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Bulawayo signs landmark innovation MoU
The City of Bulawayo has made a strategic leap towards becoming the nation's innovation powerhouse by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Research Council of Zimbabwe (RCZ), Zimbabwe ...Published: 12 May 2025 at 18:08hrs | 183 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's Kidwell Mujuru challenges CCC candidate in court
FORMER Zanu-PF councillor for Ward 6 in Cowdray Park suburb, Kidwell Mujuru, has filed an urgent High Court application challenging the election and christening thereafter of Mr Nkosilathi Mpofu as co...Published: 21 Mar 2024 at 08:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
FULL LIST: CCC 'fake' candidates unveiled
FRAUDULENT DOUBLE CANDIDATES Pursuant to our press briefing on 22 June 2023, we filed objections against double candidates in terms of the procedure provided for under the Electoral Act. We ha...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 16:32hrs | 9 | by CCC
Bulawayo dam levels still critically low
BULAWAYO's major supply dams have received insignificant inflows of water since the onset of the rainy season, raising fears of more water woes in the city.According to the latest update by th...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Thursday water supply schedule for Bulawayo announced
The cash strapped City of Bulawayo municipality has announced the Provisional Water Supply Restoration Strategy for Thursday, 29 December 2022.The Council has been doing daily announcements of...Published: 29 Dec 2022 at 09:11hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Nurses recruited from Zimbabwe are being caught in UK 'bonded labour' schemes
Zimbabwean care workers are being tricked into coming to the UK by unscrupulous middlemen who withhold up to half their wages and force them to live in squalor.The scam, which plays on the acu...Published: 28 Aug 2022 at 08:20hrs | 4 | by Ray Mwareya
Bulawayo dam levels critically low
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has said water levels at its supply dams that are 52 percent full as well as a drastic drop in supplies from Epping Forest due to vandalism of infrastructure have worsened ...Published: 17 Aug 2022 at 18:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CCC: Old wine in old wineskins
On 24 January, former MDC Alliance faction leader, Nelson Chamisa announced the formation of a new opposition political party, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC). During the announcement,...Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 05:29hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Bulawayo municipal police handed crime fighting task
BULAWAYO Municipality police have a critical role to play in restoring sanity and order while collaborating with the law enforcement agents to tackle any form of criminal activity.This comes a...Published: 14 Feb 2022 at 05:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF takes early lead in by-elections
Zanu-PF has already pocketed Ward 14 of Umguza Rural District Council in Matabeleland North after opposition parties failed to nominate candidates to contest in the forthcoming by-elections set for Ma...Published: 01 Feb 2022 at 05:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
No by-elections for Nkulumane, Pumula
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has nullified vacancies for six constituencies, including Nkulumane and Pumula as well as Bulawayo's City Council Ward 3 since their status is being contested in cour...Published: 26 Jan 2022 at 04:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's urban sprawl exposes housing crisis
Ndaba Dube, a Bulawayo resident, says he built himself a home on a small piece of land after the authorities kept him on the housing waiting list for more than two decades.The land he chose is...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 08:16hrs | 3 | by Ignatius Banda
National hero Nkiwane gets befitting send-off
A SOMBRE atmosphere engulfed Joyful Farm in Umguza District yesterday as people from all walks of life gathered at the farm to give the late national hero Abraham Dumezweni Nkiwane a befitting send-of...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 09:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nkiwane burial date set
THE late national hero, Abraham Nkiwane, will be buried tomorrow at his farm on the outskirts of Umguza District while burial arrangements for two other national heroes, Commander of the Zimbabwe Nati...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 10:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nkiwane snubs Heroes Acre burial
THE family of the national hero Abraham Nkiwane has said it is yet to come up with the burial date of the veteran nationalist. They agreed that the liberation stalwart will be buried at his farm in Um...Published: 10 Jul 2021 at 10:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Water crisis ravages Bulawayo
Women carry the burden of collecting water for households...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 07:48hrs | 3 | by Brezhnev Malaba
Bulawayo municipality disconnects water supplies
BULAWAYO City Council will today start disconnecting water supplies to defaulting rate payers as the municipality moves to recover what it is owed by residents and commercial entities in the city. ...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 08:59hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
By-elections show Zanu-PF's prowess?
ZANU-PF has polled a total of 25 597 votes to the MDC Alliance's 11 369 in all by-elections held since last year's harmonised elections, statistics from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) have re...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Of a book on democracy and democracy hypocrites
Last week MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa was on cloud nine when he officially co-launched with former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo the book, Democracy Works – Re-wiring politics to Afr...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 13:44hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga
The Heroine of Matabeleland is fallen! Matabeleland has heroes and heroines too!
