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Transporters must adopt required pre-clearance processes at border
It's just over a week since the new Beitbridge Border Post freight terminal has been opened to the public and the results of improved border management systems are slowly beginning to show.Lik...Published: 8 hrs ago | 89 | by Nick Mangwana
South Africa says Zimbabwe killing Africa trade
South Africa has accused Zimbabwe of "killing business" over border delays for haulage trucks at Beitbridge.Queues stretching for as long as 10 kilometers have developed in South Africa since ...Published: 16 hrs ago | 1262 | by Staff reporter
Chaos at Beitbridge border post as Zimbabwe introduces new tolls
TRUCK drivers are spending up to 10 days at the Beitbridge border post as toll company Zimborders, which has been awarded a contract by the Zimbabwean government to upgrade the border post, began coll...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 06:16hrs | 504 | by Staff reporter
Truckers face Beitbridge chaos
When it was controversially awarded a US$240 million contract to upgrade the Beitbridge border post in 2018, the Zimborders Consortium said it would provide "world class border facilities that optimis...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 19:32hrs | 497 | by Staff reporter
Address Beitbridge Border Post mess or we lose out to Kazungula
IN this digital age, our border posts are expected to move with the times and embrace technology so that clearing of goods is done efficiently.Our border posts have been so porous and delays a...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:29hrs | 1049 | by Staff reporter
Councillor bemoans nurse shortages
A Bulawayo councillor has bemoaned the shortage of staff at council clinics, a development that has affected health service delivery around the city.At a full council meeting last week, Ward 1...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 09:05hrs | 94 | by Staff reporter
SA acts on Beitbridge congestion
South African authorities have come up with a host of measures to address challenges that have seen commercial truck drivers spending at least 11 days at Beitbridge Border Post.Sadc's busiest ...Published: 16 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 663 | by Staff reporter
Congestion locks up Beitbridge
CHAOS has rocked Beitbridge Border Post where haulage trucks are taking up to five days to be cleared after Zimborders, a private company contracted to upgrade the border on a build operate and transf...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:23hrs | 2529 | by Staff reporter
Zesa promises to improve electricity supply
Electricity supplies are set to improve soon as Zesa completes a cocktail of interventions to end the major load shedding that has hit residential areas hard and has even affected industrial areas alt...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:22hrs | 148 | by Staff reporter
Commercial cargo piling up at border
Commercial cargo continues to pile up on both sides of the Beitbridge border post where truck drivers are passively protesting over the poor service delivery at the border and the introduction of rela...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:20hrs | 261 | by Staff reporter
Truckers block traffic at Limpopo bridge
COMMERCIAL traffic going into South Africa and Zimbabwe through the Beitbridge border post was yesterday delayed by more than four hours after truck drivers staged a sit-in at the New Limpopo Bridge d...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 05:57hrs | 640 | by Staff reporter
Govt should resolve cash crisis
GOVERNMENT must solve the ongoing cash shortages as a matter of urgency. The crisis is causing chaos and long winding queues at most banking institutions.When people work, they expect to withd...Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 06:44hrs | 509 | by Silence Raki
US tells Mnangagwa to hold by-elections
THE United States of (US) embassy in Harare yesterday criticised President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government over continued suspension of by-elections, arguing that elections could be held safely despit...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:28hrs | 1589 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge Border Post upgrade excites truck drivers
COMMERCIAL truck drivers from across the Sadc region have expressed excitement over the ongoing upgrade at the Beitbridge Border Post, which is currently being modernized by the Government in partners...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 18:33hrs | 2075 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gives private doctors farms
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is offering land to medical practitioners in private practice drawn from across the country's 10 provinces.Close to 372 medical practitioners under the Medical and...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:43hrs | 1282 | by Staff reporter
Birth certificates, passports issuance resumes
THE Registrar General (RG's) Office has reopened to the public after having scaled down operations when the country recorded a spike in Covid-19 infections. Covid-19 cases increased towards the end of...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:20hrs | 1612 | by Staff reporter
More buses for Zupco arrive
