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Bulawayo records spike in theft of cars
Police in Bulawayo have confirmed a troubling surge in vehicle thefts, with 70 vehicles reported stolen between January and October this year. While law enforcement officials are expressing concern ov...Published: 01 Dec 2024 at 08:59hrs | 416 | by Staff reporter
Uber driver recounts near-death experiences
BRIAN Moyo (not real name) remembers the night when a gang of four men hijacked him, tied him up,and drove around on the streets of Johannesburg in South Africa while still deciding whether to kill hi...Published: 18 Aug 2024 at 12:19hrs | 249 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean owned house where 19 cash-in-transit robbers were killed
A 19th body has been found inside the lavish house in Makhado (formerly Louis Trichardt) were alleged cash-in-transit robbers were killed during a shootout with different police units on Friday....Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 21:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF gifts praise singers with cars
THE ruling Zanu-PF has gifted its loyalists and praise singers who used their social media pages and music as campaign platforms prior to the disputed August 23 elections.Reports say Holy Ten,...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 07:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Wanted SA rapist Thabo Bester skipped the country to Zimbabwe?
Thabo Bester skipped the country to Zimbabwe to lay low after escaping from the Mangaung maximum security prison where he allegedly paid R5 million to at least nine prison warders who helped him escap...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 16:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
2 Zimbabweans, 5 SA police crime gang nabbed
IN a sting operation this week South African Police Services (Saps) arrested two Zimbabweans and five Saps serving members over a violent crime wave in Johannesburg's Fordsburg area.In a state...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
There's no greater curse than being led by an idiotic dictator!
It is terrible and painful enough being oppressed by a dictator.Nevertheless, it is utter devastation and catastrophic having a dictator who is also a brainless idiot. There is no grea...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 09:06hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
2 die in bizarre Harare CBD incidents
VENDORS and kombi crews who work close to the Robert Mugabe Road and Julius Nyerere Way intersection in the Harare central business District (CBD) were yesterday left bewildered after four people coll...Published: 28 Aug 2022 at 08:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dollar o'clock: Should Zimbabwe axe its faltering currency again?
IN early 2019, Zimbabwe's central bank announced plans to bring back the Zimbabwe dollar as legal tender after a decade of using the US dollar and seven other international currencies because raging h...Published: 11 May 2022 at 09:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa defrauds client US$6 000 in murky car deal
A KADOMA-based car dealer, Aleck Chamisa (34), was Thursday dragged to court by his estranged lover for defrauding her of over US$6 000 in inflated vehicle price and customs fees.Kadoma Magist...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 19:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF official steals Pfumvudza inputs
Budiriro residents are up in arms against the Zanu Pf Harare provincial vice chairperson, Godwin Gomwe who allegedly swindled and looted pfumvudza inputs. which he misappropriated for self-enrichment....Published: 02 Feb 2021 at 00:28hrs | | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Proudly made in Zimbabwe
The advent of globalization has demonstrated that each country has expertise in a certain trade and there are commodities that resonate with certain countries more than others. It is often argued that...Published: 02 Feb 2021 at 00:25hrs | 2 | by Victor Bhoroma
Car opens abductions can of worms
A leading Harare-based car rental company has been drawn into an abduction and torture saga involving a 22year-old university student ahead of the July 31 protests.Tawanda Muchehiwa, a Midland...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 11:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt keen to set up electric vehicles infrastructure
GOVERNMENT is exploring avenues of accommodating electric vehicles (EVs) in the country by setting up the requisite charging infrastructure, which is the backbone of the innovation.This follow...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 08:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe readies for introduction of electric cars
