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Gwanda mayoral polls deferred
ELECTIONS for Gwanda mayor were yesterday deferred to next week amid reports that rival groups from Zanu-PF and MDC Alliance had mutually agreed that they needed more time to campaign, Southern Eye re...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC Alliance in tricky Gwanda mayoral polls
THE Nelson Chamisa led MDC Alliance yesterday said it was confident of retaining the Gwanda mayoral seat although stakes favoured its rivals, Zanu-PF and MDC-T.The Gwanda mayoral polls will be...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Minister collapses after heavy defeat in Zanu-PF Primary Elections
Things fell apart when Minister of Provincial Affairs for Matabeleland South Abednico Ncube who lost the Gwanda South constituency ZANU PF primary elections went to a comma after receiving the terribl...Published: 02 May 2018 at 10:11hrs | 1 | by Mhlongo
Gwanda mayor praises Mnangagwa govt
GWANDA mayor, Councillor Knowledge Ndlovu, has hailed the new administration for observing people's rights saying this was critical to developing the country.Clr Ndlovu said this yesterday dur...Published: 07 Apr 2018 at 09:25hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Joshua Nkomo statues to be erected in all cities
STATUES for the late Father Zimbabwe and Vice-President Dr Joshua Nkomo will be erected in all the country's cities with Harare likely to be the next, an official has said.The statue has so fa...Published: 04 Feb 2018 at 08:33hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Gwanda open to investors
Gwanda Municipality has called on investors to take advantage of the local authority's business friendly policies to establish agro based and gold ore processing industries in the provincial capital....Published: 26 Nov 2017 at 16:46hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Prominent Gwanda businessman shot dead
A prominent Gwanda businessman and farmer Mr Tariro Maphosa has been killed while his wife is battling for life at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) after the couple was shot at during an armed robb...Published: 01 Aug 2017 at 11:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda community wants water treatment takeover
GWANDA council, residents' associations, civic groups and churches have said they will support the takeover of the water treatment plant from Zinwa when they meet a commission appointed to assess the ...Published: 20 Jun 2017 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwanda goes one month without water
GWANDA residents have gone for a month without water as the municipality and the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) tussle for control of the town's water treatment plant.Zinwa and coun...Published: 20 May 2017 at 12:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda gets $31 000 for roads rehabilitation
THE Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) has disbursed $31 000 to Gwanda Municipality for emergency infrastructure rehabilitation after rains destroyed most of the mining town's roads....Published: 29 Apr 2017 at 10:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zinwa refuses to reconnect Gwanda
The Zimbabwe National Water Authority ( ZINWA )says the water shortages currently faced in Gwanda are as a result of the failure by the local authority to pay for its water requirements following ...Published: 12 Apr 2017 at 11:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZINWA incite Gwanda residents to be violent-mayor
The Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA) has been accused by Gwanda mayor Councillor Knowledge Ndlovu of inciting residents to engage in violent demonstrations after cutting wat...Published: 06 Apr 2017 at 18:07hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Gwanda residents fight ZINWA water administration
Gwanda residents have vowed to fight to the bitter end for the eventual takeover of the administration of the town's water treatment plant by council from the Zimbabwe National Authority (ZINWA), sayi...Published: 09 Oct 2016 at 21:05hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Gwanda hospital faces closure
MATABELELAND South's biggest public health institution, Gwanda Provincial Hospital, on Friday discharged patients admitted for various ailments due to water shortage with indications that the hosp...Published: 09 Oct 2016 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-Prisons boss collapses, dies
FORMER Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services, Deputy Commissioner Rhodes Moyo collapsed and died on Thursday morning while he was jogging in Gwanda's Jacaranda suburb.He was 60 years old....Published: 10 Sep 2016 at 08:25hrs | 2 | by Richard Muponde
Matabeleland South MPs sleeping on duty
Following a number of issues raised to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Lands, Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development in Matabeleland South Province, indications are that there ...Published: 10 Aug 2016 at 21:20hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Gwanda plans new town
GWANDA municipality is embarking on an ambitious project to establish a new town with three suburbs and a Central Business District across the Mtshabezi River along the Gwanda-Maphisa road. Th...Published: 12 May 2016 at 07:48hrs | 1 | by Richard Muponde
Gwanda gets $300k for roads rehab
GWANDA Municipality has been allocated $300,000 by the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) for the rehabilitation of the town's roads. The money was released after the local authority ...Published: 02 May 2016 at 11:44hrs | | by Richard Muponde
Gwanda town installs traffic lights
GWANDA Town Council recently installed traffic lights for the first time in the town which was established 116 years ago.The town's roads were controlled by give way and stop signs since its e...Published: 27 Jan 2016 at 05:38hrs | | by Richard Muponde
Gwanda gospel music extravaganza confirmed
