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Zimbabwe bus operators accused of tampering with speed limit devices
As the festive season approaches, some bus operators are facing serious accusations of tampering with speed limit devices, jeopardizing the safety of passengers. The illegal modification of these devi...Published: 04 Dec 2024 at 06:58hrs | 1499 | by Staff reporter
Bus conductor in court for sex slavery trafficking
A conductor employed by the prominent bus company Rimbi Tours has been arrested for allegedly trafficking a 16-year-old girl to Cape Town and selling her into sex slavery.Levie Tsongo, 37, of ...Published: 05 Jun 2024 at 13:06hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Bus route war turns bloody
GOODLUCK Nyakabau lies on his back in Harare's Stoneridge area pondering his next move.Around this time, he should be more than 300km away from the capital city on a bus heading to the northea...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 09:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nkayi School of Nursing closed
THIRTY-THREE trainee primary care nurses at Nkayi District Hospital have been moved to other nursing schools in Masvingo and Manicaland provinces following the temporary closure of the institution, wh...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 05:53hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Accident prone InterAfrica scoop transport award
TWO of the country's leading transporters, InterAfrica and CAG Travellers Coaches have bagged awards for best Transport Solution and Management Project.The prestigious awards organised by Char...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 05:54hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe Jnr slaps friend's relative for urinating on his car
ROBERT Mugabe Junior, son of late former President has been hit with fresh criminal charges of assault.In February he was dragged to court accused of malicious damage to property after he smas...Published: 15 Jun 2023 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe Junior issued with arrest warrant
Late former President Robert Mugabe's older son, Robert Mugabe Junior was Wednesday issued with a warrant of arrest after he skipped trial for an assault offence.Mugabe, who is believed to be ...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 18:10hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Speed freaks turn Zimbabwe highways into racecourses
WITH a cigarette stuck between his shaking fingers, Moses Nerutanga (37) puffs up clouds of smoke into the air as he relives how he escaped death by a whisker in a recent bus accident.As he sa...Published: 24 Apr 2023 at 07:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army to recruit, train more women
COMMANDER of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA), Lieutenant-General David Sigauke, has said they will continue to train and recruit more women as they have proven to be dedicated, competent and determin...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:40hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Rimbi bus collides with motorcycle
Rimbi Travel and Tour bus was involved in an accident today, it collided with a motorcycle while travelling from Zimbabwe to Malawi.The bus collided with a motorcycle near Mutoko centre, two p...Published: 28 Feb 2023 at 16:50hrs | 10 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Police move to clamp down on bus operators
POLICE have ordered passenger transporters to stick to their route permits and timetables as part of measures to tame road carnage.In a statement, national police spokesperson Assistant Commis...Published: 17 Feb 2023 at 04:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's Renkini a white elephant as intercity buses shun it
Renkini Bus Terminus was, for years, the nerve centre for Bulawayo's transport system with people intending to travel to other cities and towns trooping to the station to board buses.Many othe...Published: 10 Feb 2023 at 05:39hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Buses shift to new illegal rank
PUBLIC transporters who used to operate from an illegal bus rank along Leopold Takawira Avenue near Centenary Park have moved to another illegal rank along 4th Avenue behind Eveline High School....Published: 09 Feb 2023 at 05:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Buses ban hailed
THE Passengers Association of Zimbabwe (PAZ) has hailed the ban of rimbi and Zebra Kiss buses which were involved in a fatal accident last week due to negligent driving.PAZ president Tafadzwa ...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 15:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Suspended bus operators fire reckless drivers
Suspended bus companies Zebra Kiss and Rimbi Tours have apologised and further revealed they were firing drivers who got involved in a fierce road race along the Harare-Nyamapanda road earlier in the ...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 22:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rimbi, Zebra Kiss buses lose operators' licenses after fatal accident
Following the Rimbi bus accident that claimed a life and left several passengers injured on Tuesday, the Ministry of Tran...Published: 19 Jan 2023 at 18:36hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe police warn drivers over speeding
