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Informal sector remains closed, says High court
The informal sector remains closed under lockdown after the High Court found that the Government acted reasonably and lawfully by keeping it closed while allowing the formal sector to reopen under str...Published: 28 May 2020 at 07:32hrs | 386 | by Staff reporter
Schools, colleges no longer isolation centres
Schools, colleges and universities will no longer be used as Covid-19 quarantine centres for returnees since they will soon partially re-open, while hundreds of buses and kombis have joined the Zupco ...Published: 27 May 2020 at 07:13hrs | 721 | by Staff reporter
Every elder is your parent despite being a stranger
I am sure, and others too, without an iota of doubt that some 'Hwindi', is sorely missing his day out on duty. Rasta, dread, or some hairdo where the hair is sticking out like three inch nails. ...Published: 24 May 2020 at 21:57hrs | 152 | by Tondo
Is Zimbabwe cursed?
Zimbabweans are so friendly and peace loving people, Zimbabweans are known for being some of the friendliest and most welcoming hosts in the world – there is no better place to experience this than ...Published: 24 May 2020 at 10:31hrs | 3459 | by Knowledge Hakata
Omalayitsha feel Covid-19 pinch
IT'S a Tuesday morning and Dennis Dube, popularly known as Ndlesto, is basking in the sun gazing at the pride of his life, a spotless Quantum that is parked at a car park in Emakhandeni suburb. ...Published: 23 May 2020 at 08:33hrs | 1925 | by Staff reporter
800 kombis impounded
HARARE City Council has impounded more than 800 commuter omnibuses in the past two weeks for flouting several by-laws since opening the Coventry Road holding bay. The commuter omnibuses are be...Published: 22 May 2020 at 06:25hrs | 1149 | by Staff reporter
Police clampdown on truck drivers
Police are being more strict in checking trucks and private cars ferrying passengers for during the lockdown in violation of transport and lockdown regulations. Most passengers using trucks an...Published: 22 May 2020 at 06:24hrs | 821 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's policymakers are flying blind
...COVID-19 exposes gaps in social infrastructureThe lack of accurate data, which is the lifeblood of any economy, is a disease of incompetent governance and makes informed economic developmen...Published: 21 May 2020 at 19:42hrs | 742 | by Vince Musewe
Bus queues a ticking time bomb for Covid-19
The extended lockdown period coupled with the opening of industry and commerce has seen the reintroduction of long winding bus queues as the city has been hit by an acute shortage of ZUPCO buses and k...Published: 21 May 2020 at 09:46hrs | 986 | by Stephen Jakes
Nelson Chamisa you are now pissing us off
Sir you have become a Twitter President of which most of the people who are following you are in the diaspora the ones who did not vote for you.We now need you to call for a Massive Civil Diso...Published: 20 May 2020 at 21:45hrs | 4521 | by Knowledge Hakata
Banning kombis a blow to the transport industry
Whilst government monopoly regulates costs within affordable levels, to control growth and development, this new government's move to control the transport industry is an ambush to other transport pla...Published: 17 May 2020 at 15:14hrs | 1833 | by Leonard Koni
Jitters over indefinite Covid-19 lockdown
Zimbabwe's indefinite lockdown to stop the spread of coronavirus could sound a death knell to an ailing economy and lead to massive job losses, experts have warned.President Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:26hrs | 545 | by Staff reporter
End of road for private kombis
PRIVATELY-RUN commuter omnibuses will not return to the road even after the national lockdown as part of Government measures to bring sanity into the urban transport sector.Before the lockdown...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:22hrs | 1728 | by Staff reporter
Fuel queues resurface
LONG winding queues have resurfaced at fuel stations in Bulawayo with motorists expressing frustration over the situation during the lockdown. Service station staffers who spoke to reporters y...Published: 12 May 2020 at 07:40hrs | 753 | by Staff reporter
Madzibaba dies in a road accident
A Centenary apostolic member died yesterday when a Mazda B1800 he was travelling in crashed with a kombi near St Alberts mission in Mashonaland Central province....Published: 08 May 2020 at 20:04hrs | 6300 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Armed robbers raid Zimra deport
DARING armed robbers raided a Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) container depot in Bulawayo and went away with a consignment of 148 boxes of Broncleer, a cough mixture which was banned over abuse as ...Published: 07 May 2020 at 00:37hrs | 4033 | by Staff reporter
Zupco brings back kombis
Zupco is bringing its 500 franchised kombis back into operation, while the Government is allowing operators of conventional buses with valid operating permits to ferry people to and from work. ...Published: 06 May 2020 at 07:36hrs | 709 | by Staff reporter
LOCKDOWN: Conventional bus operators approved to service local routes
Conventional bus operators with valid operating permits are eligible to ferry people from various locations to their respective working places, Government has said.Clarifying on who qualifies ...Published: 05 May 2020 at 22:42hrs | 5671 | by Staff reporter
Zupco buses overwhelmed
FOLLOWING the relaxation of the lockdown guidelines by Government, there was an increase of human traffic in Bulawayo yesterday. President Mnangagwa on Friday extended the lockdown by a furthe...Published: 05 May 2020 at 07:38hrs | 786 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown - shwarma and fresh chips 'not reachable'
Not all Kombi crews are of uncouth traits when dealing with the travelling public, some are very humble, helpful and humane in their line of duty. The lockdown period is a time of reckoning an...Published: 04 May 2020 at 15:58hrs | 1634 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa.
