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Official statement from Brooklyn Express on Gwanda bus disaster
Our heartfelt apologies go out to the relatives and families of the deceased whose lives were lost in an accident involving one of our Brooklyn express buses along the Bulawayo, Beitbridge highway. We...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 15:23hrs | 7850 | by Brooklyn Express
Mnangagwa to increase police highway patrols
Government will be stepping up police highway patrols to curb road carnage, Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa has said"Cabinet expressed grave concern over the recent road traffic acciden...Published: 15 Nov 2018 at 12:57hrs | 3683 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to monitor companies allocated forex by RBZ
GOVERNMENT has proposed the establishment of a Foreign Currency Utilisation Monitoring Mechanism to monitor companies that receive foreign currency from the central bank.Addressing a Press bri...Published: 15 Nov 2018 at 06:00hrs | 2473 | by Staff reporter
Zinara bosses off the hook
THE National Prosecuting Authority (NPA)'s bid to revive corruption charges against five Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) bosses yesterday hit a snag after the Supreme Court threw out t...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 05:37hrs | 543 | by Staff reporter
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 | 4084 | 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 | 2405 | by Staff reporter
Transport ministry workers nabbed for cement theft
TRANSPORT and Infrastructural Development ministry workers along the Mushandirapamwe-Wedza Highway, who stole over 80 bags of cement and quarry stones on Friday, appeared before Marondera magistrate A...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 05:59hrs | 382 | by Staff reporter
Train blocking Masvingo - Beitbridge road could take days to clear
Travellers taking the Masvingo highway from Beitbridge or heading into Beitbridge from Masvingo are facing a nightmare this morning after a train derailed and blocked the road.NRZ engineers ar...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 14:29hrs | 4458 | by ZimLive
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 | 2023 | by Jacob Mafume, MDC National Spokesperson
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 | 3430 | by Staff reporter
Train derails in Beitbridge
A goods train has derailed after hitting a truck on the Masvingo-Beitbridge highway and rail crossing.Traffic has been brought to a halt and cannot gain access into the border town using the r...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 20:18hrs | 1828 | 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 | 230 | by Staff reporter
Tax rebate for job creators
GOVERNMENT is planning to introduce a tax rebate for companies that create additional jobs as part of broader fiscal policy measures aimed at stimulating the economy towards an upper middle-class stat...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 10:32hrs | 239 | by Staf reporter
Zanu-PF perpetuating poverty
Would you believe that your poverty is being created by your own government? I know it is hard to believe, but here is the story.Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson in their 2012 seminal book...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 15:37hrs | 461 | by Vivid Gwede
Residents reject proposed budget
The Zvishavane Town Council has been conducting 2019 budget consultations with stakeholders.However, Zvishavane Residents and Rate Payers Association say they will not give the proposed ...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 15:22hrs | 472 | by Staff Reporter
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 | 2576 | 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 | 606 | by Staff reporter
Top DJ goes broke?
Top Bulawayo wheel spinner DJ Liz (real name Sharmaine Waldman) has allegedly gone broke and resorted to selling isitshwala as a means of alternative survival.In a video posted by social...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 17:07hrs | 3997 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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 | 1861 | by Staff Reporter
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 | 2647 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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 | 2489 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1464 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe sister seeks treatment abroad
FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe's sister Shuvai Gumbochuma on Thursday successfully applied for provisional release of her passport indicating she planned to travel abroad for treatment.Gumboch...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 06:46hrs | 3971 | by newzimbabwe
Grace Mugabe sister's trial deferred
The trial of Shuvai Gumbochuma's son, Moses, who is accused of obstructing the course of justice during his mother's arrest in September, was yesterday deferred to November 8.Shuvai Gumbochuma...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 15:42hrs | 1308 | by Staff reporter
The new dispensation a replica of Mugabe era
The narrative of the November coup which ushered in President Emmerson Mnangagwa cannot be white washed and will remain in the Zimbabwe's history.I now plead with the indulgence of...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 08:48hrs | 2503 | by Leonard Koni
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 | 4849 | by Ndou Paul
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
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 | 1066 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF meets as tension rises
President Emmerson Mnangagwa will tomorrow chair two crucial Zanu-PF meetings in Harare as he battles to deal with the twin challenges of Zimbabwe's worsening economic crisis, as well as mounting disc...Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 17:04hrs | 3822 | by Staff reporter
All eyes on Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa will tomorrow chair two crucial Zanu-PF meetings in Harare as he battles to deal with the twin challenges of Zimbabwe's worsening economic crisis, as well as mounting disc...Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 07:18hrs | 7330 | by Staff reporter
Long live Comrade: Constantino WaChiwenga
On July 1, 2018, Vice President Chiwenga exhorted people at a rally in Hatcliffe to stop paying rates until the council improved services like refuse collection, water supply, and sewer reticulation....Published: 22 Oct 2018 at 06:47hrs | 3690 | by Sam Wezhira
Senior cop dies in head-on collision with haulage truck
A senior Bulawayo police officer, Assistant Inspector Mthokozisi Sibanda, died on the spot together with his wife when a Honda Fit car they were driving in was involved in a head-on crash with a haula...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 10:13hrs | 2494 | by Staff reporter
Joram Gumbo must leave office and face justice
The man at the centre of the jerry can madness is actually worse than revealed by his opinions on fuel containers. While his expressions on jerry cans were reflective of his unfitness to hold public o...Published: 20 Oct 2018 at 18:01hrs | 4813 | by MDC Communications
'Beitbridge Highway dualisation project to begin soon'
Government says construction work on dualisation of the Beitbridge – Harare Highway will kick-start soon using local resources through the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure Development while ...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 06:54hrs | 1798 | by Staff reporter
Money changer 'gives' man fake rand notes
A BEITBRIDGE "sphatheleni" has been arrested for allegedly giving a local resident fake rand notes amounting to R2 400, police have confirmed. Noel Komboni (20) of Dulibadzimu suburb fled from...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 06:33hrs | 1361 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe goes it alone on Chirundu-Harare-Beitbridge Highway dualisation
GOVERNMENT has decided to go it alone and dualise the Chirundu-Harare-Beitbridge Highway while talks with Chinese Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Group Limited (Afecc) for the $2 billion tender co...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 06:37hrs | 3072 | by Staff reporter
Chinese deals, raw or fair for the Zimbabwean economy?
