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Malinga, Nyathi, Ngwenya nominated for civic honours
FORMER Bulawayo Mayor and Special Advisor to the President on National Disability, Alderman Joshua Malinga together with renowned historian Mr Pathisa Nyathi and Mpilo Central Hospital clinical direct...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 10:33hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Leave potholes to council'
RESIDENTS should not take matters of service delivery like patching up potholes that have infested the city into their own hands as that is the "sole" duty of the local authority, latest council minut...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chaos at Bulawayo council meeting
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) full council meeting last Wednesday degenerated into chaos with two councillors eventually ejected from council chambers for improper dressing.The largely Citiz...Published: 14 May 2023 at 11:35hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
TTI, BCC making 'super profits' from parking system deal
IT seems Bulawayo motorists who were boycotting the parking management system introduced in the city in mid-February last year have bowed down to pressure amid revelations that the parking management ...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:22hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
BCC municipal police granted bail
NINE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) municipal police officers who allegedly fired at vendors with rubber bullets during an operation to clear 5th Avenue of illegal activities have been released on $50 00...Published: 02 Mar 2023 at 05:45hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
BCC demands US$60 million for power station
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has insisted that they will only part with the title deeds of the Bulawayo Power Station if the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) concedes to pay US$60 million in royalties....Published: 25 Sep 2022 at 16:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council to operate without deputy mayor
THE Bulawayo City Council will be operating without a deputy mayor until the High Court deals with a number of applications relating to who should take over the position between councillors, Mlandu Nc...Published: 11 Sep 2022 at 09:58hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
Nust donates Mnangagwa's biography to libraries
THE National University of Science and Technology (Nust) yesterday donated President Mnangagwa's biography to 36 libraries in Bulawayo so that school children and the youth can be inspired to lead....Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
War vets get promotions
WAR veterans employed by the Bulawayo City Council will be promoted one grade up upon retirement and receive packages equivalent to the new grade.This comes after the war veterans, through their r...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 08:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's new councillors sworn in
THE eight newly-elected Bulawayo City Council (BCC) councillors who won in the just-ended by-elections, were yesterday sworn in and subsequently took their oath of loyalty to both Government and the l...Published: 05 Apr 2022 at 06:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
City to ban mourners
THE Bulawayo City Council will soon introduce a policy to ban mourners from attending burials at its cemeteries as concerns grow that gatherings at funerals and burials were becoming Covid-19 super sp...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 07:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo sets date to re-introduce full water shedding
BULAWAYO will revert to the dreaded city-wide water shedding schedule in February next year as two of its major supply dams are expected to be decommissioned by then if no major inflows are received i...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 10:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kambarami's presence causes fracas at BCC full council meeting
THERE was chaos at the Bulawayo City Council chambers on Wednesday afternoon after former deputy mayor, Tinashe Kambarami turned up for a full council meeting.The embattled former deputy mayor...Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 18:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's councillors in deadlock over posts
BULAWAYO councillors reportedly reached a deadlock over the position on chairperson of the Finance and Development Standing Committee, with a run-off now expected to be held in the next couple of week...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo committee chairpersons another extension of MDC Alliance factional fights
BULAWAYO councillors have elected new committee chairpersons amid factional tussles to control decision-making bodies in the local authority. The elections were held on Thursday last week at a...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 00:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Town Clerk's 'hands are clean'
BULAWAYO Town Clerk, Mr Christopher Dube, yesterday said his hands are clean but some officials in the local authority will fall due to their corrupt activities. Mr Dube was recently violently...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 07:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa throws Kambarami under the bus
