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South Africa is getting more roadblocks
Some provinces and the national Department of Transport have launched or plan to launch stricter policing campaigns targeting cars with specific defects to improve the safety of South Africa's roads....Published: 19 Oct 2024 at 16:17hrs | 1674 | by Staff reporter
SADC must worry more about Zimbabweans' welfare than the leaders' comfort
The frequent visits by the SADC Secretariat to Zimbabwe are quite troubling. Ever since preparations for hosting the 44th SADC Heads of State and Government Summit by Harare went into full thr...Published: 23 Jul 2024 at 16:54hrs | 604 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
8 Anglicans perish in bus blaze
The government has cancelled the operating licence of Passion Link Coaches after a fire in an unroadworthy bus killed eight Anglican Diocese of Manicaland pilgrims returning from Bernard Mzeki shrine....Published: 18 Jun 2024 at 06:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda VID to tighten rules, regulations on passenger public service vehicles and heavy trucks
The Gwanda Provincial Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) is set to enforce Statutory Instrument (SI) 118 of 2023 in January, mandating compliance with speed-limiting and monitoring devices for passen...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 05:59hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Stop road carnage
More than 20 lives have been lost in road traffic accidents, stealing the cheers from the festive season for the affected families.The major cause of these road traffic accidents has largely been ...Published: 30 Dec 2023 at 08:22hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga cautions drivers, urges stiffer penalties
Motorists and public transporters should always exercise extra caution on the roads to minimise road traffic accidents, and the police must adopt stringent measures against those caught on the wrong s...Published: 30 Dec 2023 at 08:15hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police out in full force
AS the festive mood grips the nation police officers have been deployed to conduct a traffic blitz, stop and searches as well as motorised, cycle and foot patrols countrywide to curb criminal activiti...Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 06:57hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Police, VID, TSCZ launch traffic blitz
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) says it will conduct a traffic blitz and "stop and search" patrols on major highways during the festive season.Speaking at the festive season road safety awa...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police intensifies blitz on motorists
Law enforcement authorities in Zimbabwe, in collaboration with various stakeholders, have significantly escalated their efforts to target vehicles operating in violation of the law. These operations f...Published: 13 Oct 2023 at 06:13hrs | 1 | 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 | | by Staff eporter
Zimbabwe police operation goes wrong in Mbare
During their 'Tame The Traffic Jungle' operation in Mbare, the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) encountered resistance that was documented in a video circulating on social media. In the video, a private...Published: 26 Sep 2023 at 16:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mr. President, you can't make the nation suffer simply because of your ego!
Pride comes before a fall! When I had the inspiration for this article, a certain scenario played out in my mind.I imagined an egoistical father - who was adamant that every 'respectab...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 07:23hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Robbers attack security guards, steal tobacco bales
TWENTY robbers attacked eight security guards with a pistol machetes, okapi knives and iron bars at Wilmode Farm in Mvurwi before stealing 63 tobacco bales last Friday.National police spokespe...Published: 22 May 2023 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Heavy police deployment during Easter
Police are being extensively deployed countrywide during the Easter holidays to protect the public from criminals and to ensure traffic rules and regulations are enforced to keep the roads safe. ...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police intensify operation against mushikashika
UNREGISTERED vehicles and illegal taxis commonly known as mushikashika are flourishing in ever large numbers and some are disrupting traffic by not pulling into parking places or otherwise getting off...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
More police deployed to deal with festive season crimes
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has deployed more details countrywide to protect and serve citizens during the festive season.Police said the festive season is synonymous with an upsurge in...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chariots of death' on Zimbabwe's roads
WHILE speaking at the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims (WDR) in Bulawayo recently, Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Felix Mhona revealed that 1 559 people were kille...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:08hrs | | by Pamenus Tuso
Zimbabwe's bribe-taking cops warned
Police have warned officers against dabbling in corrupt activities including taking bribes from motorists saying the move was the key driver of road traffic accidents as unroadworthy vehicles were all...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 09:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police target unregistered vehicles
A stepped up joint operation headed by the police against unlicensed, uninsured, unregistered motor vehicles, mushikashika and illegal kombis has seen 81 motorists arrested since Monday.Kombis...Published: 21 Sep 2022 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kombis ready for return
REGISTERED taxi associations in Bulawayo have started putting in place modalities to bring back hundreds of their vehicles on the road following an announcement by Government that private commuter omn...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tshova Mubaiwa to make comeback
GOVERNMENT is in the process of coming up with regulations to guide the liberalisation of the public transport sector.To improve the public transport system, Government in 2020 directed player...Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Murky Zupco deal backfires
GOVERNMENT'S army-backed populist decision to re-establish Zupco's public transport monopoly, while banning commuter omnibuses has spectacularly backfired, leading to a severe crisis that has seen tho...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police impound 1 600 pirate taxis
Over 1 600 illegal pirate taxis (popularly known as mushikashika) and unregistered vehicles have been impounded in an operation launched by police on Thursday to bring order to towns and cities....Published: 01 May 2022 at 11:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bloody Easter claims 73