Mnangagwa's level 2 lockdown explained
GOVERNMENT yesterday gazetted Statutory Instrument 99 of 2020 to give clarity to the Level 2 national lockdown announced by President Mnangagwa on Friday.The measures show a balancing act that...Published: 03 May 2020 at 08:55hrs | 770 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe COVID-19 lockdown goes into Stage 2
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has extended the Covid-19-induced lockdown by a further 14 days and announced an $18 billion Economic Rescue and Stimulus Package to scale up production in all sectors of the econo...Published: 02 May 2020 at 07:18hrs | 415 | by Staff reporter
Kombi driver makes false theft report
A BULAWAYO commuter omnibus driver was involved in an accident after diverting from his route without his employer's knowledge and abandoned the vehicle at the scene before making a false police repor...Published: 29 Apr 2020 at 07:46hrs | 604 | by Staff reporter
Hard times for taxi operators
HUNDREDS of taxi operators in Victoria Falls have been thrown out of business, hoping for a return only when the tourism industry regains its feet. The tourism industry ground to a halt becaus...Published: 27 Apr 2020 at 09:38hrs | 1004 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe shall rise again. . .
INDEPENDENCE Day speech by His Excellency, the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Cde Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, April 18, 2019 I welcome you all ...Published: 18 Apr 2020 at 08:35hrs | 802 | by Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa,
Remittances offer families a lifeline
REMITTANCES from relatives abroad are proving to be a lifeline for local families as they are bringing food to the table in many homes during the lockdown aimed at stopping the spread of Covid-19. Fro...Published: 16 Apr 2020 at 07:15hrs | 300 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown locks out rank marshals' earnings
IT was midday and the sun was blazing as pedestrians in downtown Harare went about their frenetic daily chores. The sidewalks were crammed with merchandise ranging from food items to accessories, laid...Published: 13 Apr 2020 at 08:18hrs | 407 | by Staff repprter
More Zupco buses during lockdown
THE Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) has deployed buses to Victoria Falls, Hwange, Esigodini, Plumtree and Beitbridge urban areas to provide affordable transport to residents and also facilit...Published: 12 Apr 2020 at 08:41hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
Sneaking in minimum wage is scandalous
HE routinely leaves home daily before day break. His aim is to catch the cheap government-owned Zupco bus at 5:30am so that he gets at his workstation at 7.In his small worn-out satchel is a p...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:51hrs | 730 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Mealie-meal fights break out in Bulawayo
POLICE in Bulawayo were yesterday called to restore order at mealie meal queues in the city centre and Nketa Suburb as residents fought over the commodity. Anti-riot police were called to disp...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:30hrs | 263 | by Staff reporter
2 killers jailed 70 years for slitting motorist's throat, burning body
TWO stranded deportees from Botswana who stabbed a motorist who had offered them a lift in Plumtree before they slit his throat and used tyres and diesel to burn his body beyond recognition, have been...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:41hrs | 623 | by Staff reporter
Informal traders defy social distancing advice
Informal traders in Bulawayo are defying the health workers and government advice for citizens to maintain social distancing and stay at home to prevent the spread of the deadly COVID-19 disease, whic...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:44hrs | 328 | by Staff reporter
V11 on self redollarisation in Zimbabwe evident in Makamba Hospital case - Mashakada
MDC top official Tapiwa Mashakada has said the evidence has been clearly been exposed that Zimbabwe is redollarising in a case of the late journalist Zororo Makamba's hospitalisation at Wilkins Hospit...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 07:58hrs | 6744 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe-SA transporters suspend services
CROSS border transporters plying the Zimbabwe-South Africa route have suspended services as SA is now under lock-down with effect from today. The Zimbabwean Government closed borders to human ...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:21hrs | 1105 | by Staff reporter
Queues hamper social distancing
THE shortage of various goods, services and cash has seen most people failing to maintain social distances as they spend long hours in queues where they risk contracting or spreading Covid-19. ...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:20hrs | 257 | by Staff reporter
