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Bulawayo to spend US$10 000 per month to keep tower lights on
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is facing a monthly expense of approximately US$10,000 to purchase electricity tokens for tower lights in the city, following their transition to a prepaid system by th...Published: 23 Jun 2024 at 10:33hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Silalatshani irrigation secures a partner
Production at the Silalatshani Irrigation Scheme in Insiza, Matabeleland South province, is set to resume after farmers secured a partner to support their agricultural activities.The unnamed p...Published: 03 Jun 2024 at 08:10hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zesa disconnects Bulawayo tower lights
The power utility Zesa has deactivated the Bulawayo tower lights from postpaid metering as part of its transition to a prepaid model. Concerns arise among residents fearing potential blackouts in many...Published: 28 May 2024 at 09:44hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Residents risk losing properties over unpaid bills
The Bulawayo City Council has warned that thousands of residents may lose their properties if they default on paying their bills.Over 2,000 households have already had their water supplies dis...Published: 21 May 2024 at 08:17hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ZETDC in countrywide electricity disconnections
THE Zimbabwe Electricity and Distribution Company (ZETDC) has advised customers countrywide to pay outstanding bills or risk disconnection.In a statement, ZETDC said clients who get disconnect...Published: 18 Feb 2024 at 09:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda mayor advises residents on council's door-to-door rates collections
Gwanda mayor Thulani Moyo has advised residents that council workers will start door-to-door collection of taxes as the local authority is still working on the upgrading of the payment systems....Published: 03 Jan 2024 at 12:24hrs | 7 | by Stephen Jakes
Zinwa disconnects supplies to irrigation scheme, demands US$300 each from rural folk
The maize crop at Silalatshani Irrigation Scheme in Insiza South, Matebeleland South province, is wilting before maturity after the Zimbabwe National Water Authority disconnected water supplies due to...Published: 05 Dec 2023 at 20:40hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
BCC intensifies water disconnections
THE Bulawayo City Council will this month intensify its water disconnection drive as it tries to recover over $200 billion which it is owed in property taxes and service fees by consumers as at the en...Published: 04 Oct 2023 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Makhadzi trades shots with Zimbabwean artist Winky D over botched UK gig
A spat has emerged between South African musician Makhadzi and Zimbabwean artist Winky D after Makhadzi publicly criticised the Africa Music Festival UK for perceived sabotage during her performance....Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 10:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Plumtree gives residents water meter ultimatum
PLUMTREE Town Council has given pre-paid water users in the border town three weeks to revert to post-paid meters after some residents went for three years without paying for water.A number of...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Water cuts a threat to Bulawayo fire services'
COUNCILLORS in Bulawayo fear that the ongoing water-rationing programme being implemented by the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) could serious affect firefighting services and lead to loss of properties i...Published: 15 Aug 2022 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa seeks to recover ZW$30bn in unpaid bills
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) Holdings has intensified a nationwide blitz aimed at disconnecting power supplies to defaulting customers who owe more than ZW$30 billion.The d...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 08:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Gweru charges bills in USD
GWERU City Council (GCC) has with immediate effect, begun to charge rentals and bills in United States dollars.The bills will be payable at the prevailing interbank rate.Ratepayers owe...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZESA embarks on massive disconnections
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) has embarked on a massive nationwide electricity disconnection exercise as part of their credit control mechanism.In a public notice the power ...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'No payment, no electricity'
The Government has directed Zesa Holdings to immediately institute measures to recover $15 billion it is owed by its clients in unpaid electricity bills.Under the directive only paying custome...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 05:53hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Redcliff water crisis need to be thoroughly investigated and lasting solution found
Whenever I hear borehole drilling machines roaring and groaning away in my neighbourhood of Redcliff, I always think to myself, "Here goes the sound of failure".Certainly, not failure on the p...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 20:38hrs | 7 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Gweru defaulters face water cuts
Gweru City Council will from Monday start the process of disconnecting water to defaulting ratepayers.In a statement yesterday, the local authority said it could only offer adequate services i...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:45hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zesa disconnects Kariba over $39m debt
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC), a subsidiary of Zesa Holdings, has notified the Kariba Municipality of its intention to disconnect power from the local authorit...Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 05:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge, Gwanda owe big chunk to Zinwa
BEITBRIDGE and Gwanda, combined, have the highest debt of $407 million out of the total $507 million owed by all the country's 92 municipalities in the country to the Zimbabwe National Water Authority...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 09:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Masuka squeals over Cabinet ministers' snub, orders Zinwa to disconnect their departments
LANDS and Agriculture minister Anxious Masuka has okayed the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) water cuts to government departments failing to pay for water timely to clear the $2,4 billion wa...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge residents rap Zinwa over water cuts
BEITBRIDGE residents were yesterday up in arms with the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) and the Lands and Agriculture ministry for failing to supply water to one of the country's busiest por...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 07:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
NRZ, Zesa feud escalates
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has denied ownership of Hwange properties whose power supplies were recently cut off by the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) o...Published: 05 Jun 2021 at 09:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa disconnects NRZ properties over debt
NATIONAL Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) properties in Hwange had power disconnected yesterday by the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) over an undisclosed amount owed by t...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC take residents head on over $1,1 billion debt
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has threatened to take residents to court to recover the over $1,1 billion owed by ratepayers.During a recent virtual meeting, Bulawayo town clerk Christopher D...Published: 23 May 2021 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents to lose houses
