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Zimbabwe police, VID officers under investigation
Police and Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) officials responsible for clearing the unroadworthy Urban Connect bus, which was involved in a fatal accident in Beitbridge, are now under investigatio...Published: 03 Mar 2025 at 12:33hrs | 605 | by Staff reporter
Businessman loses US$8,000 to bogus VID officer
A businessman in Zhombe has been defrauded of US$8,000 by a fake Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) officer who falsely claimed to be in charge of disposing vehicles forfeited to the State.Mi...Published: 18 Feb 2025 at 14:26hrs | 1204 | by Staff reporter
Errant cops, VID officers to face the music
The Government has issued a stern warning to police officers and Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) inspectors who allow passage to vehicles with defects or without requisite papers past roadblocks....Published: 09 Aug 2024 at 07:42hrs | 270 | by Staff reporter
VID impounds Zupco bus
The dispute between the Zimbabwe Passengers Company (Zupco) and the Vehicles Inspectorate Department (VID) continues to disrupt public transport. VID officers recently impounded a Zupco bus in...Published: 24 Jul 2024 at 09:12hrs | 1269 | by Staff reporter
ZACC swoops on VID officer to explain wealth
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) yesterday swooped on a senior Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) officer deployed to Beitbridge and ordered him to explain how he became a business ty...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 04:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Corruption at vid going wayward
The issue of institutionalised corruption which is currently taking place at Vehicle Inspectorate Department Eastlea Harare is really a cause of concern.Corruption exists in every country and ...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 16:53hrs | 17 | by Leonard Koni
ZRP ranked most corrupt govt dept
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has been ranked as the country's most corrupt government department, according to Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ).This was revealed in TIZ's latest...Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Corrupt VID officers warned
Reports that officers at the Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) have been conniving for years with driving schools to demand bribes for learner's and driver's licences show the need for firm action...Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 05:39hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
3 VID officers remanded in custody
THREE Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) examiners arrested for issuing provisional drivers' licences to people who had failed were remanded in custody to Tuesday next week.The trio was arr...Published: 15 May 2021 at 09:54hrs | 3 | by Staff rpeorter
'Don't bribe VID driving examiners'
ZIMBABWE Driving Schools Owners Association (ZDSOA) president Onias Sanangure yesterday urged learner drivers to desist from bribing Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) officials to get licences and...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
VID officer swallows bribe money to avoid arrest
There was drama at the Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) provincial complex here on Tuesday afternoon when one of the officials who had been cornered by undercover detectives reportedly swallowed ...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 21:31hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Scores rush to VID depots
ASPIRING drivers yesterday thronged the Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) depots across the country to either sit for provisional drivers licence tests or undergo road tests as depots countrywide re...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 23:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
VID sued for selling impounded vehicle
Transport and Infrastructure Development minister Joel Biggie Matiza and the Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) have been taken to the High Court by a Harare man, Hazangwi Phillip Peter, who is claim...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
VID officers suspended
Government has - with immediate effect - suspended Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) officials from Marondera and Beitbridge depots on allegations of corruptly issuing provisional driver's licence...Published: 22 Jun 2019 at 20:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Drivers' licence scam unearthed
The Vehicle Inspection Department (VID), which conducts driver training among other duties, has been taken over by criminal gangs that are fleecing the public and Government through pocketing various ...Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 07:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Truckers give residents sleepless nights
Long haulage truck drivers some carrying highly inflammable fuels continue to dodge the weigh bridge in Mutare by diverting from the designated route via Dawson Street.The once quiet neighbour...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
62 VID officers fired for corruption
The Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) has fired 62 officers over corruption, the parliamentary portfolio committee on Transport and Infrastructural Development has revealed.In a report on th...Published: 26 Jun 2018 at 13:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Only 62 VID officers' corruption arrests
Parliamentarians yesterday lamented the arrest of only 62 corrupt members of the Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) over the past five years, saying the figure was too small given the pervasive graft...Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 11:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
