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Sadza eater sentenced for attempting to smuggle stolen Toyota
The Mokopane Regional Court has imposed six years of direct imprisonment against a 37-year-old Zimbabwean man, Joseph Kungwengwe, after he was found in possession of a stolen vehicle, a Toyota Corolla...Published: 01 Jul 2025 at 08:24hrs | 7647 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean truck driver dies in horrific crash in South Africa
A tragic accident occurred on Friday at the Marrianhill Toll Plaza on the N3 Durban in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, when a Zimbabwean truck driver lost his life after crashing into six trucks and five...Published: 14 Dec 2024 at 13:04hrs | 730 | by Staff reporter
$24 million lost as vehicles evade licence and tollgate fees
The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Transport and Infrastructural Development has revealed that the Zimbabwean government loses an estimated $24 million in potential revenue each year due to at l...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 09:32hrs | 174 | by Staff reporter
South Africans jailed after being caught driving stolen Toyota to Zimbabwe
Two suspects, Simphiwe Dhladhla, 32, and Siphiwe Sigasa, 31, were remanded in custody after appearing in court for possession of a stolen Toyota Fortuner and a Toyota Hilux GD-6 bakkie.The duo...Published: 27 Jun 2024 at 07:06hrs | 39 | by Staff reporter
6 years later, Harare-Beitbridge Highway 108km away from completion
The Ministry of Transport says construction of the 580-kilometre Harare-Beitbridge Highway - a critical transportation and trade route linking Zimbabwe to South Africa down south and a gateway into th...Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 19:03hrs | 223 | by Staff reporter
Zinara to roll out expensive e-tolling system
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) will begin rolling out e-tolling before the end of the year to improve efficiency, motorists' convenience and reduce operational costs.E-toll...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 04:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
3 vehicles stolen in Gauteng intercepted at Beitbridge border post
Four suspected criminals, aged between 28 and 64, have been arrested as Limpopo police recovered three stolen vehicles at the Beitbridge port of entry which separates South Africa and Zimbabwe....Published: 10 Feb 2024 at 10:28hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Man in court for foiled bid to smuggle Toyota Hilux stolen from SA to Zimbabwe via Beitbridge
A 33-year-old man, Vincente Sebastiao "Deco" Khoza, has appeared before the Modjadjiskloof Periodical Court after he was arrested by the Musina-based Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, also...Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 06:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt neglects Matebeleland roads, to focus on other regions
The last gaps in the Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge highway are the primary target on the Government's infrastructure programme this year, while the modernisation of Forbes and Nyamapanda border posts is ...Published: 08 Jan 2024 at 05:30hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Plans to relocate tollgates at advanced stage
THE Skyline Tollgate will soon be moved to the 36km peg along the Harare-Masvingo Road, moving it outside the present urban conglomeration, while the new Shamva tollgate which was last month moved fro...Published: 29 Nov 2023 at 05:04hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Harare-Beitbridge highway 80% complete
THE rehabilitation of the Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge Highway is about 80 percent complete with 470km out of the total 580km of the road now opened to traffic, a move which has been hailed by motorists...Published: 14 Nov 2023 at 04:46hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Harare-Beitbridge road nears completion
The rehabilitation of the Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge highway is on the brink of completion, with 465 kilometers now accessible to traffic. In addition, approximately 3 kilometers of dualized road were...Published: 24 Oct 2023 at 05:56hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean cigarette smuggler, SA police in shootout
A 28-YEAR-OLD Zimbabwean was nabbed in Musina, South Africa, following a shootout with police on Sunday after attempting to smuggle local cigarettes worth ZAR348 000 to the neighbouring country....Published: 31 Aug 2023 at 06:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Harare - Beitbridge highway nears completion
THE rehabilitation of the Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge highway is near completion with 435km now open to traffic, as the start of work on the upgrade of the 342km Harare-Chirundu Highway has also reache...Published: 31 May 2023 at 06:58hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Chivhu bypass complete
National and international traffic no longer has to inch through Chivhu town centre, and the residents no longer have to fear for their lives every time they cross their main street, with the new 2,6k...Published: 03 Mar 2023 at 06:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean truck driver arrested for possession of stolen property in SA
Vigilant police conducting stop and searches have on Monday, 16 January 2023 around 03:45, nabbed a Zimbabwean tanker driver aged 47, employed by a trucking company. He was arrested for posses...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers gun down two passengers of Zimbabwe bound bus in South Africa
Two passengers of a Harare bound bus in South Africa were shot dead by armed robbers this Thursday with the third critically wounded in a sad highlight on the neighbouring country's violent crime situ...Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 24 500km road network to be revamped by 2025
THIS week Zimbabwe Independent (ZI) business reporter, Freeman Makopa caught up with Transport and Infrastructural Development minister Felix Mhona (FM) to discuss updates in the progress of crucial i...Published: 09 Dec 2022 at 17:55hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
354km of Harare-Beitbridge road opened to traffic
SIGNIFICANT progress has been made in the ongoing rehabilitation of the Harare-Beitbridge Road that was once a death trap but is now turning into a modern road under the watch of the Second Republic....Published: 03 Nov 2022 at 05:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe infrastructure upgrades to boost revenue performance
GOVERNMENT expects the on-going infrastructural development projects, particularly the upgrading of major highways, to impact positively on revenue performance through improved transport and logistics...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 06:34hrs | 6 | 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 | 3 | 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 | 2 | 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 | 4 | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
$7 billion to upgrade tollgates infrastructure
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) has set aside $7 billion for the upgrading of all tollgates across the country as part of efforts to plug revenue leakages and improve efficiency....Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zinara disburses $3,2bn for road rehab
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) has started disbursing funds to road authorities to facilitate the ongoing countrywide road rehabilitation programme, with $3,2 billion having been d...Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zinara to disburse $16bn