Given the recent developments in Zimbabwe and the African continent, it is worthy assessing how Chinese investments can affect the local economy going forward. Critical for Zimbabwe is how the country...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 21:41hrs | 1855 | by Victor Bhoroma
Zanu-PF Midlands seeks hero status for Shiri
THE Zanu PF Midlands province structure is set to write to the party's supreme governing body, politburo, seeking national hero status for its vice-chairperson, Godwin Shiri, who died in a car acciden...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 07:00hrs | 1720 | by Staff reporter
Shake-up at ZRP
Several senior police officers have been moved from the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP)'s traffic section to other units within the force.The transfers are part of efforts by the law enforcemen...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 14:10hrs | 2448 | by Staff reporter
List of Zimbabwe police officers being transferred
FROM COMPOL [HRA] TO ALL STNS CLASS ‘A’ RDO TM 375/18 DD 11/10/18'IMMEDIATE'SUBJECT: TRANSFERS: OFFICERS AND...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 20:02hrs | 13384 | by Compol HRA
Muchinguri taken to task over Masvingo highway
OPPOSITION Alliance MPs on Wednesday took Defence minister Oppah Muchinguri to task over delays on the Beitbridge-Chirundu dualisation project, saying government was fond of holding groundbreaking cer...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 07:11hrs | 903 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe economy to undergo painful epoch'
Government is putting in place a cocktail of stern measures that will ensure its public accounts will be streamlined within its means while the public has to brace for sterner times as the panacea to ...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 06:45hrs | 1173 | by Staff reporter
Zinara board fired
THE Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development, Engineer Joel Biggie Matiza has dissolved the Zimbabwe National Roads Authority (Zinara) board. He said the entity's board, whose management ...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 06:22hrs | 935 | by Staff reporter
Man jailed 15 years for killing fellow imbiber
A GWERU man was last week sentenced to 15 years in jail by a Bulawayo High Court judge, Justice Martin Makonese, for killing a fellow imbiber during a beer binge.Emmanuel Bhumure (38) of Hertf...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 06:45hrs | 358 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa hearing fails to kick off
A hearing for the suspended Zimbabwe National Road Administration chief executive Engineer Nancy Masiyiwa has opened a can of worms as it emerged that the parastatal is refusing to release an audit re...Published: 08 Oct 2018 at 06:32hrs | 1391 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to engage local firms for Beitbridge-Chirundu highway
Government is moving to engage Zimbabwean road construction firms in a major road expansion programme connecting Beitbridge and Chirundu amid indications the deal reached with Chinese firm Anhui Forei...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 12:54hrs | 1996 | by Staff reporter
UK tourists to Zimbabwe double
THE call by Government to re-engage with the international community has benefited the tourism industry the most, as figures released by Africa Albida Tourism (AAT) reveal that tourist arrivals from U...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 08:45hrs | 446 | by Staff reporter
Man gets 15 years behind bars for murder
A Gweru man was last week sentenced to 15 years in jail by Bulawayo High Court judge sitting on circuit in Gweru Martin Makonese for killing a patron during a beer binge. Emmanuel Bhumure...Published: 06 Oct 2018 at 18:34hrs | 2343 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Beitbridge woman smuggled drugs in canoe
A 35-YEAR-OLD Beitbridge woman appeared before a Guruve magistrate today charged for smuggling boxes of illicit drugs from Zambia.Mavis Bhayi (35) of stand number 192 Dhulivadzimu Township Bei...Published: 06 Oct 2018 at 11:34hrs | 1678 | by Simbarashe Sithole
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