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ZBC, a national embarrassment and huge shame on journalism!
Who can still remember the late great Bornwell Chakaodza?I can still see the images of the fiery no-nonsense renowned journalist and media lecturer - as he bombarded government officials on pe...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 18:06hrs | 11 | by by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Bulawayo City Council pockets US$290K from parking
BULAWAYO City Council (CCC) has pocketed US$290 000 from its controversial vehicle parking system amid growing calls for its scrapping.The city's vehicle parking management system is managed b...Published: 07 May 2023 at 07:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man found with 23 gold bars at airport fined R40,000 only
A Zimbabwean man found with 23 gold bars concealed in a box of whisky at South Africa's OR Tambo International Airport has been sentenced to a fine of R40 000 or two years' imprisonment....Published: 19 Mar 2023 at 07:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: 2 Zimbabweans; 1 SA police officer arrested for robbery
Reports coming from the neighbouring South Africa indicate that two Zimbabwean nationals team other with six South Africans with one of them being a police officer to plot committing a robbery in that...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 16:47hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
South Africa forfeits Zimbabwe smuggler's R9m gold contraband
A SOUTH AFRICAN court has ordered the seizure of 23 pieces of gold, worth R9 million, that were smuggled by a Zimbabwean man, Tashinga Nyasha Masinire, into the neigbhouring country in May last year....Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 05:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
R9 million gold smuggled from Zimbabwe by Rushwaya driver forfeited to SA
Gold worth R9 million (US$506,000) which was smuggled from Zimbabwe has been forfeited to South Africa following an application by that country's elite specialised crime investigation agency, the HAWK...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 19:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC rakes in US$4,1m from plans
BULAWAYO City Council has raked in over US$4,1 million after approving 195 building plans.BCC minutes for April state that the council director of Housing and Community Services Dictor Khumalo...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kuda Mahachi in the news again
SuperSport United striker Kudakwashe Mahachi is facing possible criminal investigation for gender-based violence (GBV) after he allegedly assaulted and broke the hand of his ex-wife.He is also...Published: 23 May 2022 at 19:36hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Motorists shun Bulawayo CBD parking bays
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC)'s controversial parking meter scheme raked in less than US$6 000 in the past two months as motorists continue to avoid parking bays in the central business district o...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BCC threatens to repossess 88 commercial, industrial stands
BULAWAYO City Council has threatened to repossess 88 commercial and industrial stands after the owners failed to pay bills, or to develop them.In a notice yesterday, town clerk Christopher Dub...Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo seeks to redevelop industrial areas
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has embarked on a door-to-door traffic survey to review its local development plan for industrial areas in the city as part of its expansion drive.This was revealed...Published: 04 Jan 2022 at 05:57hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Council to repossess more housing stands
BULAWAYO City Council is set to repossess a number of undeveloped stands in Emganwini high density suburb, some of which are situated on wetlands.The local authority has served beneficia...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:14hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man gets R20 000 bail for smuggling
The trial of a 52 year-old Zimbabwean man who was recently arrested with R30 million worth of smuggled cigarettes in South Africa has been set for January 17 next year at the Polokwane Magistrate Cour...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 05:32hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
BCC commits $43,7m to refurbishments
BULAWAYO City Council has utilised only $43,7 million out of the $63,5 million devolution funds that the city was allocated from 2019 to 2021.This was revealed in the 2021 budget review statem...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:42hrs | | 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
BCC projects $24,7bn budget for 2022
BULAWAYO City Council has proposed a $24,7 billion budget for 2022, which will hike tariffs by over 216%.This was revealed by BCC financial director Kempton Ndimande yesterday while presenting...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-cop took out 16 policies on boyfriend
THE former police officer accused of murdering six of her relatives testified on Thursday that she had taken out 16 policies on her boyfriend amounting to more than R400 000. Nomia Rosemary Nd...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 19:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pensioner's impounded vehicle released on humanitarian grounds
Bulawayo City Council has released on humanitarian grounds the pensioner Isaac Donald Donono's vehicle (ADL 4359) that was impounded due to failure to display a valid licence disc abandonment in the s...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 11:45hrs | 7 | by Stephen Jakes
Robert Gabriel Mugabe: The killer of our dreams
THIS week marks the second anniversary of the death of Robert Gabriel Mugabe, the first prime minister of an independent Zimbabwe, on April 18, 1980.While we acknowledge the fact that there ar...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:59hrs | 10 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Gold smuggling: Heads to roll at airport
POLICE will leave no stone unturned in establishing how a gold smuggler sneaked out of the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport undetected, only to be arrested in South African. Home Af...Published: 13 May 2021 at 06:41hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Gold smuggling case: Police rope in Interpol
Police have widened investigations into the smuggling of 23 gold pieces worth US$783 000 by a Zimbabwean who was arrested in South Africa, and are waiting for a detailed report from Interpol officials...Published: 12 May 2021 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
US$780k gold smuggler linked to Rushwaya?
