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Gwanda miners disarm police to release friend
SIX miners, among them a woman, have been arrested for allegedly attacking three police officers and damaging a vehicle they were using in protest to the arrest of their workmate.Tawanda Msima...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:12hrs | 404 | by Staff reporter
More funds for Beitbridge-Harare Highway
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) is working on a supplementary budget for road authorities following the recent increase in tariffs, board chairman Engineer Michael Madanha has said....Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:16hrs | 321 | by Staff reporter
Robbers arrested after warning shots
FOUR suspected armed robbers believed to be part of a gang that was targeting people after offering them a lift, have been arrested in Harare following a high speed chase with police officers....Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 17:47hrs | 2891 | by Staff reporter
Toll, vehicle licence fees up
The Zimbabwe National Road Administration has increased toll fees with immediate effect. Light vehicles now pay $45 to go through a toll and $750 quarterly licence fees. The changes we...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:02hrs | 2068 | by Staff reporter
Zinara introduces digital vehicle licensing
The Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) has digitised vehicle licensing and motorists can now renew their discs in the comfort of their homes as the administration moves to bring convenienc...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 06:53hrs | 1769 | by Staff reporter
Roadblocks, tollgates should have bins: EMA
GOVERNMENT environmental overseer, the Environmental Management Agency (EMA) has said all roadblocks and toll stations should have bins to dispose of used personal protective equipment in light of the...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 08:32hrs | 588 | by Staff reporter
Toll fees to go up
MOTORISTS are set to be hit with new tollgate fees as government seeks to keep the charges at par with the United States dollar.Transport and Infrastructural Development minister Joel Biggie M...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 09:33hrs | 1783 | by Staff reporter
2 cops arrested
Detectives on Wednesday night fired warning shots to arrest a policeman and a member of a Harare neighbourhood watch suspected to be part of a group of rogue officers demanding bribes from truck drive...Published: 30 May 2020 at 09:11hrs | 1016 | by Staff reporter
Sikhosana was unhappy with the new dispensation
Revelations emerging following the death of Zanu PF Acting Bulawayo Chairman Absolom Sikhosana who was declared a national hero and buried in Harare is that he was confused and unhappy with the ...Published: 22 May 2020 at 11:39hrs | 2920 | by Stephen Jakes
'Absalom Sikhosana died a bitter man'
The late ZANU PF Politiburo member Absalom Sikhosana died a disappointment man due to the developments that took place in the ruling ZANU PF party since the bloody coup that ended 37 years of Presiden...Published: 19 May 2020 at 13:24hrs | 4031 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Harare-Beitbridge Highway to be complete by 2023
GOVERNMENT says it will engage more contractors to speed up the rehabilitation and widening of the Beitbridge- Harare highway which is currently underway with five contractors working on different sec...Published: 12 May 2020 at 17:20hrs | 4158 | by Staff reporter
If its about mathematics let's meet at Chinehasha High School
Mathematics can be very annoying, unsettling and unrelenting. Maths as a subject has caused many wrinkles to many otherwise youthful high school students. A few resorting to bunking lessons to...Published: 30 Apr 2020 at 14:07hrs | 494 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Beitbridge police arrest spike-throwing robbers
BEITBRIDGE police on Tuesday night nabbed a gang of youths which was throwing spikes along the Beitbridge-Bulawayo Highway and robbing motorists.The four-member gang missed a smaller vehicle a...Published: 30 Apr 2020 at 07:32hrs | 2246 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi mourns 40 years of Shona rule
Zimbabwe/ Mashonaland to be precise, is today the 18th of April 2020 celebrating its so-called 40 years of Independence.As they celebrate their forgeries of independence, it is not yet Uhuru f...Published: 18 Apr 2020 at 10:48hrs | 1814 | by Mqondisi Moyo
Police disperse macimbi harvesters
POLICE in Gwanda District have dispersed macimbi (mopane worm) harvesters who had flocked to the area despite the prevailing 21-day lockdown. Scores of people from different areas had flocked ...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 07:42hrs | 662 | by Staff reporter
Judge's vehicle attacked
Justice Garainesu Mawadze, the Resident Judge at the High Court in Masvingo had a windscreen to his official Discovery 4 smashed with an unknown object as he travelled with his sister from his farm in...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 08:46hrs | 1340 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City team doctor cheats death
