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Significant rise in accidents during holidays
Zimbabwe recorded a significant rise in road traffic accidents during the 2025 Independence and Easter holidays, although the number of fatalities declined, according to the Zimbabwe Republic Police (...Published: 23 Apr 2025 at 08:32hrs | 55 | by Staff reporter
Man assaults neighbour over donkey cart
A man from Umguza has been fined US$300 after being found guilty of assaulting a neighbor during a dispute over an overloaded donkey cart.Clement Ncube (34) appeared before Bulawayo Magistrate...Published: 08 Mar 2025 at 16:11hrs | 339 | by Staff reporter
Teachers cut off as Chiredzi schools are marooned
As schools reopened last week on Tuesday, excitement and anticipation filled the air for students eager to begin the new term. However, for many schools in Chiredzi South Constituency, Masvingo provin...Published: 21 Jan 2025 at 13:50hrs | 426 | by Staff reporter
SA authorities crack down on omalayitsha
South Africa's Department of Traffic and Community Safety has launched a major crackdown on overloaded vehicles, targeting small cross-border transporters popularly known as omalayitsha. These vehicle...Published: 19 Dec 2024 at 16:39hrs | 251 | by Staff reporter
8 killed in Chivhu-Nyazura Road accident
Eight people were killed instantly in a head-on collision between a commuter omnibus and a haulage truck on Sunday night at the 135km peg along the Chivhu-Nyazura Road at Save Bridge. National police ...Published: 20 Aug 2024 at 10:39hrs | 383 | by Staff reporter
Govt to assist Chikozho bus accident victims
The Zimbabwean government will aid in the burial of nine victims who died in a Chikozho bus accident near Topora Business Centre in Masvingo Central. The accident occurred when an overloaded b...Published: 11 Aug 2024 at 18:31hrs | 434 | by Staff reporter
Errant cops, VID officers to face the music
The Government has issued a stern warning to police officers and Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) inspectors who allow passage to vehicles with defects or without requisite papers past roadblocks....Published: 09 Aug 2024 at 07:42hrs | 269 | by Staff reporter
Public transport overloading increases road accidents
Paul Makiwa, Secretary-General of the Zimbabwe Passengers Association, has called on the government to ban public transport operators who overload their vehicles, citing their role in the surge of fat...Published: 27 Jun 2024 at 06:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Lithium haulage trucks chaos in Zimbabwe
Heavy trucks transporting lithium ore from Sandawana to the Gwanda lithium mine (plant) in Mandiwongola are leaving a perilous trail of boulders along the Causeway/Ntalale road, posing significant ris...Published: 09 Apr 2024 at 20:52hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans assault SA truck driver for blocking their bus while fleeing police in SA
Three people, including a bus driver, have been arrested for allegedly assaulting a truck driver who tried to assist police giving chase to a bus overloaded with unruly passengers.The driver a...Published: 24 Jan 2024 at 19:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
CAG bus conductor says their 65 seater buses board 102
Just a week after causing a fatal accident that claimed the lives of five passengers on the Karoi-Binga road, a conductor from CAG Travellers Coaches has been caught on record admitting that their 65-...Published: 11 Jan 2024 at 05:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must travel to rural areas by bus
TRAVELLING from capital cities to rural areas using public transport like long distance buses could go a long way in inculcating servant leadership in African Presidents and ministers. Such experience...Published: 03 Jan 2024 at 05:35hrs | 19 | by Charles Dhewa
SA Police intercept more people, including kids trafficked from Zimbabwe
Police in Limpopo said they have intercepted a convoy of motor vehicles which were travelling from Zimbabwe and heading to Polokwane, carrying more than 100 undocumented foreign nationals.Limp...Published: 13 Dec 2023 at 19:09hrs | 35 | by Staff Reporter
SA Police intercept more people trafficked from Zimbabwe
Police in Limpopo said they have intercepted a convoy of motor vehicles which were travelling from Zimbabwe and heading to Polokwane, carrying more than 100 undocumented foreign nationals.Limp...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 06:08hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
22 dead in horror crash as South Africa-bound Quantum collides with truck
Twenty-two people were killed on Tuesday night when an overloaded Toyota Quantum had a head-on collision with a DAF truck 17km out of Bulawayo on the Gwanda Road, police said.The accident happ...Published: 15 Nov 2023 at 18:24hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt urged to review teachers' salaries, benefits
The Zimbabwe Teachers Association (Zimta) has called on the government to consistently reevaluate the compensation and incentives for educators to retain skilled personnel and counteract the emigratio...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 06:04hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
4 feared dead in Kariba boat accident
FOUR people are feared dead after the boat they were travelling in capsized between Nyaodza and Wafawafa camp in Lake Kariba on Saturday afternoon.A Nyaodza fishing camp resident Memory Sambur...Published: 18 Sep 2023 at 07:01hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo schools in top 10 of Zimbabwe mega schools
