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Cop shot, 59 robbed in bus raid
A POLICE officer was shot and injured while 59 other passengers aboard a Smart Express bus lost money and other valuables after a raid by six armed robbers in Beitbridge yesterday.The incident...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 06:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Horror accident driver jailed
THE reckless Smart Express bus driver who negligently caused the horrific Rusape Bus Disaster that claimed 46 lives following a head-on collision with a Bolt Cutter bus along the Mutare-Harare Highway...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 07:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
2 long-distance bus robbers arrested
POLICE in Beitbridge have arrested two suspected armed robbers believed to be part of a five-man gang linked to a spate of robberies targeting long-distance and cross-border buses.In one of th...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Defensive driving training should be made compulsory
Official statistics show that most of the traffic road accidents recorded in Zimbabwe have been due to human error.Despite commendable efforts by various players including the Vehicle Inspecti...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 17:54hrs | 4 | by Jeffrey Muvundusi
Bus robber arrested
One of two armed robbers who killed a woman and injured three other passengers when they attacked a Beitbridge-bound bus has been arrested.The duo robbed passengers of cash and other valuables...Published: 29 Dec 2018 at 18:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Black November
In Zimbabwe, the month of November is revered by most cultures and in traditionally considered as a sacred month.So scared is the month that traditional rituals and rain making ceremonies are ...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 10:49hrs | 3 | by staff reporter
Smart Express driver locked up
THE Smart Express bus driver who fled the scene of the accident that killed 46 people – 45 of them on the spot – and later handed himself to police was on Monday denied bail by a Rusape magistrate...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 08:34hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Smart Express owner speaks on juju use
STRONG talk doing rounds in the public sphere via social media claim that the recent spate of accidents involving Smart Express buses was a result of black magic or juju, which has now turned sour....Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 07:59hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Passerby killed as cars collide
FIVE people were injured yesterday when a Bulawayo-bound Extra City Bus from Victoria Falls veered off the road and overturned while a pedestrian died in Bulawayo when two cars collided at an intersec...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 17:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Survivors recall harrowing horror crash
SURVIVORS of the fatal accident involving Smart Express and Bolt Cutter buses — which killed 50 people — at the weekend recalled the harrowing experiences of the horror night and said the memories...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 05:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Most accidents attributed to human error, speeding'
THE newly-refurbished Plumtree-Mutare Highway has become Zimbabwe's deadliest road, with Wednesday's Rusape bus disaster, which claimed 50 lives being one of the many fatalities along the road....Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 11:09hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Horror accident driver surrenders to police
THE Smart Express bus driver who fled the scene after the Rusape accident that claimed 46 lives on Wednesday evening has handed himself over to Rusape traffic police. Manicaland provincial pol...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 18:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rusape bus crash declared a national disaster
Government has declared a state of national disaster an accident in which 46 people were killed when two buses side-swapped at the 166-kilometre peg along Harare-Mutare highway on Wednesday evening. ...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 05:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police hunt for horror crash driver
POLICE have launched a manhunt for the Smart Express bus driver, Cosmas Marembo, who fled together with his conductor soon after surviving the horrific bus accident that killed 47 people yesterday eve...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 17:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC mourns bus disaster victims
Opposition Movement for Democratic Change has issued a condolence message to the victims of the bus crash that occurred on Tuesday evening.Forty seven people, 45 adults and two children, were ...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 10:31hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
47 dead, death toll expected to rise
At least 47 people died yesterday evening in an accident involving two buses that occurred at the 166-kilometre peg along the Harare-Mutare Highway. The accident that involved Bolt Cutter and Smart Ex...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 05:36hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
47 die in Zimbabwe horror crash
At least 47 people have perished in a horror crash involving Smart Express and Bolt Cutter buses near Rusape tollgate this evening.Reports indicate that the buses had a head-on collision....Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 19:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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