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Villager, conservation clash overshooting of dogs
Chief Chundu, born Abel Mbasera, has urged constructive dialogue between Nyamakate villagers and Akashinga, a wildlife conservation organisation, following a disturbing incident involving the alleged ...Published: 07 Oct 2024 at 14:53hrs | 977 | by Staff reporter
Villagers stranded after govt shuts down clinic
Mahwau Clinic in Chief Chirundu's area, Mashonaland West province, remains closed two years after it was built by Kariba REDD+, leaving around 3,000 villagers without nearby healthcare. The go...Published: 24 Aug 2024 at 11:47hrs | 132 | by Staff reporter
Harare-Chirundu highway upgrade starts
THE long-awaited widening and upgrading of the 352-kilometre Harare-Chirundu highway has started with all the contractors on site. The upgrade has seen two of the five contractors identified t...Published: 01 Feb 2024 at 04:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
4 arrested over accident scene theft
FOUR individuals from the village have been brought to court on charges of stealing fruit from a truck that had overturned near Nyamakate along the Harare-Chirundu Highway.The accused, namely ...Published: 04 Oct 2023 at 06:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Human trafficking Zimbabwe cop faces probe
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police has launched an internal investigation against a Chirundu-based officer who is facing a charge of human trafficking, NewsDay has gathered.Paul Chaza was recently g...Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Villagers lose crops to buffaloes, elands
VILLAGERS in Hurungwe's Nyamakate area have lost substantial amounts of their maize crop to buffaloes and eland that have invaded the community.The affected villagers are under Chief Chundu in...Published: 10 Apr 2023 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare - Chirundu Road upgrade set to start No Bulawayo - Beitbridge
The Government will appoint at least six contractors to work on the rehabilitation and upgrading of the Harare-Chirundu highway beginning January as the Second Republic ups the ante in the development...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 04:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ivory lands cop in trouble
A 38-YEAR-OLD Chinhoyi based cop is in soup after she was found in possession of five kilograms of ivory.Gilda Chaziva was arrested in ...Published: 06 Nov 2022 at 11:55hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Lions wreak havoc in Kariba
THE Mola community in Kariba is living in fear of lions which have devoured several livestock.According to villagers under Nyaminyami Rural District Council, the lions have killed and eaten ei...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 05:45hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mukupe eyes Hurungwe Parly seat
AFTER losing hope of reclaiming his Harare East constituency seat, former Finance minister Terrence Mukupe is reportedly plotting a major political comeback to contest the Hurungwe North parliamentary...Published: 03 Jul 2021 at 10:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe TV goes digital
ZIMBABWE will soon have free-to-air digital television services through 12 stations following the successful and historic switch-over yesterday, from the analogue signal to Digital Terrestrial Televis...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Boy (4) hit by a truck
A four-year-old boy was hit by a haulage truck and died on the spot after bolting from his mother while they were waiting to cross the Harare-Chirundu highway in Nyamakate, Hurungwe District.T...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 19:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cross-border trader sues bus company for $1m
A CROSS-BORDER trader who survived one of the country's worst accidents that claimed 43 lives, when a Zambia-bound King Lion bus rammed into a tree along the Harare-Chirundu Road, is suing the bus com...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Maize ban triggers Zimbabwe - Zambia border stand-off
Some Zimbabweans without proper documentation were denied entry into Zambia last week as the neighbouring reacted to the confiscation of maize by Zimbabwean authorities following the introduction of S...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 07:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fuel syndicate intercepted
Police on Monday arrested five suspects believed to be part of a fuel siphoning syndicate involving tanker drivers and criminal elements, as the clampdown on illegal activities in the fuel sector begi...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 07:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Widower sues bus company for $700k
KING Lion Bus Service (Pvt) Ltd, the firm which owns a cross-border coach that was involved in an accident killing 43 people and injuring 40 along the Harare-Chirundu Highway last year, has been slapp...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 22:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rusape bus crash declared a national disaster
Government has declared a state of national disaster an accident in which 46 people were killed when two buses side-swapped at the 166-kilometre peg along Harare-Mutare highway on Wednesday evening. ...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 05:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
King Lion bus accident scene cleansed
A traditional cleansing ceremony was conducted this Sunday (yesterday) at Nyamakate along the Harare-Kariba highway where a King Lion bus accident claimed 43 lives in June this year.The King L...Published: 20 Nov 2017 at 18:42hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Man sues bus company over wife's death in accident
A MASVINGO man has filed a $500 000 lawsuit against the owners of King Lion Motors following the death of his wife in an horrific accident involving one of the company's buses near Nyamakate in Hurung...Published: 21 Sep 2017 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man demands $500,000 for wife's death from King Lion Bus co.
