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Water crisis cripples Bulawayo hospitals, clinics
AN acute water crisis is threatening operations at Mpilo Central Hospital and United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) which are the city's major public hospitals as they are going for several days without run...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 135 | by Staff reporter
BCC, TTI reviews parking model with immediate effect
Motorists will now be able to transfer their paid parking time to different parking bays after the City of Bulawayo and Tendy Three Investments Private Limited (TTI) reviewed the smart parking p...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 18:26hrs | 849 | by Staff reporter
BCC councillors shoot down Belarus fire tender deal
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) councillors have shot down government's directive that BCC should procure fire tender vehicles from Belarus.A latest council report indicates that town clerk Christ...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:22hrs | 480 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's councillors join gravy train
After the 26 March by-elections in which the then newly formed political party Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) romped to victory in Masvingo Urban which had four vacant wards, the social media was...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 19:00hrs | 1943 | by Staff reporter
Town house stand for Bulawayo Town Clerk
BULAWAYO Town Clerk, Mr Christopher Dube has been awarded a 2.4 hectare town house stand in the city as part of his conditions of service. Last year, the Local Government Board endorsed the Bu...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:21hrs | 194 | by Staff reporter
Top Zimbabwe judges in the eye of a storm
A Harare businessman has written a letter of complaint to Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi raising allegations of criminal abuse of office, conflict of interest and ob...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:05hrs | 262 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans suffer horrific medical exclusion in SA
SOUTH Africa arguably boasts the highest standard of healthcare on the continent where everyone can access public healthcare. However, access to public facilities comes at a cost over around US$300 US...Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 1748 | by Staff reporter
Shot in arm for BCC
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has approved well-wisher's offer to instal solar systems at some of the council's facilities to ensure smooth running of operations during power outages.According t...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:41hrs | 723 | by Staff reporter
Mabhikwa orders re-instatement of divisive Kambarami
The Bulawayo High Court has ordered the reinstatement of former Bulawayo deputy mayor and Ward 3 councillor Tinashe Kambarami .Justice Martin Makonese delivered the ruling Thursday.Bac...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 22:33hrs | 1412 | by Staff reporter
Lawyer sues council, TTI over parking fees
Bulawayo lawyer Bruce Israel Masamvu has sued the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) over its parking management, which has resulted in motorists forking out US$1 per hour.BCC contracted Tendy Three ...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:45hrs | 820 | by Staff reporter
Gweru embarks on property revaluations
GWERY City Council (GCC) has begun revaluation of its non-domestic properties to come up with a valuation roll for ease of billing, Southern Eye has learnt.Council last carried out a similar e...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:46hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo to honour centenarians
CENTENARIANS represent history, wisdom and morale and their tales of accomplishment as well as milestones highlight and magnify events of the past.As a result, the Bulawayo City Council is inv...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:45hrs | 155 | by Staff reporter
Ex-BCC workers resist eviction notices
FORMER Bulawayo City Council (BCC) employees who were recently served with eviction notices to vacate council rented properties in Makokoba have resisted the move arguing that they have housing files ...Published: 31 Jul 2022 at 08:12hrs | 156 | by Staff reporter
Zacc probes abuse of devolution funds
DEVOLUTION funds are open to abuse and plunder by unscrupulous institutions and individuals who can easily turn them into feeding troughs at the expense of communities, NewsDay has established....Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 06:40hrs | 309 | by Staff reporter
Harare-Beitbridge highway project: A new big step in the right direction
AS we turn right off the Harare-Beitbridge highway - just before the intersection of the Harare and Bulawayo arteries five kilometres north of Beitbridge Border Post on the banks of the Limpopo River ...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 07:57hrs | 1054 | by Staff reporter
Forex only for housing stands for Bulawayo
THE Bulawayo City Council has availed stands in Pumula South that are exclusively sold in foreign currency, with interested individuals being given six months to settle the payment or risk losing them...Published: 24 Jul 2022 at 10:00hrs | 567 | by Staff reporter
BCC unveils US$ housing stands
BULAWAYO City Council has unveiled 117 pre-sale housing stands, but they are only sold in United States dollars.In a notice, town clerk Christopher Dube said applicants will be required to pay...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:31hrs | 514 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa petitioned over July Moyo
A LOCAL firm, Zimbabwe Innovative Technologies (ZIMIT), has appealed to President Emmerson Mnangagwa for intervention after Local Government and Public Works minister July Moyo overturned a US$17,4 mi...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 10:44hrs | 6890 | by Staff reporter
1:60 teacher-pupils ratio chokes Zimbabwean school
KWEKWE town clerk Lucia Mnkandla has raised concern that one of the city's best schools, Chana Primary School in Mbizo, is now struggling to maintain high standards due to a bloated teacher-pupils rat...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:42hrs | 261 | by Staff reporter
City gets back impounded ambulances
KWEKWE City Council is set to get back two ambulances that the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) had impounded on allegations that they were not properly imported.The ambulances were purchase...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:40hrs | 187 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt steps in to honour Pomona obligations
The Pomona dumpsite project has taken a new twist, with the Government, which is the guarantor, now set to honour its obligations as outlined in the contract between Harare City Council and Geogenix B...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:39hrs | 236 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga taken to task
AN opposition legislator has demanded that Health minister, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga must explain why his ministry was failing to pay medical suppliers to hospitals when the health sector i...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 06:14hrs | 4105 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC in Pomona deal climbdown?