MPOPOMA High School and Mahlathini Primary School in Bulawayo have the largest learner population in the city with a combined estimate of more than 5 000 pupils and hundreds of teachers making it into...Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:15hrs | 61 | by Staff reporter
3 dead, 15 injured in crash while returning from funeral
AN overloaded Toyota Hilux D4D carrying mourners from a funeral in Kadoma was involved in a fatal road accident Saturday that claimed three lives while 15 people were left injured.The accident...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 19:01hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Madinda sacking divides opinion
HIGHLANDERS Football Club coach Baltemar Jose De Oliveira Brito's alleged decision to freeze out assistant coach Madinda Ndlovu on suspicions of sabotage have divided opinion among followers who feel ...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 06:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to establish weighbridges along highways
GOVERNMENT is installing weighbridges along major highways, mainly those leading to mining areas in a bid to curb continuous degradation of roads by heavy duty and overloaded trucks, a Cabinet ministe...Published: 29 May 2023 at 06:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
30 killed in Easter accidents
THIRTY people died while 153 others were injured in 288 road traffic accidents that were recorded countrywide during this year's Easter Holidays.Of the 288 road accidents, 16 of them were fata...Published: 12 Apr 2023 at 08:04hrs | 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 | 2 | by Staff reporter
Overloaded Honda Fits kill 2, 15 injured
Two people died while 15 others were injured when two overloaded Honda Fit vehicles collided at the four-kilometre peg along Ruwazi-Igava road in Marondera on Monday.The police confirmed the a...Published: 27 Jan 2023 at 10:22hrs | 10 | by Simbarashe Sithole
22-seater Zimbabwean kombi with 32 passengers impounded in SA
A 22-seater bus travelling from Zimbabwe to Cape Town, South Africa, was recently stopped on N1 while carrying 36 undocumented Zimbabweans foreign passengers.Transport spokesperson Tidimalo Ch...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 14:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's bloody festive holiday claims 92
At least 92 people were killed in a total 1,285 road traffic accidents recorded in Zimbabwe between 15 and 26 December 2022, according to police Tuesday.Of the deaths recorded, 13 occurred on ...Published: 27 Dec 2022 at 18:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Shock as new scarry Coronavirus hits China...mass deaths reported
American public health scientist who is currently an epidemiologist and Chief of COVID Task Force at the New England Complex Systems Institute Eric Liang Feigl-Ding has reported that China is facing a...Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 17:55hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Police arrest two goats thieves in Bulawayo
Two men were recently arrested in connection with the theft of goats in Mbembesi in Matabeleland North.The suspects are identified as Kenneth Chirwa (42) and Gift Sibanda (32) of Cowdray Park ...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 10:34hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Bloody Easter claims 73
SEVENTY-THREE people were killed and 202 injured in 264 road traffic accidents recorded countrywide during this year's Easter and Independence Holidays.The 73 deaths were concentrated in 32 of...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 11:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Total number of people killed during Easter holidays announced
The Zimbabwe Republic Police announced that a total of 73 people were killed in fatal road accidents that happened during the just ended combined Easter and Independence holidays from 15th to 18th Apr...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 16:33hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Easter Holiday death toll hits 45
The holiday traffic death toll yesterday rose to 45 after two more people died in another crash at Masenyane area along the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls highway.One more passenger from the Chimanim...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 10:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chipinge horror crash details emerge
Fifty-year-old Rudo Sithole from Manase village in Chimanimani was inconsolable as she waited to be served at a Nyaradzo funeral parlour in Mutare yesterday.Sithole was waiting to collect the ...Published: 17 Apr 2022 at 09:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZCC accident death toll rises to 37
TWO more people succumbed to injuries sustained in the Chimanimani bus accident, which has since been declared a state of disaster, bringing the number of victims to 37.Police are presently id...Published: 17 Apr 2022 at 09:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
State assisted funeral for 35 ZCC accident victims
The bus accident that claimed 35 people in Chimanimani has been declared a state of disaster with the deceased set to get State assisted funeral.Local Government and Public Works Minister July...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 19:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
32 die in Chipinge bus accident
