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Zanu-PF's Kidwell Mujuru challenges CCC candidate in court
FORMER Zanu-PF councillor for Ward 6 in Cowdray Park suburb, Kidwell Mujuru, has filed an urgent High Court application challenging the election and christening thereafter of Mr Nkosilathi Mpofu as co...Published: 21 Mar 2024 at 08:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CCC factions lost 3 council seats to Zanu-PF in Bulawayo
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) lost three of the eight council seats it had won in August to Zanu-PF after five of its recalled councillors retained their seats from the eight contested wards...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 09:24hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
NRZ passenger train service to be revived
PLANS are underway to capacitate the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) that will result in the revival of abandoned passenger services to ease the pressure on the country's major highways, Vice- Pre...Published: 06 Dec 2023 at 05:05hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga dangles more developmental projects to lure votes in Cowdray Park
In a bid to garner support for the ruling Zanu-PF party in the upcoming December 9 by-elections, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has promised a slew of developmental projects for Cowdray Park resi...Published: 04 Dec 2023 at 17:20hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
'By-elections manna from Heaven for Zanu-PF,' says Chiwenga
VICE-President Dr Constantino Chiwenga yesterday said Zanu-PF will capitalise on the confusion within the opposition ranks to clinch a resounding victory in the by-elections slated for this weekend....Published: 04 Dec 2023 at 04:46hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's candidate not worried about Mthuli Ncube's perceived influence
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) parliamentary candidate for Cowdray Park says he is not worried about Zanu-PF's aspiring National Assembly candidate Mthuli Ncube's perceived influence.On W...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 06:43hrs | 12 | 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
Zanu-PF shaping Bulawayo's development agenda?
BULAWAYO, once dominated by the opposition, is now witnessing a shift as Zanu-PF takes the lead in shaping its development agenda. With an astounding 193 candidates successfully filing nominat...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 06:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF candidates warned
AHEAD of the sitting of the nomination court tomorrow, aspiring Zanu-PF candidates have been strongly urged to respect the electorate and not assume that victory will be given to them on a silver plat...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 06:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Professor Ncube must ignore councillors' talk shows
SO an aspiring candidate rehabilitated roads in a constituency and the local council has its knickers in a twist saying the candidate should have obtained permission from them. Really? Talk of a sense...Published: 18 Jun 2023 at 08:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Residents lambast councillors for sabotaging development
COWDRAY Park residents have described Bulawayo councillors as selfish after they took a swipe at Zanu-PF aspiring Cowdray Park constituency Parliamentary candidate, Professor Mthuli Ncube for fixing r...Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 21:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Health time bomb ticks in Mthuli Ncube's Cowdray Park
RESIDENTS of Cowdray Park in Bulawayo are living in fear of a possible outbreak of waterborne diseases following the drilling of boreholes in wards 6 and 15 that predominantly use Blair toilets....Published: 25 May 2023 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Living the Mthuli Dream in Cowdray Park
MISS Nobuhle Nyathi has lived in Bulawayo's Cowdray Park for the entirety of her life and has always longed for meaningful development as some parts of the suburb resembled rural areas.Today, ...Published: 23 May 2023 at 06:39hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube inspired road rehabilitation at full throttle in Cowdray Park
THE Zanu-PF candidate for Cowdray Park constituency, Professor Mthuli Ncube has set the ball rolling in his development agenda of the area with road rehabilitation works, borehole drilling and Wi-Fi i...Published: 07 May 2023 at 07:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
No more open air worship for church
A church in Bulawayo's Cowdray Park suburb is inching closer in finding a permanent home after it secured a stand following interventions by the Councillor and Council for Churches in Africa (CCA)....Published: 01 May 2023 at 19:18hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
9 000 Cowdray Park houses use banned blair toilets
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is working on modalities to ensure that all houses in Cowdray Park are connected to the sewer reticulation system.The development comes after the Government imp...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 11:00hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Cowdray Park population bigger than Gwanda, Hwange
WHILE it is a common joke in Bulawayo that Cowdray Park exists as a separate entity from the rest of Bulawayo, this may in the near future become a reality as police stations, malls, hospitals, clinic...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF commandeers supporters to register en masse
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has reportedly been mobilising its supporters to get registered to vote in Harare and Bulawayo, with hundreds turning up daily at the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) regis...Published: 19 Jan 2023 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo cop killed by lightning
A police officer stationed at Cowdray park police base in Bulawayo was struck and killed by lightning on Tuesday.Peter Gwaza (42) and her girlfriend Priority Dube (30) were walking along a foo...Published: 06 Jan 2023 at 18:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
300 industries for Cowdray Park
BULAWAYO is establishing industries in Cowdray Park suburb and nearly 300 industrial stands are set for development in the city's most populous suburb.According to the 2022 Population Census p...Published: 09 Sep 2022 at 06:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cowdray Park: It's not a suburb, it's a town
THE number of people in Cowdray Park suburb has grown exponentially, surpassing towns such as Gwanda at a time when the population of Bulawayo is almost stagnant, increasing by a mere 12 000 in the pa...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 06:28hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Shangani dam a fulfilment of Dr Nkomo's dream
"NKOMO made Freeman" was the bold headline in the Chronicle edition of Friday 28 February 1992, with the accompanying sub-heading; "Vice President tasked to make the Zambezi project a success."...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF eyes Bulawayo seats in 2023
Zanu-PF's Bulawayo Greens district political commissar Elias Mweneziko said the party was set to regain all the seats it lost to the opposition in 2018.Bulawayo has been an opposition strongho...Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:40hrs | 6 | 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 | | 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 | 9 | 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 | 10 | by Staff reporter
Storm blacks-out most Bulawayo suburbs
