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Vendors defy Bulawayo council directive
IT was business as usual yesterday for vendors operating along 5th Avenue in the City Centre, as they openly defied a Bulawayo City Council directive to vacate the street by Sunday to pave the way for...Published: 20 Feb 2024 at 05:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Donkey meat concerns surfaces in Bulawayo
Ward 15 councilor Ashton Mhlanga has encouraged Cowdray Park residents to buy their meat from reputed licensed butcheries rather than backyards, following complaints of individuals selling donkey meat...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 18:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BCC moves to stem dirt, chaos and decay in CBD
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has given informal traders, kombi, bus and pushcart operators, and those involved in illegal car wash business in the city centre an ultimatum to cease their illegal activi...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ulunyoka, the spell that binds love and punishes betrayal
IN the shadowed corners of tradition lies the practice of ulunyoka - a spellbinding ritual that binds a spouse to fidelity with consequences dire enough to stir the soul. This ancient art of "centrall...Published: 06 Jan 2024 at 08:43hrs | 22 | by Leonard Ncube
Zimra tightens screws on businesses
GOVERNMENT and the business sector are headed for a showdown after the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) yesterday announced a raft of tough measures limiting the formal traders' access to commoditie...Published: 04 Jan 2024 at 05:59hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF affiliated vendors applaud govt on toll fees
Zanu-PF affiliate organisation Vendors 4ED has applauded Finance minister Mthuli Ncube for revising downwards his proposed steep toll gate fee increase.In the 2024 national budget presented la...Published: 23 Dec 2023 at 09:51hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Gweru proposes 73% vendor penalty fee hike
GWERU City Council has proposed a 73% hike in penalty fees for illegal vending in its next year's budget.Speaking at a budget consultative meeting, assistant finance director Owen Masimba urge...Published: 17 Nov 2023 at 05:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo suspends health services director over CBD garbage
Bulawayo's health services director Dr Edwin Sibanda has been suspended for alleged incompetence over uncollected garbage in the city centre and deteriorating environmental standards.The decis...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gauteng cops arrest Zimbabwean fugitive wanted for rape
A man who allegedly raped a woman in North West and then escaped from police custody while receiving hospital treatment was rearrested in Tsakane, Gauteng.Aubrey Zunguza, 27, was initially arr...Published: 03 Oct 2022 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare outlaws illegal vending
HARARE Provincial Affairs and Devolution secretary Tafadzwa Muguti has outlawed illegal vending in parking bays and other undesignated places, as Housing minister Daniel Garwe pledges to take on land ...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:10hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Zanu-PF youths in violent clashes
VIOLENCE flared up between Zanu-PF and Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) youths in Harare yesterday morning as they fiercely fought for control of flea market spaces in Mbare's Mupedzanhamo area....Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 05:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Foreigners to be removed from Limpopo on 29 June
An organisation calling itself Limpopo Street Hawkers Association has declared that it will remove all illegal immigrants operating in Polokwane town on the 29th of June. In a letter address...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 10:54hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Massive crowds at Matabeleland Independence celebrations
THOUSANDS of people yesterday celebrated the country's 42nd Independence anniversary in both Matabeleland South and Matabelelend North provinces.In Matabeleland South, the main celebrations we...Published: 19 Apr 2022 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA, Zimbabwe round up border jumpers, smugglers
Zimbabwe and South Africa border officials on Friday conducted a joint operation to clean up the border area of smugglers and irregular migrants.Scores of people were arrested going either sid...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zinwa blames water woes on council
THE Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) has blamed the Beitbridge municipality for the recurrent water shortages in the border town, saying the local authority is failing to pay for the essentia...Published: 06 Feb 2022 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gweru hikes Kudzanai bay rentals
INFORMAL traders operating at the Kudzanai bus terminus in Gweru will now have to fork out between $400 and $800 in rentals per day after the company contracted to refurbish the rank, Bentach Re...Published: 19 Oct 2021 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans living in SA's Musina's streets finding it tough
BETWEEN the N1 and the Musina Refugee Reception office is an open space dotted with trees. One of these is a small baobab. This is home for Dickson Bwititi. He sleeps here on blankets.Bwititi,...Published: 03 Jul 2021 at 10:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Demolitions continue despite restraint order
HARARE City Council yesterday continued with the demolition of informal business structures in Glen View highdensity suburb, a day after the ruling party Zanu-PF ordered a stop to the destruction of a...Published: 30 Jun 2021 at 17:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Haruzivishe conviction designed to send 'chilling effect', says MDC Alliance
The conviction on Wednesday of MDC Alliance youth activist Makomborero Haruzivishe on charges of inciting violence and resisting arrest is designed to "send a chilling effect" to President Emmerson Mn...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 18:56hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zambia defers 'closing' of Victoria Falls border to trucks
