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Zupco wants govt to warehouse $16,1m debt
The Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) is saddled with a $16,1 million debt and now wants government to warehouse it so that it can work on a turnaround strategy for the bus operator now runnin...Published: 1 hr ago | 70 | by Staff reporter
Smart Express owner speaks on juju use
STRONG talk doing rounds in the public sphere via social media claim that the recent spate of accidents involving Smart Express buses was a result of black magic or juju, which has now turned sour....Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 07:59hrs | 1268 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube sets privatisation timelines
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has set timelines for the disposal and partial privatisation of a number of state-owned enterprises, as part of a raft of measures to revitalise Zimbabwe's fragile econom...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 07:02hrs | 4408 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt unveils parastatal reform strategy
Government has rolled out detailed plans for the restructuring of State-owned Enterprises (SOEs), with 41 entities lined-up for privatisation, departmentalisation and listing on the Zimbabwe Stock Exc...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 05:42hrs | 685 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs Posap and not Esap
This article was extracted from Professor Jonathan Moyo's address to the Open Forum meeting in Bulawayo 27 years ago....Published: 27 Oct 2018 at 09:16hrs | 918 | by Dr Jonathan Moyo
The perils of trade protectionism
The recently gazetted import tariffs imposed by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority on almost all major food items and non-food items — trade protectionism - is a dangerous drift towards the dreaded begg...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 11:36hrs | 629 | by Colls Ndlovu Financial Analyst
Zupco buses in head on collision
TWENTY six people were injured when two Zupco buses were involved in a head-on collision at the 91KM peg along the Binga-Cross Dete Road. The injured were rushed to Binga District Hospital whe...Published: 16 Oct 2018 at 06:17hrs | 1824 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo mourns Alderman Sibanda
Bulawayo mayor and alderman, Alexius Mackson Sibanda, has died.He was 73.Sibanda is survived by his wife, 10 children, 21 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.He will be...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:12hrs | 547 | by Staff reporter
Bus disaster victim dies 3 years later
A SURVIVOR of the famous Mutoko bus disaster, Tasiyana Maguma has died.Maguma died in his sleep in Chiroodza village, Mutoko, at the age of 57 with his relatives suspecting that he succumbed t...Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 11:35hrs | 761 | by Staff reporter
Zupco ownership shocker
Diversified insurance giant Zimre Holdings has been identified as government's sleeping partner in the troubled public bus company Zupco. Account general Daniel Muchemwa says government was eq...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 10:21hrs | 4428 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa dares Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa cannot weed out corrupt elements within his government because he has dirty hands, MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has said.Speaking at a rally in Zvishavane on...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 15:33hrs | 1828 | by Staff reporter
Chickens respond better than Zimbabwe people
There is something that keeps me up at night and today I decided to share it with my fellow Zimbabweans. What makes me worried is what I call the Zimbabwe character. Our behavior, our responses, our e...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 07:29hrs | 1979 | by Sam Wezhira
A sad reminder that nothing has changed: Bulawayo-Harare highway
Under a gigantic Zanu-PF colourful election campaign billboard covered with the image of a half-smiling president of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, is a small stall manned by a middle-aged vendor selli...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 15:13hrs | 1031 | by Staff reporter
Zupco, promises and fibs
A lot has been said on the resurgence and rebound of Zupco buses on our roads yet none are showing. Not long ago the print media was awash with news that two hundred buses had arrived in the country a...Published: 09 Apr 2018 at 12:59hrs | 1405 | by Thomas Murisa
Ex-Zupco workers take salaries plea to court
FIVE former Zimbabwe United Passengers Company (Zupco) employees have sued the parastatal for over $58 000 which they are owed in salaries and benefits.The former workers, Simukayi Chipfunde, ...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 06:03hrs | 92 | by Staff reporter
Kombi Ban/Operation De-congest Hre Inhuman: Transform Zimbabwe
The decision by the government to stop commuter omnibuses from entering town has seriously inconvenienced commuters.From Chitungwiza commuters were dropped off at Coca Cola grounds where they ...Published: 22 Feb 2018 at 13:57hrs | 1502 | by Transform Zimbabwe
Tomana now a free man
Former Prosecutor-General Mr Johannes Tomana breathed a sigh of relief yesterday after the High Court dismissed all the criminal charges he was facing. Mr Tomana had approached the court seeki...Published: 13 Feb 2018 at 05:22hrs | 786 | by Staff reporter
Tomana want case dropped
Former Prosecutor-General Johannes Tomana, who is accused of criminal abuse of office, has approached the High Court seeking the dismissal of the charges over the State's failure to prosecute him with...Published: 06 Feb 2018 at 05:31hrs | 334 | by Staff reporter
Zupco tainted lease agreement
GIFT Investments has continued occupying the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco)'s property in Southerton despite the termination of its lease agreement with the bus company by the High Court la...Published: 03 Feb 2018 at 08:21hrs | 955 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF running scared in Mberengwa
A Political commentator Innocent Shumba has said the ruling Zanu PF is now running scared as the election time draws closer considering the fact that quite a reliable number of voters have registered ...Published: 16 Jan 2018 at 10:16hrs | 2734 | by Staff Reporter
Zupco on highway to recovery?