BULAWAYO City Football Club team doctor Mkhokheli Nyala cheated death by a whisker on Saturday night when the car he was traveling in overturned four times just before the Fairbridge tollgate along Bu...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 08:42hrs | 1262 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa should stand up to war veterans
ZIMBABWE'S war veterans have demanded high government office posts and want legislators in both the National Assembly and Senate to sing the national anthem before the beginning of each parliamentary ...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 20:41hrs | 435 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa should stand up to war veterans
WAR veterans in Zimbabwe have become synonymous with making outrageous demands as if the execution of the liberation war was exclusive to them, and that is unacceptable.While Zimbabweans appre...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 20:41hrs | 216 | by Staff reporter
Motorists use Mnangagwa rally as password for tollgate free entry
MPresident Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent visit to Gutu saw the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) losing thousands of dollars in a single day as hundreds of vehicles were given free passage ...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 00:09hrs | 2968 | by Staff reporter
Massive leaks at tollgates
The Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) plans to collect $1,275 billion this year from tollgates, vehicle licensing, road transit fees, overload fees and fuel levy after the new management...Published: 12 Mar 2020 at 23:57hrs | 2083 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU mobilises for national shutdown
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) is moving across the country mobilising for a national shutdown to pressure President Emmerson Mnangagwa to address the deteriorating economic situation in...Published: 05 Mar 2020 at 05:51hrs | 4778 | by Staff reporter
Bus loses control over a heated argument
A Harare bound Zebra kiss bus overturned near Mutare tollgate last night after the driver and one passenger had a heated argument.According to witnesses the bus was heading to Harare when a fe...Published: 03 Mar 2020 at 07:46hrs | 3071 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Govt bleeding us, says ZBC
STATE broadcaster, Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) yesterday told Parliament that government's numerous programmes were draining its coffers, resulting in the current financial crisis....Published: 29 Feb 2020 at 07:41hrs | 1647 | by Staff reporter
Lupane passport office under probe
GOVERNMENT has ordered a probe into issuance of passports at the Lupane registry office in Matabeleland North province following reports of underhand dealings and alleged victimisation of whistleblowe...Published: 29 Feb 2020 at 07:35hrs | 1091 | by Staff reporter
27 passengers robbed at gunpoint
TWENTY-SEVEN passengers aboard an MB Transport bus heading for Beitbridge were early yesterday robbed of money and valuables worth thousands of dollars by three gunmen, some 20 kilometres before the b...Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 08:25hrs | 987 | by Staff reporter
Soul Jah Luv survives accident
Zimdancehall star Soul Jah Luv was involved in a road traffic accident over the weekend while on his way to a show in Kwekwe. His manager, Kudzanai Ruwizhi, otherwise known as Selekta Junk, co...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 06:03hrs | 535 | by Staff reporter
SA firm eyes Intertoll Zimbabwe
A South African firm, Mabentu Consortium, is making moves to take over Group Five subsidiary Intertoll Zimbabwe, which runs tollgates on the Plumtree- Mutare highway.According to insiders, in ...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:43hrs | 714 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo court deports 21 Ugandans
A Bulawayo court has ordered the deportation of 21 Ugandan nationals who were convicted for illegally entering into the country.Magistrate Tinashe Tashaya convicted the Ugandans and sent...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 13:41hrs | 1044 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Malayitshas and others to pay more in toll fees to drive from Joburg to Beitbridge and back
South Africa's Minister of Transport Fikile Mbalula has gazetted the new toll tariffs for 2020. The gazette outlines the fees for toll roads across the country which are set to come into effect on 1 M...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 07:39hrs | 3897 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's game of fools to deceive the downtrodden
THIS week, two leaders of the Zanu-PF youth league were seen in public ranting against corruption. These were sights reminiscent of youths high on "bronco", shouting at their own reflections in the lo...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 21:12hrs | 465 | by Muckraker
We are forever indebted to war veterans, but .....
