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Zimbabwe motorists to pay more in toll fees
Hard-pressed motorists will have to dig deeper into their depleted pockets for toll fees, after Zinara announced yesterday that it was increasing the number of tollgates on the country’s highways. ...Published: 9 hrs ago | 3894 | by Staff reporter
Taxed to death - Five new tollgates open today
GOVERNMENT has established five new tollgates on major highways with effect from today as part of efforts to generate more revenue for roads infrastructure development. In an e-mailed response...Published: 10 hrs ago | 1024 | by Staff reporter
New Zimbabwe transport management system to improve efficiency
Zimbabwe has signed an integrated transport management system, which seeks to bring together five key elements of road policing, efficient use of national infrastructure and coordination of informatio...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 13:25hrs | 950 | by Staff reporter
Safeguard brings automated traffic barrier spikes to Zimbabwe
Safeguard Security's Engineering division has introduced to the Zimbabwe market high security automated retractable traffic barrier spikes, which can be used for traffic control, preferably in conjunc...Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 10:55hrs | 2483 | by Agencies
Let Zimbabwe move forward
Ever heard of the adage 'Old habits die hard'? Most people thought threats from some political parties or is it one political party to boycott elections had ended with the demise of Save. Toda...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 13:51hrs | 546 | by Mrehwa Soko
Remove tollgate: Chitungwiza residents
CHITUNGWIZA residents have urged the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) to relocate the tollgate located at Chanakira village, claiming it was making it expensive for them to travel to Har...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 07:56hrs | 798 | by Staff reporter
Safeguard brings automated traffic barrier spikes to Zimbabwe
Safeguard Security's Engineering division has introduced to the Zimbabwe market high security automated retractable traffic barrier spikes, which can be used for traffic control, preferably in conjunc...Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 17:35hrs | 2899 | by Agencies
BCC splurges $1 000 on 3-hour party
TWO top Bulawayo City Council (BCC)'s officials recently blew over $1 000 on a three-hour lavish party at the Dutch embassy in Harare, Southern Eye reported.A report of the council's finance a...Published: 28 May 2018 at 07:17hrs | 786 | by Staff rpeorter
Mnangagwa buys War Vets' loyalty ahead of elections
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has promised increase war veterans salary ahead of the elections.Mnangagwa made the promise during an interface with the veterans of the liberation stru...Published: 11 May 2018 at 19:27hrs | 3442 | by Byo24News Reporter
Parly committee irks residents
BEITBRIDGE residents on Wednesday took a swipe at a parliamentary committee that seemed in a hurry to leave when people were still eager to raise issues of concern at a public hearing on the Public He...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 06:05hrs | 86 | by Staff reporter
$206m highway crumbles before commissioning
THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Transport and Infrastructural Development has instituted an inquiry to ascertain the state and standard of the 800-kilometre Plumtree-Mutare Highway after comp...Published: 04 Mar 2018 at 17:43hrs | 976 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to Mnangagwa and Parliament
I want to put the record straight on corruption at two State entities.ZINARAThere is a company which was corruptly issued a software which is al...Published: 20 Feb 2018 at 14:38hrs | 3491 | by Tafadwa
ZB to float $50m bond for urban tollgates
ZB Financial Holdings is in discussion with Harare City Council (HCC) to fund urban tollgates in the next few months to raise money for road rehabilitation and maintenance in and around the city. ...Published: 19 Jan 2018 at 06:12hrs | 964 | by Staff reporter
Dualisation project equipment arrives
THE contractor for the long-awaited Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu highway dualisation project has started bringing in the machinery into the country paving way for the commencement of the $1.7 billion pr...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 04:18hrs | 2908 | by Staff reporter
All set for Harare-B/Bridge dualisation
Austrian construction giant, Geiger International, the contractor engaged by Government for the Harare-Beitbridge Highway, has completed surveying the road, paving way for the commencement of the mult...Published: 08 Dec 2017 at 05:08hrs | 1525 | by Staff reporter
Issue IDs for free: Chombo
ZANU-PF Secretary for Administration Dr Ignatius Chombo has ordered the Registrar's Office to issue national identity cards and birth certificates for free.Despite recent announcements that th...Published: 23 Sep 2017 at 23:48hrs | 804 | by Staff reporter
Car smugglers hunt for draught animal power - $400 for a donkey
