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Over 50 roadblocks to combat festive season carnage
More than 50 roadblocks, manned by officers from multiple road safety agencies, have been established on Zimbabwe's major highways as part of a robust nationwide campaign to address speeding, the use ...Published: 14 hrs ago | 78 | by Staff reporter
2 dead, 51 injured in accident along Bulawayo -Victoria Falls road
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has confirmed a tragic road traffic accident that occurred on December 6, 2024, along the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls Road, at the 330-kilometre peg. The accident, which...Published: 07 Dec 2024 at 12:50hrs | 2155 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe launches road safety campaign ahead of festive season
The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development has announced plans to launch a series of road safety campaigns and road shows in preparation for the upcoming festive season. Minister Felix ...Published: 27 Nov 2024 at 07:08hrs | 73 | by Staff reporter
Botswana President-elect declares public holiday for his inauguration
Botswana has announced a special public holiday to celebrate the inauguration of its new President, Advocate Duma Gideon Boko. Government spokesperson Montlenyane Baaitse confirmed that the holiday wi...Published: 06 Nov 2024 at 16:38hrs | 2606 | by Staff reporter
Dembare fall to Chicken Inn
Dynamos 0 - 1 Chicken InnDynamos caretaker coach Lloyd "Mablanyo" Chigowe lamented his team's defensive lapse after a narrow 1-0 defeat to Chicken Inn in a rescheduled Castle Lager Premiersh...Published: 14 Oct 2024 at 08:11hrs | 186 | by Staff reporter
Govt defends 60km radius restrictions decision
The government has defended its decision to reduce the operating radius of commuter omnibuses (kombis) from 120km to 60km, stating that it followed consultations and assurances that the national bus f...Published: 09 Sep 2024 at 08:06hrs | 207 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe bus operators urged to step up after kombi ban
Large bus operators are preparing to handle increased demand following new government restrictions limiting commuter omnibuses to operate within a 60 km radius. This move aims to improve road safety b...Published: 08 Sep 2024 at 09:24hrs | 5606 | by Staff reporter
New route permit restrictions shock kombi operators
The Zimbabwean government's recent decision to reduce the operating radius for kombis from 120km to 60km has surprised and concerned public transport operators, particularly those serving rural r...Published: 05 Sep 2024 at 07:12hrs | 333 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Air ambulances training starts
The Russian HeliDrive Air ambulances medical services team has arrived in Zimbabwe to establish an efficient air ambulance service under a public-private partnership. This initiative aims to reduce fa...Published: 30 Jul 2024 at 07:33hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
Tsholotsho school unveils new bus
Tsholotsho High School, located in Matabeleland North and known as the "school of choice," has commissioned a new 72-seater bus to boost student morale during sports and educational tours. The bus was...Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 16:40hrs | 1124 | by Staff reporter
Long-distance buses dessert Entumbane rank
Vendors at the Entumbane bus terminus in Bulawayo are experiencing a significant decline in business as many long-distance buses have shifted to other loading points. Pre...Published: 11 Jun 2024 at 06:19hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Residents raise concern over councillors' stands
In the face of worsening basic service delivery in many local authorities, including Bulawayo, ratepayers have raised concerns about certain privileges granted to serving councillors. Specific...Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 04:51hrs | | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Devolution funds transform Shurugwi health sector
Shurugwi's health sector witnesses a remarkable transformation through the impact of devolution funds. The Totonga community in Shurugwi is the latest beneficiary, celebrating the recent completion an...Published: 05 Nov 2023 at 14:20hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
Innocent Gonese quits CCC politics
Veteran opposition activist and former long-serving legislator for Mutare Central, Innocent Gonese, has officially retired from active politics. Gonese made the announcement of his retirement in a pri...Published: 16 Oct 2023 at 06:14hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zupco to get 500 more buses
The Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) is set to receive a total of 500 buses by the next year, including 150 coaches to be delivered by the end of this year, as part of a comprehensive plan to...Published: 08 Oct 2023 at 07:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
30% of marriages collapse within five years
KEEPING marriages intact has seemingly become a mammoth task for newlyweds, if statistics provided by the Judiciary Service Commission (JSC) are anything to go by.At least 30 percent of new ma...Published: 23 Jul 2023 at 08:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo bus operators bend the rules, flout BCC by-laws
WITH the words "Inter Africa" inscribed at the back, a silver Toyota Quantum vehicle makes a sudden stop and a tout bolts out, approaches two women and asks where they are travelling to. The tout tell...Published: 15 Jul 2023 at 11:38hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Highway robbers cause havoc in Zimbabwe
FORTY-FIVE-year-old Jonas Kabasa is among several truck drivers whose dislike for passing through Zimbabwe on long-distance trips is all too apparent.He drives trucks from South Africa to Zamb...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 08:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Intercity buses turn Bulawayo CBD into a Mbare
CALL it lawlessness or chaos. This is what several long-distance bus operators plying intercity routes are turning Bulawayo city centre into.For sometime, there has been rampant illegal pickin...Published: 08 May 2023 at 06:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BCC plans Renkini revamp
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is considering the redevelopment of Renkini Long Distance Bus Terminus and has since engaged a consultancy firm to conduct a feasibility study to assess the viability of th...Published: 05 May 2023 at 06:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean wins Two Oceans Marathon
ZIMBABWEAN long-distance runner Givemore Mudzinganyama celebrated the biggest win of his professional career after winning the 56 km Two Oceans Marathon in Cape Town, South Africa on Saturday....Published: 15 Apr 2023 at 21:02hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Icy Water, a warm heart (and sharks): Russell's doing it ForAfrika
Zimbabwean-born Russell Raath, now a successful corporate team coach in the United States, wanted to do something impactful for the continent of his birth. But what?Running was never his thing...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 08:56hrs | 17 | by Ayanda Siswana
Bullying leads to suicide
AGONY, grief, pain, anguish, sadness and anger aptly describe how the Saudan family in Bulawayo is feeling following the death of their 15-year-old son Jayden who committed suicide after complaining o...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Lets approach all crimes with the same zeal
While we are focusing on drug dealers and drug pushers, we should put in the same effort to stop the collaboration between criminals at our bus stops and the ZRP who look away while travellers are bei...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 21:13hrs | | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Zimbabwean passengers cry foul as transporters hike fares
