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Lawlessness on Zimbabwe roads cannot continue
Homes Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe has issued a stern warning against the growing lawlessness on the country's roads, as the "Tame the Traffic Jungle" operation, initiated two weeks ago, continues...Published: 26 Sep 2023 at 06:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bad Zimbabwe roads stall EU observers
THE European Union election observer mission in Zimbabwe says despite the bad roads in Matebeleland, the mission is determined to visit all areas in the region.The mission met journalists on F...Published: 14 Aug 2023 at 21:05hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zinara makes fresh appeal for bank loans
THE Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) has requested Treasury's authorisation to borrow an undisclosed amount to fund the facelift of highways, businessdigest can report.Officials...Published: 06 May 2023 at 06:36hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Are Zimbabwe roads safe?
It is, indeed, the silly season, so silly that even the simplest of promises are used to secure votes.In this episode, some politicians have promised to "drive" their way to victory.Fo...Published: 01 Apr 2023 at 07:34hrs | 10 | by Jairos Saunyama
Zimbabwe govt turns to banks to fund roads rehabilitation
ZIMBABWE'S roads administrator said this week it had kicked off processes to draft in banks to bolster its capacity to fund rehabilitation of the country's crumbling road network.In an intervi...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 11:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Only 5% of Zimbabwe roads in good state
A REPORT by the Zimbabwe Passengers Association (ZPA) claims that only 5% of the country's road network is in good state."We know that the roads are so useful to our economy, otherwise if we d...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 05:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rogue drivers menace on Zimbabwe roads
THE general behaviour of motorists on Zimbabwe's roads ranges from shocking to bizarre.It is now common to see motorists breezing through red traffic lights or overtaking in prohibited zones. ...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 09:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe roads rehab to reduce carnage by 50%, claims Mhona
GOVERNMENT says it has a target of reducing road carnage by 50% by rehabilitating the country's poor roads and constructing new ones.Addressing the media during the tour of the Mbudzi intercha...Published: 15 Sep 2022 at 05:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Arrest traffic violators
To the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Commissioner General Cde Godwin Matanga, Please can you bring sanity on our road. The careless driving in Zimbabwe Roads is getting out off order. Please ...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 11:49hrs | 4 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Zimbabwe roads authority increases toll gate fees by 39%
THE Zimbabwe National Roads Authority (ZINARA) has hiked toll fees by 39% in line with exchange rate movements.The new fees are with effect from 3 August 2022.In a statement Tuesday, t...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 19:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
New toll plazas to be constructed on Zimbabwe roads
THE Government will soon start constructing toll plazas along major highways to address congestion at the toll gates countrywide, a Cabinet Minister has said.A toll plaza has more lanes compar...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 06:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cameras can bring sanity on Zimbabwe's Road
It is a fact most Zimbabwe's lack civil sense, when it comes to road usage, on our roads we go by our self-concocted guidelines. Many make their own lanes or try to squeeze through congestion due to s...Published: 02 Jul 2022 at 22:01hrs | 11 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Zimbabwe roads deadliest in Africa, claims UN
FIVE people die every day on average because of road accidents in Zimbabwe, says a review on road safety in the country.But, the report says, this can be reversed.Launching the Road Sa...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 05:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube courts US investors
Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube last week conducted a virtual investor roadshow with United States of America investors.The virtual meeting, which was hosted by Washingt...Published: 27 May 2021 at 22:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Does Brother Mthuli Ncube live in Zimbabwe?
