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Thieves target water taps
SEVERAL residents of Bulawayo's Gwabalanda suburb had their water taps stolen by syndicates that are said to be terrorising many parts of the city.Bulawayo United Residents Association (BURA) ...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:49hrs | 441 | by Staff reporter
ZACC to investigate BCC
THEZimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission said it would investigate the goings-on at the local authority after a lobby group, Chapter 2 Movement, said the council must be held accountable over the ...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:46hrs | 717 | by Staff reporter
Crossing crocodile-infested Limpopo for survival
A bakkie waits on the Zimbabwean side of the Limpopo River.A number of people sit waiting for their relatives to return from shopping forays into South Africa, especially in the border town of...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:45hrs | 11945 | by Staff reporter
Council failing to supply bowser water
BOWSERS meant to lessen water woes in Mzilikazi and Barbourfields are failing to cater for everyone in time.Barbourfields and Ntabazinduna Flats Residents representative, Judy Takanayi said re...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 09:20hrs | 345 | by Stephen Jakes
LIST: 14 COVID-19 positive returnees escape from Beitbridge quarantine centre
14 Covid-19 positive returnees escaped from Beitbridge Covid-19 quarantine centre, bringing the total to 223 of those who have escaped so far from compulsory quarantine for returning residents, with p...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 18:49hrs | 2951 | by Staff reporter
Kariba tension-gripped as government departments dither tactlessly
Kariba is a tense town this week for both tourists and local stakeholders, with emotions boiling over in some instances. Government departments' inept handling of important issues is at the core of th...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 18:47hrs | 4782 | by Laiton Kandawire Patsaka-Nyaminyami Community Radio Environment and Tourism Correspondent
BCC insists on sewage contaminated Khami water
THE city council here has remained defiant on its push to have Khami Dam as one of its suppliers of water.This comes as the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has for some time now been entangled in ...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 16:22hrs | 759 | by Staff reporter
'Running mate clause must ensure VP is elected'
GWERU Urban MP Brian Dube (MDC Alliance) says the running mate clause in the current Constitution must be amended to ensure the President is barred from selecting deputies. Speaking during the...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:09hrs | 790 | by Staff reporter
Border authorities highlight need to test truck drivers
Authorities at Forbes Border Post in Mutare have highlighted the need to test truck drivers passing through the port of entry for better management of any potential Covid-19 cases, as most of them wer...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 06:56hrs | 255 | by Staff reporter
Government Okays breaks Covid-19 Regulations as it okays more than 10 thousand congregants gathering in Manicaland
Marange Residents calls for the immidiate dispersal of Marange Apostolic Sect members who are having their Annual Festival in Mafararikwa, Bocha Marange.According to a statement by a dis...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:49hrs | 3214 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Mnangagwa's govt to reallocate unused land
INFORMATION minister Monica Mutsvangwa yesterday said the government had adopted the Comprehensive National Agricultural Land Audit which will see 225 abandoned land units being reallocated, while 24 ...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:30hrs | 1621 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records 34 local COVID-19 cases in 24 hours
Fifty-three people tested positive for COVID-19 this Tuesday bringing the total number of positive cases to 787.In a COVID-19 daily update, the Ministry of Health and Child Care said the peopl...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 17:12hrs | 1903 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF MP hijacks community clinic project?
