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Sex workers in PrEp dilemma
Sex workers operating near the Forbes Border Post in Mutare are grappling with a dire crisis following the withdrawal of USAID-funded organizations that previously supplied them with critical HIV prev...Published: 17 May 2025 at 12:13hrs | 174 | by Staff reporter
Resounding send-off for Amen Mpofu
FAMILY, friends and former colleagues of the late former Bulawayo deputy Mayor, Alderman Amen Mpofu on Tuesday thronged the city council chambers to bid him farewell during an emotion-filled special c...Published: 07 Oct 2021 at 07:28hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Bulawayo deputy mayor laid to rest
FORMER Bulawayo deputy mayor Alderman Amen Mpofu, who succumbed to a kidney ailment on Friday, was laid to rest at the Lady Stanley Cemetery in the city yesterday.Mpofu died at Mpilo Central H...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:49hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T pushes for poll cancellation
THE MDC-T has stepped up efforts to get the 2023 polls postponed, saying they were a waste of time and should only be held after electoral reforms have been implemented.MDC-T national chairman...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabweans have no plan to remove Zanu-PF'
MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora has claimed that Zimbabweans have no plan that could remove the ruling Zanu-PF party at elections.The former MDC Alliance secretary-general accused some oppositio...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urges varsities to provide solutions to problems
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged universities and institutions of higher learning to use their knowledge to offer solutions to problems bedevilling the country.He said universities and i...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 05:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland South MDC-T resolves to work with Chamisa's MDC
THE Matebeleland South branch of the MDC-T led by Douglas Mwonzora on Friday resolved to work with councillors affiliated to the MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa in an electoral pact that will see t...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 05:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Outcry over 24% mining wage increase
MINE workers' unions have complained about the recent 24% wage increase awarded to the sector saying it is insignificant and has been eroded byinflation.The increase, effective from July 1...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 05:55hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Alderman Mpofu burial date set
FORMER Bulawayo deputy mayor Alderman Amen Mpofu, who succumbed to a kidney ailment on Friday, will be buried tomorrow at the Lady Stanley Cemetery in Bulawayo.Mpofu (67) died at Mpilo Central...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 05:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Bulawayo Deputy Mayor Amen Mpofu dies
FORMER Bulawayo Deputy Mayor Alderman Amen Mpofu has died.He was 67. Ald Mpofu died as a result of kidney failure on Friday at Mpilo Central Hospital. Family spokesperson Alderman Phinea...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
BCC: What went wrong?
"BULAWAYO'S success story is not something from outer space but a result of the constructive approach taken by councillors and the existence of a harmonious relationship between them and their elector...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 06:56hrs | | by Vusumuzi Dube
City fathers under fire over water
SOME former Bulawayo councillors say the current council leadership cannnot escape blame for the grave water shortages in the city amid accusations the local authority is failing to manage the limited...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC finally awards parking management system tender
THE Bulawayo City Council has finally awarded the contentious parking management system tender which has taken over 10 years since it was first mooted.Early this year the local authority re-ad...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC councillors sell Bulawayo to Harare
A SHOWDOWN is looming at the Bulawayo City Council after councillors ignored advice from council management and instead ordered council to go ahead with the implementation of a controversial parking m...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 07:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Shona MDC Alliance councillor faces recall
INCOMING Bulawayo ward 24 councillor, Arnold Batirai Dube, faces a recall after he allegedly caused chaos during the swearing-in of city fathers in council chambers yesterday.Dube, a member of...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 09:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance pick Rafamoto, Kambarami for Bulawayo mayor
POLITICAL parties and civil society groups in Bulawayo have demanded to be involved in the selection of the city's new mayor to ensure that the eventual winner fully represents all stakeholders....Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZITF rapped for allowing sex workers to exhibit
