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MDC councillors in bid to oust Bulawayo Mayor
THE MDC Alliance has resolved to investigate corruption allegations against Bulawayo Town Clerk Mr Christopher Dube while city Mayor Councillor Solomon Mguni reportedly survived an ouster bid by counc...Published: 1 hr ago | 593 | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa's MDC to investigate Bulawayo Town Clerk
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party has ordered Bulawayo councillors to set up a committee to investigate corruption allegations against the Town Clerk, Christopher Dube.This was re...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 18:11hrs | 1616 | by Staff reporter
No judgment on Tinashe Kambarami's case
The highly anticipated judgment between 1893 Mthwakazi Restoration Movement and Bulawayo Deputy Mayo4 Tinashe Kambarami was still not out at the time of writing on Thursday evening. Cite repor...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 17:04hrs | 2397 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bulawayo under siege from intruders
Historically, Bulawayo city is known for its rich heritage, tradition, culture, cleanliness and orderliness in the management of its civic affairs. Just like the Ndebele people, respectability a...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 10:07hrs | 6175 | by Lovemore Moyo
Chamisa's MDC underplays tribalism in Bulawayo
A Bulawayo based analyst views the fracas involving the second capital's deputy mayor and the town clerk as evidence that the Nelson Chamisa led MDC has underplayed the issues of tribalism in the prov...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 09:12hrs | 3023 | by Staff reporter
Kambarami's fate has been sealed
THE MDC leadership has summoned its Bulawayo councillors who last week faced protests from ratepayers over poor service delivery and endless infighting among city fathers.The melee at City Hal...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 08:09hrs | 5673 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda bemoans Mutare 'leadership vacuum'
ZANU-PF national commissar Victor Matemadanda has claimed there is a leadership vacuum at Mutare City Council as residents bemoaned the worsening poor service delivery in the city.Matemadanda ...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 07:59hrs | 327 | by Staff reporter
MDC actions invites Mnangagwa govt to interfere with Bulawayo affairs
GOVERNMENT has appointed a team to investigate the circumstances leading to the suspension of Bulawayo Town Clerk Mr Christopher Dube. The team is expected to arrive in the city today an...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 07:47hrs | 714 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to fire Kambarami?
THE MDC Alliance has summoned Bulawayo councillors to its headquarters in Harare where party president Mr Nelson Chamisa is expected to deal with the chaos and alleged corruption dogging the local aut...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 07:45hrs | 2171 | by Staff reporter
'Kambarami has a string of legal battles'
1893MRM lodged a case against Tinashe Kambarami following the 31 July 2018 Zimbabwe harmonized national and municipal government elections. The movement had discovered that Mr Kambarami, the councilor...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 20:55hrs | 2489 | by 1893MRM
Chamisa summons Bulawayo 'puppet' councillors to Harare
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has summoned Bulawayo councillors to an urgent meeting in Harare over the recent spat over the suspension of Town Clerk Christopher Dube.The councillors trav...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 19:07hrs | 3445 | by Staff reporter
Minister July Moyo sends team to deal with Bulawayo Council
The Minister of Local Government July Moyo has dispatched a team from his Ministry to investigate the issues surrounding the suspension of Bulawayo Town Clerk by the Deputy Mayor Tinashe Kam...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 17:11hrs | 3603 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa crisis meeting with Bulawayo councilors
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has summoned Bulawayo councillors to an urgent meeting in Harare over the recent spat over the suspension of Town Clerk Christopher Dube.The councillors trav...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 11:11hrs | 5043 | by Staff Reporter
Mayor exposes Kambarami, says, 'I was not on leave'
BULAWAYO mayor Solomon Mguni yesterday denied claims he was on leave last week when town clerk Christopher Dube was suspended by his deputy, Tinashe Kambarami.Kambarami and other councillors l...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 08:47hrs | 7745 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo steps in to resolve BCC, ZPC rift
GOVERNMENT has stepped in to resolve the dispute between the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) and power utility Zesa Holdings over the ownership of the coal-fired Bulawayo Power Station.The BCC has...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:57hrs | 1707 | by Staff reporter
Farmer unmasks Gwaradzimba
CHIPINGE farmer Richard Le Vieux yesterday accused Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister Ellen Gwaradzimba of attempting to grab his multi-million export enterprising farm and was only blocked from d...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:52hrs | 1103 | by Staff reporter
Women give Gweru council 14-day ultimatum
WOMEN Coalition of Zimbabwe (WCoZ) Midlands Chapter has given Gweru City Council 14 days to explain the source of funding for former town clerk, Daniel Matawu's exit package as well as resolve the cit...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:47hrs | 451 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo town clerk back at work, Kambarami in court
BULAWAYO Town Clerk Mr Christopher Dube is back at work after the municipality engaged a locksmith to unlock his office as Deputy Mayor Councillor Tinashe Kambarami is still holding on to his keys. ...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:45hrs | 1590 | by Staff reporter
Kambarami: A limping goat with one horn on its forehead!
