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Gwayi-Shangani power station works start
PRELIMINARY works for a 10 megawatts Hydro-Power Station to be constructed at Lake Gwayi-Shangani at Cross Mabale in Hwange district have started.To increase power generation in the country, t...Published: 22 Sep 2023 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and the death of Gukurahundi as a campaign trump card
DEVELOPMENT milestones achieved in the short stint of the Second Republic in the Matabeleland region have busted the opposition's political ideological bubble that was hollow of tangibles but inflated...Published: 23 Jul 2023 at 08:31hrs | 1 | by Vincent Gono
Gwayi-Shangani Dam 70% complete
THE construction of Gwayi-Shangani Dam, which will supply water to several centres in Matabeleland including Bulawayo, is now 70,2% complete, the Zimbabwe Independent heard this week.The total...Published: 28 Apr 2023 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jabulani Sibanda joins Mnangagwa praise singers club
ZANU-PF Bulawayo Provincial chairperson Jabulani Sibanda has hailed President Mnangagwa for being a dedicated visionary who is working flat out to develop the City of Kings.Sibanda also applau...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 17:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Lake Gwayi Shangani inches closer to completion
THE gigantic Lake Gwayi-Shangani will be completed ahead of the 2023/24 summer cropping season, Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development Minister, Dr Anxious Masuka, has said....Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 16:45hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Treasury releases $6m more for Lake Gwayi-Shangani
TREASURY has released a further $6 million to steer progress at the on-going construction of the Lake Gwayi-Shangani in Matabeleland North province as Government races towards finishing the strategic ...Published: 06 Jul 2022 at 18:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwayi-Shangani Power Station design awaits finalisation
THE design of the 10MW Hydro Power Station to be constructed at Lake Gwayi-Shangani will be finalised this month while a treatment plant that will process water from the dam for Bulawayo residents wil...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
High-level indaba for Gwayi-Shangani
A HIGH-LEVEL inter-ministerial indaba will be held in Hwange this Friday to assess progress and evaluate the impact of the construction of the giant Lake Gwayi-Shangani, which is set for completion ne...Published: 31 May 2022 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government ramps up efforts to complete Lake Gwayi-Shangani by year-end
CONTRACTORS have started opening access roads and doing pipeline servitude clearance for the laying of the 245km pipeline from Lake Gwayi-Shangani to Bulawayo as Government steps up efforts to ensure ...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 11:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lake Gwayi-Shangani water to reach Bulawayo end of next year
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has assured Bulawayo residents that the city's prevailing water challenges will be permanently addressed when Lake Gwayi-Shangani project is completed next year.The Zimbabw...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:53hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Lake Gwayi-Shangani to start holding water
LAKE Gwayi-Shangani will start receiving significant inflows in the 2021/22 rain season while Bulawayo and surrounding communities could start drawing water from it by the end of next year.Gov...Published: 30 Nov 2021 at 05:33hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
2022 budget should up Matabeleland momentum
FINANCE and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube is set to present the 2022 National Budget Statement today amid high expectations that more resources will be allocated to expedite co...Published: 25 Nov 2021 at 07:00hrs | 9 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF ready for hybrid format conference
THE ruling party Zanu-PF's 19th National People's Conference kicks off at Chipadze Stadium in Bindura, Mashonaland Central province tomorrow, with a number of high-level engagements expected to domina...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa praises SADC stance on sanctions
DESPITE failure to access new capital from international banking institutions to finance major capital projects due to illegal sanctions, Zimbabwe under the leadership of President Mnangagwa continues...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lake Gwayi-Shangani project shaping out nicely
CONCRETE placement is on-going at the Lake Gwayi-Shangani project in Matabeleland North Province as the Government races to meet project completion deadline by December this year.The Governmen...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 18:21hrs | 26 | by Staf reporter
$2,2bn set aside for Gwayi-Shangani works
GOVERNMENT is working on an integrated master plan for the renamed Lake Gwayi-Shangani in Hwange District, Matabeleland North as Treasury is set to release $2,2 billion next month to speed up the comp...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lake Gwayi-Shangani area to be turned into national park
THE Government has set in motion plans to have Lake Gwayi-Shangani area gazetted into a national park as part of efforts to promote tourism in the area.The lake, which will have a holding capa...Published: 01 Aug 2021 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwayi-Shangani lake master plan set in motion
GOVERNMENT is working on an integrated master plan for the renamed Lake Gwayi-Shangani in Hwange District, Matabeleland North as Treasury is set to release $2,2 billion next month to speed up the comp...Published: 31 Jul 2021 at 05:47hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Race for December deadline at Gwayi-Shangani Dam
