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Mnangagwa's govt says 'disengaging' from controversial Univern contract
Transport minister Felix Mhona says the government has started disengaging from the controversial Univern contract after it was deemed inconsistent with the Procurement Act.This came aft...Published: 13 Feb 2023 at 05:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zinara stops US$70 million payment to bogus entity
THE new Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) board stopped a US$70 million legacy payment to a company called Golden Roads whose terms of reference were not clearly defined in the contract....Published: 20 Sep 2022 at 18:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zinara defends Univern deal
The Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) yesterday claimed that the awarding of a 2016 contract to Univern for the supply and maintenance of graders and provision of software programmes was ...Published: 20 Sep 2022 at 06:05hrs | 8 | 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 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
Zinara pleads with DBSA after default
ZIMBABWE'S roads administrator revealed on Tuesday that it had re-engaged the Development Bank of South Africa (DBSA) to review terms of a US$206 million loan granted about seven years ago, following ...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parly exposes Zinara tender scam
THE Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) unprocedurally awarded lucrative contracts to private entities to supply equipment and services that prejudiced the parastatal of huge amounts of mo...Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Biti vows to continue exposing graft
TENDAI Biti has effectively been using his position as the chair of Zimbabwe's parliamentary public accounts committee and his legal and financial skills to expose billions of US dollars of taxpayers'...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 15:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mandiwanzira confronts TIZ with $1m defamation suit over article
FORMER ICT minister and serving legislator Supa Mandiwanzira is demanding damages amounting to $1 million from Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ) over what he terms defamatory content against h...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mandiwanzira to sue South African publication, Maverick Citizen over false report
FORMER Information Communication Technology minister Supa Mandiwanzira, who is also Nyanga South MP, has threatened to sue South African publication, Maverick Citizen, over its article where it allege...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mandiwanzira hits out at 'staggering incompetence' over 'cartels' report
Former Cabinet Minister Supa Mandiwanzira has been left crying foul over what he called "staggering incompetence" by a South African publication, the Daily Maverick, whose exclusive report on the mass...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:55hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga-linked cartels take over public firms, mines, fuel sector - report
HIGHLY secretive cartels linked to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice President Constantino Chiwenga are reported to have taken over the operations of key state-owned companies, including private f...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 07:33hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Vehicle plates chaos: CVR blames police
PARLIAMENT yesterday ordered the Central Vehicle Registry (CVR) to formally in-form motorists that new number plates were not available and allow them to continue using temporary plates until governme...Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government gains $375 million
Government's computerisation programme in the transport sector has yielded significant gains through increased revenue with at least $375 million being realised over the past five years since the prog...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zinara faces Parliament grilling over operations
PARLIAMENT will today question the Zimbabwe Nationals Road Administration (Zinara) over the state of affairs at the parastatal which has, of late, hogged news headlines because of corrupt practices....Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 08:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zinara ropes in CID
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) is working with the Criminal Investigations Department anti-corruption team to investigate all its revenue streams as part of efforts to curb corrupt...Published: 14 May 2019 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Heads to roll at Zinara, says Matiza
TRANSPORT minister Joel Biggie Matiza yesterday said heads would roll at the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) over cases of corruption involving millions of dollars.Matiza also a...Published: 07 May 2019 at 07:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa blesses Parliament's probe into ZINARA
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has approved investigations by a parliamentary portfolio committee into the operations of the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (ZINARA) after an audit unearthed mass...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 20:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parly raises red flag over Zinara graders repair costs
THE Parliamentary Public Accounts Portfolio Committee (PAC) last week grilled Univern over its supply of 80 graders with snow ploughs to the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) in 2012 at a...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mafia' trying to block Zinara probe
Unnamed bigwigs in government are allegedly meddling with investigations by Parliament into the operations of the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) after an audit unearthed massive corru...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 09:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti threatens to recommend Zinara management dismissal
FORMER Finance Minister Tendai Biti Tuesday, threatened to recommend the dismissal of the entire Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) management over unclear tendering procedures and paymen...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:34hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Zinara man quits after Parly probe
The man at the centre of corruption allegations unearthed by an audit on the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration, Mr Precious Murove, has quit the organisation in the middle of an inquiry by Parlia...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zinara under fire over huge wage bill
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) was yesterday put under scrutiny in Parliament over revelations by Auditor-General Mildred Chiri that the road agency was paying employees hefty sala...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 06:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Former Zinara bosses summoned to Parliament
Former Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) chief executive Mr Frank Chitukutuku and Moses Juma have been summoned to Parliament to respond to audit reports revealing gross flouting of tend...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 22:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Joram Gumbo Zimbabwe's poster boy of sleaze
As ZANU-PF's long-serving chief whip, Joram Gumbo came across as a tidy, backroom operator, quietly but efficiently pulling the strings for his party in Parliament. But his scrapbook in government sin...Published: 27 Oct 2018 at 08:45hrs | | by newZWire
