mubaiwa to make comeback
GOVERNMENT is in the process of coming up with regulations to guide the liberalisation of the public transport sector.To improve the public transport system, Government in 2020 directed player...Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZUPCO urged to train its staff in customer care
THE Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) has been urged to train its commuter omnibus staff who joined its franchise in customer care as most of them are discourteous to passengers and brea...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 19:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pirate kombi crews arrest bribe-seeking bogus cop
PIRATE kombi drivers and touts on Monday effected a citizens' arrest on a woman who was allegedly impersonating a police officer and extorting money from them. Vinate Ncube (35) was arrested a...Published: 23 Jun 2021 at 08:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kombi crews plot attack on police
SOME rowdy pirate kombi crews operating in Bulawayo are reportedly plotting to attack traffic police officers at their homes in retaliation for skirmishes that occurred in the city centre last Wednesd...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cops near death as tout mob attacks
PIRATE kombi operators and illegal money changers yesterday allegedly ganged up and attacked traffic police officers who were patrolling in the Bulawayo city centre.The rowdy crew smashed wind...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police must not be cowed by criminals
In March, a mob attacked police on official duty in Bulawayo and damaged their service vehicle.Yesterday, another police team enforcing the law was attacked. This means that there have been tw...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 06:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pirate kombi drivers attack police officers
ROWDY pirate kombi drivers ganged up with some rogue elements and attacked traffic police officers before smashing the rear windscreen of their patrol vehicle and stealing a car battery which was in t...Published: 13 Mar 2021 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pirating kombis, taxis flood Bulawayo
PIRATING commuter omnibuses are back on the streets in Bulawayo taking advantage of reduced police roadblocks after Government eased lockdown regulations at the beginning of this month. Police...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 05:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Banned kombis devise new ways of operation
Banned kombis have devised new tricks and methods of illegally operating as they evade arrest in Harare and its satellite towns. The kombis compete for passengers with Zupco buses as transport...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:19hrs | 2 | by Blessings Chidakwa
Government shuts door on non-Zupco kombis
GOVERNMENT has insisted that commuter omnibus operators in urban centres have to operate under the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) ambit as it brings sanity to the transport sector. ...Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
We need Zupco buses in Chiwesh, Mashonaland Central
The frequency of kombi arrivals and departure in rural Chiweshe, Mash. Central are not amusing. This is one area where tobacco farming was 'born' and got 'raised' elsewhere. The communal farme...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 10:49hrs | 1 | by Thomas Murisa
Kombi crews circumvent tollgates
Commuter omnibus operators plying highway routes are reportedly dropping off passengers just before approaching tollgates as a strategy to avoid paying high tollgate fees which were introduced by Fina...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
The singing and dancing is still going on
Household economies tend to zero in on one person or a couple if the marriage is still without 'cracks and bruises'. When needs and wants outpace incomes its the father who loses sleep pondering on ho...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 13:08hrs | 1 | by Thomas Murisa
Police arrest 120 Bulawayo children
Police in Bulawayo yesterday arrested about 120 teenagers who had gathered at various points in the city centre allegedly to go to Vuzu Parties or cause general nuisance.The sting operation ne...Published: 05 May 2019 at 08:06hrs | 10 | by Methusi Ncube
Police to raid vuzu youths
POLICE in Bulawayo will today arrest any rowdy youths found in the central business district and have increased deployment of officers to deal with the scourge of vuzu parties. Teenagers take ...Published: 04 May 2019 at 08:02hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
ZUPCO return: Time for a comprehensive mass transportation system
Following the violent and destructive protests of Monday and Tuesday last week commuters were left stranded as commuter transport operators in some urban areas such as Harare and Chitungwiza parked th...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 11:17hrs | 3 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Zupco buses invade Bulawayo routes
THE Government has introduced Zupco buses to ply routes between the Bulawayo Central Business District and the city's residential suburbs as it seeks to provide affordable transport to commuters. ...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 23:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kombi operators have themselves to blame
The modernisation of the mass public transport system in Zimbabwe through the introduction of the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) buses will restore sanity and ameliorate the challenges that...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 14:13hrs | 5 | by Tafara Shumba
PHOTO: Kombi crews and their passengers being searched at roadblock
Kombi crews and their passengers being searched at a security checkpoint following the violence that occurred this week at Mabvuku turn off along Mutare road yesterday. (Picture by Justin Mutenda) ...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 20:07hrs | | by Justin Mutenda
Stop drug abuse
Broncclear, a cough relief medicine which is called 'Bronco' in street lingo is being abused big time by most wayward youths in Zimbabwe. This medicine-cum-drug has left many young people 'walking dea...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 19:08hrs | 2 | by Thomas Murisa.
