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180 graduate at Khumalo Barracks in Bulawayo
A total of 180 military personnel graduated yesterday from the Zimbabwe National Army's (ZNA) Ordnance and Transport Training School (OTTS), located at Headquarters One Infantry Brigade (Khumalo Barra...Published: 10 May 2025 at 16:03hrs | 1401 | by Staff reporter
Driving schools deregistered over safety violations in Zimbabwe
In a bid to enhance road safety and curb reckless driving, the Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe (TSCZ) has deregistered five driving schools this year for various malpractices, including safety viol...Published: 09 Mar 2025 at 13:06hrs | 1200 | by Staff reporter
VID bans revealing clothing at its depots
The Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) has implemented an immediate ban on visitors dressed in revealing clothing, such as shorts, sleeveless tops, and miniskirts, at all of its depots across the c...Published: 24 Oct 2024 at 07:57hrs | 803 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean minister bemoans corruption in drivers' licence issuance
Transport and Infrastructure Development Minister Felix Mhona recently unveiled plans to combat and eliminate corruption associated with the issuance of learner licenses and certificates of competence...Published: 06 Nov 2023 at 04:47hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
VID depots offer electronic learners' tests
The Electronic Learners' Licence Testing System (ELLTS) has so far been introduced at 23 Vehicle Inspectorate Department depots countrywide, as part of new measures to reduce what was alleged to be ra...Published: 20 Apr 2023 at 07:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Gweru: a city without traffic lights
Green means go, and red means stop. That is the rule on the road, but when traffic lights are down, motorists are left asking which car goes first? This is a question that most motorists in Zimbabwe's...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 08:02hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Bad news for errant driving schools
DRIVING Schools not complying with regulations set down by the Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe (TSCZ), now come under the spotlight after the council this week started an inspection, giving the non...Published: 18 Feb 2023 at 19:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Driving schools risk losing licences
DRIVING schools risk having their registration certificates cancelled if they violate stipulated operating procedures which include ensuring aspiring learner drivers have done at least 30 lessons befo...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ndebele, Shona Highway Code to be rolled out
Prospective driver's licence holders could soon be allowed to take their provisional licence tests in languages they are more familiar with as government takes steps to finalise the translation of the...Published: 17 Apr 2022 at 09:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Education Ministry summons Eveline High school head
PLAGUED with neglect when its primary use as a sporting facility was temporarily abandoned due to Covid-19 induced lockdowns, driving schools in Bulawayo have lately turned Eveline High School sports ...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 08:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Matiza family to complete late minister's projects
THE family of late Transport minister, Joel Biggie Matiza has set sights on completing projects that were started by their patriarch in his home constituency of Murewa South. Matiza succumbed ...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 18:36hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
VID resumes operations
THE Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) resumes operations today following Cabinet's approval for it to reopen, with Government working on modalities of assisting aspiring drivers whose provisional li...Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 09:09hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Government in learner's licence U-turn
THE government has made a U-turn on its earlier decision to extend by six months the validity of provisional driver's licences and defensive driver's certificates which expired from March 30 onwards....Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 16:08hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
'Don't bribe VID driving examiners'
ZIMBABWE Driving Schools Owners Association (ZDSOA) president Onias Sanangure yesterday urged learner drivers to desist from bribing Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) officials to get licences and...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
2 killed in Bulawayo road accidents
TWO people were killed in separate accidents in Bulawayo on Monday, police have said. Provincial police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube said in the first accident, a conductor was killed by a re...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
VID officer swallows bribe money to avoid arrest
There was drama at the Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) provincial complex here on Tuesday afternoon when one of the officials who had been cornered by undercover detectives reportedly swallowed ...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 21:31hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe promises urgent review into lockdown expiry learner's licences
Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe on Wednesday promised an urgent review after the Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) turned away scores of learner drivers whose provisional licences expired duri...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
VID resumes road tests, issuing driver's licences
THE Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) will from tomorrow start conducting road tests and issuing driver's licences after close to six months of closure.The closure of VID in March after the ...Published: 18 Oct 2020 at 08:34hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Automated training for learner drivers
CMED (Private) Limited has unveiled a mobile driver training simulator, modern technology aimed at enhancing efficiency for learner drivers through computerised and objective assessment, expected to m...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 06:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
VID graft probe complete
INVESTIGATIONS into the Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) corruption scandal are now complete and findings will be handed over to the Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development Joel Big...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Heads to roll at VID