WORK on the construction of the Gwayi-Shangani Dam in Hwange district, Matabeleland North has gathered pace with the contractors optimistic that they will meet the December 2021 deadline. The ...Published: 10 Jul 2021 at 10:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwayi-Shangani dam construction resumes
THE Gwayi-Shangani Dam site was yesterday a hive of activity with onsite engineers from the Zimbabwe National Water Authoriy (Zinwa) and Chinese contractors supervising construction works following th...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt floats Gwayi-Shangani tender
THE Government has floated a tender for the construction of the 260km Gwayi-Shangani Dam-Bulawayo pipeline, which marks the implementation of the Second Phase of the National Matabeleland Zambezi Wate...Published: 20 Apr 2021 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwayi-Shangani Dam engineers back on site
THE attainment of Independence in 1980 has seen the Government implementing several developmental projects for citizens who had been sidelined under white colonial rule for many years. The Sec...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Gwayi-Shangani pipeline won't displace people'
THE Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) says a few people will be affected by the construction of the Gwayi-Shangani-Bulawayo water pipeline under the National Matabeleland Zambezi Water Project...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mat'land 'green belt' nigh
In the 2018 election manifesto, ZANU PF party promised to improve service delivery to the people and eventually catapult Zimbabwe to an Upper Middle Income Economy by 2030 with or without sancti...Published: 04 Mar 2021 at 10:26hrs | 1 | by Tirivanhu Kateera
Gwayi-Shangani greenbelt identified
GOVERNMENT has identified a vast track of irrigable land covering 10 000 hectares along the Gwayi-Shangani-Bulawayo pipeline and localised the construction of the pipeline resulting in cutting the ini...Published: 01 Mar 2021 at 04:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government steps up efforts to complete Gwayi-Shangani Dam
MATABELELAND region is poised for economic growth as Government has stepped up efforts towards the completion of the massive Gwayi-Shangani Dam project before the end of next year.It is envisa...Published: 22 Feb 2021 at 21:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwayi-Shangani Dam work set to resume
THE construction works at the Gwayi-Shangani Dam are set to resume in April as the Chinese engineers involved in the project are expected in the country next month. They had been held up in Ch...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt injects $1 billion into Gwayi-Shangani Dam project
GOVERNMENT has since the beginning of last year injected more than $1 billion towards the Gwayi-Shangani Dam in Matabeleland North as the Second Republic under President Mnangagwa steps up efforts to ...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 05:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Work on Gwayi-Shangani Dam project resumes
THE Gwayi-Shangani Dam Project in Matabeleland North province has resumed following requisite budgetary allocation, President Mnangagwa said yesterday.A major component of the National Matabel...Published: 28 Apr 2018 at 14:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa promises speedy completion of Gwayi-Shangani Dam
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday pledged to do everything in his ability to ensure the Gwayi-Shangani Dam project is completed by next year as well as speed up other outstanding projects in Matabeleland ...Published: 17 Mar 2018 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Gwayi-Shangani Dam construction resumes
CONSTRUCTION work at the Gwayi-Shangani Dam in Matabeleland North Province resumed on Monday following the release of $5 million towards the project by Treasury.Zimbabwe National Water Authori...Published: 05 Jul 2017 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt secures $37 million for Gwayi-Shangani Dam
THE construction of the Gwayi-Shangani Dam in Matabeleland North is set to resume after Government secured $37 million to clear arrears owed to the contractor and lay the ground for the beginning of t...Published: 03 Jun 2017 at 11:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo dams now 74% full
BULAWAYO's supply dams are now 74,4 percent full.According to the Bulawayo City Council, Insiza Dam was spilling while Upper Ncema was at 71,70 percent full and Mtshabezi at 79,49 percent full...Published: 08 Feb 2017 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwayi-Shangani dam: Mat North's elusive hope
IT was in 1991 when the government made a resolution to build a dam at the confluence of the Gwayi and Shangani Rivers in Matabeleland North province.The multi-million dollar project was to be...Published: 07 Jun 2016 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwayi-Shangani Dam project put on hold
THE Gwayi-Shangani Dam project in Matabeleland North remains in limbo three years on after the contractor suspended operations due to lack of funding.Close to $90 million is required to comple...Published: 03 Jun 2016 at 06:31hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Death of Block and Payne big blow for Matabeleland water project
THE death of two prominent Bulawayo activists Eric Bloch and Arnold Payne is a big blow to the success of the National Matabeleland Water Project (NMZWP) which successive governmen...Published: 22 Sep 2014 at 17:21hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
'No money for Matabeleland Zambezi Water Project'
Saviour Kasukuwere, minister of Water, yesterday admitted that there was no money for the Matabeleland Zambezi Water Project (MZWP) which aims to supply water to Bulawayo city. Responding ...Published: 14 Mar 2014 at 08:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Whose interest do DONORS serve ?
