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Zanu-PF pledges to clean up opposition rot in cities
Zanu-PF will put in place measures to clean the rot in towns and cities brought about by incompetent opposition councillors who have been in charge of urban councils since 2000, Vice President Dr Cons...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 06:40hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo schools in top 10 of Zimbabwe mega schools
MPOPOMA High School and Mahlathini Primary School in Bulawayo have the largest learner population in the city with a combined estimate of more than 5 000 pupils and hundreds of teachers making it into...Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:15hrs | 61 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge staff village brings relief to border workers
The construction and completion of 220 houses for Government workers, as part of the US$300 million Beitbridge Border modernisation, has brought relief to most border agencies that had faced accommoda...Published: 23 Jun 2023 at 06:27hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
BCC 'ignoring' housing waiting list
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has been accused of giving priority to people with money to buy residential stands ahead of those registered on the city's waiting list.One of the affected resident...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe speeding into the territory of charter cities
FINALLY, Al Jazeera aired the first of the four-part series documentary Gold Mafia. Social media went into overdrive, with many people condemning the attitude and character of some of those implicated...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 08:19hrs | 4 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Zimbabweans must stay away from occult wealth seeking
IMAGINE being instructed by an inyanga or sangoma to take soil from a stranger's grave that will be used to perform a ritual to invoke the spirit of a dead person to help you get instant wealth and po...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 08:02hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe plans to build new city for the rich
A brochure depicts pristine walkways, towering high rises and shining malls - all to be shared by a multiracial coterie of well-heeled residents. Plans also call for a solar plant, an important draw f...Published: 27 Jan 2023 at 15:20hrs | 12 | by Staff Reporter
2 000 hectares of land for Gwanda housing
GWANDA Municipality has said it will prioritise those on the housing waiting list in the allocation of residential stands after Government allocated 2 000 hectares of land to the local authority....Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
High density areas to allow double storeys
THE Government will have a policy in place at the end of this year that allows development of double storey housing in the high density residential areas as part of efforts to narrow demand for low co...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 06:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
This & that with Mal'phosa: Int'yenzayo, Aaron Motsoaledi siyayizonda!
There was a demonstration yesterday in Hilbrow - Zimbabweans of all tribes, colour and creed coming together to plead with the Home office to please extend their permits. Well, you might not have hear...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 15:04hrs | 18 | by Clerk Ndlovu
Zanu-PF, CCC legislators unite to condemn fire tenders deal
In a rare show of consensus Thursday, opposition and ruling party legislators roundly condemned the government's deal to procure fire tenders from Belarus with most telling deputy local government min...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BCC to parcel out 3 000 stands yearly
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) says it will unveil 3 000 stands annually to reduce the housing waiting list which now stands at 130 000.On Friday, BCC commissioned 114 stands in Emganwini high-de...Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Flats to reduce Bulawayo housing backlog
GROWING up in a residential flat as opposed to a stand-alone housing unit has largely been confined to a few western suburbs in Bulawayo.Several rented apartments owned by the local authority ...Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BCC seeks partners for Emganwini flats
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is set to construct residential flats in Emganwini and is inviting financially sound investors to partner the local authority in delivering homes to residents. Public priva...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa Road now development corridor
Harare City Council has designated Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa Road (formerly Enterprise Road) in Harare as a development corridor in a move it says will spur development and contribute to its realisa...Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 18:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
New salary offer for civil servants
A technical team constituted by the Government is set to table a report this week that will determine a new salary offer that will be taken by the employer to its workers as negotiations over civil se...Published: 23 May 2021 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Council told to build flats to save land
BULAWAYO residents have suggested that the local authority develop high-rise buildings as land shortage looms in the city.Contributing during an online city master plan review consultative mee...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 18:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
When Zimbabwean leaders are so fearful of their own citizens, it's not the nation's fault, but the leaders themselves
One thing that most of us in Zimbabwe grew up being bewildered with, was always watching on the daily main news bulletin, the president moving around completely surrounded by bodyguards - actually, he...Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
How can bitcoin make you rich? Let's tell you!