THE Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) has indefinitely deferred restriction on commercial goods in and out of Zimbabwe through the Victoria Falls Border Post which had been set to be implemented tomorrow...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africans threaten xenophobic attacks
South African in Johannesburg are reported to have vowed to unleash fresh xenophobic attacks on foreigners if the police do not protect them from the criminal activities unleashed by foreigners. ...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 14:01hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bogus cop nabbed after stealing a reed mat
A Bindura bogus cop was arrested and arraigned before a Bindura magistrate Ethel Chichera yesterday for impersonating a police officer and stealing a reed mate from a hawker valued at $15.Bats...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 13:18hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Harare City Council disowns 'murambatsvina 2'
Harare mayor Herbert Gomba has directed that all on-going demolitions against vendors' infrastructure be stopped and urged hawkers to approach council for new trading sites.This comes in the w...Published: 31 Jan 2019 at 10:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo vendors lash out at council's archaic by-laws, wants city to be like Harare
Bulawayo vendors and informal traders here have taken aim at Bulawayo city fathers for simply trying to put cosmetic amendments to the existing archaic by-laws.The Bulawayo Vendors and Traders...Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 14:11hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Harare ordered to construct toilets at vending sites
Cabinet has ordered Harare City Council to construct ablution facilities at the new Coca-Cola vending site to avoid another cholera outbreak.Information, Media and Broadcasting Services minist...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man killed in SA
Several houses in South Africa were reportedly damaged, while cars were burnt on Monday following the arrest of nine taxi drivers after a Zimbabwean man was attacked and killed in his tuckshop in Kler...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gweru vendors relive running battles with municipal cops
Molleen Makasi (54) runs across a busy street in Gweru's central business district while clutching a bag full of tomatoes, onions, carrots and vegetables. At the corner of the road, she is blocked by ...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 08:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gweru vendors bow down to Joc blitz
ILLEGAL vendors in Gweru have piled pressure on council to regularise their operations following a blitz by the Joint Operations Command in conjunction with municipal police to flush them out of the c...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chaos as Gweru vendors, police clash
THERE was chaos in Gweru central business district yesterday as vendors and riot police clashed after government ordered illegal traders to vacate undesignated sites to curb the spread of typhoid....Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
More Zimbabwe political activists go into hiding
Hundreds more activists have gone into hiding in Zimbabwe as security agencies intensify a crackdown launched shortly after the election 10 days ago.Millions of people cast votes in the poll, ...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 09:29hrs | | by The Guardian
Egodini contractor mulls equity scheme for Bulawayo
SOUTH African civil engineering firm, Terracotta, will be launching a broad-based retail equity scheme, which allows Bulawayo residents to acquire a maximum of 30% shareholding in the Egodini project....Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi victims want their voices heard
THE multitudes at Maphisa Shopping Centre in Kezi, Matabeleland South, have a life of their own. The people at this shopping centre move like a shoal of fish: so many in one space, lively, but bound t...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 16:40hrs | | by Nqobani Ndlovu in Maphisa
Struggle on my beloved country
I wanted to title this article Cry My Beloved Country. After all we recently had cholera outbreaks and our political parties are competing to demonstrate proximity to the West. It does not seem to mat...Published: 09 Feb 2018 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Municipal cops, vendors clash leaves 6 injured
Six municipal police officers were injured last weekend after they were attacked by vendors in the central business district in an operation to rid the city of illegal hawkers.The fierce run-i...Published: 16 Jan 2018 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
4 700 arrested at Beitbridge
Police in Beitbridge rounded up more than 4 700 people for various criminal activities at the Beitbridge Border Post during the festive season. Officer commanding Beitbridge District Chief Sup...Published: 08 Jan 2018 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo fines 289 vendors
POLICE in Bulawayo have fined 289 illegal vendors in a blitz aimed at bringing sanity to the city.BCC senior public relations officer, Mrs Nesisa Mpofu, said an operation against illegal vendi...Published: 04 Nov 2017 at 05:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's govt moves to ban street vending
Government is moving to banish vendors from the streets of Harare, in a move likely to spark outrage among hordes of hawkers who have poured into Harare's streets to eke out an honest living.T...Published: 08 Oct 2017 at 16:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man stabbed after proposing love to woman in front of her hubby
An illicit beer hawker was allegedly stabbed by a Jena mine worker in Silobela after he had ordered him to stop proposing love and caressing his wife during his presence on Friday (yesterday)....Published: 30 Sep 2017 at 19:14hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Man mistakes hawker for wife's lover
A man from Bulawayo's Mabuthweni suburb who mistook a hawker for his wife's lover and attacked him, has been fined $300.Msindisi Sibindi (43) struck Mr Kudakwashe Mhungu thrice on the arm with...Published: 23 Sep 2017 at 15:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Why don't many British tourists visit Victoria Falls?
