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Matebeleland companies demand transparency in forex allocation
Industry in Matebeleland has demanded transparency in the allocation of foreign currency to companies in the region at a time when Zimbabwe is facing critical shortages of the hard currency.In...Published: 5 hrs ago | 330 | by Staff reporter
Joel Biggie Matiza's ex-aide arrested
A personal assistant to a Cabinet Minister allegedly swindled the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) of over 19 000 litres of fuel and a vehicle after misrepresenting that his boss needed...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 06:24hrs | 359 | by Staff reporter
Police, Zinara, VID to pounce on unregistered vehicles
The Police in partnership with the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (ZINARA) and the Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) N have warned motorist...Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 08:29hrs | 1222 | by Stephen Jakes
Priority shifts to investigations, asset recovery
The commission has so far this year received more than 60 reports of suspected corruption.The reports were received through walk-in clients, by telephone, through letters, email and use of soc...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:32hrs | 97 | by Comm John Makamure
Biti sucked in dodgy fuel deal
Mine Oil and Gas Services, which of late has been making futile attempts to build a second pipeline in Zimbabwe was a project meant to bankroll the opposition, official documents have revealed....Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 15:37hrs | 6616 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko turns tables against Avondale top cop
FORMER Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko, who is facing a charge of corruptly causing the release of two government officials arrested for sleaze, has turned the tables against officer-in-charge at Av...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:27hrs | 1014 | by Staff reporter
Rains worsen pothole menace
Rains that are falling countrywide might have come as a blessing to most people, especially farmers, but for motorists in Harare, they are slowly becoming a curse as potholes proliferate and the clay ...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 05:58hrs | 200 | by Staff reportert
MOGS fuel deal: An MDC project
NEW details are emerging regarding Mine Oil and Gas Services (MOGS), which of late has been making futile attempts to build a second pipeline in Zim...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 21:51hrs | 2285 | by Paul Ndou
Harare magistrate slams Mphoko 'delay tactics'
A Harare magistrate has expressed disquiet over "delay tactics" being employed by the defence team of former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko, who is facing charges of criminal abuse of office. ...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 05:43hrs | 130 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko wins Sabbath day battle
THERE was drama at former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko's, pictured, court hearing yesterday after his lawyer and the trial magistrate Hosea Mujaya engaged in a heated debate over whether the matt...Published: 31 Jan 2020 at 19:24hrs | 3077 | by Staff reporter
Residents, council face off over $1,8bn budget
GWERU residents have threatened to boycott paying rates after the council started implementing a $1,8 billion budget which was allegedly smuggled to the Local Government ministry without their consent...Published: 30 Jan 2020 at 08:59hrs | 124 | by Staff reporter
Govt plugs Zinara revenue leakages
GOVERNMENT has managed to plug revenue leakages at the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (ZINARA) and is confident the parastatal now has the capacity to raise $3 billion annually. In an i...Published: 28 Jan 2020 at 12:31hrs | 186 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko seeks direct access to ConCourt
FORMER Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko yesterday filed an application for the postponement of his corruption trial to allow him to directly approach the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) for recourse ...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:23hrs | 161 | by Staff reporter
Zinara in staff clear out
A substantive chief executive officer for the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) will start work on April 1 as the face of a new executive that took over from the previous scandal-plagued ...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:09hrs | 145 | by Staff reporter
Zinara boss fired
Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) tolling manager Mr Ostern Chimedza has been fired for presiding over financial leakages at tollgates running into millions of dollars. His dismissal com...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:02hrs | 47 | by Staff reporter
Zinara boss fired
Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) tolling manager Mr Ostern Chimedza has been fired for presiding over financial leakages at tollgates running into millions of dollars. His dismi...Published: 25 Jan 2020 at 20:02hrs | 1277 | by Staff Reporter
Reprieve for ex-Zinara boss
Harare regional magistrate Mr Hosea Mujaya has temporarily suspended the restitution of 1 800 litres of fuel to the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) by its former finance director, Simon...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:29hrs | 663 | by Staff reporter
