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Matebeleland's neglected roads in a state of disrepair

The road network in Matebeleland has sharply deteriorated following recent rains, raising safety concerns for motorists, particularly as the festive season approaches. Opposition figures and development practitioners have blamed poor maint…

Published: 22 Nov 2025 at 12:35hrs | | by Staff reporter

Are Zimbabwe roads safe?

It is, indeed, the silly season, so silly that even the simplest of promises are used to secure votes.In this episode, some politicians have promised to "drive" their way to victory.Forget about dishing out broiler day old chicks, forget a…

Published: 01 Apr 2023 at 06:34hrs | | by Jairos Saunyama

MDC August holiday road safety message to Zimbabwe

Fellow Zimbabweans, it is again the month of August, a month associated with high accident incidences on our highways.The month has seen record high fatalities in the previous years and the MDC is concerned by such a trend. August is a mon…

Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 16:26hrs | | by Settlement Chikwinya

Use of bicycles and decongestion of the CBD

Recently the new Minister of Energy suggested that the use of bicycles could alleviate the fuel shortage in the country. But the fact is that the use of bicycles is another venture of going-back-to-the-future in that most suburbs, both low…

Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 08:22hrs | | by Eng Bernard Musarurwa

Masiiwa Ragies Gunda, At the Crossroads: A Call to Christians to Act in Faith for an Alternative Zimbabwe

(University of Bamberg Press, 2018, pp. 113) Masiiwa Ragies Gunda's book is timely as the â€˜Zimbabwe crisis' is traced from 1997 to 2018. Although the backdrop of the 1997 period saw Zimbabwe entering into an unending crisis, Gunda begins…

Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 10:19hrs | | by Brian Maregedze

Chamisa's dangerous post-fact politics

Has anyone ever stopped to ask themselves why Nelson Chamisa lies, is caught out and does not backtrack or apologise or retract but will repeat his lie or totally ignore the fact that he lied?Is he just an unrepentant compulsive liar or th…

Published: 08 May 2018 at 06:15hrs | | by Nick Mangwana

Zimbabweans are enablers and are to blame for Mugabe thinking Zimbabwe is 2nd most developed country in Africa

It is easy to blame our 93-year-old president for all the things that go wrong in the country but I think it is high time we look at ourselves in the mirror and see exactly what we really are, enablers.When Mugabe says 'the Zimbabwe he kno…

Published: 02 Jun 2017 at 13:54hrs | 418 | by Nomalizwe Mbulu

Concrete roads, the concrete solution

Zimbabwe has lost thousands of breadwinners on its highways leaving orphans whose path of life will be left to the hands of fate. Together with poor driving, the poor state of the roads is a cause for alarm. Losses incurred on the roads al…

Published: 14 Mar 2017 at 12:56hrs | | by Chigumbu Warikandwa

ZAPU secretary for transport challenges Zanu-PF and Joram Gumbo

ZAPU as a national party through its secretary for transport challenges Zanu and its minister of transport and infrastructure Joram Gumbo.Zanu is accused of failing to govern resulting to underdevelopment and poor infrastructure countrywid…

Published: 10 Jan 2017 at 20:49hrs | 445 | by Patrick Matsinhanise ZAPU secretary for transport.

Why we will continue to die on our roads

South Africa  ranks among African countries with the highest rates of death arising from road accidents and this despite the fact that the African continent is one of the least motorised regions in the world. In a Global status report…

Published: 18 Mar 2013 at 11:51hrs | 6199 | by Velempini Ndlovu

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