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Mnangagwa's govt under siege over killings
TWO survivors of the August 1, 2018 military shootings, which claimed six lives in the aftermath of last year's highly controversial general election, have dragged government to court, seeking close t...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 11:56hrs | 1419 | by Staff reporter
Does Brother Mthuli Ncube live in Zimbabwe?
Hope is the expectation, against all rational considerations, that desires will be fulfilled miraculously.When the "new dispensation" was introduced in Zimbabwe, we hoped against past experien...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:51hrs | 1011 | by Kennet Mufuka
Call for urgent road rehabilitation in Nkayi
NKAYI South Member of Parliament Stars Mathe has said road accidents like the recent one that claimed six lives in the area could be avoided if the road was rehabilitated.Six people died while...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:40hrs | 122 | by Staff reporter
Call for urgent road rehabilitation in Nkayi
NKAYI South Member of Parliament Stars Mathe has said road accidents like the recent one that claimed six lives in the area could be avoided if the road was rehabilitated.Six people died while...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:14hrs | 387 | by Staff Reporter
Wife snatching businessman at it again
A GWANDA businessman – who last year was thoroughly bashed by a group of angry young men accusing him of sleeping with their wives – is at it again after he allegedly snatched another man's wife a...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 11:02hrs | 819 | 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 | 138 | by Thomas Murisa
Council cop 'pushed' out of moving vehicle
TWO men have been arrested for pushing a Bulawayo City Council security officer out of a moving vehicle that subsequently ran over him resulting in serious injuries. Tapiwa Wilson Maguwu (31) ...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 08:18hrs | 551 | by Staff reporter
This Zimbabwe situation simply cannot go on
THIS is a message to those who currently hold power in Zimbabwe. I do not really care about how you got into this position, but now that you are there, we need to ask you what you are going to use tha...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:25hrs | 1526 | by Eddie Cross
Sex in kombi full of passengers
A 22-YEAR-OLD man from Victoria Falls has been arrested for engaging in sex with a minor girl in a moving commuter omnibus full of passengers.The Form Four girl, now 16, is seven months pregna...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 00:02hrs | 2534 | by Staff reporter
Zupco assures transport tomorrow
GOVERNMENT has assured the nation that there will be enough buses to ferry people to and from their destinations tomorrow in spite of the planned MDC Alliance demonstrations.There were fears t...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 14:43hrs | 1681 | by Staff reporter
6 die in Nkayi Road kombi crash
SIX people died while 20 others were injured yesterday when a kombi they were travelling in veered off the road before overturning at the 24km peg along Bulawayo-Nkayi Road in Bubi District. T...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 07:40hrs | 742 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1881 | by Staff reporter
EcoCash agents make a killing
ECOCASH agents have turned their booths into illegal selling points of cash at exorbitant premiums ranging from 30 to 40 percent. For one to get bond coins and notes from EcoCash agents, he or...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:06hrs | 1309 | by Staff reporter
Jim Kunaka attacked, loses US$2 000
NOTORIOUS former Zanu-PF terror group, Chipangano leader Jim Kunaka was yesterday attacked by four assailants and robbed of US$2 000.The attack, according to the former Zanu-PF youth leader, o...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 08:07hrs | 1488 | by Staff reporter
Vaya proposes fix to fuel & forex problem
CASSAVA Smartech's logistics unit, Vaya, has accelerated the introduction of its new services - Vaya Carpool and Vaya Shuttle - in a bid to help alleviate the fuel crisis in Zimbabwe. Ch...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 07:50hrs | 308 | by Staff reporter
Cassava set to introduce ease of travel
Vaya has speeded the introduction of its new services, Vaya Carpool and Vaya Shuttle, in a bid to help ease the fuel and foreign currency crises in Zimbabwe.Zimbabwe has been facing a crisis i...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 07:39hrs | 334 | by Staff reporter
Alcohol and drugs are ruining the youths
For many a youth today alcohol is their strongest weakness. Some think the wise waters can provide refuge and comfort from the prevailing hardships yet the opposite is the gospel truth. Many p...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 14:30hrs | 716 | by Thomas Murisa
Anger as August 1 victims mark first anniversary of deadly army clampdown
A year after Dzikamai Chivanga was shot by a soldier while in central Harare, the 26-year-old is still struggling with medical bills and can hardly walk.Chivanga is one of scores of people sho...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 14:21hrs | 270 | by Staff reporter
Talking Nkayi Development: Walking on thorny and uneven ground with corruption!
