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Bulawayo residents told to stop digging wells
Cowdray Park Councillor Ntandoyenkosi Ndlovu has warned residents against digging wells in their yards due to significant health risks. This advisory comes amid acute water shortages in the city, whic...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 08:38hrs | 3411 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo sets tone for Chamisa's strategic ambiguity
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) continues to feel the effects of the "strategic ambiguity" with some of its members in Bulawayo plotting weekly demonstrations at the party's offices, a move th...Published: 23 Jul 2023 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Health time bomb ticks in Mthuli Ncube's Cowdray Park
RESIDENTS of Cowdray Park in Bulawayo are living in fear of a possible outbreak of waterborne diseases following the drilling of boreholes in wards 6 and 15 that predominantly use Blair toilets....Published: 25 May 2023 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Living the Mthuli Dream in Cowdray Park
MISS Nobuhle Nyathi has lived in Bulawayo's Cowdray Park for the entirety of her life and has always longed for meaningful development as some parts of the suburb resembled rural areas.Today, ...Published: 23 May 2023 at 06:39hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
9 000 Cowdray Park houses use banned blair toilets
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is working on modalities to ensure that all houses in Cowdray Park are connected to the sewer reticulation system.The development comes after the Government imp...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 11:00hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Cowdray Park population bigger than Gwanda, Hwange
WHILE it is a common joke in Bulawayo that Cowdray Park exists as a separate entity from the rest of Bulawayo, this may in the near future become a reality as police stations, malls, hospitals, clinic...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
300 industries for Cowdray Park
BULAWAYO is establishing industries in Cowdray Park suburb and nearly 300 industrial stands are set for development in the city's most populous suburb.According to the 2022 Population Census p...Published: 09 Sep 2022 at 06:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Shangani dam a fulfilment of Dr Nkomo's dream
"NKOMO made Freeman" was the bold headline in the Chronicle edition of Friday 28 February 1992, with the accompanying sub-heading; "Vice President tasked to make the Zambezi project a success."...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Nightshifts at Lake Gwayi Shangani
CONTRACTORS at Lake Gwayi Shangani are now working night shifts to ensure the construction of the dam wall is completed next month.Construction work at the Lake Gwayi Shangani dam wall and ear...Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cowdray Park residents cry foul over road project
COWDRAY Park residents have appealed to the Bulawayo City Council to prioritise the completion of the road linking the suburb and Hlalani Kuhle residential stands, as the rainy season is fast approach...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ngozi Mine smoke chokes Bulawayo suburb
THICK plumes of smoke billowing from a sprawling Bulawayo City Council (BCC) landfill site popularly known as Ngozi Mine in Richmond suburb are a daily sight. The hazardous smoke is now encroa...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 05:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
New school to open in Zanu-PF held constituency in Bulawayo
VULINDLELA Primary School in Cowdray Park suburb is set to open next term with 650 learners already enrolled at the school.The school which is being constructed by the Bulawayo City Council (B...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 15:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
$3 million availed for Cowdray Park road and bridge construction
THE Government has availed $3 million for the construction of a road and bridge linking Cowdray Park Hlalani Kuhle residential stands and the main road in the suburb to address the problem of inaccess...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe EFF CIC's profile
1) Who is Innocent Ndibali?Innocent Ndibali is proud Zimbabwean, a Commander-In-Chief of Economic Freedom Fighters (Zimbabwe Chapter: EFF-Zim), business man in both Zimbabwe ...Published: 24 May 2019 at 08:06hrs | 2 | by Zim EFF
WATCH: Mwonzora nails Khumalo, Biti on elections corruption
Embattled MDC Secretary General Douglas Mwonzora has cleared his name over allegations that he signed for an unofficial candidate to contest in the Cowdray Park Council by-election that the party lost...Published: 15 May 2019 at 08:40hrs | 9 | by Ndou Paul
Mwonzora clears his name
Embattled MDC Secretary General Douglas Mwonzora has cleared his name over allegations that he signed for an unofficial candidate to contest in the Cowdray Park Council by-election that the party lost...Published: 14 May 2019 at 18:28hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Poll defeat deepens MDC-Alliance divisions
DIVISIONS have deepened within the MDC Alliance after the party lost to Zanu-PF in the Cowdray Park council by-election in Bulawayo over the weekend amid fears of a witch-hunt as the opposition party'...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa 'regrets' MDC by-election defeat to Zanu-PF
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has vowed to stamp his foot and deal with simmering disharmony in the main opposition in the wake of embarrassing defeat to Zanu-PF in a weekend by-election held in stronghol...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 07:57hrs | | by newzimbabwe
MDC A lost by-election because it 'failed to rekindle 1999 ideology' - as alien to MDC as a wing is to a pig
The MDC Alliance's sheer incompetence is breath-taking; they cannot even admit that the rigged Cowdray Park Council by-elections were rigged!"As flawed as our electoral system is this loss can...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 15:02hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Police disrupts MDC Alliance primaries