SINCE time immemorial, aid has been trickling into Africa from all corners of the world, but mostly from the United States of America, Britain, Germany and some Scandinavian countries.This...Published: 28 Jan 2014 at 17:21hrs | | by Bhekithemba Ncube
Communities along the MZWP pipeline to be relocated
THE implementation of the National Matabeleland Zambezi Water Project (NMZWP) will result in the displacement of scores of people living within a 60km radius of the 245km pipeline, an official has sai...Published: 12 Dec 2013 at 02:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo water situation remains critical
THE water situation in Bulawayo remains critical despite the expected commissioning of Mtshabezi Dam project today. The dam, has been supplying an average of 3 000 cubic metres of water to th...Published: 19 Jul 2013 at 05:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sipepa Nkomo hospitalised after eating fish
PRIME MINISTER Dr Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday cancelled a tour of the Gwayi-Shangani dam in Matabeleland North after Water Resources Development minister Samuel Sipepa Nkomo was hospitalised....Published: 22 Mar 2013 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC to continue with water-shedding until end of year
THE Bulawayo City Council will continue with its water-shedding regime until the end of the year unless "miracle heavy rains" fall soon, the Mayor, Councillor Thaba Moyo, said yesterday.In an...Published: 13 Mar 2013 at 06:34hrs | | 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
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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt has no plans to build a dam for Bulawayo
THE Government has no plans to build an additional supply dam for Bulawayo despite the crippling water shortage that has forced the city to adopt a stringent water shedding regime, a Cabinet minister ...Published: 09 Jan 2013 at 21:51hrs | | by Staff Reporter
BCC to charge an additional $1 on residents' water bills
THE construction of the Gwayi-Shangani Dam, a long-term solution to Bulawayo's perennial water problems, is at a standstill amid reports that the city council will next year charge residents $1 per mo...Published: 07 Sep 2012 at 07:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo industry, CBD exempted from water shedding
THE Bulawayo City Council has exempted industry and the Central Business District (CBD) from water shedding although the move might be changed depending on the situation in the supply dams.The...Published: 05 Aug 2012 at 14:30hrs | 1 | by Business reporter
Bulawayo's doom and gloom projections and claims are devoid of fact
POLITICIANS, industrialists and the Zimbabwean population in general often claim Bulawayo is dying. They resolutely assume so due to the number of industries that have shut down, the even greater numb...Published: 21 Jul 2012 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Dr Eric Block
Nkomo, Dabengwa kiss and make-up
Matabeleland Zambezi Water Trust (MZWT) chairman Dumiso Dabengwa and Water Resources Development minister Samuel Sipepa Nkomo have ended their feud over control of the giant project.Dabengwa, ...Published: 13 Jul 2012 at 07:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chinese rescue Matabeleland Zambezi Water project - finish in three years
The Chinese government has finally come to rescue in Matabeleland by ...Published: 13 Jul 2012 at 08:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
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