The scourge of corruption currently bedeveling the country is a decomposing and dilapidating wound on development. It is a cause for concern for all progressive Nkayians, Matabelelanders and the gener...Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 20:21hrs | 1515 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Health crisis looms at Bulawayo's makeshift kombi terminus
WITHOUT a care in the world, a visibly intoxicated tout staggers out of a parked commuter omnibus with a plastic bottle filled with a yellowish liquid and tosses it on a heap of trash in an alley just...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 16:17hrs | 326 | by Staff reporter
Top cop walks free in kombi case
Former officer-in-charge of Mbare Police Station, Violet Sigauke, who was accused of taking bribes from commuter omnibus operators in return for safe passage, walked out of court free this week after ...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 07:47hrs | 789 | by Staff reporter
Headmaster caught pants down with married teacher
Rusaza Primary School head, Kombi Chirove recently received a thorough beating and had his car window smashed by a man who had caught him sleeping with his wife, a teacher at the school that he heads....Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 14:34hrs | 7266 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi 'architect' threatens
Zanu-PF party Politburo member Perrance Shiri has called on members not to be swayed by opposition elements who want to make the country ungovernable through demonstrations. Addressing thousan...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 07:22hrs | 1063 | by STaff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's reforms trigger new cash crisis?
A revealing editorial in today's Herald says SI 142/19, which hastily scrapped the multi-currency system & prematurely introduced a non-existent Zimbabwe dollar as the sole legal tender in the cou...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 09:44hrs | 7135 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa rallies behind Mthuli Ncube
FORMER Finance Minister, Patrick Anthony Chinamasa, (P.A.C) who is also the ZANU-PF secretary for finance has rallied behind the current Minister of Finance, Professor Mthuli Ncube, saying the country...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:29hrs | 1510 | by Staff reporter
5 contractors gun for Harare-Beitbridge Highway tender
GOVERNMENT plans to speed up the refurbishment of the Harare-Beitbridge Highway beginning next month, with five contractors expected to be selected in a shortened tender process. Further, a fr...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 07:31hrs | 3191 | by Staff reporter
Tajamuka shut down flops
ZIMBABWEANS yesterday ignored desperate calls by a shadowy, pro-MDC Alliance group, Tajamuka and its affiliates to shut down the country on an anti-Government move to demonstrate against President Mna...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:11hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
Harare-Beitbridge highway accident claims 19
NINETEEN people died while seven others were seriously injured yesterday in a head-on collision involving a haulage truck and a commuter omnibus at the 89km-peg along the Harare-Beitbridge Highway....Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 08:04hrs | 4321 | by Staff Reporter
Head on collision kills 19 people
Nineteen people died this morning in a road traffic head on collision involving a Toyota commuter omnibus and a haulage truck along the Harare-Beitbridge Road.The accident occurred at the 89km...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 22:55hrs | 929 | by Staff reporter
Head on collision kills 19 people
Nineteen people died this morning in a road traffic head on collision involving a Toyota commuter omnibus and a haulage truck along the Harare-Beitbridge Road.The accident occurred at the 89km...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 22:54hrs | 1296 | by Staff reporter
Some road construction companies short-changed us
Most urban roads and streets constructed during the colonial era are not damaged and potholed as those made after Uhuru. The colonial roads are still trafficable though in dire need of repairs...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 20:46hrs | 1105 | by Thomas Murisa.
