Search / Bulawayo city counci
Unlicensed lettable shops bleed BCC
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) could be losing millions of dollars in potential revenue from hundreds of lettable shops that have mushroomed in the city and are not paying licence fees and other related ...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 05:49hrs | 524 | 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 | 191 | by Staff reporter
BCC reclaims 'pits of death'
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has started reclaiming the city's "pits of death" following an outcry from residents and human rights activists.This was after two people drowned in disused pit...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 06:47hrs | 712 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe vaccination drive moves a gear up
THE Covid-19 vaccination drive will move a gear up today following the delivery of doses to all the provinces and districts at the weekend. This comes after President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Sat...Published: 22 Feb 2021 at 21:33hrs | 542 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo ready for COVID-19 vaccine roll-out
BULAWAYO yesterday received its first COVID-19 vaccines in preparation for an inoculation programme which starts on Monday amid revelations that six high-density areas top in confirmed cases and fatal...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 08:56hrs | 163 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's main supply dam only 34% full
BULAWAYO'S main supply dam, Umzingwane, remains critically low despite heavy downpours, posing a fresh challenge to city fathers.According to the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa), the...Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 05:52hrs | 2306 | by Staff reporter
BCC deploys rangers to stop gold panning in Umzingwane
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has deployed rangers to drive out poachers and illegal gold miners from Umzingwane Dam catchment area as they are causing siltation.There is rampant and uncontr...Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 05:48hrs | 446 | by Arthur GO Mutambara
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 | 868 | by Staff reporter
BCC reassures residents on service delivery
THE Bulawayo City Council has reassured residents that it is working round the clock to ensure improvement of service delivery in the country's second largest city.The local authority has in r...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:46hrs | 195 | by Pathisa Nyathi
WATCH: Sewerage horror for Nkulumane granny
GOGO Minah Sibanda (74), of 1552 Nkulumane suburb is living on a health time bomb as a sewerage manhole that is located right next to the door behind her house spills regularly and has not been attend...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:44hrs | 524 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 chokes Ingwebu
BULAWAYO Municipal Commercial Undertaking (BMCU)'s beverages manufacturing unit, Ingwebu Breweries has laid off more than 100 workers, citing depressed volumes in product sales.The prevailing ...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:42hrs | 239 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo water rationing to go
THE Bulawayo City Council will for the first time since January last year put aside its crippling water rationing scheme after its dams received enough water and pumping capacity to sustain the city u...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:39hrs | 576 | by Staff reporter
BCC exhausts US$33 million AfDB allocation
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) says it has exhausted the US$33 million received from the African Development Bank (AfDB) on various projects, forcing the contractor working on the Epping Forest water...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:42hrs | 266 | by Staff reporter
UK firm to invest in Bulawayo renewable energy
BULAWAYO has lined up a number of renewable energy development projects worth millions of United States dollars, which are set to transform the city's economy and impact positively on the country's re...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:39hrs | 703 | by Staff reporter
BCC threatens to punish water abusers
BULAWAYO City Council has threatened to penalise residents who abuse water and exceed their daily limits.The warning came after the local authority partially eased the water-rationing schedule...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 06:17hrs | 348 | by Staff reporter
Residents hail BCC's new water-shedding schedule
BULAWAYO Residents Associations have welcomed the 144-hour watershedding schedule, but have urged the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to ensure that it sticks to the stipulated days.In an intervie...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 06:20hrs | 909 | by Staff reporter
Why Bulawayo dams are not filling up
THE fact that Bulawayo and Matabeleland South province have been receiving torrential rains since January is evident to everyone.The fact that most dams nationally are full and spilling (inclu...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 05:53hrs | 2828 | by Khumbulani Maphosa
BCC tables 144-hour water shedding plan
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) yesterday released a 144-hour weekly water shedding programme which will see most suburbs receiving water twice a week. The industry, city centre and mining are...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:41hrs | 611 | by Staff reporter
