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Gweru to set up modern crematorium
The Gweru City Council has announced plans to establish a modern crematorium at one of its cemeteries as part of efforts to improve burial services in the city.Mayor Martin Chivhoko confirmed ...Published: 24 Jun 2025 at 09:19hrs | 68 | 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
Bulawayo seeks more land to bury its dead
Bulawayo City Council has revealed plans to designate a portion of Good Hope Farm for burial services, as the city's cemeteries have run out of burial space, according to the latest council minutes....Published: 16 Mar 2025 at 09:29hrs | 317 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo identifies new cemetery site
Bulawayo City Council has identified a 43-hectare site at Goodhope Farm as a potential new cemetery, with the capacity to accommodate 80,000 graves. The farm, located 17 kilometres from the city centr...Published: 12 Mar 2025 at 07:40hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter
Upmarket memorial park for war veterans
The Memories of Zimbabwe's Armed Struggle Trust (MOZAST) has joined forces with Watervlei Burial Park to establish a state-of-the-art cemetery honoring individuals who contributed to the country's lib...Published: 28 Jan 2025 at 07:01hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
Remains of 21 people exhumed in city
Remains of 21 people were exhumed from a housing development project site in Bulawayo's Killarney suburb before they were reburied at the city's Luveve cemetery.This was revealed in the latest...Published: 18 Feb 2024 at 13:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Council urges cremation or rural home burials
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) which is fast running out of burial space is calling on residents to either cremate or bury their loved ones at their rural homes.The call also comes amid revel...Published: 07 Jul 2023 at 07:53hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo running out of burial space
IF you are in Bulawayo do you know where and how you want to be buried?Be warned that there is a looming problem in the country's second largest city over what to do with dead bodies, as it is...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
200 000 graves cemetery for Bulawayo
BULAWAYO is set to have a 200 000-capacity cemetery which is expected to address the burial space shortage which has been haunting the city in recent years.The project is being implemented as ...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
BCC decommissions Athlone cemetery
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has decommissioned Athlone cemetery after it ran out of burial space.Town clerk Christopher Dube confirmed the development in a notice to residents yesterday, addin...Published: 08 Jan 2022 at 06:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo grave diggers overwhelmed
GRAVE diggers at Bulawayo cemeteries are overwhelmed and the council has proposed that mourners do the back-filling of the graves while it recruits more staff.According to the latest council m...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:32hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Dead man buried in wrong grave
The Bulawayo City Council's records of cemeteries are in shambles leading to the mislaying of the dead in reserved graves and the reopening of graves with remains.According to the Council, thi...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 21:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BCC, CAAZ object to cemetery near airport
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has turned down an application by a local private company to establish a cemetery adjacent to the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport.The snub came after...Published: 04 Sep 2021 at 19:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Burial space stolen in Bulawayo
Bulawayo City Council is investigating possible theft of reserved burial space at Athlone Cemetery after the family of a 103-year-old man had to endure the horror of finding human remains in his and t...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 06:43hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Scramble for burial space at Luveve Cemetery
There is scramble for burial space at Luveve Cemetery in Bulawayo after an excavator used to dig graves at Athlone Cemetery broke down last week.The machine replaced manual labour years ago to...Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 19:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo suspends burials as grave-digging machine breaks down
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has suspended burials at the Athlone West cemetery due to a breakdown of a grave-digging machine.Council sources told New Zimbabwe.com that following the breakd...Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 08:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Demand for graves surges in Gweru
THERE has been a surge in demand for graves in the city of Gweru amid indications that from January to date, 65 people have been buried at council cemeteries compared to 45 the whole of last year. ...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 07:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
BCC suspends burials at Athlone after excavator breaks down
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has suspended burials at Athlone cemetery after the excavator used digging graves broke down, sources have said.Athlone cemetery is situated just after Northend...Published: 01 Aug 2021 at 19:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Gweru records surge in demand for graves
DEMAND for burial space at Gweru council cemeteries has increased since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, mayor Josiah Makombe has revealed.In his state of the city address, Makomb...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Council takes over private cemetery
BULAWAYO City Council is set to take over the privately-owned Umvutcha Cemetery with an estimated 45 000-grave capacity to ease a shortage of burial space.The city has been battling burial spa...Published: 07 May 2021 at 06:44hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Govt gazettes Harare's new burial, water charges
LOCAL Government minister July Moyo yesterday gazetted new fees for burial space in Harare while also announcing a massive hike in water charges and refuse collection fees for the capital.The ...Published: 13 Mar 2021 at 06:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
How does Zimbabwe define its heroes?