ZIMBABWE'S lax security at ports of entry and airports has come under spotlight again after Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) president Henrietta Rushwaya's ex-aide was arrested at the OR Tambo Interna...Published: 11 May 2021 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man gets R100,000 bail for smuggling gold into SA
A 33-year-old Zimbabwean man who was yesterday arrested while smuggling gold worth R11 million into South Africa has been granted R100 000 bail by a Kempton Park Regional Court, in Gauteng province....Published: 10 May 2021 at 17:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rushwaya denies links to OR Tambo Airport gold smuggler
Zimbabwe Miners Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya on Monday denied links to smuggled gold worth R11 million which was seized by South African authorities at OR Tambo International Airport last S...Published: 10 May 2021 at 17:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man nabbed at airport with R11m in gold pieces
A 33-year-old suspect is expected to appear in the Kempton Park regional court today after being arrested at the OR Tambo International Airport with 23 pieces of gold worth an estimated R11 million in...Published: 10 May 2021 at 05:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC supplementary budget approved
Government has approved Bulawayo City Council (BCC)'s supplementary budget of $2,85 billion which will see service charges going up 372%, Southern Eye has learnt.In September, the BCC proposed...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's intellectual prostitutes and the national question
My Ghanaian broth er, Dr George Ayiteyi, was the first to connect fraudulent claims to the title of professor to Professor Jonathan Moyo as the quintessential intellectual prostitute. I scolded Ayitey...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:41hrs | | by Kenneth Mufuka
BCC proposes $2,85 billion supplementary budget
BULAWAYO City Council on Friday announced a proposed $2,85 billion supplementary budget to sustain its operations for the remainder of this year.The council also announced a $17,1 billion prop...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo spurns ZNA donation request
BULAWAYO city fathers recently turned down a request by the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) to sponsor its family fun-day shooting competition, citing financial challenges, a council report reveals....Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 08:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Residents stop paying bills after water disconnections were outlawed
BULAWAYO City Council says payments for water bills have dropped sharply since the High Court blocked local authorities from disconnecting water over non-payment.The Court ruled last year that...Published: 01 May 2019 at 09:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe engine catches fire during flight from OR Tambo, lands safely
An Air Zimbabwe plane experienced "a malfunction" in one of its engines causing a brief fire on Sunday evening from OR Tambo International Airport to Harare.The airline confirmed that a Boeing...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 08:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora is a friendly but difficult opponent
AS THE eagerly-anticipated MDC congress looms large, alliances, vitriol and realignments are taking centre stage in the country's largest opposition movement.Deputy Chief Writer Tendai Kamhung...Published: 31 Mar 2019 at 16:45hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
BCC in financial dire straits
The Bulawayo City Council financials are in the red, a development officials equated to being technically insolvent. The crisis saw the local authority calling for an emergency financial perfo...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 22:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Maimane's money & monkey tricks
Last week the South African opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) leader, Mmusi Maimane handed a letter to the Zimbabwean embassy in that country requesting to meet President Emmerson Mnangagwa over the...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Digging to the roots of Maimane's stunts
Last week the South African opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) leader, Mmusi Maimane handed a letter to the Zimbabwean embassy in that country requesting to meet President Emmerson Mnangagwa over the...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 14:56hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
SA arrests Mozambique’s ex-finance minister for extradition to US
A former finance minister of Mozambique, who approved secret loans that plunged the country into a crisis, has been arrested in South Africa awaiting extradition to the United States, police said Mond...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 10:40hrs | 7 | by AFP