Kombi operators hike fares
COMMUTER omnibus operators in Bulawayo have increased fares by 50 percent and warned of another hike should the ongoing price madness gripping the country continue unabated. The kombi fares sh...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chaos reigns as police disappear in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Passenger Association (PAZ) has bemoaned the reduced police presence on the roads, saying the vacuum has resulted in an upsurge in unlicensed drivers that contribute to the high rate of a...Published: 08 Jul 2018 at 08:05hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Garage owner cries foul over errant kombi crews
THE proprietor of Bulawayo's West End Service Station, Ticharwa Tsodzo, has accused Bulawayo City Council (BCC) of driving him out of business by refusing to evict commuter omnibus crews operating clo...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 07:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Scooters and rickshaws to ease transport blues
Rickshaws and scooters for urban commuting, what's holding us moving over to those modes of transport? Many developing nations have embraced use of tricycle taxis and motorbikes to beat congestion and...Published: 21 Apr 2018 at 21:11hrs | 1 | by Thomas Murisa, Harare
Zupco, promises and fibs
A lot has been said on the resurgence and rebound of Zupco buses on our roads yet none are showing. Not long ago the print media was awash with news that two hundred buses had arrived in the country a...Published: 09 Apr 2018 at 12:59hrs | 1 | by Thomas Murisa
Police kill suspected turkey thief
In yet another low for the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), one of its officers, last week shot and killed a Bikita villager who was suspected of having stolen nine turkeys from fellow villagers....Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 14:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chilling police torture claims
Hardly a day after apologising for the killings of innocent people during Thursday’s protests over the kombi ban and illegal vending in the city, police were yesterday back in the public spotlight a...Published: 25 Feb 2018 at 10:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gweru roads project stalls
Bitumen World, a company which was contracted by Gweru City Council to resurface the city's heavily damaged road network, has suspended work amid reports the contractor is yet to be paid for the proje...Published: 13 Dec 2017 at 05:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
10 arrested in Kwekwe kombi protests
AT least 10 kombi drivers and conductors were arrested and detained at Kwekwe Central Police Station after they pulled off the road and parked their vehicles at the Zanu-PF district offices on Wednesd...Published: 29 Jul 2017 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Life ban for kombi driver
A KOMBI driver was banned for life from driving and sentenced to a year in jail after he was convicted of picking passengers at an undesignated spot in Bulawayo.Bulawayo magistrate Mr Tinashe ...Published: 17 Jul 2017 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police, kombi crews, vendors in running battles
HARARE'S central business district resembled a war zone yesterday as kombi crews, street vendors and rank marshals teamed up and engaged in running battles with the police as they protested against ha...Published: 30 Jun 2017 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Spot checks by police within cities and towns to remain in place
THE Government yesterday said it is only standard roadblocks that will be reduced to only four per province but the numerous spot checks by police within cities and towns will remain in place, dampeni...Published: 21 Jun 2017 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Death at a funeral as kombi stunts goes awry
Driving stunts by a commuter omnibus crew that had gone to mourn their colleague in Sakonda Village in Chihota turned tragic after the kombi overturned and killed one member on the spot.The in...Published: 15 May 2017 at 13:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Police cannot impound kombis and pirate taxis for more than 24 hours
POLICE can only detain impounded kombis and pirate taxis posing a danger to other road users for 24 hours as the law does not allow them to keep them for a longer period.Home Affairs Deput...Published: 31 Oct 2016 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
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