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Zimbabwe govt deploys ambulances at tollgates
The government has announced plans to station ambulances at tollgates and along major highways across Zimbabwe, aiming to improve emergency medical response and curb road accident fatalities.T...Published: 24 Jun 2025 at 09:28hrs | 344 | by Staff reporter
Free emergency medical care for road accident victims
In a major overhaul of Zimbabwe's post-accident emergency response system, the Government is proposing a new law that will ensure road traffic accident (RTA) victims receive free emergency medical att...Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 11:56hrs | 115 | by Staff reporter
Borrowdale road: A stretch of prestige shadowed by tragedy
Driving along Borrowdale Road offers a stark contrast to the chaotic scenes common on many other city roads. Known as the route favored by Zimbabwe's elite-politicians, business executives, and securi...Published: 07 Jun 2025 at 10:44hrs | 404 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cabinet approves Road Accident Fund Bill
The Zimbabwean Cabinet has approved the principles of the Road Accident Fund Bill, a landmark legislative step aimed at improving emergency treatment, medical care, and funeral assistance for road tra...Published: 04 Jun 2025 at 09:32hrs | 698 | by Staff reporter
ZPA urges Mnangagwa to address road carnage in the country
Zimbabwe Passengers Association Secretary general Paul Makiwa has appealed to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government to try and address road carn...Published: 28 May 2025 at 22:27hrs | 435 | by Stephen Jakes
Chipo Muchegwa engages Sangoma
Musician Chipo Muchegwa is continuing to remember the people living with disability as she has scaled a step up by engaging Glendale based traditional healer Sekuru Nyangatayani in giving back to comm...Published: 24 May 2025 at 22:49hrs | 1638 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Bindura
Zimbabwean ministers visit Rovos-BBR train accident victims
The Minister of Tourism and Hospitality Industry, Barbara Rwodzi, and the Bulawayo Minister of State for Provincial Affairs, Judith Ncube, visited the victims of the Gwanda train accident at Mater Dei...Published: 21 Apr 2025 at 09:05hrs | 329 | by Staff reporter
HAYTA pledges assistance to some Kuwadzana-Dzivaresekwa accident victims
Harare Youth Transporters Association (Hayta) Chairperson, Mr Edmore Gwengwe has pledged two coffins and some few groceries to cover funeral requirements from amongst Kuwadzana-Dzivaresekwa junction v...Published: 19 Mar 2025 at 11:30hrs | 448 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
17 arrested for photographing accident scene in Zimbabwe
Seventeen individuals were arrested in Harare's central business district for taking photographs with their smartphones at the scene of a road traffic accident. The incident occurred at the corner of ...Published: 15 Jan 2025 at 19:12hrs | 1839 | by Staff reporter
Police appeal for assistance in identifying road accident victim
Police in Harare are seeking the public's help in identifying the body of a 12-year-old boy who was fatally struck by a car along Seke Road in October. The victim, whose body is still at the Parirenya...Published: 31 Dec 2024 at 13:38hrs | 59 | by Staff reporter
Police warn looting at accident scenes
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has issued a stern warning to the public against looting goods from accident scenes, describing it as a serious criminal offence.National police spokesperson...Published: 10 Dec 2024 at 12:54hrs | 343 | by Staff reporter
Hit & run accident victim battles for life
A Bulawayo woman is in critical condition after being struck by a vehicle in a hit-and-run accident on Monday at the intersection of Khami and West Hand roads, near Khami Café. The motorist involved ...Published: 10 Oct 2024 at 07:53hrs | 822 | by Staff reporter
Another State-assisted funeral for Mashonaland accident victims
Eight victims of a tragic road accident that occurred near Hwedza on Tuesday have been granted State-assisted funerals, Youth Empowerment, Development and Vocational Training Minister and Hwedza South...Published: 04 Oct 2024 at 08:22hrs | 130 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police name seven accident victims
Police have identified seven people who tragically lost their lives in two separate road accidents over the weekend in Masvingo and Rusape.The first accident occurred on Saturday at around 7:2...Published: 20 Sep 2024 at 07:52hrs | 139 | by Staff reporter
Kombi loses brakes hits tree, injures 11
A Harare-bound Toyota Hiace allegedly lost brakes and hit a tree at the 52-kilometer peg along Mazowe-Centenary road yesterday.Eleven people were injured one of them seriously injured....Published: 19 Sep 2024 at 08:21hrs | 839 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe to cover costs of repatriating SA bus accident victims
Zimbabwe's Consul-General in South Africa, Eria Phiri, says that the government of Zimbabwe will carry the costs of repatriating the bodies of the people that died in a bus accident in Louis Trichardt...Published: 31 Aug 2024 at 11:14hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter
Govt to assist Chikozho bus accident victims
The Zimbabwean government will aid in the burial of nine victims who died in a Chikozho bus accident near Topora Business Centre in Masvingo Central. The accident occurred when an overloaded b...Published: 11 Aug 2024 at 18:31hrs | 435 | by Staff reporter
