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Chamisa disbanded MDC militia?
Nelson Chamisa's MDC yesterday claimed it has disbanded a youth-led outfit called The Order of the Vanguard (Vanguard).Describing it as "an otherwise peaceful and disciplined team of MDC youth...Published: 3 hrs ago | 2270 | by Staff reporter
Derailed goods train still at crash site
The Beitbridge Bulawayo Railway Company (BBR) is still working on modalities to remove its crashed goods train and repair the damaged track at the rail-road crossing in the border town.It is D...Published: 6 hrs ago | 1216 | by Staff reporter
A 'Operation restore citizen-power' only path to Zimbabwe's prosperity
As Zimbabwe commemorates last year's military intervention that led to the removal of long-time president Robert Gabriel Mugabe, and replaced by his then recently expelled deputy Emmerson Dambudzo Mna...Published: 9 hrs ago | 861 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
WATCH: MDC Chamisa youths had a pistol and killed 2 people
EX-MDC MP Gabriel Chaibva returned Tuesday to haunt his erstwhile colleagues through sensational claims they armed some party youths to kill two people during the August 1 post-electoral violence....Published: 10 hrs ago | 4063 | by newzimbabwe
'MDC youths killed 2 people on 1 August'
Former MDC Spokesman and Leader of an NGO called Free & Fair Foundation Gabriel Chaibva has sensationally claimed that MDC youths had a pistol and since they did not know how to use it...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 12:56hrs | 7145 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa's private security details slammed
Many people - including MDC Alliance supporters - have regularly bemoaned the overzealousness and unnecessary heavy-handed approach of MDC leader Nelson Chamisa's private security details to their wor...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 10:59hrs | 3956 | by Staff reporter
MDC security chief summoned over Chamisa 'kidnap' scuffle
ZIMBABWE POLICE have summoned MDC President Nelson Chamisa's head of security for questioning in connection a dramatic tussle that saw the opposition leader survive what the party claims was a kidnap ...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 07:31hrs | 2722 | by Staff reporter
MDC fears for Chamisa's life
The MDC yesterday said it feared for the life of its leader Nelson Chamisa, whom it claimed has narrowly escaped kidnapping by suspected State security agents over the weekend. But the governm...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 06:25hrs | 2340 | by Staff reporter
VID to roll out electronic learner’s licence exams
The Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) will soon introduce electronic Provisional Drivers' Licence aptitude examinations as part of a raft of new measures to reduce rampant corruption in the acquis...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 05:43hrs | 521 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Another bus accident in Zimbabwe
Another bus accident in Zimbabwehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7XtU5TZzGo...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 17:50hrs | 5947 | by Staff reporter
Passerby killed as cars collide
FIVE people were injured yesterday when a Bulawayo-bound Extra City Bus from Victoria Falls veered off the road and overturned while a pedestrian died in Bulawayo when two cars collided at an intersec...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 17:30hrs | 1222 | by Staff reporter
MDC concerned about Chamisa's security
There is a continuous threat to President Nelson Chamisa's life and we note with concern a perpetual invasion of his privacy. While we understand that he is a public official, we are extremely w...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 10:52hrs | 2016 | by Jacob Mafume, MDC National Spokesperson
Chamisa faces assault probe
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa faces arrest after an unnamed person made a counter police report of attempted kidnapping and assault at Marondera Police Station.This came shortly after Chamisa's se...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 05:47hrs | 2689 | by Staff reporter
Survivors recall harrowing horror crash
SURVIVORS of the fatal accident involving Smart Express and Bolt Cutter buses — which killed 50 people — at the weekend recalled the harrowing experiences of the horror night and said the memories...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 05:43hrs | 3356 | by Staff reporter
Driver disappears after strange car crash
MYSTERY surrounds a suspected accident where a Mercedes Benz E class 450 plunged onto the railway line at the Emakhandeni fly-over in Bulawayo, forcing residents to panic and intercept a speeding good...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 05:23hrs | 1113 | by Staff reporter
Bus conductor jumps out of moving bus, run over
A BUS conductor from Nkayi died on the spot after he was run over by a bus when he jumped off the moving vehicle to run after a passenger.Mr Mayibongwe Ncube (21) of Mfume village, under Chief...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 20:12hrs | 6165 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge woman dies in freak accident
A WOMAN died on the spot while a man was seriously injured when a small sand-laden old truck ploughed into hitch-hikers in a freak accident at Beitbridge on Thursday.The injured man was rushed...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 11:12hrs | 1497 | by Staff reporter
