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Zimbabwe govt deploys ambulances at tollgates
The government has announced plans to station ambulances at tollgates and along major highways across Zimbabwe, aiming to improve emergency medical response and curb road accident fatalities.T...Published: 24 Jun 2025 at 09:28hrs | 350 | by Staff reporter
Free emergency medical care for road accident victims
In a major overhaul of Zimbabwe's post-accident emergency response system, the Government is proposing a new law that will ensure road traffic accident (RTA) victims receive free emergency medical att...Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 11:56hrs | 115 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cabinet approves Road Accident Fund Bill
The Zimbabwean Cabinet has approved the principles of the Road Accident Fund Bill, a landmark legislative step aimed at improving emergency treatment, medical care, and funeral assistance for road tra...Published: 04 Jun 2025 at 09:32hrs | 701 | by Staff reporter
ZPA urges Mnangagwa to address road carnage in the country
Zimbabwe Passengers Association Secretary general Paul Makiwa has appealed to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government to try and address road carn...Published: 28 May 2025 at 22:27hrs | 435 | by Stephen Jakes
Minister seeks Parly support for road accident fund
Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Felix Mhona addressed the National Assembly, urging Parliament to endorse a road accident fund aimed at compensating individuals involved in road acc...Published: 03 Jul 2024 at 10:29hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's road accident fund set to be established
Transport and Infrastructure Development Minister Felix Mhona announced that the establishment of the Road Accident Fund (RAF) in Zimbabwe is in advanced stages. This fund aims to provide insurance co...Published: 01 Jul 2024 at 03:48hrs | 64 | by Staff reporter
SA court hears how diesel consignment from British oil company to Zimbabwe 'disappeared'
British oil company BP claimed to have exported a consignment of diesel to Zimbabwe in 2019 - but the fuel never arrived.A case brought by the South African Revenue Service (Sars) in a South A...Published: 17 Jan 2024 at 05:09hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
VID corruption probed
A committee has been set up by Government to investigate allegations of corruption at the Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) over decades-long accusations that drivers' licences are being corruptly...Published: 05 Dec 2023 at 05:13hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records road accident every 15 minutes
A road accident occurs in Zimbabwe every 15 minutes, with most such incidents attributed to reckless driving, inadequate enforcement of traffic laws and use of defective vehicles, among other factors....Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 10:32hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Fight against cross-border crimes intensifies
SOUTH Africa's Department of Transport and Community Safety in collaboration with other key stakeholders in Zimbabwe and other neighbouring countries is rolling out an operation to promote road safety...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe moots Road Accident Fund
Government is mooting the establishment of a Road Accident Fund (RAF) which is aimed at minimising the effects of traffic accidents on the citizenry and the proposal was tabled to traffic stakeholders...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 18:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Call for accident-free holidays
The Transport industry wants a collaborative effort to ensure an accident free Easter and Independence holidays this coming long weekend highlighting the significance of road safety and the need for e...Published: 14 Apr 2022 at 06:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Probe teams for all VID depots
Government has deployed investigative teams to the country's 21 Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) depots that are still to be computerised as it intensifies the fight against corruption in the iss...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
13 Zimbabweans perish in SA bus crash
THIRTEEN Zimbabweans, including four children, died and 36 others were injured when a Marsmery bus they were travelling in overturned just outside Makhado town in South Africa's Limpopo province. ...Published: 08 May 2019 at 09:20hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Kombis must register with associations'
GOVERNMENT is working on a legislation to ensure that all commuter operators are registered with an association and operators permits would be issued to only those affiliated to an association. ...Published: 08 Oct 2018 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to hike traffic fines
Government is planning to hike traffic fines in a controversial move it claims will reduce road accidents, Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has revealed.Ziyamb...Published: 06 Oct 2018 at 13:11hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'Jail all unlicensed drivers'
THE Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe (TSCZ) has started lobbying government to impose mandatory custodial sentences to people who drive without licences among other stiffer penalties on errant drive...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 08:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in limbo after giving SA home affairs asylum papers
In 2009, the South African government introduced the Dispensation of Zimbabweans Project (DZP) to legalise the many Zimbabweans already inside the country because of the political and socio-economic s...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 08:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Regulator rejects road accident fund
