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Jailed Zinara boss out on $5,000 bail
Former Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) acting chief executive Moses Julius Juma, who was last October slapped with a two-year jail term for criminal abuse of office, breathed a sigh of ...Published: 19 hrs ago | 372 | by Staff reporter
'Zinara Finance Director deliberately dodged Parliament"
PARLIAMENTARY Public Accounts Committee chairperson Tendai Biti, was left seething with anger after an apparent snub from the Zimbabwe National Roads Authority (Zinara) Financial Director.Biti...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 06:23hrs | 338 | by newzimbabwe
Zinara audit exposes double-dippers
The Zimbabwe National Road Administration (ZINARA) dished out a whopping US$71 million between 2011 and 2016 to 17 private companies that largely failed to deliver, The Herald reported. It als...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:35hrs | 574 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa bullish on TelOne future prospects
The professionalism of TelOne's management, including their determined push to turnaround the State-owned enterprise (SOE), will likely be a drawcard for reputable technical partners or suitors, Presi...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:30hrs | 373 | by Staff rpeorter
Beitbridge-Chirundu highway's new design to cost US$520 000
THE Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu highway dualisation project has been pushed back by a further three months over new designs. This comes as government scouts for a new road designer after Austrian firm...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 19:53hrs | 3070 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe up for $300,000 fraud
Former Zimbabwe National Road Administration (ZINARA) board chairman Albert Mugabe yesterday appeared in court charged with criminal abuse of duty. He allegedly wrote to CBZ bank lying that th...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 06:10hrs | 2606 | by Staff reporter
Zinara gets tough on road contractors
THE Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) will set up a committee to monitor contractors and roads rehabilitation work to ensure that the country gets quality roads.Speaking to counc...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 07:15hrs | 1058 | by Staff reporter
Zinara chefs face corruption probe
DETECTIVES from the police's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Fraud Squad have opened a probe into two Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) senior managers over allegations of corrupt...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 13:14hrs | 1472 | by Staff reporter
CMED tasked to supply fuel, equipment to road authorities
Government has tasked CMED to supply fuel and road equipment to local authorities to help speed up road infrastructure projects currently underway.Speaking to local authorities from Midlands p...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 10:23hrs | 241 | by Staff reporter
Infrastructure paving the road towards 2030
ZIMBABWE is at the beginning of an exciting journey towards prosperity. It won't necessarily be a smooth journey, and beginnings are never easy. But with real reform and a commitment to restructuring ...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 06:52hrs | 231 | by Mthuli Ncube
Grace Mugabe, Zanu-PF bigwigs looted $1 million ZINARA funds
FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe as well as top ZANU-PF leader went on a looting spree and stole over $1 million funds from the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (ZINARA), according to a report by ...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 00:25hrs | 8785 | by Staff reporter
Police instructed to investigate Dexter Nduna over threats to kill Mliswa.