GOVERNMENT is backing the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company's immediate purchase of 18 buses, with another 100 following soon after.The procurement of the buses marks a major development in op...Published: 12 Nov 2017 at 07:37hrs | 705 | by Staff reporter
Trucker jailed 12 months for killing 31
The driver of the South Africa-registered haulage truck that side-swiped a Johannesburg-bound Proliner bus, killing 31 people in Mvuma early this year has been jailed for an effective one year after p...Published: 01 Sep 2017 at 06:34hrs | 801 | by Staff reporter
Man stabs tout to death
A 41-YEAR-OLD man from Gokwe has been arrested for allegedly stabbing a tout to death in a brawl that ensued after the tout tried to force him to board a bus.It is alleged that on August 17, 2...Published: 24 Aug 2017 at 08:52hrs | 1722 | by Staff reporter
Tshova Mubaiwa working towards penetrating Sadc region tourism
ESTABLISHED in 1983 in Bulawayo and only operating in the City of Kings, Tshova Mubaiwa Transport Co-operative plans on penetrating the Sadc region.Tshova Mubaiwa chief executive officer Samso...Published: 16 Jul 2017 at 13:08hrs | 555 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, the house Bob Mugabe brought down
Zimbabwe, The House Bob Mugabe Brought Down When the nation of Zimbabwe was born on 18 April 1980, Jamaican reggae superstar, Bob Marley, brought the house down at Rufaro Stadium in Harare wit...Published: 07 Jul 2017 at 12:40hrs | 2505 | by Tafi Mhaka
Bus accident survivor sues bus firm for $26 000
A police officer who lost his wife and daughter in a Pioneer bus accident in 2015 is suing the company for $26 000. In papers filed at the High Court, John Mapona is suing for damages for injuries suf...Published: 04 Jul 2017 at 06:37hrs | 1934 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zupco employees locked out of premises
THE Zimbabwe United Passengers Company (Zupco) is yet to pay pensions and terminal benefits for employees retrenched as far back as 1982 and when the former workers went to protest at the company's Bu...Published: 30 May 2017 at 06:38hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zupco employees to stage 3-day sit in
OVER 200 former Zimbabwe United Passengers Company (Zupco) workers have threatened to stage a three-day vigil at the parastatal's Khami depot in Bulawayo this week in protest over unpaid severance pac...Published: 29 May 2017 at 07:00hrs | 292 | by Staff reporter
Bona Mugabe Zimbabwe's next president
My people,I will start with one of the week's most popular sayings."We are on course to meet our target of 2,2 million jobs after successfully creating two jobs for my daughter and her...Published: 28 May 2017 at 09:37hrs | 2557 | by Dr Stop It
ZUPCO wins
THE Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) has won a 10-year-long legal battle against the sole distributor of Scania buses in Zimbabwe, Packhorse Investments.Packhorse had taken the State-...Published: 11 May 2017 at 21:42hrs | 980 | by Staff reporter
Rot at Zupco exposed
Gift Investments, a company owned by prominent businessman Mr Jayesh Shah, has been evicted from the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) premises in Southerton after it emerged that the lease ag...Published: 03 May 2017 at 06:44hrs | 631 | by Staff reporter
Independence a day of retrospect- Fengu
A former Zanu PF youth member Fidelis Fengu has said independence day is a day of retrospect and a responsible citizen would know that it meant service delivery to the nation instead of the co...Published: 20 Apr 2017 at 08:49hrs | 449 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe's parastatal rot - when looting becomes second nature
Ever wondered why the Zimbabwe Government and its ministers find parastatals attractive despite them costing the taxpayer billions of dollars? Our previous article asked questions on the wisdo...Published: 15 Apr 2017 at 13:04hrs | 185 | by David Mutori and Benjamin Paradza
Zimbabwe's parastatal rot - when looting becomes second nature
Ever wondered why the Zimbabwe Government and its ministers find parastatals attractive despite them costing the taxpayer billions of dollars? Our previous article asked questions on the wisdom of the...Published: 13 Apr 2017 at 11:52hrs | 1009 | by David Mutori and Benjamin Paradza
Zupco bus veers off the road
A Zupco bus from Masvingo veers of the road due to the water flooding the run way as the tropical rains his the country. ...Published: 17 Feb 2017 at 15:28hrs | 4345 | by Stephen Jakes
Political interference dominant in parastatals--- Chinotimba says
Zanu PF legislator Joseph Chinatomba has made a passionate plea to politicians to stop interfering in the running of parastatals.Chinotimba said political interference is dominant in parastata...Published: 15 Feb 2017 at 09:17hrs | 893 | by Thobekile Zhou
