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'We don't eat roads' mischief
There is a popular Chinese proverb which goes: "if you want to get rich, you have to build roads first", and this is often quoted to explain some of the accelerated development taking place in the Asi...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:33hrs | 448 | by Lovemore Chikova
Zimbabwe's cash-rich govt suppliers fuel currency volatility
GOVERNMENT procurement and service providers - who include public works contractors and suppliers of goods and services - are destabilising the foreign exchange market by offloading part of their stag...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 08:40hrs | 1191 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told to play fair in 2023
THE leader of the Zion Christian Church (ZCC), bishop Nehemia Mutendi yesterday pulled a shocker by calling on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to promote peace and play a "clean game" in the general elec...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:50hrs | 1655 | by Staff reporter
Equipment woes force Bulawayo road rehab scale down
A COMBINATION of breakdowns and shortages of plant and machinery has forced the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to scale down on capital projects including the ongoing road rehabilitation works.A ...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 18:52hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
Outrage over BCC parking funds
DELAYS by the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to use funds collected from Tendy Three Investment (TTI) to rehabilitate the city's roads has sparked outrage among residents.TTI is charging US$1 per...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 280 | by Staff reporter
Shona, Ndebele Highway Code launched, beware of Ndebele mistakes
The Highway Code has now been translated into Shona and Ndebele, and printed copies are available at a subsidised cost of US$5 each or the equivalent in local currency while Government is working on t...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | 309 | by Staff reporter
Simukwe bridge construction resumes
GOVERNMENT has resumed the construction of the 200-metre Simukwe River Bridge that links Matobo under Chief Malaba and Bulilima District under Chief Bango.Engineers on site said the project is...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:45hrs | 348 | by Staff reporter
No joy in Mthuli Ncube's budget
CALLS by Zimbabwe's restive civil service for United States dollar salaries went unheeded by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday.Ncube doubled the national budget to $1,9 trillion as a res...Published: 29 Jul 2022 at 06:54hrs | 2982 | by Staff reporter
Goverment rolls out food distribution programme
GOVERNMENT has started distributing grain to needy communities across the country in line with its commitment to ensure that no household starves.The programme targets the elderly, child-heade...Published: 29 Jul 2022 at 06:48hrs | 148 | by Staff reporter
Harare-Kanyemba Road construction: 2km opened to traffic
The redesigning and rehabilitation of the Harare-Kanyemba Road in Mashonaland Central Province has moved a gear up following the completion and opening up of about 2km to traffic of part of the stretc...Published: 29 Jul 2022 at 06:47hrs | 264 | by Staff reporter
Harare-Beitbridge highway project: A new big step in the right direction
AS we turn right off the Harare-Beitbridge highway - just before the intersection of the Harare and Bulawayo arteries five kilometres north of Beitbridge Border Post on the banks of the Limpopo River ...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 07:57hrs | 1060 | by Staff reporter
CCC, Zanu-PF to contest Gokwe-Kabuyuni by-election
IT is going to be a two-party race for the Gokwe- Kabuyuni constituency by-election following the successful filing of papers by Zanu-PF and CCC candidates during a Nomination court sitting at Gweru m...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 06:28hrs | 607 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe roadworks create 11 000 jobs
Fifty-five contractors and nearly 11 000 people have so far been hired countrywide to conduct works under the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme 2 (ERRP2), bringing joy to communities along the r...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 06:27hrs | 203 | by Staff reporter
New toll plazas to be constructed on Zimbabwe roads
THE Government will soon start constructing toll plazas along major highways to address congestion at the toll gates countrywide, a Cabinet Minister has said.A toll plaza has more lanes compar...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 06:10hrs | 974 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo road rehab works begin
ROAD rehabilitation works have commenced in Bulawayo and contractors have started working on a section of Cecil Avenue as part of Government's Emergency Road Rehabilitation 2 (ERRP 2) Phase II meant t...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 06:10hrs | 365 | by Staff reporter
340km of Harare - Beitbridge highway revamp complete
AT least 340 kilometres of the Harare-Beitbridge highway have been reconstructed and opened to motorists in the past two years, officials said Friday, promising to expand the aggressive road revamp pr...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:13hrs | 480 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa relives 2017 'ice cream' horror
