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Gweru engages Salvi Lighting Rwanda to fix street lights
GWERU City Council has engaged the services of Salvi Lighting Rwanda to install streetlights on parts of the city, mayor Josiah Makombe has said.Makombe said the local authority was working on...Published: 7 hrs ago | 223 | by Staff reporter
eThekwini mayor refuses to apologise for supporting Jacob Zuma
ETHEKWINI Municipality mayor Mxolisi Kaunda has stuck to his guns and defended his support for former president Jacob Zuma during the unrest last week.Kaunda was berated by the DA in a special...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 10:29hrs | 1348 | by Staff reporter
Kwekwe deputy mayor dies
KWEKWE deputy mayor Shadreck Tobaiwa has died.Tobaiwa who also once served as the mayor of Kwekwe between 20082013 is believed to have succumbed to Covid-19 complications.Kwekwe Mayor ...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 08:18hrs | 1377 | by Staff reporter
Govt urged to reintroduce executive mayors, urban councils
GOVERNMENT has been urged to consider reintroducing executive mayors to effectively deal with errant senior council officials who refuse to take orders because the mayors lack executive influence in r...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 07:54hrs | 300 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo halts BCC purges
THE minister of Local Government July Moyo has blocked Bulawayo Mayor Solomon Mguni's move to fire MDC Alliance ward 24 councillor, Arnold Batirai Dube.Mguni recently unsuccessfully tried to f...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 07:47hrs | 1563 | by Staff reporter
Kambarami seeks reinstatement
Former Deputy Mayor of the City of Bulawayo and Ward 3 Councillor Tinashe Kambarami has approached the High Court seeking a declaratur to be reinstated to his former position.Kambarami's elect...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 17:37hrs | 1428 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says 'we're in a crisis', 'MDC stuck with unregistered COVID-19 vaccines'
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa says information on the ground, particularly in rural areas, was pointing to a dire situation in the country, hence the need for government to stop politi...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 08:15hrs | 3495 | by Staff reporter
'Late contact tracing behind surge in Kwekwe Covid-19 cases'
KWEKWE residents have lodged a complaint with mayor Angelina Kasipo over late Covid-19 contact tracing by health authorities, which has resulted in more family members getting infected at home....Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 08:05hrs | 399 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance stuck with unregistered COVID-19 vaccines from US embassy
Deputy chief secretary George Charamba, Presidential spokesperson has claimed that the opposition MDC Alliance received half a million COVID-19 vaccines f...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 18:39hrs | 1995 | by Shelton Muchena
Chamisa's MDC stuck with over half a million 'unregistered COVID19 vaccines'?
GOVERNMENT yesterday sensationally claimed that the opposition MDC Alliance was stuck with over half a million "unregistered COVID19 vaccines" which it allegedly received from the United States embass...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 08:37hrs | 4053 | by Staff reporter
Panners encroach onto Bulawayo- Gwanda Highway
ILLEGAL gold miners have encroached onto the Gwanda-Bulawayo Highway, posing a risk to motorists and passengers. Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights coordinator Khumbulani Maphosa said they were w...Published: 19 Jul 2021 at 06:46hrs | 1502 | by Staff reporter
Council agonises over water leaks
THE Bulawayo City Council has accused Zesa workers of damaging water pipes in the process of repairing underground electricity cables resulting in several leakages.Sikhululekile Moyo, chairper...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 08:01hrs | 121 | by Staff reporter
City to ban mourners
THE Bulawayo City Council will soon introduce a policy to ban mourners from attending burials at its cemeteries as concerns grow that gatherings at funerals and burials were becoming Covid-19 super sp...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 07:59hrs | 1009 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance factionalism report kept under wraps
THE MDC Alliance is yet to release a report on deeply en-trenched factionalism rocking its Bulawayo structures almost a month after a five-member probe team submitted its findings. The party's...Published: 17 Jul 2021 at 08:02hrs | 1628 | by Staff reporter
Malema snubs Ramaphosa meeting
The EFF will not participate in Cyril Ramaphosa non-productive meeting with political parties to rubber-stamp decisions already made. Ramaphosa meetings are a waste of time because he does not conside...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 12:44hrs | 3521 | by EFF
Gweru records surge in demand for graves
DEMAND for burial space at Gweru council cemeteries has increased since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, mayor Josiah Makombe has revealed.In his state of the city address, Makomb...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:34hrs | 444 | by Staff reporter
Mafume's trial postponed
Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume, accused of illegally allocating residential stands to his sister and his law firm's secretary in Harare and then attempting to bribe a witness to testify in his corner, shou...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 09:23hrs | 126 | by Staff reporter
Health disaster looms in Mbundane
RESIDENTS of Mbundane high-density suburb just outside Bulawayo have gone for 15 years without tap water, forcing some to resort to shallow and unsafe sources as well as to the use of Blair toilets, a...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 09:12hrs | 1078 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo rolls out jabs for all adults
BULAWAYO Province is today expected to start mass vaccination of all adults. The jabs will be accessed at all council clinics and hospitals across the city as the country received two million Sinovac ...Published: 12 Jul 2021 at 07:37hrs | 465 | by Staff reporter
Double heroes' burial today
President Mnangagwa will today preside over the burial of two national heroes, Zimbabwe National Army Commander, Lieutenant General Edzai Chimonyo and Michael "Vhuu" Chakabva at the national heroes ac...Published: 12 Jul 2021 at 07:36hrs | 581 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF accused of 'hijacking' senior Kariba citizen's funeral
Zanu-PF has been accused by the family of late senior Kariba resident, Phillip Chingono of attempting to gain political mileage through crowdfunding for his funeral when, in fact, the elderly man led ...Published: 12 Jul 2021 at 07:35hrs | 437 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Harare Mayor Manyenyeni Hospitalised With Covid-19
FORMER Former Harare Mayor Bernard Manyenyeni and his wife Francesica have been admitted at a private hospital in the capital city after contracting Covid-19 at a relative's funeral in Murewa....Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 21:11hrs | 1603 | by Staff reporter
Chebundo defeated Mnangagwa only to join him
BLESSING Chebundo was known in MDC circles and indeed throughout the country as Emmerson Mnangagwa's political nemesis.At a time when Mnangagwa was seen as the political godfather of the Midla...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 20:41hrs | 2615 | by Staff reporter
Setback for MDC-T
MDC-T has suffered a major setback after two top of its officials in Mashonaland East province resigned from the opposition party.Provincial information and publicity secretary Farai Nyandoro ...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 11:00hrs | 2278 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo sets date to re-introduce full water shedding
BULAWAYO will revert to the dreaded city-wide water shedding schedule in February next year as two of its major supply dams are expected to be decommissioned by then if no major inflows are received i...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 10:39hrs | 400 | by Staff reporter
Bodies from SA congest Bulawayo cemeteries
BODIES repatriated from South Africa are topping the list of burials at most Bulawayo cemeteries, with council expressing concern that residents were not adhering to the 30 stipulated numbers of peopl...Published: 10 Jul 2021 at 10:59hrs | 1951 | by Staff reporter
BCC to decommission 2 dams next year
BULAWAYO City Council says it might be forced to decommission two of its six major supply dams Umzingwane and Lower Ncema in February and May 2022, respectively, due to the poor rainwater inflows expe...Published: 10 Jul 2021 at 10:57hrs | 472 | by Staff reporter
BCC hails residents for paying bills
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has applauded its residents for paying their bills amid indications that the local authority was now collecting 70% of the total billing, the council minutes show.A...Published: 09 Jul 2021 at 12:15hrs | 208 | by Staff reporter
Pelandaba residents fret over burst sewer
BULAWAYO'S Pelandaba residents said raw sewer had been flowing into their homes for the past three weeks, exposing them to a potential health disaster.The residents told Southern Eye that they...Published: 09 Jul 2021 at 12:13hrs | 76 | by Staff reporter
Circus as 2 Chamisa aligned mayors 'run' Harare
THE battle for the control of Harare City Council is raging with suspended mayor Jacob Mafume yesterday saying he was now back in office alongside acting mayor Stewart Mutizwa.Mafume yesterday...Published: 08 Jul 2021 at 11:18hrs | 2653 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge engineer faces incompetence charges
BEITBRIDGE town engineer Douglas Siphuma has appeared before a disciplinary hearing to answer to a variety of charges related to incompetence.However, the details about the hearing have not be...Published: 08 Jul 2021 at 11:16hrs | 1876 | by Staff reporter
Council unleashes debt collectors
HARARE City Council has unleashed debt collectors on bad debtors owing in excess of $7,2 billion in unpaid rates.The city has been dogged by poor service delivery at a time when government dep...Published: 06 Jul 2021 at 10:29hrs | 394 | by Staff reporter
Accounts documents burnt at Kwekwe
A storeroom containing accounting records for Kwekwe city was on Sunday night gutted by fire, a day before the Ministry of Local Government and Public Works appointed a commission of inquiry into issu...Published: 06 Jul 2021 at 10:27hrs | 391 | by Staff reporter
Why Bulawayo service delivery is collapsing