Zinara fires 96 cashiers
THE Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) has terminated contracts for nearly 100 cashiers, a move which the authorities say was meant to plug leakages at tollgates.Zinara acting chi...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 13:14hrs | 2387 | by Staff reporter
Firms tussle over control of Zimbabwe tollgates company
The Zimbabwe National Road Administration (ZINARA) and Mabentu Consortium of South Africa are headed for a major tussle over the control of Group Five's stake in Infralink, a special vehicle, created ...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 05:57hrs | 161 | by Staff rpeorter
250 Zinara employees to be laid off
THE restructuring exercise by the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) will result in 250 employees without fixed contracts being laid off while another 96 terminations are currently being ...Published: 16 Jan 2020 at 14:43hrs | 3679 | by Staff Reporter
ZINARA disburses $173M for roads
Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) disbursed $173 million to road authorities in 2019 as Government doubled efforts to provide an efficient transport system befitting an upper middle incom...Published: 04 Jan 2020 at 22:16hrs | 1627 | by Staff Reporter
6 vie for Zinara top post
Six candidates have been interviewed to fill the vacant chief executive officer post at the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara).The post fell vacant following the resignation of act...Published: 19 Dec 2019 at 05:11hrs | 1004 | by Staff reporter
Fresh graft probe against Kasukuwere
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has commenced a probe into a raft of allegations of corruption at the Gokwe Town Council (GTC) where former Local Government minister, Saviour Kasukuwere...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 11:54hrs | 954 | by Staff reporter
Govt mulls reviewing fuel pricing formula again
Government is considering shifting from weekly fuel price reviews to monthly adjustments to stem the price volatility that is disrupting planning by businesses and negatively impacting on consumers....Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 11:43hrs | 197 | by Staff reporter
MDC mourns ZUPCO accident victims, blames unroadworthy buses
The MDC has expressed its condolences to the families who lost their loved ones in the Epworth ZUPCO bus disaster. In astatement, party secretary for transport Settlement Chikwinya said it was sad...Published: 07 Dec 2019 at 09:35hrs | 1801 | by Staff Reporter
Zinara boss resignation raises eyebrows
The Zimbabwe National Road Authority (Zinara)'s acting chief executive officer Saston Muzenda resigned recently amid reports that operations at the troubled parastatal have been affected by interferen...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 14:29hrs | 1642 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko to be tried in Bambazonke
Harare magistrate Hosea Mujaya yesterday dismissed an application by former Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko to have his trial transferred from Harare to Bulawayo.Mphoko's lawyer, Advocate Ta...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 09:20hrs | 1627 | by Staff reporter
ZACC intensifies asset recovery
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) intensified its asset recovery programme in the past two weeks by impounding several vehicles suspected of being smuggled into the country without paymen...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 05:52hrs | 131 | by Comm John Makamure
Water charges to go up 400%
Harare City Council's budget proposals delivered last night will see the average bill for high-density householders rise to $225 a month. In the budget, council quadrupled water charges, raise...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 06:18hrs | 552 | by Staff reporter
Zinara officers arrested in forex toll fraud
Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) officers have defrauded the entity of at least US$30 000, and perhaps as much as US$450 000 in a cheating scam using tollgate coupons issued to foreign ...Published: 23 Nov 2019 at 06:39hrs | 1066 | by Staff reporter
Dr Nkululeko Sibanda's property to be seized by ZACC
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is ready to hunt the corrupt beyond the grave and now wants to seize property in the estate of the late Twalumba Holdings director Dr Nkululeko Sibanda. ...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 06:30hrs | 3545 | by Staff reporter
Former Zinara boss jailed
Former Zinara finance director Simon Mudzingwa Taranhike has been jailed for an effective 15 months after being found guilty of criminal abuse of office. Taranhike abused the Zinara fuel facil...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 08:01hrs | 1561 | by Staff Reporter
Ex-Zinara boss jailed
Former Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (ZINARA) Director, Simon Mudzingwa Taranhike will spend the next 15 months behind bars after he was found guilty and convicted for criminal abuse of offic...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 19:20hrs | 2231 | by Staff reporter
Mass resignations hit Zinara