The beautiful ones were born, but not acknowledged; these are women from Zapu - Matabeleland: Soneni Ngweny-Matiwaza is a nations' heroine: who cares today!The lyric from Bob Dylan goes like t...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 18:56hrs | 24 | by Nomazulu Thata
2 candidates from the MDC Alliance battle it out in Bulawayo by-election
Two candidates from the MDC Alliance Collet Ndhlovu (former cllr) and Nomagugu Mloyi successfully filed their papers at the nomination court this Friday to contest in the Bulawayo Municipality Wa...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 14:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo ward 28 declared vacant
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has set March 2 as the date for a by-election to select a candidate to replace incumbent Bulawayo's ward 28 (Cowdray Park) councillor, Happy Ncube, who died las...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 17:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Deputy mayor gets 7-day ultimatum to step down
MDC Alliance has given Bulawayo deputy mayor Tinashe Kambarami a seven-day ultimatum to step down from his position or face expulsion for defying a party directive on the election of the deputy mayor....Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa fires Bulawayo's Shona mayor
THE Mr Nelson Chamisa-led MDC has ordered Bulawayo Deputy Mayor councillor Tinashe Kambarami to step down from his post or risk being expelled from the party and recalled from council. Ward 3 ...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 05:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa, Bulawayo municipality haggle over bills
ZESA Holdings' debt to the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has ballooned to over $119 million as at November 2017, as the power utility is refusing to pay it, latest council minutes show.On the ot...Published: 05 Feb 2018 at 04:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khutshwekhaya and the Zapu - Zanu Unity Accord legacy
Naison Khutshwekhaya Ndlovu who died on Monday and was declared a national hero yesterday will be remembered for many things from being the first black mayor of Bulawayo to being a selfless leader but...Published: 31 May 2017 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo council to kill more stray dogs
Bulawayo municipality has resolved to buy and stock up more ammunition to kill stray dogs that have become a nuisance.According to council agenda seen by Bulawayo24.com, Councillor Gideon Mang...Published: 08 Feb 2016 at 09:21hrs | 1 | by Thobekile Zhou
City of Bulawayo boundaries to be extended
THE City of Bulawayo's boundaries will be extended next year, a move which would be welcomed by thousands of desperate home seekers on the city's ballooning housing waiting list.Local Governme...Published: 31 Oct 2015 at 11:07hrs | 1 | by Auxilia Katongomara
Teens' demand for illegal abortions soar
The death of a 15-year-old Zimbabwean schoolgirl during an apparent botched abortion this month has spurred calls for stronger efforts to prevent teenage pregnancies and unsafe terminations.He...Published: 26 Jun 2015 at 20:04hrs | | by Reuters
Khutshwekhaya's statement go unchallenged
Mr. Naison Khutshwekhaya Ndlovu issued a statement that he was the most senior surviving member from former ZAPU, followed by Mrs. Angelina Masuku. This article cannot be allowed to just pass unchalle...Published: 04 Oct 2014 at 08:18hrs | 4 | by John Songo
Bulawayo Power Station shut down
The Zimbabwe Power Company has shut down Bulawayo Power Station to pave way for investigations to establish the source of a strange smoke in one of the generators.The station has an installed ...Published: 15 Jul 2014 at 17:45hrs | 1 | by Lesley Moyo
Funeral parlours contaminate drinking water
Funeral parlours, service stations, fuel holding depots and food processing plants have been dumping waste in the drinking water system countrywide.This has incensed a Cabinet Committee, which...Published: 09 May 2014 at 06:15hrs | 1 | by Felex Share
Health disaster looms in Bulawayo
Bulawayo Municipality and industries are discharging 35 million litres of raw sewage and hazardous effluent directly into the Umguza catchment per year, which has been linked to the incidence of seri...Published: 07 May 2014 at 07:48hrs | 1 | by Takunda Maodza
Mayor's $60,000 Mercedes-Benz ML tender cancelled
BULAWAYO City Council has cancelled a tender to buy a $60,000 mayoral vehicle following an outcry by residents. Bulawayo municipality spokesperson Nesisa Mpofu yesterday confirmed that the ten...Published: 18 Apr 2014 at 07:53hrs | | by Sifundiso Ndlovu
Immortal Ghost of ZAPU 2000
It is true what the Chinese say, "a Ghost is stronger than its human form." It has been more than ten years after ZAPU 2000 a gesticulation of young radicals was disbanded. It was obvious that this mo...Published: 05 May 2012 at 14:54hrs | 1 | by Shephard Dube
BCC cancels controversial Easipark parking tender
Bulawayo City Council has cancelled a parking tender that would have racked in huge revenue for the financially struggling municipality.Current, most motorists are parking in the Central Busi...Published: 29 Feb 2012 at 08:33hrs | | by Alois Sibanda
Whirlwind blown underwear causes storm in Makokoba
A WHIRLWIND blown female underwear caused a storm in Makokoba yesterday after neighbors exchanged blows over it.The female underwear popularly known as "maHadebe" because of its design was wa...Published: 10 Oct 2011 at 09:39hrs | 4 | by Bekithemba Nhlanhla Ncube
Bulawayo’s dirty water safe to drink: BCC engineer
Bulawayo municipality councillors are concerned over the continued consumption of what they believe is dirty water by the city’s one million residents.According to the lates...Published: 09 Jun 2011 at 05:17hrs | 2 | by F Moyo
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