Public transport continues to grow with the latest batch of 50 new Golden Dragon buses from China passing through Beitbridge at the weekend to join the Zupco fleet and the new train service linking ce...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 06:03hrs | 129 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe being run by clueless ZANU PF clowns
The Emmerson Mnangagwa led ZANU PF government has once again proven beyond no doubt that they are clueless and a bunch of mediocre buffoons. They impose policies which are half baked and result in the...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 07:41hrs | 1374 | by Prince Njagu
NRZ partners Zupco to boost public transport
Commuter passenger rail service is expected to start this afternoon with three routes at peak periods along the main east-west railway line through Harare as Zupco and National Railways of Zimbabwe in...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 06:07hrs | 558 | by Staff reporter
Sick bays set up at boarding schools
Schools today reopen for non-examination classes for the long second and final term of 75 teaching days for these classes, without exeat weekends, and with temporary holding and sick bays set up at mo...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 05:16hrs | 138 | by Staff reporter
Public confidence in Zimdollar keeps waning, no end in sight
THE revelation by Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya that the widening gap between the official and parallel foreign currency exchange rates is due to locals preferring the greenbac...Published: 27 Aug 2021 at 06:37hrs | 1626 | by Staff reporter
Women sexually abused at ZUPCO bus ranks
Student activists from the University of Zimbabwe have implored the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) authorities to protect women from being abused at their bus ranks because many women were ...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 09:02hrs | 2560 | by Staff reporter
Daily vaccinations hit record high 100 000
The national vaccination programme on Tuesday managed to give more than 100 000 jabs in a single day, showing the acceleration of the programme, but Zimbabweans need to grab the opportunities since th...Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 06:29hrs | 191 | by Staff reporter
Zambia elections bring hope to MDC Alliance?
The MDC Alliance has been gripped by false hope of winning the forthcoming 2023 Presidential elections in the manner Zambia's President-elect; Hakainde Hichilema defeated former President, Edgar Lungu...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 06:43hrs | 214 | by Rutendo Jiri
Zinara introduces automatic cameras at tollgates
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) has introduced automatic number plate recognition cameras at tollgates along the Plumtree-Mutare Highway as part of broader measures to reduce conges...Published: 12 Aug 2021 at 06:41hrs | 1031 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's lockdown extension irks informal traders
INFORMAL traders yesterday expressed anger over the extension of the level four lockdown period by two more weeks without provision of social grants to cushion them. President Emmerson Mn...Published: 11 Aug 2021 at 06:35hrs | 821 | by Staff reporter
New Zinara technology to ease congestion at tollgates
The Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) has introduced automatic number plate recognition cameras at tollgates along the Plumtree-Mutare Highway as part of broader measures to reduce conges...Published: 05 Aug 2021 at 06:11hrs | 590 | by Staff reporter
Scores turn up for ZDF Covid-19 vaccination outreach programme
Over 200 Emgwanwini and Cowdray Park residents, Tuesday, received their Covid-19 jabs during a Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) community outreach Covid-19 vaccination programme.The community out...Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 20:50hrs | 415 | by Staff reporter
China rescues Zimbabwe on Covid-19 as world faces vaccine apartheid
AS the world faces a Covid-19 vaccine apartheid amid privatisation and monopolisation of its science and technology as well as the doses, and hoarding by rich countries, China has rescued Zimbabwe by ...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 08:38hrs | 1146 | by Staff reporter
Residents cringe over crowding at vaccination centres
RESIDENTS throughout the country's major cities and towns have expressed concern over crowding at vaccination centres, saying this could aid the spread of COVID-19 due to long and chaotic queues....Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 06:42hrs | 1015 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says 'we're in a crisis', 'MDC stuck with unregistered COVID-19 vaccines'
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa says information on the ground, particularly in rural areas, was pointing to a dire situation in the country, hence the need for government to stop politi...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 08:15hrs | 3699 | by Staff reporter
'ZUPCO buses Covid-19 super spreaders'
THE Passenger Association of Zimbabwe (PAZ) yesterday blamed the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zup co) buses for being Covid-19 super spreaders, saying the company was failing to comply with the ...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 08:04hrs | 832 | by Staff reporter
Govt reduces workforce to 10%
GOVERNMENT has further decongested its workforce to 10 percent from 40 percent and temporarily closed some of its district offices in Hwange after staffers tested Covid-19 positive. In a circu...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 07:49hrs | 427 | by Staff reporter