TRAVELLERS going to their rural areas for the Christmas and New Year holidays yesterday complained that bus operators were taking advantage of the festive season to hike fares.A survey by News...Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to stop smuggling of beverages
Zimbabwe's beverage sector has been affected by rising cases of smuggling, a new report has shown.In a paper submitted to Cabinet, Industry and Commerce minister Sekai Nzenza said there had be...Published: 21 Dec 2022 at 20:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
MPs for sale, damnable loans
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, as I see it, the Legislature ought to have felt unease about the impropriety of accepting housing loans from Treasury at a time hospitals are...Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
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 | | by Staff reporter
Police raid on park pirates nets 16 buses
POLICE in Bulawayo yesterday impounded 16 buses, 13 pirate taxis and five private vehicles for picking up passengers at undesignated areas.There has been rampant picking of passengers at undes...Published: 02 Sep 2022 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zupco leading local bus assembly revival
From being a shining beacon of mass public transport during the early years of independence, Zupco had in recent years mutated into a classic example of a failed State-owned entity.In 1993, it...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Machipanda border post to operate 24/7 from December
THE Machipanda border post in Manica province, the main crossing point between Mozambique and Zimbabwe, will start operating 24 hours a day from December this year. Currently the border post o...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Isaac Mpofu shatters eight-year record
LONG distance runner Isaac Mpofu put up a good performance at the World Athletics Championships in the United States of America to finish in the top 10 of the men's marathon and in the process shatter...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Isaac Mpofu makes top ten at the World Athletics Championships
ZIMBABWE'S Isaac Mpofu yesterday put up an amazing performance at the ongoing World Athletics Championships when finishing on position 10 in the men's marathon and setting a new national record in Eug...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 08:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police operation targets buses
POLICE in Bulawayo have launched an operation targeting long distance buses using illegal pick-up points, impounding the vehicles and arresting both drivers and passengers.The operation starte...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 19:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Anti-smuggling blitz intensifies
AN anti-smuggling blitz by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) and the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) is set to escalate and cover all borders in the country.Having started on A...Published: 26 May 2022 at 06:23hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
New toll fees raise dust
MOTORISTS are crying foul after the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) hiked toll fees by 73%, which will result in long-distance transporters hiking fares.In a statement, Zinara ...Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean athlete forced to forfeit R50 000 in prize money in South Africa
ATHLETICS coach Lisimati Phakamile says it's devastating that long-distance runner Isaac Mpofu was disqualified on an administrative matter rather than a technical issue in Sunday's Durban Internation...Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Long-distance buses start ferrying urban commuters today
THE Zimbabwe Passenger Transport Organisation (ZPTO) has applauded Government for liberalising the public transport sector and allowing the importation of buses duty-free saying the move is set to eas...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga calls on youths to lead clean-ups
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga yesterday called on all citizens, particularly youths, to participate in the National Environment Clean-Up campaign to help transform environs in urban areas in lin...Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police worry of robberies spike
POLICE have appealed to bus operators to have passenger manifests among other security measures to avoid on-board robberies during the festive season.On Thursday, armed robbers pounced on an M...Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 07:29hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says HIV remains a public health threat
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has deplored people not to sit on their laurels because HIV continues to be a major public health issue.In his state of the nation address on the eve of the World ...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 07:09hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Distributor moves to stem Zimbabwe's fake whiskey 'pandemic'
IMITATION is the sincerest form of flattery, the old adage goes, but when it comes to alcohol, high-end whiskey in particular, this is not strictly true.Recently, according to an anonymous sou...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 07:51hrs | 33 | by Staff reporter
New dispensation a replica of the old
DEAR President.Your Excellency, your ascendance to the Presidency was a political upstage which kindled hyped deliberations in the court of public opinion. Discussions on the probable directio...Published: 20 Oct 2021 at 07:37hrs | 1 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Notorious Bigboy Chauke caged for 9 years
Notorious Beitbridge armed robber, Bigboy Chauke (34), who was arrested recently after unleashing a reign of terror in the district, was yesterday jailed for an effective nine years for one of the cri...Published: 07 Oct 2021 at 07:02hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Distant parenting a disaster in Diaspora
Many Zimbabweans have left the country for purported greener pastures. But the greener pastures turn tinder dry on family relationships, volatile and ready to burn. Most parents have been ...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 06:22hrs | 10 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zupco to receive more buses this week
THE Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) will receive new buses procured from China to add to its fleet this week.Zupco acting chief executive officer Mr Evaristo Madangwa told The Sunday...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Smuggler buses disappear from highways
CROSS-BORDeR buses that had been playing cat-and-mouse with the police as they smuggled travellers into and back from South Africa have disappeared from the highways following the recent ban on inter-...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 10:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ban on intercity travel starves villagers
GOVERNMENT'S ban on intercity travel as part of COVID-19 containment measures has plunged villagers in rural Matabeleland North in serious food shortages as they can no longer receive supplies from re...Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 12:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZRP cracks whip on lockdown violators, intercity buses impounded
Authorities yesterday intensified the enforcement of Covid-19 control measures with police impounding buses that were operating illegally, while the Judicial Service Commission announced the closure o...Published: 24 Jun 2021 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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