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Egodini Mall project in turmoil
The long-delayed Egodini Mall redevelopment project has hit yet another major stumbling block, with South Africa-based contractor Terracotta Trading (Pvt) Ltd requesting to revise its investment downw...Published: 07 Jul 2025 at 08:46hrs | 665 | by Staff reporter
Councillors slam inaction over bus terminus revival
Frustration is mounting among Masvingo city councillors over the local authority's continued failure to renovate and revive Mucheke Bus Terminus, despite multiple resolutions aimed at restoring order ...Published: 10 Jun 2025 at 13:09hrs | 217 | by Staff reporter
Bus rank chaos and reckless competition plague Zimbabwe's public transport sector
A disturbing video recently surfaced showing two buses dangerously tailgating and jostling for a loading bay at a terminus, rekindling painful memories of the tragic 2023 Rimbi-Zebra Kiss fatal bus cr...Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 14:18hrs | 107 | by Staff reporter
Scottland roped in for Egodini Mall project
Terracotta Trading Private Limited, the contractor behind the long-delayed Egodini Mall redevelopment project, has brought on board Better Brands Construction in a bid to accelerate progress amid moun...Published: 20 May 2025 at 10:09hrs | 919 | by Staff reporter
Zwigananda roped into Egodini Mall project
Better Brands Construction, a company owned by businessman and ZANU-PF politician Scott Sakupwanya, has been brought on board in a last-ditch attempt to revive the long-delayed Egodini Mall redevelopm...Published: 10 May 2025 at 14:21hrs | 4132 | by Staff reporter
Egodini deal terminated
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has officially moved to terminate the lease agreement with Terracotta Trading Private Limited for the US$60 million Egodini Redevelopment Project due to the contractor'...Published: 06 Feb 2025 at 07:34hrs | 2244 | by Staff reporter
Chaos erupts at Beitbridge as travelers clash with Zimra officials
Beitbridge's Dulibadzimu Bus Terminus turned into a scene of chaos on Monday when travelers clashed with the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officials during an operation targeting smuggled goods. ...Published: 31 Dec 2024 at 13:50hrs | 873 | by Staff reporter
Harare bustles with last-minute Christmas shoppers
Harare was a hive of activity yesterday as shoppers crowded the city's stores for last-minute Christmas purchases, while hundreds of travelers rushed to rural areas to reunite with their families ahea...Published: 24 Dec 2024 at 12:38hrs | 160 | by Staff reporter
Rogue touts harass passengers at Roadport in Harare
Scores of passengers were harassed at the Roadport bus terminus in Harare on Saturday in an incident that has drawn widespread condemnation. Several passengers, who had boarded a bus heading to Mutare...Published: 16 Dec 2024 at 11:12hrs | 372 | by Staff reporter
Bus rank rivalry turns fatal
A deadly clash between touts representing rival bus operators, Inter Africa and Stallion Cruise, erupted in Chiredzi last week, culminating in the tragic death of one tout. The victim succumbed to his...Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 06:25hrs | 381 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo councillors flag sprouting illegal bus ranks
Councillors in Bulawayo are concerned over the rise of illegal bus ranks in the city as it becomes clear that the long-awaited Egodini Mall project may not be able to accommodate all city buses. With ...Published: 12 Nov 2024 at 10:56hrs | 254 | by Staff reporter
Harare demolishes Mbare structures
The Harare City Council has demolished illegal structures near its Remembrance Offices in Mbare to prepare a site for the relocation of traders affected by last month's devastating fire. The site, onc...Published: 30 Oct 2024 at 07:53hrs | 487 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwig freed on bail
ZANU-PF central committee member and transport mogul Esau Mupfumi, arrested over the weekend following violent clashes between touts at the city's bus ranks, was granted US$1,000 bail by Mutare provin...Published: 28 May 2024 at 09:40hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police crack down on marshals, touts
POLICE have issued a stern warning to rank marshals and touts who have taken control of bus terminuses in Harare, causing chaos and disrupting business operations.In a bid to restore order, po...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC moves to stem dirt, chaos and decay in CBD
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has given informal traders, kombi, bus and pushcart operators, and those involved in illegal car wash business in the city centre an ultimatum to cease their illegal activi...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 05:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo city centre dumpsite worsens chaos, decay
AN illegal dumpsite, which resembles Bulawayo City Council (BCC)'s Richmond Landfill site, commonly known as Ngozi Mine has emerged, a stone's throw away from a busy road that connects the city centre...Published: 23 Jan 2024 at 04:38hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe will only change when you change