Shortage of staff slows Bulawayo mass vaccination
A SHORTAGE of health workers is dampening the mass vaccination drive in Bulawayo as centres are being overwhelmed resulting in some residents being turned away. Under the mass vaccination exer...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 08:12hrs | 232 | by Staff reporter
The fight against COVID-19 is everyone's responsibility
The first Saturday of this month saw local author, film maker and anti-Government activist, Tsitsi Dangarembwa, getting her first COVID-19 vaccination jab at Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare. She did n...Published: 19 Jul 2021 at 13:35hrs | 500 | by Nobleman Runyanga
SA protests to push Zimbabwe prices high
ZIMBABWE could see a spike in prices of imported goods as hundreds of containers with goods destined for the country were stuck along routes and at warehouses in South Africa following last week's pro...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 08:00hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter
Undocumented citizens to get COVID-19 jab
GOVERNMENT has ordered the vaccination of undocumented residents amid soaring COVID-19 infections and deaths.National identity documents were a mandatory requirement for one to get their jabs,...Published: 17 Jul 2021 at 07:57hrs | 749 | by Staff reporter
People with HIV at high risk of severe Covid-19
INTERNATIONAL health organisations have called for prioritisation of people living with HIV in the Covid-19 vaccination programme following revelations by the World Health Organisation (WHO) that the ...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:29hrs | 1355 | by Staff reporter
Long queues at Durban petrol stations as fuel runs out
Long winding queues are forming outside petrol stations in the greater Durban area of KwaZulu-Natal.Several petrol stations have already reportedly run out of fuel, while others have closed fo...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 10:05hrs | 1030 | by Staff reporter
South Africa fuel shortages in the next few days
South African Petroleum Refineries (Sapref) has declared force majeure and announced a temporary closure due to the ongoing violence and looting in South Africa, ...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 09:59hrs | 730 | by Staff reporter
Staff shortage stalls vaccination programme
AN acute shortage of nursing staff to administer COVID-19 vaccines at local health centres has reportedly slowed down government's mass vaccination programme at a time when there is high demand for th...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 09:33hrs | 129 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo vaccination centres overwhelmed
COVID-19 vaccination centres in Bulawayo are overwhelmed as scores of residents continue to flock to local clinics to get inoculated under the ongoing mass vaccination programme which started on Monda...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 09:25hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
Health disaster looms in Mbundane
RESIDENTS of Mbundane high-density suburb just outside Bulawayo have gone for 15 years without tap water, forcing some to resort to shallow and unsafe sources as well as to the use of Blair toilets, a...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 09:12hrs | 1094 | by Staff reporter
Vaccines run out in Gweru
The majority of clinics and other vaccination centres in Gweru today ran out of vaccines as the number of people seeking to be vaccinated soars.A snap survey conducted by The Herald around cli...Published: 09 Jul 2021 at 21:02hrs | 549 | by Staff reporter
2 million more vaccine jabs arrive today in Zimbabwe
The largest single Covid-19 vaccine order, two million doses, arrives today to ensure that the national vaccination programme can be quickly accelerated as the country enforces a lockdown tightening t...Published: 08 Jul 2021 at 11:10hrs | 284 | by Staff reporter
Stampedes at vaccination sites
BULAWAYO residents, mostly informal traders, thronged various mobile centres dotted across the city to get vaccinated against Covid-19 during the national...Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 06:30hrs | 3151 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe's bus shortage is making commuters miserable
Masimba Gwazho waits in a line at a bus terminus in Harare's central business district."I have been in this queue for close to an hour," the 39-year-old bricklayer told Al Jazeera.More...Published: 05 Jul 2021 at 06:39hrs | 844 | by Staff Reporter
Vendors demand to be prioritised during vaccination
INFORMAL traders associations yesterday called on the Health ministry to prioritise its members during the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination exercise.Government has said that vendors would not be a...Published: 02 Jul 2021 at 19:28hrs | 54 | by Staff reporter
Vendors demand to be prioritised during COVID-19 vaccination exercise
INFORMAL traders associations yesterday called on the Health ministry to prioritise its members during the on-going COVID-19 vaccination exercise.Government has said that vendors would not be ...Published: 02 Jul 2021 at 14:18hrs | 376 | by Staff Reporter
Operations resume at SA border
The movement of commercial and private traffic has resumed at Beitbridge Border Post following the restoration of water supplies at the South African side of the port of entry.Commercial cargo...Published: 24 Jun 2021 at 18:32hrs | 1331 | by Staff reporter
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