UNDER pressure MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa has thrown Bulawayo Deputy Mayor Tinashe Kambarami under the bus, describing his attempt to suspend Town Clerk Mr Christopher Dube as unprocedural....Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa exposes Tabitha Khumalo's hypocrisy
MDC Alliance chairperson Ms Tabitha Khumalo's recent utterances that the troubles faced by her party in Bulawayo are rooted in tribalism are a reckless and divisive spin that should be condemned by al...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 07:36hrs | | by Editorial - Chronicle
Team redeployed to further probe BCC
GOVERNMENT has given a probe team that was investigating circumstances leading to the suspension of Bulawayo Town Clerk Mr Christopher Dube a new mandate to look into corruption allegations raised aga...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa visits turmoil-riddled MDC-Alliance Bulawayo province
MDC Alliance president, Mr Nelson Chamisa, visits Bulawayo this weekend amid turmoil in his party which faces rejection by Bulawayo residents over recent attempts by the party's councillors to suspend...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 08:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
AUDIO: Town clerk tried to warn Kambarami and his sidekick
BULAWAYO Town Clerk Mr Christopher Dube reportedly tried to warn the city's Deputy Mayor Councillor Tinashe Kambarami and his sidekick Councillor Silas Chigora, among others, against flouting procurem...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 09:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents call for dissolution of council
BULAWAYO residents have called upon Government to dissolve the Bulawayo City Council and appoint a commission to run the local authority saying they have lost faith in the councillors amid allegations...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 10:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Thuggery in Bulawayo council chambers must stop
THE story in Bulawayo in recent weeks has been the unending water shedding, as council works on its water infrastructure, but that story, which touches on people's lives and the socio-economic fabric ...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Youths savagely attack rogue Bulawayo councillor
BULAWAYO Ward 5 Councillor Felix Mhaka was yesterday savagely attacked by rogue youths while other councillors were held hostage at the City Hall as tempers flared over the aborted suspension of Town ...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Mayor dismisses convict Kambarami's actions as a non-event
BULAWAYO deputy Mayor, Tinashe Kambarami, and Ward 4 councillor Silas Chigora yesterday violently ejected Bulawayo City Council Town Clerk, Mr Christopher Dube, from his office after he refused to tak...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 08:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Barbarians at Bulawayo council gate, Bulawayo Town Clerk ejected from office
BULAWAYO deputy Mayor, Tinashe Kambarami, and Ward 4 councillor Silas Chigora yesterday violently ejected Bulawayo City Council Town Clerk, Mr Christopher Dube, from his office after he refused to tak...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 07:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's councillors plot against Bulawayo Town Clerk
MDC Alliance councillors have called for a special council meeting tomorrow as part of their plot to suspend Bulawayo Town Clerk Christopher Dube who has resisted their meddlesome conduct and overstep...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 17:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Free' car for outgoing MDC Alliance mayor
THE Bulawayo City Council recently mooted plans to have former mayor, Alderman Martin Moyo awarded one of the mayoral cars for free or a paltry $3 000, as part of his exit package, it has emerged....Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 12:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tinashe Kambarami lights up Bulawayo
The Deputy Mayor of Bulawayo Tinashe Kambarami has proved to be a councillor par excellence after being the first City father in the current council to do meaningful development to his ward. ...Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 04:01hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Kambarami never resigned as Bulawayo deputy mayor
BULAWAYO Mayor, Clr Solomon Mguni, has said there is no vacancy for the deputy mayor's post as the MDC yesterday insisted that Clr Tinashe Kambarami who was re-elected to the post on Monday must step ...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Council bank for Bulawayo
BULAWAYO has set sights at establishing the first Municipal Bank in the country as it seeks to attract more investors while unravelling new revenue streams for the local authority.The bank, wh...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 08:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Drunk Chamisa councillor cause a stir in Bulawayo
THE swearing in ceremony of Bulawayo City Councillors yesterday degenerated into chaos with activists aligned to the Mthwakazi Republic Party baying for the blood of one of the MDC Alliance councillor...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 08:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Councillors deny links with Gift Banda
AS the MDC Alliance continues to debate on who the next Bulawayo mayor and deputy will be, three of the councillors who have been linked to former Deputy Mayor, Gift Banda, have distanced themselves f...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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