The uncanny and hellish school boy behaviour by one Tinashe Kambarami of unknown origin, who by the devil's design, strangely found himself being the self-proclaimed godfather of Bulawayo, is exceedin...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 00:31hrs | 4423 | by Muntukaziwa
White farmer thanks Mnangagwa
Top Chipinge coffee farmer and owner of Farfell Estates Mr Richard Le Vieux has thanked President Mnangagwa for resolving the ownership dispute of a portion of the farm enabling exports of the crop an...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 17:54hrs | 2756 | by Staff reporter
For Auxilia Mnangagwa to kick and scream: tip of the iceberg: she has seen the limit of what it takes to be married to Emmerson
Putting some pieces of the jigsaw puzzle together, we shall indeed not get all of them, it's not possible. We are now told that Mnangagwa got a child with a student from MSU. We read too that Auxilia ...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 14:03hrs | 14759 | by Nomazulu Thata
Kambarami: A pig in royal robes still finds amusement in mud
The Tinashe Kambarami cabal's crass exhibition of foolishness unmasks the failure of the MDC to run urban councils. The exalted office of councillorship has been defiled by the repugnant behaviour of ...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 07:37hrs | 1676 | by Ndabazabantu Sondokhulu
'Convicted thief' Kambarami fights for position at High Court
THE civil trial involving Bulawayo deputy mayor Councillor Tinashe Kambarami and a political pressure group, 1893 Mthwakazi Restoration Movement Trust, opened at the Bulawayo High Court yesterday. ...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 07:26hrs | 1917 | by Staff reporter
Tinashe Kambarami court ruling set for Thursday
Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Thompson Mabhikwa reserved judgment in the matter where a civic group called 1893MRM seeks the removal of Deputy Mayor Tinashe Kambarami arguing that he flouted elect...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 17:57hrs | 2980 | by Mandla Ndlovu
PHOTOS: Heavily armed police invade Bulawayo High Court
Heavily armed police officer officers have cordoned off Bulawayo High Court where Deputy Mayor Tinashe Kambarami is a respondent in a case was filed by a civic group 1893MRM citing that Kambaram...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 10:55hrs | 13630 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa imposed Shona councillors causing tribal may ham in Bulawayo
On 15 September 2018, when more than 12 Shona councillors took office in the City of Bulawayo on the ticket of MDC Alliance MLO released a statement that partly read as follows: "hoi! to the people of...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 22:41hrs | 3806 | by Israel Dube
MDC tribalists' plans exposed
It has come to our attention that the recently elected MDC-A Bulawayo leadership which is predominantly Shona, and stand accused of bribing their way up on tribal grounds is fully behind Kambarami in ...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 22:40hrs | 1749 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Kambarami granted bail
BULAWAYO's deputy's mayor Tinashe Kambarami and Ward 4 councillor Silas Chigora appeared in court yesterday on allegations of assaulting town clerk Christopher Dube.Kambarami and Chigora alleg...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 20:54hrs | 1754 | by Staff reporter
Kambarami in court for assaulting Town Clerk
THE drama around the still-borne suspension of Bulawayo Town Clerk, Christopher Dube is slowly turning into a soap-opera after Deputy Mayor, Tinashe Kambarami and ward four Councillor Silas Chigora ap...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 18:40hrs | 4481 | by newzimbabwe
Gweru City Council abattoir shock
GWERU City Council workers are using machetes and other outdated equipment to slaughter cattle at the local authority's abattoir, a situation that has seen potential clients shunning the slaughterhous...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 14:58hrs | 640 | by Staff reporter
Iconic towers part of Bulawayo's identity
SOMETIME last month it emerged that the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) was planning to demolish the thermal power towers situated at Zesa main, near the Railway Station. News of the impeding demolition ...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:41hrs | 764 | by Raisedon Baya
Thuggery in Bulawayo council chambers must stop
THE story in Bulawayo in recent weeks has been the unending water shedding, as council works on its water infrastructure, but that story, which touches on people's lives and the socio-economic fabric ...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:34hrs | 460 | by Staff reporter
Middleton Nyoni turning in his grave: His office of excellence is reduced to despicable genital-mother insults and death treats
We are watching on the sidelines seeing the gross mismanagement of Bulawayo residents' rates payments squandered to the extent that Bulawayo City council cannot resuscitate the water works for weeks a...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 17:50hrs | 4038 | by Nomazulu Thata
Bulawayo Town Clerk not off the hook yet
It is now clear that tribal battles at Bulawayo now over shadows service delivery.The city is facing serious water shortages,have poor roads, busting of sewer pipes posing a health hazard especially i...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 17:43hrs | 2746 | by Etiwel Mutero