A group of Izimnyama villagers in Bulilima district who are now based in the United Kingdom are up in arms with Zanu-PF Bulilima West Member of Parliament Dingumuzi Phuti for allegedly hijacking their...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 17:19hrs | 4166 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Bulawayo Mayor instructed to report to Thokozani Khupe daily
MDC-T President Thokozani Khupe has constituted a Presidential Task Force to look at the death of about 13 people in Luveve in the past months and has instructed Bulawayo Mayor His Worship Solomon Mad...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 17:54hrs | 9039 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Rehabilitation of Nyamandlovu Aquifer boreholes at Rochester hailed
Alderman Clayton Zana has appreciated the work done at Rochester, on the habilitation of supply boreholes.He also enquired if the City boreholes would be rehabilitated too.The latest c...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 17:45hrs | 776 | by Stephen Jakes
BCC struggles to pay workers
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) says its coffers are running dry and as such it is struggling to pay its workers and deliver services effectively. The council which says its revenue declined by 80...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:06hrs | 492 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge roads in bad state
The poor state of major roads in Beitbridge East is adversely affecting the introduction of public transport resulting in communities relying on private motorists. This was said by Beitbridge ...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:05hrs | 575 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Covid-19 confirmed cases top 700
Another 18 people tested positive for Covid-19 yesterday, taking the weekend total to 91 and the cumulative total since the start of the pandemic in Zimbabwe to 716. Three of yesterday's patie...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:04hrs | 364 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19: Confirmed cases reach 716 in Zimbabwe
Another 18 people tested positive for Covid-19 on Sunday, taking the weekend total to 91 and the cumulative total since the start of the pandemic in Zimbabwe to 716, The Herald reported. Three...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 09:34hrs | 2081 | by Staff Reporter
Mohadi blames colonisers for not teaching Zimbabweans how to run economy
Vice President, Kembo Mohadi, has blamed the country's former colonial ruler of not teaching native Zimbabweans to run the economy as the southern African nation battles a prolonged economic downturn....Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 20:32hrs | 4656 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean problems need a military solution
To solve problems brought by genocidists in a country, the route can never be through the popularly known ballot box but a military intervention, if indeed prosperity becomes the ultimate goal wanted ...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 18:35hrs | 3457 | by Mthwakazi Liberation Front
Bulawayo councillors happy over city's cleanliness
Bulawayo City Councillors have expressed happiness over the city centre's cleanliness following the removal of informal traders in the city centre during the Covid-19 lockdown.This is revealed...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 15:05hrs | 798 | by Stephen Jakes
Donald Trump is an atheist and a blasphemer
DONALD Trump is a liar when he claims that his unbridled dictatorship owes its currency through God's appointment. Trump declared recently that he is the most powerful president of the United States b...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:09hrs | 1100 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Bulawayo sits on perennial river
IN a case depicting poverty amid plenty, part of the Bulawayo Central Business District (CBD) was built on top of an underground perennial river, despite the city experiencing a crippling water shorta...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:06hrs | 1844 | by Staff reporter
Komichi knows the rules he must apply them
A REPORT by one daily on May 17, 2020 stated that there were some hardliners on both sides of the MDC feud who were working hard to scuttle negotiations for the extraordinary congress suggested by the...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 15:36hrs | 2149 | by Kennedy Kaitano
Residents fined for violating lockdown rules win in court
A ZIMBABWEAN court has overturned the conviction of two Mutare residents after they successfully challenged the decision by some Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) members to order them to pay RTGS$1 000 ...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 17:02hrs | 1965 | by Stephen Jakes
Bulawayo residents drinking sewage-contaminated water
BULAWAYO residents could have been exposed to sewage and mud-contaminated water through seepage into burst water pipes, a lat-est council environmental, management and engineering services committee r...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:11hrs | 1685 | by Staff reporter
Pupil writes exams from quarantine centre
A 16-YEAR-OLD pupil from a high school on the outskirts of Bulawayo is writing his Ordinary Level June examinations under quarantine in Bulawayo after returning from Botswana recently. The tee...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:09hrs | 724 | by Staff reporter
'Nkomo joined Zanu-PF to stop Mugabe's killings'
THE late Vice-President Joshua Nkomo and his lieutenants only joined the Zanu-PF government to stop the Gukurahundi massacres that were being perpetrated by then Prime Minister Robert Mugabe.T...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:04hrs | 892 | by Staff reporter
Baboons targets Kariba patients
KARIBA - Some residents in the resort town of Kariba have raised red flag to Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management to tame troops of baboons attacking patients at the district hospital....Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:17hrs | 1407 | by Naume Muza
ZimParks rangers drunk with sanitizers
KARIBA - The human and wildlife conflict in the resort town of Kariba is being fueled by Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management (ZimParks) rangers neglecting duty while drunk with sanitizers ...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:11hrs | 960 | by Naume Muza
