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Bulawayo residents raise alarm over council procurement processes
Bulawayo residents have voiced growing concern over the Bulawayo City Council's (BCC) procurement and tender procedures, accusing the local authority of a lack of transparency that has led to shoddy w...Published: 07 Jul 2025 at 08:45hrs | 105 | by Staff reporter
Residents urge funeral parlours to help BCC improve cemeteries
Residents of Bulawayo have issued a passionate plea to funeral parlours operating in the city to partner with the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) in restoring and maintaining the city's deteriorating ceme...Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 09:36hrs | 42 | by Staff reporter
Machete gangs wreak havoc in Bulawayo
Fear and frustration are mounting across Bulawayo as machete-wielding gangs continue to terrorise residents in several suburbs, leaving a trail of violence, injury, and trauma in their wake.Ov...Published: 04 Jun 2025 at 09:37hrs | 363 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo to repossess 130 undeveloped stands
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has issued a notice to repossess 133 undeveloped housing stands in Cowdray Park, Luveve, and Pumula South, citing long-standing non-compliance by beneficiaries....Published: 12 Mar 2025 at 15:17hrs | 353 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents demand better representation from councillors
The Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BPRA) has called on city councillors to address residents' concerns with honesty and transparency, emphasizing the need for clear communication on counc...Published: 10 Feb 2025 at 19:08hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents cry foul over ablution crisis
Residents of Iminyela in Bulawayo's Ward 13 have expressed frustration over the Bulawayo City Council's (BCC) failure to complete the construction of toilets, a project that began over a decade ago, a...Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 10:11hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
Coltart courts police to enforce city laws
Bulawayo Mayor, David Coltart, has called on law enforcement agencies in the city to step up efforts in enforcing local bylaws, particularly concerning the illegal operations of pirate taxis in undesi...Published: 04 Dec 2024 at 06:45hrs | 205 | by Staff reporter
Call for more arrests to stamp out corruption
Bulawayo is facing a corruption scandal within its city council, with land developers revealing that they have long been forced to pay bribes to city councillors to secure contracts. The allegations c...Published: 24 Nov 2024 at 10:09hrs | 151 | by Staff reporter
Fraudulent sale of houses high in Bulawayo
A growing number of fraudulent property sales in Bulawayo is raising alarm among residents, with many unsuspecting home-seekers falling victim to scammers. Reports indicate that the city's courts are ...Published: 08 Nov 2024 at 07:06hrs | 1687 | by Staff reporter
Mixed feelings about TTI officials' conduct
Bulawayo residents have voiced mixed reactions regarding the actions of Tendy Three Investment (TTI) officials who allegedly harassed a motorist suffering from a medical condition. Last week, TTI's en...Published: 05 Nov 2024 at 08:13hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter
Lack of development irks Bulawayo councillors
Councillors in Bulawayo have voiced their frustrations regarding the sluggish pace of urban development in the city, attributing the stagnation to a lack of funding and bureaucratic hurdles. The conce...Published: 26 Oct 2024 at 16:15hrs | 513 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo water crisis deepens
Bulawayo residents are grappling with a severe water crisis as the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) announced the extension of the water-shedding schedule from 120 hours to 130 hours per week, effective to...Published: 09 Oct 2024 at 07:42hrs | 201 | by Staff reporter
Coltart wants Bulawayo to drink sewage-infested Khami water
Mayor David Coltart has suggested Khami Dam as a potential solution to Bulawayo's ongoing water crisis, yet he acknowledged the significant resistance from residents regarding the use of the dam's wat...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 10:22hrs | 336 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo pleads for US$15m stuck at Treasury
Civic society organizations (CSOs) in Bulawayo have called on the Parliament of Zimbabwe to compel the Treasury to swiftly release the remaining funds from a US$15 million allocation requested by the ...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 10:20hrs | 126 | by Staff reporter
'Ziyambi is talking garbage on Bulawayo water crisis'
Bulawayo residents have criticized the government’s stance on the city's water crisis, following comments from Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, who attributed the s...Published: 09 Sep 2024 at 08:19hrs | 395 | by Staff reporter
BCC dismisses privatisation fears
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has reassured residents that there are no plans to privatise the city's water utility, clarifying that its separation from the engineering department was meant to prote...Published: 06 Sep 2024 at 07:12hrs | 109 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt under pressure over water crisis
Residents of Bulawayo are urgently calling on the government to acknowledge its failure in addressing severe water shortages by declaring the city a water crisis area, allowing for swift interventions...Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 08:22hrs | 106 | by Staff reporter
