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Harare plunged into darkness as Zesa switches off tower lights
Harare's last remaining tower lights were switched off this week, plunging Zimbabwe's capital further into darkness - a stark metaphor for the city's deepening governance crisis and financial dysfunct...Published: 18 Jul 2025 at 14:46hrs | 424 | by Staff reporter
MP embroiled in Chitungwiza land dispute
A resident of Manyame Park, Loverjoy Chogugudza, has lodged a formal complaint with the Municipality of Chitungwiza accusing St Mary's Member of Parliament Brighton Mazhindu of corruption, abuse of of...Published: 09 Jul 2025 at 14:31hrs | 931 | by Staff reporter
Madzibaba's grave sets tongues wagging
Fourteen years after his controversial passing, the final resting place of the late Madzibaba Godfrey Nzira continues to spark debate and controversy, highlighting the intersection of social status an...Published: 11 Jan 2025 at 08:38hrs | 481 | by Staff reporter
Harare, Chitungwiza meet over water crisis
The Harare City Council (HCC) is set to hold a crucial meeting with Chitungwiza Municipality this week to address the ongoing water crisis in the dormitory town, which worsened following the decommiss...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 12:17hrs | 39 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya bags murky council deal
Chitungwiza Town Council has initiated its controversial master plan crafting deal with funding from a company linked to church leader Walter Magaya, despite opposition from residents and ongoing lega...Published: 12 Jun 2024 at 06:50hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya reveals plans for Chitungwiza
AFTER the successful commissioning of his Heart Stadium by President Emmerson in Waterfalls on Sunday, PHD leader Walter Magaya now wants to turn his attention on constructing similar facilities in hi...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 06:05hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF property baron boasts over illegal occupation of council beer hall
Former Zanu-PF councillor for Chitungwiza Town Council's Ward 7 and property baron Charamba Mlambo has taken to social media to boast about how he will keep clinging to council beer hall without any v...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF on murdered CCC activist
Attempts by opposition political formations and foreign agencies to place blame for the kidnapping and subsequent death of Moreblessing Ali on Zanu-PF is perfectly choreographed to destabilise Zimbabw...Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police impound 1 600 pirate taxis
Over 1 600 illegal pirate taxis (popularly known as mushikashika) and unregistered vehicles have been impounded in an operation launched by police on Thursday to bring order to towns and cities....Published: 01 May 2022 at 11:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare, Chitungwiza choke on own garbage
In front of Mrs Florence Kasambira's home in Manyame Park lies an enormous landfill.It is easy to miss her well-manicured front yard as one's attention is easily drawn towards mounds of waste ...Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 08:14hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chitungwiza residents decry demolition of illegal structures
Illegal structures being erected at Chitungwiza's Unit D Shopping Centre have to be demolished within 48 hours according to notices issued by the local authority, with reaction to the move divided....Published: 01 Jan 2022 at 13:51hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Fresh demolitions loom in MDC controlled Chitungwiza
CHITUNGWIZA Town Council has issued a fresh 48-hour demolition notice to residents it accuses of putting up illegal structures at Seke Unit D Shopping Centre.Acting Town Clerk Evangelist Macho...Published: 31 Dec 2021 at 07:30hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Parly intervenes in Sikhala CDF project
PARLIAMENT says it will intervene in a matter in which Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala (MDC Alliance) is accusing Zanu-PF supporters and Chitungwiza Town Council officials of attempting to stop th...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala confronts Parly over blocked CDF project
ZENGEZA West MP Job Sikhala (MDC Alliance) has written to the Speaker of the National Assembly, Jacob Mudenda asking him to rein in ruling Zanu-PF party supporters he alleged were stalling a Constitue...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
July Moyo sued over floods
TWO Chitungwiza residents have taken Local Government minister July Moyo and the local authority to court over the poor drainage system in the town, which is causing flooding. Several houses i...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:48hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
SACU probes 'land baron' Peyama
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa' Special Anti-Corruption Unit (SACU) has opened a probe into land deals involving Chitungwiza businessman Wellington Peyama and the local authority.According to do...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 06:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa blames MDC dominated urban councils for housing chaos
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has maintained his spotlight on MDC dominated urban authorities he blames for poor planning to a point where some homeowners have been settled on wetlands.In the p...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 07:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Govt to resettle wetlands inhabitants