IN most villages in Beitbridge district, donkeys are used majorly as a source of draught power. These are used for tillage, drawing carts, fetching firewood and other household chores.Donkeys ...Published: 03 Sep 2017 at 12:33hrs | 2497 | by Thupeyo Muleya
Policeman was driving the doomed CRV
A POLICE officer was driving the Honda CRV which collided head-on with a Nissan Caravan at the 60-kilometre peg along Mvurwi-Centenary Road on Monday, killing 11 people and injuring 14 others....Published: 26 Jul 2017 at 06:35hrs | 1181 | by Staff reporter
Gross incompetence and corruption on parastatals deadly to the economy
It is quite sad to note that the Auditor General, Mildred Chiri, has for quite a long period of time exposed the gross mismanagement of funds taking place in the most parastatals and local authorities...Published: 20 Jul 2017 at 16:25hrs | 295 | by Blessing Machiva
WATCH: Mob justice after cop causes kombi crash
AN angry mob rained blows on a police officer who had allegedly caused an accident by grabbing the steering wheel from a driver whose commuter omnibus he had impounded on Saturday.The cop's ac...Published: 17 Jul 2017 at 06:38hrs | 1701 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere's tollgates idea shot down
Harare mayor Bernard Manyenyeni has shot down suggestions by Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Minister Saviour Kasukuwere to introduce urban tollgates, saying toll money would be po...Published: 27 Jun 2017 at 16:19hrs | 2117 | by Staff reporter
New Zimbabwe traffic system on cards
Government is developing a computerised traffic system that will link all its departments involved in the movement of vehicles on the country's roads in a one-stop-shop format.The traffic syst...Published: 26 Jun 2017 at 06:01hrs | 608 | by Staff reporter
Residents push against urban tollgates
HARARE residents have pleaded with the government to shelve plans to introduce urban tollgates, saying the economic environment is not conducive to have motorists pay more levies.Combined Hara...Published: 21 Jun 2017 at 06:53hrs | 234 | by Staff reporter
Another survey puts us top again, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, just a year before we go into another election, yet another survey has revealed the obvious … that a preponderating majority of our people trust u...Published: 11 May 2017 at 21:36hrs | 574 | by CZ
The height of political oppression in Zimbabwe
The situation in Zimbabwe need people to unite and take action, there should be a change or reshuffle in the Governance. Besides changing the President, some ministers must be changed too. Not changin...Published: 05 May 2017 at 20:25hrs | 744 | by Belinda Chowa
What Independence, What Freedom- Mafa Sibanda
MDC-T Bulawayo Acting spokesperson Felix Mafa Sibanda has questioned as to what Independence can Zimbabwe talk of, when the liberators fought for themselves and their children?He said when peo...Published: 24 Apr 2017 at 12:03hrs | 459 | by Stephen Jakes
What Independence, What Freedom
What Independence can Zimbabwe talk of, when the liberators fought for themselves and their children?When people preferred the Zanu-PF iron york to Smith's wooden yorkWhen the 1970s ch...Published: 20 Apr 2017 at 12:14hrs | 216 | by Brave Ndebele
Zimbabwe @ 37: A pie in the sky
Zimbabwe is turning 37 on Tuesday 18th April 2017 with no symptoms of political and economic maturity. All this mess born out of ZANU PF's systematic abuse of the liberation struggle in the process tu...Published: 18 Apr 2017 at 07:36hrs | 166 | by Marian Chombo
Workers request inquest into Zinara operations
Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) workers have requested the government and the Zimbabwe Network for Social Justice (ZimJustice) to launch an inquest into their employer's operations that...Published: 29 Mar 2017 at 16:11hrs | 914 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Urban tolling a necessary evil, says Kasukuwere
Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere has insisted that urban tollgates are a necessary evil, vowing to go ahead with construction of the plazas, despite fierce resistance by motorists. ...Published: 20 Mar 2017 at 06:04hrs | 729 | by Staff reporter
Transport minister Gumbo distances self from proposed urban tollgates
Transport and Infrastructure Development minister Jorum Gumbo has distanced himself from the proposed urban tollgates saying if they are to be put in place they are the responsibility of the ministry ...Published: 14 Mar 2017 at 05:56hrs | 467 | by Stephen Jakes
Gumbo must resign over bad state of roads
TRANSPORT minister Jorum Gumbo must resign because he has failed to find a solution to the poor state of the country's road network, in particular, among other failures, the opposition People's De...Published: 14 Mar 2017 at 05:54hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt to reduce roadblocks
THE Government has bowed down to pressure from motorists and the public to reduce the number of roadblocks on the roads.Over half of tourists interviewed during a recent Zimbabwe National ...Published: 11 Mar 2017 at 07:10hrs | 752 | by Staff reporter
10 tollgates lie idle
