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CSOs move to challenge Zupco monopoly
BULAWAYO civic society organisations (CSOs) meet today to deliberate on the steps to be taken regarding government's insistence on a Zupco monopoly despite widespread condemnation of the policy....Published: 07 May 2021 at 06:43hrs | 1313 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo vendors bemoan licensing delays
BULAWAYO informal traders have rapped the local authority for taking long to license their vending stalls to enable them to resume their operations.The issue came out last Friday during a virt...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 06:48hrs | 203 | by Staff reporter
60% of Bulawayo companies close shop
THE labour movement, consumer rights groups, small enterprises and informal traders have lamented the continuous collapse of Bulawayo industries amid revelations that up to 60% of companies have close...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:04hrs | 836 | by Staff reporter
Informal traders hail lockdown relief
INFORMAL traders in Bulawayo yesterday celebrated the lifting of a ban on their business operations by the government, saying this was long overdue as the country was highly informalised and people ne...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 06:20hrs | 877 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo vendors decry police harassment
INFORMAL traders in Bulawayo are complaining of police brutality amid claims that some law enforcement agents are demanding bribes to allow them to operate in the cityduring the lockdown.S...Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 06:31hrs | 668 | by Staff reporter
Govt must reduce COVID-19 testing fees, says travellers
INFORMAL traders have warned that the failure by government to reduce COVID-19 testing fees would result in more travellers risking their lives and illegally crossing the borders as they cannot afford...Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 06:19hrs | 260 | by Staff reporter
Informal traders urged to desist from buying fake COVID-19 certificates
INFORMAL traders have been urged to desist from buying fake COVID-19 certificates to avoid the inconvenience of being turned back at the ports of entry following the reopening of borders.Borde...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 06:19hrs | 281 | by Staff reporter
BCC fails to relocate vendors
BULAWAYO city fathers are failing to re-allocate vending bays owing to lack of financial resources needed for marking the trading spaces to meet COVID-19 guidelines on social distancing.The Bu...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:21hrs | 314 | by Staff reporter
Informal traders dump Matabeleland Collective
BULAWAYO'S informal traders representative organisation has cut ties with the Matabeleland Collective (MC), a grouping of civic groups and the clergy that has been meeting President Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 10:50hrs | 620 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo groups blast 'provocative' Mnangagwa meeting
SOME Bulawayo based civic society groups and political parties have described President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Saturday's meeting with fellow organisations as provocative to the people of Matabeleland w...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 15:51hrs | 4302 | by newzimbabwe
Cross-border traders push for border re-opening
VENDORS and cross border traders in Bulawayo who are facing starvation have appealed to the Zimbabwean and South African governments to partially re-open Beitbridge Border Post to enable them to resum...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 07:09hrs | 1098 | by Staff reporter
BVTA condemn harassment of vendors by police
Bulawayo Vendors and Traders Association (BVTA) have strongly condemned an incident of violence that occurred to one of the vendors and the systematic harassment of vendors and informal traders in the...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 09:39hrs | 863 | by Stephen Jakes
Government must be taken to task over informal traders
Zimbabwe has been on an economic free fall since the turn of the millennium. The comatose economy led to most industries closing shop and as a result countless jobs have been lost. The persisting and ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 09:08hrs | 1709 | by Nkosikhona Dibiti
'Mnangagwa curfew a reminder of Rhodesia, Gukurahundi periods'
POLITICAL parties and activists in Bulawayo say the dusk to dawn national curfew imposed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa Tuesday brought back sad memories of Gukurahundi atrocities carried out by the ...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:19hrs | 376 | by Staff reporter
Bowsers expose vendors to deadly COVID-19
Bulawayo Vendors and Traders Association (BVTA) members have expressed concern on the overcrowding of residents in bowser queues, which is greatly exposing them to the deadly COVID-19. Bulaway...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 08:02hrs | 1454 | by Stephen Jakes
BCC hands over donated COVID-19 materials to traders
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has handed over materials to fight COVID-19 on behalf of Bulawayo Vendors and Traders Association (BVTA).Th...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 07:54hrs | 328 | by Stephen Jakes
Vendors face challenges in accessing cushion funds
