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Names of 17 accident victims released

The full horror of the Seke Road accident has emerged following the confirmation by police of the names of the 17 people who tragically lost their lives. The devastating collision, which occurred on 22 July 2025, involved a kombi and a hau…

Published: 24 Jul 2025 at 09:35hrs | 770 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe govt to compensate genocide victims

The Zimbabwean government will compensate victims of the Gukurahundi massacres, with community hearings into the 1980s atrocities set to commence on June 26, 2025, Deputy President of the National Council of Chiefs, Chief Fortune Charumbir…

Published: 17 Jun 2025 at 07:21hrs | 267 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwean ministers visit Rovos-BBR train accident victims

The Minister of Tourism and Hospitality Industry, Barbara Rwodzi, and the Bulawayo Minister of State for Provincial Affairs, Judith Ncube, visited the victims of the Gwanda train accident at Mater Dei Hospital on Saturday morning. The acci…

Published: 21 Apr 2025 at 09:05hrs | 338 | by Staff reporter

State-assisted burial for Beitbridge crash victims

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared the tragic head-on collision in Beitbridge, which claimed 25 lives yesterday, a national disaster. Victims of the accident will be accorded State-assisted burials as the nation mourns the devastati…

Published: 14 Feb 2025 at 06:04hrs | 177 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe police name seven accident victims

Police have identified seven people who tragically lost their lives in two separate road accidents over the weekend in Masvingo and Rusape.The first accident occurred on Saturday at around 7:25 AM, when a Nissan Serena, carrying eight pass…

Published: 20 Sep 2024 at 07:52hrs | 140 | by Staff reporter

8 bus inferno victims named

The Anglican Diocese of Manicaland has released the names of eight congregants who tragically lost their lives in a bus fire on the Nyabandza-Gandanzara Road in Rusape over the weekend. The bus, carrying 65 members of the diocese returning…

Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 11:53hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Push to identify Gukaruhundi victims' mass graves

Ibhetshu LikaZulu, a Matebeleland-based human rights' watchdog, has sent an SOS  for funds needed for installation of memoralisation plaques at unmarked mass graves where Gukurahundi victims are buried.The watchdog, which has been on …

Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 13:02hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter

Police identify victims of horror crash that killed 22

Police have identified 15 of the 22 people who were killed in a road traffic accident which occurred on 14 November 2023 at the 27 Kilometre peg along Bulawayo-Beitbridge Road when a Toyota Quantum motor vehicle with 21 passengers on board…

Published: 16 Nov 2023 at 18:00hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF violence victims speak out

Victims of political violence in Midlands yesterday shared harrowing tales of political violence at the hands of Zanu-PF activists.Zanu-PF activists went on the rampage in Kwekwe's Tigereef area and assaulted Citizens Coalition for Change …

Published: 23 Jul 2023 at 08:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Police release names of Stallion Cruise bus accident victims

POLICE have released the names of the five people who died in an accident when a Stallion Cruise bus overturned at the five kilometre peg along Binga-Siabuwa Road, near Masumu Bridge, Samende area on Sunday.About 24 people were also injure…

Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 06:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Attempt to dupe political victims backfires

A plan to dupe the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Gutu political violence victims who were brutalized by suspected Zanu-PF members last year by Masvingo town based activists backfired after one of the victims' alert wife discovered th…

Published: 16 Apr 2023 at 09:01hrs | 41 | by Staff reporter

Esigodini fire victims identified

Police have released the names of the 10 victims who died while trying to extinguish a raging veld fire at Rodrose Farm, Esigodini yesterday.In a statement, national police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed that the…

Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 19:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

US$2 for 2018 army shooting victims

GOVERNMENT reportedly gave $1 000 only as "compensation" to families of the August 1, 2018 army shooting victims, NewsDay Weekender has learnt.The amount, given to assist burial of those killed by army personnel during the post-election pr…

