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Bulawayo vendors ignore BCC ultimatum
Informal traders in Bulawayo's central business district (CBD) have continued their operations despite a relocation deadline set by the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) today. Vendors remain unfazed by the...Published: 3 hrs ago | 208 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council orders pushcart ban to restore order
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has announced the immediate relocation of all vendors operating along 5th Avenue to designated vending sites, in line with a Government directive aimed at restoring ord...Published: 8 hrs ago | 336 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo relocates 5th Avenue informal traders
The City of Bulawayo has announced the relocation of informal traders from 5th Avenue to the Bhaktas 2 Site, situated along Lobengula Street and 2nd Avenue, as part of efforts to decongest the Central...Published: 23 hrs ago | 4332 | by Staff reporter
Woman jumps to death
In a heart-wrenching incident of gender-based violence, 33-year-old Siphiwe Ndlovu from Burombo Flats in Bulawayo has died after allegedly being assaulted by her husband before she jumped from a third...Published: 18 Feb 2025 at 03:38hrs | 3626 | by Staff reporter
BCC resolves to permanently close 5th Ave market
Bulawayo City Council has resolved to permanently close the 5th Avenue vegetable trading market, citing the need to enhance urban planning, improve safety, and support sustainable business growth. The...Published: 09 Feb 2025 at 11:24hrs | 2368 | by Staff reporter
Water shortages hits Zimbabwe's cities
Residents across Zimbabwe are enduring severe water shortages, as the ongoing El Niño drought exacerbates an already strained water supply system. In cities like Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second-largest c...Published: 01 Jan 2025 at 10:20hrs | 708 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo thrives with festive shopping and holiday preparations
Bulawayo was buzzing with energy yesterday as last-minute Christmas shoppers filled the city, creating a festive and vibrant atmosphere. Banking halls, supermarkets, and beauty salons were packed, whi...Published: 25 Dec 2024 at 08:20hrs | 172 | by Staff reporter
Harare bustles with last-minute Christmas shoppers
Harare was a hive of activity yesterday as shoppers crowded the city's stores for last-minute Christmas purchases, while hundreds of travelers rushed to rural areas to reunite with their families ahea...Published: 24 Dec 2024 at 12:38hrs | 159 | by Staff reporter
Harare crowd fatally assaults 'thief'
A tragic incident of mob justice unfolded on December 1, 2024, in the Belvedere suburb of Harare, claiming the life of Bla Odza. The 36-year-old was brutally assaulted by a group of people who accused...Published: 02 Dec 2024 at 15:49hrs | 957 | by Staff reporter
Residents raise concern over councillors' stands
In the face of worsening basic service delivery in many local authorities, including Bulawayo, ratepayers have raised concerns about certain privileges granted to serving councillors. Specific...Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 04:51hrs | 2 | 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
BCC moves to stem dirt, chaos and decay in CBD
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has given informal traders, kombi, bus and pushcart operators, and those involved in illegal car wash business in the city centre an ultimatum to cease their illegal activi...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 05:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BCC gives vendors ultimatum
INFORMAL traders have been given up to next week Friday to move to designated vending bays and pay for their licences or risk losing their wares.In consultation with the Office of the Minister...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 05:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo traffic lawlessness continues unabated
DRIVING on Bulawayo's roads in the Central Business District is now a nightmare as rowdy push-cart operators, pirate taxi drivers, kombi and bus crews flout traffic rules and regulations as the city f...Published: 11 Jan 2024 at 05:13hrs | 1 | 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 | 12 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo bans pushcarts in CBD
The government has granted approval for Bulawayo City Council (BCC)'s clamping and tow-away by-laws, which now include the prohibition of pushcarts in the central business district (CBD) among other o...Published: 10 Nov 2023 at 06:39hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Minor killed in accident
A 15-YEAR-OLD Gokwe juvenile died on the spot while another is battling for life at a hospital after they were hit by a vehicle along Kwekwe-Gokwe Highway.Midlands Police Spokesperson, Inspect...Published: 06 Mar 2023 at 15:01hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's street 'shops' flood city by night
FILLED to the brim with groceries ranging from foodstuffs, toiletry to skin care products, a pushcart — commonly known as iScania in the streets of Bulawayo — is strategically positioned at a busy...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:23hrs | 1 | 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
Mohammed Bushera's physical training is no exercise in futility but the future
The Mohammed Bushera story is a story of perseverance, possibilities and posterity. A story of heroism, help, honesty, health and happiness. Perhaps for someone who has never ever delved into some kin...Published: 30 Dec 2022 at 07:40hrs | 9 | by Ndaba Sibanda
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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Touts terrorise passengers
TRAVELLERS in the Midlands province have complained over harassment by touts at bus termini, where they are forced to board buses against their will.The commuters also protested over pushcart ...Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'6,4m Zimbabweans living in extreme poverty'
THE latest World Bank report indicates that 6,4 million Zimbabweans are living on less than US$1,90 a day.The report is based on the multilateral institution's Poverty and Inequality Platform ...Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 07:22hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Dumped garbage at council offices remain undisposed
Heaps of dumped garbage at Hatfield District Council offices in Harare by irate residents last Friday is still there with council officials going about with their business unfazed. Irate Hatfi...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 15:11hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Intercity travel resumes
MAJOR bus termini, depots and popular hiking spots in Bulawayo have burst into life after Government gave transport operators plying intercity routes the greenlight to resume services in line with the...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Harare residents to pay dog, bicycle fees