In this world for of different ways of making money, if you do not have knowledge regarding them, you cannot get what you want. If you want money out of something, you need to know each and every brie...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 18:36hrs | 3 | by Staff Writer
ZANU PF youth leader attacks Jonathan Moyo
ZANU PF deputy youth league boss Lewis Matutu has said former party spin doctor Professor Jonathan Moyo has not only lost relevance but has become a useless and permanent fugitive.In a Twitter...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 10:58hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jonathan Moyo, Kirsty Coventry mourn Mnangagwa's 'love-rival'
Professor Jonathan Moyo has wrote a tweet mourning the late veteran broadcaster and Deputy Director and Chairperson of Danhiko Annual Paralympic Games, Godfrey Majonga who passed away around 11p...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 19:12hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa 'victim' dies
DANHIKO project deputy director and chairperson for the Danhiko Paralympic Games Godfrey Majonga has died. Majonga passed away on Monday night at his home in Eastlea. He was 62. ...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 15:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'love rival' dies
Veteran journalist Godfrey Majonga, alleged to have been forced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to jump from a high rise building in 1987 during a clash over a woman, has died.In post on its T...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 14:10hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
SA firm seals US$2bn Beitbridge - Bulawayo-Victoria Falls highway dualisation deal
Construction group, Khato Holdings, has sealed a deal that will see the dualisation of Beitbridge-Victoria Falls highway at an estimated cost of US$2bn in a build, operate and transfer arrangement....Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 08:46hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Investigate the Pay-for-your-house Scheme of the 90s
Why is everyone quiet? Why the deafening silence? The Pay-for-your-house Scheme of the 90s was never transparent, contributors lost large amounts of money towards a government initiated housing scheme...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 20:38hrs | 3 | by Thomas Murisa
Jonathan Moyo resurrects Mnangagwa's skeleton
Professor Jonathan Moyo says he holds incriminating evidence regarding the gruesome crippling of former journalist Godfrey Majonga. In 2017 former ZANU PF leader Robert Mugabe told party suppo...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 17:43hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Makokoba revamp latest
THE Government will soon inject millions of dollars for the redevelopment of Makokoba and other suburbs in Bulawayo, as it works on the implementation of the devolution process. Local Governme...Published: 28 May 2019 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Address the Pay-For-Your-House Scheme
Zimbabwe government to construct high rise flats - this is music to the ears of many who are still finding it hard to get a roof over their heads. We hope and wish such rhetoric turns into vis...Published: 15 May 2019 at 08:18hrs | 7 | by Tondorindo
2019 ZITF perceptions
The 60th of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair had more than 532 companies who participated in showcasing their services and products. The Trade Fair theme was "Propagating Industrial Growth throug...Published: 15 May 2019 at 08:13hrs | 13 | by Enos Denhere
Letter to President E.D. Mnangagwa
Your Excellency President of the Republic of Zimbabwe E.D. Mnangagwa. A cat may look at a King. Writing directly to you seeking redress on issues that could have been dealt with by line heads of depar...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 15:07hrs | | by Thomas Murisa
Govt to injects $264 million into housing
Government will next year invest $264 million in housing construction in a bid to reduce the national housing backlog estimated at more than 1,3 million. The demand for housing has over the ye...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 08:41hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
The Umthwakazi Nation Remember King Lobengula
The fierce encounter at Lalaphansi and a little later at the Shangani River in October, 1893, between Imbizo gallant Forces of King Lobengula and the Imperialist Forces were initial incide...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 20:13hrs | 13 | by Prince Zwide Peter Khumalo
Mnangagwa to name, shame land barons
President Mnangagwa yesterday said he would soon expose land barons that fleeced desperate home-seekers especially in urban areas. The President said this while addressing thousands of zanu-pf...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Vote Mnangagwa to conclude Mugabe coup'
Operation Restore Legacy, which reached tipping point with a nationwide march on November 18 last year and paved way for the new political dispensation in Zimbabwe, will be concluded by voting for Pre...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 07:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Beitbridge should be a city'
MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa last week attacked the Zanu-PF government for failing to develop the border town despite the huge potential which comes from its proximity to South Africa and its p...Published: 02 Jun 2018 at 20:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF pledges to clamp down on land barons
The ZANU-PF Government says it will put an end to irregular allocations of land and development of shanty towns if re-elected in the forthcoming 2018 harmonised elections.In its 2018 election ...Published: 08 May 2018 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
470 000 houses to be constructed
Government is committed to provide low income houses for the people of Zimbabwe, with at least 470 000 units set to be built in urban and rural areas.The development comes amid estimates that ...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 09:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Govt bans peri-urban land sales
SOME farmers who were allocated land on the outskirts of Harare and other towns are illegally converting the land into residential stands and selling them.It has emerged that these unscrupulou...Published: 30 Jan 2018 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
The love scandals that rocked Zanu-PF
Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones, but obviously someone forgot to tell the folks inside Zanu-PF. In this expose, we look at the love scandals that have dominated Mugabe's party ...Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 15:57hrs | 246 | by Lance Guma
Zimbabwe mulls electric geysers ban
ZIMBABWE is set to replace at least 140 000 electrical geysers, with solar water heaters that will save at least 280 megawatts of electricity.Speaking during the launch of the Zimbabwe Energy ...Published: 25 Dec 2017 at 07:30hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Dirty cops and Corrupt journalists hired to smear Mnangagwa
Robert Greene, an American author wrote a book entitled, The 48 Laws of Power. In this book he outlines and explain the different types of power and influence and how those who exercise them can do so...Published: 11 Nov 2017 at 15:49hrs | 3 | by Lloyd Msipa
Demolition of Matapi hostels not a solution
CALLS by Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa for the Harare City Council to demolish the densely populated Mbare's Matapi hostels in order to decisively deal with the perennial typhoid o...Published: 30 Oct 2017 at 04:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe ally blasts Indian business community
MINISTER of State for Manicaland Provincial Affairs Mandi Chimene has read the riot act to the Indian business community in Mutare for failing to take part in developmental projects in the city. She w...Published: 27 Oct 2017 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF youth official declares war on city council
ZANU PF Manicaland youth chairperson Mubuso Chinguno has declared war on Mutare City Council for allegedly refusing to parcel out land to ruling party youths.Chinguno said attempts by Zanu PF ...Published: 21 Oct 2017 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa takes fight to Moyo
Embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa will today get an opportunity to present a dossier to the Zanu-PF politburo on Cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo's alleged plot to destroy the former liberatio...Published: 11 Oct 2017 at 17:26hrs | | by Staf reporter
Bulawayo youths sold bottled smoke
Zanu-PF youths in the second largest city and its hinterland are seething with anger after President Robert Mugabe 's government claimed last year to have made available swathes of land for housing de...Published: 27 Sep 2017 at 15:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa crippled Majonga allegations backfires for Jonathan Moyo?
The letter from Mnangagwa's lawyers threatening to sue Prof Jonathan Moyo for $3m for claiming the VP crippled ex-broadcaster Godfrey Majonga....Published: 25 Sep 2017 at 22:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa too cruel to be President says Grace Mugabe's Ex-hubby
The bitter former Grace Mugabe's husband Stanley Goreraza is alleged to have claimed that Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa is too cruel that he can not rule the people.He related some inciden...Published: 25 Sep 2017 at 07:47hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa to sue Jonathan Moyo
Zimbabwe's Minister of Higher Education, Jonathan Moyo will be slapped with a massive lawsuit regarding claims he made about the country's Vice President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, impeccable sources have c...Published: 16 Sep 2017 at 12:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's victim -Majonga- speaks out'
Legendary newscaster, Godfrey Majonga, yesterday broke his silence on whether Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa forced him to plunge several storeys out of a Harare apartment window during an alleged ...Published: 12 Sep 2017 at 08:57hrs | 108 | by Staff reporter
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