Zupco hikes fares
Zupco bus and kombi fares doubled yesterday to cover rising costs, but are still well below those charged by independent operators. The last increase was in September last year. Zupco bus fare...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 06:29hrs | 513 | by Staff reporter
5 family members die on way to funeral
FIVE family members died while several others were injured in a road accident on Friday as they were on their way to bury another family member in Mtshabezi in Gwanda District, when the kombi they wer...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:35hrs | 1361 | by Staff reporter
Disinfect Public Transport Systems to curb Spread of Covid-19
National Secretary for Transport and Logistics Settlement Chikwinya has challenged the government to de-congest and disinfect the public transport sector as the nation fights the possible outbreak of ...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 07:36hrs | 1090 | by Stephen Jakes
Police fight and subdue machete gang
POLICE in Bulawayo had to fight to subdue four suspected illegal miners who were resisting arrest for possessing machetes. In January this year, police effected a ban on carrying dangerous wea...Published: 19 Mar 2020 at 06:19hrs | 996 | by Staff reporter
Kombis charge fares in US dollars
Commuter omnibus operators plying the Chitungwiza to Harare route have started quoting fares in United States dollars, purportedly to raise cash to buy fuel, which is now readily available at service ...Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 06:52hrs | 1814 | by Staff reporter
Treacherous Harare-Beitbridge highway
A HAULAGE truck hobnobs, huffs and puffs, swerves and suddenly drops its speed to an uncharacteristic crawl. Several other vehicles behind it screech to near halt and one-by-one, they weave past dotte...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 20:42hrs | 3451 | by Staff reporter
Border jumpers kill motorist, burn body
TWO stranded border jumpers deported from Botswana allegedly stabbed a motorist who had offered them a lift in Plumtree before they slit his throat and used tyres and diesel to burn his body beyond re...Published: 12 Mar 2020 at 06:59hrs | 1172 | by staff reporter
65 more Zupco buses delivered
SIXTY-FIVE more buses have been delivered from China to bolster the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco)'s fleet in urban areas and on intercity routes as part of efforts to provide affordable tr...Published: 11 Mar 2020 at 05:47hrs | 615 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo nurses stage demo against hospital CEO
MPILO Central Hospital nurses yesterday demonstrated against the chief executive officer Mr Leonard Mabandi's directive for them to start working four-day shifts instead of the two days they agreed on...Published: 10 Mar 2020 at 05:22hrs | 976 | by Staff reporter
Kombis now demanding fares in US dollars
SOME Harare commuter omnibus operators are now demanding transport fares in US dollars in what could be seen as open defiance against an unpopular government decision to dump the multi-currency system...Published: 08 Mar 2020 at 09:01hrs | 1333 | by newzimbabwe
Man ordered to pay $1 370 child upkeep
A BULAWAYO man has been charged $1 370 maintenance for one child while another was ordered to pay $650 for five children. Fredrick Munkombire whose age was not revealed, employed by World Visi...Published: 07 Mar 2020 at 06:47hrs | 470 | by Staff reporter
RBZ to release US$120m for fuel
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has earmarked US$120 million this month to import around 200 million litres of fuel for the general local currency market, with US$18,5 million letters of credit con...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 07:50hrs | 223 | by Staff reporter
Flash floods to hit central Zimbabwe
Some areas in Zimbabwe are likely to see flash floods as heavy rains falling across parts of Southern Africa over the last six days escalate today, with some areas in central Zimbabwe expected to rece...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 07:48hrs | 986 | by Staff reporter
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe to release US$120m for fuel
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has earmarked US$120 million this month to import around 200 million litres of fuel for the general local currency market, with US$18,5 million letters of credit con...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 07:17hrs | 1453 | by Steve Grays
Zupco plans national tap-card roll out
THE tap-card electronic payment system introduced by the Zimbabwe United Passengers Company (Zupco) has proved popular among passengers, prompting the transport utility to consider rolling it out in a...Published: 03 Mar 2020 at 05:46hrs | 673 | by Staff reporter
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