EVERYDAY I reflect on what it would take for Zimbabwe to change. Much of what I look at during my daily commute screams: "Change me!" As I reflect on what my surroundings are asking of me, I have chan...Published: 03 Aug 2023 at 06:45hrs | 13 | by Trevor Ncube
BCC takes Terracotta to court over Egodini project stall
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has resolved to take Egodini Mall contractor, Terracotta Private Limited, to court for delaying to complete the project after winning the US$60 million tender to rebuild Bu...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 06:45hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Intercity buses turn Bulawayo CBD into a Mbare
CALL it lawlessness or chaos. This is what several long-distance bus operators plying intercity routes are turning Bulawayo city centre into.For sometime, there has been rampant illegal pickin...Published: 08 May 2023 at 06:09hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Egodini decade of deception
WHEN the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) ordered vendors and transport operators to vacate Basch Street Terminus on 25 March 2016, those men and women that were marched out of the place famously known as ...Published: 09 Apr 2023 at 12:00hrs | 5 | by Bruce Ndlovu
Missing man found
A Bulawayo man, Mr Richard Siyeleba Mnkandla (69) from Nketa 6 suburb who went missing last week on Monday at around 3PM has been found.He was found at Joel Business Centre in Zhombe in Kwekwe...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 17:50hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's Renkini a white elephant as intercity buses shun it
Renkini Bus Terminus was, for years, the nerve centre for Bulawayo's transport system with people intending to travel to other cities and towns trooping to the station to board buses.Many othe...Published: 10 Feb 2023 at 05:39hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Buses shift to new illegal rank
PUBLIC transporters who used to operate from an illegal bus rank along Leopold Takawira Avenue near Centenary Park have moved to another illegal rank along 4th Avenue behind Eveline High School....Published: 09 Feb 2023 at 05:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Lets approach all crimes with the same zeal
While we are focusing on drug dealers and drug pushers, we should put in the same effort to stop the collaboration between criminals at our bus stops and the ZRP who look away while travellers are bei...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 21:13hrs | | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Bulawayo's street 'shops' flood city by night
FILLED to the brim with groceries ranging from foodstuffs, toiletry to skin care products, a pushcart — commonly known as iScania in the streets of Bulawayo — is strategically positioned at a busy...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
How many of us dreamt of becoming street vendors after graduating from school?
Whoever dreamt of graduating from university - armed with first class passes in information technology or any other degree - only to undergo some training in primary health care, so as to travel overs...Published: 19 Dec 2022 at 15:20hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Egodini project takes shape
SOUTH African based developer, Terracotta will this week start preparations for the laying of asphalt to the sides of Egodini Bus Terminus as they work towards the completion of Phase 1A of the rehabi...Published: 18 Sep 2022 at 16:52hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Use tech to stop tout menace
Zimbabwe's crime hot spots are bus stops and bus ranks where we catch our long distance buses and the biggest criminals are the touts that take advantage of innocent travellers by insulting, harassing...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 09:39hrs | 2 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Egodini to open for buses, kombis in December
COMMUTER buses and kombis are set to return to Egodini by December when Phase 1A of the much-anticipated Egodini Mall and Bus Terminus upgrading project is expected to have been completed, Bulawayo Ci...Published: 08 Jul 2022 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Egodini mall first phase deadline deferred
THE completion of Bulawayo's Egodini Mall Phase 1A project, which covers taxi and bus rank upgrade as well as informal trading stores, has been deferred to August this year after missing the April 202...Published: 28 May 2022 at 08:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bum slap, breast groping: Man (35) arrested at Zupco bus rank
A drunk man who allegedly slapped a woman's bums before groping her breasts appeared before Western Commonage court resident magistrate Shepherd Mnjanja facing indecent assault charges.He plea...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 09:51hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has taught me how easy it is to oppress people!
