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Bulawayo City Council cuts water supplies to schools
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has intensified its debt recovery efforts, cutting off water supplies to 59 schools in a bid to recover outstanding payments. This bold move comes as the local authorit...Published: 15 Dec 2024 at 09:14hrs | 460 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo reaches full capacity for Starlink
The Bulawayo City Centre and its surrounding areas have hit full capacity for Starlink devices, following a similar situation in Harare just two weeks prior, according to an update on Starlink's offic...Published: 01 Nov 2024 at 14:31hrs | 3667 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa turns Famona Fire Station into recreational park
Three students from Girls College, Bulawayo, took center stage as they guided President Emmerson Mnangagwa in a Zanu-PF-organized tree-planting event at the Famona Fire Brigade Station Park. The event...Published: 27 Oct 2024 at 12:27hrs | 507 | by Staff reporter
Ndebeles commemorate Mzilikazi Day
Ndebele people in Bulawayo, as well as those across Zimbabwe and abroad, are commemorating the 156th anniversary of the death of King Mzilikazi Khumalo, the founder of the Ndebele nation. The commemor...Published: 07 Sep 2024 at 15:53hrs | 3319 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo drug hotspot suburbs named
Police in Bulawayo are set to launch a crackdown on drug barons in several identified hotspots, including Hillside, Famona, Bradfield, Nkulumane, Thorngrove, Pumula South, Makokoba, and Hope Fountain....Published: 27 Aug 2024 at 07:56hrs | 701 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo fire brigade lets family down, as US$350 000 home goes up in smoke
The Vella family from Bulawayo's Suburbs area will never forget July 28, 2024, when a fire ravaged their home, reducing nearly all their possessions to ashes. The blaze, suspected to have been caused ...Published: 01 Aug 2024 at 17:33hrs | 1729 | by Staff reporter
Heads and Hooves owner kills self
On Thursday, Bulawayo experienced two tragic suicides, underscoring the critical issue of mental health struggles.In the first incident, Christopher Androliakos, a 58-year-old prominent cattle...Published: 15 Jun 2024 at 10:57hrs | 55 | by Staff reporter
Refuse to be collected next week – BCC
The City of Bulawayo would like to advise residents and stakeholders that there was a disruption in the refuse collection scheduled for Monday 29 January.Areas affected are Famona, Hillcrest, ...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 17:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Fire Brigade struggles to fight fires
The Bulawayo Fire Brigade has had to adapt to water shortages and a shortage of functional fire engines. Among the city's 18 fire engines, only four are operational, leaving each of the four fire stat...Published: 06 Nov 2023 at 04:51hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
51% of Bulawayo City Council vehicle fleet grounded
AT least 51 percent of Bulawayo City Council's (BCC) 336 vehicles have outlived their lifespan, a development that is affecting service delivery.This is contained in the latest council report ...Published: 10 Oct 2023 at 20:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Prepare for Chamisa victory,' says Siziba
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) has hit back at claims that the party is weak, saying the opposition is ready for the elections set for August 23."We have our friend from Tsholotsho, Jonat...Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Girl jumps off kidnapper's speeding vehicle
IN a shocking incident, a nine-year-old girl in Bulawayo sustained a fractured arm, leg and a swollen face after escaping from the clutches of her kidnapper by jumping out of a speeding vehicle....Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Schoolboy knifed to death after confronting neighbouring school bully
A 16-year-old schoolboy from Founders High School in Bulawayo was knifed to death after confronting two other pupils from a neighbouring school for bullying his friend, police said.Wayne Ndlov...Published: 14 Feb 2023 at 19:31hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Hubby cheats with maid, crashes car with pregnant wife inside
TODAY we are going to die in this car!Those were the words of a husband, who after allegedly being caught cheating with the maid, deliberately attempted to commit suicide with his pregnant wif...Published: 10 Feb 2023 at 19:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CCC leader distributes 45 letters to 45 Luveve Pastors on Chamisa birthday
Discent Collins Bajila who is one of the CCC champions in Luveve has written a letter to 45 church leaders in Luveve and Gwabalanda urging them to encourage their members to register to vote in the 20...Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 08:45hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mpopoma's famous personalities
BULAWAYO city, just like other towns and cities in Zimbabwe, had residential areas allocated according to race before Independence. Europeans, Africans, referred to at that time as "natives," Indians ...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gold dealer up for car theft
A Man from Nketa 9 Suburb, Bulawayo has appeared in court charged with car theft after he allegedly hired a vehicle to take him to New Parklands where he was purportedly to meet his gold clients and l...Published: 23 Mar 2022 at 07:16hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Storm blacks-out most Bulawayo suburbs