HEAVY rains that hit Bulawayo yesterday morning triggered a power outage affecting most suburbs in the city, including the region's main referral hospital, Mpilo Central Hospital.Power is expe...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 05:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Sand poachers wreak havoc in Bulawayo
ILLEGAL sand poachers are now targeting undeveloped housing stands in Bulawayo's Cowdray Park suburb, leaving unclaimed pits that pose a danger to children.Two children drowned in one of the u...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 08:48hrs | 16 | by Staff Reporter
Sand poachers degrade Bulawayo
RAMPANT sand poaching and chopping down of trees is causing environmental degradation in and around Bulawayo amid revelations that the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) only has five rangers instead of 74 n...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 05:53hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Cowdray Park residents block clinic project
COWDRAY PARK residents in Bulawayo last week blocked Manifesto Construction Company workers from constructing Empompini Clinic in the area, accusing the firm of failing to employ locals in the project...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cowdray Park residents cry foul over road project
COWDRAY Park residents have appealed to the Bulawayo City Council to prioritise the completion of the road linking the suburb and Hlalani Kuhle residential stands, as the rainy season is fast approach...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ngozi Mine smoke chokes Bulawayo suburb
THICK plumes of smoke billowing from a sprawling Bulawayo City Council (BCC) landfill site popularly known as Ngozi Mine in Richmond suburb are a daily sight. The hazardous smoke is now encroa...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 05:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man torches ex-wife's house
BULAWAYO woman has been left to pick up the pieces after her estranged husband set her four-roomed house on fire, destroying all her property. Since the Friday night incident, Mrs Thembelani N...Published: 12 Aug 2021 at 06:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
New school to open in Zanu-PF held constituency in Bulawayo
VULINDLELA Primary School in Cowdray Park suburb is set to open next term with 650 learners already enrolled at the school.The school which is being constructed by the Bulawayo City Council (B...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 15:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cowdray Park residents to pay for roads rehabilitation
RESIDENTS in Cowdray Park Hlalani Kuhle in Bulawayo will be required to contribute money towards the rehabilitation of the poor road infrastructure in the suburb.This comes amid revelations th...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 09:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zupco shuns bad road routes
THE Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) has abandoned some routes in Bulawayo due to bad roads. Bulawayo's road network is in a terrible state and this has been worsened by the incessant rains t...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 05:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Pit latrines overflow in waterlogged Cowdray Park
Residents are losing household property while fears of an outbreak of waterborne diseases abound in a section of Cowdray Park's Hlalani Kuhle/Garikai area which is waterlogged as it lacks a drainage s...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZUPCO withdraws buses from suburbs citing poor roads
PUBLIC transporter, the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) has withdrawn its services in some suburbs in Bulawayo citing poor roads.The current rains, economic challenges and poor manag...Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa allies bicker over candidate list
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance Bulawayo province has clashed with the party's national elections directorate (NED) for removing a female candidate from contesting in Mzilikazi's ward 8 bye-lectio...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Thunderstorm wreaks havoc in Cowdray Park
SOME residents of Cowdray Park suburb in Bulawayo are counting huge losses after their homes including household property among other valuables were on Tuesday night extensively destroyed by rains whi...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 07:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
$3 million availed for Cowdray Park road and bridge construction
THE Government has availed $3 million for the construction of a road and bridge linking Cowdray Park Hlalani Kuhle residential stands and the main road in the suburb to address the problem of inaccess...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
By-elections defeats divide Chamisa's Alliance
The MDC-ALLIANCE leadership is under scrutiny from members and supporters following a string of recent defeats to the ruling party, Zanu-PF. Disgruntlement in the party, led by Mr Nelson Chami...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF targets urban voters
The ruling ZANU-PF will come up with programmes to improve the lives of the urban population as it moves to break the opposition's stronghold in future elections.Since 2000, ZANU-PF has strugg...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 14:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC banks on 'Mnangagwa's failures' to retain Mutasa seat
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's continuous failure to solve the country's economy will hand the MDC-Alliance an electoral victory in the Mutasa Rural District Council ward 10 by-election slated for tom...Published: 10 May 2019 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Zanu-PF Councillor sworn in Bulawayo
Ward 28 Councillor Kidwell Mujuru was on Wednesday sworn into office by the Town Clerk following the Ward 28 By election.The Mayor of Bulawayo His Worship Solomon Mguni the Mayor welcomed him ...Published: 25 Apr 2019 at 13:26hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC seeks to close ranks in Bulawayo
THE BULAWAYO MDC provincial leadership is mobilising members to close ranks and focus on rebuilding the party's structures following last week's divisive congress.Divisions rocked the oppositi...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF remains stronger, as the nation celebrates Independence Day
On 18 April every year, Zimbabweans join hands in celebrating the gains of independence that was brought by the country's freedom fighters.This year, Zimbabwe will be celebrating 39 years of s...Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 20:50hrs | 1 | by Peacemaker Zano
Mwonzora fights one centre of power in MDC
The MDC is proposing a number of changes at its forthcoming elective congress to be held in Gweru next month, to ensure that power is distributed equitably within the party. Party secretary-ge...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 07:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa slams Bulawayo MDC bigwigs over Cowdray Park loss
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa on Monday reportedly slammed the Bulawayo provincial leadership for the party's poor showing in a recent council by-election won by Zanu-PF.Zanu-PF's Kidwell Mujuru w...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs savaged
ERRANT Zanu-PF bigwigs aspiring to lead the party's fractious Bulawayo province have received a severe tongue-lashing from the former liberation movement's secretary for administration Obert Mpofu - w...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 14:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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