$150 bribes costs nation millions
BEFORE the army-led Operation Restore Legacy, the occurrence of road accidents in Zimbabwe was attributed to failure by the traffic police to stem road carnage, as they were only keen to collect money...Published: 12 Mar 2018 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
54 corrupt VID officers fired
A TOTAL of 54 Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) officers have been fired for corruption while driving schools found on the wrong side of the law will be closed, a Cabinet Minister has said.T...Published: 10 Feb 2018 at 07:30hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
VID officers given 100-day ultimatum to stop corruption
Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Dr Joram Gumbo has given officials from the Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) a 100-day ultimatum to stop corrupt activities or risk prosecution....Published: 01 Feb 2018 at 05:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Honeymoon over for Zanu-PF activists
Government has directed police to arrest Zanu-PF activists who use the ruling party’s materials - including pictures of President Robert Mugabe and his wife, Grace - to intimidate law enforcement of...Published: 13 Nov 2017 at 13:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Policeman takes on VID in court
A POLICE officer based in Plumtree has dragged the Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) to court for allegedly unlawfully impounding his wife's vehicle.Mr Joe Bvumbu Mhakure through his lawyers...Published: 19 Oct 2017 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
VID shake-up, 46 workers transferred
The Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) has redeployed 46 VID officers countrywide with immediate effect.Several arms of government are currently transferring staff.According...Published: 31 Aug 2016 at 06:45hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Zimra, VID reshuffle affects 246 officers
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) and the Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) have redeployed staff across the country amid reports that the move is among a raft of measures to curb corruption at...Published: 31 Aug 2016 at 06:35hrs | | by Thupeyo Muleya
Police, VID officers must be educated on the dangers of smoking vehicles - MP
Chegutu MP and the Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Transport and Infrastructure Dexter Nduna has asked the parliament to consider educating the police and Vehicle Inspection Depart...Published: 27 Jul 2016 at 07:27hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
'Ban second-hand tyre imports'
Government should ban second-hand tyre imports as these contribute significantly to fatal road accidents, passenger representative organisations say.A week ago, 32 people were killed in an acc...Published: 13 Mar 2016 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Harmony Agere
Imposed fines exposes a desperate govt
A seasoned journalist Methuseli Moyo has said the recent imposed traffic fines by the government shows that the government is seriously desperate and un popular and those are measures to keep ci...Published: 18 Dec 2015 at 06:08hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Hwange VID road tests bribes allegedly reach alarming levels
As some numerous prospective drivers last week in Bulawayo and Harare expressed concerns over Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) officials demanding bribes from them so that they pass road tests and ...Published: 30 Nov 2015 at 17:40hrs | 4 | by Stephen Jakes
Beitbridge VID officials accused of being vindictive
Beitbridge residents have accused the Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) of being vindictive following an on-going blitz on privately-owned cars whose owners are accused of operating pirate taxis but...Published: 10 Apr 2015 at 08:05hrs | | by Concerned citizen
VID officer commits suicide following son's death
A VEHICLE Inspection Depot (VID) officer stationed in Hwange recently committed suicide by hanging himself in his bathroom in a suspected case of depression following the death of his son in a car cra...Published: 25 Jan 2015 at 07:50hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
ONE killed, 13 injured as traffic cops chase after unlicensed driver
A BULAWAYO woman died on the spot while 13 other people including two juveniles were injured when a Toyota Granvia driven by an unlicensed driver burst a tyre and rolled several times during a pol...Published: 13 Dec 2014 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Rampant corruption at VID Plumtree'
Please note that Bulawayo24 does not edit WhatsApp updates. We publish them as sent by our readers and we do not disclose the sender's telephone Number....Published: 17 Nov 2014 at 10:52hrs | 4 | by Concerned Citizen
Kombis hike fares
Commuter omnibus operators in Zengeza have hiked their fares citing police roadblocks and VID officers who demand too much from them as the cause. Residents who are already hard pressed fo...Published: 31 Mar 2014 at 09:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bogus VID officer fined
A 41-year-old former soldier who masqueraded as a VID official has been found guilty of impersonation and ordered to pay a US$300 fine or spend the next four months behind bars.Joseph Sibanda ...Published: 28 Dec 2013 at 20:18hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Shocking levels of ZRP corruption on the Byo - Beitbridge road
Dear editorI would like to share with you and your readers my eyewitness account of the shocking level of corruption of the ZRP officers on the Bulawayo-Beitbridge road:...Published: 17 Jul 2012 at 08:02hrs | 9 | by Leo H********
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