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Unlicensed driver avoids jail after fatal accident
A controversial court ruling in Chinhoyi has triggered widespread public outrage after a 20-year-old unlicensed driver, who fatally struck a pedestrian and injured four others, was sentenced to perfor...Published: 25 Jun 2025 at 17:20hrs | 663 | by Staff reporter
Public transport overloading increases road accidents
Paul Makiwa, Secretary-General of the Zimbabwe Passengers Association, has called on the government to ban public transport operators who overload their vehicles, citing their role in the surge of fat...Published: 27 Jun 2024 at 06:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police extend traffic operation
The police have announced an indefinite extension of the ongoing operation known as "Tame the Traffic Jungle," which aims to restore order and safety on the nation's roads.So far, a total of 4...Published: 27 Sep 2023 at 06:14hrs | 2 | by Staff eporter
Zimbabwe records 12 600 accidents in 3 months
ALMOST 500 people lost their lives in 12 588 accidents recorded during the first quarter of this year.According to statistics on transport released by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (...Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 07:48hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe launches expiring driver's licence disc
Government has finally launched the new standard plastic driver's licence linked to a database that will replace the metal licences.The new Zimbabwean licence will be scannable and meet the in...Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 12:36hrs | 103 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police wish it had speed trap machines and breathalyzers
Zimbabwe Police have expressed concern over an increase in road accidents countrywide caused by speeding and unlicensed drivers.Traffic police in the country is facing various challenges to mo...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 12:55hrs | 11 | 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
Over 30 000 unlicensed drivers arrested
POLICE have arrested over 30 000 motorists for driving without licenses and driving unregistered motor vehicles.Meanwhile, police have also arrested 113 683 people for cross border offences si...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 16:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
High court rules in favour of police using spikes
Strips of spikes used by police to stop vehicles refusing to obey orders to halt are fully legal and any court trying to ban them would be tantamount to legalising crime and disempowering police from ...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 09:05hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
High Court rules in favour of police using spikes
Strips of spikes used by police to stop vehicles refusing to obey orders to halt are fully legal and any court trying to ban them would be tantamount to legalising crime and disempowering police from ...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 08:40hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'VID to allow automatic cars during road tests'
GOVERNMENT says it is considering allowing the use of automatic cars for Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) road tests after the country recorded an increase in the importation of used Japanese veh...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 06:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Scores rush to VID depots
ASPIRING drivers yesterday thronged the Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) depots across the country to either sit for provisional drivers licence tests or undergo road tests as depots countrywide re...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 23:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
VID moving in right direction
THE recent move by the ministry of Transport to launch an electronic learners' driver's licence testing process is commendable.As part of the ministry's fight against corruption, prospective d...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 13:34hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Unlicensed killer driver gets acquitted
Not only lawyers can keep a killer out of jail these days in Zimbabwe, but even magistrates too as cases of corruption become rampant in the justice system especially on cases involving traffic accide...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 19:42hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
VID raids fuel queues
GOVERNMENT is taking advantage of fuel queues to pounce on vehicle owners who have failed to regularise their licenses, Transport minister Joel Biggie Matiza has said.Matiza told NewsDay yeste...Published: 14 Dec 2018 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Defective vehicles targeted in blitz
Government is planning to remove all vehicles that are defective from the country's roads in a desperate bid to tame rising carnage.The move by the ministry of Transport and Infrastructure Dev...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 15:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe reels from spike in fatal accidents
MOTORISTS and other road users have been urged to exercise extra caution during the forthcoming festive season to prevent loss of lives through accidents.Three weeks ago, 33 people were burnt ...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cops launch countrywide roadblocks
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has launched a countrywide operation targeting unregistered vehicles and motorists who are flouting traffic regulations and endangering the lives of other road users...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:30hrs | | 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 | 19 | by Staff reporter
Too much roadblocks is not a solutiom
Even if we put 50 roadblocks within 100km, the unlicensed drivers will still pass from one roadblock to another. There is too much corruption being practiced by your boys Matanga. You are fail...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Isaac Nkomah
Police roadblocks return
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) will from tomorrow launch a massive crackdown targeting unlicensed drivers and unregistered vehicles in a nationwide blitz that will signal the return of roadblocks,...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Jail all unlicensed drivers'
THE Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe (TSCZ) has started lobbying government to impose mandatory custodial sentences to people who drive without licences among other stiffer penalties on errant drive...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 08:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Unlicensed driver crashes, passenger dies
One person died this afternoon when an unlicensed driver failed to negotiate a curve near Forester F in Mvurwi.Eye witnesses allege the driver was speeding and the car was overloaded."...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 12:51hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Police absence headache for insurers
Insurance executives will tell an analysts briefing their companies are now in the business of paying claims owing to the absence from the roads.They might not have foreseen the spike in accid...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 08:23hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
Chaos reigns as police disappear in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Passenger Association (PAZ) has bemoaned the reduced police presence on the roads, saying the vacuum has resulted in an upsurge in unlicensed drivers that contribute to the high rate of a...Published: 08 Jul 2018 at 08:05hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Spike in road fatalities