Hope is the expectation, against all rational considerations, that desires will be fulfilled miraculously.When the "new dispensation" was introduced in Zimbabwe, we hoped against past experien...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:51hrs | 1 | by Kennet Mufuka
More than $5 billion required for Zimbabwe roads rehabilitation
THE Government requires more than $5 billion to rehabilitate the country's entire road network with more than $250 million having been availed to the department of roads as work on re-establishing tra...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 08:14hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Can a driver lose a driving license in Zimbabwe
While I applaud the Zimbabwe authorities for trying to bring sanity on the country's roads, I feel more could be done to deter rogue drivers and even take them off the streets. I took a f...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 13:49hrs | 1 | by Wezhira Sam
Zinara forensic audit stirs hornet's nest
A ROW has erupted among board members at the Zimbabwe Roads Administration Authority (Zinara) with acting chairperson Wilfred Ramwi under fire over a shadowy investigation into a forensic audit by a r...Published: 16 Jun 2018 at 21:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Haulage trucks prove to be dangerous on Zimbabwe roads
An MDC official Discent Collins Bajila has said the haulage trucks seem to be dangerous on the country's roads as people's lives continue to be claimed through them latest being Zanu PF Bulawayo youth...Published: 16 Jan 2018 at 10:03hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Only 10% of Zimbabwe roads are in good condition
ONLY 10 percent of the surfaced (tarred) national road network is in good condition, with 30 percent in poor condition while 57 percent is in fair condition, a senior Government official has said....Published: 10 Jul 2017 at 06:48hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
+90% if Zimbabwe roads in bad state
OVER 90 percent of the country's close to 100 000km of road network are in bad state with an estimated $5,5 billion required for maintenance and rehabilitation, a Road Conditions and Inventory Report ...Published: 30 Jun 2017 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans are enablers and are to blame for Mugabe thinking Zimbabwe is 2nd most developed country in Africa
It is easy to blame our 93-year-old president for all the things that go wrong in the country but I think it is high time we look at ourselves in the mirror and see exactly what we really are, ena...Published: 02 Jun 2017 at 14:54hrs | | by Nomalizwe Mbulu
Zimbabwe roads made in hell
DRIVING in Zimbabwe roads now requires one to acquire new skills of negotiating potholes. Drivers also need the nerves of steel to endure the gruelling driving experience which, if not well execut...Published: 02 Feb 2017 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe roads in a sorry state
The state of roads in the country are in a very sorry state and virtually unusable as the country battles with economic challenges. A sign that all is not well with the road networks is eviden...Published: 23 Nov 2016 at 20:03hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
2000 people die on Zimbabwe roads every year- Senator
Senator Lillian Timveos has claimed that police reports show that every year about 2000 perish in local roads an indication that the roads have become death traps.Speaking in parliament Timveo...Published: 23 Jun 2016 at 06:58hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Declare Kwekwe accident national disaster - PDP
The People's Democratic Party has urged government to declare the Kwekwe bus fatal accident that claimed 30 people on Thursday a nation disaster.The party said Zimbabwe roads are death traps a...Published: 04 Mar 2016 at 09:49hrs | | by PDP
2,000 pedestrians killed on Zimbabwe roads in three years
At least 2 000 pedestrians have died on Zimbabwe's roads after being hit by vehicles in the last three years, while more than 30 000 were injured during the same period.Statistics supplied by ...Published: 09 Dec 2015 at 05:24hrs | 2 | by Ivan Zhakata
Seven deadly sins by Mahatma Gandhi: Some critical perspectives on Zimbabwe politics
The Mahatma Gandhi philosophy, the seven sins that will destroy mankind are: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without h...Published: 16 Oct 2015 at 16:49hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe roads 'not for amateurs'
The state of Zimbabwe's roads is the stuff of legend.From whole trucks submerged in water-filled craters right in the central business district to gruesome road accidents, motorists must navig...Published: 07 Jul 2015 at 11:10hrs | | by Marko Phiri I Reuters
Major Zimbabwe roads overhaul on
Transport and Infrastructure Development minister Obert Mpofu has revealed that government will soon embark on major revamping of the country's roads. Mpofu said government was aware that...Published: 18 Sep 2014 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe roads a death trap, says Obert Mpofu
ZIMBABWE'S roads are in a deplorable state and need urgent rehabilitation as they have become a "death trap", a cabinet Minister said yesterday.Transport and Infrastructural Development Minist...Published: 07 Jun 2014 at 09:38hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Mugabe horrified by state of Zimbabwe roads
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe yesterday said he was horrified by the state of roads across the country.He also said a Cabinet committee has been set up to look at the country's water after experts ...Published: 28 Apr 2014 at 08:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe roads now a death trap
MOST of Zimbabwe's major highways have become too narrow to accommodate the high volumes of vehicular traffic, resulting in the numerous road accidents that occurred in recent months, police have said...Published: 14 Mar 2013 at 05:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe toll gate fees looted
Transport Minister Nicholas Goche has accused local government authorities countrywide of "stealing" toll gates fees meant for rehabilitation of country's road network."Recently ZINARA allocat...Published: 18 May 2012 at 11:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
$10 billion needed for Zimbabwe roads rehabilitation
Zimbabwe needs about $10 billion to rehabilitate its road network that has suffered over a decade of neglect due to economic problems.Morciad Chaparira, the head of the Infrastructure Developm...Published: 06 Jul 2011 at 13:38hrs | | by .
The Group Five deal will not dualise Zimbabwe roads
Tthe signing of a deal between Zimbabwe and SA's Group Five for the rehabilitation of the Plumtree-Mutare highway has been viewed as the single largest infrastructural development project after the c...Published: 26 Jun 2011 at 05:39hrs | 10 | by .
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