The Government will soon begin scouting for alternative land for people settled on wetlands and other undesignated areas to prevent possible disasters, especially in the wake of floods that affected C...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF skeletons tumble in Chitungwiza demolitions
LEAKED letters addressed to Chitungwiza Town Council bosses have exposed the government's involvement in the demolition of homes and other illegal structures in Harare and the dormitory town with the ...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Council sued over sewage
CHITUNGWIZA Town Council is being accused of posing a serious health threat to over 650 000 residents in the dormitory town by discharging raw effluent into rivers that provide water to the municipali...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:52hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mafume must stop shifting blame
Since his election as the Mayor of Harare in September this year, MDC Alliance Ward 17 Councillor, Jacob Mafume, has not done anything to resolve Harare's woes except to shift blame on central Governm...Published: 17 Dec 2020 at 06:48hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
'Opposition will never rule Zimbabwe'
ZANU-PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa, yesterday declared that the opposition will never rule Zimbabwe as they are allegedly working to reverse the gains of the liberation struggle.Spe...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 17:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ministers selling out, says Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF has accused its ministers of leaking confidential Cabinet minutes to "hostile" countries such as the united Kingdom amid allegations of a rift between President Emmerson Mnangagwa's appointees...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF ministers 'leaking confidential Cabinet minutes to the UK'
Zanu PF has accused its ministers of leaking confidential Cabinet minutes to "hostile" countries such as the United Kingdom amid allegations of a rift between President Emmerson Mnangagwa's appointees...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 08:33hrs | | by Staff Reporter
PHOTOS: Chitungwiza Mayor assaulted by ZANU PF members
Reports from Chitungwiza indixcate that the Mayor Councillor Lovemore Maiko has been attacked and his car smashed by youths clad in Zanu Pf regalia....Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 11:49hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Fake debt collectors flood Chitungwiza
CHITUNGWIZA town council has urged residents to report debt collectors, who demand money for rates, to the police as there is no such arrangement.Debt collectors are moving around or sending m...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 12:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chitungwiza mayor bounces back in acting capacity
Chitungwiza Town Council has elected suspended mayor Gift Tsverere to act in the same position pending finalisation of a High Court challenge brought up by Zanu PF councillors.Kiven Mutimbanyo...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 05:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF councillors boycott Chitungwiza mayoral polls
Chitungwiza Town Council yesterday elected Gift Tsverere (MDC Alliance) as mayor in an election marred by threats of violence and boycott by Zanu PF councillors.Tsverere beat Blessing Mutimban...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Residents sue govt, local authorities over caretaker commissioners
Harare High Court judge Justice Edith Mushore will today preside over a challenge filed by Chitungwiza and Harare residents, who have dragged government and respective local authorities to court over ...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Residents associations and water rights campaigners challenge govt's appointment of caretaker commissions
HIGH Court Judge Justice Edith Mushore will on Friday 31 August 2018 preside over the hearing and determination of an urgent chamber application filed by some residents associations and water rights c...Published: 30 Aug 2018 at 18:15hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Chitungwiza town councillors acquitted
Six more Chitungwiza Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) councillors were acquitted on Monday after a Tribunal found them not guilty.According to Marufu Mandevere, the city fathers' lawyer, t...Published: 14 Mar 2018 at 08:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Repair the 'new' road
The 'new' Chitungwiza Road (Mbudzi roundabout to Chitungwiza) must be aptly called the 'old' Chitungwiza Road, since there is nothing new about it. The Seke Road to Chitungwiza can be mistaken...Published: 08 Mar 2018 at 19:49hrs | 1 | by Thomas Murisa
Vapostori resist ban on open-air worship
Apostolic churches have vowed to resist a mooted by-law by the Chitungwiza Town Council to ban open-air worship.The proposed by-law is meant to curb health concerns associated with open-air wo...Published: 26 Sep 2017 at 14:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe invokes Presidential powers to save Chitungwiza's attached property