Zimbabwe police go high-tech on roads
Police are rolling out high-tech equipment for e-ticketing, speed traps and breathalyser tests as efforts intensify to ensure compliance with traffic laws.The equipment, to be deployed next mo...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 14:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Vet Services starts e-identification
Last week, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Government launched Command Livestock. In the following article, the Principal Director of the Department of Livestock and Veterinary Services, Dr Unesu Ushew...Published: 29 Apr 2018 at 08:56hrs | 1 | by Dr Unesu Ushewokunze-Obatolu
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 | | 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
Mnangagwa spells out Vision 2030
Zimbabwe is going through the primary stages of a radical economic transformation that will witness the country becoming middle-income economy by 2030, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.Af...Published: 04 Mar 2018 at 08:01hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zinara's 'snow' graders attract Parly scorn
The suitability and technical specifications of the six-year-old 80 motorised graders supplied to rural local authorities by the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) for the upgrading of ro...Published: 14 Feb 2018 at 14:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gumbo petitioned over Zinara's $16 million 'snow' graders
Mabvuku-Tafara legislator James Maridadi has reignited debate about the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara)'s 80 motorised graders after petitioning Transport minister Joram Gumbo to expla...Published: 08 Feb 2018 at 10:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ministry of transport marred with 'irregular' deals
This article is a continuation of a Khuluma investigation which began in 2017. An earlier article we carried last year implicated Grace Mugabe, and South African asso...Published: 07 Feb 2018 at 08:56hrs | 1 | by Tapiwa Vhurundiya (Khuluma Reporter)
Mugabe's govt bought 'snow graders'
Government has admitted buying snow graders, saying local authorities should work with what they have as proper equipment is on its way.Speaking during a meeting with local authorities from Ma...Published: 17 Jan 2018 at 10:39hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Traffic cops stop using metal spikes in Zimbabwe
POLICE have been stopped from indiscriminate use of metal spikes on vehicles as new measures are being introduced to deal with errant drivers on the country's roads.The use of spikes had attra...Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 08:48hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe's office in tender scam
The Office of the President and Cabinet has unilaterally awarded a multi-million dollar project to a local firm called Univern Enterprises to implement the Zimtis without going to tender or ascertaini...Published: 28 Jul 2017 at 08:12hrs | | by staff reporter
Mnangagwa shrugs off Jonathan Moyo criticism
VICE President Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged Zimbabweans not to be distracted by the vilification of Government's initiatives to revive the agriculture sector in the private media as the bumper harvest...Published: 05 Jul 2017 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to launch e-traffic system
Government has hailed the electronic traffic monitoring system being developed by the police in partnership with Univern Enterprises, saying that it will help reduce corruption and foster compliance b...Published: 05 Jul 2017 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police roadblocks to be under 24-hour satellite surveillance
Police roadblocks will soon be under 24-hour satellite surveillance, with real-time images beamed to a central server to help curb corruption and harassment of motorists.The Electronic Traffic...Published: 02 Jul 2017 at 10:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
New Zimbabwe traffic system on cards
Government is developing a computerised traffic system that will link all its departments involved in the movement of vehicles on the country's roads in a one-stop-shop format.The traffic syst...Published: 26 Jun 2017 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zinara grader tender was not above board
Just too often, corporates step up to say lofty things about themselves, especially when there are questions around their conduct. This is predictable because capital mostly tends to rebel against ins...Published: 26 Mar 2017 at 10:11hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Zinara, Univern ties raise stink
Former Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) CEO, Frank Chitukutuku, left his post in a huff in 2014.His contract was due to expire in March 2015 but he offered to leave by Decem...Published: 12 Mar 2017 at 08:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt to reduce roadblocks
THE Government has bowed down to pressure from motorists and the public to reduce the number of roadblocks on the roads.Over half of tourists interviewed during a recent Zimbabwe National ...Published: 11 Mar 2017 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt rolls out electronic system to reduce roadblocks
The government is rolling out an electronic traffic management system (ETMS) that will see a reduction in the number of police check points on the country's roads, curb corruption and ensure that ...Published: 10 Mar 2017 at 16:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
10 tollgates lie idle
At least 10 new tollgates are lying idle almost two years after their construction on various highways due to bureaucratic tendering processes, thereby prejudicing government of thousands of dolla...Published: 07 Mar 2017 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Toll fees not enough for road rehabilitation'
ROAD maintenance across the country remains a challenge as the bulk of the money from toll fees collected is going towards the $206 million loan repayment to the Development Bank of South Africa, ...Published: 11 Feb 2017 at 09:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA tycoon bleeds Zinara
A South African businessman Mr Niko Shefer, is reportedly siphoning millions of dollars from the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) as facilitation fee for the $206 million loan accessed ...Published: 31 Aug 2016 at 06:32hrs | | by Tendai Mugabe
Zim Parliament demands reversal of Plumtree-Mutare road tollgate deal
The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Transport has demanded that the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) reverses a deal it entered with a South African company to collect revenue a...Published: 29 Jun 2016 at 10:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zinara, Central Vehicle Registry integration starts
THE Government's integration of systems under the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development to enhance enforcement of laws and reduce revenue leakages, has started with the Central Veh...Published: 29 Jun 2016 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Lloyd Gumbo
Harare-Beitbridge highway dualisation project takes off
THE dualisation of the $2 billion Beitbridge-Harare and Harare-Chirundu highways has reached take-off stage with a Government inter-ministerial committee expected to meet financiers of the project thi...Published: 21 Jun 2016 at 09:30hrs | | by Tendai Mugabe
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