SEVENTY-THREE people were killed and 202 injured in 264 road traffic accidents recorded countrywide during this year's Easter and Independence Holidays.The 73 deaths were concentrated in 32 of...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 11:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Call for accident-free holidays
The Transport industry wants a collaborative effort to ensure an accident free Easter and Independence holidays this coming long weekend highlighting the significance of road safety and the need for e...Published: 14 Apr 2022 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZINARA, VID, ZRP Most Corrupt State Depts, claims ZACC
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (ZINARA), Vehicle Inspection Department (VID), and the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) are among the most corrupt state departments, and some of the officers w...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:11hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Urban commuters lament transport crisis
IT was just another day at the bus station. Passengers were waiting in queue at a terminus adjacent Harare Police Station charge office, enduring hours before the next bus came by.The swelteri...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 17:57hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Bigwigs in messy sugar tender storm
A group of transporters linked to Zanu PF bigwigs have allegedly threatened sugar-producing giant Tongaat Hullet with unspecified action if it fails to award them tenders. In May, the sugar producer f...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:24hrs | 121 | by Staff reporter
Zesa switches off police
CHITUNGWIZA Police Camp has been without power for two weeks after power utility Zesa switched it off over non-payment of bills, NewsDay reported.Sources at the residential flats for police of...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:50hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Police warn lockdown violators
POLICE have warned the public, including visitors to the country, to comply with COVID-19 safety and health measures during the Easter holidays or face arrest.In a statement, national police s...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 09:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Killer truck' owner identified
ONE of the trucks that was involved in a pile-up accident in Zambia in August last year resulting in more than six people being burnt beyond recognition belongs to Ephias Munodawafa, the current chief...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 09:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo police impound 95 cars
POLICE in Bulawayo yesterday impounded 95 vehicles from motorists, including pirate taxis, for defying the level 4 lockdown regulations meant to curb the spread of Covid-19. The country has of...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mafia manipulating public transport sector'
THE Passengers Association of Zimbabwe (PAZ) has alleged that the public transport sector was being manipulated by "mafia groups" which do not care about the rights as well as safety of passengers....Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt warns errant drivers
GOVERNMENT yesterday said it would descend heavily on road offenders to minimise loss of lives due to road traffic accidents during the festive season, and on those using unregistered and unroadworthy...Published: 17 Dec 2020 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Motor industry overjoyed by import ban on old cars
Players in the local motor industry have welcomed Government's ban on importation of second hand cars which are more than 10 years old including the directive for line ministries to acquire locally as...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Imports of old second hand cars banned
Imports of second-hand vehicles more than 10 years old are to be banned to contain the import bill and promote the domestic motor industry, while all vehicles imported from Japan now require prior cle...Published: 28 Nov 2020 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Anxiety over freak Zupco accidents
"Naturally, when you get into a Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) bus, safety, with regards to the fitness of the vehicle, should be the least of your worries. We are made to believe the buses...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zupco buses a death trap' - PAZ
THE Passenger Association of Zimbabwe (PAZ) has condemned the state of most conventional buses operating under the Zupco franchise, describing them as unroadworthy and death traps to the commuting pub...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 08:13hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Drivers' licence scam unearthed
The Vehicle Inspection Department (VID), which conducts driver training among other duties, has been taken over by criminal gangs that are fleecing the public and Government through pocketing various ...Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 07:38hrs | | 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 | | by Staff reporter
ZRP, VID launch joint blitz on errant motorists
The Zimbabwe Republic Police and the Vehicle Inspection Department are conducting a joint operation targeting unregistered and unroadworthy vehicles on the roads in and around Harare. The oper...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Driver, passengers arrested enroute to Zimbabwe from SA
An unlicensed driver of an unroadworthy vehicle, which was transporting undocumented foreign nationals to Zimbabwe, has been arrested during a road block led by Transport Deputy Minister Sindisiwe Chi...Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 19:41hrs | | by Agencies
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
Roadblocks are back
POLICE will next week resume roadblocks and checkpoints on the country's highways to minimise road carnage ahead of the festive season, a Cabinet Minister has said. Transport and Infrastructur...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 05:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
150 000 cars face de-registration
More than 150 000 vehicles whose owners failed to renew their licences for two years as of July 31 this year face de-registration once the notice has been published in the Government Gazette, Transpor...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 05:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to introduce e-provisional driver's exams
THE Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe (TSCZ) will introduce electronic Provisional Driver Licence tests at Vehicle Inspection Department Depots in an attempt to reduce interface with officials as we...Published: 05 Nov 2018 at 09:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Kombis must register with associations'
GOVERNMENT is working on a legislation to ensure that all commuter operators are registered with an association and operators permits would be issued to only those affiliated to an association. ...Published: 08 Oct 2018 at 06:08hrs | | 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
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