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Zinara gets thumbs-up
The Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) has received parliamentary approval after effectively addressing concerns raised in the latest report by Auditor-General Rheah Kujinga regarding its...Published: 2 hrs ago | 63 | by Staff reporter
CCtv cameras in Bulawayo to help police fight crime
In a significant move to enhance security and combat crime, Bulawayo has officially launched a closed circuit television (CCTV) system that incorporates advanced technology and artificial intelligence...Published: 05 Oct 2024 at 13:15hrs | 772 | by Staff reporter
Zinara tollgate fees exemption clarified
The Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) has clarified the criteria for tollgate fee exemptions, specifying that only government vehicles and those assigned to traditional chiefs are ex...Published: 05 Sep 2024 at 07:11hrs | 2726 | by Staff reporter
Zinara announces a 25% discount to Harare residents only
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) is giving a 25 percent discount for light vehicle license fees during the Zimbabwe Agricultural Show week.Light motor vehicles are of up to 2...Published: 28 Aug 2024 at 15:45hrs | 1875 | by Staff reporter
Govt blitz as traders dump Zimdollar
THE Consumer Protection Commission together with the police and the Financial Intelligence Unit has launched a blitz on businesses refusing to accept the Zimdollar following the launch of a new curren...Published: 09 Apr 2024 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's new currency chaos
ZIMBABWEAN consumers were yesterday left stranded after businesses suspended trading using the Zimbabwe dollar following the introduction of a new currency on Friday.Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Zinara to upgrade top six tollgates
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) is upgrading six priority toll gates to plaza status in a bid to boost revenue collection and enhance the safety of motorists and staff....Published: 06 Apr 2024 at 10:48hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Parly challenges Zinara vendors
PARLIAMENT has challenged the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) to pilot its e-tolling project with current vendors providing software and hardware systems at its tollgates before year en...Published: 05 Apr 2024 at 06:01hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mbudzi interchange now 61% complete
LEGISLATORS yesterday toured the US$88 million Mbudzi Interchange project in Harare which is now 61 percent complete.The 31 legislators from the Portfolio Committee on Transport and Infrastructura...Published: 05 Apr 2024 at 05:56hrs | 1 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Zinara pleads with Zanu-PF over toll fees
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) has pleaded with ordinary and senior Zanu-PF officials to stop abusing tollgates amid concerns that its activists are refusing to pay passage fees....Published: 05 Feb 2024 at 04:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
No additional tollgates on Zimbabwe's premium roads
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) has dismissed claims that additional tollgates were being established along the country's premium roads.Users of social media platforms have ...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 04:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zinara clarifies motorists' queries on tollgates
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) has dismissed claims that additional tollgates were being established along the country's premium roads.Users of social media platforms have ...Published: 21 Jan 2024 at 17:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Toll fees hike stalls Zimbabwe's domestic tourism'
TOURISM minister Barbara Rwodzi has admitted that the recent toll fees hike has negatively impacted domestic tourism.Government early this month increased toll fees by 100% despite protest fro...Published: 15 Jan 2024 at 05:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's taxes kick in
Zimbabweans will begin a new year tomorrow faced with a basket of new taxes, levies and fees that will push up the cost of living for many that are already struggling to make ends meet.Finance...Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 13:00hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube forced to revise passport fees
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube steered through his 2024 national budget in a marathon sitting of parliament which concluded just before 1AM on Friday, making several revisions to his tax proposals....Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 15:47hrs | 5 | 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 | 8 | by Staff reporter
Horror crash exposes parlous state of Matebeleland roads
The Bulawayo City Council has completed a sewer and water sanitation rehabilitation project funded through an African Development Bank AfDB US$33,6 million grant.Council is considering approac...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 05:33hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF should decisively deal with bad apples
The Zanu-PF leadership has taken steps to curb the abuse of power and privileges by some of its members. During the party's recent annual conference in Gweru, Zanu-PF Chairperson Oppah Muchinguri-Kash...Published: 31 Oct 2023 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tobacco smuggling between Zimbabwe - SA now security threat
SOUTH Africa is drowning in illicit cigarette smuggling which has seen the neighbouring country losing at least R50 million (US$2.6 million) daily in potential revenue from well-coordinated syndicates...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 13:49hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Car-smuggling syndicate arrested
A syndicate of suspected fraudsters who allegedly smuggled high end vehicles into the country and evade paying toll gates has been nabbed, with five of the suspects appearing in court this Tuesday....Published: 04 Oct 2023 at 09:28hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Disband Zinara, demands Zapu candidate
ZAPU candidate for Lupane East, Mthenjwa Gumbo, has demanded that the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) be disbanded due to its failure to rehabilitate national roads, especially in the M...Published: 21 Aug 2023 at 06:35hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zinara loses US$150 000 in tollgate scam
THREE Zimbabwe Road Administration (Zinara) employees and their alleged accomplice, a technician with a local company, appeared in court yesterday on allegations of fraud involving US$150 000....Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 06:30hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's land reform created roads funding gap
GOVERNMENT says the land reform programme resulted in public roads adjacent to farms being neglected as the invaders opened new roads to the properties.Transport and Infrastructural Developmen...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 06:43hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zinara suspends employees over fraud
The Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) says it has suspended nine employees deployed at various tollgates for fraudulent activities.In an internal communique from the risk and loss...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube out of touch with reality
The Finance Minister Muthuli Ncube has forgetten what he was really appointed for and needs somemone to spell out his duties.The Finance Minister is now behaving more like a politician than a ...Published: 30 May 2023 at 09:36hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Local varsity pioneers road tolling system
Vehicles will spend just seven seconds going through a Zimbabwe tollgate once a new express tolling system developed by Bindura University of Science Education to Zinara specifications, which is alrea...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 05:22hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Chivhu bypass complete
National and international traffic no longer has to inch through Chivhu town centre, and the residents no longer have to fear for their lives every time they cross their main street, with the new 2,6k...Published: 03 Mar 2023 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man arrested for erecting illegal 'tollgate' in Zimbabwe
A Mutare man, Padina Dzumbira, who created an illegal by-pass on his farm opposite the 22 Miles tollgate has appeared in court facing charges of contravening sections of the law governing tollgates....Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 07:02hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zinara hikes Z$ toll fees
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) has hiked toll fees in local currency with effect from February 1, 2023.In a statement yesterday, Zinara said the toll fees in local currency...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 08:27hrs | | 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 | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Selfish' CCC MPs defend US$40,000 loans
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Members of Parliament yesterday said there was nothing wrong in them accepting the US$40 000 housing loans despite criticism by their leader Nelson Chami...Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 05:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Why CCC MPs defied Chamisa and took the US$40,000 loan
ON Tuesday 6 December 2022 the Citizens Coalition for Change Parliamentary Caucus converged in Harare where among other things they discussed critical national issues affecting the citizens of Zimbabw...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 19:17hrs | | by Prosper Mutseyami
NetOne loses $16m to Zinara cashier
A ZIMBABWE National Road Administration (Zinara) tollgate cashier appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court yesterday facing a $16 million theft charge involving point-of sale machines.Tongai C...Published: 27 Nov 2022 at 14:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'40% Zimbabwean cars uninsured'
At least 40 percent of cars on Zimbabwe's roads do not have insurance cover, the Insurance Council of Zimbabwe (ICZ) has said.ICZ spokesperson Ringisai Batiya said this has affected victims of...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tollgate upgrades programme underway
GOVERNMENT has said plans are underway to upgrade all toll-gates across the country and making them uniform in line with the modern standard set on those along the Plumtree-Mutare Highway.Tran...Published: 26 Oct 2022 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zinara hikes toll gate fees again
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) has with effect from today slightly increased tolling fees in local currency but they remain unchanged in foreign currency.According to the n...Published: 14 Oct 2022 at 05:49hrs | | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Zinara tightens screws on unlicensed vehicles
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) says it will bar all vehicles without valid licence discs from passing through tollgates.In a statement, Zinara said this would be implemente...Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zinara to block toll gate passage of vehicles without Licence disks
Zimbabwe National Road Administration (ZINARA) has announced that vehicles without valid licence discs will not be allowed passage through toll gates with effect from 1 October.This comes on t...Published: 22 Sep 2022 at 18:33hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga urged to release ambulances donated by World Health Organisation
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) lawmaker Settlement Chikwinya has urged the government to expedite deployment of ambulances at toll gates to offer emergency services to road traffic accident victi...Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 06:26hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Equipment woes force Bulawayo road rehab scale down
A COMBINATION of breakdowns and shortages of plant and machinery has forced the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to scale down on capital projects including the ongoing road rehabilitation works.A ...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 18:52hrs | 3 | 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 | | 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 | | by Staff reporter
7 tollgate cashiers fired over million-dollar theft
SEVEN cashiers at the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) Flamingo tollgate in Gweru have been fired while eight have resigned over a million-dollar theft scandal.Acting Zinara chie...Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 07:19hrs | 2 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Zinara moves to weed out corruption
A LEGACY of corruption and operational challenges at tollgates has tainted the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara)'s corporate image.NewsDay (ND) chief reporter Taurai Mangudhla int...Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 06:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Zimdollar dead by next month'
TWO of Zimbabwe's most respected economics professors have warned government to bite the bullet and redollarise because the Zimdollar "would be dead soon".Professors Gift Mugano and Anthony Ha...Published: 27 May 2022 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
New toll fees raise dust
MOTORISTS are crying foul after the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) hiked toll fees by 73%, which will result in long-distance transporters hiking fares.In a statement, Zinara ...Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zinara mulls e-tollgates
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) says it is making headway on plans to establish an e-tolling system to reduce operating costs from toll fees collection processes.According t...Published: 06 May 2022 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
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