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Heavy rains collapse city road network
BULAWAYO'S road network has collapsed following heavy rains that are being experienced in the city and elsewhere across the country and council needs approximately US$500 million to fix them. ...Published: 24 Dec 2020 at 05:07hrs | 1807 | by Staff reporter
State of Bulawayo roads worry human rights group, BCC petitioned
THE Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) has expressed concern over the state of roads in Bulawayo which are littered with potholes.This has prompted the civic society group to petit...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 06:50hrs | 440 | by Staff reporter
Zinara to introduce e-tolling
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) is working on introducing an e-tolling system that will ease congestion at some tollgates that has resulted in delays for motorists.During th...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 06:46hrs | 385 | by Staff reporter
Lack of funds forces BCC to suspend rehabilitation of Masiyephambili Road
THE Bulawayo City Council has postponed the rehabilitation of Masiyephambili Road to next year claiming that the $11 million allocated by the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) was inadeq...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 23:21hrs | 386 | by Staff reporter
Tollgate fees going up by more than 166%
Tollgate fees are going up by more than 166 percent after the ministry of transport said the old fees had been shrivelled by inflation.Light motor vehicles will now pay Z$120 to go through tol...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 08:58hrs | 5006 | by Staff reportetr
Toll fee hike on the cards
Toll fees are to be reviewed as current ones are no longer adequate for the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) to fund required road maintenance, legislators were told yesterday. T...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 06:23hrs | 449 | by Staff writer
Mazowe Rural District Council buys new equipment
MAZOWE rural district council has purchased new equipment for road maintenance from devolution funds an official has said.The council engineer Cleopas Mupereki said they acquired a tipper and ...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 08:13hrs | 988 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Recalls have crippled council business, says Mafume
New Harare mayor Jacob Mafume (JM) still believes that the capital has what it takes to regain its Sunshine City status if city fathers can get their act together. Last week, he sat down with NewsDay ...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:19hrs | 648 | by Staff reporter
Nkosinathi Ncube Appointed ZINARA CEO
Zimbabwe National Roads Administrator (ZINARA) has appointed Nkosinathi Ncube Chief Executive Officer following the dismissal of former CEO Nacy Masiyiwa Chamisa over graft allegation.The appo...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 18:11hrs | 2015 | by Staff reporter
BCC yet to receive devolution funds
GOVERNMENT has not yet disbursed devolution funds to the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) for roads rehabilitation, the local authority has said.Council had budgeted $20,7 million for resurfacing o...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:56hrs | 263 | by Staff reporter
Decaying infrastructure drags Zimbabwe to Stone Age
ZIMBABWE is lagging behind other regional countries in infrastructural development and would require huge investment to build robust infrastructure and catch up with continental leaders, a new report ...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:17hrs | 237 | by Staff reporter
Decaying infrastructure drags Zimbabwe to Stone Age
ZIMBABWE is lagging behind other regional countries in infrastructural development and would require huge investment to build robust infrastructure and catch up with continental leaders, a new report ...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:05hrs | 151 | by Nyasha Chingono
Fuel shortages hamper city roads projects
FUEL shortages have crippled Bulawayo City Council's roads rehabilitation projects with work suspended last year.The local authority is set to receive $20 700 000 under the inter-governmental ...Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 07:57hrs | 257 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records a budget surplus, But
Zimbabwe recorded its first fiscal surplus since 2011 as a result of significant contributions from Intermediate Monetary Transfer (IMT) Tax, subdued investment on capital expenditure and civil servic...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 08:23hrs | 725 | by Victor Bhoroma
Potholes cause for concern in Bulawayo
Potholes have been a cause of concern for Bulawayo city Council councillors.This is revealed in the latest council minutes in which Councillor Kidwell Mujuru raised concern about potholes in t...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 08:38hrs | 1029 | by Stephen Jakes
BCC needs US$700m for roads rehabilitation
BULAWAYO City Council needs US$700 million to rehabilitate its road network.During a recent full council meeting, ward 28 councillor Kidwell Mujuru queried why council was using gravel to refi...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 08:04hrs | 88 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo roads a 'state of disaster'
BULAWAYO'S roads are deteriorating at an alarming pace due to lack of maintenance, with council saying it cannot raise the required US$700 million to rehabilitate the city's 2 100km road network. ...Published: 19 Mar 2020 at 06:19hrs | 746 | by Staff reporter
