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Outcry over new Zinara vehicle exemption rules
There is growing outrage among Zimbabwean vehicle owners following the introduction of a new, cumbersome vehicle licence exemption policy by the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara)....Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 11:42hrs | 563 | by Staff reporter
Breathalysers to be used at Zimbabwe roadblocks during holidays
The Government has unveiled a major initiative aimed at curbing the alarming rise in road accidents caused by reckless and drunk driving, through the deployment of more breathalysers and the rollout o...Published: 17 Apr 2025 at 07:34hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt procures breathalysers to use at roadblocks
The Government of Zimbabwe is taking decisive steps to reduce the rising number of road traffic accidents caused by reckless and impaired driving. This includes the procurement of additional breathaly...Published: 02 Apr 2025 at 18:16hrs | 413 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to maintain police roadblocks
The Zimbabwean government has reaffirmed its commitment to maintaining police roadblocks across the country as part of efforts to preserve peace, promote road safety, and curb lawlessness.Home...Published: 20 Feb 2025 at 18:30hrs | 386 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police roadblocks to stay
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is embracing technology to enhance law enforcement through the introduction of an Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS), which will revolutionize crime ...Published: 25 Jan 2025 at 15:22hrs | 548 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police to use breathalysers this festive season
The Government, through the Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe (TSCZ), has procured new breathalysers to be deployed at police roadblocks as part of a festive season road safety initiative. The move a...Published: 23 Dec 2024 at 05:42hrs | 121 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe clamps down on smuggling, counterfeit products
Authorities in Zimbabwe are intensifying efforts to combat the smuggling of consumer goods into the country and the proliferation of counterfeit and substandard products in the market to safeguard pub...Published: 13 Dec 2024 at 09:43hrs | 265 | by Staff reporter
CIO car smuggling case drags on
A vehicle smuggling case, which implicates several officers from various law enforcement agencies, including the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), was postponed last Thursday after the state in...Published: 10 Nov 2024 at 11:00hrs | 488 | by Staff reporter
Police mounting strategic checkpoints to deal with crime
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has adopted a deliberate policy to set up strategic checkpoints on the roads to curb crime and not the multiplicity of the past that inconvenienced the public, a senior of...Published: 16 Apr 2024 at 07:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
1,940 Zimbabwean motorists arrested on first day of police operation
On the inaugural day of an operation aimed at addressing "roadway lawlessness," law enforcement took into custody almost 2,000 motorists.This nationwide inter-agency initiative, which runs fro...Published: 14 Sep 2023 at 12:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police blitz leaves commuters stranded
Thousands of commuters in Harare and other urban areas were left stranded on a recent day when the police launched an operation targeting unlicensed commuter omnibuses and pirate taxis. While authorit...Published: 14 Sep 2023 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
8 kombi drivers sentenced six months
EIGHT commuter omnibus conductors who were arrested over the weekend for trying to bribe traffic police by paying them amounts ranging from US$2 to US$5 were sentenced to six months in prison by Harar...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 06:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF setting very bad example
A BUS belonging to a school in Masvingo was this week involved in a serious accident. Aboard the bus were some women who are members of the ruling Zanu-PF party.The women were on their way to ...Published: 27 May 2022 at 06:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The day Mwonzora attracted '62 000' supporters
BY 10am on Sunday a handful of MDC-T supporters had gathered at the Zimbabwe Grounds in Harare's Highfield suburb where faction leader Douglas Mwonzora was billed to address a rally. Bus...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 07:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's calculation pays off?
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa's gamble to form a new party following squabbles over the MDC-Alliance name seems to be paying off amid renewed interest in the democratic struggle and fresh internati...Published: 26 Feb 2022 at 19:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, SA at war over border jumpers
ZIMBABWE and South Africa are at war over border jumpers, with the neighbouring country's Home Affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi accusing local security forces of taking bribes to let undocumented imm...Published: 04 Jan 2022 at 06:00hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Police roadblock saves kidnapping victim
WHILE some motorists view police roadblocks as an annoyance, one man has a blockade to thank after police manning a roadblock in Kadoma rescued him from a kidnapping.The incident took place on...Published: 02 Jan 2022 at 09:08hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Armed bus robberies worry police
POLICE have said bus crews must ensure that they compile a passengers list amid concern of increasing robberies targeting passengers, the recent ones being two bus robberies in a space of a week....Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:11hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF warns motorists driving cars with fake 'ED PFEE' plates
Zanu-PF has warned party members to stop abusing Zanu-PF emblems and the name of President Emmerson Mnangagwa and violate road rules and regulations in the name of the ruling party.The Zanu-PF...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:38hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Cross-border buses: smuggling conduits
Zimbabwe could be losing millions in potential revenue through smuggling perpetuated by connected bus crews who have devised survival tactics in the face of the existing ban in cross-border travel. ...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:13hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe grilled over roadblocks, wings clipped
ZANU PF Mashonaland Central Provincial Coordinating Committee (PCC) yesterday grilled Minister of Home Affairs Kazembe Kazembe who is also the party's cha...Published: 16 Aug 2021 at 19:57hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Touts set up 'bush tollgates'
TOUTS in Karoi are setting up bush "toll gates", where they force drivers avoid ing police roadblocks to pay for passage as they seek ways to combat the economic challenges that befell them when gover...Published: 23 Jul 2021 at 09:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Motorists bemoan police roadblocks
Last month, President Mnangagwa announced the country's Covid-19 Level 4 lockdown to curb the Delta variant, which was first detected in India and has found its way to Zimbabwe and other parts of the ...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police review roadblock schedule
Roadblocks will start after the rush hour to facilitate the movement of essential workers, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Mr Nick Mangwana said...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 09:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
The desecretion of the memory of gukurahundi victims
Greeting to all! Just when the memory of victims of the Gukurahundi, was brought to the attention of all the people of Mthwakazi, by Ibhetshu Likazulu, through the erection of tombstones, it w...Published: 29 May 2021 at 17:27hrs | 1 | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Matter of fact
We would like to acknowledge an error on the first sentence of its story titled Council blames police roadblocks for congestion.There is an impression that Harare City Council blamed ZRP for t...Published: 27 May 2021 at 18:24hrs | | by Staa reporter
Council blames police roadblocks for congestion
Harare City Council yesterday claimed that police roadblocks caused traffic congestion across the city although most of the roadblocks put in place to enforce the lockdown have been removed.Po...Published: 27 May 2021 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police net 25 mshika shika vehicles
POLICE in Gwanda, Matabeleland South Province, impounded 25 illegal taxi operators popularly known as mshika shika during the Easter holidays. The police launched an operation code-named "Oper...Published: 10 Apr 2021 at 04:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
147,000 kombi workers lose jobs
OVER 140 000 workers in the transport sector in the capital lost their jobs owing to measures put in place by the government to curtail the Covid-19 pandemic, the secretary-general of Greater Harare C...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 16:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Pirating kombis, taxis flood Bulawayo
PIRATING commuter omnibuses are back on the streets in Bulawayo taking advantage of reduced police roadblocks after Government eased lockdown regulations at the beginning of this month. Police...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 05:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe grilled over spot fines
HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe has said government is working on modalities to ensure that various methods of payment are used at police roadblocks to make it easy for payment of spot fines....Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Is Mnangagwa a lost cause?