FORMER Cowdray Park councillor Collet Ndlovu on Thursday won the MDC Alliance primary election to stand as its candidate in the by elections for ward 28.The primary election was held at the pa...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 00:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
More shutdown heroes emerge
WHILE most businesses in Bulawayo's western suburbs were destroyed by hooligans under the guise of protests, citizens will give credit to some business people who like a group of brave vendors and tou...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cowdray Park after goblins
TWO weeks ago, residents from Cowdray Park in Bulawayo, who had been haunted by an alleged goblin named Maqobola, heaved a sigh of relief after it was exorcised by self-styled prophets.Despite...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 09:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Rapist goblins
A PESKY goblin called Mike Maqobola is allegedly leading invisible beings to terrorise Cowdray Park residents, assaulting, sodomising and sleeping with women.Sources from the suburb said they ...Published: 30 May 2018 at 08:28hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo councillors in anti-town clerk protest
BULAWAYO councillors have gone on strike alleging sabotage by town clerk, Mr Christopher Dube and his pool of directors, after they failed to implement resolutions passed during full council meetings....Published: 08 Jan 2018 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Form 6 pupil drives into vending stalls kills 11-yr-old
AN 11-YEAR-OLD boy died while two other people were injured after an Upper Six pupil lost control of a vehicle he was driving and rammed into a shop and some vending stalls in Bulawayo's Cowdray Park ...Published: 30 Oct 2017 at 04:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Councillor in night club scam
COWDRAY park councillor, Collet Ndhlovu was has been given the consent by the local authority to turn a sports bar into a night club despite owing the Bulawayo City Council more than $6 000 and the pr...Published: 28 May 2017 at 09:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cowdry Park Councillor is useless
I write to register my dismay to the Bulawayo City authorities especially the Cowdray Park Councillor. The dusty road that leads to a population of about 40 000 people living in the biggest suburb...Published: 17 Jan 2017 at 11:38hrs | | by Abed Dube
Corrupt Bulawayo councillors continue land grab
BULAWAYO councillors have reportedly continued with their alleged land and property grab in the city, with some allocating themselves unsubstantiated lease agreements despite the Government warnin...Published: 13 Jun 2016 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC councillors under probe over dodgy 'land deals'
THE government has deployed a commission of inquiry to investigate corruption allegations against some Bulawayo councillors accused of land grabbing.The permanent secretary in the Ministry of ...Published: 07 May 2016 at 20:15hrs | 1 | by Nqobile Tshili
Tendai Biti lose 200 supported to Tsvangirai
NEARLY 200 MDC-T supporters in Cowdray Park and Luveve suburbs who defected to Tendai Biti's MDC Renewal party before deciding to re-join the main opposition party are finding it difficult to be accom...Published: 08 Feb 2016 at 05:46hrs | | by Thandeka Moyo
BCC bows down to pressure on prepaid meters
THE Bulawayo City Council has bowed to pressure from residents in Cowdray Park's Garikayi/Hlalani Kuhle areas who have been demonstrating against the installation of pre-paid water meters. Civ...Published: 08 Dec 2015 at 04:15hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
Why Collet Ndlovu lost to Amen Mpofu in Bulawayo
BULAWAYO - It is not shocking and not newsworthy that Collet Ndlovu the Cowdray Park rebel councilor lost to Amen Mpofu the Bulawayo Central councilor and the total number of their votes is less than ...Published: 04 Feb 2015 at 14:11hrs | 1 | by Polite Musarurwa, MDC-T
Bulawayo to go ahead with prepaid water meter installations
BULAWAYO City Council is going ahead with the installation of prepaid water meters despite resistance from some residents and civil organisations.Last year, scores of residents, led by civ...Published: 30 Jan 2015 at 09:44hrs | | by Loveness Bepete
Former mayor, deputy eye MDC-Renewal chairmanship
FIVE MDC-Renewal Bulawayo provincial members including former city mayor Thaba Moyo and his then deputy Amen Mpofu have reportedly shown keen interest in succeeding Kucaca Phulu as chairman.Ph...Published: 14 Jan 2015 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cowdray Park residents buy own kombis
THE NEWLY formed Cowdray Park Taxis Association (CPTA) on Saturday unveiled its first commuter omnibuses aimed at easing transport woes in the high-density suburb.CPTA was formed in March thi...Published: 02 Jun 2014 at 07:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T factionalism, assassination claims emerge
A FORMER opposition MDC-T official in Bulawayo who was expelled from the party for contesting in last year's elections as an independent has allegedly dragged party officials, including a councillor, ...Published: 24 Jan 2014 at 07:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF heavyweights to stand in Matabeleland
ZANU-PF politburo member Dr Sikhanyiso Ndlovu set the tone yesterday for what is expected to be a bitter fight against MDC-T for the council and parliamentary seats in Matabeleland region when he said...Published: 16 Jun 2013 at 10:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Suspected satanists assaulted for scattering sweets at school gate
THERE was pandemonium in Cowdray Park suburb, Bulawayo, on Friday when residents assaulted two men suspected to be satanists after catching them scattering sweets at Tategulu Primary School.Th...Published: 30 Jan 2013 at 05:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Council needs $46m for Hlalani Kuhle
BULAWAYO City Council requires $46 million to complete the servicing of the Hlalani Kuhle housing scheme in Cowdray Park, where close to 12 000 housing Units have been built in the past few years....Published: 06 Nov 2012 at 05:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
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