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Gauteng-Limpopo bullet train takes another giant step
The planned "bullet train" between Gauteng and Limpopo has taken another step towards its eventual completion.The project, which was first announced in 2023 and is titled the Limpopo-Gauteng S...Published: 10 Jul 2025 at 13:08hrs | 590 | by Staff reporter
15 Zimbabweans who died in SA bus accident named
Zimbabwe's embassy in South Africa has released the names of 14 out of the 15 Zimbabweans who lost their lives in two separate accidents involving Mzansi Express and Tamuka cross-border buses. One vic...Published: 07 Sep 2024 at 15:20hrs | 1804 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to cover costs of repatriating SA bus accident victims
Zimbabwe's Consul-General in South Africa, Eria Phiri, says that the government of Zimbabwe will carry the costs of repatriating the bodies of the people that died in a bus accident in Louis Trichardt...Published: 31 Aug 2024 at 11:14hrs | 269 | by Staff reporter
10 Zimbabweans die in SA bus crash
At least 10 passengers have died in an Mzansi Express bus accident which took place at 3 Miles, on the N1 freeway around Makhado (previously Louis Trichardt) in Limpopo province.The bus was tr...Published: 28 Aug 2024 at 13:00hrs | 1423 | by Staff reporter
9 robbers shot as cops name 20 most wanted criminals
NINE suspected robbers sustained injuries after they were shot by police in Harare on Thursday in a crackdown, while the hunt is on for 20 suspects whom detectives have named as Zimbabwe's most wanted...Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 09:42hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean owned house where 19 cash-in-transit robbers were killed
A 19th body has been found inside the lavish house in Makhado (formerly Louis Trichardt) were alleged cash-in-transit robbers were killed during a shootout with different police units on Friday....Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 21:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Another Zimbabwean escapes from SA prison
SOUTH AFRICAN police in the Waterberg district in Limpopo province have launched a manhunt for a 32-year-old Zimbabwean man who last Thursday escaped from holding cells at the Lephalale Police Station...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 18:09hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
SA soldier arrested for allegedly attacking cops, freeing Zimbabwean prisoners
A South African National Defence Force (SANDF) member deployed to safeguard the SA-Zimbabwe border has been identified as one of the two people arrested in Limpopo in connection with an attack on poli...Published: 18 Mar 2023 at 07:00hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Army officer, Zimbabwean aided robbers escape
A SOUTH African soldier and a Zimbabwean national have been arrested for allegedly attacking police and helping six-armed robbery suspects awaiting trial to escape on Monday.Kedibone Albert La...Published: 16 Mar 2023 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: 6 Zimbabwean prisoners escape in South Africa
Six Zimbabweans who were being transported by members of the South African Police Service escaped this morning after a group of heavily armed criminals attacked and shot at the officers in Makhado are...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 14:34hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
South African hospital detains10-month-old Zimbabwean boy over R7 000 bill
A South African hospital has refused to discharge a 10-month-old Zimbabwean boy over an unsettled bill of more than R7 000.The boy underwent a neck lump operation at the Louis Trichardt Memori...Published: 20 Feb 2023 at 19:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans man survives SA horror bus crash that claimed 21 lives
One of the survivors of the bus crash that claimed at least 21 lives and left more than 60 people injured has described the accident as the "worst event" he has seen in his 59 years of life.Ja...Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 17:32hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
SA courts get tougher with Zimbabwean cigarettes smugglers
TWO people, one of them a Zimbabwean, were last week jailed in South Africa as the neighbouring country gets tough on cigarette smugglers.Prosecutors in that country are calling for stiffer pe...Published: 13 Feb 2023 at 05:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
11 Zimbabwean men, 10-car cigarette smuggling convoy intercepted in SA
South African police have intensified their crackdown on the smuggling of cigarettes from Zimbabwe via Beitbridge and illegal crossing points along the Limpopo River, seizing five vehicles and cigaret...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:22hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
