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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
State-assisted burial for Beitbridge crash victims
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared the tragic head-on collision in Beitbridge, which claimed 25 lives yesterday, a national disaster. Victims of the accident will be accorded State-assisted bur...Published: 14 Feb 2025 at 06:04hrs | 177 | by Staff reporter
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
Zimbabwe govt mourns 15 SA crash victims
The Government yesterday extended its condolences to families of the 15 Zimbabweans who died in a road accident when a Simlex Transport and Logistics (Pvt) Limited cross-border bus collided with a hau...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 05:04hrs | 1 | 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
Mutambara owned bus crash victims rise to 7
The number of people who died in a road accident in South Africa when a Harare-bound bus overturned near Makhado in Limpopo Province last week has risen from five to seven after two more people succum...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 17:44hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Bishop Mutendi mourns crash victims, thanks Mnangagwa
Grieving ZCC Mutendi leader Right Reverend Bishop Nehemiah Mutendi has thanked President Mnangagwa and his government for extending state assistance to mitigate the Chipinge bus accident disaster that...Published: 16 Apr 2022 at 20:37hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Air Force of Zimbabwe hands over property to chopper crash victims
The Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) yesterday handed over household property worth thousands of dollars to the Fenyere family, whose house was razed to the ground by flames when the Agusta Bell 412 (AB 41...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Funeral parade for copter crash victims
A funeral parade to honour two pilots and a technician who died in a helicopter crash in Goromonzi last week will be held by the Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) on Friday. The pilots are Wing Comm...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 07:57hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's first female helicopter fighter pilot dies in crash
Zimbabwe's first female combat helicopter pilot was killed in a fiery helicopter crash in Arcturus, 32km east of Harare, on Friday.Thirty-year-old Flight Lieutenant Annita Mapiye, who has flow...Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 19:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
9 killed in car crash
Nine people were killed and several others injured in a road accident between Rusape and Mutare late yesterday afternoon. Chief police spokesperson, Assistant Commisoner Paul Nyathi last night confirm...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mine accidents: MPs grill Chitando
MINES minister Winston Chitando on Wednesday came under fire from legislators demanding answers on what his ministry was doing to prevent fatal mine accidents.Legislators from the Parliamentar...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 18:58hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Air Force of Zimbabwe mourns crash victims
An Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) aircraft, SF 260 Genet trainer, crashed near Dabuka Railway Siding in Gweru around 2pm on Tuesday killing instructor Squadron Leader Mkhululi Dube (37) and trainee pilot...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Police name Featherstone crash victims
Police have released names of 14 people who were killed in the Featherstone Bus Disaster last week. The 14 were part of the 19 who died in a head-on collision involving a commuter omnibus and ...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Gweru crash victims named, death toll rises to 11
The death toll in the kombi and bus crash that occurred about 25 kilometres outside Gweru on Wednesday evening has risen to 11 after one more person died at Gweru Provincial Hospital yesterday. ...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Addis crash victims
President Mnangagwa yesterday joined the world in mourning the death of 157 passengers of an Ethiopian Airlines flight which crashed six minutes after take-off in Addis Ababa. Ethiopian Airlines' Flig...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 06:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe aircraft crash victims threw luggage overboard'
The five people who were traveling in the doomed Cessna S206 which crashed in the Chemanjirenji Hills Village in the Renco area of Masvingo South last week desperately tried to serve the doomed aircra...Published: 01 Dec 2018 at 14:32hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
'Jail all unlicensed drivers'
THE Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe (TSCZ) has started lobbying government to impose mandatory custodial sentences to people who drive without licences among other stiffer penalties on errant drive...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 08:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
10 horror crash victims named
Police have named 10 people who were killed when a Chinhoyi-bound Nissan Caravan and a haulage truck collided head-on at Mapinga along the Harare-Chirundu Highway on Tuesday night. One of the ...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Mass grave for Kombi crash victims
The remains of eleven people, who were burnt beyond recognition in a horrific crash involving a commuter omnibus and a Honda CRV on 24 July 2017 in Mvurwi, were finally laid to rest in a mass grave on...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 12:09hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Police identifies 2 crash victims
Police have identified two of the nine people killed in a traffic accident that occurred on Monday along the Harare- Wedza highway near Dema police station in Mashonaland East province.Police ...Published: 27 Jun 2017 at 15:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Crash victims' relatives still to account for cash, belongings
Relatives of some of the victims of the Nyamakate bus disaster have said they are yet to account for cash and personal belongings of their deceased relatives, four days after the accident.Most...Published: 12 Jun 2017 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
LIST: 35 bus crash victims positively identified
Police have released the names of some of the victims of the Nyamakate King Lion bus disaster, which killed 43 people on Wednesday night and left over 30 others injured.40 of the 43 deceased p...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 19:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZAPU Youth Front mourns 43 King lion crash victims
ZAPU youth front mourns the 43 crash victims who perished on their way to Zambia next to Nyamakate shops when King Lion driver lost control and veered off the road killing 43 people including himself....Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 07:55hrs | | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo
Mugabe mourns 43 crash victims
