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Bulawayo car dealer faces additional car theft charges
Bulawayo socialite and car dealer Brighton Chipunza has been hit with fresh charges in connection with a high-profile car theft case involving a Toyota Hilux GD6 owned by prominent businessman and for...Published: 10 Dec 2024 at 06:42hrs | 723 | by Staff reporter
'Zifa machinations' - Gift Banda arrested for 'corruption'
FORMER Bulawayo Deputy Mayor Gift Banda has been arrested for allegedly abusing his position through unprocedurally processing a lease agreement in respect of a piece of land under the name of an unre...Published: 14 Dec 2018 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kambarami has ordered his fellow councillors to publicly declare their assets
BULAWAYO deputy mayor Tinashe Kambarami has ordered his fellow councillors to publicly declare their assets in the spirit of promoting transparency and accountability.The decision comes after ...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo councillors petitioned to declare their assets
THE Bulawayo Progressive Residents' Association (BPRA) has petitioned incoming councillors to declare their assets to prevent unbridled corruption as witnessed in the previous council.Former L...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Protest vote yields mediocrity in Bulawayo
SAD chaotic scenes characterised the swearing in of Bulawayo city councillors last Friday with irate residents meting out instant justice on a councillor whose behaviour they deemed unacceptable. ...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 06:16hrs | | by Editorial - chronicle
Bulawayo ratepayers table demands
BULAWAYO residents have listed a cocktail of demands they want the incoming councillors to address, chief among them uprooting debilitating corruption and addressing double allocation of stands....Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Makokoba MP in trouble over misuse of funds
MDC Alliance Makokoba constituency MP-elect James Sithole has been reported to the police for allegedly embezzling thousands of dollars belonging to a local burial society in which he was the chairper...Published: 26 Aug 2018 at 07:03hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Search for Bulawayo mayor intensifies
As the search for a new mayor for Bulawayo intensifies, stakeholders in the second largest city have shared their expectations on the qualities they are looking into.Since year 2000, the city ...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tribal tensions rise as Chamisa picks new Bulawayo mayor
TRIBAL tensions have erupted in the MDC Alliance amid reports that the coalition leader Mr Nelson Chamisa wants to impose candidates to be appointed as Bulawayo Mayor and Deputy Mayor.Bulawayo...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 13:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tribal 'war' stalks MDC Alliance
TRIBAL tensions have erupted in the MDC Alliance amid reports that the coalition leader Mr Nelson Chamisa wants to impose candidates to be appointed as Bulawayo Mayor and Deputy Mayor.Bulawayo...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chammisa violence timeline - February to present
February 20, 2018: At the burial of Tsvangirai, in Buhera, rowdy MDC-T youths harass party co-vice president Dr Thokozani Khupe and secretary general Mr Douglas Mwonzora before trying to torch the gra...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Khupe tormentors sentenced to 12-months jail
TWO Bulawayo-based MDC Alliance aspiring councillors and their accomplice were yesterday sentenced to a 12-month jail term each for assaulting breakaway MDC-T faction leader, Thokozani Khupe and her s...Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 09:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Warrant of arrest for MDC Alliance candidate
MDC Alliance aspiring legislator for Bulawayo South, Kunashe Muchemwa, has been issued with a warrant of arrest after failing to turn up in court for sentencing following his conviction over public vi...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 08:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC-dominated councils: manifest of self-enrichment
The MDC Alliance, which represents a grouping of the main opposition set to participate in the July 30 elections, presented its manifesto to the electorate early last month in a bid to market itself....Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 06:51hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
MDC-T infighting results in candidates deadlock
INFIGHTING in the Mr Nelson Chamisa-led MDC-T has resulted in the party failing to finalise its list of candidates who will represent it in Matabeleland in the forthcoming general elections.Th...Published: 12 May 2018 at 13:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Khupe allies in court for violence
MDC-T national organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe and two other members of a faction aligned to the party's co-deputy president Dr Thokozani Khupe appeared in court yesterday in connection with the ...Published: 24 Mar 2018 at 10:12hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Khupe takes over MDC-T Bulawayo offices