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 | 1105 | by Thomas Murisa
Kombi crash survivor sues for $30 000
A MAN from Gweru who survived when a commuter omnibus he was travelling in was involved in a fatal accident that claimed 10 lives, is suing the driver and the owner of the vehicle for more than US$30 ...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 07:56hrs | 651 | by Staff reporter
'Taming the Shrew' - Deaths on our Roads
Driving in Harare and in the highways of Zimbabwe has become distressful. Recent reports of high profile road traffic deaths refer. The traffic chaos has become a 'shrew.' There is urgent need to 'tam...Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 07:53hrs | 1313 | by Engineer Tororiro Isaac Chaza PMP
'My main focus is to make urbanites understand Zanu-PF'
The ruling party Zanu-PF on Tuesday appointed Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association (ZNLWVA) secretary-general Victor Matemadanda as secretary for the Commissariat. He replaced Engelb...Published: 15 Jun 2019 at 08:51hrs | 473 | by Staff reporter
Zupco jokes, economic class and hedonistic individualism in Zimbabwe
There can be a bit of a laugh, if you are on social media, concerning the political-economic goings-on in Zimbabwe.There should not (strictly speaking) be. But on social media, there is and hu...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 06:56hrs | 1231 | by Takura Zhangazha
We are at the bus stop 'pa Muchaka'
Now that Zupco buses are being deployed to service rural routes, it is time we mention areas desperate for buses.Harare-Glendale-Nzvimbo-Mkunyadzi-Chinehasha-Chidewu-Chaona, is one route 'crying' for ...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 10:18hrs | 2167 | by Thomas Murisa
Dialogue is the way to go
Five hundred more buses for ZUPCO. More comfortable, far cheaper and what's more, bigger is always better. Dialogue is always progressive, good and advisable. Confrontation is counterproductiv...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 21:05hrs | 861 | by Tondo Murisa
Kombi operators reach out to Govt
Kombi operators have reached out to the Government seeking a special diesel allocation to allow them to continue providing affordable service to commuters. Kombi operators have in the past day...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 07:42hrs | 455 | by Staff reporter
First 'Zimbabwe shutdown' after MDC Congress flops
The US embassy in Zimbabwe openly pinned its mast on the anti-Government movement in Harare yesterday after it made a desperate call for the opposition to demonstrate against President Mnangagwa's adm...Published: 31 May 2019 at 07:33hrs | 3857 | by Staff reporter
Kombi driver blames religion for passenger's death
A HARARE commuter omnibus driver who allegedly caused the death of his passenger after he was involved in an accident when he passed a red traffic light yesterday said the Johane Marange sect, where h...Published: 29 May 2019 at 08:05hrs | 1361 | by Staff reporter
Dedication to Cde Dabengwa
To Cde DD, my hero.Now that you have decided to take a bow and rest, I hope you will choose to lie next to your family, friends and comrades right among the people you sacrificed your yo...Published: 24 May 2019 at 08:01hrs | 453 | by Iphithule Thembani KaMaphosa
New Zupco buses come to Bulawayo
FIVE of the 39 new Zupco buses which were commissioned recently are coming to Bulawayo to service urban routes. This comes in the wake of Government slashing fares by 50 percent resulting in fares for...Published: 23 May 2019 at 06:41hrs | 1511 | by Staff reporter
Zupco will work, commuters call for timetable adjustments
COMMUTERS have called on ZUPCO to adjust timetables to cater for all workers as well as also expand on areas covered.Currently, the Zupco buses operate between 5am and 7pm, which affects those...Published: 22 May 2019 at 10:36hrs | 3082 | by Staff reporter
Kombi operators shut down Bulawayo
Public transporters in Bulawayo have withdrawn kombis from the road in protests against fuel price hikes and what they termed unfair competition from gove...Published: 22 May 2019 at 05:55hrs | 17807 | by Methusi Ncube
Zimra throws lifeline to civil servants
Government has thrown a lifeline to its restive workers by operationalising a law that will ensure that those with a minimum 10 years in service can import vehicles duty-free, a week after the workers...Published: 21 May 2019 at 07:24hrs | 10546 | by Staff reporter
Kombi operators hike fares
Transport operators in Mutare have hiked fares for short distance trips by 50 cents, claiming loss of business due to fuel shortages. Commuter omnibuses to Dangamvura, Fern Valley and Zimunya yesterda...Published: 21 May 2019 at 06:12hrs | 1911 | by Staff reporter
Retrace your roots and be Africans
Most of our 'rich' cultural practices and traits have fallen victim to westernisation and modernisation. Parents and community elders have lost voice and can only watch in disbelief and dismay...Published: 19 May 2019 at 17:29hrs | 398 | by Thomas Murisa
Mnangagwa govt's failures may trigger public anger
Over the past year, President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government have totally ignored calls from Zimbabweans to change the corrupt and inefficient way in which government is run. Zimbabweans from a...Published: 17 May 2019 at 07:19hrs | 1322 | by Martin Tarusenga
Of corruption and political will
THE latest Zinara graft scandal is the freshest in a series of corruption scandals which routinely grab the headlines for a short while before they fade into oblivion.The finer details of each...Published: 11 May 2019 at 14:58hrs | 347 | by Miriam Tose Majome
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