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Bulawayo seeks more land to bury its dead
Bulawayo City Council has revealed plans to designate a portion of Good Hope Farm for burial services, as the city's cemeteries have run out of burial space, according to the latest council minutes....Published: 16 Mar 2025 at 09:29hrs | 317 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo identifies new cemetery site
Bulawayo City Council has identified a 43-hectare site at Goodhope Farm as a potential new cemetery, with the capacity to accommodate 80,000 graves. The farm, located 17 kilometres from the city centr...Published: 12 Mar 2025 at 07:40hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Council urges cremation or rural home burials
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) which is fast running out of burial space is calling on residents to either cremate or bury their loved ones at their rural homes.The call also comes amid revel...Published: 07 Jul 2023 at 07:53hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo grave diggers overwhelmed
GRAVE diggers at Bulawayo cemeteries are overwhelmed and the council has proposed that mourners do the back-filling of the graves while it recruits more staff.According to the latest council m...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:32hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Athlone Cemetery extended by 4.6 hectares
THE Bulawayo City Council has extended Athlone Cemetery by 4,06 hectares to create space for an additional 8 250 graves after realising that the city was fast running out of burial space.Counc...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
West Park cemetery decommissioned
Bulawayo City Council has said West Park Cemetery will be decommissioned at the end of March and that the few remaining graves would cater for children only.Latest full council minutes state that ...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
West Park cemetery fast filling up
The West Park cemetery is reportedly fast getting filled amid concerns by the Bulawayo city fathers.The Director of Health Services reported that the space at West Park cemetery was fast filli...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 07:02hrs | 4 | by Stephen Jakes
West Park cemetery to re-open in Bulawayo
West Park cemetery in Bulawayo is set to re-open as additional space which can accommodate close to 7000 casket graves has been curved out, Bulawayo24.com reveals.The cemetery closed after it ...Published: 06 Dec 2016 at 12:43hrs | | by Alice Dube
Govt to gazette more cemeteries for Bulawayo
THE Government will soon gazette Pumula and Marvel cemeteries, paving the way for the establishment of more than 150 000 graves in Bulawayo. The city is fast running out of burial space follow...Published: 03 Aug 2016 at 09:02hrs | | by Sikhangele Zhou
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