Minister seeks Parly support for road accident fund
Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Felix Mhona addressed the National Assembly, urging Parliament to endorse a road accident fund aimed at compensating individuals involved in road acc...Published: 03 Jul 2024 at 10:29hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Accident victims named
Police have identified the five victims of a fatal road accident that occurred last Thursday night at the 106 km peg along the Karoi-Binga Road. The accident involved a Nissan UD truck carrying 38 pas...Published: 01 Jul 2024 at 03:59hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Accident victim loses US$234,000 claim against bus operator
Peter Musindo's claim against Mukumba Brothers bus operator, Inter Africa Bus Service, for damages resulting from a road accident has been dismissed by the High Court due to procedural lapses. Musindo...Published: 20 Jun 2024 at 07:28hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Accident victims robbed at gunpoint
Seven unidentified men allegedly robbed two brothers-in-law at gunpoint as they were looking for help after their vehicle overturned thrice along the Harare - Masvingo Highway on Saturday evening....Published: 12 Jun 2024 at 08:26hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe suspends bus operator's licence
THE Government has suspended the operator's licence for Simlex bus company after a fatal bus accident in South Africa, which has so far resulted in the death of 15 Zimbabweans.In a statement y...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 05:06hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Embassy deploys to aid SA crash victims
THE Zimbabwe Consulate in Cape Town has sent a team to the scene of an accident where 13 Zimbabweans were killed and others injured, including 12 still in hospital, when their coach collided with a ha...Published: 12 Mar 2024 at 05:11hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Accident victim gets US$37 189 damages
A man crippled and now requiring hip replacement after a reckless motorist rammed his car in 2008, is to receive US$37 189 in compensation for medical expenses plus loss of employment and future care ...Published: 22 Feb 2024 at 04:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Free emergency health services for one month
PRIVATE healthcare institution, Corporate 24, has pledged to provide free emergency health services this month targeting members of the public in Bulawayo and Harare in a bid to reduce costs and compl...Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 04:43hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga offers state-assisted funeral for bus accident victims
Acting President Dr Constantino Chiwenga has sent a message of condolence following the death of five people in an accident that occurred at the 64km peg along the Harare-Mutare highway on Wednesday....Published: 29 Dec 2023 at 06:59hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa grants State-assisted burials for 22 Quantum accident victims
President Mnangagwa yesterday paid his condolences to the families of the 22 people, who died in a head-on collision involving a Toyota Quantum minibus and a DAF truck along the Bulawayo-Beitbridge Ro...Published: 17 Nov 2023 at 05:03hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns accident victims
President Mnangagwa expressed his condolences for the victims of the Murowa Diamonds plane crash in Mashava and the Bay Horse Mine accident in Chegutu, both of which occurred on Friday.During ...Published: 01 Oct 2023 at 07:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa donates US$1000 each to families of Stallion bus accident victims
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has donated a bereavement contribution of US$1000 each to families of the Binga Stallion bus accident victims.The assistance was handed over through Forever Associ...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 08:25hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Police release names of Stallion Cruise bus accident victims
POLICE have released the names of the five people who died in an accident when a Stallion Cruise bus overturned at the five kilometre peg along Binga-Siabuwa Road, near Masumu Bridge, Samende area on ...Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 06:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Air ambulance to the rescue
A 54-year-old road traffic accident victim was airlifted from Bindura to Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals in Harare by a four-member team of Russian and Zimbabwean paramedics, as the medical air rescue...Published: 11 Jul 2023 at 23:16hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
CAG bus fatal accident victims named
Police have named six people who died in an accident along Harare road when a CAG bus burst its tyre before overturningThe accident happened along the Harare-Mukumbura road on Saturday....Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 06:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
3 dead, 15 injured in crash while returning from funeral
AN overloaded Toyota Hilux D4D carrying mourners from a funeral in Kadoma was involved in a fatal road accident Saturday that claimed three lives while 15 people were left injured.The accident...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 19:01hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Doctor extorts US$350 from accident victim
