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Govt mum on Gwayi-Shangani relocations
BINGA villagers in the Lubimbi area have accused government of not clear on their relocation from the Gwayi-Shangani dam catchment.A total of 2 422 people, whose homes lie in the dam's catchme...Published: 23 May 2022 at 06:42hrs | 247 | by Staff reporter
Nightshifts at Lake Gwayi Shangani
CONTRACTORS at Lake Gwayi Shangani are now working night shifts to ensure the construction of the dam wall is completed next month.Construction work at the Lake Gwayi Shangani dam wall and ear...Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:43hrs | 706 | by Staff reporter
Laying of pipes brings Gwayi-Shangani water closer
AN over a century old dream to bring water from Lake Gwayi-Shangani to Bulawayo is close to reality as some pipes for laying the pipeline that arrived in the country last week have been placed at stra...Published: 03 May 2022 at 15:38hrs | 505 | by Staff reporter
OPC ZITF stand has public in awe
AN imposing artistic image depicting President Mnangagwa carrying a masonry trowel laden with mortar and building blocks in the background, admirably stood above the Office of the President and Cabine...Published: 02 May 2022 at 07:57hrs | 257 | by Staff reporter
Water projects to boost Bulawayo investment
THE ongoing Government funded water projects will go a long way in enhancing Bulawayo's investment opportunities and spur its economic growth momentum, Bulawayo Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minis...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 08:58hrs | 109 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa showers praise on Bulawayo
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is confident that Bulawayo will host a flawless Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) this week.In his weekly column in The Sunday Mail, the President clearly had his fo...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:19hrs | 121 | by Staff reporter
Infrastructure projects to change the face of Mat South
Matabeleland South Province is set for a major facelift as a number of infrastructure projects being spearheaded by Government are progressing well, with some nearing completion.At Joshua Mqab...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:19hrs | 100 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo considers re-introducing water-shedding
BULAWAYO could be forced to re-introduce a stringent water shedding schedule as one of its major supply dams faces decommissioning due to low inflows.The city has over the past years been forc...Published: 24 Apr 2022 at 06:37hrs | 1307 | by Staff Reporter
Chinese firm to set up plant for Gwayi-Shangani pipeline
CHINESE company, China International Water and Electric Corporation, will soon set up a plant in Bulawayo to manufacture pipes for the Gwayi-Shangani Dam pipeline.Bulawayo City Council (BCC)'s...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 11:45hrs | 710 | by Staff reporter
Government ramps up efforts to complete Lake Gwayi-Shangani by year-end
CONTRACTORS have started opening access roads and doing pipeline servitude clearance for the laying of the 245km pipeline from Lake Gwayi-Shangani to Bulawayo as Government steps up efforts to ensure ...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 11:33hrs | 211 | by Staff reporter
Mining to drive Zimbabwe growth
Zimbabwe's mining industry has "immense" potential to drive socio-economic development and growth of the economy, underpinned by strategies designed to transform the sector to a US$12 billion industry...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:04hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo water woes persist despite rains
Blessing Moyo, a resident of Bulawayo's Gwabalanda suburb, is a worried man as he relives the 2020 diarrhoea outbreak that hit Luveve and other surrounding suburbs.The diarrhoea outbreak, blam...Published: 17 Apr 2022 at 09:14hrs | 175 | by Staff reporter
Gwayi-Shangani Lake to end water woes
THE Gwayi-Shangani Lake will address Bulawayo's perennial water challenges and create a greenbelt in the province, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Servic...Published: 17 Apr 2022 at 09:07hrs | 159 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe to become energy self-sufficient
GOVERNMENT is implementing a raft of measures to ensure the country becomes energy self-sufficient to support growing demand from consumers and the expanding manufacturing and agriculture sector, Pres...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 08:11hrs | 232 | by Staff reporter
Gwayi-Shangani pipeline to be complete before 2023
BULAWAYO'S perennial water shortages could soon be a thing of the past amid revelations that the much anticipated Gwayi Shangani pipeline water project will be completed before 2023.The projec...Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:26hrs | 206 | by Staff reporter
It's the economy, stupid!
