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7 Bulawayo church buildings face demolition
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has warned that it will demolish seven church structures built without council approval.Council by-laws stipulate that no construction should take place without...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:31hrs | 1136 | by Staff reporter
Journalistic tenets lost to 'hits' and the quest for followers
One of the greatest problems currently confronting journalists on the Zimbabwean media landscape is the emergence of social media, with the attendant proliferation of platforms populated by content pr...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 19:50hrs | 111 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Army evicts Umzingwane villagers
VILLAGERS settling close to the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) cantonment area in Umzingwane, Matabeleland South, face eviction as government moves in to deal with illegal settlements across the country...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 20:22hrs | 1552 | by Staff reporter
Old colonial houses, flats face demolition
AS the Second Republic moves to clear a 1,2 million housing waiting list backlog, colonial structures in the country's old suburbs will be pulled down to build back better facilities that are in tande...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 06:43hrs | 389 | by Staff reporter
Prices continue to skyrocket beyond reach of citizens ...as basic commodities now beyond reach of many
MDC Alliance MDC Alliance Youth Assembly National Spokesperson Stephen Sarkozy Chuma has said the basic commodities like bread, meat, sugar and cook...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 07:46hrs | 2435 | by Stephen Jakes
British spaceports under development
Two new British spaceports could be the catalyst to making Britain Europe's newest space superpower. If they can overcome planning challenges, the value to the UK's economy could be hard to measure....Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 20:37hrs | 408 | by Staff writer
Sikhala lays into 'village idiot'
OUTSPOKEN MDC Alliance deputy chairperson Job Sikhala has blasted Harare Provincial Development Coordinator (PDC) Tafadzwa Muguti over his reign of terror on Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), lab...Published: 17 Aug 2021 at 07:12hrs | 826 | by Staff reporter
Demolition of houses: Fixing the broken tape or mopping water from the broken tape?
The current events unfolding in the country are a clear indication that operation Murambatsvina was not an end in itself. Many houses continue to be demolished in a shocking and traumatizing way....Published: 09 Aug 2021 at 13:49hrs | 346 | by Joseph Mvero
BCC condemns 51 city buildings
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has condemned 51 city buildings, saying they posed a danger to inhabitants and passers-by.This was revealed in the latest BCC report of the engineering services com...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 08:02hrs | 571 | by Staff reporter
Vendors too broke to fund Zanu-PF
VENDORS have said that they cannot afford to fund Zanu-PF's 2023 election campaign as they were struggling to fend for their families due to an unstable economy and recurrent lockdowns.This wa...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 07:47hrs | 1195 | by Staff reporter
Council inspects houses and fines offenders
BULAWAYO City Council has been carrying out strict house inspections over time and this time slapping offenders with heavy duty penalties espe...Published: 01 Aug 2021 at 12:57hrs | 1759 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF targets farmers, vendors for election funds
THE ruling Zanu-PF party is targeting vendors, small-scale miners and farmers to raise US$140 million for its war kitty for the 2023 general elections, a party official said yesterday. Acting ...Published: 29 Jul 2021 at 07:28hrs | 808 | by Staff reporter
'Informal traders to blame for demolitions'
THE Harare City Council yesterday blamed informal traders over the demolitions carried out by council and police, accusing them of choosing to operate at undesignated areas.Council spokesperso...Published: 24 Jul 2021 at 07:21hrs | 231 | by Staff reporter
Chingoma ready for 2023 elections
The Zimbabwe Industrial and Technological Reform (ZITER) party president Daniel Chingoma has embarked on a 2023 presidential election campaign....Published: 05 Jul 2021 at 18:14hrs | 2435 | by Edward Tapfumaneyi and Simbarashe Sithole
Nakamba builds lavish castle in Bulawayo
ZIMBABWEAN midfield maestro Marvelous Nakamba is making the most of his career in the lucrative English Premier League after it emerged that he is constructing a multimillion dollar castle in Bulawayo...Published: 04 Jul 2021 at 14:41hrs | 11781 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF skeletons tumble
The government stopped the demolition of fancy houses at an alleged illegal settlement on the outskirts of Harare after it emerged that Zanu-PF bigwigs owned some of the housing stands.Several...Published: 04 Jul 2021 at 14:40hrs | 3813 | by Staff reporter
'There is a lot of hope than reality…': Richard Quest
ZANU PF's recklessness and corruption has dragged the Zimbabwean economy into the worst liquidity crunch. An economic catastrophe which can only be experienced in a war-torn country."There is ...Published: 04 Jul 2021 at 12:21hrs | 1047 | by Prince Njagu
'Zanu-PF must apologise for 2008 poll violence'
FORMER Masvingo Central legislator Jeffreyson Chitando (MDC Alliance) yesterday demanded an apology from Zanu-PF youths over June 27, 2008 violence in which hundreds of opposition supporters were kill...Published: 02 Jul 2021 at 19:25hrs | 158 | by Staff reporter
Demolitions should go ahead, says Zanu-PF
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday pivoted again, saying the ongoing demolitions of illegal structures by government should continue.Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu on Monday ...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 15:09hrs | 1594 | by Staff reporter
'Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo is never forgotten'
STATEMENT BY ASPIRING ZAPU PRESIDENT SIBANGILIZWE NKOMO ON THE OCCASION OF THE 22ND ANNIVERSARY OF THE PASSING ON OF FORMER VICE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZIMBABWE,...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 13:13hrs | 856 | by Sibangilizwe Nkomo
Zimbabwean is in great pain!