One of Barack Obama's contribution to US foreign policy was the encouragement of a class of liberal whites and blacks with absolutely first-class brains, but above everything else, loved their subject...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 07:12hrs | 1 | by Ken Mufuka
Checkpoints and supermarkets severely exposed to Covid-19
POLICE roadblocks and supermarkets are potential Covid-19 super spreaders as they are failing to adhere to basic safety precautions to contain the deadly novel virus that has ravaged the globe....Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:12hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Roadblock fines increase challenged
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) has filed an urgent High Court application to nullify the recent increase in fines charged at roadblocks.In the application, ZimRights, togeth...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 14:52hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zupco losing business in Bulawayo
ZIMBABWE United Passenger Company (Zupco) buses in Bulawayo are losing business to pirate taxis who are charging less than the government subsidised fares.In the wake of the lockdown, the gove...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 14:52hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Police issue fresh warning to curfew violators
POLICE have stepped up their clampdown on people violating the current dusk-to-dawn curfew - warning that only those providing essential services would be allowed passage at roadblocks during curfew h...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 16:13hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Mafia manipulating public transport sector'
THE Passengers Association of Zimbabwe (PAZ) has alleged that the public transport sector was being manipulated by "mafia groups" which do not care about the rights as well as safety of passengers....Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 07:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
NRZ suspends commuter trains
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) on Friday suspended commuter trains in line with the COVID-19 regulations recently announced by the government.The suspension of commuter trains came am...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 07:59hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt failed to consult over lockdown, says Veritas
LEGAL think-tank Veritas says the government did not give transport operators, vendors and representatives of commerce and industry time to prepare for new covid-19 measures amid worsening macroeconom...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 07:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Entire Zimbabwe declared COVID-19 hotspot'
Health and Child Care Deputy Minister Dr John Mangwiro, has declared the entire Zimbabwe a coronavirus hotspot.He says infection rates are rising drastically in all the country's regions....Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 18:48hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Lockdown discord costs business
A serious policy discord in government and police is negatively impacting business as businesses are struggling to access exemption documents while workers are blocked from reporting for duty or delay...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is someone in government sabotaging ED Mnangagwa?
Zimbabweans are a people of strong political opinions who have always debated vigorously the issues of the day. During the Chimurenga war, freedom fighters convened Dare Rechimurenga to debate the pac...Published: 03 Jan 2021 at 09:24hrs | 1 | by Sam Wezhira
Police blitz nets 100 pirate kombis
POLICE in Gweru have since Monday arrested at least 100 pirate kombi drivers and impounded their vehicles for operating illegally.The arrests were made as part of measures to curb the spread o...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 05:48hrs | | 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 | 2 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: Tawanda Muchehiwa's gory story on how he was abducted by Ferret team
I often wake up in the middle of the night sweating profusely with a pulsating headache. At that moment, I can feel intense pain on the right side of my jaw. I never get back to sleep.I have t...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 09:49hrs | 38 | by Tawanda Muchehiwa
'Zimbabweans faking abductions'
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi yesterday accused people who claim to have been abducted of being desperate attention-seekers, who would have been involved in domestic violence at their homes....Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's runaway prices good for malayitsha business
Towering piles of cooking oil, tyres, biscuits, microwaves and toilet paper filled a small and damp Johannesburg basement – all destined for Zimbabwe.The items are loaded onto trailers attac...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 07:35hrs | 3 | by AFP
What should be done by government to Obviate Zimbabwe from economic collapse?
First and foremost what is it that we don't have? Is it a begging culture that is in us that we can't do without? We have plenty of suitable land for commercial purpose, minerals, recreational resourc...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 10:05hrs | 1 | by Elvis Dzvene
Cops intensify patrols in Bulawayo suburbs
POLICE have increased deployment of officers in Bulawayo's western suburbs to fight criminal activities. On Sunday, a message inciting citizens to embark on another stayaway was widely circula...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 22:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Protesters stole our guns, shot people, claims Army
The military yesterday alleged that protesters broke into police armouries and stole guns which they used to kill citizens, including a police officer, during last month's national shutdown that turne...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
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