LONG-TOUTED as the best-run local authority in the country, the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is failing to offer efficient services as seen by collapsing water and sewer infrastructure, failureto f...Published: 04 Jul 2021 at 14:33hrs | 648 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo to rename city streets after heroes, heroines
BULAWAYO city fathers have said they will hold public consultations on the need to rename some streets after the country's heroes and heroines in the spirit of devolution.This follows a High C...Published: 03 Jul 2021 at 10:21hrs | 1084 | by Staff reporter
City fathers to rename Bulawayo streets after heroes, heroines
BULAWAYO city fathers have said they will hold public consultations on the need to rename some streets after the country's heroes and heroines in the spirit of devolution.This follows a High C...Published: 03 Jul 2021 at 07:47hrs | 1785 | by Staff Reporter
Precious Sibalo's journey to the cockpit encountered turbulence before take off from the runway
Precious Sibalo's journey to the cockpit has by no means been an easy feat. But after overcoming societal barriers and challenging stereotypes, Precious successfully secured a coveted role in aviation...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 17:56hrs | 3227 | by Staff reporter
Vic Falls town clerk reinstated
A COMMISSION of inquiry set by Victoria Falls City Council to investigate allegations of corruption levelled against suspended Town Clerk Ronnie Dube has exonerated him, paving way for his reinstateme...Published: 26 Jun 2021 at 07:25hrs | 685 | by Staff Reporter
China is irreplaceable to Zim, Parly told
CHINA has proven to be an irreplaceable partner to Zimbabwe amid difficult challenges, including the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic and poverty, Sadc parliamentarians heard yesterday.Speaking at a...Published: 25 Jun 2021 at 07:50hrs | 490 | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls town clerk under probe
A GOVERNMENT probe team has opened investigations on suspended Victoria Falls town clerk Ronnie Dube, who faces charges of gross incompetence.However, mayor Somveli Dlamini argued that the all...Published: 24 Jun 2021 at 11:03hrs | 400 | by Staff reporter
MDC turns Town House into a circus
MDC-Alliance has thrown Harare City Council into a circus after the party's suspended Mayor Mr Jacob Mafume bounced back at the town-house, clashing with the acting mayor Musarurwa Mutizwa who insists...Published: 23 Jun 2021 at 08:19hrs | 930 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF primes for Parly, council by-elections
Zanu-PF acting national political commissar, Patrick Chinamasa has instructed all provinces to prepare for impending by-elections meant to fill up some vacant parliamentary and local council ward seat...Published: 23 Jun 2021 at 08:17hrs | 544 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says people must rescue themselves
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said the ongoing demolitions of illegal structures by government was a signal for the people of Zimbabwe to say enough is enough and converge to rescue the...Published: 21 Jun 2021 at 06:15hrs | 5176 | by Staff reporter
I am back, says Harare mayor
Harare mayor Jacob Mafume says he is back in office after the authorities failed to take him to a disciplinary hearing within 45 days following his suspension as stipulated by the law.Mafume w...Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 07:34hrs | 3217 | by Staff reporter
Suspended town clerk gets windfall
VICTORIA Falls city fathers have resolved to pay suspended town clerk Ronnie Dube $200 000 in allowances, about $80 000 more than his basic salary, it has been established.Dube was suspended o...Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 07:27hrs | 1103 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ally to lose stand
EMBATTLED former Bulawayo Deputy Mayor, Mr Tinashe Kambarami is set to lose an industrial stand barely two weeks after councillors endorsed a resolution awarding it to a company he co-owns with his wi...Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 07:20hrs | 786 | by Staff reporter
Mudzuri body dumping: 5 held
Five people believed to be relatives of the 23-year-old-man who died last week from injuries sustained after being attacked at Duriro Bar in the capital, were arrested on Wednesday after they dumped t...Published: 18 Jun 2021 at 07:21hrs | 1892 | by Staff reporter
Dead body dumped at home of MDC-T's Elias Mudzuri
The body of a man who died following a brutal assault in a Harare bar has been dumped at the rural home of one of his alleged assailants, the MDC-T vice president Elias Mudzuri.Relatives left ...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 08:38hrs | 6021 | by Staff reporter
Bosso class of 98 honours Maphepha
Bulawayo Mayor Solomon Mguni has described the legendary Ernest "Maphepha" Sibanda, who won Premier Soccer League titles as a manager and chairman of Highlanders an administrator par-excellence, whose...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:20hrs | 935 | by Staff reporter
MDC factions have bungled in running Harare
The MDC Alliance (MDC-A) faction leader, Nelson Chamisa, uses every opportunity he gets to pontificate about smart cities each time he has to talk of Zimbabwe's urban areas.Given the fact that...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:17hrs | 415 | by Nobleman Runyanga
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