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Councillors propose harsher penalties for littering
Bulawayo city councillors are pushing for stiffer penalties against littering, arguing that current fines are too lenient to effectively deter illegal dumping and growing urban filth, especially in th...Published: 03 Jul 2025 at 19:07hrs | 129 | by Staff reporter
275 inmates baptised at Khami Prisons
In a remarkable display of faith and transformation, a record 275 inmates at Khami Remand and Medium Prisons were baptised last week, marking a significant milestone in their journey of reformation an...Published: 09 Feb 2025 at 11:23hrs | 603 | by Staff reporter
Govt orders suspension of Bulawayo deputy mayor
The Ministry of Local Government and Public Works has suspended Bulawayo Deputy Mayor Councillor Edwin Ndlovu and Finance and Development Committee Chairperson Clr Mpumelelo Moyo following their arres...Published: 01 Dec 2024 at 08:54hrs | 696 | by Staff reporter
BCC councillors fret over fire tender, ambulance shortages
The City of Bulawayo is experiencing a critical shortage of ambulances and fire tenders, raising concerns among councillors and residents. Delays in emergency response times have been highlighted, wit...Published: 02 Aug 2024 at 07:03hrs | 130 | by Staff reporter
Councillor starts street lights repairs programme
Councilor Dumisani Nkomo of Bulawayo's Ward Five has launched an ambitious initiative to repair 1,000 streetlights using funds allocated from the city council's Ward Retention Fund.Nkomo repor...Published: 28 Jun 2024 at 09:58hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Strong winds blew off roofs
TSHABALALA Residents Association has come to the rescue of four families whose house rooftops were blown off by strong winds.Tshabalala Residents Association chairperson, Webster Tsondoyi, sai...Published: 22 Feb 2024 at 04:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
BCC justifies US dollar tariff
THE BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) says its decision to index bills in United States dollars was necessary to ensure quality service delivery.In a speech read on his behalf by deputy chairperson ...Published: 08 Dec 2023 at 05:37hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF' barons causing chaos
Bulawayo councillors have complained about space barons, mainly linked to the ruling Zanu PF, for frustrating council efforts to restore sanity in the central business district.The local autho...Published: 12 Nov 2023 at 12:02hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
BCC committee chairpersons elected
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC)-dominated Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has elected chairpersons and deputies of various committees to assist in service delivery programmes.The election of t...Published: 18 Sep 2023 at 06:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo mayoral selection process - details emerge
The recent appointment of the Mayor and deputy Mayor of Bulawayo has sparked controversy amid allegations that Advocate Nelson Chamisa, leader of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), played a pivo...Published: 17 Sep 2023 at 07:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CCC denies Chamisa's hand in Bulawayo mayoral election
The opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party has denied reports suggesting that the election of Donaldson Mabutho as Bulawayo's deputy mayor was directed by party leader Nelson Chamisa....Published: 13 Sep 2023 at 18:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
David Coltart elected Bulawayo Mayor, Mabutho imposed as deputy
BULAWAYO councillors today elected Councillor David Coltart Mayor of Bulawayo and ward 9 councillor Donaldson Mabutho will be his deputy. Coltart was a founding member of the Movement for Demo...Published: 11 Sep 2023 at 15:10hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
CCC's Ian Makone elected new mayor of Harare
Ian Makone of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is the new mayor of Harare following a vote by councillors on Monday.He replaces Jacob Mafume, the ward 17 councillor.Makone, of w...Published: 11 Sep 2023 at 14:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Nkomo not afraid of competition for Bulawayo deputy mayor post
Ward 4 Councillor Dumisani Nkomo, who is being tipped for Bulawayo's deputy mayor post, has said he is not afraid of competition and is ready to fight for the position.Nkomo's comments come af...Published: 08 Sep 2023 at 06:43hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo councillors plot to defy Chamisa's directive on David Coltart?