'Most accidents attributed to human error, speeding'
THE newly-refurbished Plumtree-Mutare Highway has become Zimbabwe's deadliest road, with Wednesday's Rusape bus disaster, which claimed 50 lives being one of the many fatalities along the road....Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 11:09hrs | 218 | by Staff reporter
Horror accident driver surrenders to police
THE Smart Express bus driver who fled the scene after the Rusape accident that claimed 46 lives on Wednesday evening has handed himself over to Rusape traffic police. Manicaland provincial pol...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 18:38hrs | 8871 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe horror accident victims named
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has released 36 names of the people who died on Wednesday this week near the Rusape tollgate.Their next of kin have since been informed.The names of ...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 18:33hrs | 15552 | by Staff reporter
Drive to arrive safely
Another serious bus accident, another national disaster, more funerals and more orphans. Is it about mad men 'flying on the road' or a case of half baked drivers behind the wheels? The Smart/B...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 09:25hrs | 1128 | by Thomas Murisa
Supporting Mnangagwa without backing Zanu PF, backing MDC without supporting Chamisa
"Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator," observed a sage.I am not into political prophecy, but this week last year - precisely November 6, 2017, the day then President Robert Mugabe s...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 05:17hrs | 2568 | by Conway Tutani
Rusape bus crash declared a national disaster
Government has declared a state of national disaster an accident in which 46 people were killed when two buses side-swapped at the 166-kilometre peg along Harare-Mutare highway on Wednesday evening. ...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 05:05hrs | 599 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe horror accident death toll jumps to 50
Fresh details from the Rusape bus disaster indicate that the accident was not a head on collision but a side swipe.It has also emerged that 50 people died contrary to earlier reports that had ...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 17:06hrs | 4783 | by Staff reporter
Haulage truck falls at flyover
A Mozambican driver was lucky to escape unhurt after his haulage truck container hit the Seke Road flyover before falling and landing on its side.The incident happened around 6am and the Zimba...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 17:05hrs | 2011 | by Staff reporter
Police hunt for horror crash driver
POLICE have launched a manhunt for the Smart Express bus driver, Cosmas Marembo, who fled together with his conductor soon after surviving the horrific bus accident that killed 47 people yesterday eve...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 17:03hrs | 2162 | by Staff reporter
Fresh details emerge about Rusape accident
A command centre has been set up at Rusape General Hospital following the Rusape bus accident which has so far claimed 47 lives.The hospital has been overwhelmed this morning as relatives visi...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 12:57hrs | 10648 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Rusape accident victims
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sent a message of condolences to families who lost their loved ones following the Rusape bus accident along the Harare-Mutare highway which occurred yesterday....Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 12:50hrs | 1860 | by Staff Reporter
PHOTO: Truck accident gives away possible case of fuel smuggling
There was congestion during the morning rush hour yesterday as motorists who use Seke Road sought alternative routes into Harare central business district after this vehicle overturned and lay on its ...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 10:41hrs | 5701 | by Nicholas Bakili
MDC mourns bus disaster victims
Opposition Movement for Democratic Change has issued a condolence message to the victims of the bus crash that occurred on Tuesday evening.Forty seven people, 45 adults and two children, were ...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 10:31hrs | 2607 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Defining and identifying the new leadership trajectory in MDC-T
The last days of President Morgan Tsvangirai will always be remembered as the episode when the truth was the biggest casualty as the succession debate moved from his office to his death bed. After a w...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 07:21hrs | 2114 | by Felix Magalela Mafa Sibanda
47 dead, death toll expected to rise
At least 47 people died yesterday evening in an accident involving two buses that occurred at the 166-kilometre peg along the Harare-Mutare Highway. The accident that involved Bolt Cutter and Smart Ex...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 05:36hrs | 2484 | by Staff reporter
47 die in Zimbabwe horror crash
At least 47 people have perished in a horror crash involving Smart Express and Bolt Cutter buses near Rusape tollgate this evening.Reports indicate that the buses had a head-on collision....Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 19:16hrs | 29613 | by Staff reporter
Husband 'killer' claims dead man stabbed self
