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Bulawayo Mayor appeals to God amid worsening water crisis
Bulawayo Mayor David Coltart has made an impassioned plea to God for rain as the city grapples with an escalating water crisis that he says is beyond the control of the Bulawayo City Council (BCC). In...Published: 20 Dec 2024 at 10:13hrs | 782 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BCC loses 50% of water
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is facing significant challenges in accounting for almost 50% of the water it pumps from supply dams to consumers. This issue is primarily due to dilapidated infrastruc...Published: 30 Jul 2024 at 07:36hrs | 286 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's worst water crisis in decade
BULAWAYO could face its worst water crisis in the past 10 years, with statistics at hand showing that its supply dams are in the red, a few weeks before the official ending of the rainy season in Zimb...Published: 03 Mar 2024 at 08:47hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents to get water 'as and when it's available'
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has been forced to suspend its 120-hour water shedding schedule indefinitely as the water situation worsens leaving supply dependent on availability until their system ...Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 07:16hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's supply dams now 'terribly' low
Bulawayo Mayor, Councillor David Coltart says the city's supply dams are now "terribly" low due to low inflows, a situation that is causing a major water crisis compounded by rising temperatures....Published: 21 Feb 2024 at 20:46hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
David Coltart sees better days in 2024
Bulawayo mayor David Coltart says finding solutions to the city's multifaceted problems will not happen overnight as he laid out his council's priorities for 2024.Coltart, a former Education m...Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 13:00hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Gwayi-Shangani Dam 70% complete, says Zinwa
The Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) has reported that the construction progress of the Gwayi-Shangani Dam in Matabeleland North Province has reached 70.2%. There are concerted efforts to exp...Published: 08 Oct 2023 at 19:26hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mtshabezi pipeline a major Govt intervention
GOVERNMENT under the Second Republic led by President Mnangagwa has made great strides in addressing Bulawayo's prevailing water woes as evidenced by huge amounts of money being channelled towards var...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 05:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt releases $535m for Gwayi-Shangani Dam
GOVERNMENT has released $535 million for the completion of Gwayi-Shangani Dam, part of the Zambezi Water Project, which is expected to alleviate water problems in Bulawayo and Matabeleland North provi...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 21:50hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council to blame for water crisis
WATER at Bulawayo's remaining three supply dams can last the city for 11 months without council implementing the water shedding programme but lack of investment in a bulk water delivery system has con...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pipeline repairs to leave Bulawayo dry
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) will today carry out major repair works along the Umzingwane/Mtshabezi pipeline — in an unavoidable move which will leave the whole city dry for 15 hours.This is ...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo water woes mount
BULAWAYO is set to experience some intermittent water problems as council carries out repair works in the Umzingwane/Mtshabezi pipeline today.In a notice by the City of Bulawayo, the repairs o...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 17:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's govt of frustrating developmental projects in Matabeleland
DUMISO Dabengwa's opposition Zapu party has accused the Zanu-PF government of frustrating mega developmental projects in Matabeleland region as part of its "scorched earth policy" to keep the region m...Published: 24 Jul 2017 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
2 day water cuts for Bulawayo residents kickoff
Bulawayo City Council has abandoned its planned 24 hour water cuts for a more punishing 48hour circle.The regime begins today."The City of Bulawayo would like to advise residents t...Published: 31 Oct 2016 at 07:02hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
MZWP: Paper trail of empty promises
BULAWAYO - Council sounded its latest alarm bells this month over the city's precarious water situation, warning that major supply dams could be decommissioned in the next three months.For...Published: 12 Aug 2016 at 08:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa commissions the 42km Mtshabezi pipeline
Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday commissioned the 42km Mtshabezi pipeline, revealing that Government had secured US$30 million from Belarus for dam construction equipment.The over ...Published: 18 Oct 2015 at 10:15hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Press Statement by Dr Samuel Sipepa Nkomo - Fulltext
Press Statement by Dr Samuel Sipepa Nkomo , the MDC-T Shadow Minister for Agriculture, Lands and Water DevelopmentThe MDC-T is concerned that the g...Published: 06 Mar 2014 at 09:53hrs | 7 | by Dr Samuel Sipepa Nkomo
Knives out for Tendai Biti
As the leadership chaos in the MDC-T threatens to tip the opposition party over, the United States (US) branch of the labour-backed movement has demanded that the party's secretary-general Tend...Published: 13 Feb 2014 at 11:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Omakorokoza continue to wreck havoc
ILLEGAL gold mining activities next to Bulawayo's supply dams, are causing massive environment pollution and consequently costing the local authority a lot of money in purifying water, a senior counc...Published: 29 Jan 2014 at 14:13hrs | 1 | by Lesley Moyo
'I have won,' says Tsvangirai
PRIME MINISTER Morgan Tsvangirai says he is confident that he will win this year's elections and end President Robert Mugabe's 33 year-old grip on power.In an exclusive interview with Souther...Published: 26 Jul 2013 at 22:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Sipepa Nkomo summons engineers over Mtshabezi pipeline mishap