5 Zimbabweans killed, 56 injured in SA accident
Five people, believed to be Zimbabweans, were killed while 56 were injured when a bus they were travelling in overturned on the N1 North outside Louis Trichardt in Limpopo on Wednesday evening....Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans won't flee South Africa to return home
"WHEN you see a rat running into a fire, then you know that what it is running away from is hotter than the fire." - African proverb. Zimbabweans, who are in their millions in South Africa - som...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:41hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean smugglers abandon R1.7m worth of illicit cigarettes in Limpopo
Members of a cigarette-smuggling syndicate transporting illicit cigarettes worth almost R2 million in a four-car convoy abandoned their vehicles and ran away from members of the SAPS in Limpopo....Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 09:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
4 killed as Zimbabwe returnees' bus collides with kombi in SA
Four people were killed while 10 others were injured when a bus transporting Zimbabwean returnees collided head-on with a minibus early this morning between Musina and Makhado (Louis Trichardt) towns ...Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 13:26hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
23 Injured as Zimbabwe bound bus overturns in SA
Twenty-three people believed to be Zimbabwean nationals were injured when an Impala Tours bus they were travelling in overturned a few kilometres after passing Makhado town on Monday evening. ...Published: 23 Dec 2020 at 06:43hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Bus from Joburg to Zimbabwe overturns
There are unconfirmed reports that a bus which left Johannesburg for Zimbabwe yesterday overturned in Louis Trichardt South Africa today in the morning.The accident happ...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 08:32hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
7 Zimbabwean teens living under a tree in SA
THEY say they have been living off food scraps in a nearby municipal bin, and it's actually been sustaining them.Seven Zimbabwean teenagers have been living under a big tree near Shoprite in L...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 11:55hrs | 1 | by GroundUp
Couple hires gang to kidnap police officer
Jerifanos Muganyi (48) and his wife Mercy Muganyi (41) of House Number 216 Rutenga, were on Wednesday, March 20 arraigned before Mwenezi Magistrates' Court facing a charge of hiring a Beitbridge-based...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 12:05hrs | | by Staff reportwr
Couple hires bouncers from SA to 'kidnap' cop
A COUPLE from Masvingo allegedly hired four bouncers to kidnap a policeman. Missing Jerifanos Muganyi (48) and his wife Mercy Muganyi (41) of Rutenga Business centre allegedly also hired the s...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 22:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
R1 million Zimbabwe cigarettes haul in South Africa
THE SOUTH African Police Services (Saps) has intercepted close to R1 million worth of smuggled cigarettes of Zimbabwean origin stashed at a house in Louis Tritchardt where a 30-year-old woman was arre...Published: 17 May 2018 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean man arrested in SA over rhino horns
A Zimbabwean man, Onward Muchangowa, and two South Africans were arrested in the neighbouring country after they were found in possession of two rhino horns.Muchangowa and the two brothers, De...Published: 13 Jul 2017 at 06:57hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean burnt to death in South Africa
A Zimbabwean man has died after he was set alight, allegedly by residents of Mpheni outside Louis Trichardt in Limpopo, state broadcaster SABC reported briefly on Sunday.The broadcaster gave n...Published: 12 Feb 2017 at 13:35hrs | 10 | by Mary Charamba
3 Zimbabwean killed by river sand in South Africa
Three brothers from Gokwe died in South Africa when a truck they were loading with river sand overturned and buried them under a mound of sand. The three brothers have been identified as Sifelani ...Published: 25 Oct 2016 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Injured Greyhound passengers leave hospital
AT least 32 passengers who were injured in the Greyhound bus accident in South Africa in the early hours of Wednesday have been discharged, while three are still in hospital, an official said yesterda...Published: 24 Jun 2016 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Pamela Shumba
50 Zimbabweans injured in SA bus accident