Bulawayo councillors are reportedly plotting to defy party leader Nelson Chamisa's directive to vote for David Coltart and Dumisani Nkomo for the city mayor and deputy mayor position, respectively....Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 21:29hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
David Coltart to review of BCC-TTI contract after elections
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) candidate for Ward Four, Mr David Coltart has said council will review the contract awarded to Bulawayo's parking management company, Trendy Three Investments (TTI...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 06:50hrs | 53 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Mayor pours vitriol on Coltart
BULAWAYO Mayor Councillor Solomon Mguni has responded to Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) local authority candidate, former Education Minister, Mr David Coltart for insinuating that there is endemi...Published: 23 Jul 2023 at 08:09hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
CCC clears air on double candidacy
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party has cleared the air on the Bulawayo double candidacy debacle amid concerns that the anomaly was triggered by unapproved candidates whose nomina...Published: 27 Jun 2023 at 06:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC bars former Bosso chairman
THE Nelson Chamisa-led Citizens Coalition for Change preferred candidates for the Bulawayo mayoral and deputy mayoral positions, former Education Minister David Coltart and Dumisani Nkomo suffered los...Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 21:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
LEAKED: Full list of CCC Bulawayo MPs and Councillors unveiled
Following the successful completion of the candidate selection process in Bulawayo, the leaked recommendations from the Citizens movement provided to us by a Harare senior leader based on the candidat...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 09:35hrs | 20 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Crackdown on political opposition exposes Mnangagwa'
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Zengeza West MP Job Sikhala, party spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere and Transform Zimbabwe leader Jacob Ngarivhume were recently convicted of various charges.Nga...Published: 07 May 2023 at 07:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Auxilia Mnangagwa: A throw back to Grace Mugabe‘s hey day
One of the reasons given by the military for ousting former president Robert Mugabe in 2017 was that he was allowing his wife Grace to run government affairs in violation of the constitution.G...Published: 16 Apr 2023 at 08:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF primaries chaos, a harbinger for bloody polls
ALLEGATIONS of kidnapping, guns being fired at polling stations, torture, intimidation, rape and beatings were the order of the day ahead of the Zanu-PF primaries a fortnight ago as aspiring candidate...Published: 07 Apr 2023 at 09:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's Wi-Fi pledge attracts brickbats from electorate
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has come under fire for promising to provide Wi-Fi service at all Cowdray Park houses in Bulawayo where he is campaigning for a parliamentary seat in this year's election...Published: 05 Apr 2023 at 09:34hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Polad a tool to sanitise Mnangagwa legitimacy
FORMATION of the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) in 2019 was primarily meant to give President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration a veneer of legitimacy after narrowly winning the disputed 2018 gen...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mashonaland Central chief pledges allegiance to Mnangagwa
A TRADITIONAL leader in Mbire district, Mashonaland Central province has openly pledged allegiance to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the ruling Zanu-PF party ahead of the 2023 polls.Chief Mu...Published: 22 Oct 2022 at 05:43hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt under fire over Matebeleland projects
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been accused of marginalising Matebeleland region after a breakdown of programmes undertaken by his government since 2021 showed that the region has the least number o...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF goes hammer & tongs
Zanu-PF has reportedly roped in State security agents to recruit, train and conduct background checks on party members ahead of the 2023 general elections.This comes as the ruling party claime...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:35hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu's Gukurahundi denialism very unsettling
UTTERANCES by Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu (pictured) dismissing Gukurahundi as a "thing of the past" and telling victims to forget is tantamount to attempting to whitewash the gen...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 19:18hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mudenda rapped over Gukurahundi 'election project'
SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda has been accused of exposing Zanu-PF's plan to use Gukurahundi as a campaign gimmick after he demanded the 1980s massacres should be resolved before the ...Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Economic crisis: Hallmark of Mnangagwa's dismal failure
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa made a desperate appeal to Zanu-PF youths as he asked his supporters to unmask those "sabotaging the economy", saying the debilitating economic malaise was artificial and ...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:08hrs | 2 | by Taurai Mangudhla
Bulawayo council rangers go on rampage
A resident of Bulawayo's peri-urban St Peters village is nursing gunshot wounds after municipal rangers went on the rampage beating residents before firing live ammunition in a dispute over armed robb...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:16hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans blast Motsoaledi over xenophobic comments