BCC to bill in forex
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is considering billing residents in foreign currency and has re-adopted selling of residential stands in US dollars. The local authority, in the latest council repo...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:35hrs | 1721 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo pushes for out of court settlement
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is reportedly pushing for an out-of-court settlement with residents who dragged it to court demanding answers to the diarrhoea, typhoid and dysentery outbreak in the city....Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:24hrs | 1563 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Luveve MP to pay clinic fees for victims of council water
Luveve Member of Parliament Stella Ndlovu has pledged to source funds to assist members of her constituency who have been hospitalized after seeking medical attention after allegedly consuming Council...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 10:41hrs | 1134 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'BCC might destroy damning diarrhoea outbreak evidence'
BULAWAYO residents have expressed fear that the local authority (BCC) could destroy evidence that implicates it in the diarrhoea, typhoid and dysentery outbreaks in the city which recently claimed a d...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:27hrs | 294 | by Staff reporter
Residents protest bond note snub
Mpopoma residents demonstrate at Mahomva shopping centre against the rejection of bond notes by general dealer shops on MondayDISGRUNTLED residents of Mpopoma high-density suburb in Bulawayo o...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:26hrs | 1173 | by Staff reporter
Zesa switches off 100 households over illegal connections
POWER utility Zesa yesterday conducted a blitz and disconnected over 100 illegally connected households in Stoneridge, Harare. Zesa has been losing electricity worth thousands of dollars to unscrupulo...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:26hrs | 1229 | by Staff reporter
Govt launches regularisation programme
Government has launched the national regularisation programme, which is expected to tighten the screws on land barons by bringing sanity to all informal settlements countrywide. Land barons ha...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 16:50hrs | 2487 | by Staff reporter
BCC closes roads to under take sewer rehabilitation
BULAWAYO Water and Sewerage Services Improvement Projects (BWSSIP) declared road closure on Thursday in some parts of the city to avoid disturbance as sewerage works commence are likely to take the wh...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:07hrs | 429 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa abducted, dumped near railway line
MDC Alliance youth chairperson for Goromonzi South, Davison Chamisa, who claims abduction by suspected state security agents in Ruwa Sunday, has been found, with claims of being drugged and dumped som...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:57hrs | 1897 | by newzimbabwe
Residents sue BCC over typhoid, Harare laboratory roped in
BULAWAYO residents have approached the High Court seeking an order directing council to release the laboratory samples of tap water and other vital information relating to the diarrhoea outbreak in Lu...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 281 | by Staff reporter
Drones to patrol Zimbabwe borders
DRONES will soon be patrolling the country's borders as Government moves to address security challenges posed by border jumpers who could be spreading infections by avoiding compulsory quarantine and ...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:51hrs | 2030 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe constitution amendment (bill no. 2) - 2019
Written submission in accordance with section 328 amendment of constitution ZAPU notes with grave concern about the implications of the proposed r...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 10:47hrs | 880 | by Sakhile Sibanda
Bulawayo water safe, says council report
A Bulawayo City Council report on the alleged contaminated Luveve water has revealed that tap water samples collected in the area tested satisfactory while those done on water from an open source in t...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:01hrs | 104 | by Staff reporter
Food aid for Mabuthweni and Emakhandeni residents
THE Minister of State for Bulawayo Provincial Affairs, Judith Ncube, has urged residents in the city to unite and assist each other during the difficult times as the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic b...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:30hrs | 108 | by Staff reporter
What's in a name and history?
SOMEWHERE in Buhera East, near Dorowa Mine before you cross Save River into Ziyambi Purchase Area, there is a school named after King Mzilikazi kaMatshobana. I would give everything to know if posteri...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:29hrs | 258 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Bulawayo burial regulations to continue beyond lockdown
BURIAL regulations introduced by the Bulawayo City Council as part of the Covid-19 pandemic preventive measures are set to continue beyond the national lockdown.At the onset of the pandemic in...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:26hrs | 140 | by Staff reporter
Typhoid outbreak in Bulawayo
TESTS done at private laboratories to ascertain the cause of 12 deaths and illness to more than 1 500 residents of Luveve in Bulawayo have revealed that they suffered from typhoid and dysentery....Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:24hrs | 383 | by Staff reporter
400 Covid-19 positive cases from South Africa
RETURNEES from South Africa have accounted for more than 70 percent of Covid-19 positive cases reported in the country after 400 locals who were domiciled in the neighbouring country tested positive s...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:21hrs | 352 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt probing army brutality
AUTHORITIES are probing cases of alleged army brutality in Harare and at the country's borders, after soldiers are said to have gone on a rampage on Wednesday night - assaulting people and looting the...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 17:00hrs | 987 | by Staff reporter
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