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Foreign vendors turn Bulawayo pavements into open-air toilets, bedrooms
The heart of Bulawayo's Central Business District is fast degenerating into a public health crisis as illegal vendors - many of them from outside the city - have turned pavements into makeshift homes,...Published: 06 Jul 2025 at 10:06hrs | 332 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council orders pushcart ban to restore order
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has announced the immediate relocation of all vendors operating along 5th Avenue to designated vending sites, in line with a Government directive aimed at restoring ord...Published: 19 Mar 2025 at 06:53hrs | 1928 | by Staff reporter
BCC dithers on vendors
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has taken a less confrontational stance on the ongoing vending crisis, allowing the Government's 48-hour ultimatum to lapse without any major enforcement measures. Inst...Published: 16 Mar 2025 at 09:23hrs | 2053 | by Staff reporter
NGOs social entrepreneurship in the age of development aid disruption
Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Disruption of Traditional Development is and other actions are urgent as alternatives to reduce the carnage that is faced by non-state actors after the dismantlin...Published: 23 Feb 2025 at 17:44hrs | 342 | by Michael Ndiweni
Nkulumane market set to open
Bulawayo's Nkulumane market is scheduled to open by the end of the month, with vendors already being allocated spaces. The project, nearing completion, is a collaboration between the...Published: 15 Jun 2024 at 11:02hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF-linked space barons invade Bulawayo CBD
A GANG of suspected Zanu-PF space barons illegally parcelled out new vending bays to illegal traders in Bulawayo's Central Business District (CBD) on Thursday this week.The bays were reportedl...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:39hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Youth innovation hub opens in Bulawayo
BULAWAYO Vendors and Traders Association (BVTA) has opened a youth innovation hub which seeks to equip young people with skills to support and nurture their ideas.Under the safe and inclusive ...Published: 11 Sep 2023 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo flea burns
ABOUT 350 traders in Bulawayo have been left stranded after their wares were reduced to ashes by a raging inferno, which engulfed Mutize Flea Market, popularly known as the ‘Little Musina" early yes...Published: 31 Aug 2023 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Let us decongest Bulawayo CBD Now!
Bulawayo's ever-growing informal sector needs to be decongested to high density and some middle – low density areas. It is a fact that stakeholders need to check and explore something drastic or dis...Published: 15 Nov 2022 at 12:44hrs | 4 | by Michael Mdladla Ndiweni
Fake products flood Bulawayo markets
A NEW crop of ‘entrepreneurs' has invaded Bulawayo's marketplaces where they sell fake branded products to unsuspecting consumers in broad daylight.In essence, the traders pretend to sell po...Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 05:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BCC's new parking system generates $30m
THE new parking system implemented by the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) in partnership with the privately-owned Tendy Three Investments (TTI) has generated a combined $30 million in parking and clamping...Published: 12 Sep 2022 at 06:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Parking fees too high for Bulawayo'
BULAWAYO businesses and residents associations have insisted that fees under the new parking system implemented by the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) in partnership with the privately-owned company Tendy...Published: 07 Sep 2022 at 06:40hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
In defense of the Bulawayo parking system
Greetings to all the citizens of the Great City of Bulawayo: The City of Kings and Queens.We note with deep and grave concern as the Concerned Citizens of Bulawayo that there has arisen in our...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 17:38hrs | 16 | by Qaphelani Sikhangele Sibanda
Zanu-PF youths take over Bulawayo street, parcel out vending bays
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is losing its battle against Zanu-PF activists who are taking over some streets in the central business district and illegally parcelling vending bays among themselves....Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 13:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Bulawayo's informal sector overregulated'
EXPENSIVE trading licences and too many regulations are forcing informal sector traders to resort to operating illegally, a study by the Bulawayo Vendors and Traders Association (BVTA) has revealed....Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Egodini Mall construction further delayed
BULAWAYO residents have to wait a little longer before they step foot at the long-awaited Egodini Mall after a South African civil engineering company that won a tender to construct the mall missed it...Published: 16 Apr 2022 at 08:32hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Council rescinds plans to construct wholesale market at Sekusile