Eons ago, in Bishop Lazi's village, there lived a pint-sized legend who was known far and wide.Everyone always surmised — and with good reason too — he had inherited the worst biological q...Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:20hrs | 100 | by Bishop Lazarus
PPC sees annual Zimbabwe cement sales up 25%
PPC, Africa's biggest cement company, says cement sales in Zimbabwe grew 25% year-on-year up to March, on better-than-expected demand from individual buyers and government projects.Cement sale...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:00hrs | 93 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to remain unitary State, says Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe will remain a unitary State and no amount of machinations from the country's detractors, or those calling for a separate State, will divide the country, President Mnangagwa has said.A...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:26hrs | 219 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa satisfied with Lake Gwayi Shangani project progress
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday toured Lake Gwayi-Shangani site and expressed satisfaction on progress made in the construction of the giant water project.He proved his commitment to hard work b...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:45hrs | 380 | by Staff reporter
BCC introduces 48-hour water shedding
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has introduced a 48-hour water shedding programme that is affecting many suburbs as it undertakes repairs at Ncema Water Treatment Works.The water shedding programm...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 05:55hrs | 172 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga denounces campaign violence
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga has denounced all forms of violence and urged Zimbabweans to desist from fighting each other ahead of the March 26 by-elections.Mr Nelson Chamisa, who leads...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 05:41hrs | 161 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says CCC has plans to thwart ZEC rigging
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) president Nelson Chamisa says his party has infiltrated the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) and informants are giving him daily briefings which will help thwart...Published: 07 Mar 2022 at 05:38hrs | 2288 | by Staff reporter
Zec can't cheat us this time, says CCC
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday claimed that his party was now alert to Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) rigging machinations ahead of the 2023 gener...Published: 07 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | 787 | by Staff reporter
Govt moves in to repair damage in urban councils
IT is clear as day light that urban councils have been failing to fulfil their mandate for a long time.The majority of towns and cities in the country have deteriorated in terms of infrastruct...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:26hrs | 97 | by Staff reporter
'We're losing ground in Matebeleland,' claims CCC
A few weeks before the holding of by-elections on 26 March, the country's opposition has acknowledged that the ruling Zanu-PF party was maintaining a tight grip in the Matabeleland region, an area the...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:25hrs | 579 | by Staff reporter
Dry spells will not cause hunger, says Mohadi
ZIMBABWE's food security remains guaranteed, despite dry spells that have affected the 2021-2022 summer cropping season, ZANU-PF vice president Kembo Mohadi has said.Addressing thousands of pe...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:18hrs | 82 | by Staff reporter
52 families face eviction to allow coal mining
A TOTAL of 52 families in Lubimbi, Binga, Matabeleland North are facing eviction after Hwange Colliery Company got a grant to extract coal from the area.The community was already facing evicti...Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 05:42hrs | 307 | by Staff reporter
20-hour daily water shedding in Bulawayo
BULAWAYO has introduced a 20-hour daily water shedding exercise for some western suburbs and is expected to decommission Umzingwane Dam this month, necessitating reintroduction of citywide water ratio...Published: 01 Mar 2022 at 05:34hrs | 315 | by Staff reporter
US$50m Gwayi-Shangani pipe deal sealed
The pipeline to Bulawayo from Gwayi-Shangani Dam moved a gear up towards implementation yesterday when the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) signed a US$50 million contract with Flowtite South...Published: 01 Mar 2022 at 05:29hrs | 274 | by Staff reporter
Water shortages loom in Bulawayo
BULAWAYO residents face another round of water shortages despite the recent rains as city fathers have proposed a three-day water shedding regime because one of the supply dams faces decommissio...Published: 26 Feb 2022 at 19:28hrs | 205 | by Staff reporter
Construction to resume at NUST
CONSTRUCTION work at the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) that had stalled for almost two decades is set to resume after Government allocated $1 billion to the institution of highe...Published: 01 Feb 2022 at 05:29hrs | 377 | by Staff reporter
New dam, new power plant
An electricity generating plant will be built at every new major dam under construction to address power outages affecting the agricultural sector, a Cabinet minister has said.Government is pr...Published: 31 Jan 2022 at 05:42hrs | 331 | by Staff reporter
Another dam for Matabeleland
A new 98 million cubic metre dam is being built by the Government in Nkayi district, making it the third major water body under construction in Matabeleland.The Government, through the Zimbabw...Published: 26 Jan 2022 at 04:42hrs | 559 | by Staff reporter
