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Emergency roads rehab starts ko Bulawayo
THE first phase of roadworks in Bulawayo under the Government-funded US$400 million Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme (ERRP) recently launched by President Mnangagwa, has started. Bulawa...Published: 11 May 2021 at 06:37hrs | 744 | by Staff reporter
BCC needs $15m per month to cover roads shortfall
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) requires $15 million per month to cover government funding shortfalls for the city under the nationwide emergency road rehabilitation.Government declared roads in t...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:07hrs | 76 | by Staff reporter
Arrest Zinara looters, says Parly
PARLIAMENT'S Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has ordered law enforcement agents to arrest chefs implicated in the looting of Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara)'s funds, running into millio...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:36hrs | 575 | by Staff reporter
Pupils stranded as police impound vehicles
SCORES of pupils were yesterday left stranded at roadsides as police in Bulawayo impounded vehicles that were pirating in defiance of the Government's travel regulations meant to curb the spread of Co...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 06:36hrs | 808 | by Staff reporter
Prosecution recommended for Zinara looters
ZINARA officials involved in special projects undertaken with questionable and dubious contractors between 2012 and 2016, that prejudiced the Zimbabwe National Road Administration of US$71,5 million a...Published: 28 Apr 2021 at 06:12hrs | 465 | by Staff reporter
'Dubious' contractors prejudice Zinara of US$71,5 million
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) could have been prejudiced of about US$71,5 million in special projects undertaken with a number of "questionable and dubious" contractors between 20...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 08:03hrs | 260 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge road contractors on track to complete revamp
Five Zimbabwean companies contracted to widen, rehabilitate and upgrade the Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge highway are confident of completing all the roadworks and have the revamped road fully working ne...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 07:56hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo identifies roads for Govt funded repairs
A total of 43 roads in Bulawayo have been identified to be rehabilitated under the Government's Emergency Roads Rehabilitation Programme (ERRP) at a cost of $872 million.Early this month, Pres...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 07:27hrs | 423 | by Staff reporter
Parly exposes Zinara tender scam
THE Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) unprocedurally awarded lucrative contracts to private entities to supply equipment and services that prejudiced the parastatal of huge amounts of mo...Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 07:14hrs | 1265 | by Staff reporter
Excessive taxation driving fuel prices up
On the 5th of April, the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) announced new pump price ceilings for fuel on the local market. The maximum pump price for Diesel is now ZW$111.77 per litre, up fr...Published: 19 Apr 2021 at 09:09hrs | 1327 | by Victor Bhoroma
ZINARA diverts road fund from Mutare City Council to Government
Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (ZINARA) diverted road fund which was supposed to go to Mutare City Council and gave it to the Government Road department.This was after an order fom Zan...Published: 19 Apr 2021 at 08:05hrs | 1447 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
$400m for urban road rehab
Work has already started on repairing urban roads under the Government's Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme (ERRP), set up after the MDC-run urban councils had failed, spending much time on polit...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 06:21hrs | 187 | by Staff reporter
Residents must resist road levy
THE Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA) is calling all residents of greater Harare and motorists to resist the introduction of a roads levy by the City of Harare.The move comes at a t...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 07:18hrs | 467 | by Combined Harare Residents Association
BCC gets over $15m for road maintenance
GOVERNMENT, through the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara), recently disbursed over $15 million to the Bulawayo City Council for routine road maintenance works that includes pothole patchi...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:33hrs | 583 | by Staff reporter
Transport ministry resumes Esigodini tollgate expansion
THE Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development has started work on the expansion of the tollgate in Esigodini to ease traffic congestion with roadworks having been completed. The to...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:19hrs | 245 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa takes over, to repair 72 'high-impact' MDC council roads
The Zimbabwe government says it is taking over "high impact" urban roads from local authorities which will undergo major works after years of rain-damage and neglect.Local authorities and cent...Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 16:33hrs | 3049 | by Staff reporter
Harare proposes road levy
THE Harare City Council (HCC) plans to introduce a road levy for residents as the local authority seeks to raise funds to rehabilitate its dilapidated road network. This comes after the HCC De...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 16:58hrs | 1191 | by Staff reporter