I WANT to thank President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his team for the conferment of provincial war hero status on Saul Musaka, Soul Jah Love. I would like to thank him again for the conferment of national...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:50hrs | 15 | by Kurauone Chihwayi
Zimbabwe parlours downplay spiralling deaths
ZIMBABWE'S funeral assurance sector has allayed fears of possible collapse as the COVID-19 scourge intensifies and affects capacity to meet policyholder claims.Taka Svosve, the Zimbabwe Associ...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
372% rates hike for Bulawayo residents
BULAWAYO residents will fork out more for services after Government approved Bulawayo City Council (BCC's) over $16 billion 2021 budget. Rates have already increased by 372 percent with effect...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare proposes 300% increase in service charges
Harare City Council yesterday presented a ZW$483 million supplementary budget which will see a 300% rise in charges for water, refuse collection, clamping fees, tow-away and burial space, among other ...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 08:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BCC faces questions over lavish spending
CASH-STRAPPED Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has set itself on a collision course with residents after it approved a plan to splash US$900 each per day on hotel accommodation for four council officials f...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 07:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans buried two-two per grave in Manicaland
The victims of Cyclone Idai in Manicaland have united and made coffins for their departed relatives and buried them two-two per grave due to unavailability of burial spaces and the huge number of dead...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 08:58hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bulawayo cremation machine impounded by SA authorities
Tax authorities in South Africa have seized a crematorium machine from Japan headed for Bulawayo in a payment dispute, according to the city council. The machine is used in the disposal of a d...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 13:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's biggest cemetery decommissioned again
BULAWAYO's biggest cemetery, West Park, has once again been decommissioned as it has run out of burial space with burials now taking place at Athlone and Luveve cemeteries. West Park Cemetery ...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 07:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Gweru hikes burial fees 100%
GWERU City Council has proposed to more than double burial charges to $160 from $60 for non-residents and $80 from $30 for adults and children respectively, a senior council official has said....Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cremations 'threaten' Zimbabwe's ancestral spirits
Cremation is provoking a huge debate in Zimbabwe, bringing cultural and religious beliefs to the fore, journalist-turned-barrister Brian Hungwe writes from Harare."For you were made from dust,...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 06:12hrs | 2 | by Brian Hungwe
Harare in graveyard space headache
The number of Harare residents that are burying their dear departed in cemeteries that are located on the outskirts of the city is increasing as pressure for graveyard space intensifies.With m...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 06:29hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Inside Wimbo's mausoleum
Although one's immediate vision of a graveyard might be a dull and lifeless place, the late Mudzidzi Wimbo's mausoleum is, on the contrary, a burst of colour and fine interior designing.A mausoleu...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 09:50hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Crash with donkey cart kills biker
A MOTORCYCLIST from Inyathi, Bubi District died in hospital following a head-on collision with a donkey-drawn scotch cart.Fungai Sibanda (33) died at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo on Mond...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 06:27hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
3 million ghosts on the voters' roll?
ZIMBABWE once again finds herself being railroaded into an election, despite tangible proof that conditions on the ground are not yet conducive for a free and fair poll. All this flies against postula...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 07:57hrs | | by Mkhululi Tshuma
'Gangster' found dead still not buried
A SUSPECTED thug from Bulawayo who was found dead last week in a bushy area between Barbourfields and Entumbane suburbs has not been buried and his brother is appealing for assistance from well wisher...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Athlone Cemetery extended by 4.6 hectares
THE Bulawayo City Council has extended Athlone Cemetery by 4,06 hectares to create space for an additional 8 250 graves after realising that the city was fast running out of burial space.Counc...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
West Park cemetery decommissioned
Bulawayo City Council has said West Park Cemetery will be decommissioned at the end of March and that the few remaining graves would cater for children only.Latest full council minutes state that ...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo finally secures cremator
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has finally secured the release of a cremator that had for a long time been held in Durban, South Africa owing to contractual glitches.BCC chamber secretary Sik...Published: 07 Feb 2018 at 12:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo runs out of burial space, again
BULAWAYO councillors have reported that the city may face burial space challenges, as the West Park Cemetery which was extended last year to ease the burden on the overstretched Luveve Cemetery, has r...Published: 12 Dec 2017 at 05:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
West Park cemetery fast filling up
The West Park cemetery is reportedly fast getting filled amid concerns by the Bulawayo city fathers.The Director of Health Services reported that the space at West Park cemetery was fast filli...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 07:02hrs | 4 | by Stephen Jakes
Council in cremator dilemma
THE council is battling to bring into the country a cremator bought from South Africa for nearly $100 000 due to contractual challenges.Currently, the city has only one cremator situated at We...Published: 11 Oct 2017 at 17:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC approves 2 bodies per grave to tackle grave shortage of space
THE Bulawayo City Council has been approving requests for two bodies to be buried in one grave at a time the city is running out of burial space, raising speculation that city fathers may be consideri...Published: 23 Jul 2017 at 11:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Private cemetery grave prices set
BULAWAYO's first private cemetery with a capacity of 50 000 graves has been opened in a move that is set to ease shortage of burial space in the city.Each grave costs $120 at the new facility,...Published: 28 Jun 2017 at 06:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
New cemetery opens in Bulawayo
A NEW private cemetery has opened for burials in Bulawayo's Northlyn and Trenance suburbs.The Acting Director of Health Services Dr Edwin Sibanda said the Government approved the establishment...Published: 13 Jun 2017 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo rakes in over $200,000 from burials
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) raked in more than $200 000 through selling of burial space at local cemeteries where 4 709 bodies were buried last year.Of the people who were buried at lo...Published: 03 Apr 2017 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gweru shuts down Mtapa cemetery
GWERU City Council-run Mtapa cemetery has closed as there is no more space for new burials, a senior council official has revealed. Town Clerk, Elizabeth Gwatipedza said the 12-hectare cemetery wa...Published: 15 Mar 2017 at 05:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Council close cemetary
Shortage of burial space at Mtapa cemetery has forced Gweru City Council to close it, Town Clerk, Elizabeth Gwatipedza has said.Only available space at the 12-hect...Published: 15 Mar 2017 at 04:59hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo residents say no to cremation proposal
BULAWAYO residents have expressed concern over the proposal by the Bulawayo City Council to cremate deceased children aged 10 years and below describing it as taboo in the Zimbabwean culture....Published: 29 Jan 2017 at 10:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
No burials for 10 year olds, cremation instead in Bulawayo
All children below the age of ten who die in Bulawayo would be cremated, the local authority has ruled.The resolution is effective this year.The cremations would be done at crema...Published: 05 Jan 2017 at 04:53hrs | | by Mary Charamba
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