The number of accidents and resultant death toll from bus accidents on Zimbabwe’s roads has reached an alarming rate. there is so much lack of respect for human life.   This can no longer be ignored by the people who put the government in power to cater for their welfare yet they are continuously neglected as evidenced by the road death toll.   About five years ago, I spoke in detail about this and made…

Road accidents in Zimbabwe particularly bus accidents and road deaths are now a right of passage so to speak. Less than a week after another Zimbabwe bound coach crashed and killed Zimbabwean people on the N1 near Louis Trichard in South Africa, another one has crashed killing more today. A Mutare bound Interafrica coach crashed early this morning killing five instantly and injuring seventeen . The driver of the coach had reportedly been dozing off…

A MINER died while two others were hospitalised with some injuries after a tunnel collapsed on them at Turk Mine in Bubi District, 56km north of Bulawayo.   Innocent Moyo of Mahlabathini Village, under Chief Mtshane in Inyathi died on the spot while Sidingukwazi Ncube (43) and Teramai Muchipisi (24), were hospitalised at Inyathi District Hospital.   Matabeleland North police spokesperson Inspector Siphiwe Makonese said the accident at one of the country’s biggest gold mines…

THE National University of Science and Technology (Nust) has designed a new ammonium production plant that could be a solution to the country’s fertiliser shortage.   The new technology is being exhibited at the on-going Zimbabwe International Trader Fair (ZITF), which has become a hub for technological contest between higher and tertiary learning institutions.   The Bulawayo-based university is showcasing the new technology, which can substitute fertiliser imports that have been gobbling millions of dollars…

The Assistant Director in the President’s Office, Cde Zenzo Ntuliki (57), who died on Friday last week, has been declared a national hero.   He will be buried on Saturday at the National Heroes Acre in Harare.   The Minister of State Security Cde Kembo Mohadi disclosed the decision by Zanu-PF to mourners gathered at the late war veteran’s house in Bulawayo’s Burnside suburb last night.   “I thought I should convey this message to…

The wreckages of the truck and bus which collided in Mvuma early this month The wreckages of the truck and bus which collided in Mvuma early this month Munyaradzi Musiiwa and Patrick Chitumba, Midlands Reporters THE Civil Protection Unit (CPU) has released the names of 31 people who died in a horrific road accident that happened in Mvuma early this month.   The death toll has risen by 10 from the previously announced 21 following…