A Masvingo man is demanding over $500 000 from King Lion Bus Company following the death of his wife in the Nyamakate bus disaster in June.Mr Isaac Madungwe was married to the late Tendai Madungwe and...Published: 05 Aug 2017 at 09:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's govt, police, drivers liable for the horror accidents
A fortnight ago, Zimbabweans woke up to the tragic news that 43 people had perished and 23 others seriously injured when a Zambia-bound King Lion bus veered off the road and hit a tree along the Harar...Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 10:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
The benighted are envious, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I hope you have noticed how some people are pre-disposed to see scandals where none exist. The reaction to some recent appointments, all above board...Published: 15 Jun 2017 at 14:41hrs | 1 | by CZ
Driving public transport vehicles at night faces ban
DRIVING public transport vehicles at night may soon be a thing of the past if Government approves recommendations made by the Civil Protection Unit.The decision to lobby Government against nig...Published: 14 Jun 2017 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff Report
Villagers deny stealing cash, goods from bus accident scene
VILLAGERS living close to the site where a King Lion bus rammed into a tree in the Nyamakate area last Wednesday night, killing 43 people on the spot, have denied reports they stole cash and goods bel...Published: 12 Jun 2017 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Crash victims' relatives still to account for cash, belongings
Relatives of some of the victims of the Nyamakate bus disaster have said they are yet to account for cash and personal belongings of their deceased relatives, four days after the accident.Most...Published: 12 Jun 2017 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Fit all public buses with speed governors'
All public buses must be compulsorily fitted with devices that stop them going over speed limits as a road safety measure to cut deaths from road accidents, the Passenger Association of Zimbabwe (Paz)...Published: 11 Jun 2017 at 12:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Calls for speedy action to reduce road carnage
Parliamentarians have called for the speedy computerisation and integration of the country's transport management system to reduce road carnage attributable to human error and unroadworthy vehicles. ...Published: 10 Jun 2017 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
LIST: 35 bus crash victims positively identified
Police have released the names of some of the victims of the Nyamakate King Lion bus disaster, which killed 43 people on Wednesday night and left over 30 others injured.40 of the 43 deceased p...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 19:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T mourns death of 45 passenger at Nyamakate
The MDC-T Spokesperson Obert Gutu has said his party joins the nation and the families in mourning the death of the 45 people who perished in the tragic bus accident at Nyamakate, near Makuti, on Wedn...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 16:11hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Bus accident declared state of disaster
President Robert Mugabe has declared the Nyamakate bus accident which has claimed 43 lives, a state of disaster.The declaration was made in terms of section 27 (i) of the Civil Protection Act ...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 10:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt urged to ban night driving
The Zimbabwe Cross-Border Traders Association (ZCBTA) has urged Government to ban public transporters from travelling during the night following a series of fatal accidents involving cross-border buse...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Bus driver was speeding'
The driver of the 69-seater King Lion bus which killed 43 people mostly cross border traders and injured 31 others on Wednesday night was reportedly speeding despite pleas from passengers to exercise ...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 08:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZAPU Youth Front mourns 43 King lion crash victims