PRESIDENT Mugabe last night expressed shock and sadness at the tragic loss of lives in the horror bus crash that claimed 43 lives and injured 33 others along the Harare-Chirundu Highway on Wednesday n...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 05:32hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mass burial for Mvuma horrific bus crash victims
Three of the 21 victims of the accident that occurred when a South Africa-bound Proliner Bus side-swiped a Transmech Logistics haulage truck and caught fire along the Harare-Beitbridge Highway three w...Published: 25 Apr 2017 at 13:35hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mozambique hails Zimbabwe on plane crash response
The director of transport in Manica Province of Mozambique, Ms Maria Da-Imaculada Gabriel, has hailed the Zimbabwean Government and Zimbabwe National Army for their swift response in retrieving bo...Published: 30 Mar 2017 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean plane crash victims identified
The bodies of the six people who perished in a plane in Vumba yesterday morning have been identified.A Zimbabwean national Mr Banele Sibanda, who was finance director of Cornelder de Mozam...Published: 29 Mar 2017 at 12:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Repatriation of plane crash victims begins
The repatriation of bodies of five Mozambicans who were among six people killed in a plane crash in Vumba on Monday morning began yesterday in Mutare.Among the killed were four directors o...Published: 29 Mar 2017 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kings & Queens Funeral services Donate to horror crash victims
THE Kings & Queens funeral services, Bulawayo branch, donated burial necessities to the Sibanda Horror crash victims who perished along Gwanda Road last week and laid to rest at Luveve cemetery ye...Published: 15 Mar 2017 at 08:02hrs | | by Caroline Chiimba
Kings and Queens Funeral services donate to horror crash victims
THE Kings & Queens funeral services, Bulawayo branch, donated burial necessities to the Sibanda Horror crash victims who perished along Gwanda Road last week and laid to rest at West Park cemetery...Published: 15 Mar 2017 at 08:00hrs | 5 | by Caroline Chiimba
7 crash victims burial 'tomorrow'
SEVEN of the 14 people who perished in a horror crash in Bulawayo last week are likely to be buried tomorrow at Luveve Cemetery, a family spokesperson has said.The family which has receive...Published: 13 Mar 2017 at 05:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
7 crash victims named
POLICE have named seven people who were killed while four others escaped with minor injuries when a vehicle they were travelling in plunged into Tsambe River bridge, 15km off the Glendale-Centenar...Published: 04 Aug 2016 at 06:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Accident victims to get compensation
Government has constituted a taskforce to compile a list of all accident victims so that transport operators can compensate the affected people, Deputy Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Develo...Published: 28 Apr 2016 at 06:45hrs | | by Monica Cheru- Mpambawashe
3 SA crash victims repatriated
Three Zimbabweans, including an eight-month-old baby who were killed in a road accident along the R101 Highway near Mokopane town in South Africa's Limpopo Province, have been repatriated for burial a...Published: 31 Mar 2016 at 00:09hrs | 1 | by Thupeyo Muleya
Mugabe mourns crash victims
President Mugabe has expressed grief over the loss of 31 lives in a road traffic accident involving a bus and a commuter omnibus near Kwekwe along the Harare-Bulawayo highway on Thursday.The a...Published: 05 Mar 2016 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ethiopian embassy officials visit crash victims
TWO officials from the Ethiopian Embassy yesterday visited their compatriots hospitalised in Bulawayo hospitals to identify them but said they had nothing to offer besides connecting patients to their...Published: 11 Dec 2015 at 05:29hrs | 2 | by Nqobile Tshili
Mphoko mourns Russian plane crash victims
Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko visited the Russian embassy in Harare last week to convey condolences following the death of 224 passengers, including cabin crew members, aboard a Russian airline th...Published: 09 Nov 2015 at 05:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zambia crash victims identified
Four Zimbabweans who died in an accident involving a Zimbabwe-bound King Lion bus in Zambia have been positively identified while concerted effort is being made to identify the remaining bodies. ...Published: 21 Jul 2015 at 07:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
9 more Sunday crash victims named
POLICE have identified nine more people who died during Sunday's horrific crash along the Harare-Nyamapanda Highway, bringing to 25 the number of victims who have been identified so far.The ot...Published: 21 Jan 2015 at 07:17hrs | | by Crime Reporter
Zim man who lost wife, three children in Australia car crash speaks
PERTH - THE husband and father of the four Australia crash victims has spoken about the unfathomable tragedy, saying it feels like "my heart has been taken out of me".Bongani Moyo was WORKING ...Published: 30 Oct 2014 at 07:04hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Air Force of Zimbabwe releases air crash victims' names
The Air Force of Zimbabwe has released the names of the two officers who perished in the crash that occurred at Charles Prince Airport in Mt Hampden on Thursday.These are Squadron Leader ...Published: 05 Sep 2014 at 15:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
16 horror crash victims named
The death toll in the road accident involving a commuter omnibus and a truck along the Masvingo-Beitbridge Highway on Monday has risen to 19 after one more passenger died yesterday upon admission at U...Published: 30 Jul 2014 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
7-member family crash victims laid to rest
SEVEN members of the same family who were killed in a road accident last Friday were buried on Tuesday at their rural homes in Shurugwi.The seven were buried at three different villages under Chief Nh...Published: 24 Jul 2014 at 08:41hrs | 2 | by Auxilia Katongomara
10 horror crash victims named
Police have identified the 10 people who were killed along Seke Road on Monday when a Chitungwiza-bound commuter omnibus veered off the road and rammed a tree at the Chinhamo black spot.Meanwh...Published: 21 May 2014 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Russia plane crash, 50 people killed - Confirmed
MOSCOW - Authorities in Russia confirmed that all 50 people aboard a Boeing plane that crashed Sunday on landing in Russia's Kazan, capital of Tatarstan republic, were killed.The dead included...Published: 18 Nov 2013 at 08:32hrs | 1 | by Staff Report
MegaLink driver ignored passengers' warning against speeding
...Published: 17 Apr 2012 at 21:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kombi accident death toll rises to 18
MUTARE - The death toll in the Nyanga commuter omnibus accident involving the Johane Masowe weChishanu Jerusarema members which occurred on Sunday morning has risen to 18 after two more crash victims...Published: 27 Mar 2012 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
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