ZIMBABWEANS have blasted recent comments by South African Home Affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi, who was quoted saying he would resign after all undocumented foreigners had been locked away.T...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 11:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Egodini Mall construction further delayed
BULAWAYO residents have to wait a little longer before they step foot at the long-awaited Egodini Mall after a South African civil engineering company that won a tender to construct the mall missed it...Published: 16 Apr 2022 at 08:32hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mixed feelings on Uhuru celebrations in Bulawayo
BULAWAYO residents and human rights groups have expressed mixed feelings on government's move to commemorate Independence Day in Bulawayo, saying it would make no difference to the marginalisation and...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sink or swim for Chamisa
TO sink or swim is the question in this Saturday's by-elections as the opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) faces a stern test of political strength where there is everything to fight for i...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC fissures started under Tsvangirai
ON September 1999, a new political party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) was launched at a mass rally in Harare, the first time in years that the then President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF's dom...Published: 21 Feb 2022 at 05:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Khaya Moyo was politically correct'
MATEBELELAND-BASED political analysts have described the late Zanu-PF spokesperson and former minister Simon Khaya Moyo as a "politically correct" person who avoided aligning himself with factions in ...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli's Mnangagwa bootlicking remarks spark outrage
BULAWAYO rights groups have reacted angrily over utterances on Wednesday by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to the effect that President Emmerson Mnangagwa was the best boss ever, saying Ncube was exhib...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 07:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo politicians 'weak'
A BULAWAYO-faith-based organisation, Habbakuk Trust has accused local politicians of being "politically weak" and unable to advance the devolution agenda in the region.The new Constitution ado...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 18:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Matebeleland politicians not pushing enough on devolution'
CIVIC society organisations operating in Matebeleland have accused politicians from the region of lacking stamina to push for implementation of devolution of power as enshrined in the Constitution....Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 20:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa flies into Gukurahundi storm
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will tomorrow fly into a storm as he visits Bulawayo to meet Matabeleland chiefs to review progress made in addressing Gukurahundi issues.Civic society organisatio...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 07:28hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
BCC under pressure to publish assets register
BULAWAYO City Council has come under pressure to publish a list of its properties to enhance transparency and accountability. The call by civic society group Habakkuk Trust came in the wake of...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa feeling heat over VP choice
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa faces a difficult choice as he looks for suitable candidates to replace his former deputy, Kembo Mohadi, who resigned under pressure on Monday.This comes as it has...Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 16:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
ARVs shortage hits Bulawayo
BULAWAYO has been hit by a shortage of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs), with patients saying the COVID-19 lockdown period had worsened the situation.Some of the patients, who spoke to Southern Eye...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 07:11hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo vendors appeal to govt over lockdown
BULAWAYO vendors have appealed to the government to consider their plight during the newly introduced lockdown measures which they say will subject them to further poverty.Vice-President Const...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 07:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Plumtree road fencing tender reeks of corruption
CIVIC society organisations (CSOs) have raised concern over the $320 000 Plumtree road fencing tender process, which they think was not transparent after villagers complained of a shoddy job.T...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt detests being held to account
GOVERNMENT'S failure to answer critical questions around the procurement of Zupco buses using public funds in a deal that involves Landela Investments is indicative of a government that is averse to s...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 10:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's 'tribal' boards raises a stink
Civil society groups and political parties have accused the government of side-lining people from Matabeleland when appointing boards for parastatals and perpetuating the marginilisation of the region...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 14:25hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
ARVs shortage hits Bulawayo
SOME people living with HIV in Bulawayo are failing to access antiretroviral (ARV) drugs due to shortages in the city blamed on distribution inefficiencies as Government says the country has adequate ...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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