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Mohadi's former business partner survives shooting
A BEITBRIDGE businessman and Zanu-PF official Oscar Chiromo escaped death yesterday morning when gunmen shot at his car twice, injuring his hand while he was driving to work from his rural home....Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 06:58hrs | 3481 | by Staff reporter
3 men refuse to make way for Mnangagwa motorcade
Three men have appeared in court accused of failing to make way for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's motorcade.Tadzoka Nago, 42, Stanley Zibako, 37, and Honest Diura, 47, had parked their ...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 19:00hrs | 10717 | by Staff reporter
My experience as a returning resident
After spending 4 years in Namibia it was time to go back to my country Zimbabwe at the end of 2020. I announced the news to friends. Some disapproved my decision to return home while others encouraged...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 21:19hrs | 1128 | by Etiwel Mutero
VID resumes operations today
THE Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) will start conducting road tests and issuing driver's licences from today after it closed in March due to Covid-19 induced lockdown.Cabinet okayed the r...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:18hrs | 673 | by Staff reporter
VID resumes road tests, issuing driver's licences
THE Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) will from tomorrow start conducting road tests and issuing driver's licences after close to six months of closure.The closure of VID in March after the ...Published: 18 Oct 2020 at 08:34hrs | 1588 | by Staff Reporter
CVR bottlenecks bleed vehicle insurers
THE Central Vehicle Registry (CVR)'s inability to register vehicles has cost the insurance sector $60 million in mandatory third-party motor insurance premiums, according to the Insurance Council of Z...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 07:02hrs | 902 | by Staff reporter
Parly orders CVR to urgently sort out number plates' shortage mess
PARLIAMENT has ordered the Central Vehicle Registry (CVR) department to sort out the mess created by the shortage of number plates amid an ongoing police blitz on vehicle owners driving without displa...Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 07:59hrs | 724 | by Staff reporter
Vehicle plates chaos: CVR blames police
PARLIAMENT yesterday ordered the Central Vehicle Registry (CVR) to formally in-form motorists that new number plates were not available and allow them to continue using temporary plates until governme...Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 07:39hrs | 1298 | by Staff reporter
CVR extends office hours to clear backlog
The Central Vehicle Registry (CVR) has issued over 20 000 number plates since July and extended working hours as it battles to clear the backlog of nearly 50 000. This emerged yesterday during...Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 07:36hrs | 564 | by Staff reporter
Vehicle number plate delays rile motorists
DELAYS in the issuance of vehicle number plates have raised disgruntlement among affected motorists in Bulawayo who are accusing the police of harassing them yet the Central Vehicle Registry (CVR) is ...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:16hrs | 476 | by Staff reporter
Matiza grilled over vehicle plates shortages
TRANSPORT minister Joel Biggie Matiza yesterday said government ordered a clampdown on vehicles without number plates after witnessing a spike in accidents involving unregistered vehicles.Resp...Published: 24 Sep 2020 at 07:37hrs | 3401 | by Staff reporter
No passage for unregistered cars at tollgates
ALL unregistered vehicles are with immediate effect not allowed to pass through tollgates as the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) launches a blitz to ensure motorists heed the law. So far, ZRP h...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:45hrs | 719 | by Staff reporter
Police to impound unregistered vehicles
Police will impound vehicles without registration plates, some of which are being used to commit crimes.National police spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi, yesterday said: "Any v...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 20:00hrs | 385 | by Staff reporter
Police launch blitz on unregistered vehicles
POLICE have begun impounding vehicles without permanent registration plates in a development that brings to an end a moratorium that had been instituted after the Central Vehicle Registration (CVR) ha...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 08:26hrs | 742 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Zimbabwe gets number plates material
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has reported that checks with Central Vehicle Registry [CVR] have revealed that they have some stocks of permanent vehicle registration plates.In a statement polic...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 12:23hrs | 6229 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Fake driving licence syndicate bust in Bulawayo
The police have busted a syndicate specialising in creating fake drivers licences after arresting a 21-year-old Pumula East woman.Bulawayo provincial police spokesperson Inspector, Abednico Nc...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 14:31hrs | 8983 | by Staff reporter
Mandiwanzira fights charge
