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Mnangagwa commissions Varum push carts
President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday officially commissioned two new manufacturing lines at Varun Beverages (Zimbabwe) (Pvt) Ltd, a move set to boost the production capacity of Aquaclear bottled wat...Published: 10 Dec 2024 at 07:04hrs | 829 | by Staff reporter
Push carts and washing of cars in city centre illegal, says BCC
The Bulawayo City Council has further clarified the issue of bringing sanity within the central business district stating that push carts are illegal and that long distance buses also have designated ...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 17:52hrs | | 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
Bulawayo push cart operators spooked by new law
A Bulawayo pushcart operator Calvin Sawunyama says he works six days every week, mainly operating from the busy vegetable market in the city centre.Sawunyama's pushcart, like that of his colle...Published: 12 Nov 2023 at 19:35hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's clamping and tow-away by-laws approved
THE Minister of Local Government and Public Works, in terms of section 229 of the Urban Councils Act [Chapter 29:15], has approved the City of Bulawayo (Clamping and Tow-away) By-laws, 2023 which allo...Published: 03 Nov 2023 at 09:29hrs | 54 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo to launch another clean-up campaign
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) will this week embark on yet another city centre clean-up campaign with the local authority still struggling to collect garbage.The clean-up exercise to be done...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 14:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
City Council defers vendor blitz
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has temporarily halted its plans to embark on an operation to clear and clean the city centre of illegal activities following advice from the security and intelligence comm...Published: 12 Jan 2023 at 07:40hrs | 9 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo vendors plead for mercy ahead of crackdown
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC)'s ultimatum to illegal vendors and pushcart operators to vacate the city centre by Wednesday has been met with mixed feelings with some residents welcoming the move, while ...Published: 09 Jan 2023 at 06:57hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
City of Bulawayo to get rid of all informal traders in the CBD
The City of Bulawayo has advised all stakeholders that it will be conducting an exercise to rid the City of all informal traders in the Central Business District (CBD) with effect from Wednesday, 11. ...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 16:03hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF aligned vendors in showdown with Bulawayo Council
A showdown between Bulawayo City Council and Zanu-PF aligned vendors is looming following the former‘s decision to get rid of all informal traders in the Central Business District (CBD)....Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 09:36hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Pushcarts face city centre ban
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) intends to ban push carts, popularly known as "Scanias" from operating within the city centre while also criminalising displaying goods on the city's pavements, triggering ...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 05:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chaos on 5th Avenue gives Bulawayo city a perennial headache
GAINS made from the recently concluded Bulawayo City Council Spring Cleaning exercise could be quickly reversed as authorities continue to struggle to bring sanity along 5th Avenue where illegal...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo, Kariba ignore Heroes Day
HEROES' Day celebrations were poorly attended in Bulawayo and Kariba yesterday, with residents saying the holiday was no longer of significance because government is failing to honour the "real libera...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Varun targets rural Zimbabwe
Beverages producer, Varun Beverages has plans underway to set up solar powered outlets in rural Zimbabwe to increase the reach of its products.Speaking at the Zimbabwe-Rwanda Investment Confer...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Push cart operator (78) dies in CBD
A 78-YEAR-OLD Bindura man collapsed and died after offloading his baggage at a shop in Bindura yesterday. Arumando Mujiiwa o...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 12:05hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mbare structures demolished
THE Harare City Council yesterday started demolishing illegal structures in Mbare, targeting the Mupedzanhamo Market zone and illegal tuckshops around the bus terminus, as authorities implement plans ...Published: 09 Jan 2022 at 06:02hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga wary of Covid-19 second wave threat
VICE President Dr Constantino Chiwenga yesterday warned of the possibility of the country being hit by a second wave of Covid-19, saying ignorance, denial and wishful thinking could lead to more death...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 05:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The 'scania' operator who became a businessman
PHINIAS GOMBA hates the sport of soccer. FOR the first 20 years of his life, he had loved it like most young men in soccer mad Zimbabwe. This all changed one night after another heavyweight bout betwe...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Politburo member narrowly escaped death
ZANU-PF Politburo member Absalom Sikhosana (69) narrowly escaped death after a vehicle sped over a kerb dividing a road and collided head-on with his along Khami Road in Bulawayo.The driver of...Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Army, police target vendors
A massive joint army, police and council blitz under Operation Restore Legacy will today ignite a possible confrontation with vendors and illegal foreign currency dealers who have trickled back into H...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 13:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo fines 289 vendors
POLICE in Bulawayo have fined 289 illegal vendors in a blitz aimed at bringing sanity to the city.BCC senior public relations officer, Mrs Nesisa Mpofu, said an operation against illegal vendi...Published: 04 Nov 2017 at 05:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Vendors vacate CBD
THERE was free flow of human and vehicular traffic in Gweru yesterday after vendors moved from pavements and road sides to designated selling points in line with an ultimatum issued by the local munic...Published: 24 Oct 2017 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZRP declines council request to evict vendors
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police declined the Harare City Council's request to have illegal vendors evicted from the Central Business District.Council has expressed concern over the continued ille...Published: 07 Sep 2017 at 16:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Men nabbed for stealing coal from NRZ
Three Makokoba residents are in trouble after they for stealing coal worth $280 from the National Railways of Zimbabwe.The three Lovemore Ndlovu (17), Prince Moyo (19) and Wellington Sibanda (...Published: 03 May 2017 at 06:42hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mother's privates insult sparks vendor violence
TWO vendors at Egodini bus terminus in Bulawayo were involved in a quarrel that ended with one of them stabbing his colleague for insulting him by referring to his mother's privates.A cour...Published: 28 Jan 2017 at 08:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Human error a cause of many road traffic accidents
A number of innocent people are being killed daily in road traffic accidents emanating from human error.According to the Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe 93, 4 percent of road accidents are ...Published: 29 Oct 2016 at 08:32hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Council engages ZRP in kombi war
The Harare City Council has engaged the Zimbabwe Republic Police in its efforts to restore sanity in the Central Business District as kombis continue to wreak havoc by carrying passengers at undes...Published: 10 Sep 2016 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hooker murders troublesome client after sex
A Chitungwiza hooker - Shupikai Luwanda aged 33 has been arrested on allegations of conniving with her boyfriend in striking her sex client with a hoe killing him.Luwanda's boyfriend was ident...Published: 29 Jul 2015 at 13:47hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
BCC gets tough to tame traffic jungle
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has introduced stiffer penalties on errant motorists in a bid to weed out delinquent drivers and restore sanity in the city centre.According to a report on the ...Published: 26 Feb 2013 at 22:13hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
Vendor struck by kombi while fleeing council police
THERE was drama at the Lobengula Street Mall when what was meant to be a blitz on vendors by Bulawayo Municipal Police nearly turned tragic as one of the vendors was struck by a speeding vehicle as he...Published: 15 Jun 2012 at 09:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hlalani Kuhle housing beneficiaries turn to wood poaching
TO many people living in Cowdray Park's Hlalani Kuhle section, Emganwini suburb in Bulawayo and other residential areas in the city, selling firewood has become a lucrative business.Taking adv...Published: 24 May 2012 at 04:20hrs | | by Factmore Dzobo
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