32 people have died, while several others were seriously injured after a bus carrying members of the Zion Christian Church (ZCC) was involved in an accident near Jopa market in Chipinge last night....Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 08:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt says COVID-19 in schools contained
GOVERNMENT has claimed that it has managed to contain COVID-19 in schools as the first term comes to an end today, but teacher unions scoffed at the claims.Primary and Secondary Education spok...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 06:37hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
6 dead, 14 injured in SA crash
Six people, some of them believed to be Zimbabweans were killed in a road accident early this morning near the South African border when an overloaded Nissan Navara they were travelling in overturned ...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 18:37hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Bitcoin betting sites - Pros, Bonuses and Licences
Finding a popular site is not enough for fait bets and withdrawals. In this guide, we talk about pros of crypto betting and the importance of licenses....Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 13:25hrs | 397 | by Staff Writer
It's time to make peace with the brother you offended last year
Did the biblical Prophet Jona jump or was pushed? Why did he pass his misdemeanour to other boat occupants to do the dirty work of throwing him overboard like the flotsam and jotsam of a sinking overl...Published: 31 Dec 2021 at 16:53hrs | 9 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Driver killed as car flies off Nguboyenja fly-over
A 59-year-old man died on the spot when he lost control of his car on the Nguboyenja flyover along Luveve Road in Bulawayo yesterday morning.Mr Dumisani Sibanda was driving a Mercedes Benz hea...Published: 21 Dec 2021 at 06:13hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Army truck overturns on road to Mnangagwa garden visit
An army truck heading to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's launch of what was described as a "market gardening project" in Makorokoro, Matabeleland South, overturned on Wednesday killing two soldiers and...Published: 16 Dec 2021 at 23:32hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
2 feared dead at Lake Kariba as boat capsizes
TWO members of the same family are feared dead after a boat capsized at Kariba Dam last Friday.The boat was carrying six people, and was heading to Ndomo fishing camp. The boat capsized near C...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 18:42hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
2 drown, one missing as boat capsizes
At least two people drowned in Lake Kariba while another one is still missing after a boat capsized just after launching from Chawara Harbour. The boat, which was carrying passengers and groce...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 14:22hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Robbers raid road construction firm
POLICE in Chivhu have arrested two men who were part of a gang that raided a road construction company along Masvingo-Harare Highway and stole 350 litres of diesel.The suspects were arrested i...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
How Nick Mangwana tweet invoked my memories of old
As a good percentage of Harare's social media community exploded in anger following the reintroduction last Tuesday, by Local Government minister July Moyo, of the former Rhodesia Railways coaches, no...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 09:01hrs | 14 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Zupco monopoly should be ended, says MDC Alliance
The Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) has no capacity to meet the country's public transport needs and its monopoly should be ended, the MDC Alliance said.The government used the Covid...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 18:38hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
My desperate plea to billionaire Masiyiwa
Last Sunday I dwelt on the depressing theme of the hardship that journalists often endure for failing to toe the ill-defined line drawn by intolerant politicians.Newspaper editors must be the ...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 07:10hrs | 17 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Police implicated in Binga smuggling
THE smuggling of liquor, cigarettes, bags of cement, and building materials through the Zambezi River into Binga has been on the rise, with police accused of facilitating the illegal activity....Published: 24 Jul 2021 at 07:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Corrupt VID depots fingered over horror crash
Masvingo and Zvishavane Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) depots are playing the blame game after details emerged that the Toyota Wish that was involved in the Mhandamabwe road carnage which claim...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 08:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Police release names of people who died in Masvingo - Mbalabala road accident
POLICE have released names of 15 of the 21 people who died in an accident which occurred on Monday at the 61-kilometre peg along the Masvingo- Mbalabala Road near Chitowa Business Centre.In a ...Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 16:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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