ONE person died while seven others were seriously injured after a bus rammed into a tipper truck at the 160 km peg along the Harare-Nyamapanda Road.The accident happened on Tuesday at around 4...Published: 19 Jan 2023 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Speeding Rimbi Travel and Tours bus crash caught on camera
A video of a speeding Rimbi Travel and Tours bus has surfaced on the socials. Watch the video below to the endhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u-iQvH41PoA source familiar with the situ...Published: 18 Jan 2023 at 10:29hrs | 7 | by Simbarashe Sithole
South African minister orders Zimbabwe bus company ban
South Africa's Home Affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi has ordered officials to revoke the cross border licence of a Zimbabwean bus company found carrying undocumented immigrants.Motsoaledi was...Published: 19 Apr 2022 at 09:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe bus fined US$28,000 over passengers without passports
Zimbabwe-based Rimbi Travel and Tours Bus Service has been fined more than R400 000 by the South African Department of Home Affairs after some of its passengers were caught attempting to enter the cou...Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 12:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
8 Zimbabweans on Interpol wanted list
EIGHT Zimbabweans, including a Bulawayo woman who is charged for fraud and corruption, are currently on the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) most wanted list for allegedly committ...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa's chair Gata, wife part ff 45 couples seeking divorce in early 2022
A LEAST 45 divorce cases have been filed at the High Court this month, and one of the disgruntled divorce applicants is the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) executive chairman Sydney Gata....Published: 13 Jan 2022 at 05:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cops teargas another bus
Police have started investigating a case in which some unidentified police officers on Tuesday threw teargas canisters into a Mulaudzi Bus full of passengers at an area yet to be identified.Al...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 21:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Soldiers in court for smuggling 263 crates of Zambian eggs
Two Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) officers and a civilian have appeared in court following their arrest for allegedly smuggling 263 crates of table eggs from Zambia valued at $44 500.The trio o...Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
7 Zimbabweans on Interpol Red Notice
SEVEN Zimbabweans, including a man from Gweru who brutally murdered his wife and left their six-month-old son suckling from the corpse, have been placed on the International Police Organisation (Inter...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bus crushes conductor
A BUS belonging to Rimbi on Monday last week crushed its conductor near the corner of Samuel Parirenyatwa Street and First Avenue, Bulawayo with four passengers on board.Bulawayo provincial po...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
2 killed in Bulawayo road accidents
TWO people were killed in separate accidents in Bulawayo on Monday, police have said. Provincial police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube said in the first accident, a conductor was killed by a re...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cops in soup for tear-gassing bus passengers
Seven police officers, who threw teargas cannisters into a bus full of passengers at the Harare Exhibition Park yesterday afternoon, now have to account for their actions with one officer identified a...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Botswana-based Zimbabweans in trouble over illegal hand sanitisers
TWO Zimbabweans who were arrested in Botswana for illegally manufacturing and selling hand sanitisers have been issued with warrant of arrest after they defaulted appearing in court last week....Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare-Masvingo highway tar thief arrested
POLICE have arrested a 32-year-old man on charges of stealing tar worth $94 000 that was meant for the Harare-Masvingo Highway dualisation.National Police spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner ...Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man clones bank cards, swipes $69 000
A CHITUNGWIZA man on Saturday appeared at the Harare Magistrates' Court charged with unauthorised use or possession of debit cards after he allegedly cloned bank debit cards for CABS account holders a...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Drama as apostolic sect members seize injured driver from hospital
There was drama at Marondera Provincial Hospital on Monday when Johane Marange apostolic sect members besieged the hospital and seized their member who was admitted at the institution following an acc...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
11 dead in kombi, Honda fit head-on accident
Eleven (11) people are feared dead following an accident involving a commuter omnibus and a Honda fit near Headlands this morning.The tragedy once again hit the Apostolic Christian community a...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 17:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, US in extradition pact