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) will this year disburse $16 billion to road authorities to facilitate the ongoing countrywide road rehabilitation programme. This figure is an increa...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 07:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints 3 more Zinara board members
President Mnangagwa has appointed three more people to the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) board to improve efficiency and services to the people under the Second Republic.The t...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Haulage truck crashes Esigodini Tollgate
THE Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) was on Sunday forced to temporarily suspend toll fees collection after a haulage truck crashed Esigodini tollgate injuring two employees.The...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:49hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
SA truckers block roads in protest over foreigners
The failure by the South African government to provide feedback on November 3 to small truck operators regarding the employment of foreign drivers resulted in the blockade of the N3 highway near Van R...Published: 04 Dec 2021 at 07:15hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers resurface with aid of spikes along N1
South African police have intensified patrols along the N1 highway in Limpopo province, where armed robbers are using spikes to pounce on motorists. The N1 highway is major commercial road tha...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 17:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Villagers renew push for tollgate relocation
VILLAGERS in the Dema area of Seke district have renewed their efforts to have the Dema tollgate relocated as it is economically affecting their lives.The tollgate, located along Chitungwiza-W...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 08:09hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
US$250m bond for Harare Beitbridge road
An infrastructure bond issue for US$250 million will be floated to finance the rehabilitation and new construction of the 584km Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge highway from the flyover replacing Mbudzi rou...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 06:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
$1 billion boost for tolling infrastructure
More than $1 billion will be pumped into the upgrading of seven toll plazas by the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) to ensure efficiency. The seven tollgates slated for upgrade a...Published: 08 Feb 2021 at 05:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zinara eyes switch to electronic tolling
THE Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) wants to switch from manual collection of toll fees to an electronic tolling collection (ETC) method that allows vehicles to pass through a toll gat...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zinara to introduce e-tolling
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) is working on introducing an e-tolling system that will ease congestion at some tollgates that has resulted in delays for motorists.During th...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 06:46hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zinara sets aside $1,1bn for new tollgates
Government, through Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara), has set aside $1,1 billion towards the construction of standard tollgates across the country. Long queues, moving at a snail...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge highway project scores 100km milestone
Government has completed rehabilitating and upgrading the first 100 kilometres of the 584km long Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge highway. When complete, the highway which will have eight toll plazas, will ...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 05:53hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
5 more contractors for road dualisation
Government has contracted five more companies to undertake the Harare-Beitbridge highway rehabilitation and its subsequent dualisation, Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Joel Biggie M...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Xenophobic scare targets foreign truck drivers in South Africa
Foreign trucks travelling through South Africa will not be allowed to move within the Southern African country on the 2nd of September due to a mass strike that will be taking place in the transportat...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 10:32hrs | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
5 contractors for Harare-Chirundu dualisation
GOVERNMENT has completed the selection process of five contractors to undertake the Harare-Chirundu highway rehabilitation and its subsequent dualisation, with road surveys already under way.T...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Revisiting the Beitbridge-Harare highway
The state of the Beitbridge-Harare (A4) Highway is now a cause for concern as the number of human fatalities grows by each day due to deadly accidents in the narrow strip that links Zimbabwe and South...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 08:06hrs | | by Victor Bhoroma
23 toll-gate staffers dismissed for fraud in three months
A company managing part of the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara)'s toll-gate network has dismissed some 23 workers on charges of fraud in the last three months, Parliament has heard....Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 06:38hrs | 2 | by newzimbabwe
The ZCTU should choose between labour and politics
A few days before the violent and ruinous protests of 14 to 16 January this year in the main cities of Harare, Bulawayo and Mutare, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president, Peter Mutasa...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 13:13hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Stay away: A manifestation of the MDC's violence DNA
The MDC Alliance and the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU)'s so called protest stay away ostensibly meant to register disquiet over the ongoing economic challenges paradoxically turned out to b...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 13:26hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Intertoll transfers 72 tollgate employees
Intertoll Zimbabwe, a company contracted to collect toll fees on behalf of the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) from the nine tollgates it operates on the rehabilitated Plumtree-Mutare h...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 09:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa locked out by his ministers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has accused his Cabinet ministers of shielding him away from critical developments happening in the country.Mnangagwa made the remarks during a tour of Univern Ent...Published: 05 Mar 2018 at 06:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
$206m highway crumbles before commissioning
THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Transport and Infrastructural Development has instituted an inquiry to ascertain the state and standard of the 800-kilometre Plumtree-Mutare Highway after comp...Published: 04 Mar 2018 at 17:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zinara apologises for long queues
Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) has apologised for unusually long queues at Norton toll plaza due to the use of cashless payment methods."Zinara and its partners have developed ...Published: 08 Dec 2017 at 12:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Audit unearths rot at Zinara
AN internal forensic audit on the operations of the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) has exposed massive financial abuse, including the payment of $71 million and R31 million to contract...Published: 06 Oct 2017 at 06:35hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
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