HEAVY rains that hit Bulawayo yesterday morning triggered a power outage affecting most suburbs in the city, including the region's main referral hospital, Mpilo Central Hospital.Power is expe...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 05:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
City tycoon in extortion storm
A local businessman is at the centre of an extortion and kidnapping storm amid reports that he allegedly detained a man who had been involved in a car accident with his wife at his offices for about f...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 06:50hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
BCC finally adopts Master Plan
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has adopted the Bulawayo Master Plan 2019-34, which is expected to assist in refurbishing old infrastructure.The master plan was adopted after BCC conducted consult...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:36hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Security guard arrested for inside-man role in armed robbery
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested a security guard from Emakhandeni suburb who allegedly connived with armed robbers to raid his boss who managed to escape with a bag containing over US$300 000. ...Published: 29 Oct 2021 at 08:57hrs | 9 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo master plan ready for objections
BULAWAYO residents have been given up to mid-October to raise objections to the city's new master plan which will see some property owners losing their land. Already, Ingutsheni Mental Referral Hospit...Published: 28 Aug 2021 at 05:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Toponymic identity in Bulawayo and the need to recognise Black women
Histories of many states and nations in the world are generally histories of men and in some cases a few outstanding women, seemingly those whose absence in the historical narrative may discredit hist...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 14:42hrs | 2 | by Staff
Part of Ingutsheni to be turned into a residential area
Part of the land occupied by Ingutsheni Psychiatric Hospital is set to be developed into a residential area, according to the Bulawayo City Council (BCC)'s Southern Central Areas Local Development Pla...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 13:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zec Bulawayo under fire over poor voter registration
ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission (Zec) officials in Bulawayo have come under fire for allegedly failing to escalate the voter registration exercise in the city.This was after reports emerged last...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 06:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
College student stabbed to death, body dumped by roadside
POLICE in Bulawayo are investigating the murder of a 25-year-old student from Esigodini Agricultural College in Matabeleland South who was stabbed to death on Sunday and his body was left covered with...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sex-for-healing scandal
BUSTED!A self-professed prophet in Bulawayo is enmeshed in a "sex-for-healing" scandal following sensational revelations by one of his clients' husband that he extorted for sex from his wife i...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 18:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Former Manama head Rev Vellah-Ncube dies
FORMER Manama High School headmaster Reverend Arote Vellah-Ncube has died. He was 83.Rev Vellah-Ncube died at his Famona home in Bulawayo on Friday and the cause of death has not been establis...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 11:32hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Man killed in Nkulumane hit and run accident
A Bulawayo man was found dead in Nkulumane suburb and police suspect that his life was claimed in a hit and run accident.The man has not yet been identified.Bulawayo provincial spokesp...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 17:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Council battles to clear garbage backlog
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has unveiled a revised refuse collection schedule for the city's eastern and industrial areas as the local authority battles to clear heaps of garbage which have been pilin...Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC to take action on illegal cropping
Bulawayo City Council has said it will destroy, without compensation, crops grown in unauthorised places. In a statement, Town Clerk Mr Christopher Dube said the practice is against the Protec...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 07:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Miner pleads with Mines ministry to resolve impasse
A MINER from Inyathi, Bubi district in Matabeleland North has pleaded with the Mines and Mining Development ministry to intervene and resolve his mine dispute with a private-owned company linked to fo...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 07:16hrs | | by Ngoni
Provincial mining director sucked into mine wrangle
A nasty gold mine ownership wrangle with all the ingredients of a dramatic legal battle sucking in a provincial mining director is brewing in Inyathi after a mining company seized a villager's farm wi...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 07:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimstat on door-to-door enumeration exercise