Zimbabwe has taken a huge step towards greater co-operation with the United States after Harare agreed to a pact for extradition of criminals between the two countries.The development comes as...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 08:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Disabled sidelined in HIV information dissemination
Thirty-year-old Chenai Murimbika of Dunzvambeva village under Chief Kazangarare, 60km north of Karoi, looks older than her age.She has endured untold suffering, marked by stigmatisation couple...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Low turnout at Mujuru rally
The People's Rainbow Coalition Manicaland Star Rally at Rimbi Business Centre in Musikavanhu constituency failed to live to the expectations of the opposition movement led by Dr Joyce Mujuru as it was...Published: 26 May 2018 at 15:11hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Mujuru heads to Manicaland province
NATIONAL People's Party leader and former Vice-President Joice Mujuru heads to Manicaland province today, where she is billed to address a campaign rally at Rimbi business centre in Chipinge.N...Published: 25 May 2018 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mujuru vows to destroy Zanu-PF’s stronghold
ZANU-PF is used to intimidating rural voters and this year’s election is only won when the perception that rural areas are the ruling party’s stronghold has been dismantled, the National People’...Published: 13 May 2018 at 12:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
No extradition for $7m US tax fraud fugitives
Three suspects allegedly involved in a $7 million tax fraud in the United States will not be extradited to that country to face trial because the extradition treaty between Zimbabwe and US is invalid,...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in $7 million fraud
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has launched a manhunt for three suspects who are wanted in the United States of America in connection with a $7 million tax fraud case.The three are Chris Marimbi...Published: 22 Mar 2018 at 16:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army battalion gets new leader
The country is poised for better fortunes and economic recovery under the new political dispensation and members of the Zimbabwe National Army entrusted with maintaining peace and national integrity s...Published: 26 Feb 2018 at 05:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 'Top 100 A level school for 2017 Candidates'
A purported top 100 Advanced Level schools' list is circulating on various social media platforms.The list of the country's purported best-performing schools in the 2017 A Level final year exa...Published: 26 Jan 2018 at 10:10hrs | 93 | by Staff reporter
Wicknell Chivayo publicly 'shames' wife Sonja
CONTROVERSIAL businessman Wicknell Chivayo is in the eye of a storm after sharing pictures of a DNA test to prove the paternity of his week-old son, sparking a public outcry from people who say he pub...Published: 25 Jan 2018 at 22:33hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Woman burns hubby's manhood
A 47-YEAR old Mutare man is nursing serious injuries on his private parts and chest after a vicious boiled water attack at the hands of his wife following a dispute over control of a bank card....Published: 11 Aug 2017 at 12:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Detectives rob Mozambican of mbanje
A Mozambican national was allegedly robbed of $1 900 and more than 90kgs of mbanje and threatened with death by three detectives stationed at Checheche Growth Point.The trio, Detective C...Published: 19 May 2017 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Woman stars in home made bedroom video with another man, hubby rewards her with big wedding
In a strange twist of events, a Bulawayo woman Bongani Ndlovu whose indecent video with her boyfriend leaked to her husband has earned herself a big white wedding.Ndlovu ...Published: 17 Mar 2017 at 06:41hrs | 9 | by Staff Reporter
Top 100 schools at O'Level raise eyebrows
Often times, when we try to act as intelligent as we think we are, we usually portray the highest level of our stupidity. We usually strech our imaginations and start majoring the minor.One th...Published: 20 Feb 2017 at 07:44hrs | | by Garikai Mafirakureva
ZLHR rescues juveniles as dozens of people languish in prison
Seventy Zimbabweans are currently enduring jail time after they were condemned to prison by Harare Magistrate Vakayi Chikwekwe, when they appeared in court on Saturday 27 August 2016.The Zimba...Published: 28 Aug 2016 at 15:41hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe the only President at Papua New Guinea summit
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe will be the only head of state attending the 8th summit of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) in Papua New Guinea next week.Fifty delegations ...Published: 27 May 2016 at 10:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
One dead, 8 injured in bus crash
One person died while eight others were injured when a Rimbi bus heading towards Ruwa crashed into Sabot staff bus coming from Mabvuku today....Published: 17 May 2016 at 16:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
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