MDC-T Bulawayo provincial chairperson and deputy mayor Gift Banda has dragged party deputy president, Thokozani Khupe, to court for allegedly grabbing the opposition party's provincial offices....Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 06:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T councils corrupt, admits Chamisa
MDC-T leader Mr Nelson Chamisa has admitted that corruption is rife in MDC-T led councils saying that he wants the aspiring candidates to have impeccable integrity and not to engage in graft. Addressi...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo province backs Chamisa
MDC-T Bulawayo province has thrown its weight behind Advocate Nelson Chamisa who is locked in a bitter power struggle with one of the party's deputies, Dr Thokozani Khupe, for the opposition party's p...Published: 10 Mar 2018 at 09:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gift Banda appears in court for violence
TWELVE people, including Bulawayo deputy Mayor Gift Banda and another councillor, Mlandu Ncube appeared in court yesterday in connection with the violence that rocked the MDC-T Bulawayo province on Su...Published: 08 Mar 2018 at 05:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo town clerk dares police
Bulawayo town clerk Christopher Dube - who has been caught up in a corruption storm - yesterday dared police to arrest him, arguing he is clean.Dube said corruption charges laid against him on...Published: 14 Feb 2018 at 11:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Residents group threatens Moyo with legal action
The Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (Bupra) has petitioned Local government minister July Moyo, demanding that action be taken against town clerk Christopher Dube, director of engineering S...Published: 07 Feb 2018 at 12:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporetr
$60m Egodini facelift begins next month
South African civil engineering firm, Terracotta, is set to move on site next month as the rehabilitation of Basch Street Terminus commonly known as Egodini begins.Last year, Terracotta won th...Published: 10 Jan 2018 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere ordered to reinstate Bulawayo Deputy Mayor Gift Banda
THE High Court yesterday ordered Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Minister Saviour Kasukuwere to reinstate former Bulawayo deputy mayor Mr Gift Banda saying the decision to fire him...Published: 25 Aug 2017 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mphoko's externalisation case drags on
A CASE in which former operations manager at Bulk Cash and Carry Wholesalers implicated Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko in the externalisation of millions of dollars involving Pakistan businessman I...Published: 16 Aug 2017 at 14:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fired Bulawayo councillor fights back
FORMER Councillor for Ward 21 in Bulawayo who was fired following recommendations by an independent tribunal, has taken the Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Savi...Published: 25 Apr 2017 at 06:42hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo solar street lights tender cancelled over irregularities
THE State Procurement Board (SPB) has cancelled the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) tender for solar street lights after receiving a complaint from one of the interested parties.The Town C...Published: 17 Apr 2017 at 11:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai in deep trouble
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai is in deep trouble over former Bulawayo deputy mayor Gift Banda who has reportedly been added to the list of contenders to replace the late MDC-T senator Victor Map...Published: 23 Mar 2017 at 03:37hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo mayor defends $118,000 Mercedes Benz
Daily News reporter Jeffrey Muvundusi sits down with mayor Martin Moyo. Below are excerpts of the interview.Q: Honourable mayor, how best can you describe your tenure from the time you took ov...Published: 13 Mar 2017 at 07:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Gift Banda declines Tsvangirai offer
DISMISSED Bulawayo MDC-T deputy mayor Gift Banda (pictured) has reportedly declined an offer by party leader Morgan Tsvangirai to take up the position of Bulawayo Senator to fill the void left fol...Published: 13 Mar 2017 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gift Banda expulsion takes dramatic twist
THE Bulawayo Progressive Residents' Association has written to the Bulawayo City Council challenging the purported evidence the former city Deputy Mayor Mr Gift Banda used to exonerate himself fro...Published: 12 Mar 2017 at 16:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai to handpick his Bulawayo Senator
MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai, poised to pick a new Senator for Bulawayo Metropolitan province, has been in talks with key officials in the second city and promised to unveil his nominee soon, w...Published: 05 Mar 2017 at 12:54hrs | | by staff reporter