Cowdray Park residents to pay for roads rehabilitation
RESIDENTS in Cowdray Park Hlalani Kuhle in Bulawayo will be required to contribute money towards the rehabilitation of the poor road infrastructure in the suburb.This comes amid revelations th...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 09:07hrs | 366 | by Staff reporter
Chaos reigns supreme at tollgates
ANARCHY now reigns on all Zimbabwe highway tollgates, affecting all the roads that lead to the country's cities.On average, a trip from Bulawayo to Harare takes an extra two hours to reach one...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 06:39hrs | 1067 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Fuel taxes will prevent tollgate Anarchy
ANARCHY now reigns on all Zimbabwe highway tollgates affecting all the roads that lead to the country's cities. On average a trip from Bulawayo to Harare is taking an extra 2 hours to reach one'...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 22:41hrs | 1504 | by Engineer Jacob kudzayi Mutisi
75% of Bulawayo roads in bad state
AT least 75 percent of Bulawayo's road network has outlived its lifespan, with council revealing that the funds they received from the Zimbabwe National Road Authority (Zinara) was a mere drop in the ...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 06:45hrs | 254 | by Staff reporter
Zinara told to hand over vehicle licensing to councils
COMBINED Harare Residents Association (CHRA) has written to the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) to hand over vehicle licensing responsibilities to local authorities to enhance transpare...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 05:57hrs | 1690 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa speaks on court delays
Government is committed to the timely conclusion of court cases so that litigants and accused persons do not suffer undue delays, legislators heard yesterday. Information, Publicity and Broadcasti...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 05:35hrs | 290 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's vehicle licensing, registration must be devolved
GOVERNMENT'S recent declaration of a "national disaster" on roads is a ploy to centralise road maintenance.This is against the principle of devolution as enshrined in chapter 14 of the Constit...Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 06:19hrs | 992 | by Mable Murambiwa
Biti vows to continue exposing graft
TENDAI Biti has effectively been using his position as the chair of Zimbabwe's parliamentary public accounts committee and his legal and financial skills to expose billions of US dollars of taxpayers'...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 15:45hrs | 2048 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's no go routes for Ngwena's motorcade.
I knew no politics by 1980 because I was still too young. I remember well in the early 1980s we used to read about Mugabe and Nkomo but this history made little sense to our young apolitical minds by ...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | 6029 | by Etiwel Mutero
Biti recall meant to stymie corruption fight
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's anti-people, dictatorial regime has unlawfully recalled MDC Alliance vicepresident Tendai Biti from Parliament to thwart his anti-corruption drive in the Public Accounts...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 07:20hrs | 694 | by People's Party
Businessman up for bribing Zinara bosses
HARARE businessman Freddy Chimbari of Fremus Enterprises yesterday appeared in court facing bribery charges after he bribed officials at the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) to win a US$...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 06:04hrs | 1166 | by Staff reporter
Biti says recalls meant to paralyse Parliament's Public Accounts Committee
Recalled Tendai Biti, who is MDC Alliance vice-president, claims that recalls from Parliament by a faction of the PDP working in cahoots with the ruling Zanu-PF party were meant to paralyse Parliament...Published: 18 Mar 2021 at 05:57hrs | 3502 | by Staff reporter
Former Vice President's Boy Ex-Zinara acting CEO goes into hiding
FORMER Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) acting chief executive officer Moses Julius Juma is on the run after losing a High Court appeal against his conviction for abuse of office....Published: 15 Mar 2021 at 17:58hrs | 3131 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zinara to introduce coupon system at tollgates
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) is set to introduce a coupon system to address congestion at tollgates which has seen motorists spending a long time in queues. The queues ha...Published: 15 Mar 2021 at 05:02hrs | 801 | by Staff reporter
Chitungwiza residents resist road levy
CHITUNGWIZA residents have accused their municipality of double taxation after the authorities introduced a new road levy in their 2021 budget. Presenting the municipality's budget on Tuesday,...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 19:16hrs | 723 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo approves Chiredzi TC, RDC budgets
The local authorities of Chiredzi both the Town Council and the Rural District Council's (RDC) 2021 budgets have been approved by the Minister of Local Government, National Housing and Public Works, J...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 14:46hrs | 389 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gave me a task, says ex-Chamisa ally