BULAWAYO City Council recently rescinded the plans to construct a wholesale market at a stand in Sekusile, Nkulumane which it had approved partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UN...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 08:56hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
BVTA urges BCC not to use violence on illegal vendors
BULAWAYO Vendors and Trader Association (BVTA) has urged the city council to desist from using violence to solve the problem of illegal vendors occupying restricted areas.BVTA Director Michael...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 10:19hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zupco hikes fares with immediate effect
THE Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) has, with immediate effect, hiked commuter fares from ZW$50 to ZW$80 for buses and ZW$100 for commuter omnibuses which were charging ZW$80.A ...Published: 15 Feb 2022 at 16:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo vendors livid over council raids
INFORMAL traders have blasted the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) for confiscating their goods and at the same time failing to provide legal vending bays.Bulawayo Vendors and Traders Association (...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 06:40hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
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 | | 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 | 4 | 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 | 146 | 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 | | 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 | 1 | 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 | 3 | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | 2 | 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 | 3 | 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 | 1 | 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 | | 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 | 2 | 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 | 6 | 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 | 2 | 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 | | 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 | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Bulawayo vendors blasts city council over harassment
Bulawayo Vendors Trust Association has blasted the City council for continuing to harass traders in the city."BVTA is deeply concerned by the continued harassment of vendors and informal trade...Published: 16 Jan 2018 at 10:52hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
$4.5m externalised
ABOUT $4.5 million is externalised monthly by informal cross-border traders through imports of various goods that are being resold locally, a survey report has shown.Given low industrial activ...Published: 06 Dec 2017 at 05:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's vendors blitz shock Bulawayo vendors
Bulawayo Vendors and Traders Association (BVTA) and Street Wise Informal Traders Association (SWITA) has said they are shocked by utterances made by President Mugabe when he referred to vendors as a m...Published: 12 Oct 2017 at 06:55hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Bulawayo vendors to co-sponsor journalists awards
Bulawayo Vendors and Traders Association (BVTA) and Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) will this year co- sponsor an award for an Outstanding Economic Justice Journalist.In a ...Published: 04 Oct 2017 at 08:00hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Bulawayo vendors, Zimbabwe Prisons clash over vending sites
BULAWAYO street vendors have accused the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) of invading and selling cabbages at their vending sites.In a statement yesterday, Bulawayo Vendors an...Published: 21 Jun 2017 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Vendors Trust blast ZPCS for invading vending space in Bulawayo
The Bulawayo Vendors Trust blast has accused the Zimbabwe Prisons Services (ZPCS) invading vending spaces in Bulawayo for invading vending spaces and sell cabbages in their official prisons truc...Published: 20 Jun 2017 at 09:44hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Vendors demand arrest of osiphatheleni
BULAWAYO Vendors and Traders' Association (BVTA) has rapped the government and local authorities for clamping down on its members, while illegal cash dealers are left to operate freely on street corne...Published: 02 May 2017 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Vendors bemoan govt neglect
Vendors in Bulawayo have expressed concern over lack of policies that support informal traders.Unemployed people's number is increasing in the country due to economic turn down hence there has...Published: 01 Oct 2016 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Municipal Police raid vendors
BULAWAYO municipal police yesterday raided scores of "illegal" vendors in the city and confiscated their wares in a move aimed at restoring order in the growing informal sector.The council, wh...Published: 02 Dec 2015 at 06:14hrs | | by Brighton Gumbo
BCC, vendors on collision course
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) and informal traders are on a collision course over threats by the former to launch a blitz on all illegal vending activities. Acting Town Clerk, Sikhangele Zhou, said ...Published: 01 Dec 2015 at 06:00hrs | | by Brighton Gumbo
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