The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has written a letter to the Commissioner General of Police instructing to institute investigations into allegations by Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mli...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 09:00hrs | 3414 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Quick remedy to solve Zimbabwe crisis
Time has come when we all have to put politics aside and adopt progressive imagination to deal with our current scenario. It is not proper for country which was a bread basket nation before would adop...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 15:34hrs | 3628 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Govt mulls compulsory defensive driving courses
TRANSPORT and Infrastructure Development minister Joel Biggie Matiza has encouraged motorists to undergo defensive driving courses, to reduce fatal accidents on the country's roads.Speaking on...Published: 25 Feb 2019 at 08:17hrs | 1004 | by Staff reporter
Harare- Beitbridge road dualisation gathers pace
The construction of detour roads under phase one of the $150 million Masvingo highway expansion project is complete and will start to be operational next week paving way for the long awaited upgrading...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 17:02hrs | 6127 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa avails $30m for Matabeleland South roads
Government has availed $30 million for various roads in Matabeleland South province under the road development programme that will see maintenance of roads and undertaking of developmental projects in...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 11:30hrs | 923 | by Staff reporter
Zinara rules out tollgate fees hike
THE Zimbabwe National Road Adminstration (Zinara) says it will not increase road user fees despite resurgent inflationary pressures.Responding to questions from Matabeleland North road authori...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 10:04hrs | 261 | by Staff reporter
Local authorities seek exemption from 2c tax
LOCAL authorities have appealed to Government seeking exemption from the two percent Intermediated Money Transfer Tax, which they say is impacting negatively on effective use of road fund allocations ...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 22:40hrs | 1221 | by Staff reporter
Tollgate scandal rocks Zinara
inara has lost thousands of dollars in foreign currency and bond notes to tollgate cashiers who have been manipulating operating systems. According to people familiar with the developments, th...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:33hrs | 2692 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa escalates fight against Nduna
NORTON MP Temba Mliswa (independent) has asked the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) to investigate death threats made against him last week by Chegutu West MP Dexter Nduna (Zanu-PF) during a fr...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:27hrs | 1674 | by Staff reporter
Makwavarara's $80m fraud docket to be merged
THE court has ordered that former chairperson of Harare City Council's caretaker commission, Sekesai Makwavavarara, who is accused of awarding a road dualisation tender to Augur Investment Company wit...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:06hrs | 300 | by Staff reporter
Minister blasts poor workmanship on roads
GOVERNMENT will not tolerate poor workmanship on road projects and going forward strict adherence to maintenance of quality standards on infrastructural development will be done to save the country mi...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 06:53hrs | 220 | by Staff reporter
'Zinara toll fees remain unchanged'
The Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) will not increase toll fees, but will implement measures to minimise revenue leakages to channel more funds towards road projects in support of Presi...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 06:30hrs | 124 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa avails $30m for Matebeleland South roads
Government has availed $30 million for various roads in Matebeleland South Province under the road development programme.The programme was meant to fund the maintenance of roads and other deve...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 17:37hrs | 899 | by Staff reporter
Dexter Nduna admits to killing more than once
A Zanu-PF MP once accused firing his gun during an election campaign has boasted that he has killed before.Dexter Nduna, the MP for Chegutu West, made the shock claim while threatening Norton ...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 15:04hrs | 3759 | by ZimLive
Zimbabwe MPs in near fistfight
TEMPERS flared in Parliament yesterday during the sitting of the Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy when Norton MP Temba Mliswa accused former Transport Committee chairperson, Dexter Nduna, of il...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 07:48hrs | 2242 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa eyes 3 major roads per province
Government is targeting to construct or rehabilitate three major trunk roads in each of the country's 10 provinces using public-private partnerships (PPPs) and its own resources, Transport and Infrast...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 07:25hrs | 677 | by Staff reporter
Major trunk roads set for rehab
Government is targeting to construct or rehabilitate three major trunk roads in each of the country's 10 provinces using public-private partnerships (PPPs) and its own resources. In an intervi...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 15:07hrs | 2031 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Temba Mliswa threatens to castrate Zanu-PF MP
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa on Monday brought the Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy to an abrupt end after accusing ZANU PF MP Dexter Nduna of stealing $11 million from Zimbab...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 13:54hrs | 9943 | by Mandla Ndlovu
WATCH: Chaos in parliament over $11 million scandal
There was chaos in parliament on Monday during the sitting of the Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy when Norton MP Temba Mliswa accused former Chairperson of the Parliamentary Portfo...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 11:04hrs | 4993 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe mulls provincial airports