In August 1934, a memorial statue to one of Britain's greatest national heroes, David Livingstone, was unveiled alongside his beloved Victoria Falls.A thousand people attended the grand ceremo...Published: 03 Sep 2017 at 17:10hrs | | by Mark Easton
Gweru CBD vendors resist eviction, back on the streets
VENDORS are back at undesignated selling points in the Gweru Central Business District after defying a council order to relocate to Swift Vendor Mart in the light industrial area.Two w...Published: 17 Apr 2017 at 13:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
People were committing crimes in army uniform like attire- Sekeramayi
Defence Minister Sydeny Sekeramayi has said many of the people who were wearing attire similar to that or army were committing a lot of crimes hence the government resolved to ban wearing of any attir...Published: 14 Mar 2017 at 05:54hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mutsvangwa tears into Jonathan Moyo, Kasukuwere, Zhuwao
WAR veterans yesterday accused a faction in Zanu-PF of peddling falsehoods against the ex-freedom fighters by linking them to various political outfits in the country.Addressing a Press co...Published: 11 Mar 2017 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sekeramayi warns over military regalia, defends Jah Prayzah
DEFENCE Minister Dr Sydney Sekeramayi has issued a directive to all shop-owners to stop selling military attire as it is illegal.Dr Sekeramayi's statement follows increasing numbers of peo...Published: 11 Mar 2017 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
VP Mnangagwa interview makes troubling reading- Moyo
Higher and Tertiary Education Minister Jonathan Moyo has said the piece that features an interview with Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa was making a troubling reading on many fronts and was terri...Published: 04 Jan 2017 at 05:39hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Dangers of Zimbabwe's politicism & egopolitics
THE spirited search for Lucifer and other expelled angels has taken Zimbabweans so many years and cost them many lives and lots of spirit, energy and property. The Zimbabwean economy and polity ha...Published: 31 Aug 2016 at 09:00hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
We are on the right track, says Gen Chiwenga
This week we publish the final instalment of Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander, General Constantino Guveya Dominic Nyikadzino Chiwenga's, interview with The Sunday Mail Editor Mabasa Sasa and Repo...Published: 21 Aug 2016 at 08:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Many support Mugabe because 'the people not war veterans' elected him - wink, wink
The rogue war veterans' demand for President Mugabe to resign has definitely thrown the cat amongst the caged hawks. There is both surprised and anger on the part of the hawkers at this reckless intru...Published: 25 Jul 2016 at 19:20hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Bulawayo DJ wins Harare house
A Bulawayo-born wheel-spinner, Dag Sago - real name Brigton Ndlovu - is now a proud owner of a house in Harare, thanks to African Distillers (AFDIS).The DJ, who claims to be very popular i...Published: 17 Jul 2016 at 14:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
A letter from Robert Mugabe
Then on 8 February a major fight erupted at Connemara barracks between Kwekwe and Gweru in the Midlands province between ex-Zanla and Zipra guerrillas. Although that fighting at Connemara was quas...Published: 17 Jul 2016 at 12:32hrs | | by David Coltart
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