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Custodial sentences, demerit system for Zimbabwe reckless drivers
Drivers responsible for fatal accidents could soon face custodial sentences, while serial traffic violators may have their licenses suspended or revoked under new, more stringent measures being consid...Published: 03 Aug 2025 at 09:57hrs | 197 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo traffic offenders caught on camera to be named
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) will on Thursday release the names of motorists caught on camera violating traffic laws in Bulawayo's Central Business District (CBD), in a move aimed at tightening ...Published: 29 May 2025 at 10:19hrs | 275 | by Staff reporter
Police to deploy drones to around Harare CBD
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) will soon deploy drones around Harare's Central Business District (CBD) and its precincts to support the newly introduced Electronic Traffic Management System (ETMS)...Published: 28 May 2025 at 10:27hrs | 132 | by Staff reporter
ZRP, ZPCS own informal bus terminus, pirate taxis
Officers from both the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) and some government officials are operating parallel ranks with their immune-to-arrest fleet (M...Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 14:20hrs | 1633 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
Harare to install cameras at intersections
THE City of Harare will install cameras in the central business district to deal with traffic offenders, and those who violate city by-laws.Harare mayor Jacob Mafume said this while commission...Published: 11 Apr 2024 at 08:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo traffic lawlessness continues unabated
DRIVING on Bulawayo's roads in the Central Business District is now a nightmare as rowdy push-cart operators, pirate taxi drivers, kombi and bus crews flout traffic rules and regulations as the city f...Published: 11 Jan 2024 at 05:13hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Police blitz nets nearly 83 000 traffic offenders
A total of 82 742 motorists have been arrested for violating road traffic rules as police continue their nationwide blitz to "Tame the Traffic Jungle".The exercise was launched last month to r...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 17:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZRP can benefit from smart videos & cameras
The ZRP has a department called the National Traffic whose sole responsibility is ensuring everyone using the road follows the rules to save lives and protect property. They are supposed to reinforce ...Published: 18 Aug 2023 at 21:22hrs | 15 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Zimbabwe Home Affairs Ministry goes fully digital
THE Ministry of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Affairs has started implementing a digital integrated system (DIS) in all its departments to enhance crime detection, smoothen applications for natio...Published: 28 May 2023 at 07:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
New tech to reform Zimbabwe IDs, passports and policing
Zimbabweans will soon be able to access Government services such as passport and ID applications online, while borders will become more secure, under a new game-changing integrated digital system set ...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:40hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs wisdom more than money
IN my opinion, Zimbabwe does not need to borrow money from anyone. The money is there in the country, what is needed at the moment is to get the right things in the right places.President Emme...Published: 21 Feb 2023 at 05:52hrs | 2 | by Rudo Munei
Soon the Commissioner General of Police will be sued for sleeping on the job
Commissioner General your job description is crystal clear, you are supposed to arrest law breakers and you are not arresting traffic offenders as per your job description. One just wonders why the Zi...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 09:25hrs | 2 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Smart traffic management system long overdue
HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe has made interesting points about a mooted smart traffic management project for Harare, a pilot project which simply showed that most drivers on our roads do not ...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 04:58hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Rogue drivers menace on Zimbabwe roads
THE general behaviour of motorists on Zimbabwe's roads ranges from shocking to bizarre.It is now common to see motorists breezing through red traffic lights or overtaking in prohibited zones. ...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 09:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cameras can bring sanity on Zimbabwe's Road
It is a fact most Zimbabwe's lack civil sense, when it comes to road usage, on our roads we go by our self-concocted guidelines. Many make their own lanes or try to squeeze through congestion due to s...Published: 02 Jul 2022 at 22:01hrs | 11 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
UFP statement on the Mutare fatal accident caused by police spikes
The United Freedom Party (UFP) notes with great concern the fatal accident where four people died and eight were seriously injured when police threw a spike on a moving commuter omnibus near Mutare on...Published: 06 May 2022 at 13:34hrs | 1 | by UFP