THE Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) is carrying out a nationwide door-to-door enumeration exercise as it prepares for a Covid-19 Epidemiological Prevalence Survey to be conducted next mo...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
US$30 000 heist at Bulawayo house
SIX men armed with guns raided a house in Bulawayo's Famona suburb and got away with US$30 000, a gun, ammunition, a safe with an undisclosed amount of cash and a vehicle. The incident occurre...Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Divorce lie backfires, Judge warns man
A HIGH Court judge has warned litigants in divorce cases against abusing court processes by using unorthodox means to fraudulently secure favourable rulings as courts will not hesitate to take stern a...Published: 18 May 2019 at 08:06hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Operation Florian to train BCC fire fighters
United Kingdom-based charity organisation, Operation Florian, will next week conduct refresher courses for the Bulawayo City Council's Fire Brigade crew at a cost of US$93 000 to the local authority....Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 16:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's fire brigade defies odds
Zimbabwe's widely respected fire brigade usually tackles house fires and traffic accidents, but it became a symbol of the regime during anti-government demonstrations that turned into violent looting ...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 16:27hrs | | by Ben Sheppard I AFP
Fire guts Bulawayo factory
PROPERTY worth more than $500 000 was on Tuesday evening destroyed in a fire that razed a business complex in the Belmont industrial area in Bulawayo.Bulawayo chief fire officer, Richard Peter...Published: 31 Jan 2019 at 10:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Car thief crashes twin cab, flees
POLICE in Matabeleland South have launched a manhunt for a farmworker who allegedly stole a motor vehicle at his workplace in Matopo, only to dump it after he was involved in an accident in Bulawayo. ...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Protestors stopped Fire Brigade from putting out fires
MORE than 10 fire incidences caused by violent protestors were reported since Monday, with the Bulawayo Fire Brigade failing to attend to some due to threats against fire fighters in some suburbs. ...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Falling In Love – part 2
Late at night, Patie and I would call each other and talk for hours, until we fell asleep or our phone batteries mutinied. Once a month, I would book a room at a hidden-away bed and breakfast in Famon...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 22:53hrs | 4 | by Jera
Mbonisi Gumbo of MRP gives his 2018 election analysis
Mbonisi Gumbo of MRP offers a post-mortem and surgical assessment of the 2018 Elections. Mbonisi Gumbo is MRP's founding Secretary for Information and Publicity. In this wide ranging interview we are ...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 09:33hrs | 3 | by Thulani Nkala
BCC warns of prolonged water cuts
THE Bulawayo City Council has warned that there could be prolonged unscheduled water cuts in all suburbs mainly due to erratic electricity supply at its waterworks.In a statement the Town Cler...Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 09:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Disruption of refuse collection on election day in Bulawayo
The City of Bulawayo has advised residents that due to the Election Day which has been promulgated as a national holiday, all areas whose refuse was supposed to be collected on Monday, 30 July 2018 wi...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 13:45hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mine collapse victims named
POLICE have released the names of six people who died after a tunnel at disused Old Motapa Mine in Bubi District, Matabeleland North Province, caved-in last Thursday afternoon.National police ...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cop loses fight against bosses
A POLICE officer accused of conniving with accomplices to rob the late founder of His Presence Ministries International Apostle Charles Chiriseri's corpse of $200 following an accident that claimed hi...Published: 17 Apr 2018 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
UK charity donates fire and ambulance equipment to BCC
United Kingdom-based charity, Operation Florian has donated fire and ambulance equipment to the Bulawayo City Council's fire and rescue services department, as part of its mandate to improve fire and ...Published: 02 Apr 2018 at 07:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo to build two more fire stations
THE Bulawayo Fire Brigade has announced plans to construct two more fire stations to better manage emergencies in the city and surrounding local authorities without fire-fighting equipment.The...Published: 26 Mar 2018 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Abusive small house jailed 1 month
A TROUBLESOME small house, who threatened and insulted her former lover, who sired a child with her has been slapped with one month in jail.Perseverance Ncube (23) of Cowdray Park in Bulawayo,...Published: 05 Feb 2018 at 04:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
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