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Lenient sentence for unlicensed driver sparks public outcry
The 24-month suspended sentence handed to a 20-year-old unlicensed driver who fatally knocked down a Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT) student has ignited fierce debate and ...Published: 14 Jul 2025 at 08:00hrs | 899 | by Staff reporter
Punish reckless drivers, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday directed the police to descend heavily on reckless drivers as he consoled families that lost relatives when a Chawasarira bus collided head-on with a commuter omnibus at ...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 08:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt orders breathalysers
Home Affairs Deputy Minister Obedingwa Mguni says Government has placed an order for breathalysers and these will be issued to the police soon. This was after the realisation that drunken drivers have...Published: 10 Oct 2017 at 01:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe traffic cops go 7 years without breathalysers
DRUNKEN drivers who are involved in accidents are getting away largely scot-free as police have been operating without breath test kits since 2010.Standard police breathalysers cost as little ...Published: 09 Oct 2017 at 16:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cop spikes spark commuter riot
ANTI-RIOT police were called in yesterday as angry commuters threatened to beat up a female police officer who had allegedly thrown spikes under a kombi filled with passengers in Bulawayo....Published: 07 Mar 2017 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge-Masvingo-Chirundu-Harare roads now death traps - Senator Mohadi
Beitbridge senator Tambudzani Mohadi has said the Beitbridge-Masvingo-Chirundu-Harare roads have now become death traps which needs urgent attending if road carnage is to be curbed along them....Published: 17 Jun 2016 at 07:07hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa want errant road users to be punished
Acting President Emmerson Mnangagwa has called for deterrent penalties to be meted out on errant road users.He was speaking at the inaugural Africa Road Safety Day national commemoration held ...Published: 14 Nov 2015 at 19:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Public expresses dismay over negligent drivers
The public has called on authorities to take stern action against commuter omnibus drivers who operate without requisite qualifications following the Seke road accident which claimed 10 lives....Published: 21 May 2014 at 18:15hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'More than 500 000 Zim vehicles unroadworthy,' says Dr Mpofu
MORE than 500 000 vehicles countrywide are unroadworthy, while the same number of drivers are not licenced, a situation that has resulted in fatal road carnages, a Cabinet minister has said. T...Published: 25 Nov 2013 at 02:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mashonaland police declare war on negligent drivers
The Zimbabwe Republic Police in Mashonaland East province has declared war on negligent drivers, unregistered and unroadworthy vehicles which have been blamed for causing most of the accidents....Published: 03 Jan 2013 at 12:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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