I am getting better wth age, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I don't know how to thank you for honouring me in such a disarming way as you continue to do… the latest being the unforgettable birthday present ...Published: 02 Mar 2017 at 05:48hrs | | by CZ
Gift Banda tipped for Senatorial seat
Senior MDC-T Bulawayo provincial officials have hit top gear in jostling to land the vacant senatorial and MDC-T national executive seat.Officials are keen to replace the late Victor Mapungwan...Published: 28 Feb 2017 at 12:37hrs | | by Alice Dube
Tsvangirai 'marks' MDC-T MPs' performance
The 70 MDC parliamentarians, both in the National Assembly and Senate, as well as councillors and mayors, will tomorrow come under the spotlight as party leader Morgan Tsvangirai evaluates their p...Published: 13 Dec 2016 at 12:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC dismisses corruption charges against councillors
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has told Government that its councillors, including deputy mayor Gift Banda were clean, dismissing allegations that they flouted tender procedures and illegally acq...Published: 12 Dec 2016 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T councillor jailed for swindling housing co-ops
FORMER Masvingo Urban MDC-T councillor Misheck Gapare has been slapped with an effective two years in jail for swindling two housing cooperatives of 50 residential stands worth about $200 000....Published: 10 Oct 2016 at 08:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gift Banda laugh off Zanu PF protests
Suspended Bulawayo deputy mayor Gift Banda has declared he is unmoved by Zanu PF youths who demonstrated at his controversial property at Ascot Race Course on Monday.A handful of youths wa...Published: 05 Oct 2016 at 14:36hrs | 1 | by Thobekile Zhou
Zanu-PF youths stage demo against Gift Banda
ZANU-PF youths in Bulawayo yesterday demonstrated against the city's suspended deputy mayor Gift Banda for continuing with construction work on ill-gotten land in Ascot.Councillor Banda an...Published: 04 Oct 2016 at 07:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Councillors owe BCC over $600K
Bulawayo City Council councilors all MDC-T members owe the municipality a whooping $662 299.78 for inappropriate land deals, a probe report reveals.Last week, Local government minister Saviour...Published: 26 Sep 2016 at 08:54hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
'Lafa elihle – the Death of a once Thriving City' - Professor Welshman Ncube
In Bulawayo, this week began with a severe out of season windy and cold Monday replete with dark, none rain bearing clouds reminiscent of the misery of cold dreary winter days. I was reminded of Charl...Published: 24 Sep 2016 at 16:29hrs | 5 | by Professor Welshman Ncube
Zapu happy with suspension of 'corrupt' MDC-T councillors
ZAPU has hailed the suspension of five Bulawayo MDC-T councillors, including deputy mayor Gift Banda, for alleged corruption, saying the move was long overdue.The councillors were suspende...Published: 23 Sep 2016 at 08:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere strikes: BCC deputy mayor, four councillors suspended
Bulawayo Deputy Mayor Gift Banda and four other councilors have been suspended with immediate effect, Bulawayo24.com has been told.The councilors are accused of engaging in a string of dodgy l...Published: 20 Sep 2016 at 11:47hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
The rise and fall of Thokozani Khupe
ONE of MDC-T's three vice presidents, Ms Thokozani Khupe, at the weekend led a handful of women on the streets of Bulawayo beating pots in a self-serving campaign that served nothing but to mark her p...Published: 19 Jul 2016 at 06:26hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
BCC backs Zhou for Town Clerk
THE Bulawayo City Council has recommended the appointment of Sikhangele Zhou as the city's substantive Town Clerk. Councillors resolved to recommend the appointment of Zhou during a special meeting he...Published: 03 Jun 2016 at 06:32hrs | 2 | by Nqobile Tshili
A tale of two marches
THE main opposition Movement for Democratic Change party is holding its much awaited demonstration in Bulawayo today. But who is noticing?The only game in town seems to be the highly subscribe...Published: 28 May 2016 at 08:50hrs | | by Staff writer
BCC dep mayor in deep trouble, 'begs' Kasukuwere for mercy
Bulawayo Deputy mayor Gift Banda, who stand accused of being a land baron in the city is allegedly begging Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere for 'leniency'.Banda, a MDC-T Bulawayo p...Published: 19 May 2016 at 10:25hrs | | by Mbuso Nxumalo
MDC-T's Mapungwana replaces Hlalo
MDC-T's Victor Mapungwana has been sworn in as a replacement for Matson Hlalo as a senator for Bulawayo.Mapungwana was sworn in on Wednesday last week.The Acting Senate President Charl...Published: 09 May 2016 at 06:35hrs | 4 | by Nqobile Tshili
Political squabbling stalls $60 million Egodini project
THE $60 million Egodini terminus upgrade project hangs in the balance amid allegations the ruling Zanu-PF party has hijacked it for political reasons.Last year, Bulawayo City Council (BCC) awa...Published: 08 May 2016 at 11:04hrs | 2 | 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
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