BULAWAYO residents have rapped the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) for allowing sex workers to exhibit at the annual trade showcase, arguing this would encourage moral decadence.South...Published: 03 May 2018 at 07:05hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
BCC in contempt of court quandary
THE Bulawayo City Council's recent decision to award a parking management system tender to two Harare-based companies could backfire after a company that was originally awarded the tender filed a cont...Published: 11 Apr 2018 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Open letter to Mnangagwa: Own up or remain dishonest
According to the Standard paper dated 24 December, 2017, the wounds and painful memories of the Gukurahundi atrocities are still fresh in the victims' minds. The victims and their children canno...Published: 27 Dec 2017 at 08:54hrs | 1 | by Amen Mpofu
MDC-T councillor beaten by Zanu PF youth
An MDC-T Councillor for ward 10 Mpopoma, Charles Moyo has revealed that assaulted by Zanu PF youths who were extorting money from vendors in the city forcing them to attend a party meeting last week....Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 10:22hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Mujuru suspends the NPP elected structures in Bulawayo province
In a sad move that puts a dent on the prospects of Zimbabwean opposition parties ever removing ZanuPF regime from power, the Mujuru-led NPP has suspended its elected structures in Bulawayo province. ...Published: 30 May 2017 at 13:02hrs | 3 | by Sindisiwe Mkandla
Robert Mugabe Way getting a facelift ahead of ZITF
Bulawayo's Robert Mugabe Way is getting a facelift ahead of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF), but opposition parties and activists are peeved at what they see as a window-dressing exer...Published: 13 Apr 2017 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
No condoms in schools - Health Ministry declares
THE Government will not distribute condoms in primary and secondary schools but will instead pursue other HIV intervention strategies that resonate with the mandate of schools, the Ministry of Health ...Published: 02 Apr 2017 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Of 2018 and 'Quarrelations' of the opposition
Political discord is the order of the day in corridors of power in the opposition political movement. All eyes are on Joice Mujuru and Morgan Tsvangirai. The biggest open secret is that the two leader...Published: 06 Feb 2017 at 14:48hrs | 1 | by Chigumbu Warikandwa
Former deputy mayor raps Local government pemsec over budget issue
Former Bulawayo Deputy Mayor Amen Mpofu has attacked the Local government permanent secretary Gorge Mlilo over the Bulawayo City Council's delayed 2016 budget."Mlilo must stop behaving like a ...Published: 30 Jul 2016 at 08:28hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
What we did is what created sanctions, says Mujuru
Former Vice-President Joice Mujuru yesterday addressed her maiden rally as an opposition leader, drawing thousands of people and rival opposition leaders in Bulawayo, raising the prospects of a co...Published: 19 Jun 2016 at 17:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru working with the West to topple the Mugabe led Government
ZIMBABWE People First (ZimPF) leader Dr Joice Mujuru yesterday confirmed speculations that she has all along been working with the West to topple the President Mugabe led Government, when she vowed th...Published: 19 Jun 2016 at 12:30hrs | | by Vusumuzi Dube
Bakers' Inn 'dumps' Bulawayo customers during Christmas holiday
The bread manufacturer, Bakers' Inn in Bulawayo has been accused of dumping its Bulawayo customers opting to supply shops in the Midlands and Masvingo a move which the business operators said it dumpe...Published: 31 Dec 2015 at 08:40hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Bulawayo will never be the same for Tsvangirai after Mahlangu burial snub
MDC-T president Morgan Tsvangirai has been described as a coward who is not in touch with party grassroots after failing to attend the burial of one of the party's founding members Thamsanqa Mahlangu ...Published: 12 Oct 2015 at 06:30hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
BCC municipal police steal vendors wares - former Deputy mayor
FORMER Bulawayo deputy mayor Amen Mpofu has challenged the local authority to account for all goods confiscated during raids on Tuesday.Mpofu told Bulawayo24 that its possible that most goods ...Published: 19 Aug 2015 at 18:50hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Poll boycott divides MDC Renewal Team
Bulawayo provincial chairperson, Amen Mpofu, resigned because of disagreements over the party's decision to boycott the upcoming by-elections. His resignation thrust the year-old party int...Published: 21 May 2015 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Amen Mpofu quits MDC
MDC Renewal Team Bulawayo provincial chairperson Amen Mpofu has quit the party citing its decision not to take part in the forthcoming June 10 by-elections, which he said the party was going to lose a...Published: 18 May 2015 at 07:07hrs | 3 | by Auxilia Katongomara
MDC Renewal thrown into turmoil
MDC Renewal has been thrown into turmoil with one of the party leaders, Tendai Biti, last week chairing an explosive meeting of the party's national executive in Bulawayo trying to diffuse a potential...Published: 13 May 2015 at 07:54hrs | 3 | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Bulawayo repossesses undeveloped private land
