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Zimra seizes 'army chiefs' drugs haul
ZIMBABWE Revenue Authority (Zimra) officials in Beitbridge last week intercepted a dedicated consignment of banned habit-forming Bron Cleer cough syrup whose recipients were given as ranked army offic...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 06:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 'bloody' police station
Featherstone Police Station's backyard is not for the faint-hearted.Accident-damaged vehicles, some blood-stained, can invoke scary images, fear and especially traumatic memories for survivors...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 08:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Trucker jailed 12 months for killing 31
The driver of the South Africa-registered haulage truck that side-swiped a Johannesburg-bound Proliner bus, killing 31 people in Mvuma early this year has been jailed for an effective one year after p...Published: 01 Sep 2017 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
31 dead, truck driver pleads guilty
THE driver of a South African-registered haulage truck which sideswiped a Johannesburg-bound Proliner bus killing 31 people on the spot and injuring 40 near Mvuma, has pleaded guilty.Regis Man...Published: 28 Aug 2017 at 12:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Killer truck driver blames steering fault
THE trial of the driver of a South African-registered haulage truck, which sideswiped a Johannesburg-bound Proliner bus, killing 31 people on the spot and leaving 40 others injured near Chaka business...Published: 13 Jul 2017 at 07:23hrs | | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Killer truck driver fit for trial
THE driver of a South African-registered haulage truck which sideswiped a Johannesburg-bound Proliner bus killing 31 people on the spot and leaving 40 others injured near Mvuma along the Harare-Masvin...Published: 06 Jun 2017 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dualisation of Harare-Beitbridge highway begins
PRE-commencement works on the $1 billion Beitbridge-Harare highway dualisation project have begun while actual construction of the road is expected to start within a month, Transport and Infrastructur...Published: 06 Jun 2017 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lorry, bus accident driver now insane
Regis Mangwari, the driver of a South African-registered haulage truck which sideswiped a Johannesburg-bound Proliner bus killing 31 people on the spot and leaving 40 others injured near Mvuma along t...Published: 22 May 2017 at 19:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe to launch Masvingo-Beitbridge highway dualisation project
President Mugabe is expected to officially launch the $1 billion Beitbridge-Harare and Harare-Chirundu highways dualisation project tomorrow, in a development likely to reduce carnage along one of Zim...Published: 17 May 2017 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Trial date set for Mvuma Killer Driver
The trial of Regis Mungwari (29) a driver of Transmech Logistics a South Africa-registered haulage truck, which on 05 April 2017 sideswiped a Johannesburg-bound Proliner bus, killing 21 people on the ...Published: 15 May 2017 at 07:34hrs | | by Stsff Reporter
Mvuma road accident victims named
THE Civil Protection Unit (CPU) has released the names of 31 people who died in a horrific road accident that happened in Mvuma early this month.The death toll has risen by 10 from the previou...Published: 26 Apr 2017 at 06:32hrs | 19 | by Agencies
Mass burial for Mvuma horrific bus crash victims
Three of the 21 victims of the accident that occurred when a South Africa-bound Proliner Bus side-swiped a Transmech Logistics haulage truck and caught fire along the Harare-Beitbridge Highway three w...Published: 25 Apr 2017 at 13:35hrs | | by Staff Reporter
DNA samples to identify 14 accident victims
EXPERTS from the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) had by yesterday used DNA samples to identify 14 out of 23 people – by sex and age- who died in a horrific traffic accid...Published: 18 Apr 2017 at 07:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mvuma horror crash driver locked up
THE driver of a South Africa-registered haulage truck, which last week sideswiped a Johannesburg-bound Proliner bus, killing 20 people on the spot and leaving 40 others injured near Mvuma along th...Published: 12 Apr 2017 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Joram Gumbo grilled over rising road carnage
Transport minister Joram Gumbo was on Thursday grilled by senators over the increase of fatal accidents on Zimbabwe's roads, with the legislators demanding government's action to curb further loss...Published: 09 Apr 2017 at 17:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Survivor relives Mvuma horror crash
MVUMA - Alice Hodzi could not wait to see her husband after several months apart and she was very anxious when she boarded the Johannesburg-bound Proline bus on April 5.Her husband works i...Published: 09 Apr 2017 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe to commission Beitbridge- Chirundu highway dualisation
PRESIDENT Mugabe will next month commission the dualisation of the Beitbridge-Chirundu highway which has become a death trap with a spate of fatal accidents with the most recent one claiming 21 li...Published: 09 Apr 2017 at 08:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
2 weeks to identify bus accident victims
EXPERTS from the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) Applied Genetic Testing Centre (AGTC), which does DNA profiling, have said it will take about two weeks to identify the bodies...Published: 08 Apr 2017 at 12:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Government secures $1 billion for dualisation of Beitbridge-Harare Highway
THE Government has secured a $1 billion credit line to kick-start dualisation of the Beitbridge-Harare Highway and is now looking for an additional $900 million for work on the Harare-Chirundu Highway...Published: 08 Apr 2017 at 09:40hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Bus inferno update: Utensils required for DNA
The Zimbabwe Republic Police is advising people who will be going to Gweru Provincial Hospital to identify their relatives who died in the Proliner bus accident to bring with them utensils such as...Published: 07 Apr 2017 at 14:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bus inferno, truck driver faces 20 counts of culpable homicide
The driver of the haulage truck which sideswiped a Proliner bus in Mvuma on Wednesday, resulting in the death of 20 people, will be charged with an equal number of culpable homicide cases, police ...Published: 07 Apr 2017 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt to assist Mvuma bus disaster victims
GOVERNMENT has chipped in and pledged to provide forensic identification and funeral assistance to 20 people burnt beyond recognition in a horrific bus accident that occurred near Chaka business c...Published: 07 Apr 2017 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bus accident, 20 burnt to death
TWENTY passengers were burnt beyond recognition while 41 were critically injured in a horrific accident that happened when a South Africa-bound Proliner Bus sideswiped with a haulage truck and cau...Published: 07 Apr 2017 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Proliner Bus accident
Photos show a South Africa-bound Proliner Bus, which was sideswiped a haulage truck and caught fire at Nyamatikiti River near Chaka.Also read: ...Published: 06 Apr 2017 at 09:14hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Bus accident, 30 Zimbabweans feared dead
AT least 30 passengers were feared dead last night when a South Africa-bound Proliner Bus sideswiped a haulage truck and caught fire at Nyamatikiti River near Chaka.Most of the victims wer...Published: 06 Apr 2017 at 06:34hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
54 escape burning bus
FIFTY-FOUR passengers travelling on a Proliner Luxury Bus from Johannesburg, South Africa, cheated death when the vehicle went up in flames near Chivhu along the Harare-Beitbridge highway yesterday mo...Published: 23 Aug 2016 at 07:17hrs | | by Patrick Chitumba
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