Former Information Communication Technology and Cyber Security Minister Supa Mandiwanzira who is facing a charge of criminal abuse of office as a public officer, yesterday notified the court of his in...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 12:28hrs | 1746 | by Staff reporter
Smart card system to track fuel supply chain
ZIMBABWE will soon have a smart card system to track fuel through the entire supply chain to the retail consumers. The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is working with the Harare Institute of Technology...Published: 06 Jun 2020 at 07:40hrs | 326 | by Staff reporter
Central Vehicle Registry a national embarrassment
IN any other jurisdiction, the Central Vehicle Registry (CVR) director-general should by now have long been relieved of their duties. The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development whose am...Published: 19 May 2020 at 07:43hrs | 1190 | by Learnmore Zuze
Failure to provide vehicle number plates places citizens at risk
Zimbabwe is increasingly becoming a country where the absurd is becoming the norm. The cliché of normalising the abnormal is becoming the hallmark of Zimbabwean life. The level of deterioration in ec...Published: 10 Mar 2020 at 05:36hrs | 917 | by Learnmore Zuze
CVR battles to clear licence disc backlog
More than 150 000 drivers who passed road tests are yet to get their driver's licence discs as the Central Vehicle Registry (CVR) is battling to secure consumables needed for their production....Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 08:19hrs | 285 | by Staff reporter
Citizens' cooperation key to curbing Zimra internal corruption
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is conducting lifestyle audits for its staffers and dismissing and prosecuting those who cannot account for their wealth. Zimra commissioner-general, Faith Mazan...Published: 02 Feb 2020 at 12:21hrs | 205 | by Staff reporter
Cameras for traffic offences
MOTORISTS engaging in reckless driving will now be captured by cameras and follow ups with the owners will be carried for prosecution, Harare police spokesperson has said.Acting provincial pol...Published: 30 Nov 2019 at 14:50hrs | 2689 | by Staff reporter
Passport backlog ballons to 370,000
THE backlog in the issuing of passports in the country has ballooned to 370 000 from around 340 000 last month as the Registrar-General's Office is only able to process just 750 per day, an official h...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 16:03hrs | 624 | by Staff reporter
Transport computerisation ups revenue to US$375m
Government's computerisation programme in the transport sector has yielded significant gains through increased revenue, with at least US$375 million being realised over the past five years since the p...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:01hrs | 147 | by Staff reporter
Heroes' Day eclipsed by new lows
It is sad that the relevance of Heroes' Day has been obliterated by the new levels of suffering going on in Zimbabwe.It seems incomprehensible that any other matter can overshadow the levels o...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:19hrs | 660 | by Learnmore Zuze
38 injured in Munenzva bus accident
THIRTY-EIGHT people were injured when a Munenzva bus they were travelling on veered off the road and landed on roadside guardrails at the 140km peg along the Beitbridge-Masvingo Road on Tuesday....Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 06:55hrs | 1861 | by Staff reporter
Probe teams for all VID depots
Government has deployed investigative teams to the country's 21 Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) depots that are still to be computerised as it intensifies the fight against corruption in the iss...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 06:25hrs | 529 | by Staff reporter
Best penny stocks to watch in 2019
Best Penny Stocks to Watch in 2019 Penny stocks are high risk, high reward investments but that doesn't mean you should ignore them. If you ...Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 07:19hrs | 865 | by Staff Writer
4-man syndicate producing fake IDs, drivers' licences arrested
POLICE have busted a four-man-syndicate that was producing fake national identity cards, drivers' licences and defensive drivers' certificates among other documents countrywide. Police did not release...Published: 04 May 2019 at 08:04hrs | 2913 | by Staff reporter
Crackdown on unregistered vehicles
The government is in the process of setting up measures that will address the challenges of unregistered vehicles on the country's roads.With a total population of 969 940 vehicles plying the ...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 14:36hrs | 2602 | by Staff reporter
German firm to set up vehicle licence plates plants in Zimbabwe
Government is engaging a German firm for the production of vehicle licence plates under a deal expected to significantly reduce costs by 50 percent while also setting up 10 manufacturing plants in the...Published: 02 Mar 2019 at 20:03hrs | 1526 | by Staff Repoprter
All vehicles changing ownership to maintain current plates
The Central Vehicle Registry has announced that all vehicles changing ownership should maintain current plates, what only changes is the new registered book with details of the new owner. This c...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 14:50hrs | 3642 | by Staff reporter
SA Hawks arrest car thief, smuggling suspect