Police deploy crack teams for festive season
Police crack and traffic teams have been deployed countrywide to deal with any criminal activities and traffic offenders during this festive season.In his 2021 festive season statement yesterd...Published: 22 Dec 2021 at 04:42hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt pledges to provide internet services to rural police officers
GOVERNMENT says it will provide rural police officers with Internet services to improve the security of dockets and promote efficient service delivery.This was revealed in the Zimbabwe Republi...Published: 16 Dec 2021 at 09:44hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
Police to name, shame traffic offenders
POLICE in Zimbabwe are now using the latest technology to detect and catch traffic offenders and recently they named and shamed 23 motorists who drove through red robots in Harare. This new ex...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
2 bogus cops arrested
Two people who were masquerading as police officers have been arrested in separate incidents in Harare after they were found extorting money from pirate taxi drivers and a suspected ‘fraudster'....Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 20:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Spot fines not mandatory'
LEGAL think-tank Veritas says it is illegal for police to demand spot fines from offending motorists as they will be violating provisions of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act.In i...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 08:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Police on high alert
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has warned that it will descend heavily on traffic offenders and violators of Covid-19 regulations during the Easter Holiday.This comes after President Emmer...Published: 03 Apr 2021 at 14:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Minister defends spike-throwing cops
HOME Affairs deputy minister Mike Madiro on Wednesday defended the use of metal spikes by traffic police despite reports that they were causing unnecessary accidents and sometimes deaths.Madir...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Public loses confidence in police force'
POLICE recorded an increase of 26 percent in road accidents and 20 percent in crimes of national concern in 2018. According to the Auditor General Mrs Mildred Chiri in her 2018 report, the fai...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Road CCTVs for reckless drivers
GOVERNMENT is in the process of implementing a policy that will see closed circuit television (CCTV) systems being installed on the streets to help fight reckless driving. Home Affairs and Cul...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 09:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe drifts towards online darkness
One year after jubilant residents celebrated on the streets of Harare when Zimbabwe's army removed Robert Mugabe from power, the country is in darkness.In January, after days of protests over ...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 18:26hrs | 3 | by Ray Mwayera
Mthuli Ncube's hefty traffic fines start
Errant and negligent motorists who flagrantly disregard road rules will have to contend with hefty traffic penalties when the new standard scale of fines, which prescribe a maximum penalty of $700 an...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 08:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Traffic offenders to be fined up to $700
Errant and negligent motorists who flagrantly disregard road rules will have to contend with hefty traffic penalties when the new standard scale of fines, which prescribe a maximum penalty of $700 and...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 09:55hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Tendai Biti tears into Mthuli Ncube's budget
Harare East MP Tendai Biti (MDC Alliance) yesterday tore into the 2019 National Budget presented by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, saying it violated the Constitution for charging duty on vehicles in ...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 06:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean motorists face $700 fines for single offences
Zimbabwe's Finance minister Prof Mthuli Ncube on Thursday, increased traffic fines from $30 to $700 for a single road offence in an attempt to reduce the road carnage in the country. In the alternativ...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 08:11hrs | 1 | by Ndou Paul
8 injured in Siyepambili Drive accident
EIGHT people were injured after two vehicles collided at a controlled intersection in Nketa 7, Bulawayo yesterday. The accident occurred at the intersection of Nketa and Siyepambili Drives at around 7...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 05:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo beats Harare in traffic cameras installation
RESIDENTS and motorists in Bulawayo have hailed Bulawayo City Council (BCC) for installing street cameras meant to discourage flouting of road rules and regulations. The local authority has al...Published: 27 Oct 2018 at 08:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo installs first traffic cameras
POLICE in Bulawayo will soon have iron-clad cases against traffic offenders at traffic lights as the city council has started rolling out a camera surveillance project on the city's major roads. ...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 06:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