Bulawayo Vendors say they are facing challenges in accessing Covid-19 bailout funds promised by the government.Some of the vendors received NetOne sim cards meant for them to receive cushionin...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 09:07hrs | 392 | by Stephen Jakes
BVTA proposes residents and stakeholders Indaba over water problems
Bulawayo Vendors and Traders Association Director Micheal Ndiweni has proposed an Indaba to be conducted by the residents, stakeholders and the council to address the water and service delivery ...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 12:50hrs | 377 | by Stephen Jakes
Vendors living with Disabilities face the brunt of COVID-19
Vendors and informal traders living with disabilities in Bulawayo are among the worst affected by the national lockdown, as many of them have been left unemployed with no stable income to feed themsel...Published: 28 May 2020 at 07:17hrs | 144 | by Stephen Jakes
BVTA celebrate Africa Day
Bulawayo Vendors and Traders Association (BVTA) has joined the country and the rest of Africa in commemorating Africa Day under the theme: Silencing The Guns: Creating Conducive Conditions for Africa'...Published: 27 May 2020 at 08:49hrs | 229 | by Stephen Jakes
Vendors take refuge in online trade
Informal traders have embraced online business opportunities that came with the COVID-19 induced lockdown measures in Bulawayo. Informal traders say the lockdown has taught them to embrace Inf...Published: 26 May 2020 at 09:21hrs | 602 | by Stephen Jakes
BVTA distributes masks to members
Bulawayo Vendors and Traders Association (BVTA) is giving out masks to its ward structures to help curb the spread of coronavirus.After the government of Zimbabwe made wearing of homemade or s...Published: 14 May 2020 at 10:25hrs | 258 | by Stephen Jakes
BVTA member produces reusable masks
Bulawayo Vendors and Traders Association (BVTA) member Lady Rose founder Nqobile Ndlovu is producing re-usable masks during the national lockdown period to help minimize the spread of the corona virus...Published: 05 May 2020 at 13:08hrs | 850 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagnwa's govt tells vendors to be 'patient' on relief funds
GOVERNMENT has told informal traders and vendors to "relax" following growing impatience over the late disbursement of COVID-19 relief funds to see them through the lockdown period.The governm...Published: 01 May 2020 at 08:23hrs | 804 | by Staff reporter
BVTA director fight back criticism over vendors relief funds
Bulawayo Vendors and Traders Association director Micheal Ndiweni has fought back the criticism from the various sections over his announcement that the informal traders were earmarked for relief for ...Published: 30 Apr 2020 at 08:32hrs | 576 | by Stephen Jakes
Informal traders concerned about cushioning funds delays and demolition of their stalls
The informal traders across the country have come together to complain over the delays by government to give them cursing allowances in the advent of Covid-19 lockdown that has crippled their operatio...Published: 28 Apr 2020 at 08:57hrs | 560 | by Stephen Jakes
BCC must decentralise licencing of vendors and informal traders
Bulawayo Vendors and Traders Association has appealed to the Bulawayo City Council to decetralise licencing of vendors and informal traders as it starts removal of the traders from the city centre to ...Published: 27 Apr 2020 at 11:51hrs | 599 | by Stephen Jakes
BCC to set up market stalls in suburbs
THE Bulawayo City Council has identified and designated areas for the setting-up of agro-food distribution hubs and vending sites at each suburb in its efforts to reduce decongestion in the Central Bu...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 12:13hrs | 399 | by Staff reporter
COVID19 initiative donates to Bulawayo vendors
Bulawayo vendors and informal traders breathed a sigh of relief after I Am4Byo Against COVID19 initiative made a timely intervention to donate food hampers to deal with the dire food shortage situatio...Published: 25 Apr 2020 at 11:06hrs | 892 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BCC to ban vending in CBD
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is mulling a permanent ban on informal trading in the central business district (CBD) post-COVID-19 lockdown as part of measures to bring sanity in the city, Southern E...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 08:33hrs | 508 | by Staff reporter
Vendors propose govt protection from service providers during lockdown
Bulawayo vendors have proposed government protection from service providers during lockdown when they are not able to generate any income because their operations are a bit suppressed.Bulawayo...Published: 22 Apr 2020 at 09:17hrs | 658 | by Stephen Jakes
Bulawayo vendors dismiss lockdown as a facade
THE second largest city's biggest representative organisation for vendors and informal traders has taken a dig at the 21-day lockdown, describing it as a facade and doing little to curb the spread of ...Published: 09 Apr 2020 at 13:12hrs | 4268 | by Staff reporter
Ex-soccer player 'steals, kills' woman
A FORMER footballer from Bulawayo allegedly killed a shopkeeper in the city as he fled from her shop after stealing peanut butter. Leniency Mpofu (30) who once turned out for a club that has s...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 07:57hrs | 1529 | by Staff reporter
Tragic befalls BVTA as former Vice President passes on
A Bulawayo vendor and former Vice President of the Bulawayo Vendors and Traders Association Blessed Sibanda has died after he was attacked by a suspected ...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 15:15hrs | 2442 | by Stephen Jakes