Cop steals own impounded car at police station
A Bulawayo cop has been arrested and charged for stealing his vehicle that had been impounded by police for violating the lockdown regulations. Nkosilathi Nyathi of Nkulumane Surburb whose ran...Published: 07 Feb 2021 at 19:10hrs | 2071 | by Simbarashe Sithole / Shelton Muchena / Tarisai Mudahondo
'Water woes man-made'
A TRIP around the eastern suburbs in Bulawayo leaves one wondering if people still depend on council water.Almost every house has a water tank and at the gate it is inscribed boldly that "bore...Published: 07 Feb 2021 at 18:29hrs | 777 | by Staff reporter
'Zinwa won't hand over dams to Bulawayo'
THE Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) says it is legally impossible to give Bulawayo the responsibility to build its own dams to solve the perennial water shortages.Zinwa made the rema...Published: 07 Feb 2021 at 08:00hrs | 1087 | by Staff reporter
Mr President open Ekusileni Hospital - People are Dying
In June 2018, ahead of the July 2018 general elections, President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced that the government had engaged the Indian Sharda Group of Institutions (SGI) to operate the health facil...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 19:14hrs | 1089 | by Dr Edwin Moyo
Council to ease water-shedding
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is on Monday set to start easing the gruelling water shedding programme to about 72 hours in the next two weeks while making a roadmap towards normalising water supplies to...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 07:02hrs | 225 | by Staff reporter
Call for revival of Bulawayo industry
CIVIL society organisations have called on the government to formulate a policy aimed at reviving industries in Bulawayo.Zimbabwe's second largest city used to be an industrial hub before a co...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:53hrs | 1181 | by Staff reporter
Rains stall grave digging in Bulawayo
BULAWAYO City Council is facing imminent grave shortage as a result of incessant rains that have caused flooding at Luveve Cemetery, making the graveyard soggy and unfit for burials.This has f...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:43hrs | 425 | by Staff reporter
'Lockdown cripples councils'
BULAWAYO city councillors have bemoaned the crippling of service delivery by the COVID-19-induced lockdown restrictions, forcing it to go on auto-pilot.The lockdown has also affected the holdi...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:43hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
Residents petition council over poor roads
THE Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) has petitioned the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) over the poor state of the city's road network.Motorists have attributed the increased number ...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:42hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
BCC resumes work at Highlanders club house grounds
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) nursery department workers have returned on site to revamp the Highlanders Club House grounds after the end of a long strike by municipal employees. The strike adve...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:39hrs | 336 | by Staff reporter
Chingases still keen on US$15 million Bulawayo plant
A CHINESE gas manufacturer, Chingases Company Limited is still committed to setting up a US$15 million plant in Bulawayo but the project has been delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic, an official has said...Published: 04 Feb 2021 at 19:28hrs | 447 | by Staff reporter
Sewerage crisis in Makokoba
RESIDENTS of Makokoba suburb in Bulawayo are sitting on a health time-bomb as effluent continues to flow from burst pipes into their homes, leaving them prone to water-borne diseases such as cholera a...Published: 04 Feb 2021 at 05:56hrs | 1039 | by Staff reporter
BCC employee dies during haircut
A BULAWAYO City Council employee collapsed and died on Tuesday while having a haircut at a barbershop in Nkulumane.Provincial police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube confirmed the inciden...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 21:49hrs | 3204 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents petition over unfinished dam
BULAWAYO residents have petitioned the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) over water shortages, demanding to know when the Gwayi-Shangani Dam would be completed in order to address the perennia...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 06:34hrs | 1821 | by Staff reporter
Pumula East goes dry for six months
RESIDENTS in Pumula East have gone for almost six months without water after the suburb was struck off the city's water restoration schedule.Bulawayo City Council (BCC) imposed a water sheddin...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 18:51hrs | 722 | by Staff reporter
BCC eases water shedding
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has eased its water shedding schedule reverting to the 144 hour per week timetable, with indications that they will continue to ease it further as dam inflows continue ...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 06:57hrs | 818 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe private hospitals not reporting Covid-19 stats