President Mnangagwa yesterday opened up on his infamous Gwanda poisoning incident in 2017, saying the medical treatment that saved his life after being airlifted to South Africa inspired his mantra th...Published: 16 Jul 2022 at 10:29hrs | 4383 | by Staff reporter
135 properties to make way for Mbudzi interchange
At least 135 residential, industrial and commercial properties built near Mbudzi roundabout in Harare will have to be demolished to pave way for the construction of 14 bridges and bridge-like structur...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:03hrs | 641 | by Staff reporter
Massive roadworks change face of Beitbridge
THE massive road construction projects in Beitbridge, which dovetail with the ongoing US$300 million modernisation of the border post being spearheaded by the Second Republic, have transformed the fac...Published: 08 Jul 2022 at 07:34hrs | 622 | by Staff reporter
Road rehab ignites hope in Manama
FOR villagers in Manama, the rehabilitation of the Guyu-Manama Road in Gwanda District is the beginning of endless possibilities.With a good road network, villagers believe more investors will...Published: 05 Jul 2022 at 07:04hrs | 446 | by Staff reporter
Tsholotsho, Nkayi roadworks take shape
THE construction of major roads linking Bulawayo with Nkayi and Tsholotsho districts has gathered momentum as the Second Republic steps up efforts towards completing outstanding infrastructure develop...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 06:45hrs | 573 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is definitely open for looting!
For someone who has been around for close to half a century, and four decades of these under the governance (or rather, misgovernance) of the ZANU PF regime, I never for once believed the yarn of “r...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 06:37hrs | 3024 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'No need to import cement into Zimbabwe'
THE country's leading cement manufacturer, PPC Zimbabwe says they will continuously invest in their operations through maintenance and capital development programmes to ensure excellent product qualit...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 08:13hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
Zinara disburses $7,8bn for roads
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) yesterday said it had so far this year disbursed $7,8 billion to local authorities for road rehabilitation projects under the Emergency Road Rehabili...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 06:45hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
When a govt needs media to help highlight its achievements then it has nothing to show!
When I was still a young lad, there was a television advertisement that I used to enjoy a lot.If my memory serves me right, it was by the now comatose state-run Cold Storage Commission (CSC) -...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 13:37hrs | 1143 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zinara fails to pay road contractors
GOVERNMENT has failed to pay contractors under the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme (ERRP) for the past five months, slowing down the road rehabilitation initiatives.Government launched...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:45hrs | 316 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube dodges civil servants salary issue
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube was yesterday at pains to explain government's failure to review civil servants' salaries to parliamentarians as the cost of living shoots up.Legislators in the N...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 08:29hrs | 923 | by Staff reporter
Major road rehab projects begin in Bulawayo
A massive rehabilitation of critical roads is set to begin in Bulawayo under the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme Phase 2 (ERRP2), as the Government presses ahead with efforts to improve roads ...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 06:33hrs | 306 | by Staff reporter
Over 500 000 get births, IDs in blitz
More than 500 000 people have obtained birth certificates and national identity cards in the ongoing mobile blitz for civil registration ongoing countrywide, Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Ministe...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 06:32hrs | 85 | by Staff reporter
Unknown hero's burial today
National hero, Major-General Godfrey Chanakira, who died at West End Clinic in Harare last Thursday of a heart ailment, will be buried at the National Heroes Acre today.At the time of his deat...Published: 02 Jun 2022 at 06:45hrs | 566 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 2023 re-election bid causes jitters
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is pulling all stops to win a second full term in next year's elections amid fears that some of his initiatives will leave the economy in ruin.Mnangagwa's governme...Published: 30 May 2022 at 07:00hrs | 1157 | by Staff reporter
Justice Wadyajena: A liability to the vision of the new dispensation
President' Emmerson Mnangagwa and the new dispensation are working tirelessly to build Zimbabwe brick by brick. It is surprising that Midlands politician who claims to be very close to President E...Published: 26 May 2022 at 11:29hrs | 5188 | by Lameck Rangwani
Multi-million-dollar road rehabilitation storm erupts in Zimbabwe
KWEKWE City Council in the Midlands has failed to account for millions of dollars poured into the local authority for the rehabilitation of roads amid revelations that politically connected comp...Published: 23 May 2022 at 13:18hrs | 3660 | by Staff reporter