BCC water cuts puts people's lives in danger
Bulawayo Vendors Trust has said the Bulawayo Water cuts puts people's lives at greater risks of corona virus.The trust said Bulawayo vendors and informal traders have shown deep concern of con...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 13:01hrs | 590 | by Stephen Jakes
BVTA concerned over COVID-19
Bulawayo Vendors and Traders Association (BVTA),have expressed deep concerns with the rapid spread of the novel corona virus (COVID19) and said they are saddened by loss of lives in some parts o...Published: 18 Mar 2020 at 08:45hrs | 701 | by Steve Grays
Traders pushing for special travel documents
Informal Traders in Bulawayo have embarked in efforts to push authorities to provide special travel documents for the traders as they wait for their passports considering the long waiting time before ...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 14:21hrs | 600 | by Stephen Jakes
BVTA, WICBTA concerned over sexual abuse of female traders
BULAWAYO Vendors and Traders Association in conjunction with Women Informal Cross Border Traders Association (WICBTs) have expressed concerns over the unfair treatment of women traders in the city....Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 07:28hrs | 759 | by Stephen Jakes
Bulawayo residents slam proposed rates hike
BULAWAYO residents yesterday reacted angrily to proposals by the local authority to increase rates by over 700% under its supplementary and 2020 budgets announced on Monday.Council is proposin...Published: 25 Sep 2019 at 20:08hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter
US role in MDC demonstrations unmasked
DETAILS of how the United States of America Ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols actively encouraged senior MDC officials to press on with Friday's demonstrations by assuring them that Washington "wou...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:37hrs | 379 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala accuses Chamisa of cowardice
Details of how the United States of America Ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols actively encouraged senior MDC officials to press on with Friday's demonstrations by assuring them that Washington "wou...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:23hrs | 674 | by Staff reporter
USA role in MDC demonstrations exposed
DETAILS of how the United States of America Ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols actively encouraged senior MDC officials to press on with Friday's demonstrations by assuring them that Washington "wou...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 08:47hrs | 1547 | by Staff Reporter
Civic society plots to smear Zimbabwe at Sadc
A plan by opposition-linked and foreign-sponsored civil society organisations from Zimbabwe to smear the country at the Sadc Summit in Tanzania tomorrow has been unearthed after the activists travelle...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 23:57hrs | 381 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland civic groups 'sells-out' to Mnangagwa?
MATEBELELAND based civic groups have rowed bitterly over a recent decision by a section of them to meet President Emmerson Mnangagwa who is largely a resented figure in the region because of his role ...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 06:13hrs | 1202 | by newzimbabwe
'Women politicians are weak,' says MDC Alliance candidate
MDC Alliance's ward 28 candidate for Cowdray Park in Bulawayo, Collet Ndlovu, has triggered a storm with women rights activists after urging residents to rally behind a male candidate, saying women po...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 07:03hrs | 802 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and Matabeleland leaders finally find each other
Yesterday, 21 March 2019, more than 120 civic societies, church bodies, faith based and community based organisations' leadership met the President of Zimbabwe, His Excellency Emmerson Dambudzo Mnanga...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 18:42hrs | 2354 | by Matabeleland Collective
Bulawayo vendors lash out at council's archaic by-laws, wants city to be like Harare
Bulawayo vendors and informal traders here have taken aim at Bulawayo city fathers for simply trying to put cosmetic amendments to the existing archaic by-laws.The Bulawayo Vendors and Traders...Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 14:11hrs | 1076 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt to blame for sanctions'
The Bulawayo community has blamed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government for the renewal of Zimbabwe sanctions by the United State of America (USA).United States (US) President Donald Trump...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 06:33hrs | 539 | by Staff reporter
No toilets at new Bulawayo termini
BULAWAYO councillors have called on residents to be patient and make do with the temporary commuter omnibus ranks and vending bays as the city did not have enough space to accommodate them amid confus...Published: 08 Apr 2018 at 09:30hrs | 596 | by Staff reporter
Councillor Mlandu Ncube utterances unfortunate and offside
Bulawayo Vendors and Traders Association (BVTA) is shocked by irresponsible utterances allegedly made by Ward 1 Councillor Mlandu Ncube to the effect that Bulawayo City Council will unleash municipal ...Published: 14 Mar 2018 at 06:29hrs | 1545 | by Stephen Jakes
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