$2m surveillance cameras for Harare
Harare City Council and its parking unit, City Parking, have embarked on a $2 million programme of installing surveillance cameras at traffic lights in the central business district (CBD) to deal with...Published: 25 Oct 2018 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Traffic cop convicted of duping 104 motorists
A HARARE magistrate yesterday convicted a Zimbabwe Republic Police traffic officer on 104 counts of fraud after he manufactured several traffic offence fines receipt books (Z69J) and used them to acce...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 07:14hrs | 2 | 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 | 21 | by Staff reporter
Police warn traffic offenders
POLICE in Bulawayo have warned motorists and members of the public against violating traffic rules and regulations as well as engaging in corrupt practices.In a statement yesterday, Bulawayo p...Published: 02 Jun 2018 at 15:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cops warn traffic offenders
POLICE in Bulawayo have warned motorists and members of the public against violating traffic rules and regulations as well as engaging in corrupt practices.In a statement yesterday, Bulawayo p...Published: 02 Jun 2018 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Cops face 287 counts of criminal abuse of office
FIVE traffic police officers based at Avondale Police Station in Harare are facing 287 counts of criminal abuse of office after they were found in possession of Z69J books which they used to fine offe...Published: 03 May 2018 at 06:53hrs | 2 | by Staff rpeorter
Traffic cops in court over fake fines book
Two female traffic police officers based at Avondale Police Station in Harare appeared in court after they were found with fake Z69J books which they were using to fine traffic offenders and convertin...Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 06:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cops in court over fake traffic fines reciept book
TWO traffic police officers stationed in Avondale appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court last week facing fraud allegations after being found in possession of counterfeit traffic offence fines recei...Published: 09 Apr 2018 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
$150 bribes costs nation millions
BEFORE the army-led Operation Restore Legacy, the occurrence of road accidents in Zimbabwe was attributed to failure by the traffic police to stem road carnage, as they were only keen to collect money...Published: 12 Mar 2018 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Traffic cops stop using metal spikes in Zimbabwe
POLICE have been stopped from indiscriminate use of metal spikes on vehicles as new measures are being introduced to deal with errant drivers on the country's roads.The use of spikes had attra...Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 08:48hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe can not be trusted on roadblocks
On Saturday, President Robert Mugabe had many surprises for thousands of mourners who converged at the National Heroes Acre for the joint burials of the late Moudy Muzenda and George Rutanhire....Published: 28 Aug 2017 at 18:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe shame ZRP over its ubiquitous roadblocks
President Robert Mugabe yesterday endeared himself to thousands of mourners at the National Heroes Acre and millions of viewers at home, when he shamed the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) over its ubiq...Published: 27 Aug 2017 at 14:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe soldiers expose bad policing
On Tuesday, hundreds of ordinary citizens witnessed a spectacle they felt would never occur in Zimbabwe — angry soldiers beating up uniformed police officers on the streets of Harare!Yes, it...Published: 06 Aug 2017 at 14:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Roadblocks rake in $14 million in 6 months
In a stunning development, the Zimbabwe Republic Police collected $14 million from its unpopular roadblocks and arrested more than one million traffic offenders in the first six months of this year, d...Published: 05 Jul 2017 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police roadblocks to be under 24-hour satellite surveillance
Police roadblocks will soon be under 24-hour satellite surveillance, with real-time images beamed to a central server to help curb corruption and harassment of motorists.The Electronic Traffic...Published: 02 Jul 2017 at 10:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police spikes cow Zimbabwe motorists
There was a general sense of relief among motorists, transport operators and passengers when police manning roadblocks two weeks ago suddenly withdrew the use of spikes which had become the source of ...Published: 14 May 2017 at 15:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
New penalties for errant drivers
The tragedy of the Nyamatikiti bus inferno which recently left 31 people dead along the Harare-Beitbridge road was still engulfing the nation when the Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe (TSCZ) announc...Published: 30 Apr 2017 at 14:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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