ACTION is going to be taken against Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) officials who are corruptly issuing learner driver's licences to underserving people and modalities are being worked out to comp...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Aspiring Zimbabwe drivers to write licence test online
ASPIRING drivers will soon write provisional driver's licence tests online to reduce interface with officials and minimise cases of alleged corruption. In a telephone interview yesterday, the ...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 06:57hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Driving schools hike lesson charges
DRIVING schools in Bulawayo have hiked charges by at least 100 percent citing an increase in the price of fuel among other operational costs. A survey revealed that a learner driver is now exp...Published: 31 Jan 2019 at 22:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
VID to roll out electronic learner’s licence exams
The Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) will soon introduce electronic Provisional Drivers' Licence aptitude examinations as part of a raft of new measures to reduce rampant corruption in the acquis...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 05:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
54 corrupt VID officers fired
A TOTAL of 54 Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) officers have been fired for corruption while driving schools found on the wrong side of the law will be closed, a Cabinet Minister has said.T...Published: 10 Feb 2018 at 07:30hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
WATCH: Learner driver reversing into a pedestrian in Zimbabwe
This shocking clip of a learner driver reversing into a pedestrian in Zimbabwe has got people asking questions.In the CCTV video, which was posted to Zimbabwe news and entertainment website 3-...Published: 03 May 2017 at 07:59hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
New highway code on the cards
THE Government is set to introduce a new Highway Code next month as part of ongoing efforts to enhance road safety and reduce accidents on the country's roads.Transport and Infrastructure ...Published: 11 Feb 2017 at 09:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Learner driver runs over 6-yr-old son, killing him on the spot
BULAWAYO - A Queens Park West woman who was learning to drive accidentally ran over and killed her 6-year-old son while trying to drive through a gate. Michael Chitehwe was allegedly teaching ...Published: 22 Nov 2016 at 00:55hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Driving licence tests high failure rate torches storm
AN alarming number of people continue to fail leaner's driving licence and practical road tests, amid claims that officials at the Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) deliberately fail people to ind...Published: 29 Nov 2015 at 06:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
New rules for learner drivers
At least 80 percent of the process of obtaining both the provisional and practical drivers licence will now be conducted inside Vehicle Inspection Department depots with the public watching to discou...Published: 09 Jul 2015 at 10:27hrs | | by Nyemudzai Kakore
Learner driver causes accident at VID premises
A female learner driver stunned Vehicle Inspection Department officials and other learners when she failed to control a car inside the VID premises and hit a tree.Prisca Nyahuma had to be rus...Published: 26 Jun 2015 at 13:23hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
Nationwide blitz on unregistered driving schools
THE Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe in conjunction with the Zimbabwe Republic Police has embarked on a nationwide exercise to apprehend owners of unregistered driving schools and unqualified drivin...Published: 27 Feb 2015 at 06:35hrs | | by Oswell Moyo
Plumtree completes installation of traffic lights
PLUMTREE Municipality has completed a $68,000 project of installing the first ever traffic lights in the border town. The move is aimed at improving the safety of motorists and pedestrians.It ...Published: 13 Dec 2014 at 10:50hrs | | by Sukulwenkosi Dube
The Zimbabwe bus!
In 1980 jubilant Zimbabweans were wooed into a bus heading to a promised land of milk and honey. They knew the driver had never steered a bus and his crew had no experience either. They were assured...Published: 07 Nov 2014 at 19:55hrs | 2 | by Shingai Mugochi
785 killed in road accidents
AT least 785 people have been killed in road traffic accidents which occurred in the first half of this year, Transport and Infrastructure Development Minister Dr Obert Mpofu has said.In a spe...Published: 30 Jul 2014 at 07:20hrs | | by Farai Kuvirimirwa
Mukanya was right, after all
In ghetto lingo they call it "kutonyora" while the proper Shona equivalent is "chioko muhomwe". But no matter how suitable, colourful and vivid the name might be, bribery is a double-edged sword ...Published: 12 Apr 2014 at 13:54hrs | | by Rosenthal Mutakati Ghetto Blast
Dudu Manhenga gets back to work
Afro jazz sensation Duduzile "Dudu" Manhenga who has been keeping a low profile since being imprisoned last year is working on a video for her gospel track "Mahala". Dudu's manager Ndumiso Ndl...Published: 16 Jan 2014 at 08:05hrs | 1 | by Entertainment Reporter
VID redesigning depots to guard against corruption
THE Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) has started redesigning depots to ensure that 80% of the practical tests leading to the issuance of a driver's licence are done within its premises.A...Published: 15 Jan 2014 at 08:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dudu Manhenga appeals for bail at High Court
Jazz musician Duduzile Tracy Manhenga who lost a bail bid at the Harare Magistrates' Court on Monday, has filed an appeal at the High Court challenging the dismissal of her application for bail pendi...Published: 17 Oct 2013 at 03:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dudu Manhenga to appeal jail sentence
Jailed afro-jazz musician Dudu Manhenga will lodge an appeal against the 18-month sentence she received last week following her conviction on a culpable homicide charge, her husband has revealed....Published: 13 Oct 2013 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff Reporter
All Zimbabwe drivers face retests to flash our fake licences
ALL drivers face retests as part of measures to periodically assess their competency and flush out those with fraudulently - acquired drivers' licences.Concern has also been raised that curre...Published: 11 Sep 2011 at 07:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
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