THE Government is putting in place modalities to introduce electric cars in the country as a stop gap measure aimed at reducing over reliance on traditional fuel in powering automobiles, a Cabinet Min...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt readies for introduction of electric cars
THE Government is putting in place modalities to introduce electric cars in the country as a stop gap measure aimed at reducing over reliance on traditional fuel in powering automobiles, a Cabinet Min...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 08:38hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Notorious car hijackers nabbed in Bulawayo
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Bulawayo Metropolitan Province have arrested five suspected members of a notorious car theft syndicate suspected to have been hijacking and breaking into parked moto...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 20:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Business opportunities in Zimbabwe that will make more millionaires in 2018
The term "millionaire" is taking on a new meaning in Zimbabweans abroad. It's no longer just about the size of your bank account; any shady politician, corrupt bureaucrat, or unscrupulous busi...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 06:41hrs | 8 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mutodi duped in botched deal
A HARARE man has been arrested on charges of defrauding businessman and Goromonzi West Zanu PF parliamentary candidate, Energy Mutodi of $13 000 in a botched vehicle registration deal.Memory K...Published: 12 May 2018 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Contaminated fuel shuts filling station
A HARARE filling station shut down its operations on Tuesday after it emerged that its petrol was contaminated with water. Engen Petroleum at the corner of Kaguvi Street and Robert Mugabe Road had to ...Published: 23 Feb 2018 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
2 killed in separate road accidents
TWO men died on the spot in separate road accidents last night in Bulawayo.A cyclist was hit by a kombi near Mzilikazi fly-over along Luveve road while another man who was pushing a cart was h...Published: 01 Aug 2017 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CIO 'demands' $1200 bribe
TWO friends have been hauled to court on allegations of extorting $1200.Tauya Muzivi Mushangwe and Arnold Moses Ojesi have been granted $100 bail and will be back in court on June 8 on routine...Published: 12 May 2017 at 14:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
3 killed in head-on collision
THREE people died while four others were injured when a Volkswagen Golf they were travelling in collided head-on with a Toyota Corolla along Harare-Bulawayo highway on Friday night.The acc...Published: 05 Mar 2017 at 09:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
The most hijacked cars and car brands in South Africa
Vehicle tracking company Ctrack has released it hijacking and crime statistics, detailing which passenger vehicles, SUVs, trucks and vehicle manufacturers are being targeted by criminals in South ...Published: 11 Feb 2017 at 14:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
VW overtakes Toyota as the world's biggest carmaker
Volkswagen has overtaken Toyota to become the world's best-selling carmaker, the first time the German company has held the position.Japan's Toyota, which had topped sales for the past four ye...Published: 30 Jan 2017 at 22:47hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
'Zanu-PF killed Herbert Chitepo and Solomon Mujuru'
ZANU-PF's declaration of the late Victoria Chitepo a national heroine should not be seen as a sincere gesture as the party was responsible for the assassination of her husband, Herbert, says Tendai Bi...Published: 13 Apr 2016 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Horror accident leaves 5 dead
FIVE people died on the spot, while eight others were seriously injured in a head-on collision involving a commuter omnibus and a Volkswagen Passat along the Harare-Mutare highway yesterday morning....Published: 29 Feb 2016 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim woman killed in drink driving crash in the US
A 26-YEAR-OLD Zimbabwean woman was killed in the US early Sunday morning when the driver of a car in which she was a passenger slammed into a parked tractor trailer.Nancy Tinoza of Arlington w...Published: 26 Mar 2015 at 15:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Volkswagen re-enter Zimbabwe
One of the world leading car manufactures, Volkswagen popularly known as VW is set to re-launch its Harare base as it plans to be among the top five motoring brand in the country within five years....Published: 20 Mar 2015 at 09:21hrs | 1 | by Thobekile Zhou
Zimbabwe: Africa's best-kept secret?