Villagers in suspense over Gwayi Shangani Dam project
THE planned displacement of around 2 000 Lubimbi villagers in Binga to pave way for the construction of the Gwayi Shangani Dam has left the villagers in suspense, amid indications that government had ...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 06:00hrs | 859 | by Staff reporter
Gwayi-Shangani Dam most touted project in 2021
"From the budget presented in December, we allocated some money so that construction begins. I have promised traditional leaders that I will make sure that more money is released so that the construct...Published: 30 Dec 2021 at 07:53hrs | 488 | by Staff reporter
RevivED, on course, CompletED
FULFILLING a century-old dream, President Mnangagwa in February this year commissioned the Gwayi-Shangani Dam project, which will come with a 245 km water pipeline to Bulawayo and put an end to the se...Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 05:39hrs | 198 | by Fungi Kwaramba
Mnangagwa launches rural scheme
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday launched the Presidential Rural Development Scheme set to benefit more than 1,8 million households as the Second Republic accelerates efforts to alleviate poverty among t...Published: 16 Dec 2021 at 09:31hrs | 1165 | by Staff Reporter
Gwayi-Shangani pipeline tender in limbo
THE government is yet to sub-contract companies that will construct the 245-kilometre Gwayi-Shangani pipeline, which is viewed as the lasting solution to Bulawayo's perennial water shortages.F...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:13hrs | 81 | by Staff reporter
Lake Gwayi-Shangani water to reach Bulawayo end of next year
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has assured Bulawayo residents that the city's prevailing water challenges will be permanently addressed when Lake Gwayi-Shangani project is completed next year.The Zimbabw...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:53hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Lake Gwayi-Shangani to start holding water
LAKE Gwayi-Shangani will start receiving significant inflows in the 2021/22 rain season while Bulawayo and surrounding communities could start drawing water from it by the end of next year.Gov...Published: 30 Nov 2021 at 05:33hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland projects get priority in 2022 budget
GOVERNMENT continues to drive the development of Matabeleland with the 2022 National Budget Statement presented yesterday in Parliament by Finance and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli N...Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 08:43hrs | 47 | by Staff Reporter
2022 budget should up Matabeleland momentum
FINANCE and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube is set to present the 2022 National Budget Statement today amid high expectations that more resources will be allocated to expedite co...Published: 25 Nov 2021 at 07:00hrs | 23 | by Staff Reporter
'City dams hold 15 months water supply'
WATER levels at Bulawayo's supply dams have gone down due to evaporation as well as heavy use by farmers and local authorities, Southern Eye has learnt.Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:35hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Gwayi-Shangani will not translate into votes and support for Mnangagwa
"Cockroaches, maggots need to be eliminated for someone to have clean house" these are the words [sic] of Emerson Mnangagwa in 1983 when he the late former murderous President Robert Mugabe unleashed ...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 23:21hrs | 7 | by Phosiwe Ncube
You can't pull in croc with fish hook
IN the village, the outcome of a fishing trip to the river often meant the difference between a sumptuous meal and another dish to be tolerated just to keep the body and soul together.As pleas...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:37hrs | 7 | by Bishop Lazarus
6 contractors for Lake Gwayi- Shangani pipeline
GOVERNMENT has selected six contractors to urgently work on the 245km pipeline that connects the massive Lake Gwayi-Shangani in Matabeleland North Province to Bulawayo and insists that implementation ...Published: 09 Nov 2021 at 05:35hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Gwayi-Shangani Dam: Zinwa says no evictions this year
BINGA villagers who face eviction in Lubimbi to pave way for the Gwayi-Shangani Dam have been assured that eviction will not take place this season as evaluation was still taking place.This wa...Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 05:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Binga villagers identify own relocation site
BINGA villagers facing eviction to pave way for the construction of the Gwayi-Shangani Dam have identified a piece of land in the Nakanono area, which they believe is suitable for their resettlement....Published: 03 Nov 2021 at 05:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF ready for hybrid format conference
THE ruling party Zanu-PF's 19th National People's Conference kicks off at Chipadze Stadium in Bindura, Mashonaland Central province tomorrow, with a number of high-level engagements expected to domina...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to lose out on loans
ZIMBABWE is set to miss out on a multi-million-dollar fund for countries sharing the Zambezi watercourse because of its external debt estimated at US$10,5 billion.The funds will be disbursed t...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 20:20hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
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