WATER Resources Development and Management Minister Dr Samuel Sipepa Nkomo yesterday reportedly summoned engineers in charge of the Mtshabezi pipeline to explain last week's failure to have the proj...Published: 23 Jul 2013 at 04:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mtshabezi pipeline commissioning abruptly called off, Zanu-PF accused of sabotage
THERE was a circus yesterday when the Minister of Water Resources Development and Management, Dr Samuel Sipepa Nkomo abruptly cancelled the commissioning of the Mtshabezi water pipeline by Deputy Pri...Published: 20 Jul 2013 at 08:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai to commission the Mtshabezi pipeline project
Prime Minister Mr Morgan Tsvangirai will today official commissioning of the Mtshabezi pipeline project.MDC-T is accused of seeking to use the pipeline project for political mileage ahead of ...Published: 19 Jul 2013 at 04:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mtshabezi Pipeline Project: 'MDC-T should not play with people's minds' says Zanu-PF
MDC-T's attempts to use the Mtshabezi pipeline project to gain political mileage ahead of the forthcoming harmonised elections on 31 July has angered Bulawayo and Matabeleland South Governors who hav...Published: 17 Jul 2013 at 21:21hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Biti released disbursements totalling over $51,5 million in 3 months
Tendai Biti, the Minister of Finance, has made capital disbursements totalling over US$51, 5 million to various critical sectors over the past three months.In his Treasury State of the Econo...Published: 16 Apr 2013 at 16:54hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Mtshabezi Pipeline not yet fully operational, generators not powerful enough
Fact sheet - BCC pumping just over 10% of projected capacity- Govt blames it on use of generators- Construction of powerline 90% complete...Published: 23 Feb 2013 at 20:05hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo dams 45 percent full
Bulawayo supply dams now hold 45 percent of their capacity up from 37 percent a few weeks ago.A report issued by council this week shows that the dams recorded a 7,76 percent inflow betw...Published: 23 Feb 2013 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff Reporter
BCC reduces water shedding by 24 hours
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is set to reduce the four-day water shedding scheme by 24 hours starting from Monday next week.The council's future water supplies and water action committee m...Published: 05 Feb 2013 at 21:40hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo water shedding schedule to stay
BULAWAYO's supply dams have recorded only one and a half percent inflows since the onset of the rainy season.In an interview yesterday, council's senior public relations officer, Mrs Nesisa M...Published: 16 Jan 2013 at 22:44hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mtshabezi water finally reaches Bulawayo
THE long-awaited water from Mtshabezi Dam has finally reached Bulawayo.Announcing the development at a press conference in Bulawayo yesterday, the Minister of Water Resources Management and De...Published: 12 Jan 2013 at 04:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mtshabezi pipeline vandalised
PANIC is spreading after unknown people allegedly vandalised a four-kilometre section of the Mtshabezi pipeline.In an interview yesterday, the Minister of Water Resources Management and Develo...Published: 10 Jan 2013 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Expedite pumping of Mtshabezi water to Bulawayo
The laying of the 46-kilometre Mtshabezi pipeline was completed last October but the long awaited pumping of water to Bulawayo is yet to start. The latest hurdle according to the Water Resources Mana...Published: 09 Jan 2013 at 06:45hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Residents challenge BCC on water shedding
BULAWAYO residents have challenged the city council to urgently implement the pumping of water from the Nyamandlovu Aquifer saying the current water shedding was wasteful and would soon lead to water-...Published: 03 Sep 2012 at 02:40hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mtshabezi-Umzingwane pipeline to be completed before December
Water Resources Management and Development minister Samuel Sipepa Nkomo on Friday told the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) that the Mtshabezi-Umzingwane pipeline is likely to be completed before December ...Published: 26 Aug 2012 at 09:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Legal wrangle looms over awarding Mtshabezi tender
A legal wrangle is looming over the awarding of a tender for the electrification of the Mtshabezi pipeline with a Bulawayo company, United Associates (Pvt) Ltd, approaching the Administrative Co...Published: 16 Jul 2012 at 22:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T not useful to Matabeleland's needs
In the past few weeks, there has been a mass movement of supporters from MDC-T to the MDC led by Professor Welshman Ncube.These defections which are widely reported in Matabeleland but happeni...Published: 12 Jul 2012 at 05:55hrs | | by Mgcini Moyo
BCC worried about Mtshabezi project delays
BULAWAYO city councillors are worried about delays in the completion of the Mtshabezi Dam pipeline project amid fears the project might not be completed this month.Bulawayo is facing an acut...Published: 13 Jun 2012 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe National Water Authority to disconnect supplies to defaulting customers
THE Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) is owed $95 million by its customers and will start disconnecting supplies in June in an effort to recover the money, board chairman Mr Never Mhlanga...Published: 28 Apr 2012 at 04:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mtshabezi pipeline completion set for July - reports
THE construction of the Mtshabezi-Umzingwane pipeline is set to be completed in July and according to reports, the only outstanding work is the installation of pumps and connecting electricity....Published: 11 Feb 2012 at 14:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council tackles de-industrialisation
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has pledged to support the city's re-industrialisation programme by providing adequate water, a major component whose unavailability has contributed to poor performance...Published: 27 Dec 2011 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mtshabezi-Umzingwane dams pipeline project to be completed in May 2012
Minister of Water Resources Development and Management, Mr Samuel Sipepa-Nkomo, said the Mtshabezi-Umzingwane dams pipeline project would be complete by May next year. The 42km pipeline is meant ...Published: 20 Dec 2011 at 10:58hrs | 1 | by Ndou Paul
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