THE opposition CCC-led Harare City Council yesterday made a volte-face on the €304 million Pomona Waste to Energy deal after weeks of politicking trying to reverse an agreement they had earlier sanc...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 06:09hrs | 2917 | by Staff reporter
48-hour water cuts in Bulawayo after mainline pipe burst
A MAJOR water pipeline burst in Esigodini has forced Bulawayo City Council to announce an emergency week-long 48-hour water shedding regime starting today, affecting all suburbs and surrounding areas ...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:05hrs | 281 | by Staff reporter
Chitungwiza demolishes illegal structures
Chitungwiza Municipality started destroying illegal structures, often tuckshops, at the start of a 30-day blitz on Wednesday to remove them, especially those under power lines and over sewers. ...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:03hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
Mutare mayor, councillors fleece council of $12m
MUTARE Mayor Simon Chabuka and 11 other councillors yesterday appeared in court on allegations of fleecing the local authority of more than $12 million in travel and subsistence allowances after defyi...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:03hrs | 260 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo avails 5 000 stands, another 5 000 in Masterplan
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has availed more than 5 000 residential stands in various suburbs with another 5 000 outlined in its master plan as part of efforts to clear the city's housing backlog,...Published: 08 Jul 2022 at 07:35hrs | 3388 | by Staff reporter
Massive roadworks change face of Beitbridge
THE massive road construction projects in Beitbridge, which dovetail with the ongoing US$300 million modernisation of the border post being spearheaded by the Second Republic, have transformed the fac...Published: 08 Jul 2022 at 07:34hrs | 622 | by Staff reporter
BCC flights multiple tenders
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has flighted multiple tenders seeking various suppliers to supply and install solar backup systems at various revenue offices, as well as provision of tow away services, am...Published: 06 Jul 2022 at 18:07hrs | 1093 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in foreign lands demand right to vote
FOLLOWING intensive discussion by over 200 Zimbabweans living in Australia and New Zealand who are interested in exercising their constitutional right to vote next year, a letter was written to Presid...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 06:59hrs | 443 | by Padmore Kufa
University data clerk leaks exam papers
A DATA clerk at the Women's University in Africa (WUA) was yesterday arraigned before Harare magistrate Yeukai Dzuda charged with contravening the Cyber Security and Data Protection Act for leaking ex...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:48hrs | 544 | by Staff reporter
Mafume sticks to his guns on Pomona
HARARE mayor Jacob Mafume yesterday said the Harare City Council (HCC) had no capacity to pay in United States dollars the council committee set up to investigate the Pomona waste management deal....Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:47hrs | 744 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Parliament ignorant of Belarus fire tender deal
CLERK of Parliament Kennedy Chokuda has revealed that Parliament has no documentation proving that Harare and Belarus signed an agreement to procure fire tenders on behalf of local authorities as init...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:45hrs | 252 | by Staff reporter
Kwekwe to demolish illegal tuck-shops
Kwekwe City Council has given illegal tuck-shop owners an ultimatum to regularise operations or risk their structures being demolished.The ultimatum has also been extended to illegal gas vendi...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:43hrs | 80 | by Staff reporter
Fears expressed over Zimbabwe Extension Permit cancellation
Zimbabwean expatriates are scrambling to apply for a visa to continue living in South Africa after their Zimbabwe Extension Permits (ZEP) expired in December.If they are unsuccessful, in some ...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 09:02hrs | 2935 | by Staff reporter
US$50m hotel for Victoria Falls
A MASSIVE US$50 million hotel project is on the cards in Victoria Falls, as the transformation of the prime tourism destination into a world-class city and resort gains momentum.Victoria Falls...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 08:10hrs | 589 | by Staff reporter
CCC councillors in bribe storm over Pomona