Bulawayo City Council is on a collision course with residents after Town Clerk Mr Christopher Dube said the local authority will take drastic action that could see ratepayers losing their homes over u...Published: 20 May 2021 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zinwa cuts off government departments over unpaid bills
THE Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) has disconnected water supplies to several government departments, local authorities and growth points as it seeks to recover ZW$2.1 billion in unpaid bil...Published: 03 May 2021 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Health hazard as council cuts water supplies at schools
PUPILS and teachers at a number of government schools in Bulawayo have been left exposed to communicable diseases after the city council cut water supplies due to failure by the State to settle a $12 ...Published: 26 Apr 2021 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Affluent suburb residents not paying bills
BUSINESS and residents living in affluent suburbs like Burnside and Hillside are among those who have accumulated the highest unpaid bills to the Bulawayo City Council. The city is owed more t...Published: 18 Mar 2021 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC disconnects govt departments
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is disconnecting water supplies to government departments over outstanding bills running into several millions of dollars.Recently, the local authority switched off...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, Mutsvangwa farms switched off
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC), a subsidiary of Zesa Holdings, last week disconnected power supplies to farms belonging to former president Robert Mugabe and In...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Recalling Kambarami a good move
Now that he is gone, Bulawayo residents must make sure that they pay there rates, as he was campaigning that people should not pay water bills. He was against water disconnections. ...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 18:49hrs | | by Nothisa Dube
Town Clerk says water disconnections legit
BULAWAYO Deputy Mayor, Councillor Tinashe Kambarami, has once again clashed with the Town Clerk Mr Christopher Dube after announcing over the weekend that council should not cut water supplies to defa...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC to disconnect defaulters
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has threatened to disconnect water supplies to residents and stakeholders who are defaulting on rates and service charges.In a notice, city council advised stakehol...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kambarami frustrates Town Clerk again
BULAWAYO City councillors will this week engage council management with the hope of stopping the wave of water disconnections that the local authority embarked on since yesterday to recover what is ow...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC disconnects water supplies to defaulting rate payers
BULAWAYO City Council will today start disconnecting water supplies to defaulting rate payers as the municipality moves to recover what it is owed by residents and commercial entities in the city. Res...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo municipality disconnects water supplies
BULAWAYO City Council will today start disconnecting water supplies to defaulting rate payers as the municipality moves to recover what it is owed by residents and commercial entities in the city. ...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 08:59hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Massive Zesa disconnections loom
POWER utility Zesa could soon embark on massive disconnections in an effort to recover over $1,2 billion owed to it by defaulting customers, most of whom are Cabinet ministers and top civil servants....Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo resumes water disconnections
THE Bulawayo City Council has reintroduced water disconnections with immediate effect in a bid to force defaulting residents and businesses to clear arrears amounting to $100 million. Councill...Published: 10 May 2019 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Residents stop paying bills after water disconnections were outlawed
BULAWAYO City Council says payments for water bills have dropped sharply since the High Court blocked local authorities from disconnecting water over non-payment.The Court ruled last year that...Published: 01 May 2019 at 09:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare starts disconnecting water
KUWADZANA residents woke up to no water meters after Harare City Council (HCC) employees removed them over non-payment of bills.Community Water Alliance (CWA) Ward 44 chairperson Miriam Nyaman...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 09:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Councillors reject water disconnections as debt recovery strategy
BULAWAYO City councillors have rejected a proposal by the finance department to resume water disconnections as a debt recovery strategy citing the prevailing socio economic challenges faced by residen...Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo to introduce water limiters?
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is mulling over the introduction water flow limiters as part of its strategies to manage the use of the natural resource.Flow limiters/restrictors are gadgets i...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 10:21hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Gweru water disconnections ignite typhoid fears
GWERU residents have slammed the local authority for resuming the disconnection of water supplies to its debtors in the high-density suburbs, saying the development has the potential to slide the comm...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs electrocuted by Zesa debts
Top Zanu-PF officials are being dragged to court by State power utility Zesa Holdings (Zesa) over unpaid electricity bills.The cases illustrate how government officials, previously shielded fr...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 12:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Councils given go ahead to garnish Govt departments
THE Government has given councils the green light to take drastic measures to recover debt even from its departments which owe local authorities various amounts of money.Councils, through the ...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 08:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court allows water disconnections
Municipalities' power to disconnect water supplies to non-paying residents is reasonable and does not in any way contravene Section 77 of the country's Constitution that guarantees the right to clean ...Published: 02 Oct 2018 at 22:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare vendors get 24-hr ultimatum to vacate
The National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe (Navuz) yesterday started mobilising its members to leave undesignated vending sites in Harare's central business district today in order to contain the cholera ...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
UZ graduation postponed
The University of Zimbabwe (UZ) has deferred a graduation ceremony that was set for today owing to an outbreak of cholera which has claimed 25 lives and left several people hospitalised mostly in Glen...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Incumbents promising slashed bills to buy votes: Aspiring councillor
Aspiring independent councillor for Bulawayo's Lobengula ward 14, Lwazi Khanye (27), has accused incumbent councillors of seeking to buy votes by proposing that council should suspend water disconnect...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Stop water disconnections: Chiwenga
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday said it was improper for local authorities to disconnect water from defaulting residents as such measures pose a health hazard. Addressing Zanu-PF...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
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