There is a popular saying - "if you don't want a prisoner to escape, don't let him know he is in prison".A bit cocky, it may sound - but, this is one of the most packed saying I have ever come...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 19:05hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Buses invade Centenary Park
UNSCRUPULOUS long distance bus operators have taken advantage of the Bulawayo City Council's neglect of the Centenary Park by turning it into an illegal pick-up and drop-off point for passengers....Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 08:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Date set for Egodini taxi rank reopening
SOUTH African civil engineering firm Terracotta Trading Private Limited has said with its original set timelines, the Egodini Bus Terminus rehabilitation project is four months behind and they were no...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 08:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Nothing to write home about at Egodini
NOTHING to write home about is happening at Egodini in Bulawayo, years after a tender was awarded to a company to transform the terminus.The Egodini Mall contractor, South African civil engine...Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA-bound bus crew dumps sick woman in street
A Bulawayo woman, Sithabile Maseko (49) from Magwegwe West suburb was left battling for life in the street next to Regional Coaches bus rank after she was dragged out of the bus by two men who were in...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 06:50hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Women sexually abused at ZUPCO bus ranks
Student activists from the University of Zimbabwe have implored the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) authorities to protect women from being abused at their bus ranks because many women were ...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 09:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bus rank tout 'killed by bus crew' in fight over passengers
A bus terminus tout was killed, allegedly by a bus crew, early Wednesday in Harare.The body of the unnamed man was still at the 4th Street bus terminus at 7AM as police interviewed witnesses....Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 08:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Habitual unlicensed bus driver nabbed at roadblock
A MAN wanted by police over a bus accident that killed two people 10 years ago, is working for another bus company plying the Shamva-Harare route and admits to using a fake Class One drivers licence w...Published: 03 May 2021 at 06:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Thousands flock to rural areas ahead of curbs countrywide
AHEAD of the 21-day lockdown starting today to contain the spread of Covid-19, thousands of people yesterday thronged Mbare Musika bus rank in Harare and many other pick-up points seeking transport to...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 06:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC devises new ways of milking Harare
The chicken thief does not listen to the chicken's prayer! This adage clearly brings out life at Harare City Council's Town House where the MDC-Alliance led council officials seem to have devised new ...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 05:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC devises new ways of milking council
MDC-ALLIANCE'S Harare City councillors are now devising new ways of milking the cash-strapped local authority to fund their party after their traditional cash cows, including land sales, have been c...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 06:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
200% hike for bus rank fees
Harare City Council has with immediate effect hiked bus ranking fees by 200 percent forcing long distance buses to shun the usually busy Mbare Musika bus terminus. Each bus is now expected to pay US$3...Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 13:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Flash floods hit Dulivhadzimu suburb again
Flash floods have hit Dulivhadzimu suburb in Beitbridge where most roads have become inaccessible.Heavy rains have been pounding the district since last night.The town's oldest suburb ...Published: 22 Feb 2021 at 21:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus and the mystery of infection
He waited by the bus-stop, all day, shaking his car keys rather impatiently, pacing up and down as each bus arrived, as each bus left. Only a dishevelled tramp sat by the benches, mumbling incoherentl...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 22:45hrs | 2 | by Zifiso Masiye
Stranded commuters besiege ZUPCO depot
SCORES of frustrated Bulawayo commuters Saturday went to a ZUPCO depot in the city to confront the public transporters managers after spending more than four hours waiting for transport at a city bus ...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Commuters swindled in tap-card scam
Problems in recharging Zupco tap-cards in Norton have seen vendors using their own cards, and some have a lot, charging desperate passengers $50, more than twice Zupco's $24, which now on many routes ...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:00hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Africa'second revolution whose time has come: Breaking-away from oppressive partisan poverty politics
The high-sounding and inspirational liberation of the entire of Africa by political parties and liberation movements that lost its cause! The law-abiding citizens that have been reduced to the level o...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 21:20hrs | 7 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
CIO operatives fire shots over $10 bus fare
Mutare: Two overzealous Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) operatives were recently arrested for allegedly firing shots into the air in fury over being charged exorbitant bus fares.Ligome...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 09:41hrs | 3 | by newzimbabwe
The MDC congress: All froth, no beer
The much-vaunted MDC elective congress ended the week before last. Some people such as those who were rejected by their own people, but had to give 10 head of cattle as an offering to the god of the p...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 07:05hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
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