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Zimbabwe govt to roll out policy to curb urban land chaos

The Government is preparing to launch a far-reaching Urban State Land Management Policy aimed at stamping out rampant land corruption, controlling illegal settlements, and ensuring orderly, sustainable urban development as cities rapidly e…

Published: 27 Jul 2025 at 11:20hrs | 234 | by Staff reporter

Arrests in plane haunt airports firm

The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has summoned the Airports Company of Zimbabwe (ACZ) to explain the circumstances surrounding the forcible removal and subsequent torture of three activists at Robert Mugabe International Airport …

Published: 27 Jul 2025 at 11:19hrs | 636 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's plane targeted with lasers

A multi-agency investigation is underway after pilots flying President Emmerson Mnangagwa were allegedly targeted with ground lasers on approach to the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport, ZimLive can reveal.The incident reportedly…

Published: 18 Jul 2024 at 09:21hrs | 3225 | by Staff reporter

Malawi Vice President die in plane crash

MALAWI'S vice president and nine others have been killed after their military jet crashed into a mountainous forest.A huge search operation was launched after the plane carrying Dr Saulos Chilima, 51, failed to land at Mzuzu International …

Published: 11 Jun 2024 at 09:57hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

Matebeleland North has highest maternal mortality rate in Zimbabwe

DESPITE efforts by the Government to halve the maternal mortality rate as part of achieving development goals, more women continue to die while giving birth in Matebeleland North than in other provinces.While the maternity mortality rate s…

Published: 15 Jan 2024 at 05:14hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's US$400 000 cloud seeding programme takes off

IT'S a humid Friday afternoon and there are only two aircraft on the tarmac at the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport in Bulawayo that are about to take off. One of them is a commercial aircraft bound for South Africa with a lot of…

Published: 15 Jan 2024 at 05:14hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter

Fastjet receives aircraft for local flights

FASTJET Zimbabwe has received the first of three Embraer 120, 30-seater aircrafts that will ply the Harare to Hwange and Harare to Kariba routes.The arrival of the aircraft is part of the local airline's strategy to expand its flights acro…

Published: 02 Mar 2023 at 20:22hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter

Air Force of Zimbabwe probes plane crashes

THE Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) has established a board of inquiry to probe circumstances surrounding this month's plane accident.An AFZ SF260 aircraft went down during routine training near Gweru early this month, killing two members of t…

Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 07:10hrs | 247 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe Airways loses second plane over delayed payments

Zimbabwe Airways has lost a second plane which has been sold by Malaysia Airlines after the Zimbabwe government failed to keep up with payments.Zimbabwe Airways, which was formed in secret by ministers to eventually replace Air Zimbabwe, h…

Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 07:39hrs | 9 | by ZimLive

Villagers didn't loot from plane crash: Police

Police have refuted claims that villagers in Nyajena communal lands in Masvingo South looted wards of cash - both hard currency and local bond notes - from the wreckage of a Cessna light aircraft that crashed in a hill near Renco Mine, kil…

Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 05:42hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe Airways loses one plane over delayed payment

Zimbabwe Airways, the controversial new state-owned airline being built with the help of aircraft retired by Malaysian Airways has lost one of the four Boeing 777-2H6(ER) aircraft that it had targeted.The aircraft, with registration mark 9…

Published: 20 Nov 2018 at 11:15hrs | 27 | by zimlive

Second Boeing already paid for

Government yesterday took delivery of a Boeing 777-200ER aircraft from Malaysia, which is part of an envisaged fleet of 10 aeroplanes to be managed under a new company tasked to boost the local aviation sector.The 300-seater plane, which t…

Published: 12 Apr 2018 at 06:47hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Mugabe rotten to the core

Figures are important, particularly for Zimbabwe where they simply donâ€™t add up. Letâ€™s start with Mugabeâ€™s trip to the Mexican resort of Cancun less than a week after he returned from seeing his doctors in Singapore. Mugabe travelled…

Published: 29 May 2017 at 07:20hrs | 934 | by zimvigil

Gold Plane crash details emerge

A CENTRAL Air Traffic Services (CATS) aircraft that was transporting gold from Bulawayo to Harare on Tuesday crash-landed due to engine failure, the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) said yesterday.The Cessna 206 aircraft, which …

Published: 12 Jan 2017 at 06:11hrs | 713 | by Staff reporter

Air Algerie loses contact with plane, 110 people on board

Algiers - Air Algerie said it lost contact with one of its passenger aircraft nearly an hour after takeoff from Burkina Faso on Thursday bound for Algiers."Air navigation services have lost contact with an Air Algerie plane Thursday flying…

Published: 24 Jul 2014 at 11:41hrs | 4165 | by AFP

Ethiopian Airlines plane hijacked

Geneva - The co-pilot of an Ethiopian Airlines plane flying from Addis Ababa to Rome hijacked the aircraft on Monday and forced it to land in Geneva where he wanted to seek asylum, police said.The hijacker was arrested after he scaled out …

Published: 18 Feb 2014 at 06:11hrs | 1808 | by Staff Reporter

BA plane hits building in South Africa

Johannesburg - A British Airways plane with 189 passengers on board bound for London reportedly veered off the runway, crashing into a building at OR Tambo International Airport in South Africa on Sunday evening.Images from Twitter appear…

Published: 23 Dec 2013 at 01:41hrs | 4164 | by Staff Reporter

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