Harare-Beitbridge highway upgrade on course
AT least 313km of the Harare-Beitbridge highway have so far been rehabilitated as the Government's robust infrastructure development drive continues bearing fruit.The Government is widening, r...Published: 23 May 2022 at 06:36hrs | 231 | by Staff reporter
Motorists bemoan rampant car clamping
MOTORISTS are up in arms over Tendy Three Investments (TTI)'s management of parking in Bulawayo's central business district.Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association chairperson Ambrose Sibin...Published: 20 May 2022 at 06:30hrs | 1296 | by Staff reporter
Nkayi sends roads SOS to govt
NKAYI Rural District Council (RDC) has sent a distress call to the Government over lack of road maintenance machinery, a development that has seen it being shortchanged by contracted companies....Published: 20 May 2022 at 06:28hrs | 220 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says net closing in on economic saboteurs
INVESTIGATIONS are underway to expose the third hand that could be working with some big companies to destabilise the economy, President Mnangagwa has said.This comes as the Government has int...Published: 20 May 2022 at 06:27hrs | 477 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo accused of abusing devolution funds
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) Manicaland chairperson, Proper Mutseyami has accused local government minister July Moyo of abusing devolution funds.Mutseyami said Moyo was deliberately de...Published: 11 May 2022 at 09:16hrs | 948 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Ncube fret over failing economy
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is fretting over the possibility of losing the 2023 elections at a time Zanu-PF members of Parliament say launching a serious campaign for themselves and their leader will...Published: 10 May 2022 at 17:26hrs | 2474 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt killing Zimdollar'
GOVERNMENT'S short-term financing mechanisms to fund its programmes are the major contributors to the depreciation of the local currency, the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) has noted....Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:46hrs | 908 | by Staff reporter
BCC ropes in private players on roads
LACK of plant and equipment has forced the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to contract private companies to re-gravel city roads.The local authority has only one functional grader and was in sixes...Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:44hrs | 286 | by Staff reporter
Work to ensure smooth drive to Tsholotsho begins
THE rehabilitation of the 115km Bulawayo-Tsholotsho Road has begun and is expected to be complete before the end of the year as the Second Republic ups the developmental momentum in the region....Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:43hrs | 305 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland North roads have outlived lifespan
MOST public roads especially in Matabeleland North need reconstruction as they have outlived their lifespan, a Cabinet Minister has said.Speaking on the sidelines of a review meeting for all p...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:19hrs | 336 | by Staff reporter
Residents raise alarm over pole in road
BEITBRIDGE town residents have raised alarm following the construction of a road on an electricity line where one pole has been left in the middle of the road.In separate interviews, the resid...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:18hrs | 660 | by Staff reporter
Zinara mulls e-tollgates
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) says it is making headway on plans to establish an e-tolling system to reduce operating costs from toll fees collection processes.According t...Published: 06 May 2022 at 06:54hrs | 690 | by Staff reporter
4 radio station projects complete
GOVERNMENT has completed four radio station projects while it has embarked on other new projects that include the production of obituaries profiling contributions made by heroes and heroines interred ...Published: 05 May 2022 at 07:08hrs | 325 | by Staff reporter
Zinara set to disburse $17bn under ERRP2
THE Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) is this year set to disburse $17 billion under the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme (ERRP2) with the parastatal having so far allocated over ...Published: 02 May 2022 at 07:59hrs | 51 | by Staff reporter
ZINARA committed to Vision 2030
The Government of Zimbabwe under the stewardship of His Excellency the President, Cde, Dr E.D Mnangagwa has set a massive life changing target of transforming Zimbabwe into an Upper Middle-Income econ...Published: 01 May 2022 at 14:22hrs | 175 | by Nkosinathi Ncube
'$338 million for Bulawayo roads not enough'
BULAWAYO councillors are concerned that the $338 million government allocation for road rehabilitation in the city was not enough.The councillors say Bulawayo roads have become deplorabl...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:26hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
Mining to drive Zimbabwe growth
Zimbabwe's mining industry has "immense" potential to drive socio-economic development and growth of the economy, underpinned by strategies designed to transform the sector to a US$12 billion industry...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:04hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
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