The country's roads are increasingly becoming death traps as fatalities from traffic accidents have progressively risen in the first quarter of 2018, something the Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe (...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 09:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
1 838 killed in 2017 road accidents
At least five people died daily in road accidents in 2017, as the number of fatalities in traffic crashes rose by 10%, statistics from the Traffic Safety Council in Zimbabwe (TSCZ) reveal.A to...Published: 15 May 2018 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Easter accident death toll up to 48
A TOTAL OF 48 people were killed in road traffic accidents during the Easter Holidays this year compared to 25 who died last year during the same period.National police spokesperson Senior Ass...Published: 05 Apr 2018 at 07:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Holiday death toll 'not linked' to absence of roadblocks
SOMEWHERE in this edition, we carry a story giving chilling statistics on the sharp increase in road accidents, mostly fa...Published: 02 Apr 2018 at 07:51hrs | | 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
Chaos along Luveve Road, as operation 'tornado' nets 81 vehicles
POLICE in Bulawayo have impounded 81 vehicles without registration number plates in a blitz launched on Tuesday amid reports that unregistered cars are linked to serious crimes in the city.Pol...Published: 10 Feb 2018 at 09:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
13,000 unlicensed drivers nabbed in one year
MORE than 13 000 people were arrested for driving without valid driver's licences last year, with statistics showing a sustained prevalence of the offence over the past four years.Latest data ...Published: 22 Oct 2017 at 13:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Confusion over police roadblocks
The Home Affairs ministry insists it is committed to the decision to limit roadblocks to 40 countrywide, but opposition and rights campaigners said the pronouncement was a half-hearted first step....Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 13:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's govt, police, drivers liable for the horror accidents
A fortnight ago, Zimbabweans woke up to the tragic news that 43 people had perished and 23 others seriously injured when a Zambia-bound King Lion bus veered off the road and hit a tree along the Harar...Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 10:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to Police Commissioner General - too many unlicensed drivers in Zim highways
The Editor, I am a motorist in Bulawayo , Zimbabwe. I am very worried with the number of unlicensed drivers in the country highways. This is despite the fact th...Published: 10 May 2017 at 17:49hrs | | by Concerned Citizen
Cop bribed in head-on collision accident, taxi driver driving without licence - WhatsApp update
Please note that Bulawayo24 does not edit WhatsApp updates. We publish them as sent by our readers and we do not disclose the sender's telephone number....Published: 02 May 2017 at 14:10hrs | 18 | by Concerned Citizen
Chinotimba offered $300 for the arrest of killer driver
AN unlicensed 18-year-old commuter omnibus driver has pleaded guilty to killing a pedestrian and disappearing from the scene.Terrence Chikwanha, who went into hiding after killing Eunice K...Published: 31 Jan 2017 at 05:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZRP to continue monitoring cops to curb corruption
Chief police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba on Friday said the Zimbabwe Republic Police will continue monitoring officers deployed at roadblocks and those carrying out oth...Published: 25 Dec 2016 at 08:49hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
How to get through Zimbabwe's roadblocks this holiday
Bad news for the many travellers who'll be heading Zimbabwe-wards this festive season: there will be more road-blocks.Home Affairs Minister Ignatius Chombo says the reason is to "weed out ...Published: 02 Dec 2016 at 14:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Brace for more festive season roadblocks'
Home Affairs minister Ignatius Chombo has ordered the police to mount more roadblocks across the country's highways during the festive season for the "safety of travellers".This is despite...Published: 01 Dec 2016 at 10:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Electronic traffic system to monitor cops at roadblocks
THE Government is set to introduce an electronic traffic system to monitor activities of police officers deployed at roadblocks in real-time, to curb corruption and ensure compliance with traffic ...Published: 30 Nov 2016 at 05:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Only 87 drunken driving cases reported in 2015 - ZIMSTAT
Zimbabwe only had 87 drunken driving cases recorded last year a situation attributed to police not having breathalysers, Zimstat has said.Zimstat said an influx of cheap Japanese second hand v...Published: 21 Apr 2016 at 08:50hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Police impound 185 pirate taxis
POLICE in Bulawayo have impounded 185 pirate taxis operating in the city and arrested a number of drivers in a crackdown to restore sanity in the transport sector.Police launched the campaign ...Published: 10 Feb 2016 at 07:00hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
ZRP Masvingo impounds 51 pirate taxis
POLICE in Masvingo have impounded 51 pirate taxis in a joint operation involving the Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) and Masvingo City Council aimed at restoring order in the city.Masvingo...Published: 16 Jan 2016 at 08:39hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
Commuters bear brunt of cops-kombis' standoff
Bulawayo traffic police yesterday launched a blitz on commuter ominibuses which saw a number of kombis being impounded thereby leaving commuters stranded.Some of the kombis were dropping commu...Published: 06 Nov 2015 at 05:37hrs | | by Whinsley Masara
Police receive speed trap machines
Police have expressed concern over an increase in road accidents countrywide caused by speeding and unlicensed drivers. Police yesterday said 20 139 accidents were recorded this year as of June 5....Published: 09 Jul 2015 at 10:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police warn unlicensed drivers
Police have warned that they will not tolerate unlicensed drivers following the increase in accidents. Officer Commanding National Traffic Senior Assistant Commissioner Felistas Mjanga said in an inte...Published: 04 Apr 2015 at 07:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim MPs don't have driver's licences, drive with Parly IDs
Most parliamentarians do not have driver's licences and they produce Parliament identity cards at police roadblocks, a Senator has said. Harare Metropolitan Senator Rorana Muchihwa (MDC-T) on ...Published: 07 Mar 2015 at 14:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Corrupt cops blamed for increased accidents
Members of the public have attributed the increase in road accidents to corrupt police officers and unlicensed drivers.Speaking to the ZBC, members of the public said the accidents can onl...Published: 01 Jan 2015 at 13:35hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Young kombi driver escapes from accident scene - several injured
Several passengers were injured and taken to the hospital following an accident involving a Kombi travelling from BF and Mzilikazi township to the City Centre and a small car with two passengers a...Published: 30 Jul 2014 at 07:48hrs | | by Ezra Tshisa Sibanda in Bulawayo
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