President Robert Mugabe has invoked his presidential powers to save Chitungwiza Town Council's attached property from auction.The development was announced in an extra-ordinary government gaze...Published: 13 Sep 2017 at 19:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe snubs Kasukuwere luncheon
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe for the second year running yesterday snubbed a luncheon hosted by Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere and sent his deputy, Phelekezela Mphoko, who said nothing at the...Published: 13 Sep 2017 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere no confidence: Minister sets boys on perceived opponents, chaos in Chitungwiza
Chitungwiza - Minister of Local Government, Saviour Kasukuwere has reportedly engaged on a 'recovery' mission all around the country, aimed at victimizing and punishing any Zanu PF members who ar...Published: 06 Sep 2017 at 18:39hrs | 2 | by Khuluma Afrika
MDC-T will never tolerate corruption
In his keynote address at the at Mkoba stadium in Gweru on Saturday, June 10,2017, President Tsvangirai made it abundantly clear that the MDC has a zero tolerance policy on corruption.At...Published: 13 Jun 2017 at 11:18hrs | | by Obert Chaurura Gutu
10 000 houses spared demolition
About 10 000 houses in Chitungwiza, which were constructed on undesignated land, have escaped demolition following an agreement reached between one of the land barons, Mr Fredrick Mabamba, and the cas...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 08:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Maridadi confronts Kasukuwere on allegations of corruption
House of assembly member ofr MDC-T James Maridadi has confronted Local Government Minister Saviour Kasukuwere who is also Zanu PF National Commissar asking him why he has not been suspended or fired w...Published: 06 May 2017 at 08:53hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Hubby's govt okays $1,5 million Grace Mugabe project
The government has reportedly given Zanu-PF Harare province the greenlight to construct a $1,5 million state-of-the-art Grace Mugabe party hall in Chitungwiza.The ruling party's under-fire pro...Published: 02 May 2017 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T roasts Kasukuwere
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC yesterday waded into Zanu-PF's ugly factional and succession wars, accusing embattled Local Government minister, Saviour Kasukuwere, of vindictively suspendin...Published: 29 Apr 2017 at 18:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere must be brought to order
Minister of Local Government, Saviour Kasukuwere, must immediately stop behaving like a bull in a china shop. On Wednesday, April 27, 2017, Kasukuwere unlawfully suspended all the 25 councilors of Chi...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 09:58hrs | | by Obert Gutu
Kasukuwere dissolves Chitungwiza Town Council
Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Minister Saviour Kasukuwere has suspended Chitungwiza Mayor Phillip Mutoti and all 24 councillors for allegedly corruptly allocating themselves trac...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 06:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
PSL in stadium fix as most grounds not ready
THE Premier Soccer League 2017 season which gets underway this weekend has been thrown into chaos most stadiums are in bad condition.An inspection across the country by the Zifa grounds commit...Published: 28 Mar 2017 at 05:15hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Prophet Magaya's Chibuku Stadium deal collapses
RESIDENTS of Chitungwiza will have to wait a little longer to watch Premiership football on their doorstep after the deal for newboys Yadah Stars to use Chibuku as their home ground for this seaso...Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 05:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman cheats with FIVE men
A CHITUNGWIZA Town Council investigations officer unceremoniously left her family after her illicit affairs with five men were discovered in her mobile phone by her husband.Fortunate Murom...Published: 10 Jan 2017 at 12:29hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chitungwiza Municipality retrenched workers not paid
Harare Residents Trust has claimed that Chitungwiza Municipality workers who were retrenched in August 2015 have not been paid up to now.The trust said one of the former workers who was at the...Published: 09 Jun 2016 at 15:06hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
New payment system for Harare water
The Harare City Council will start installing its much-debated prepaid water meters on May 16, 2016 with the initial phase targeting 2 000 households and business units. Citywide rollout will come in ...Published: 24 Apr 2016 at 16:52hrs | 1 | by Debra Matabvu
Sick baby dies at roadblock while Zimbabwe police detain parents demanding bribe
A premature baby died at Chitungwiza Town Council office after her parents were detained for failing to pay a fine for driving their vehicle against One Way in an attempt to get the baby to hospital f...Published: 11 Jan 2016 at 06:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Touts, vendors parade coffin in Chitungwiza
Touts and vendors in Chitungwiza yesterday caused chaos in the town when they paraded a coffin of a tout who was fatally hit by a kombi fleeing from municipal police officers in Harare last Sunday....Published: 09 Jan 2016 at 07:10hrs | | by Samantha Chigogo
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