At least 12 top executives have resigned from the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) in protest over alleged interference, endemic corruption, harassment and threats from some board member...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:43hrs | 4631 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko's trial in false start
The trial of former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko on criminal abuse of office charges hit a brick wall yesterday after his lawyer Mr Zibusiso Ncube applied for exception without notice. It...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:26hrs | 182 | by Staff reporter
Zinara fatcats in tollgates scam
A FRESH storm has hit the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) after the parastatal proposed to award a million-dollar deal to its perennial contractor Univern, a deal seen as a corrupt way ...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:23hrs | 956 | by Staff reporter
Zinara fires 30 cashiers for fraud
THIRTY Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) cashiers have been fired for fraud and theft. This comes after the authority uncovered systematic scams at four tollgates involving cashiers, supe...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 06:21hrs | 1160 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa holds keys to removal of sanctions'
The United States envoy to Zimbabwe Ambassador Brian Nichols has said that only President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration holds the keys to the removal of sanctions if they implement the political...Published: 02 Nov 2019 at 13:35hrs | 4951 | by Staff reporter
Zinara deputy board chairman quits in security tender row
The vice chairman of the roads agency, ZINARA, has resigned in a growing storm over alleged flouting of tender procedures.Runyararo Jambo resigned on October 28 in a letter to Transport Minist...Published: 29 Oct 2019 at 17:24hrs | 1227 | by Staff reporter
Zinara hunts for CEO, FD
The Zimbabwe National Road Administration (zinara) is hunting for a new chief executive after Engineer Nancy Masiyiwa-Chamisa was fired for alleged gross incompetence and abuse of office. In a...Published: 28 Oct 2019 at 06:35hrs | 811 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa regime's attempt to mis-locate Zimbabwe's problems
Today, the regime in Zimbabwe has bussed the hapless victims of its unmitigated cluelessness in a vain attempt to mis-locate the country's problems in far-away Europe and Washington.As the hun...Published: 26 Oct 2019 at 07:54hrs | 899 | by Luke Batsirai Tamborinyoka
No tollgate fees on Friday 25 October
The ZINARA Acting Chief Executive Officer has instructed all the Tolling Supervisors to allow vehicles carrying people going to the anti-sanctions demonstrations on Friday 25 October to pass tollgates...Published: 24 Oct 2019 at 15:45hrs | 3394 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Villagers set-up off road 'tollgate'
DARING villagers in Mapiye village under Chief Musarurwa have set up their own "tollgate," cashing in on motorists who are evading the official Zinara plaza along Chivhu-Murambinda Highway, about 18km...Published: 23 Oct 2019 at 11:06hrs | 3233 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zinara boss name unchanged
The State yesterday told the court that former Zinara boss, Frank Chitukutuku who is facing six charges of criminal abuse of office had not officially changed his name. Chitukutuku allegedly a...Published: 23 Oct 2019 at 05:55hrs | 500 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira's trial to kick off on the 4th
The state has completed investigations into four of the nine criminal abuse of office charges against former Minister of Environment, Tourism and Hospitality Industry, Priscah Mupfumira, to pave way f...Published: 22 Oct 2019 at 21:40hrs | 1361 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zinara boss arrested
FORMER Zinara boss, Frank Chitukutuku has appeared in court facing six charges of criminal abuse of office after allegedly awarding road rehabilitation contracts worth US$20 million to a 'colleague' w...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:37hrs | 253 | by Staff rpeorter
Under probe ex-Zinara boss changes name from Chitukutu to Mandlamakhulu
FORMER Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) chief executive Frank Chitukutuku, who is under investigation for fraud, has changed his surname. He has done so together with his family. This i...Published: 19 Oct 2019 at 07:10hrs | 1307 | by Staff reporter
Banking Survey places NMB among country's top three banks
NMB Bank's top level performance was acknowledged in this year's Zimbabwe Independent Banks and Banking Survey, where it was second runner-up for the Overall Bank of the Year award.The results...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 13:06hrs | 2061 | by Agencies
'Zinara chair Madanha harasses staff'
A SENIOR Harare regional magistrate yesterday issued a court order for the State to investigate the person who wrote a Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) Press statement defending the alle...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 07:28hrs | 333 | by Staff reporter
Zinara board chair freezes as corrupt activities exposed
Former Transport deputy minister and Zimbabwe National Road Administration board chairman Michael Madanha was on Tuesday left speechless in court after dismissed finance director Simon Taranhike asked...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 07:53hrs | 3565 | by Staff reporter
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