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Robber drops wallet, lands gang in jail
Police in Bulawayo have arrested three suspects involved in an armed robbery at Bambanani Shopping Center in Gumtree after one of the suspects accidentally dropped his wallet at the crime scene....Published: 10 Feb 2025 at 14:32hrs | 1092 | by Staff reporter
Falcon College bus accident kills 1 student
ONE student died while three others were injured after a Falcon College bus overturned along the Bulawayo/Esigodini Road this afternoon. The bus was carrying 56 students who were coming from a...Published: 16 Jun 2024 at 15:46hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo runs dry as council repairs infrastructure
The Bulawayo City Council has temporarily disconnected water supply to several suburbs for maintenance work at the Tuli, 6J, and Rifle Range reservoirs. This maintenance began yesterday and is expecte...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 08:41hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
John Nkomo's son loses 42 cattle
THE late Vice President John Landa Nkomo's son, Mr Jabulani Nkomo, lost a herd of 42 cattle in a suspected cattle rustling syndicate involving his two former workers who are now on the run.The...Published: 27 Feb 2024 at 03:05hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Council names streets after departed eminent leaders
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has named some streets in the city's new suburbs for easy identification of properties.The street names were given in line with the council resolution of 1990....Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Renaming street after Kenyatta to go ahead
Bulawayo City Council is continuing with its initial plan to rename a street after Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta despite him no longer coming to officially open this year's Zimbabwe International Tr...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo ordered to name street after Uhuru Kunyatta
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has ordered the Bulawayo City council to rename one of the city's major roads after Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta.Kenyatta is set to visit Zimbabwe's...Published: 06 Apr 2022 at 20:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
$800 million boost as BCC resumes suspended road works
Bulawayo City Council is resuming road rehabilitation works which were suspended at the beginning of the year, after Government allocated the city nearly $800 million towards road maintenance....Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Roads take up 30% of devolution funds
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has revealed that 30% of the $600 million it received from the government under the devolution programme have been used for the maintenance of the city's road network....Published: 02 Nov 2021 at 18:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo changes roads repair plan
GOVERNMENT recently withdrew the Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers (IGFT) 2021 funds allocation for devolution for Bulawayo to rehabilitate roads, Bulawayo City Council (BCC) documents show.M...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 07:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo to rename city streets after heroes, heroines
BULAWAYO city fathers have said they will hold public consultations on the need to rename some streets after the country's heroes and heroines in the spirit of devolution.This follows a High C...Published: 03 Jul 2021 at 10:21hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
City fathers to rename Bulawayo streets after heroes, heroines
BULAWAYO city fathers have said they will hold public consultations on the need to rename some streets after the country's heroes and heroines in the spirit of devolution.This follows a High C...Published: 03 Jul 2021 at 07:47hrs | 17 | by Staff Reporter
BCC writes to Mnangagwa's govt over street name changes
THE Bulawayo City Council is waiting for Government approval on their own individual street name changes after the High Court ruled that they cannot adhere to the names that were effected through a St...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
75% of Bulawayo roads in bad state
AT least 75 percent of Bulawayo's road network has outlived its lifespan, with council revealing that the funds they received from the Zimbabwe National Road Authority (Zinara) was a mere drop in the ...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Footballer kicks out cheating wife
ZAMBIA-based football star Thabani Kamusoko has kicked out his wife from his Selbourne Park suburb house in Bulawayo after his sister busted his "cheating" spouse being picked up by her boyfriend outs...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:29hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Gold buyer dismisses gun crime claims
THE Bulawayo gold dealer who stands accused of pulling out a gun in a dispute over a Honda Fit has claimed that he did not do such a thing but instead was robbed of US$30 000. Police in Bulawa...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland provinces receive $20,1m from Zinara
Transport minister Joram Gumbo has applauded Bulawayo for effectively utilising the Zimbabwe National Road Authority (Zinara) allocation in 2017 under the emergency road rehabilitation programme (ERRP...Published: 17 Jan 2018 at 05:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Thugs hijack taxi, shoots driver
TWO Gwanda men allegedly lured a taxi driver to Matsheumhlope in Bulawayo where they shot him in the leg, tied his legs and hands, stole more than R8 000 from him before dumping him along Old Esig...Published: 01 Nov 2016 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Driver fined $300 for causing death of 5 year old child
A Richmond man in Bulawayo has been fined $300 for knocking down a 5 year old child to death with a vehicle he was driving.Clement Moyo (41) pleaded guilty to the culpable homicide when ...Published: 21 May 2016 at 10:17hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Mduduzi Mathuthu escapes death near Danger
The editor of Chronicle newspaper Mduduzi Mathuthu on Friday escaped death by a whisker while driving in heavy rains along Esigodini Road near Danger.According to Mathuthu an out of control tr...Published: 26 Feb 2016 at 19:07hrs | 1 | by Moyo Roy
Eden Night Club face resistance from residents
Owners of Eden Night Club faced resistance from Bulawayo residents to establish a night club at the Matabeleland Turf Club situated at Ascot Race Course in Bulawayo.The residents said the joi...Published: 12 Oct 2015 at 12:57hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Kombi strategy, 9 seriously injured
NINE people were seriously injured when a kombi they were travelling in veered off the road after being hit by a Toyota Ipsum on its left side along Old Esigodini Road adjacent to Ilanda suburb on Sun...Published: 09 Dec 2014 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
7 die, 23 injured in road accidents
SEVEN people died while 23 others were critically injured in two separate accidents in Bulawayo and Plumtree.Three people died on the spot yesterday afternoon while 14 others were seriously in...Published: 05 Aug 2014 at 11:49hrs | 2 | by Sukulwenkosi Dube - Nqobile Tshili
One hour delay for emergency services to attend fatal kombi accident
It has taken Bulawayo emergency services and the police more than an hour to attend to an accident hardly 15 km from the United Bulawayo Hospitals and the City of Bulawayo's Famona emergency ser...Published: 04 Aug 2014 at 14:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Lion spotted in Bulawayo suburb
A MOTORIST yesterday told of the moment he drove into the path of a lion - in a plush Bulawayo suburb.Ngqabutho Mpofu and his girlfriend, Pamela, were driving through Fortunes Gate, east of th...Published: 22 May 2014 at 06:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
3-yr-old boy miraculously escaped death as cars collide
A THREE-YEAR-OLD boy miraculously escaped death when his grandmother swiftly jumped and rescued him from a rolling car, which was involved in an accident.The accident occurred at the corner o...Published: 25 Feb 2014 at 01:20hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Zupco bus catches fire 10 passengers injured
A total of 10 passengers were injured, three of them seriously, when passengers broke windows and jumped out of a burning bus that was going down the slope without the driver at Esigodini yesterday....Published: 09 Jul 2013 at 20:50hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Storm brews over vacant NSSA townhouses
A storm is brewing over the National Social Security Authority (NSSA)'s Bulawayo townhouses that have been vacant for more than a year.The townhouses are in Woodlands suburb, along Old Esigodi...Published: 20 Apr 2013 at 05:20hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Female ghost vanishes after getting a lift
A FEMALE ghost is reportedly terrorising motorists along Old Esigodini Road by stopping them and vanishing after having been given a lift.According to motorists, the ghost usually targets male...Published: 23 Jun 2012 at 15:25hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
BCC gets $5 million for road rehabilitation
THE Bulawayo City Council has received $5 million to be used in the rehabilitation of the city's dilapidated road network.A total of $2 million has been given to the council as a loan from the...Published: 05 May 2012 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
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