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Bulawayo suburbs in power blackout
A POWER fault affecting the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) mainline distribution chain has resulted in several suburbs in Bulawayo going for at least a day without ...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 11:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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
BCC unveils US$158m budget
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) yesterday unveiled its US$157,99 million revenue budget and is proposing to set aside US$106 million to fund key infrastructural development projects that include construct...Published: 01 Nov 2022 at 05:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo avails 5 000 stands, another 5 000 in Masterplan
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has availed more than 5 000 residential stands in various suburbs with another 5 000 outlined in its master plan as part of efforts to clear the city's housing backlog,...Published: 08 Jul 2022 at 07:35hrs | 150 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo councillor fumes over Mwonzora links
A BULAWAYO councillor, who two weeks ago attended a caucus meeting of Citizens' Coalition for Change despite her being a member of the Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC-T has taken a swipe at her colleagues ac...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 08:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo avails 500 stands
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has since started to note the benefits of a new housing development strategy that it embarked on at the beginning of the year with the servicing of over 500 stands unde...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 07:51hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Forex black market chokes residents
Bulawayo residents have said parallel market rates are chocking them as they cannot afford to pay rentals or make ends meet.Parallel market rates have shot up to about $180 for US$1 in the str...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Old shop licence fees cost BCC $29 million
THE Bulawayo City Council lost $29 million revenue due to charging old fees on shop licences.The council also overshot its 2021 budget by $71,5 million on town planning, environment management...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Over 7 000 stands for Bulawayo
THE Bulawayo City Council is set to avail more than 7 000 stands as the local authority steps up efforts to ease accommodation woes in the city.This comes at a time the local authority is work...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 07:47hrs | 2 | 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
Mbo Mahocs to host ZimAchievers SA event
Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA) have announced television personality and socialite Mbo Mahocs as the host of the ZororoPhumulani ZAA SA Awards Dinner Gala set for Saturday 5 December at The Venue Mel...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 16:37hrs | 6 | by Agencies
Bulawayo to host motor racing
BULAWAYO's Motoring Club (BMC) will tomorrow host the first leg of the national series motor racing, with the staging of the John Love Trophy at the Bulawayo Motorsport Park, Highmount.The com...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 07:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Councillors scramble for heavily discounted stands
COUNCILLORS in Bulawayo have started getting land with most of them identifying residential stands in some of the city's affluent suburbs, Sunday News can exclusively reveal.The scheme meant t...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 22:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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
Bulawayo City Council avails 5,000 housing stands
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has availed more than 5 000 housing stands in the city as they push towards addressing the ever ballooning housing backlog, a senior council official has said.T...Published: 27 Jun 2017 at 17:45hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Another low-density suburb for Bulawayo
THE Bulawayo City Council has approved plans for the development of a new low-density residential area along Victoria Falls Road.According to latest minutes of the council's town, lands planni...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 08:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Maid stabbed 10 times to death
A 42-YEAR-OLD man from Bulawayo's Gwabalanda suburb has been arrested for allegedly stabbing his family's maid 10 times using a kitchen knife after she turned down his sexual advances.Vincent ...Published: 07 Jan 2016 at 05:24hrs | | by Thandeka Moyo and Nqobile Tshili
Bulawayo sues Econet
Econet Wireless is engaged in a tug of war with the Bulawayo City Council over a debt of more than $48 700 in unpaid rates.Council filed summons at the Bulawayo High Court demanding payment o...Published: 29 Aug 2014 at 08:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police insert bananas into suspect's privates
TWO female police officers allegedly inserted bananas into the v*gina of a 17-year-old suspect who was in their custody, a court heard.Faith Sibanda, mother to a one-year-old child together w...Published: 25 Apr 2014 at 08:04hrs | | by Thandeka Moyo
Two rapist murderers sentenced to death
THE two men who waylaid a United Collegee of Education female student, assaulted and raped her until she lost consciousness before fatally stoning her male companion, were yesterday sentenced to deat...Published: 14 Dec 2013 at 02:50hrs | | by Staff
Duo up for student rape, murder
TWO men accosted a United College of Education female student, assaulted and raped her till she lost consciousness before allegedly stoning her male companion to death. The student, 29, whose...Published: 11 Dec 2013 at 03:38hrs | 2 | by Court Reporter
Girl snatches mum's boyfriend, elopes with him after getting pregnant
A Bulawayo woman has been left nursing her love wounds after being dumped by her boyfriend who later eloped with her 15-year-old daughter, who surprisingly is still in grade 6!The girl (name s...Published: 05 Jul 2012 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grade five girl snatches mom's hubby, falls pregnant
A 15 year old Highmount girl who is in grade five snatched her mother's boyfriend and later fell pregnant, a Bulawayo magistrate heard.She is now four months pregnant with Patrick Dube's kid...Published: 30 Jun 2012 at 15:26hrs | | by Alois Sibanda
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