Zinara to disburse $512 million
Zinara has set aside $512 million this year to be disbursed to four road authorities for road maintenance works across the country.In an interview, Zinara acting chief executive officer Engine...Published: 28 Feb 2020 at 13:15hrs | 890 | by Staff reporter
Council mulls own service station
Gweru City Council has tabled plans to construct its own service station to ensure its vehicles do not get stuck in queues at private fuel stations at the expense of service delivery, Southern Eye has...Published: 12 Dec 2019 at 20:04hrs | 528 | by Staff reporter
Red flag over city roads
BULAWAYO councillors are agonising over the city's measly road maintenance budget for the remainder of the year saying that with the rainy season setting in, the city's already bad road network will b...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:57hrs | 186 | by Staff reporter
Harare petitions govt over interbank rates
HARARE City Council has called on central government to give them latitude to peg rates according to prevailing interbank rates, saying service delivery was being compromised by poor revenue inflows o...Published: 23 Sep 2019 at 08:48hrs | 2467 | by Staff reporter
Police, Zanu-PF supporters battler over Bromley farm
RUNNING battles between police and about 500 Zanu-PF supporters remain the order of day at Bromley's Subdivision H of Whiteside Farm a fortnight after the ruling party supporters were evicted from the...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 08:23hrs | 446 | by Staff reporter
The calibre of councillors
THE Auditor-General's (AG) Local Authorities Report for 2018 makes for some serious, but disturbing reading.It reports the state of financial management of local authorities and shows the exte...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:18hrs | 500 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Harare's 'flyovers' structural fault scare
ALMOST all overpasses in Harare, commonly known as flyovers, have developed structural faults due to lack of maintenance, posing harm to the public if remedial action is not taken urgently, The ...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 09:30hrs | 2512 | by Staff reporter
Audit exposes shocking govt rot
GOVERNMENT last year overspent by more than $2 billion without seeking parliamentary approval, while various departments and local authorities flagrantly flouted accounting procedures, Auditor-General...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 16:45hrs | 1361 | by Staff reporter
BCC struggles to complete roads maintenance projects
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is struggling to carry out its road maintenance programmes across the city due to the unavailability of fuel and financial resources, a report has revealed.Accordin...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 07:06hrs | 395 | by Staff reporter
Zinara ropes in CID
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) is working with the Criminal Investigations Department anti-corruption team to investigate all its revenue streams as part of efforts to curb corrupt...Published: 14 May 2019 at 07:27hrs | 682 | by Staff reporter
Govt reads riot act to Zinara
Government has said it will not hesitate to wield the axe at the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) to stamp out corrupt activities that emanated from the failure by the road fund to stick...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 13:07hrs | 192 | by Staff reporter
Zinara plugs financial leakages
Government has clipped the wings of the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) and ordered it to stick to its core mandate of fixing road user fees and disbursing funds for road maintenance....Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 06:52hrs | 727 | by Staff reporter
Zinara chefs face corruption probe
DETECTIVES from the police's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Fraud Squad have opened a probe into two Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) senior managers over allegations of corrupt...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 13:14hrs | 1622 | by Staff reporter
Govt launches urban mass transportation programme in Mutare
GOVERNMENT on Monday launched the urban mass transportation system in Mutare after it availed 40 Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) buses to ferry passengers to and from the Central Business Di...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 23:14hrs | 664 | by Staff reporter
Post-Election violence commission submission
I am an independent member of the Zimbabwean society, meaning that I make rational decision and conclusions on political matters. Officially I am trained in the accounting profession henceforth in my ...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 13:17hrs | 1214 | by Terence Simbi
'Good Samaritan' pothole patchers causing more damage: Harare Council
The continued illegal road maintenance by supposed Good Samaritans has created more damage than good on most roads.The groups target eastern suburbs where the elite would not hesitate to part ...Published: 25 Dec 2018 at 21:57hrs | 6447 | by Staff Reporter
Harare seeks $3,1m forex for refuse trucks
HARARE City Council has engaged the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe to facilitate the release of $3,1 million meant for 16 refuse compactors being held by the supplier, FAW Group Corporation.Harare h...Published: 12 Dec 2018 at 05:37hrs | 384 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to recover looted Zinara funds