NGOs rescue Bulawayo, fund boreholes rehab
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has initiated repairs on malfunctioning boreholes using emergency funds provided by non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Mayor David Coltart announced that these NGOs...Published: 13 Jul 2024 at 12:49hrs | 52 | by Staff reporter
BPRA launches funeral cover for residents
The Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BPRA) has elected a new board and launched a low-cost funeral cover, Uhlelo Lwezakhamizi Funeral Cover, aimed at underprivileged members of society. Thi...Published: 09 Jul 2024 at 05:51hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo calls for information that attracts investors
Permanent Ngoma, director of the Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association, emphasized the importance of public entities sharing information to attract investors to Zimbabwe. ...Published: 24 Jun 2024 at 06:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Outcry over TTI clamping cars
Residents in Bulawayo are expressing concern over Tendy Three Investments (TTI) allegedly misapplying parking regulations by clamping vehicles, not just for illegal parking, but even when motorists ar...Published: 21 Jun 2024 at 11:22hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
Residents risk losing properties over unpaid bills
The Bulawayo City Council has warned that thousands of residents may lose their properties if they default on paying their bills.Over 2,000 households have already had their water supplies dis...Published: 21 May 2024 at 08:17hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents raised concern over lack of street lights
BULAWAYO residents have raised concern over lack of street lights including tower lights saying their unavailability has led to a spike in crime rate in Zimbabwe's second largest city.This fol...Published: 03 Apr 2024 at 06:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo to decommission 2 more dams as Gwayi-Shangani stalls
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has warned that Upper Ncema and Lower Ncema will likely be decommissioned in about six months, a development set to further worsen the city's already dire water situation....Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 06:33hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Potholes develop at Egodini terminus
THE recently-opened and hyped Egodini terminus' tarmac has seen potholes emerging, exposing poor workmanship by the contractor. Residents have since raised alarm on the deteriorating infr...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 16:09hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Pressure mounts on BCC over water crisis
BULAWAYO residents have given Bulawayo City Council (BCC) a one-week ultimatum to resolve the water crisis bedevilling the city.The residents represented by Bulawayo Progressive Residents Asso...Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 04:43hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt yet to declare Bulawayo water crisis a national disaster
GOVERNMENT says it will only declare Bulawayo a water crisis area after a committee appointed to assess the water situation in the city completes its work and is satisfied there is need to make such a...Published: 03 Mar 2024 at 08:50hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi survivors vent anger over Youths Day
GUKURAHUNDI survivors have vented their anger over yesterday's National Youths Day celebrated annually on the birthday of the late former President Robert Mugabe whom they accuse of causing the suffer...Published: 22 Feb 2024 at 04:55hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo landlords renting out verandas and toilets raises concerns
In Old Lobengula, Bulawayo, reports indicate that some property owners are resorting to renting out their verandas and toilets to desperate individuals seeking housing, raising concerns about the pote...Published: 21 Feb 2024 at 09:23hrs | 6 | by Stephen Jakes
'Bulawayo 80% forex rates illegal'
GOVERNMENT has said the decision by the Bulawayo City Council to force residents and businesses to pay 80 percent of rates strictly in foreign currency is illegal and ordered the local authority to re...Published: 20 Feb 2024 at 05:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council demands 80% of rates in forex
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has passed a resolution compelling residents and businesses to pay 80 percent of their rates in foreign currency, arguing that service providers were demanding forex....Published: 18 Feb 2024 at 09:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Daft Charumbira in Gukurahundi storm
CHIEF Fortune Charumbira touched off a storm yesterday after saying the disturbances that rocked the Midlands and Matebeleland provinces in the 1980s in which thousands were killed by North Korea-trai...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Thermal Power Station decommissioning to hit jobs
THE Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association ((BPRA) has warned of massive job losses in the country's second largest city as the power utility Zesa moves to decommission the Bulawayo thermal power ...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 17:20hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Residents raise concern over councillors' stands