ZAPU youth front mourns the 43 crash victims who perished on their way to Zambia next to Nyamakate shops when King Lion driver lost control and veered off the road killing 43 people including himself....Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 07:55hrs | | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo
Mugabe mourns 43 crash victims
PRESIDENT Mugabe last night expressed shock and sadness at the tragic loss of lives in the horror bus crash that claimed 43 lives and injured 33 others along the Harare-Chirundu Highway on Wednesday n...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff Reporter
ICTA statement on Nyamakate King Lion Bus Accident
As the organisation, We have been saddened by the death of 43 passengers in the King Lion's Nyamakate accident today. It is with deep pain to acknowledge that 40 of the deceased were Cross-Border Trad...Published: 08 Jun 2017 at 18:22hrs | | by Denis Juru
BREAKING: Zimbabwe bus accident kills 43
Forty-three people died on the spot while several others were injured in a traffic accident involving a Zambia bound King Lion bus in the Nyamakate area in Hurungwe last night.Police spokesper...Published: 08 Jun 2017 at 10:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
The resurgence of the democratic movement in Zimbabwe
It might have taken long in coming but the past few months have seen the much-awaited resurgence of the democratic movement in Zimbabwe.For a long time, this is what the people of Zimbabwe hav...Published: 29 May 2017 at 12:55hrs | | by Morgan Richard Tsvangirai
Tsvangirai's independence day message to the people of Zimbabwe
Today, we commemorate 37 years of our hard-won independence from the brutal, oppressive and racist colonial regime.I advisedly say commemorate----and not celebrate----because the stinking pove...Published: 18 Apr 2017 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabweans I heard your cries - Tsvangirai
MDC-T President Tsvangirai's public statement to the people of Zimbabwe after his one-and-half months on a countrywide listening tour"I heard you"...Published: 22 Mar 2017 at 10:41hrs | | by Dr Morgan Richard Tsvangirai
Tsvangirai defies armed cops
A truck-load of armed riot police reportedly swooped on MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai's scheduled private meeting with opinion leaders in Hurungwe in President Robert Mugabe's home province of Ma...Published: 05 Mar 2017 at 09:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Armed police swoop on Tsvangirai's meeting
A truck-load of armed riot police swooped on MDC-T President Tsvangirai's scheduled private meeting with opinion leaders in village 22 of the Nyamakate area in Robert Mugabe's home province of Mashona...Published: 04 Mar 2017 at 17:50hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Head-on collision kills 4
Four people died on the spot on Monday night when a vehicle they were travelling in was involved in a head-on collision with a haulage truck along the Harare-Chirundu Highway.The accident ...Published: 11 Jan 2017 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
'There is no life outside Zanu-PF,' says Mnangagwa
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned party cadres to desist from being selfish and seeking to have their way outside the ruling party as that will lead them into political oblivion....Published: 12 Jun 2015 at 06:04hrs | | by Walter Nyamukondiwa
Tsvangirai Must Urgently Apologize To Zimbabweans in the U.K
Having noted that the recent escalated deportations of Zimbabweans from the UK have been reportedly inspired by PM Tsvangirai's deleterious message to the British government as he called that they...Published: 09 Feb 2013 at 08:17hrs | | by Chris Tongogara
MDC-T officials in trouble for calling Mugabe a thief
Four officials in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC-T who allegedly called President Robert Mugabe "a thief" have been summoned to the Chinhoyi Magistrates' Court.The four, MDC-T Mashon...Published: 11 Jan 2013 at 14:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police bar Biti from addressing an MDC-T rally
Tendai Biti, secretary general of MDC-T has been barred again by police from addressing a rally at Nyamakate Business Centre in Hurungwe North Constituency. MDC-T spokesperson Douglas Mwonzora...Published: 28 Aug 2012 at 05:59hrs | | by Moyo Roy
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