FORMER MDC Alliance deputy treasurer-general Lillian Timveos, who recently defected to Zanu-PF, has confirmed long-held fears that the ruling party was plotting to decimate the opposition party ahead ...Published: 08 Mar 2021 at 05:51hrs | 8173 | by Staff reporter
Zinara has turned a new leaf
THE Grant Thornton Forensic Audit commissioned by the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development in 2016 highlighted several corporate governance deficiencies at the Zimbabwe National Road ...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:51hrs | 985 | by Staff reporter
Newly-commissioned roads in sorry state
Council's two newly-resurfaced roads that were commissioned in May 2019 are now in a sorry state with knee-deep potholes that have made the roads impassable and hazardous to motorists.The road...Published: 04 Mar 2021 at 06:24hrs | 1014 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zinara bosses granted bail for flouting tender deal
FOUR former top executives of the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) yesterday appeared in court on allegations of flouting procurement procedures by hiring two security companies rejecte...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 06:32hrs | 194 | by Staff reporter
US$250m bond for Harare Beitbridge road
An infrastructure bond issue for US$250 million will be floated to finance the rehabilitation and new construction of the 584km Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge highway from the flyover replacing Mbudzi rou...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 06:30hrs | 785 | by Staff reporter
DDF in bridges, road rehab
The District Development Fund (DDF) in Mashonaland Central has started repairing bridges and 2 400km of roads after receiving $546,2 million from Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) and Gov...Published: 01 Mar 2021 at 04:50hrs | 217 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa mustn't be blamed for poor service delivery
THE Urban Councils Authority of Zimbabwe (UCAZ) says the crusade by the ruling Zanu-PF to blame the opposition on the chaotic state of most urban councils, served no purpose but only worsened service ...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 08:40hrs | 1203 | by Staff reporter
Chikwinya urges Zinara to decongest tollgates
MBIZO MP Settlement Chikwinya (MDC Alliance) has called on the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) to decongest traffic at tollgates by introducing tap cards.In a statement yesterda...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 06:51hrs | 1401 | by Staff reporter
Mandiwanzira confronts TIZ with $1m defamation suit over article
FORMER ICT minister and serving legislator Supa Mandiwanzira is demanding damages amounting to $1 million from Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ) over what he terms defamatory content against h...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 06:52hrs | 149 | by Staff reporter
Mafume exposes MDC Alliance's poor leadership pedigree
Last week, social media was on fire when the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Mr Nick Mangwana revealed that despite getting three times less in ...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 06:48hrs | 506 | by Nobleman Runyanga
What kind of beast is devouring Chiwenga's generals?
"Covid -19 complications", is the cause of the death of army generals. At least that is what we are told by the government of Zimbabwe and the state media.Zimbabwe must be having a new covid- ...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 08:35hrs | 7521 | by Israel Dube
Road infrastructure decay needs policy change
The pace of Zimbabwe's road infrastructure decay has reached alarming levels which call for a policy change by the government. The country's major highways and urban roads have become a living hazard ...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 14:34hrs | 753 | by Victor Bhoroma
Harare roads funds need audit
The heavy rains have highlighted the lack of maintenance and lack of required rebuilding on many Harare roads, with the city council getting its fair share of Zinara funds and having access to parking...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 06:45hrs | 313 | by Staff reporter
Mandiwanzira hits out at 'staggering incompetence' over 'cartels' report
Former Cabinet Minister Supa Mandiwanzira has been left crying foul over what he called "staggering incompetence" by a South African publication, the Daily Maverick, whose exclusive report on the mass...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:55hrs | 3289 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga-linked cartels take over public firms, mines, fuel sector - report
HIGHLY secretive cartels linked to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice President Constantino Chiwenga are reported to have taken over the operations of key state-owned companies, including private f...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 07:33hrs | 8133 | by Staff reporter
$150m needed to rehabilitate roads, bridges in Matabeleland North
THE District Development Fund (DDF) needs about $150 million to rehabilitate 150km of roads and bridges damaged by incessant rains in Matabeleland North. DDF has a total gravel road network of...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 05:40hrs | 278 | by Staff reporter
RBZ still optimistic about low inflation
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor, Dr John Mangudya, remains confident authorities will be able to maintain a lid on prices to curtail potential relapse into runaway inflation, following worrying incr...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 05:29hrs | 216 | by Staff reporter
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