A Chitungwiza Central Hospital medical doctor is facing disciplinary charges on allegations of attempting to extort US$350 from a parent of a girl who was one of the learners injured in a road traffic...Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 06:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Fuel tanker fatal accident victim identified
A FUEL tanker driver who died on the spot yesterday in Bulawayo opposite Mzilikazi Barracks along the Bulawayo-Harare highway has been identified as, Blessing Nhira aged 39 from Uplands Waterfalls, Ha...Published: 27 May 2023 at 19:39hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Police names Easter accident victims
POLICE have identified 10 people who died in a road accident that occurred on April 7, 2023 at the 193,5-kilometre peg along Harare -Masvingo Road.In a statement, the national police spokesper...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 16:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa blames 'bad' road for accident that claimed 6 Zanu-PF supporters
President Emmerson Mnangagwa Tuesday came short of blaming his own administration for neglecting the country's road infrastructure as he mourned and further accorded a state assisted funeral on six Za...Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 08:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Accident victims linked to robbery
A gang of three robbers who first dispossessed a driver of a Toyota Wish in Rusape on Thursday night last week and then raided a bottle store was involved in an accident a few hours later when they cr...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 05:28hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Chariots of death' on Zimbabwe's roads
WHILE speaking at the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims (WDR) in Bulawayo recently, Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Felix Mhona revealed that 1 559 people were kille...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:08hrs | | by Pamenus Tuso
3 dead in bus crash with private vehicle
Three people died while one was seriously injured when an Inter Africa bus carrying some 50 passengers was involved in a fatal road traffic accident with a private vehicle Friday.The tragedy, ...Published: 27 Nov 2022 at 16:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'40% Zimbabwean cars uninsured'
At least 40 percent of cars on Zimbabwe's roads do not have insurance cover, the Insurance Council of Zimbabwe (ICZ) has said.ICZ spokesperson Ringisai Batiya said this has affected victims of...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe moots Road Accident Fund
Government is mooting the establishment of a Road Accident Fund (RAF) which is aimed at minimising the effects of traffic accidents on the citizenry and the proposal was tabled to traffic stakeholders...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 18:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland provinces get 10 ambulances
THE Government has delivered 10 fully-kitted ambulances to Matabeleland North and South provinces out of the 100 it has so far procured as part of its efforts to alleviate challenges arising from tran...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 07:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ambulance distribution begins
The Government has allocated 40 new fully kitted ambulances to public health institutions countrywide, while an additional 60 specialised medical emergency vehicles are set to be distributed to health...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 08:57hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt repairs X-ray machine 4 years on
GOVERNMENT has repaired an X-ray machine at Hurungwe District Hospital in Karoi town, which broke down four years ago forcing patients to seek services from private health institutions.Hurungw...Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police target highway criminals
Criminal syndicates operating around Ngundu Growth Point in southern Masvingo have been targeting accident victims along the Harare-Beitbridge highway, prompting police to launch an operation to bring...Published: 26 Sep 2022 at 05:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Operation no to accident victims theft'
A Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) blitz at Lundi Business Centre in Mwenezi led to the recovery of 7 000 litres of diesel and other goods including 550 kg of fertilizers, grocery items like...Published: 25 Sep 2022 at 16:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Names of accident victims released
POLICE today released the names of three of the four victims that died in a fatal traffic accident which occurred along Lion's Den –Mhangura Road last week.The accident claimed four lives an...Published: 20 Sep 2022 at 06:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga urged to release ambulances donated by World Health Organisation
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) lawmaker Settlement Chikwinya has urged the government to expedite deployment of ambulances at toll gates to offer emergency services to road traffic accident victi...Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 06:26hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
6 perish as vehicles collide in Mutare
Six people died early Sunday morning in a horrific collision involving two Honda Fit vehicles in the border city.The road traffic accident happened on a curve along the Mutare-Masvingo Road ju...Published: 04 Sep 2022 at 15:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
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