Published: 01 Oct 2022 at 06:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa's CCC remembers August 1 shooting victims

ON this day four years ago, security forces fired on Harare residents in the central business district (CBD) following post-election protests after delays by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) in announcing presidential poll results.S…

Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 19:08hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

Air Force of Zimbabwe hands over property to chopper crash victims

The Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) yesterday handed over household property worth thousands of dollars to the Fenyere family, whose house was razed to the ground by flames when the Agusta Bell 412 (AB 412) helicopter crashed into their house …

Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Army victims deserve justice

A fortnight after President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised to bring to book soldiers behind the wave of human rights violations that included murder, rape and abduction of civil society as well opposition activists, police areas yet to accoun…

Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 06:29hrs | 5 | by Editorial - The Standard

Undressed robbery victims frighten tollgate police

POLICE and Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) officials manning a tollgate along the Gweru-Shurugwi Highway scurried for cover when they mistook two armed robbery victims for ghosts after they appeared at the tollgate in the mi…

Published: 17 Oct 2017 at 06:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabweans are victims of 'sovereignty'

As Zimbabwe embarks on the final lap before the next elections, all indications are that it will be a repetition of the stolen 2013 polls, nodded through by an acquiescent outside world with political correctness overriding blatant elector…

Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 18:18hrs | 1 | by Zimvigil

Crash victims' relatives still to account for cash, belongings

Relatives of some of the victims of the Nyamakate bus disaster have said they are yet to account for cash and personal belongings of their deceased relatives, four days after the accident.Most of the passengers on the Zambia-bound King Lio…

Published: 12 Jun 2017 at 07:28hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

LIST: 35 bus crash victims positively identified

Police have released the names of some of the victims of the Nyamakate King Lion bus disaster, which killed 43 people on Wednesday night and left over 30 others injured.40 of the 43 deceased passengers in the Nyamakate bus disaster have so…

Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 19:09hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Tsholotsho flood victims set to relocate to new homes

THE relocation of Tsholotsho flood victims from the transit camp to new homes is set to start after the completion of a water and sanitation programme in July.More than 800 people were to be evacuated to Sipepa Hospital in February where G…

Published: 20 May 2017 at 12:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Lets complement Government effort in assisting flood victims

Government through the Civil Protection Unit (CPU) and other stakeholders is commendably doing well in responding to floods and other related disasters, considering the liquidity challenges the country is currently experiencing. Since the …

Published: 01 Mar 2017 at 12:54hrs | 5 | by Tendai Guta

Air Force of Zimbabwe airlifts nearly 1 000 to safety

THE Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) has airlifted nearly 1000 flood victims to safety countrywide following incessant rains that have destroyed homes and infrastructure. AFZ public relations officer Flight Lieutenant James Chingono confirmed t…

Published: 28 Feb 2017 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter

Govt offers $100 to flood victims

GOVERNMENT has said it is assisting each of the families whose homes were destroyed by floods with $100.The Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Saviour Kasukuwere said Government was also providing food, tents, …

Published: 10 Feb 2017 at 05:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

7 crash victims named

POLICE have named seven people who were killed while four others escaped with minor injuries when a vehicle they were travelling in plunged into Tsambe River bridge, 15km off the Glendale-Centenary Road, police chief spokesperson Senior As…

Published: 04 Aug 2016 at 06:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

8 accident victims named

Police have released the names of the eight people who died in a road accident along the Bulawayo-Beitbridge highway on Sunday.These are Brian Moyo (33), whose address is not known; Santisimo Jiyane a female adult of 260 Limpopo View in Be…

Published: 07 Oct 2014 at 12:37hrs | | by Staff reporter

Kombi accident victims named

Police have released the names of the eight people who died in an accident after a commuter omnibus they were travelling in burst its left rear tyre, veered off the road, overturned and rolled several times before landing on its wheels at …

Published: 30 May 2013 at 05:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

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