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Vendors threaten to sue HCC over violence
INFORMAL traders have threatened to sue the Harare City Council (HCC) for using severe force during raids against suspected illegal vendors.This follows a video circulating on social media sho...Published: 21 Mar 2024 at 08:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Foreigners 'invade' retail space reserved for Zimbabweans
ZIMBABWEAN authorities have been allocating retail licenses to foreigners in contravention of the law, investigations have established.Retail space in the capital Harare is now dominated by In...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 07:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gold panner dies in Bulawayo gravel site shaft collapse
AN illegal gold panner died after a shaft collapsed on him at the Municipal Gravel site located along Cecil Road in Bulawayo on Friday, police confirmed. "I can confirm that a man was found de...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 06:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Khothama vendors turn alley into Poop Avenue
RESIDENTS at the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) owned flats Parkhurst and Lyndhurst are accusing Khothama informal traders of pooing and urinating at the alleys of their flats.The flats are locat...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 07:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Lacoste thugs terrorizing Bulawayo communities
Mthwakazi Republic Party has accused the Zanu PF Lacoste faction of harassing vendors in Bulawayo forcing them to attend a meeting at Davis Hall.Ina statement party president Mqondisi Moyo sai...Published: 30 Nov 2017 at 06:13hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
City cop in trouble for spiking vehicle
A Mutare city cop who spiked a vehicle in the central business district causing damages worth $250 has been dragged before the courts facing malicious damage to property charges.City of Mutare...Published: 29 Sep 2017 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
#NoToPoliceBrutality, BCC police should stop beating up vendors
Some people might think this is not Newsworthy but Bulawayo24 could not ignore this Facebook post by Human Right Defender and activist Bekezela Maduma Fuzwayo.What Fuzwayo witnessed toda...Published: 20 Jul 2016 at 22:16hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Serial rapist on the run
POLICE have warned Bulawayo residents that there is a suspected serial rapist on the loose following attacks on two women within three days. The suspected rapist is said to have pounced on his first v...Published: 12 Feb 2016 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Nqobile Tshili
Gun shots near Mugabe's State House - WhatsApp update
Please note that Bulawayo24 does not edit WhatsApp updates. We publish them as sent by our readers and we do not disclose the sender's telephone number. ...Published: 10 Jan 2016 at 09:33hrs | | by Concerned Citizen
Harare council police assault residents
Harare City Council police are reported to have assaulted residents in Budiriro 2 during the demolishion of of illegal houses.Zimbabwe Human Rights Lawyers Communications manager Kumbirai Mafu...Published: 03 Oct 2015 at 07:34hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
'Stop harassing vendors,' Khaya Moyo orders council
The senior minister of State in the President's Office, Simon Khaya Moyo, on Friday ordered the MDC-T-controlled Bulawayo City Council to stop municipal police from treating vendors and informal trade...Published: 04 Nov 2014 at 05:53hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Council Police brutality exposed
A man is lying unconscious along 5th avenue in Bulawayo after his wares were confiscated by plain clothes municipality police known as oMakhokhoba! He was chased for several hundred yards trying t...Published: 26 Jun 2014 at 18:25hrs | | by Ezra Tshisa Sibanda (Facebook update)
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