FOR all the troubles Zimbabwe is currently experiencing, it is quite difficult if not disheartening that we have a section of our misery-weary society who are busy haggling over being compensated for ...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 06:06hrs | 427 | by Staff reporter
War vets demand separation from collaborators
WAR veterans have demanded that government creates their own ministry separate from the war collaborators and ex-political detainees, indicating that there should be a difference between freedom fight...Published: 03 Feb 2020 at 08:23hrs | 1747 | by Staff reporter
'Police cover up cop shooting of man'
Beitbridge rural police have been accused of covering up for a colleague who stands accused of shooting a minibus staff member in an alleged violent demand for a bribe.Ushe Tasara was shot on ...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:25hrs | 736 | by Staff reporter
Zinara in staff clear out
A substantive chief executive officer for the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) will start work on April 1 as the face of a new executive that took over from the previous scandal-plagued ...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:09hrs | 155 | by Staff reporter
Zinara boss fired
Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) tolling manager Mr Ostern Chimedza has been fired for presiding over financial leakages at tollgates running into millions of dollars. His dismissal com...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:02hrs | 49 | by Staff reporter
Zinara boss fired
Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) tolling manager Mr Ostern Chimedza has been fired for presiding over financial leakages at tollgates running into millions of dollars. His dismi...Published: 25 Jan 2020 at 20:02hrs | 1287 | by Staff Reporter
Zinara fires 96 cashiers
THE Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) has terminated contracts for nearly 100 cashiers, a move which the authorities say was meant to plug leakages at tollgates.Zinara acting chi...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 13:14hrs | 2394 | by Staff reporter
Govt mulls Telecel debt equity swap
TELECEL International (TI), a State-owned vehicle which owns 60 percent of Telecel Zimbabwe (TZ), is considering converting the US$90 million debt owed by the mobile network operator into equity, a mo...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:31hrs | 195 | by Staff rpeorter
'Telecel on the brink of collapse'
WORKERS at mobile network operator Telecel Zimbabwe have raised a red flag over the state of affairs at the company, saying it faces imminent collapse unless government urgently intervenes to rescue t...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 06:27hrs | 1603 | by Staff reporter
Firms tussle over control of Zimbabwe tollgates company
The Zimbabwe National Road Administration (ZINARA) and Mabentu Consortium of South Africa are headed for a major tussle over the control of Group Five's stake in Infralink, a special vehicle, created ...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 05:57hrs | 170 | by Staff rpeorter
6 vie for Zinara top post
Six candidates have been interviewed to fill the vacant chief executive officer post at the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara).The post fell vacant following the resignation of act...Published: 19 Dec 2019 at 05:11hrs | 1011 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers hit Zim bound Intercape bus
Armed robbers pounced on a Zimbabwe bound Intercape bus in Limpopo, South Africa and got away with money, cell phones and jewellery, South African police ...Published: 17 Dec 2019 at 18:47hrs | 6282 | by Staff Reporter
Auxillia Mnangagwa spearheads road safety campaign
The First Lady, Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa has urged motorists and passengers to ensure safety on the road this festive season to reduce carnage as she marked the beginning of the festive season road tra...Published: 16 Dec 2019 at 12:14hrs | 1207 | by Staff Reporter
Horror crash on road to Johannesburg
FIVE ZIMBABWEANS, including two children died when a Johannesburg-bound cross border Toyota Quantum collided with a Ford Fiesta along the N1 Highway near Musina, Limpopo Province in South Africa. ...Published: 09 Dec 2019 at 06:55hrs | 971 | by Staff reporter
Zinara boss resignation raises eyebrows
The Zimbabwe National Road Authority (Zinara)'s acting chief executive officer Saston Muzenda resigned recently amid reports that operations at the troubled parastatal have been affected by interferen...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 14:29hrs | 1644 | by Staff reporter
Zimra moves to block smuggled vehicles
Zimra has intensified its crackdown on smuggled vehicles by blocking the cars in the system with a view to recover them. Last month, Zimra released a list of 433 vehicles detailing registratio...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 07:28hrs | 1604 | by Staff reporter
MDC in Harare turning into Mthuli cousins
DIFFERENTIATING Zanu-PF and the MDC led by Nelson Chamisa is not an easy thing, particularly for people who are not swayed by political rhetoric, and rally optics, but those who slowly and methodicall...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 09:22hrs | 2348 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Zimra recovers 81 smuggled vehicles
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has recovered 81 of the 433 smuggled vehicles, of which 51 have since been cleared.In an interview on Monday, Zimra spokesperson Francis Chimanda said: "...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 06:53hrs | 979 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe war vets now want own bank
WAR veterans now want government to establish a bank for them and build a specialised hospital to exclusively treat the over 25 000 remaining former liberation war fighters.The issue was revea...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:40hrs | 206 | by Staff reporter
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