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Truck driver arrested in with smuggled medicines

A 52-year-old truck driver has been arrested after police in Chirundu intercepted him with a consignment of smuggled pharmaceutical drugs hidden in his vehicle.The bust occurred on 20 August 2025 at the 348km peg along the Harareâ€“Chirund…

Published: 25 Aug 2025 at 20:50hrs | | by Staff reporter

Truckload of fertilizer destined for Charamba's farm stolen

A truck driver has vanished with a 26-tonne consignment of ammonium nitrate fertilizer meant for delivery to the Battlefields farm of Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet and Presidential Spokesperson, George Charamba, a Har…

Published: 14 Jul 2025 at 15:55hrs | | by Staff reporter

Truck impounded for damaging Trabablas Interchange

Just over a month after its official commissioning, the Trabablas Interchange suffered damage following an incident involving a truck carrying granite stone, which lost its load and damaged guard rails and the newly constructed pavement.Th…

Published: 10 Jul 2025 at 09:15hrs | | by Staff reporter

Woman throws herself under truck in Gweru

Gweru was left shaken this afternoon after a woman from Bulawayo allegedly threw herself under a moving haulage truck at the busy intersection of Lobengula Avenue and 8th Street, in a tragic event that stunned onlookers.Moments before the …

Published: 10 Jul 2025 at 08:58hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe truck driver steal $15,000 worth of wheat in Zambia

A 47-year-old truck driver employed by MakMotors, Milton Muzanenhamo, was remanded in custody on Wednesday over charges of theft of trust property.Muzanenhamo appeared before Harare magistrate Ruth Moyo but was not asked to plead. The case…

Published: 03 Jul 2025 at 19:13hrs | 556 | by Staff reporter

SADC donates US$98,000 refrigerated truck to Zimbabwe

In a major boost to Zimbabwe's fisheries sector, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) on Thursday handed over a three-tonne refrigerated truck valued at US$98,000 to the Zimbabwe Fish Producers Association (ZFPA). The donation…

Published: 03 Jul 2025 at 19:09hrs | | by Staff reporter

Delta beer truck overturns in Zimbabwe, looters descend on scene

A Delta Beverages truck transporting opaque beer overturned early Monday morning along the notorious Christmas Pass, with scenes of chaos unfolding as passersby looted crates of beer from the crash site.The truck reportedly landed on its r…

Published: 30 Jun 2025 at 18:07hrs | | by Staff reporter

Fire guts Bulawayo stock feed factory, truck destroyed

A devastating fire tore through a local stock feed manufacturing plant in Bulawayo yesterday, destroying hundreds of hay bales and gutting a truck and trailer after sparks from a welding machine ignited a blaze.The fire erupted shortly aft…

Published: 25 Jun 2025 at 08:58hrs | | by Staff reporter

Truck driver fined $400 for fatal accident at truck stop

A 43-year-old truck driver from Nyaradza, Gokwe, has been fined US$400 or, alternatively, sentenced to six months in prison after he accidentally ran over and killed a man who had fallen asleep beneath his parked truck.Tavonga Ticharwa was…

Published: 22 May 2025 at 09:20hrs | 311 | by Staff reporter

Weighbridges, truck arrestor beds at tollgates

The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development has launched a comprehensive transport system modernisation programme aimed at enhancing road safety and streamlining regulatory services in Manicaland Province.Key to the initiativ…

Published: 17 May 2025 at 12:19hrs | 387 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe reserves haulage and logistics industry for citizens

Zimbabwe's Finance Act 2024, published under General Notice I 345A of 2024, has introduced an amendment to the Indigenization and Economic Empowerment Act [Chapter 14:33], designating the Haulage and Logistics Industry as a reserved sector…

Published: 05 Apr 2025 at 10:40hrs | | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo-Victoria Falls Road truck stops, a haven for prostitution

Dressed in tight-fitting, body-revealing clothes that leave little to the imagination, two young women take turns knocking on the driver's side door of a haulage truck at Gwayi Shopping Centre, along the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls highway.It …