The report of today's Bulawayo24 is about two young men who beat a man of 72 years to death because he refused to share information about soccer results! Our citizen loses his life because of a trivia...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 13:06hrs | 1357 | by Nomazulu Thata
Minister under fire over demolitions
MDC-T legislator Peter Moyo (Southerton) yesterday called for the resignation of National Housing minister caused by Daniel Garwe accusing him of being responsible for the chaos caused by demolition o...Published: 30 Jun 2021 at 17:18hrs | 2142 | by Staff reporter
Demolitions continue despite restraint order
HARARE City Council yesterday continued with the demolition of informal business structures in Glen View highdensity suburb, a day after the ruling party Zanu-PF ordered a stop to the destruction of a...Published: 30 Jun 2021 at 17:03hrs | 306 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF in dramatic U-turn
UNDER-FIRE Zanu PF yesterday made a dramatic U-turn and ordered a stop to the demolition of all illegal structures in the country, including in Harare, Chitungwiza and Melfort in Mashonaland East prov...Published: 29 Jun 2021 at 13:32hrs | 6203 | by Staff Reporter
'ZACC has failed and must be reformed' demanded MDC-A - posturing, what reforms did GNU implement
"ZACC should be disbanded if it does not have the capacity and the political will to investigate the chronic corruption that is killing us, if it cannot act independently, of course this must be part ...Published: 24 Jun 2021 at 21:51hrs | 602 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Demolitions are an act of witchcraft and trully demonic
The streets of Harare and Chitungwiza flow with tears of citizens who watch helplessly as their lives are tossed in the dust. Their chicks distinct with the two lines of sorrow left behind as tears te...Published: 24 Jun 2021 at 14:12hrs | 1326 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chamisa wants ZACC to be disbanded
THE Nelson Chamisa-led opposition MDC Alliance party yesterday accused the Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo-led Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) of lacking independence to investigate "chronic" co...Published: 24 Jun 2021 at 11:05hrs | 1487 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa must learn to embrace democracy' - after 41 years, it's for us to learn to confound elephant in room
"An elephant in the room! means a very large issue that everyone is acutely aware of, but nobody wants to talk about. Perhaps a sore spot, perhaps politically incorrect, or perhaps a political ho...Published: 23 Jun 2021 at 17:46hrs | 1347 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mr President destroy corruption not people's livelihoods
The second republic led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa needs to be proactive than being reactive and employing knee jerk policies.This cold winter have seen the government giving a thump up t...Published: 22 Jun 2021 at 21:00hrs | 782 | by Leonard Koni
'Mbare demolitions is a call for people to converge' argue Chamisa - converge to think or to panic
"They don't even make an effort to create jobs and when people try to survive peacefully and patriotically, they go after them. It is cruel, heartless, irresponsible and incapable leadership. Central ...Published: 21 Jun 2021 at 17:57hrs | 2800 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chamisa says people must rescue themselves
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said the ongoing demolitions of illegal structures by government was a signal for the people of Zimbabwe to say enough is enough and converge to rescue the...Published: 21 Jun 2021 at 06:15hrs | 5211 | by Staff reporter
Chaos as demolitions rock Harare
POLICE yesterday barricaded roads leading into Harare's oldest and most populous suburb of Mbare to pave way for demolitions of informal business structures in an operation sanctioned by President Emm...Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 07:26hrs | 1692 | by Staff reporter
MPs call govt to order
LEGISLATORS from across the political divide yesterday teamed up in condemning the government sanctioned demolitions, describing them as an open war against citizens, particularly informal traders....Published: 17 Jun 2021 at 06:12hrs | 1246 | by Staff reporter
Chitrest director arrested
CHITUNGWIZA Residents Trust (Chitrest) director Alice Kuvheya was yesterday arrested and detained at St Mary's Police Station for allegedly expressing reservations over the ongoing demolition of illeg...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 06:22hrs | 2500 | by Staff reporter
MDC factions have bungled in running Harare
The MDC Alliance (MDC-A) faction leader, Nelson Chamisa, uses every opportunity he gets to pontificate about smart cities each time he has to talk of Zimbabwe's urban areas.Given the fact that...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:17hrs | 433 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Demolitions: Council gives cops big treat
