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Pumula night burglars run wild smashing windows and doors

Residents of Pumula South are living in terror following a disturbing spike in night-time burglaries that has left the suburb shaken, sleepless, and on high alert. Over the past two weeks, a wave of break-ins has swept through the area, wi…

Published: 31 Jul 2025 at 18:49hrs | 650 | by Staff reporter

Pumula man arrested with 6kg Ivory in broad daylight bust

A 30-year-old man from Pumula South, Blessed Matibenga, is facing serious charges after he was allegedly caught red-handed attempting to peddle a 6kg chunk of elephant ivory in broad daylight  -  without a license, a permit, or a…

Published: 26 May 2025 at 07:57hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter

Baboons terrorise Pumula residents

Bulawayo residents, particularly in Pumula South, are facing growing human-wildlife conflicts as baboons encroach onto their settlements, causing distress and property damage.According to the latest council minutes from the Housing and Com…

Published: 28 Mar 2025 at 05:44hrs | 285 | by Staff reporter

Bus crash survivors speak

What was meant to be a joyful journey home after Christmas shopping turned into a nightmare for Ms. Sibonokuhle Nkomo, a 36-year-old mother from Pumula South, Bulawayo. She narrowly survived a horrific bus crash that claimed seven lives an…

Published: 10 Dec 2024 at 06:51hrs | 878 | by Staff reporter

Baboon menace rocks Pumula South residents

Residents of Pumula South's Phase 3 in Ward 17 are raising alarm over a growing population of baboons that has disrupted their lives, caused property damage, and endangered their safety. The animals are breaking into homes, ransacking them…

Published: 01 Dec 2024 at 08:51hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter

Condoms, whiskey at Pumula South Vuzu party, 38 children arrested

Police in Bulawayo apprehended 38 minors during a Vuzu party in Pumula South on Friday, following a tip-off from vigilant neighbors who reported suspicious activity at the location. The minors, primarily students from various schools acros…

Published: 15 Oct 2024 at 08:34hrs | 944 | by Staff reporter

Chinese mining investor Hualin Investments praised for developing Ward 17 in Pumula

In a remarkable display of corporate social responsibility, Hualin Investments is setting a new standard for community engagement and sustainable development in Ward 17. Working closely with the Ward 17 Development Committee, Hualin Invest…

Published: 05 Jun 2024 at 13:33hrs | 32 | by Mandla Ndlovu

Pumula residents finally get electricity after 3 months

Bulawayo's Pumula Old Suburb residents are thrilled to have their electricity back after enduring three months without power.Ward 19 Councillor, Lazarus Mphandwe, told CITE in an interview that electricity had finally been restored.He adde…

Published: 26 Mar 2024 at 07:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo police seek public's help after 2 human legs found in Pumula South

Police in Bulawayo have made a public appeal for information after partial human remains were discovered in Pumula South.Two human legs were found sticking out of a bag in the undergrowth near a tree close to Pumula's Good Hope Secondary S…

Published: 11 Jan 2024 at 15:20hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Graves cave in at Luveve Cemetery

AN elderly woman, accompanied by two young adults walks briskly into a section of Luveve Cemetery in Bulawayo, a little bit on the edge and sombre.They continuously scan across the hundreds of graves as if they are missing something.Their …

Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 08:56hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter

Pumula supermarket in residents' crosshairs

PUMULA residents have taken to task a local supermarket for allegedly selling rotten meat."I bought meat this Monday and when I got home and opened the packet, the whole house was immediately filled with a stench. I realised that the meat …

Published: 22 May 2023 at 08:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Pumula South suburb under Zoonoses threat

ALTHOUGH expansion of cities to create more residential areas for the ever-growing population has ushered in development in Bulawayo and surrounding areas, the same is fuelling human-wildlife conflicts.These conflicts may seem far-fetched …

Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 05:25hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter

1 AM drama in Pumula East Citizens arrest cable theft cops

THREE officers based at Pumula Police Station in Bulawayo were on Sunday morning arrested for alleged theft of copper cables in Pumula East suburb.Residents arrested them at about 1AM. One of the cops was nabbed while wearing his service u…

Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 05:33hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo seeks to redevelop industrial areas

BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has embarked on a door-to-door traffic survey to review its local development plan for industrial areas in the city as part of its expansion drive.This was revealed by the city's acting town clerk Kempton Ndiman…

Published: 04 Jan 2022 at 05:57hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

Flash floods hit Pumula suburbs

Bulawayo's Pumula East, North and South suburbs were on Sunday afternoon hit by flash floods that left some houses submerged in water following heavy rains that pounded the city at the weekend.Some of the houses had their roofs blown off, …

Published: 04 Jan 2022 at 05:57hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

Corpse found in Pumula North

AN unidentified man was found dead in Bulawayo's Pumula North suburb.Police have called on members of the public with missing male relatives to come forward and assist in identifying the body.The man's body is at the United Bulawayo Hospit…

Published: 21 May 2021 at 19:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

I don't even know the person who recalled me, says Pumula MP

FORMER Pumula MP Sichelesile Mahlangu has claimed that the People's Democratic Party (PDP) secretary-general Benjamin Rukanda, who caused her recall together with five other MDC Alliance legislators from Parliament last week, had confessed…

Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 05:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Pumula East goes dry for six months

RESIDENTS in Pumula East have gone for almost six months without water after the suburb was struck off the city's water restoration schedule.Bulawayo City Council (BCC) imposed a water shedding regime as the city faces water woes. BCC rest…

Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 18:51hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Man killed in Pumula hit and run

A body of an unidentified man has not been collected from Mpilo Central Hospital mortuary for over two weeks after he was killed in a hit and run accident in Pumula East.POLICE are now appealing to people who might know a deceased to appro…

Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 18:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Pumula girl (12) drowns in disused pit

A 12-YEAR-OLD girl drowned while swimming in a pit on Tuesday in Pumula high-density suburb in Bulawayo.Acting Bulawayo chief fire officer Lynos Phiri confirmed the incident yesterday."It is a 12-year-old girl from Pumula. Her body was ret…

Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 06:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Self-styled undertaker buries niece in Pumula

A MAN from Bulawayo's Njube suburb has been arrested for allegedly burying the body of his day-old niece in a bush in Old Pumula suburb without a burial order or the baby's mother's consent. Jacob Gatsi, 26, allegedly buried the infant's b…

Published: 27 May 2016 at 06:33hrs | | by Melody Baya

Man (29) rapes 4-year-old girl for 12 months

A Pumula man, 29, allegedly turned a four-year-old girl into a sex slave, habitually raping her for 12 months.Charles Moyo allegedly sexually abused the toddler who stays with him. He was not asked to plead and was remanded in custody to D…

Published: 06 Dec 2014 at 16:55hrs | | by Court Reporter

Residents go for three days without water - WhatsApp update

Please note that Bulawayo24 does not edit WhatsApp updates. We publish them as sent by our readers and we do not disclose the sender's telephone number. 7:45am, 3 Apr - â€ª+263 7* *** ****â€¬: Pumula south residents go for three days witho…

Published: 03 Apr 2014 at 13:15hrs | 1 | by Pumula South Resident

Pumula High beat Magwegwe in final

TWO goals in either half by Admire Yakobe and Thabo Sibanda were enough to send Pumula High School to the inter-zonal M & H games' finals at the expense of Magwegwe High School in an Under-17 boys soccer match that was played at St Ber…

Published: 05 Jun 2012 at 06:14hrs | 1 | by Sports Reporter

Pumula woman lashed, divorced for continuous bed wetting

Perennial bed wetting has cost a Pumula East woman her marriage after her hubby got fed up and expelled her.Senzeni Matshiki aged 26, got a thorough lashing from her husband Nkosinomusa Sibanda last Wednesday.Western Commonage magistrate, …

Published: 04 May 2012 at 06:14hrs | | by Alois Sibanda

Ugly scenes at the Pumula East grounds

Mpopoma rocks Pumula, Ajax Hotspurs rocks East Rovers, Mpopoma Pirates rolls over Toronto F.C as the Pumula East Grounds turns into ugly scenes as fans invade the pitch to assault the hapless Ajax Hotspurs youngstars leading to the abandon…

Published: 18 Sep 2011 at 07:27hrs | | by Siphambaniso Dube

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