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Gweru residents owe council ZWG700 million

Gweru City Council is battling a ballooning debt of ZWG700 million as residents, businesses and government departments fail to pay their bills, a situation officials say is crippling service delivery.Council assistant finance director Owen…

Published: 31 Aug 2025 at 21:26hrs | | by Staff reporter

Mourners told to limit cemetery burials to 1 hour

Bulawayo residents have been urged to strictly observe cemetery burial booking timeframes in order to decongest burial sites and prevent clashes, amid reports that some funeral parlours were harassing mourners when ceremonies exceeded the …

Published: 31 Aug 2025 at 21:25hrs | | by Staff reporter

The spectacular failure of ZANU-PF, ANC and Frelimo

Recently, heavy rains hit a town called Mthatha in the Eastern Cape. The resulting floods killed 49 people across the province, but Mthatha was the worst-hit. On the day of the flooding, there were reports of children hanging in trees with…

Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 14:50hrs | | by Chris Kabwato

Bulawayo Council's cemetery excuses can't bury their neglect

Today's Saturday Chronicle highlights a distressing reality: young schoolchildren, some barely toddlers, are forced to walk through the overgrown and dilapidated Pelandaba Cemetery in Bulawayo on their way home. This troubling image sheds …

Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 14:49hrs | | 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 Bulawayo City Council minutes on cemeteries an…

Published: 18 Feb 2024 at 13:54hrs | | 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 space shortage following the decommissioning of We…

Published: 07 May 2021 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter

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Search / Cemetery

Gweru residents owe council ZWG700 million

Mourners told to limit cemetery burials to 1 hour

The spectacular failure of ZANU-PF, ANC and Frelimo

Bulawayo Council's cemetery excuses can't bury their neglect

Remains of 21 people exhumed in city

Council takes over private cemetery

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