Police officers conducting a demolition exercise in Chitungwiza were feted with takeaway food by council at a time service delivery has plunged to unprecedented levels in the town.This publica...Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 07:22hrs | 746 | by Staff reporter
'Demolitions will cause academic genocide'
Teachers of unions yesterday decried demolition of houses and vending structures built on illegal sites, saying the move would severely affect children of the affected families and cause "academic gen...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 07:32hrs | 535 | by Staff reporter
Trade unions castigate MDC led council demolitions
TRADE unions yesterday blasted the move by Harare and Chitungwiza councils to demolish structures used by informal traders to sell their wares, saying it was going to severely affect their livelihoods...Published: 09 Jun 2021 at 07:22hrs | 1178 | by Staff reporter
MDC led Harare, Chitungwiza kick-start demolitions
HUNDREDS of informal traders in Harare and Chitungwiza were yesterday left without livelihoods after their councils joined forces with the police to demolish "illegal" vending structures across the ca...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:46hrs | 1182 | by Staff reporter
Harare, Chitungwiza demolish illegal structures
In an exercise meant to bring sanity to Harare Metropolitan Province, local authorities today started demolishing all illegal structures in Harare, Chitungwiza and Epworth.On Friday last week,...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:34hrs | 243 | by Staff reporter
Murambatsvina is back at MDC led councils
Hundreds of informal traders who had built shacks and shelters on road verges and the sides of the roads in Harare Metropolitan province had their structures demolished yesterday after they failed to ...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:28hrs | 351 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, Gweru residents clash over vending space
THE ruling Zanu-PF is headed for a showdown with Gweru residents who are accusing the party of bypassing city council procedure in the allocation of vending space to accommodate its members ahead of i...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 18:58hrs | 561 | by Staff reporter
Chitungwiza demolitions war escalates
Chitungwiza Residents' trust has filed an urgent high Court chamber application seeking to bar the government and local authorities in Harare Metropolitan Province from demolishing "illegal" informal ...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 10:04hrs | 370 | by Staff reporter
Residents fume over looming demolitions
CHITUNGWIZA residents yesterday reacted angrily to a warning by council that it would destroy structures owned by people conducting business "illegally".Acting town clerk Evangelista Machona y...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 07:10hrs | 618 | by Staff reporter
Angry citizens to destroy Nehanda statue: Prophecy
POPULAR Prophet Blessing Chiza has once again courted controversy, and the ire of the government, after his weekend's prophecy predicting the newly-erected Mbuya Nehanda statue faces demolition by res...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 07:06hrs | 4214 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt bans blair toilets
Government has launched a massive nationwide programme to replace pit latrine and blair toilets with flushable ones suitable in line with vision 2030, with rural schools and clinics currently being up...Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 18:44hrs | 1015 | by Staff reporter
Land developer fights Mnangagwa's graft buster
PROPERTY developers, Pokugara have accused officials from the National Prosecuting Authority and Special Anti-Corruption Unit (Sacu) housed in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's office of interfering with...Published: 03 May 2021 at 06:26hrs | 894 | by Staff reporter
Stakes high ahead of Zimbabwe, SA clash
THE Zimbabwe, South Africa World Cup qualifying clash set for June 5 at the National Sports Stadium is still a month-and-a-half away, but it is already dominating discussion among football enthusiasts...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 06:31hrs | 1114 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF has dismembered MDC A, will not need to rig to win 2023' - only counter, demand reforms before 2023
Dear Tony Reeler,Thank you very much for your thought-provoking article 'Zanu PF won't concede electoral defeat' in New Zimbabwe and Bulawayo24. The root cause of Zimbabwe economic meltdown an...Published: 10 Apr 2021 at 06:44hrs | 1831 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Zanu-PF won't concede electoral defeat'
Zanu-PF will not concede to any electoral defeat as it fears being held to account for widespread human rights violations it is accused of committing over the past four decades.The claim was m...Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 08:51hrs | 2044 | by Staff reporter
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