SOME private and public hospitals in the country have been accused of not providing the Government with Covid-19 statistics, a move that the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on health described as sc...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 06:54hrs | 348 | by Staff reporter
Ema exposes BCC
THE Environmental Management Agency (Ema) has exposed Bulawayo City Council's continued failure to timeously repair burst sewer pipes and collect waste in residential areas, a development which may tr...Published: 30 Jan 2021 at 05:59hrs | 871 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents demand refuse fee removed from their rates
side from the Covid-19-induced lockdown restrictions where many of us had to adjust to working from home among many other things, 2020 was a burdensome year because of the Bulawayo City Council's fail...Published: 30 Jan 2021 at 05:55hrs | 360 | by Yoliswa Dube-Moyo
Anti-graft dragnet to sink bigwigs
AT LEAST 41 high-profile figures face imminent arrest over corruption allegations, including those sucked in a US$23 million scam at the embattled National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ).The wide ...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 07:13hrs | 2438 | by Staff reporter
BCC to deploy COVID-19 rapid response teams at roadblocks
BULAWAYO City Council's Health Department has revealed that it is set to deploy rapid response teams at roadblocks to test travellers as they enter the city in a bid to stem the spread of COVID-19....Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 06:56hrs | 580 | by Staff reporter
Council battles to clear garbage backlog
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has unveiled a revised refuse collection schedule for the city's eastern and industrial areas as the local authority battles to clear heaps of garbage which have been pilin...Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 06:29hrs | 286 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo roads now untrafficable
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has budgeted almost ZW$300 million for the rehabilitation of local roads this year as the heavy rains have worsened the city's dilapidated road network. Most Bulawayo r...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 06:23hrs | 1081 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents bitter over water-shedding removal delay
BULAWAYO residents have complained over continued water-shedding even after the dams that feed the city's water reservoirs recorded significant inflows following heavy rains.Water cuts have co...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:32hrs | 704 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 distress calls overwhelm BCC
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) health department says it is overwhelmed by the number of people making calls to its rapid response teams as the COVID-19 cases increase in the city.BCC health ...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:35hrs | 456 | by Staff reporter
Donkeys in residential areas menace grows in Bulawayo
SOME Bulawayo residents are keeping donkeys in residential areas in violation of the city's bylaws. The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is struggling to deal with donkey crews as residents have made numer...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:34hrs | 293 | by Staff reporter
BCC workers end five-day strike
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) workers yesterday resumed work after a five-day strike over poor salaries, a situation which crippled critical services such as refuse collection, primary health care and b...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:52hrs | 393 | by Staff reporter
Feasibility studies for Umvumila on cards
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has started engaging potential consultants to undertake feasibility studies for Umvumila area as part of progress towards implementation of the Special Economic Zones in th...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 17:10hrs | 1745 | by Staff reporter
Ingwebu scales down operations
INGWEBU Breweries has scaled-down operations to 50 percent due to Covid-19 pandemic that has forced the Government to ban bottle stores from operating as part of measures to contain the disease. Befor...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 07:22hrs | 525 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC rails govt for 'crippling service delivery'
THE MDC led by Nelson Chamisa has blamed the central government for crippling service delivery in Bulawayo by recalling its councillors.This was revealed by MDC Alliance Bulawayo spokesperson ...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 05:55hrs | 465 | by Staff reporter
Zupco shuns bad road routes
THE Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) has abandoned some routes in Bulawayo due to bad roads. Bulawayo's road network is in a terrible state and this has been worsened by the incessant rains t...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 05:52hrs | 601 | by Staff reporter
Tall grass headache for Bulawayo motorists
A NUMBER of intersections in Bulawayo have become potential blackspots for motorists due to tall grass that reduces visibility. Drivers have urged the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to slash tall...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 05:51hrs | 274 | by Staff reporter
Load More Stories