Bulawayo's land barons, who include top politicians and businesspeople, are set to lose vast tracts of land they acquired long back but had remained undeveloped as Bulawayo City Council has start...Published: 08 May 2015 at 09:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC Renewal Team cracks widen
CRACKS continue to widen in the MDC Renewal Team over the party's decision to boycott the June 10 by-elections, with some senior party members openly saying they were against the resolution.As...Published: 29 Apr 2015 at 06:57hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
MDC-T confirms three MDC Renewal councilors sought readmission
The MDC-T Bulawayo provincial executive has confirmed that three of its councilors who had joined the MDC-Renewal approached the party seeking readmission.This was after all ward councilors wh...Published: 12 Apr 2015 at 07:50hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
'MDC-United won't rule Zimbabwe,' says MDC-T
United Movement for Democratic Change (UMDC) leaders Professor Welshman Ncube and Tendai Biti are failures who will never rule Zimbabwe and their political union opens the door for their seats to be d...Published: 03 Mar 2015 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Auxilia Katongomara
Welshman Ncube, Tendai Biti in futile endeavour
Yesterday, Zimbabwe witnessed the launch of what should certainly become yet another futile opposition adventure.MDC and MDC Renewal launched an alliance, United Movement for Democratic Change...Published: 02 Mar 2015 at 09:12hrs | | by chronicle editorial
Why Collet Ndlovu lost to Amen Mpofu in Bulawayo
BULAWAYO - It is not shocking and not newsworthy that Collet Ndlovu the Cowdray Park rebel councilor lost to Amen Mpofu the Bulawayo Central councilor and the total number of their votes is less than ...Published: 04 Feb 2015 at 14:11hrs | 1 | by Polite Musarurwa, MDC-T
'MDC-Renewal will die in its infancy'
BULAWAYO City councillors aligned to MDC-Renewal are reportedly plotting a return to rival MDC-T in protest over the weekend's elections that saw councillor Collet Ndlovu losing.Party sources ...Published: 03 Feb 2015 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Full house for MDC-United launch'
MDC-RENEWAL chairman Samuel Sipepa Nkomo says a number of political careers, mostly of senior party members, are at risk if they fail to fill White City Stadium during a joint rally with coalition par...Published: 03 Feb 2015 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mphoko campaigns for Bulawayo revival
Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko has put in motion a consultative process to find ways of resuscitating Bulawayo, the country's former industrial hub.Mphoko on Friday met stakehol...Published: 02 Feb 2015 at 11:57hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mpofu elected MDC-Renewal chair
FORMER Bulawayo deputy mayor Amen Mpofu was yesterday elected as MDC-Renewal Bulawayo provincial chairman and he quickly pledged to set up vibrant structures.Mpofu trounced Cowdary Park co...Published: 02 Feb 2015 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko meets former mayors, deputies for Bulawayo's revival
VICE President Phelekezela Mphoko yesterday engaged former Bulawayo mayors and their deputies to discuss strategies to restore the city to its status as the country's industrial hub. The meeti...Published: 31 Jan 2015 at 10:48hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Grand coalition suffers setback
THE breakaway factions of the main Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have postponed their joint congress which had earlier been slated for March to a later date due to a dogfight that has erupted...Published: 29 Jan 2015 at 09:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC in parking tender turmoil
THE Bulawayo City Council is reportedly set to meet to come up with the way forward after suffering a humiliating defeat in court following a protracted parking meter tender battle.The local a...Published: 25 Jan 2015 at 07:29hrs | | by Vusumuzi Dube
Parking discs scam exposed
SECURITY officers from the Bulawayo City Council's traffic department are illegally selling parking discs to desperate motorists who want to avoid having their vehicles clamped.The officers re...Published: 18 Jan 2015 at 09:06hrs | | by Vusumuzi Dube
Pressure on deputy mayor to resign
FORMER Bulawayo deputy mayor Amen Mpofu has challenged his successor Gift Banda, who has been implicated in a million-dollar tender scandal at Mnene Hospital in Mberengwa, to step down from the post, ...Published: 16 Jan 2015 at 08:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sipepa Nkomo accused of tribalism
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: 15 Jan 2015 at 05:44hrs | | by Concerned Citizen
Former mayor, deputy eye MDC-Renewal chairmanship
FIVE MDC-Renewal Bulawayo provincial members including former city mayor Thaba Moyo and his then deputy Amen Mpofu have reportedly shown keen interest in succeeding Kucaca Phulu as chairman.Ph...Published: 14 Jan 2015 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
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