THE Hawks have arrested a second suspect believed to be part of a racket stealing vehicles from South Africa and smuggling them to other countries via Zimbabwe. It is understood that most of the stole...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 08:15hrs | 339 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe runs out of vehicle number plates
THE Central Vehicle Registry (CVR) has run out of vehicle registration plates, with a few available at post offices outside Harare. This means those who used Harare addresses when they purchased their...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 17:14hrs | 742 | by Staff reporter
Registered vehicles up 34%
The number of vehicles registered by the Central Vehicle Registry (CVR) this year rose by 34 percent, while driver's licences processed by same institution went up by 12 percent compared to last year,...Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 19:13hrs | 168 | by Staff reporter
130 000 cars face deregistration
GOVERNMENT has begun deregistering over 130 000 cars for failure to comply with licensing requirements in the past two years.Initially, those with cars that had not been registered since 2016 ...Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 10:03hrs | 1767 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's 'mischievous' abduction claims dismissed
THE Government has dismissed as false and mischievous, allegations of attempted abduction of MDC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa on his way from addressing a rally in Marondera on Saturday. A video h...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 05:36hrs | 2096 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt dismayed by Chamisa abduction claims
The government has expressed dismay at the claims by opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa's MDC Alliance party that he survived abduction by state security agents on his way from a thank you rally in Mar...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 16:37hrs | 8672 | by Staff reporter
Registrar to cancel registration of unlicensed vehicles
The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development, (Central Vehicle Registry and Zimbabwe National Road Administration) would like to inform the motoring public that all vehicles that have not...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 09:14hrs | 8478 | by Ndou Paul
Vandalism, theft cost Zesa $20million
THE country's power utility, Zesa, has to date lost transformers worth about $20 million and hundreds of copper cable rods to theft and vandalism of the infrastructure. In an interview, Zesa s...Published: 23 Oct 2018 at 06:14hrs | 77 | by Staff reporter
Matiza talks tough on VID corruption
Transport minister Joel Biggie Matiza inherited a portfolio that superintends over struggling, but key parastatals such as Air Zimbabwe and the National Railways of Zimbabwe.Matiza (JBM) told ...Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 18:59hrs | 657 | by Staff reporer
New Zimbabwe transport management system to improve efficiency
Zimbabwe has signed an integrated transport management system, which seeks to bring together five key elements of road policing, efficient use of national infrastructure and coordination of informatio...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 13:25hrs | 1597 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's CVR runs out of number plates
The Central Vehicle Registry (CVR) has run out of vehicle registration plates, an official have confirmed. In an interview, Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) Director, Mr Johannes Pedzapasi,...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 08:25hrs | 4513 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'assassin' has fake licence
A Harare magistrate yesterday heard that Gathrie Chiredzero, 40, who is facing charges of breaching President ED Mnangagwa's security and found in possession of an alleged fake driver's licence, was n...Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 17:08hrs | 10657 | by Staff reporter
62 VID officers fired for corruption
The Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) has fired 62 officers over corruption, the parliamentary portfolio committee on Transport and Infrastructural Development has revealed.In a report on th...Published: 26 Jun 2018 at 13:33hrs | 3413 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo launches #KwekweHimJuly30 against Mnangagwa
Former Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo has launched a hashtag titled #KwekweHimJuly30 against President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Mnangagwa had to shift constituencies and run for the Chirumhanzi Zi...Published: 02 Jun 2018 at 20:20hrs | 12651 | by Ndou Paul
Kasukuwere arrested?
Former local government minister Saviour Kasukuwere who returned from self-imposed exile is reported to have been taken aside by the Law and Order officials for questioning.Kasukuwere landed a...Published: 22 May 2018 at 14:11hrs | 15894 | by Staff reporter
Mutodi duped in botched deal
A HARARE man has been arrested on charges of defrauding businessman and Goromonzi West Zanu PF parliamentary candidate, Energy Mutodi of $13 000 in a botched vehicle registration deal.Memory K...Published: 12 May 2018 at 07:31hrs | 2066 | by Staff Reporter
Deceit, greed devour Zimbabwe diamonds
The testimonies from bigwigs and stakeholders involved in exploiting diamonds in Chiadzwa given before Parliament last week painted a picture of intrigue and corporate sleaze that could have potential...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 08:56hrs | 481 | by Staff reporter
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