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Ashok Leyland keen on Zimbabwe market
Top Indian trucks and buses manufacturer, Ashok Leyland, has expressed desire to bounce back into the Zimbabwean market not only to supply the products, but potentially to set up a plant and sell its ...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 08:03hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
3 dead in horror collision between two trucks
Three people died while three others were injured when an Ashok Leyland Truck they were travelling in hit the trailer of a haulage truck which was heading in the opposite direction at the 382km peg al...Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's budget speech set for November 25
The 2022 National Budget giving the revenue and expenditure plans for next year will be tabled in Parliament on November 25 and is expected to steer Government programmes under the National Developmen...Published: 12 Nov 2021 at 05:32hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
BCC gets two water tenders donation
BULAWAYO City Council recently got a donation of two water fire tenders from Operation Florian Mission in Bulawayo which requested the local authority to fund the transportation of the equipment from ...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 10:22hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Harare hit by severe load shedding
Swathes of the industrial sites and some western suburbs of Harare were hit by scheduled power cuts yesterday, with parts of the eastern suburbs and other industrial areas set to be affected today as ...Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 10:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bus operators seal massive deal
A consortium of local bus operators has partnered with car assemblers — AVM Africa and Quest Motors to start the assembling of local buses in a bid to solve the country's transport woes.This...Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe assemblers sidelined on Zupco bus supply'
Quest Motor Manufacturing said government should allocate at least 20% of bus imports to local assemblers if it is sincere in its bid to resuscitate ailing industries. The plea from assem...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 12:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Leyland eyes Zimbabwe bus plant
INDIAN investors yesterday swarmed Industry and Commerce Minister Mangaliso Ndlovu, expressing their interest to do business in Zimbabwe, with one of the leading vehicle manufacturing companies, Ashok...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa lines up meetings with global business giants
GLOBAL business giants and political leaders were lining up to secure appointments with President Emmerson Mnangagwa who is here attending the 48th World Economic Forum annual meetings.Preside...Published: 24 Jan 2018 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chombo falls on hard times
Home Affairs minister Ignatius Chombo's former wife Marian has fallen on hard times and cannot afford to pay back a longstanding debt to CBZ Bank after she was declared "a person of no means"....Published: 29 Apr 2017 at 10:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophet's world collapses, chucked out of lodgings
PASSION Java Ministries' leader Prophet Passion Java's fortune is crumbling like a deck of cards, as one of his last pieces of property is set to go under the hammer to recover an undisclosed sum ...Published: 29 Jan 2017 at 09:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Joram Gumbo in CMED scandal
Transport Minister Joram Gumbo has reportedly ordered mechanics at Gwanda CMED workshop to be on 24 hour standby in readiness to attend to his JMP Express bus breakdowns.The bus, said to b...Published: 20 Sep 2016 at 08:05hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Govt buys 680 vehicles from India
The Ministry of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing has ordered 680 vehicles and spare parts worth $50 million from a firm in India.On Saturday ...Published: 09 Jan 2016 at 09:08hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe army gets delivery of new vehicles
Government last week received the second batch of vehicles - including all-terrain troop-carrying trucks, water cannons, buses and equipment, mostly used by the military and police - bought from an In...Published: 17 Oct 2015 at 17:30hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Army bosses get additional 240 vehicles
THE Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) will soon receive an additional 240 vehicles purchased from Indian automobile company, Ashok Leyland Ltd.About 90 of the vehicles will be allocated to lieuten...Published: 25 Sep 2015 at 12:46hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe splurges $50 million on military vehicles
The Zimbabwe government has spent $50million on 633 vehicles which include all-terrain troop carrying trucks, water cannons, buses, and equipment, mostly used by military and police.Senio...Published: 31 Jul 2015 at 09:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophet Passion's property attached
PASSION Java Ministries founder Prophet Passion Java and his wife Yasmin Java had their property recently attached by the Deputy Sheriff to recover $37 500 owed to a United Kingdom-based company for i...Published: 09 Jul 2015 at 08:44hrs | | by Crime Reporter
Govt eyes $25m Zupco bus deal
GOVERNMENT is negotiating a US$25 million loan agreement with the Eximbank of India to buy 500 buses to revive the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company's operations. Local Government, Public Works and N...Published: 24 Jul 2014 at 09:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mysterious bus talks, drives itself with no one inside
A Leyland DAF commuter omnibus with no registration numbers has been abandoned in Mount Hampden after it "talked." The engine is still intact, keys in the ignition, mobile phone on dashboard and spare...Published: 14 Jan 2013 at 04:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
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