Accidents

Former Arsenal FC goalkeeper Alex Manninger has died at the age of 48 following a traffic accident involving a train, police have confirmed.

The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has reported that approximately 18 people have died after a kombi caught fire along the Bulawayo–Beitbridge Road.

Veteran broadcaster Tichafa Augustine Matambanadzo, widely known as Tich Mataz, appeared in court on Tuesday facing a charge of culpable homicide linked to a fatal road accident in Harare.

Flamboyant Zimbabwean businessman Wicknell Chivayo has donated a 2026 Toyota Fortuner 2.8 GD6 valued at US$80,000, along with US$50,000 in cash, to a man who lost his entire immediate family in a devastating road accident over the Easter holiday.

Six members of the same family have died following a devastating road accident on April 2 along the Harare–Masvingo Road, in what police have described as a tragic loss.

A light aircraft crashed in a remote mountainous area between Zaka and Bikita districts in Masvingo Province on Sunday morning, leaving the pilot dead and his wife seriously injured.

HARARE - Ten people lost their lives on Wednesday when a Honda Fit vehicle collided with a haulage truck along the Harare-Nyamapanda highway near the Suswe Area.

PRETORIA - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has conveyed his condolences to the governments and citizens of Zimbabwe and Malawi following a devastating bus crash near Makhado in Limpopo on Sunday, which left at least 42 people dead.

BULAWAYO - The Zimbabwean arts and political communities are in mourning following the tragic death of Desire “Moyoxide” Moyo, the Member of Parliament for Nkulumane constituency, in a road accident early on Friday, October 10, 2025.

HARARE - The High Court of Zimbabwe has ordered the Commissioner General of Police and the Minister of Home Affairs to jointly compensate a Harare woman, Patricia Dengezi, in the sum of US$42,000 following a motor vehicle accident caused by police actions in April 2017 that led to the tragic death of her infant son, Lesley Chitanda.