THE Insurance and Pensions Commission (IPEC) has rejected calls for a fund to cater for accident victims.Mooted by government in 2016 after it emerged that an accident occurs every 15 minutes ...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 13:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Vehicle road accidents fund on the cards
PRESIDENT Mugabe has bemoaned the continued loss of lives in road traffic accidents and said a Motor Vehicle Accident Fund is on the cards as a measure of relief to survivors and families of victims....Published: 13 Sep 2017 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Accident victim cries foul
A road accident victim has called for the review of laws to ensure that errant drivers are punished.This comes as the government has come up with the Road Accident Fund to assist accident vict...Published: 15 Jul 2017 at 16:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa against Road Accident Fund
Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa said he is against the establishment of a Road Accident Fund (RAF), aimed at assisting road accident victims, as it will negatively affect insurance firms' revenues ...Published: 28 Jun 2017 at 14:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Broke Zimbabwe govt to introduce new fuel levy
THE Government plans to introduce a fuel levy to finance a new Road Accident Fund that will ensure compulsory compensation of road traffic accident victims, an official has said.The fund will ...Published: 26 May 2017 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Taxpayers in trouble: New levy coming
The Zanu-PF led Government is set to further burden taxpayers by introducing a fuel levy to finance a new Road Accident Fund that will ensure compulsory compensation of road traffic accident victims...Published: 26 May 2017 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe govt to set up accident fund
THE Government is setting up a fund to assist road accident victims after it emerged an accident occurs every 15 minutes and about five people are killed every day on the country's roads.A lev...Published: 16 May 2017 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ministers, police vehicles to pay toll fares
ALL Government vehicles, including those that belong to ministers and police will soon start paying tollgate fees along all the country's major highways, a Cabinet Minister has said.The pr...Published: 22 Jan 2017 at 12:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Road accident fund takes shape
Government efforts to introduce a road accident fund are taking shape as regional teams have been engaged to carefully work on policies aimed at assisting victims of road carnage, a Cabinet Minist...Published: 15 Dec 2016 at 05:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man organises a hit on his friend in SA?
Dear EditorI have a story that is newsworthy.Briefly, the facts are:A Zimbabwean was involved in a road traffic accident in 2012 in South Africa.He called for compensat...Published: 20 Sep 2016 at 06:39hrs | | by legallabourcentre
Third party insurance premiums rise 20%
THIRD party insurance premiums for motor vehicles have been hiked by 20 percent to $36 per term from $30 last year for light vehicles, while premiums paid by commuter omnibuses have been revised to $8...Published: 05 Jun 2016 at 11:14hrs | 1 | by Livingstone Marufu
3 SA accident victims' bodies repatriated
THREE Zimbabweans including an eight months old baby who were killed in a road accident in South Africa have been repatriated for burial after the police successfully conducted DNA profiling. ...Published: 04 Apr 2016 at 06:47hrs | | by Thupeyo Muleya
3 SA crash victims repatriated
Three Zimbabweans, including an eight-month-old baby who were killed in a road accident along the R101 Highway near Mokopane town in South Africa's Limpopo Province, have been repatriated for burial a...Published: 31 Mar 2016 at 00:09hrs | 1 | by Thupeyo Muleya
'Road Accident Fund in the pipeline'
Government plans to introduce a Road Accident Fund aimed at assisting victims of road carnage that continue to claim lives, a Cabinet minister has said.Transport and Infrastructural Developmen...Published: 10 Mar 2016 at 05:37hrs | | by Zvamaida Murwira
SA horrific accident victims named
THE Zimbabwe Consulate in South Africa has released the names of Zaoga band members based in South Africa who were killed in a road accident in Pretoria on Thursday morning. Moments of Praise ...Published: 22 Aug 2015 at 09:54hrs | | by Thupeyo Muleya
Zimbabwean family has no bad feelings towards Zuma
Johannesburg - The family of Phumzile Dube, a 30-year-old Zimbabwean national who was killed when a taxi she was travelling collided with Zuma's sports car, said on Thursday they do not harbour bad fe...Published: 11 Dec 2014 at 15:38hrs | 1 | by Sapa
Mugabes' fight over Hong Kong mansion to open Pandora's Box
THE feud between Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's family and its erstwhile South African business partner Hsieh Ping Sung (also known as Jack Ping) is set to intensify as the tycoon pulls out all ...Published: 07 Feb 2014 at 10:08hrs | 1 | by Herbert Moyo
VID wants driving curriculum in schools
The Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) wants government to introduce a driving curriculum in schools.Appearing before the portfolio committee on Transport and Infrastructural Development on ...Published: 06 Feb 2014 at 10:45hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
15 vapositori perish in crash
FIFTEEN church members of the Johanne Masowe weChishanu branch in South Africa died on the spot after their car collided head-on with a bus along the R510 highway in Rusternburg in that country on Su...Published: 06 Jul 2013 at 04:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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