The two day gospel music extravaganza scheduled for Gwanda's Phelandaba stadium has officially been confirmed.At least seven award winning South African gospel music artists are expected t...Published: 29 Jul 2015 at 13:09hrs | | by Staff correspondent in Pretoria South Africa
Picture of Gwanda Mayor infuriates residents
Picture of Gwanda Town Mayor Councillor Knowledge Ndlovu recording a video of a shop burning has infuriated residents on social media.People find it very irresponsible that the mayor was rec...Published: 30 Jun 2015 at 15:27hrs | 3 | by Thobekile Zhou
'Mugabe insulting' trade unionist joins ZANU PF to save job
Urban Councils Workers Union Gwanda chairman Sipho Ndlovu has left his coworkers stunned after he joined ZANU PF in an unprecedented move to save his job at the council.Ndlovu has been on susp...Published: 16 May 2015 at 13:53hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Gwanda to relocate dumpsite
The Gwanda municipality refuse dumpsite is set to be relocated soon following the approval of the environmental impact assessment report of the place.The current refuse dumpsite which is c...Published: 20 Jan 2015 at 14:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwanda slashes workers' salaries
GWANDA Municipality has slashed salaries of its workers after adopting a new salary structure.The development is in line with the government's stipulated regulation that salaries should not ex...Published: 15 Jan 2015 at 10:26hrs | | by Marvelous Moyo
Gwanda Councillors in massive corruption scandal
Five ZANU PF councillors in Gwanda are reported to have involved themselves in a huge stands sale corruption scandal which saw them get huge kickbacks that earned them each new motor vehicles and...Published: 06 Nov 2014 at 17:11hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Council workers to confiscate council property over unpaid wages
Employees of the Municipality of Gwanda have agreed to lodge an urgent application with the courts to attach council moveable property over outstanding wages.According to the Urban Council...Published: 22 Jun 2014 at 16:35hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
When will Gwanda's water issues be solved??
The water administration wars between the Municipality of Gwanda and the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA) appear never ending.Gwanda has no steady water yet again with some areas ...Published: 20 Jun 2014 at 21:02hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Gwanda to install traffic lights along the Bulawayo - Beitbridge highway
GWANDA Town Council is planning to introduce traffic control signals to regulate the movement of vehicles in the mining town. There has been an increase in traffic in the Matabeleland South p...Published: 31 May 2014 at 21:08hrs | | by Marvelous Moyo
Gwanda comes out shining!
Gwanda Town is all smiles and aglow today following a successful three day conciliatory and unification workshop held in the town this week.The workshop organised by the Local Government C...Published: 05 Apr 2014 at 06:13hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Council in massive water disconnections
THE cash-strapped Gwanda Town Council has embarked on a massive water disconnection exercise on defaulters as it tries to recover thousands of dollars owed to it in unpaid bills. By December l...Published: 15 Mar 2014 at 12:58hrs | | by Marvelous Moyo
'No one tells me what to do' says defiant Councillor
A defiant Gwanda Municipal Councillor for ward 9 Thulani Moyo says that he does not need anyone to approve any "developmental" work he needs to do in the ward.Councillor Moyo was speaking ...Published: 10 Mar 2014 at 05:10hrs | | by Staff Reporter
When a hero dies... as Gwanda buries veteran educationist
The old Ndebele adage "umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu" meaning that a person is confirmed who he truly is by the people around him, was confirmed in rural Bengo Village of Gwanda South on Sunday morning...Published: 02 Mar 2014 at 19:48hrs | 53 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda Council admits to bungling on staff salaries
The newly elected Municipality of Gwanda Council has admitted to bungling on senior council members' obscene salaries released to press recently.Speaking at a Gwanda Agenda public indaba o...Published: 18 Feb 2014 at 12:00hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda Councillor defies council on road works
Controversial Gwanda Ward 8 councillor Thulani Moyo is reportedly carrying out road maintenance in his ward outside council "authority" and supervision.Reports coming from the town indicat...Published: 11 Feb 2014 at 13:13hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Residents up in arms over council salaries.
Residents of Gwanda woke up to "shocking" Monday morning news that the town clerk of the small town is earning a salary of $17 000 per month.In a news article flighted in the Southern Eye...Published: 10 Feb 2014 at 10:44hrs | 1 | by Moyo Roy
Gwanda Council torn apart
The ZANU PF dominated Municipality of Gwanda Council is on a serious collision course following strong divisions amongst the seven ZANU PF councillors in a council of ten.Reports coming fr...Published: 13 Jan 2014 at 10:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Gwanda Municipality to upgrade Pelandaba Stadium
The Municipality of Gwanda has promised Football Stakeholders in Gwanda that it will immediately prioritise upgrading of the town's only soccer stadium to meet ZIFA and FIFA standards.Spe...Published: 24 Nov 2013 at 08:27hrs | 1 | by Sports Reporter in Gwanda
Gwanda Councillors in embarrassing row over cheer fund donations
Municipality of Gwanda newly elected councillors on Friday night embarrassed them self in front of residents and stakeholders as they argued on how much off their December allowances they should d...Published: 16 Nov 2013 at 11:02hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
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