'Zanu-PF looting parastatals to buy cars'
Morgan Tsvangirai's opposition MDC has accused President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF of milking dry Zimbabwe's parastatals to fund ruling party operations.This comes as Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF...Published: 22 Jan 2017 at 14:28hrs | 898 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF abuses state resources to acquire 365 new motor vehicles
Recent press reports to the effect that the crumbling and faction - ridden Zanu PF political party has acquired 365 brand new Ford Ranger SUV motor vehicles vindicate what we in the MDC have always be...Published: 21 Jan 2017 at 09:23hrs | 770 | by Obert Chaurura Gutu
Zapu-P (Matsinhanise) vs Zanu (J Gumbo)
According to the article published by ZAPU secretary for transport P -Matsinhanise on the 10th of January 2017, the secretary raised main points which are affecting all Zimbabweans. Our transport ...Published: 15 Jan 2017 at 14:39hrs | 330 | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo.
Zupco to pay $5 000 in damages
The arrest and detention of a fuel supplier has backfired on the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company after the High Court ordered the company to pay the victim $5 000 in damages. The bus com...Published: 28 Nov 2016 at 05:23hrs | 380 | by Staff reporter
Bright Matonga: A classic case of Mugabe's land reform
Chigwell Estate used to be a multi-million dollar business that produced citrus fruits for export to the Middle East, Europe and Russia.Just a decade ago, the farm used to employ 1 200 peo...Published: 13 Nov 2016 at 09:39hrs | 1376 | by Staff reporter
Separate politics and development
Our country is manifested with toxic politics. Development means improvement and expansion. As we speak people regret having independence and nothing to celebrate because everything including the good...Published: 31 Oct 2016 at 11:19hrs | 363 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Corruption, motivates Zanu-PF grip on power
I have said it before, again and again that corruption in Zimbabwe is state sanctioned. Here we have the Minister of Higher education and Technology abusing the ZIMDEF fund. Some of the money was used...Published: 26 Oct 2016 at 07:59hrs | 907 | by Zanda Shumba
Mujuru tells Mugabe to boot Jonathan Moyo out or go
Former vice president and now Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) leader, Joice Mujuru, has given President Robert Mugabe an ultimatum - either suspend Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo and his depu...Published: 13 Oct 2016 at 15:04hrs | 2480 | by Staff reporter
Let the law take its course on Prof Jonathan Moyo corruption and fraud case - ZAPU
Last week the nation woke up to news headlines about the impending arrest of Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education Prof Jonathan Moyo for a string of corruption and fraud allegations. We a...Published: 10 Oct 2016 at 18:31hrs | 1620 | by Iphithule kaMaphosa
Takamuka petition Mugabe on bond notes
Protest movement #Tajamuka has drafted a petition to President Robert Mugabe over planned introduction of controversial bond notes.The group which has in recent months organised demonstrations...Published: 10 Oct 2016 at 09:31hrs | 897 | by Thobekile Zhou
Mnangagwa angers Mugabe
AN ANGRY President Robert Mugabe has ordered an investigation into a complaint by Higher Education minister Professor Jonathan Moyo that the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc)'s investigat...Published: 09 Oct 2016 at 08:09hrs | 3875 | by Staff reporter
20 years on Mugabe still demanding UN veto - his maxim 'What is yours must be mine!'
When it comes to how Robert Gabriel Mugabe relate to others, be it at an individual, group or national level, everything he has ever said or done have all been guided by the following three cardinal r...Published: 22 Sep 2016 at 17:30hrs | 720 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zupco in $500,000 fuel debt row
A local fuel company has approached the High Court seeking to recover over $500 000 from the ailing Zimbabwe United Passenger Company for a debt ceded to it by a transport firm.ZX Fuels has be...Published: 12 Sep 2016 at 23:38hrs | 310 | by Fidelis Munyoro
Zanu PF members storm, attack PDP offices
SUSPECTED Zanu PF members have stormed opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) offices in Bulawayo.PDP was due to hold a meeting to prepare for its one year anniversary celebrations at the ...Published: 06 Sep 2016 at 16:43hrs | 1515 | by Thyobekile Zhou
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