At least 10 new tollgates are lying idle almost two years after their construction on various highways due to bureaucratic tendering processes, thereby prejudicing government of thousands of dolla...Published: 07 Mar 2017 at 07:30hrs | 1402 | by Staff reporter
Kombi operators threaten to hike fares
Kombi operators have warned they will hike fares if Government forges ahead with plans to introduce urban tollgates. Greater Harare Commuter Operators Association (Ghaco) secretary-general...Published: 06 Mar 2017 at 06:24hrs | 1453 | by Staff reporter
No going back on urban toll gates
Government yesterday said there was no going back on urban tollgates, saying plans were at an advanced stage to erect the urban plazas. This comes amid an outcry from motorists who argue t...Published: 28 Feb 2017 at 06:31hrs | 977 | by Staff reporter
Dear Bob: Letter to Mugabe, on his birthday
Dear Bob Hi, Sorry for my lack of decorum, how should I know how to address you when I've never been allowed inside the State House?Happy birthday, Sir. Have a nice one. At least you c...Published: 21 Feb 2017 at 13:50hrs | 3289 | by Realise Mwase
'Toll fees not enough for road rehabilitation'
ROAD maintenance across the country remains a challenge as the bulk of the money from toll fees collected is going towards the $206 million loan repayment to the Development Bank of South Africa, ...Published: 11 Feb 2017 at 09:21hrs | 132 | by Staff reporter
New technology for roadblocks, tollgates
Government has established a new computerised system that will detect criminals and motorists who have not paid for vehicle licences at roadblocks and toll gates, Home Affairs Minister Dr Ignatius...Published: 07 Feb 2017 at 05:15hrs | 964 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe imposes 15% meat tax
Consumers' rights organisations and economists have slammed the recent introduction of a 15% value added tax (VAT) on meat and cereals, saying the move worsened Zimbabweans' already desperate situ...Published: 05 Feb 2017 at 07:53hrs | 387 | by Staff reporter
Money making scheme: Annual fitness checks for all private cars
PARLIAMENT has recommended to the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development that all cars must be inspected yearly at a cost of $50 per unit, as part of the commercialisation of the Ve...Published: 05 Feb 2017 at 07:20hrs | 1173 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe roads made in hell
DRIVING in Zimbabwe roads now requires one to acquire new skills of negotiating potholes. Drivers also need the nerves of steel to endure the gruelling driving experience which, if not well execut...Published: 02 Feb 2017 at 06:17hrs | 527 | by Staff reporter
Pay tollgate fees, MPs,councillors ordered
Members of Parliament and councillors have been ordered to pay tollgate fees and should not waste their time begging for exemptions.MPs have been clamouring for exemption from paying toll fees...Published: 21 Jan 2017 at 04:31hrs | 685 | by Staff Reporter
Traffic cops get POS machines
POLICE have finally embraced plastic money transactions by introducing Point of Sale machines at selected police stations countrywide for payment of fines for traffic and other offences while the ...Published: 20 Jan 2017 at 05:38hrs | 416 | by Staff reporter
State of Zim roads irks citizens
The state of Zimbabwean roads is irking citizens as the government continues to collect money from motorists through tollgates and licence fees but nothing is being done on there.During the ra...Published: 17 Jan 2017 at 04:17hrs | 1321 | by Stephen Jakes
Post mortem of 'Data Prices' increase drama
IT is very easy for people to reach wrong conclusions on certain matters because they would have been fed with wrong information. The first point to understand some of these items before drawing emoti...Published: 14 Jan 2017 at 07:50hrs | 363 | by Robert Ndlovu
Urban councils okay tollgates
Zimbabwe's urban council's have given their thumps on governments plans of setting up tollgates in all centers.The Urban Councils' Association of Zimbabwe (UCAZ) gave its full support to...Published: 31 Dec 2016 at 06:41hrs | 912 | by Staff Reporeter
Tajamuka demands swipe machines at toll gate
Social movement #Tajamuka/Sesijikile has demanded that the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) facilitates the installation of point-of-sale (POS) machines at tollgates dotted along the country's highw...Published: 10 Nov 2016 at 05:24hrs | 569 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe traffic cops to use swipe machines at roadblocks
Home Affairs minister Ignatius Chombo yesterday said plans to computerize the Zimbabwe Republic Police's (ZRP) operations, including management of roadblocks, were at an advanced stage, with the gover...Published: 01 Nov 2016 at 07:49hrs | 1383 | by Staff reporter
Set up tollgates within cities - Kasukuwere
Major urban centres have been urged to consider erecting toll gates as majority of rich urbanites were not contributing to development of road infrastructure.Former Transport minister Obert Mp...Published: 20 Oct 2016 at 07:20hrs | 1540 | by Mary Charamba
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