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NRZ to auction scrap wagons and passenger coaches across Zimbabwe
The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has announced plans to dispose of 422 scrap wagons and several decades-old passenger coaches, located in Bulawayo, Harare, and other sites across the country. T...Published: 17 Dec 2024 at 06:33hrs | 1462 | by Staff reporter
NRZ fire likely sparked by discarded cigarette stub
A carelessly discarded lit material, possibly a cigarette stub, may have sparked the massive fire that destroyed 51 decommissioned passenger coaches at the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) mechanic...Published: 19 Sep 2024 at 07:31hrs | 280 | by Staff reporter
4 petrol tankers, bus reduced to shells
FOUR petrol tankers and a bus were reduced to shells at a garage in the Willowvale area of Harare after they caught fire while suspected fuel dealers were siphoning fuel from one of the tankers....Published: 01 Dec 2023 at 04:51hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo recording 10 fires daily
BULAWAYO has recently been having a sharp increase in fire incidents with the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) saying they are recording between eight to 10 fire calls daily and this has been taking a toll...Published: 10 Sep 2023 at 08:55hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Many feared dead in Zimbabwe horror crash
Four vehicles, including two haulage trucks, were involved in a pile-up before bursting into flames along the Masvingo-Beitbridge HighwaySEVERAL people are believed to have died yesterday afte...Published: 16 May 2023 at 05:09hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
4 vehicles burnt to shells in accident
Four vehicles were yesterday reduced to shells after they caught fire in a pile up caused by a head-on collision of two haulage trucks along the Masvingo-Beitbridge highway.The accident occurr...Published: 16 May 2023 at 05:08hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Watching in horror as the giants fell, one after another - The demise of public entities in Zimbabwe
When preparing this article, I was faced with the task of reviewing numerous press articles, news items and placing them alongside my own vast observations on what happened to the once thriving public...Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 19:41hrs | 10 | by Liverson Mdongo wa Habe
10 people escape death after house catches fire
TEN people among them four minors escaped death by a whisker when a house they were sleeping in caught fire in Tshithaudze Suburb in Beitbridge on Wednesday morning. According to Beitbridge Mu...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 17:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Greyhound bus burns. . .34 passengers, crew escape unharmed
THIRTY-FOUR people cheated death yesterday morning when a Greyhound cross-border (double decker) bus they were travelling in caught fire at the 35km peg along the Beitbridge-Bulawayo Road. The...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 07:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Church premises, six vehicles gutted by fire
RIVER of life International Church congregants were left counting their losses after six cars were reduced to ashes when a fire broke out at the church's premises on Tuesday night. The fire br...Published: 30 Jan 2019 at 22:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
9 years in jail for violence
Four people who took part in the violent MDC-Alliance "shutdown" early this month were on Friday jailed for a combined five years at the Mbare Magistrates' Courts. Johannes Sigauke (42) of Zon...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 10:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Minister suspects hidden hand behind infernos
A FIRE razed a girls' hostel at Mbuyazwe Secondary School in Umguza District, Matabeleland North yesterday amid calls for security services to investigate the alarming cases of infernos being experien...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Car burns, reduced to shell
A Guruve bound Peugeot 306 reportedly caught fire in Muzika area this afternoon and it was reduced to shell.No injuries were recorded and only valuables were burnt....Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 18:15hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Acid spillage in haulage trucks head-on collision
TWO haulage trucks caught fire and one of them spilled an unknown amount of sulphuric acid when they were involved in a head-on collision in Dinde area outside Hwange town on Monday night.The ...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 08:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Haulage truck reduced to shell
A Guruve bound Haulage truck went up in flames last night after it collided with a Toyota WISH at Rivers Store in Concession, Mashonaland Central.A witness Givestar Kamuzonde told Bulawayo24.c...Published: 26 Jun 2018 at 10:21hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Gweru faces fire tender shortages
Gweru City Council is operating with three functional fire tenders out of a possible six, a situation that compromises on effective mitigation against loss of human life and property, NewsDay reported...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Vehicles reduced to shells as garage catch fire
Property worth thousands of dollars went up in smoke in Bulawayo on Saturday after a garage caught fire.Several cars mostly BMW's, a bus and a fuel tanker where reduced to shells at Kelvin ind...Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 09:24hrs | 1 | by Thobekile Zhou
Mugabe's government must be stopped, as anti-bond notes activists goes missing
THREE activists, who were allegedly abducted along High Glen road in Harare's Mufakose suburb by suspected state security agents in the early hours of Friday ahead of a planned anti-bond notes dem...Published: 20 Nov 2016 at 13:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
3 Zimbabwean buses burnt in South Africa
Three Zimbabwean cross border buses and two trucks were yesterday burnt in the Newton area of Johannesburg, South Africa. Buses belonging to Munhenzwa, Elite and Hi-Tec coaches were reduced to shells ...Published: 27 Jun 2015 at 08:06hrs | 8 | by Thupeyo Muleya
Greyhound bus reduced to shell
We have received reports that a Greyhound bus was burnt to ashes in Zimbabwe yesterday.Details are still sketchy as to how many people were in the bus and any injuries and the location of ...Published: 18 Feb 2015 at 13:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Three burnt beyond recognition in road accident
THREE people were burnt beyond recognition and three others escaped with minor injuries when a Mercedes Benz they were travelling in hit a donkey and rammed into a haulage truck before catching fi...Published: 08 Nov 2014 at 08:44hrs | | by Loveness Bepete and Mpumelelo Nyoni
8 die in horror crash
EIGHT people, among them three infants, were killed when a Mercedes Benz they were travelling in was involved in a head-on collision with a haulage truck at the 271km peg along the Bulawayo-Beitbridge...Published: 06 Oct 2014 at 09:03hrs | | by Thupeyo Muleya
2 vehicles go up in smoke at garage
Two vehicles were yesterday reduced to shells after one of them caught fire while decanting fuel at a Bulawayo service station.It took more than two hours for the Fire Brigade to put out the f...Published: 27 May 2014 at 05:52hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Redan Filling Station re-opens
A BULAWAYO Redan Filling Station that was gutted by fire in April has been re-opened after renovations at a cost of about $100...Published: 29 Jun 2013 at 04:47hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
FOUR more Harare petrol explosion victims have died, total seven
FOUR more petrol explosion victims have died, bringing to seven the number of people killed in the Sunningdale tragedy.The four succumbed to injuries they sustained when a fuel tanker they we...Published: 18 Jun 2011 at 09:01hrs | | by Moyo Roy
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