Chamisa’s tribalistic MDC speaks on Bulawayo Town Clerk fiasco
MDC Alliance has directed that Bulawayo Town Clerk Christopher Dube be investigated over allegations of abuse of office and corruption. This follows attempts by Bulawayo deputy Mayor to Tinas...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 00:03hrs | 8223 | by Staff Reporter
We are all thieves, Zivhu admits
Chivi South Member of Parliament (MP) Killer Zivhu has all but admitted that he and other well-connected ruling party politicians as well as government officials are corrupt and would not miss a good ...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 10:51hrs | 4629 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents to shutdown MDC offices
A section of Bulawayo residents has vowed to shutdown the Bulawayo offices of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change until the party has recalled its councillors who are of Shona origin. ...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 09:38hrs | 7597 | by Mandla Ndlovu
WATCH: Youths savagely attack rogue Bulawayo councillor
BULAWAYO Ward 5 Councillor Felix Mhaka was yesterday savagely attacked by rogue youths while other councillors were held hostage at the City Hall as tempers flared over the aborted suspension of Town ...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:29hrs | 2657 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Bulawayo youths block Kambarami's Council meeting
Bulawayo youths today successfully blocked a rogue meeting that was convened by a sectarian section of the Bulawayo City Councillors to oust the Town Clerk and also pass a vote of no confidence on May...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:23hrs | 2322 | by Staff reporter
Mayor humiliates Kambarami, lifts suspension of town clerk
BULAWAYO mayor Solomon Mguni has reversed a decision by his deputy Tinashe Kambarami to suspend town clerk Christopher Dube, as the battle for control of the City of Kings intensifies.Kambaram...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:14hrs | 914 | by Staff reporter
Minister July Moyo wades into Bulawayo Town Clerk issue
Addressing a Press conference at the Mhlahlandlela Government Complex yesterday, the Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing July Moyo, flanked by Bulawayo provincial affairs M...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:02hrs | 993 | by Staff reporter
Ousted Bulawayo Town Clerk back in office
BULAWAYO Mayor Solomon Mguni yesterday lifted the suspension of Town Clerk, Mr Christopher Dube, as the Government condemned the violent manner in which he was ejected from his office. Council...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:01hrs | 270 | by Staff reporter
Order must be restored at Bulawayo City Hall
Bulawayo City Council has dominated the headlines for all the wrong reasons over the past fortnight. They have grossly mishandled the ongoing rehabilitation of the city's water wor...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 07:59hrs | 239 | by Editorial comment
Town Clerk cheats death by a whisker
REDCLIFF Town Clerk, Mr Gilson Chakauya, cheated death by a whisker after a vehicle he was travelling in veered off the road and overturned along the Gweru-Kwekwe Highway on Tuesday. His wife,...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 07:51hrs | 357 | by Staff Reporter
Chase this Kambarami and his his side kicks back to their roots - MLF
MLF has always maintained that partaking in Zimbabwe elections when we are Mthwakazi is the worst thing we can engage in as Mthwakazi. Before a single year has lapsed, he has shown the true Agenda the...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 20:03hrs | 5498 | by MLF
Political Institutions need to master the Art of Intelligence
The world of intelligence is binary mysteries, wilderness of mirrors has other dimensions. The dimensions of strategic intelligence involve toxic information, public relations, and facts. Fictions whi...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 19:56hrs | 612 | by Academic Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
MDC councillors out of order
The purported suspension of the Town Clerk of Bulawayo by a Shona tribalistic cabal led by the convicted fraudster Tinashe Kambarami aptly demonstrates that even if one were to dress a pig in royal ro...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 18:59hrs | 993 | by L Dube
Unpacking the Kambarami -Town Clerk suspension saga
The wait is over.Yesterday (11 July 2019) I promised to give my opinion on the “alleged suspension pending disciplinary investigation” of the Bulawayo Town Clerk Mr. Christopher Dube by th...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 15:45hrs | 4851 | by Sindiso Mazibisa
Suspended Bulawayo Town Clerk opens a case of assault
'SUSPENDED' Bulawayo City Council Town Clerk, Mr Christopher Dube has opened a case of assault against Bulawayo's Acting Mayor.Bulawayo's acting Mayor, Tinashe Kambarami, and Ward 4 councillor...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 09:32hrs | 4358 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Mayor dismisses convict Kambarami's actions as a non-event
BULAWAYO deputy Mayor, Tinashe Kambarami, and Ward 4 councillor Silas Chigora yesterday violently ejected Bulawayo City Council Town Clerk, Mr Christopher Dube, from his office after he refused to tak...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 08:21hrs | 2969 | by Staff reporter
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