In the face of worsening basic service delivery in many local authorities, including Bulawayo, ratepayers have raised concerns about certain privileges granted to serving councillors. Specific...Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 04:51hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents demanding their power station back
Some Bulawayo residents are demanding that the Bulawayo Thermal Power Station be handed back to the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) instead of being decommissioned.This came out during an engageme...Published: 24 Jan 2024 at 19:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Residents calls for speed rehabilitation of Iminyela ablution facility
Bulawayo residents have called for the local authority to speed up the rehabilitation of Iminyela ablution system to accommodate the current populat...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 07:17hrs | 3 | by Stephen Jakes
BCC sparks controversy with debit cards notice
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) was last Friday forced to withdraw a notice stating that only bank debit cards bearing the name of the owner of the property will be accepted for rates payment which wa...Published: 21 Jan 2024 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo council, residents at loggerheads over US$ top fees
The Bulawayo City Council is at loggerheads with residents who bought housing stands in Magwegwe West and Pumula as far back as 2016 and are still waiting for the areas to be serviced.Accordin...Published: 15 Jan 2024 at 05:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Equipment crisis hits Bulawayo hospitals
MPILO and United Bulawayo (UBH) hospitals are failing to replenish wheelchairs and cancer radiation machines due to poor government funding.The government-owned hospitals are currently having ...Published: 15 Jan 2024 at 05:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's Cowdray Park projects in limbo after Zanu-PF bags seat
After witnessing a flurry of rare development projects in the run-up to the August elections, residents of Bulawayo's sprawling high-density suburb of Cowdray Park are now facing the reality of the re...Published: 01 Jan 2024 at 08:02hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
David Coltart sees better days in 2024
Bulawayo mayor David Coltart says finding solutions to the city's multifaceted problems will not happen overnight as he laid out his council's priorities for 2024.Coltart, a former Education m...Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 13:00hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's poor road infrastructure blamed for traffic accidents
One of the primary causes of accidents in Zimbabwe is attributed to the poor condition of the country's roads, making safe driving challenging and contributing to an increased accident rate.Re...Published: 29 Dec 2023 at 19:10hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt fails to deliver on Gwayi-Shangani Dam, again
The government has yet again missed its December deadline to complete the Gwayi-Shangani dam project, which is expected to bring a long lasting solution to Bulawayo's water woes.President Emme...Published: 24 Dec 2023 at 16:12hrs | 46 | by Staff reporter
Power cuts, pipe bursts disrupt Bulawayo water supplies
REGULAR power cuts and pipe bursts are causing water shortages in Bulawayo amid calls by residents for authorities to find a lasting solution to the challenge.Bulawayo town clerk Christopher D...Published: 04 Dec 2023 at 15:58hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Churches overrun Bulawayo CBD
STAKEHOLDERS in Bulawayo are concerned that a growing number of churches are taking over premises in the central business district (CBD) and industrial sites.Fears abound that this is seriousl...Published: 18 Nov 2023 at 09:33hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF by-elections campaign starts
Zanu-PF Secretary-General Dr Obert Mpofu yesterday implored voters to rectify their slip-ups when they voted for CCC during the August harmonised elections by voting the ruling party in the coming by-...Published: 14 Nov 2023 at 04:46hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
BPRA leader eyes Parly seat
BULAWAYO Progressive Residents Association (BPRA) chairperson Ambrose Sibindi has relinquished his position after successfully filing his nomination papers to contest for a parliamentary seat in...Published: 12 Nov 2023 at 12:02hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
David Coltart gets backing in drive to clean city
BULAWAYO residents have embraced clean-up campaigns with the latest being dubbed Big Spring Cleaning spearheaded by council that seeks to restore the city's status as one of the cleanest.Mayor...Published: 29 Oct 2023 at 12:37hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo earmarks US$14 million for roads
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has allocated US$14 million for the restoration of the city's deteriorating road infrastructure, which has been plagued by potholes.The city's road network has ...Published: 23 Oct 2023 at 06:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gwayi-Shangani Dam 70% complete, says Zinwa
The Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) has reported that the construction progress of the Gwayi-Shangani Dam in Matabeleland North Province has reached 70.2%. There are concerted efforts to exp...Published: 08 Oct 2023 at 19:26hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
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