I don't know what I was expecting when I arrived in Zimbabwe. It certainly wasn't to land in the most developed country I had ever visited in Africa aside from South Africa (and I have been in quite a...Published: 27 Feb 2015 at 09:50hrs | | by Anna Rosenberg
Zimbabwean woman dies in SA bank robbery
A ZIMBABWEAN foreign currency dealer died, allegedly of shock yesterday morning after witnessing armed robbers pouncing on a Standard Bank branch in Musina, South Africa, where they shot dead a securi...Published: 13 Feb 2015 at 08:57hrs | | by Thupeyo Muleya
90-year-old Bulawayo man still a kombi driver
AT 90, most people would probably have given up on the fast moving city life and what more if one spends most of his time behind the wheel of a commuter omnibus. But that is not the case with one...Published: 23 Mar 2014 at 16:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-soldier turns car into house
A FORMER Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) soldier, who was duped of his earnings after having served in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by a contractor who claimed to had been building a house for h...Published: 23 Feb 2014 at 06:55hrs | | by Robin Muchetu
Motor Companies the 'Poster Boys' of the International Environmental Movement
If any global industry can be said to have cleaned up its act in recent years, it is surely the automotive industry. Independent market research shows that motor companies have become the "poster ...Published: 19 Sep 2013 at 13:41hrs | | by Pula Dippenaar
'Rhodesians assassinated Chitepo,' says Mugabe
President Robert Mugabe yesterday claimed the late nationalist Hebert Chitepo was assassinated by Rhodesian colonialists.Chitepo, who was the Zanu PF chairman, was killed by a car bomb placed ...Published: 01 Sep 2013 at 12:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Beetling 20 000km through Africa
It is a story worthy of inclusion in Gulliver's Travels, but there was nothing fictional about intrepid Dutch traveller Jos Oosterbroek's journey through Africa – all in a trusty...Published: 01 Aug 2013 at 20:23hrs | | by VWSA
Hackers to release detailed blueprints of techniques for attacking cars
Car hacking is not a new field, but its secrets have long been closely guarded. That is about to change, thanks to two well-known computer software hackers who got bored finding bugs in software from ...Published: 28 Jul 2013 at 15:39hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
4 Nigerian men shot dead in South Africa
Johannesburg - Four Nigerians died when a group of men opened fire on them in Benoni, on the East Rand, police said on Friday.Five men were in a Volkswagen Golf on Thursday evening when a car...Published: 06 Jul 2013 at 04:50hrs | 8 | by Sapa
Spirit of Africa once again chooses Goodyear Wranglers as standard issue
Designed to test both man and machine in the harshest African conditions, the Spirit of Africa 2013 has once again chosen to fit Goodyear's rugged Wrangler tyres t...Published: 28 May 2013 at 02:55hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Goodyear Wranglers keep anti-poaching vehicles on track
Goodyear Wranglers are the tyre of choice for rangers on the Forever Wild Rhino Protection Initiative team. This is the second year that the tyre manufacturer is sponsoring the rugged, high perfor...Published: 08 Feb 2013 at 10:52hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Telecel subscriber wins a car
TELECEL Zimbabwe yesterday gave away the first of five brand new VW Polos worth US$17 000 each to 47-year-old Mr Stanford Nyikadzino of Harare in the Telecel Win Big Promotion which began on December ...Published: 17 Jan 2013 at 04:44hrs | | by Business Reporter
VWSA-NMMU solar car ready for the challenge
With the move towards 'Think Blue', Volkswagen Group South Africa is leading the charge by supporting the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University's (NMMU) dream of racing a solar car in the 3rd Sou...Published: 03 Sep 2012 at 14:13hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Zim pair jailed for rape, robbery in South Africa
A South African regional court has sentenced two Zimbabwean men to 30-years each in jail for robbery and rape.In a statement on Tuesday, the Office of the Provincial Commissioner of the South African...Published: 21 Jun 2012 at 11:43hrs | | by Court reporter
Zimbabwe's Conrad Rautenbach leads SA Rally championship
Zimbabwean Conrad Rautenbach and his French co-driver Nicolas Klinger (Ford Fiesta) won the 2011 Toyota Cape Dealer Rally near Cape Town at the weekend and regained the lead in the South African Rally...Published: 26 Sep 2011 at 14:21hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Jay-Z's new memoir Decoded nabs prize
Droga5's promotional campaign for search engine Bing and Jay-Z's new memoir Decoded earned the Grand Prix in the integrated category, USA Today revealed on Saturday....Published: 25 Jun 2011 at 23:34hrs | 1 | by Laura Petrecca
Zimbabwe soccer great Peter Ndlovu in greats match
ZIMBABWE soccer legend Peter Ndlovu returns to domestic action this weekend after a two week absence in which he starred for his international team Global United FC in Namibia. "Nsukuzon...Published: 21 Apr 2011 at 07:29hrs | | by Byo24News
BMW workers trade holiday time for shifts making hot cars
BERLIN - German autoworkers are this year swapping some of their Christmas break with family for time at the factory assembling someone else's gifts - and they don't have a problem with it.Ger...Published: 23 Dec 2010 at 04:02hrs | 1 | by Byo24
Hyundai, Kia, VW win most top safety pick awards
Motorists considering the purchase of a safe, new car have a lot of choice in the new model year, after the U.S. insurance industry released its longest-ever list of "Top Safety Pick" award winn...Published: 23 Dec 2010 at 03:39hrs | | by Byo24
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