AT least 50 Zimbabweans were injured, some of them seriously, when the driver of a Greyhound bus they were travelling in lost control and overturned near Louis Trichardt town in South Africa's Limpopo...Published: 23 Jun 2016 at 06:55hrs | 4 | by Thupeyo Muleya
Four Zimbabweans die, 29 injured in SA bus accident
Four people have been killed and 30 others injured after an Eagleliner cross border coach from Zimbabwe they were travelling in lost control resulting in the bus overturning near Louis Trichardt...Published: 06 Jan 2016 at 13:17hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Tombs bus accident kills 1 in SA
A Zimbabwean woman was killed while eight other people were seriously injured when a Tombs Motorways bus overturned between Makhado and Musina towns on Monday morning. The bus was travelling f...Published: 16 Dec 2015 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans schedule meeting to establish a Humanitarian Fund in SA
A meeting has been scheduled on the 4th April 2015 to resuscitate and push the boundaries of the Zimbabwe Humanitarian Crisis Relief Programme (ZHCRP) throughout the whole country of Zimbabwe. In 2008...Published: 01 Apr 2015 at 10:44hrs | | by Zim ID
Over 30,000 Zim Special Permit applications almost ready for collection
Good news are indeed on the horizon for the early ZSP applicants who successfully completed their relevant submissions, according to Minister Malusi Gigaba of Home Affairs (SA). He was speaking du...Published: 21 Nov 2014 at 12:14hrs | | by Zim-ID
Fresh waves of Zimbabwean migrants flee worsening economy
A deepening economic crisis in Zimbabwe is worsening already high levels of unemployment and driving a fresh wave of labour migrations into neighbouring countries, say economists."People are d...Published: 23 Mar 2014 at 09:41hrs | 1 | by IRIN
Zim woman brutally killed for suspected ritual purposes in SA
A 34-year-old Zimbabwean woman was brutally killed for suspected ritual purposes allegedly by her South African boyfriend at a village outside Makhado in Limpopo Province.The woman identified ...Published: 15 May 2013 at 03:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zim woman murdered in SA
A 34-YEAR-OLD Masvingo woman was brutally killed at Tshikota village in Makhado town in Limpopo province, South Africa, in a suspected ritual murder, police said yesterday.South African po...Published: 22 Apr 2013 at 04:41hrs | | by Beitbridge Reporter
Ten 'Zimbabweans' killed in SA accident
TEN people, all believed to be Zimbabweans, were killed while 16 others were injured when a minibus they were travelling in was involved in a head-on collision with a haulage truck along the N1 North ...Published: 08 Feb 2012 at 08:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ten Zimbabweans dead after a head on collision in South Africa
TEN people – most of them thought to be Zimbabweans – were confirmed dead on Tuesday after a minibus crashed head-on ...Published: 07 Feb 2012 at 17:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Four Zim - SA deportees injured in crash
Four Zimbabwean deportees and a South African policeman were seriously injured when a police truck transporting them back to Zimbabwe was involved in an accident along the N1 highway last Thursday. ...Published: 23 Jan 2012 at 21:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Killer Bus driver fined R20 000 for culpable homicide
A ZIMBABWEAN cross border bus driver, who was involved in an accident that killed 14 people in South Africa recently, was on Monday fined R20 000.The accident occurred on July 17 this year alo...Published: 17 Nov 2011 at 04:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo bound Eagle Liner Bus accident, 48 injured
Forty-eight Zimbabweans were injured, eight of them seriously when a Bulawayo-bound bus was involved in a road accident along the N1 Highway near Makhadho town in South Africa's Limpopo Province early...Published: 20 Oct 2011 at 04:31hrs | 1 | by -
In Zimbabwe, a hungry man is a docile man, not an angry man
As their country's economic decline continues to gather speed, Zimbabweans of all walks of life increasingly adopted creative coping mechanisms, captured succinctly in the phrase "make a plan" that is...Published: 19 Sep 2011 at 12:26hrs | 1 | by Dell
Bus accident, SA authorities engage independent accident investigators
South African authorities has engaged an independent team of accident investigation and reconstruction specialists is helping in the culpable homicide probe after 12 Malawian nationals died in a ro...Published: 18 Jul 2011 at 09:24hrs | | by Ndou Paul
South African Home Affairs official and son arrested
A LIMPOPO woman yesterday learnt the hard way that corruption does not pay when she was arrested for allegedly issuing birth and marriage certificates, passports and identity documents ille...Published: 29 Dec 2010 at 13:39hrs | | by Sapa
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