Harare residents who own at least a dog and a bicycle will now have to fork out an extra $2 500 on their bills, with the figure rising if one has additional dogs or bicycles.Latest figures ava...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Couple savagely attacked, husband dies
A COUPLE from Pelandaba suburb in Bulawayo was attacked by robbers, leading to the death of the husband in a case that brings to the fore an alarming rise in crime and the collapse of the city's emerg...Published: 17 May 2021 at 06:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Police impound pushcarts
POLICE in Bulawayo yesterday impounded scores of pushcarts which are popularly known as scanias at the fresh produce market between 4th and 5th avenues. The pushcart operators carry goods main...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 07:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo suburbs still face water problems despite rains
SEVERAL Bulawayo houses built on high ground are yet to receive tap water despite council easing its water rationing regime following heavy rains experienced across the country since November, a surve...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:19hrs | | 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
Zimbabwe economy desperate for election turn-around
Zimbabwean factory manager Sifelani Jabangwe is a survivor of the Mugabe years, overseeing a company that stayed in business through hyperinflation, the national currency being abandoned and an exodus...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 07:56hrs | 1 | by TimesLive
Porter stabs colleague over $3 debt
A Murewa porter, Tendai Jakarasi was arrested on charges of stabbing his colleague on the chest following a heated argument over a $3 debt.Evans Mapfumo (27) is currently battling for life at ...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Municipal cops, vendors clash leaves 6 injured
Six municipal police officers were injured last weekend after they were attacked by vendors in the central business district in an operation to rid the city of illegal hawkers.The fierce run-i...Published: 16 Jan 2018 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's new face no better
If Zimbabwe's military regime thought that a few sensible gestures would be enough to present a more attractive face to the world they were misreading the hopes of the thousands who joyfully took to t...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 06:21hrs | 2 | by ZimVigl
Mugabe want vendors off the streets
PRESIDENT Mugabe has deplored the vendor menace and lack of order in the Harare central business district (CBD), saying Harare should be the smartest city in the country as the capital. He said vendor...Published: 09 Oct 2017 at 16:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe deplores vendor menace in Harare
PRESIDENT Mugabe has deplored the vendor menace and disorder in Harare's central business district, saying the capital should be the smartest city in the country.He said vendors operating in a...Published: 09 Oct 2017 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Harare to recruit 300 municipal police officers
Harare City Council has resolved to recruit an additional 300 municipal police officers to enforce the ban on pushcarts in the central business district as the local authority moves to bring sanity in...Published: 08 Aug 2017 at 08:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gweru CBD vendors resist eviction, back on the streets
VENDORS are back at undesignated selling points in the Gweru Central Business District after defying a council order to relocate to Swift Vendor Mart in the light industrial area.Two w...Published: 17 Apr 2017 at 13:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Blitz drives out CBD food vendors
A blitz carried out by the Zimbabwe Republic Police and Harare Municipal Police on food vendors in Harare since Tuesday has seen most of them heeding the call by city authorities to stop selling f...Published: 21 Jan 2017 at 11:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Typhoid outbreak spreads in Harare
The typhoid outbreak has spread to Budiriro and Glen View suburbs amid reports that the MDC-T led Harare City Council bungled on its 48-hour ultimatum of removing illegal food vendors from the str...Published: 14 Jan 2017 at 08:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Council, police plan raids on vendors
Thousands of food vendors in Harare are set to be raided by the city council following the expiry of a 48-hour ultimatum issued to unregulated traders on Tuesday.In a bid to contain the spread...Published: 14 Jan 2017 at 04:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Pushcart operator posing as teacher exposed at maintenance court
A woman got a rude awakening when her ex-husband, who she believed was a teacher, confessed at the maintenance court that he was a pushcart operator. Thembelani Ncube revealed that Samkeliso M...Published: 08 Dec 2015 at 04:19hrs | | by Noleen Makhurane
Pregnant 'sex cheat' axed to death
A Gokwe man axed his pregnant wife of four years to death before committing suicide by hanging after he allegedly caught her in a compromising position on their matrimonial bed with her ex-husband....Published: 20 Aug 2015 at 13:37hrs | 7 | by Patrick Chitumba
Mukanya was right, after all
In ghetto lingo they call it "kutonyora" while the proper Shona equivalent is "chioko muhomwe". But no matter how suitable, colourful and vivid the name might be, bribery is a double-edged sword ...Published: 12 Apr 2014 at 13:54hrs | | by Rosenthal Mutakati Ghetto Blast
Zimbabwe Development Forum (ZDF); Who we are
Due to the interest generated by our response to Minister Moyo's plea to the Zimbabwean Diaspora community, we hereby bring ourselves openly to the public of our great country. We are a group of Zimba...Published: 27 Mar 2014 at 15:38hrs | | by Mduduzi Dallas Gumbo
Fight over prostitute turns tragic
A FIGHT over a prostitute turned tragic when a Bulawayo man had his throat cut with a sharp object and bled to death at Nkulumane Complex parking lot. Vusumuzi Mguni, 30, of Magwegwe North su...Published: 15 Mar 2014 at 13:20hrs | | by Temba Dube
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 | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Six men jailed for 10 years for stealing electric cables
SIX men who were caught stealing Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) cables were yesterday jailed for an effective 10 years. Nimrod Nhundu, (34), Jonathan Mbiriyenyika ...Published: 27 Jan 2013 at 21:45hrs | | 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
Woman crushes bystander with a car after trying to run over hubby
A Bulawayo woman yesterday crushed a bystander's legs with a car after she allegedly tried to run over her husband following a lovers' tiff outside a local hotel.Ms Nompumelelo Moyo (26) of Ne...Published: 01 Jun 2012 at 13:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
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