Government will recover all the money looted from the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara), President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said. An audit report by Grant Thornton unearthed massive...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 05:22hrs | 1213 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo-Victoria Falls road rehabilitation to start in 2020
THE rehabilitation of the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls highway to be funded by the Infrastructural Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ) and the Government at an estimated cost of $350 million is expected to...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 07:43hrs | 810 | by Staff Reporter
Disruptive technologies: Of driverless cars in Zimbabwe
The disruptive technology hype is abuzz with innovations such as the driverless or autonomous cars, drones, artificial intelligence etc.All these innovations are exciting and I believe it is a...Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 05:24hrs | 512 | by Tororiro Isaac Chaza
Bulawayo gets 'insulting' $1m from Zinara
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) last month disbursed slightly over $1 million for the rehabilitation of Bulawayo's roads, but city authorities said the money was not enough to finan...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 06:04hrs | 1331 | by Staff reporter
A timeline of how Zimbabwe lost its currency
Today, November 14, marks the 21st anniversary of "Black Friday", the day the Zimbabwe dollar crashed in 1997.We track the Zimdollar's collapse from that fateful November day, and the many des...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 15:10hrs | 5712 | by newZwire with The Source
BCC challenges Zinara over road fund allocations
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has taken the Zimbabwe National Road Authority (Zinara) to task to clarify how it came up with a formula of disbursing road maintenance funds, as the amount keeps chang...Published: 30 Oct 2018 at 05:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Vehicle licensing to be decentralised'
Government is mulling reinstating the collection of vehicle licence fees to local authorities to help them bankroll road maintenance, the National Assembly has been told.The fees are currently...Published: 16 Oct 2018 at 14:40hrs | 2549 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to engage local firms for Beitbridge-Chirundu highway
Government is moving to engage Zimbabwean road construction firms in a major road expansion programme connecting Beitbridge and Chirundu amid indications the deal reached with Chinese firm Anhui Forei...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 12:54hrs | 2016 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa goes big on road works
Government will rehabilitate, construct and upgrade at least 2 000km of road in the next two months, The Sunday Mail has established.The massive road works are part of a broader national progr...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 08:53hrs | 547 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa can do without Chamisa
IN the next few days, most likely next week, President Mnangagwa will announce his new Cabinet. This will follow the swearing-in of members of the National Assembly on Wednesday. Advice has be...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 08:48hrs | 602 | by Editorial - The Herald
Beitbridge gets green light to build foot bridges
THE Beitbridge Municipality recently got the green light to build two pedestrian fly-over bridges at two black spots on the highway cutting across the border town to the border post.Beitbridge...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:30hrs | 336 | by Staff reporter
Zinara 'prioritising VIP roads in Harare'
The Zimbabwe National Roads Authority (Zinara) has been prioritising VIP routes in Harare, an official has said.Harare City Council (HCC) environmental committee chairperson Herbert Gomba yest...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 16:38hrs | 1845 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt revives abandoned road projects
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has intensified efforts to revive road and bridge projects that were abandoned more than 30 years ago.The country's road infrastructure is in dire nee...Published: 24 Jul 2018 at 14:08hrs | 1162 | by Staff reporter
Mudzengi vows to fell Mutsvangwa, Mliswa in Norton
FREEZIM Congress parliamentary candidate for Norton, Gerald Mudzengi yesterday said he was plotting to shock his big name rivals in the July 30 polls, claiming they did not fully appreciate the dynami...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 06:39hrs | 875 | by Staff reporter
Govt surpasses road grading target
Last year saw Government focus on grading the country's national road network with gravel/earth roads to ensure that they are trafficable. A total of $126,2 million was disbursed to road autho...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 06:57hrs | 187 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF run council engulfed by graft storm
Tucked away in Shurugwi in the Midlands province, Tongogara rural district council [RDC] has dispelled the myth that corruption is an urban preserve.Most corruption cases that grab the headlin...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 09:38hrs | 241 | by Staff reporter
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