BEITBRIDGE – Twenty four people were killed and over 30 others are admitted in hospital in Beitbridge following a collision between a speeding Urban Connect bus and a haulage truck near a tollgate just after 7AM on Thursday.
Hundreds of travelers, mostly cross-border traders and shoppers, were left stranded in Beitbridge this week after bus operators withdrew their services due to a crackdown on goods smuggled into the country.
BEITBRIDGE - Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, the son of the late Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, is set to return to court on 16 September, after he was remanded out of custody for the allegedly assaulting a police officer.
BEITBRIDGE - A botched attempt to export 25 tonnes of chrome ore concentrate has implicated the Zimbabwe Defence Industries in a fraud scandal, after two transport operators appeared in court for allegedly using fake documents and misrepresenting their partnership with the state-owned entity.
HARARE - Three Beitbridge-based police officers have been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment each for armed robbery involving a new Land Cruiser Prado vehicle imported by the National Employment Council for the Tourism Industry (NECTIZ).
BEITBRIDGE – Tapiwa Rutsati, Seasec Security general manager has trashed a statement by a Zanu PF district commissar claiming that his company’s services at Beitbridge Border Post will be terminated shortly as naïve and nonsense. Lawrence Mambanje, a district political commissar posted a video that went viral in which he accused Seasec of flooding its workforce with CCC supporters at the border post and that a new company that will provide security services will be announced soon which will employ ZANU PF members only.
HARARE - The Zimbabwean government on Tuesday denied reports that over 400 children under eight years were intercepted on the South African side of the Beitbridge Border Post aboard 42 buses by authorities from that country. A commissioner with the SA Border Management Authority (BMA) Dr Michael Masiapato was earlier this week quoted saying they had blocked the attempted trafficking of 443 children under the age of eight destined for the neighbouring country from Zimbabwe over the past few days.
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has released the names of five more people who died from a tragic road accident that killed 22 people last week at the 27km peg along the Bulawayo-Beitbridge Highway.
BEITBRIDGE - Resident Magistrate Takudzwa Gwazemba has turned down an application by Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) to overturn a Police directive prohibiting them from holding two road shows.
BEITBRIDGE - Shashe Irrigation Scheme farmers are not realising profits because their affairs are managed by a Trust, which allegedly milks 50 percent of their proceeds as administration fees.