A 27 YEAR-OLD Beitbridge woman who allegedly killed her 50-year-old husband by kicking him on his privates before finishing him off by stabbing him with a kitchen knife during a fight over money for r...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 07:04hrs | 2178 | by Staff reporter
Let's make Zimbabwe great again
There is a general expectation of rapid economic growth in Zimbabwe, driven by massive infrastructural growth, given the new political dispensation.However, there is an adversary at work, the ...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 06:22hrs | 599 | by Tororiro Isaac Chaza
Bus accident victims' families seek $2,2m compensation
NINE surviving spouses and three guardians of the June 2017 horror accident involving a King Lion bus along the Harare-Chirundu Highway have filed a $2,2 million compensation lawsuit from the bus comp...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 06:12hrs | 1461 | by Staff reporter
NRZ train derails
A NATIONAL Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) passenger train derailed between Hwange and Victoria Falls on Sunday night as a result of broken rail caused by excessive temperatures. Hundreds of rail p...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 05:32hrs | 2120 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe linked top cops retired
THREE deputy police commissioner-generals - Innocent Matibiri, Josephine Shambare and Levi Sibanda - together with two commissioners were on Friday reportedly retired from the force amid indications t...Published: 05 Nov 2018 at 05:37hrs | 9438 | by Staff reporter
'I was there before Dabengwa'
The Sunday Mail's Deputy News Editor Levi Mukarati continues his conversation with Clark Ngiyo Mpofu, one of the first nationalists to undergo military training in China. Mpofu reflects on his time in...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 09:45hrs | 2691 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabweans no longer respects the law, police'
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga yesterday admitted that the general public no longer respected the law and its enforcers.Officiating at the Zimbabwe Republic Police Staff College 20...Published: 03 Nov 2018 at 09:00hrs | 5068 | by Staff reporter
20 injured in bus accident
TWENTY people were injured when an AMBS bus developed a mechanical fault, veered off the road, hit a tree stump and landed on its side at the 125km peg along the Bulawayo-Nkayi Road. The incid...Published: 03 Nov 2018 at 08:45hrs | 759 | by Staff reporter
Cyclist sues bus company $67 000
A BULAWAYO man who was injured after he was knocked down by an Inter-Africa bus while cycling to work, is suing the company and its unlicensed driver for $67 000 in damages for medical expenses, pain ...Published: 03 Nov 2018 at 08:44hrs | 465 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt abandons complete dualisation of Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu highway
GOVERNMENT has abandoned the controversial $2,7 billion deal with Chinese firm Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Group Limited (Afecc) for the dualisation of the Beitbridge-Masvingo-Harare-Chirundu ...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 11:57hrs | 4845 | by Ndou Paul
Parents killed as driver runs over family
A COUPLE died while their child sustained injuries when the trio was run over by a car as they walked along the Bulawayo–Beitbridge Road at Esigodini. The accident occurred at the 30km peg o...Published: 30 Oct 2018 at 05:23hrs | 1868 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa restructures Scholarships Department
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is restructuring the Department of Scholarships as his administration seeks to give top priority to areas of critical skills in line with the Government's vision premised ...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 09:13hrs | 3047 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to prioritise critical skills
President Mnangagwa is restructuring the Department of Scholarships as his administration seeks to prioritise critical skills in line with the Government's vision premised on a broad national skills s...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 05:31hrs | 620 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe air travellers figures increase
MORE than one million passengers have travelled by air in Zimbabwe in the first nine months of the year, latest statistics have revealed.According to a report by Air Traffic Controllers Associ...Published: 28 Oct 2018 at 08:08hrs | 389 | by Staff reporter
Abnormal load escorts: Road safety heroes
DRIVING at 40km/hr along the busy Harare-Masvingo highway, Emmanuel Machikwa (35) is not bothered by the long queue of vehicles behind him.Before him is a haulage truck carrying an abnormal lo...Published: 27 Oct 2018 at 08:42hrs | 1063 | by Staff reporter
Police launch manhunt for car thief
POLICE in Mvuma have launched a manhunt for a 23-year-old man who allegedly stole a motor vehicle after he had been given a lift by the car owner after he pretended to be stranded in Gweru.Act...Published: 27 Oct 2018 at 08:40hrs | 547 | by Staff reporter
Motorist kills woman in fuel queue
A 43-YEAR-OLD woman from Shangani was killed in Gweru recently after a motorist, who was on a long and winding fuel queue early in the morning, lost control of his vehicle and hit her while she was se...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 07:13hrs | 1984 | by Staff reporter
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