Published: 14 Mar 2025 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter

4 dead at Christmas Pass as haulage truck rams into cars, pedestrians

Four people tragically lost their lives on Thursday after a haulage truck rammed into four vehicles and ploughed into pedestrians while descending the Christmas Pass along the Mutare-Harare Road.The accident, which occurred on March 6, 202…

Published: 07 Mar 2025 at 07:05hrs | 384 | by Staff reporter

Illicit wealth case resumes in Zimbabwe court

The trial of Dennis Madondo, a 33-year-old man from Murehwa accused of acquiring property using illicit funds, resumed yesterday, with the prosecution presenting evidence on his unexplained wealth.Madondo, who was previously acquitted in t…

Published: 18 Feb 2025 at 03:30hrs | | by Staff reporter

Man crushed by truck while working under it

A tragic workplace accident in Bulawayo's Belmont West has claimed the life of 32-year-old Proud Mashava, who was fatally crushed when a hydraulic wheel jack slipped while he was working under a truck.The incident occurred on January 24 at…

Published: 27 Jan 2025 at 08:21hrs | 995 | by Staff reporter

Driver steals haulage truck

A daring theft involving a 30-tonne haulage truck has left a local employer grappling with the loss of valuable property after his driver allegedly stole the vehicle last month. The truck, valued at US$47,795, is yet to be recovered, and p…

Published: 21 Dec 2024 at 09:02hrs | 740 | by Staff reporter

Truck, Revival bus collide on Bulawayo-Beitbridge highway

A collision between a Quality Gases truck and a Revival bus trailer occurred earlier today about 10km outside West Nicholson, a small settlement along the Bulawayo-Beitbridge highway in Matabeleland South province.According to reports, the…

Published: 22 Nov 2024 at 10:30hrs | | by Staff reporter

Lithuania seizes shipment of fire trucks to Zimbabwe

Lithuania is holding onto 17 fire engines seized in 2021 while being shipped to Zimbabwe from neighbouring Belarus which is under European Union sanctions, officials said on Wednesday.Zimbabwe's new attorney general Virginia Mabhiza, appoi…

Published: 11 Sep 2024 at 19:03hrs | | by Staff reporter

3 feared dead

Three people died on the spot early this morning when a haulage truck collided with a Nissan UD near Chaka Business Centre in Midlands province, along the Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge highway.National deputy police spokesperson, Assistant Co…

Published: 05 Sep 2024 at 13:39hrs | 1180 | by Staff reporter

Truck runs over, kills Form 1 pupil

A Form One pupil from Founders High School was tragically run over by a truck in Emganwini while on her way to school. The incident occurred on Monday when the 14-year-old girl was hit by a UD truck driven by Fani Herbert. The girl sustain…

Published: 07 Aug 2024 at 14:52hrs | 611 | by Staff reporter

2 company bosses in court over Zambia rendition of truck driver

Two bosses of a trucking company in Harare appeared in court on Thursday accused of the extrajudicial rendition of a truck driver from Zimbabwe to Zambia, after accusing him of losing a fertilizer consignment.Profburg Consultancy managing …

Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 12:12hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabweans assault SA truck driver for blocking their bus while fleeing police in SA

Three people, including a bus driver, have been arrested for allegedly assaulting a truck driver who tried to assist police giving chase to a bus overloaded with unruly passengers.The driver and two Zimbabwean nationals were arrested for a…

Published: 24 Jan 2024 at 19:51hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

22 dead in horror crash as South Africa-bound Quantum collides with truck

Twenty-two people were killed on Tuesday night when an overloaded Toyota Quantum had a head-on collision with a DAF truck 17km out of Bulawayo on the Gwanda Road, police said.The accident happened just after 10PM between Muchbinding and Et…

Published: 15 Nov 2023 at 18:24hrs | | by Staff reporter

Kombi, truck collision, 1 dead, 24 injured

A four-year-old child was killed in a three-vehicle collision which left 24 others injured near the Nkulumane Complex in Bulawayo on Tuesday morning, police said.The vehicles collided at the traffic-light controlled intersection of Masiyep…

Published: 09 Mar 2022 at 06:58hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

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