A group of CCC councillors is allegedly set to pocket US$12 000 in fees from Harare City Council for "investigating" the Pomona waste management deal, now a done deal with Government backing.T...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 08:07hrs | 554 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally creams off US$60m from broke Zimbabwe municipalities
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's Belarus ally is set to pocket over US$62 million if the murky deal that will see over 63 rural district councils, 32 urban local authorities and metropolitan provinces p...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 19:04hrs | 569 | by Staff reporter
'Regime change' lawyers flag Belarus fire tender deal
HUMAN rights lawyers have demanded access to documents signed between government and Belarus for the procurement of fire tenders on behalf of local authorities.This came after Local Gove...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 08:37hrs | 274 | by Staff reporter
Pomona project above board, claims Nguwaya
GEOGENIX BV says it will forge ahead with the controversial Pomona waste management project despite the Harare City Council (HCC) suspending it through a council resolution last month.Speaking...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 08:36hrs | 116 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa-linked firm bags US$780,000 from Pomona dumpsite bill?
THE ministry of local government has written to the Harare city council ordering the local authority to pay up the ballooning Pomona dumpsite bill, which is now close to a million United States dollar...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 08:15hrs | 504 | by Staff reporter
Harare City Council appoints committee to probe Pomona deal
HARARE City Council (HCC) has appointed a special investigation committee to probe the controversial Pomona waste management deal between the Netherlands-based company Geogenix BV fronted by businessm...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 07:42hrs | 243 | by Staff reporter
Zacc torches storm in Karoi
KAROI residents have petitioned Parliament to rein in members of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) which they accused of unprofessional conduct and bias.The residents said the sus...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 07:39hrs | 295 | by Staff reporter
BCC takes stock of city hotels, lodges
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) will this month conduct a survey to take stock of the city's hotels and lodges.Council said it intends to create a database that will assist players in the tour...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 07:38hrs | 251 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa-run councils will 'reject' July Moyo's fire trucks
The Citizens Coalition for Change which is the majority party in most urban councils says it is prepared to go to court to stop local government minister July Moyo forcing local authorities to buy fir...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 07:48hrs | 4927 | by Staff reporter
Storm over govt fire tender deal
THE decision by government to acquire fire tenders from Belarus on behalf of local authorities at questionable prices has torched a storm, with observers pointing to possible corruption.In a c...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:45hrs | 213 | by Staff reporter
Gweru to relocate residents in wetlands
GWERU City Council is planning to resettle people who were allocated stands in wetlands at Mkoba 21 housing project, a senior council official has said.Acting town clerk Vakai Chikwekwe told S...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:45hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
Ajay Singh: The no nonsense Prosecutor
High profile criminals and persons of interest who came before the courts in the early 2000s hated state prosecutor Ajay Singh. Singh earned a reputation of being uncompromising and unwavering...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 13:16hrs | 943 | by Mandla Ndlovu
State lines up 20 witnesses against Sikhala, Sithole
THE State has lined up 20 witnesses to testify against Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators Job Sikhala (Zengeza West) and Godfrey Sithole (Chitungwiza North) accused of inciting members of...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 06:45hrs | 1625 | by Staff reporter
Harare boots out city spokesperson
HARARE City Council spokesperson Michael Chideme has been booted out of Town House.Sources close to the matter told NewsDay yesterday that he was paying the price for being sympathetic to the ...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 06:40hrs | 530 | by Staff reporter
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