TRANSPORT and Infrastructure Development minister Joel Biggie Matiza has said government is planning to construct provincial airports, with the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe tasked to oversee t...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:15hrs | 1746 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa approves task forces
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has approved the establishment of task forces to oversee the execution of certain priority development projects and programmes, the Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet, Dr...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:06hrs | 1554 | by Staff reporter
Makwavarara granted bail
Former Harare City Council Commission Chair Sekesai Makwavarara yesterday appeared in court facing charges of criminal abuse of duty.Makwavarara, 61, was granted $1 000 bail when she appeared ...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 15:23hrs | 1782 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa building Zimbabwe block by block
The fascination with negativity and self-hate is creating an artificial but widely accepted false narrative that everything in Zimbabwe is going backwards and that Zimbabwe is at its worst time....Published: 03 Feb 2019 at 11:47hrs | 716 | by Nick Mangwana
Supervisor nabbed for tollgate fees 'theft'
A supervisor at the Gweru South tollgate has been arrested for allegedly stealing about $11 000 collected as toll fees. Frank Tendai Mushonga (39) from Gweru appeared before Ms Mildred Matuvi ...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 23:21hrs | 923 | by Staff reporter
Post-Election violence commission submission
I am an independent member of the Zimbabwean society, meaning that I make rational decision and conclusions on political matters. Officially I am trained in the accounting profession henceforth in my ...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 13:17hrs | 1172 | by Terence Simbi
MDC, the anatomy of an economic saboteur
The new dispensation under the leadership of President Emmerson Mnangagwa has committed itself to resuscitating the country's economy and re-engage with the international community in order to end the...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 11:14hrs | 316 | by Elijah Chihota
Stiff penalties for errant fuel firms
Owners of oil companies and service stations that cheat in buying or selling fuel face heavy penalties under new regulations gazetted at the weekend which also show that almost all the fuel price incr...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 15:15hrs | 246 | by Staff reporter
Zinara inconsistencies rile councillors
Inconsistent disbursement of funds to the local authority here by the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) has divided the city fathers with many feeling the latter was causing unnecessary ...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 12:53hrs | 88 | by Staff reporter
Accountability is a key tool of Governance
In the donor community, one of the major requirement is accountability and proper management of resources. In the development world, there is what we call, Monitoring process and evaluation and projec...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 20:38hrs | 350 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Minister advocates for spy cameras
Deputy Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Advocate Fortune Chasi has suggested that government invests in spy cameras as a means of curbing corruption being practiced by some officials in ...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 08:26hrs | 1107 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's ministers fail 2018 ratings
As Zimbabweans waved goodbye to 2018 yesterday, and awaited with much trepidation the dawn of the new year, in the light of the country's deepening economic woes, the Daily News - as per its rich annu...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 14:20hrs | 1179 | by Staff reporter
Registered vehicles up 34%
The number of vehicles registered by the Central Vehicle Registry (CVR) this year rose by 34 percent, while driver's licences processed by same institution went up by 12 percent compared to last year,...Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 19:13hrs | 148 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe government steps up road projects
Government has stepped up major road rehabilitation programmes across the country as it closes in on this year's target to spruce up over 50 000 kilometres of road.This year, Treasury released...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 10:03hrs | 1944 | by Staff Reporter
Zinara seeks $250m for project
THE Zimbabwe National Road Authority (Zinara) will float US$250 million worth of infrastructure bonds to mobilise funds for upgrading the Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge highway. This comes after governmen...Published: 14 Dec 2018 at 06:28hrs | 1048 | by Staff reporter
The ED administration has made significant strides
Last week the opposition and other anti-Government detractors were excited by the United States Deputy Assistant Secretary of States for Africa, Matthew Harrington's submission on Zimbabwe to the US S...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 10:46hrs | 1497 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Bootlicking politics is our major problem
Zimbabwe has for the 37 years bedeviled by politics for the stomach, especially in the ruling party. Political jobs that comes by appointment leaves the appointees and those who have a potenti...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 18:14hrs | 1722 | by Isaac Nkomah
Mnangagwa to recover looted Zinara funds
Government will recover all the money looted from the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara), President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said. An audit report by Grant Thornton unearthed massive...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 05:22hrs | 1216 | by Staff reporter
Promote national harmony, Mnangagwa tells chiefs
The 2018 annual Chiefs Conference has began in Kadoma with President Emmerson Mnangagwa calling on traditional leaders to spread the gospel of love, peace, unity and harmony as preconditions for natio...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 16:57hrs | 850 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa left paralysed by a crisis of legitimacy
Last week on November 24 Emmerson Mnangagwa was in Murombedzi - former president Robert Mugabe's village backyard in Mashonaland West - to commemorate his chequered one year in office following his co...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 10:17hrs | 1602 | by Jonathan N Moyo
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