Bev, Zoey take fight to SA
Raunchy dancer Beverly Sibanda and her oft-competitor Zoey Sifelani have decided to take their stage "fight" to South Africa.Popularly known as Bev, Sibanda decamped to South Africa early this...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 10:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police brutality snaring the public
In the colonial era the mases faced a lot of police brutality primarily due to the racial factor. One would have thought in this new democratic era the narrative would have changed rather the si...Published: 15 Oct 2018 at 14:05hrs | | by Daniel Itai
Tapuwa Kapini now fixing cars
Former Warriors goalie Tapuwa Kapini has ventured into the vehicle repair business when he is not saving goals on the field.Kapini now co-owns a workshop that fixes gearboxes in Pomona, Kempto...Published: 02 Oct 2018 at 09:00hrs | 1 | by Sithabile Mafu
Zimbabwe's impressive cabinet line-up under a severe parliamentary vaccuum
For the first time in history, the new president has made constructive use of the specially elected parliamentarians window.From this window the president has addressed key discrepancies to br...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 13:35hrs | 1 | by Reginald Thabani Gola.
Mnangagwa to launch $2,2bn projects in Bulawayo
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will today officially open the $2 billion Hopeville Housing Project near Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport and commission a $2 million tomato processing plant here. ...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
105 km Walk for Freedom 2018 - it's Loser take all in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe Human Rights Organisation (ZHRO) members walked 105 km from Brighton to London to highlight the violence and election chaos in Zimbabwe. "Our 'Walk for Freedom' is not just a slogan, ...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 13:14hrs | | by Kingstone Jambawo
Zimfest Live 2018 to feature Sulu and Takura as they announce more acts
Dendera star, Sulumani Chimbetu and singer-songwriter Takura have been added to the long list of talent that will perform at Kempton Park Racecourse on 11 August.The stars join Killer T, Stunn...Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 11:42hrs | 4 | by Tidi Kwidini
Bev quits Zimbabwe
SOUTH Africa based raunchy dancer Beverly Sibanda, who left the capital in May this year, might be homesick but she won't be coming back anytime soon.She says while she is desperate to be 'reu...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 15:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt blocks BCC from converting waste into usable energy deal
Government has blocked the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) from engaging into partnership with the private consulting firm Pragmaleaf Consulting Diverflex (PVT) Limited in a deal in which they intended to...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 07:26hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimfest Live 2018 back with killer line-up and announces headline sponsor
The highly anticipated southern African music and arts festival, Zimfest Live, will return in August organisers have announced.Scheduled for 11 August at Kempton Race course in Surre...Published: 30 May 2018 at 06:44hrs | 8 | by Tidi Kwidini
David Mkandawire back on streets
FORMER AmaZulu and Warriors' strongman David Mkandawire has reportedly been spotted roaming the streets of Johannesburg in South Africa again barely two years after being taken off and apparently reha...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
UK protest walk against the human rights abuses in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe Human Rights Organisation (ZHRO), the organisers of a protest walk against the human rights abuses in Zimbabwe have announced their route for the demonstration.Demonstrators will meet...Published: 10 Aug 2017 at 11:03hrs | 1 | by Kingstone Jambawo
Work on $2 billion Bulawayo up-market satellite town begins
A consortium of local businesspeople has started work on the estimated $2 billion up-market satellite town project located on the outskirts of the City of Bulawayo.Thompson Properties managing...Published: 16 Jul 2017 at 13:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
War breaks out between Maimane and Zille
Western Cape Premier Helen Zille has accused the party’s federal executive of not complying with its own constitution.In a statement published on her Twitter account Zille said there was a c...Published: 03 Jun 2017 at 14:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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