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Furious wife kicks hubby out, changes locks, threatens to kill
Chaos has erupted in Mahatshula suburb after a fiery grandmother, Iren Mbanje (62), was dragged to court for allegedly unleashing terror on her husband, threatening to kill him, and locking him out of...Published: 27 Jun 2025 at 15:02hrs | 153 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo fire brigade responds to devastating rains and strong winds
The Bulawayo Fire Brigade has assured residents that they were prepared for the recent heavy rains and strong winds that caused significant damage to properties across the city.Bulawayo City C...Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 10:12hrs | 82 | by Staff reporter
8 hour blackout in Bulawayo's eastern suburbs
The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) has announced a scheduled power outage for certain eastern suburbs in Bulawayo on Tuesday.According to a statement issued...Published: 28 May 2024 at 09:49hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
More water woes for Bulawayo
BULAWAYO residents should brace themselves for more water woes after the local authority announced a disruption in supply across the city due to maintenance works at Ncema Works and Pump Station....Published: 15 Jan 2024 at 05:14hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Pastor's maintenance drama plays out in court
A Bulawayo-based pastor who is also founder of Anchor of Christ International Ministries is in hot soup after he was dragged to court by his estranged wife over maintenance arrears.Pastor Deci...Published: 08 Sep 2023 at 06:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo suburbs in power blackout
A POWER fault affecting the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) mainline distribution chain has resulted in several suburbs in Bulawayo going for at least a day without ...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 11:49hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
7-hour power cut for Bulawayo's Eastern suburbs
ABOUT 13 Eastern suburbs in Bulawayo will be without electricity for about 7 hours on 20 April. According to a statement from the Zimbabwe Electricity Distribution Company (ZETDC), the schedul...Published: 19 Apr 2023 at 16:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa fault knocks suburbs off grid
SEVERAL western suburbs in Bulawayo have gone for four days without power supplies, which is suspected to be a result of a technical fault at sub-stations.Affected suburbs include Njube, Pumul...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 05:03hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
The Zimbabwean who dressed Queen Elizabeth and Princess Diana
ALMOST half of Bulawayo has been plunged into darkness, with residential areas the most affected, after heavy rains that were accompanied by thunder and lightning damaged three substations.The...Published: 29 Oct 2022 at 19:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Residents cry foul over BCC billing system
BULAWAYO residents have slammed council over its billing system that has seen some of them being asked to pay amounts that they say are outrageous.Under the auspices of the Bulawayo Progressiv...Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 05:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
48-hour water cuts in Bulawayo after mainline pipe burst
A MAJOR water pipeline burst in Esigodini has forced Bulawayo City Council to announce an emergency week-long 48-hour water shedding regime starting today, affecting all suburbs and surrounding areas ...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Inflated BCC bills spark outrage
BULAWAYO City Council's decision to index charges in foreign currency and convert these at the prevailing official exchange rate has sparked outrage with residents saying they have received shocking b...Published: 05 Jul 2022 at 21:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Storm blacks-out most Bulawayo suburbs
HEAVY rains that hit Bulawayo yesterday morning triggered a power outage affecting most suburbs in the city, including the region's main referral hospital, Mpilo Central Hospital.Power is expe...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 05:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Another water cut for Bulawayo
A number of suburbs in Bulawayo will once again go up to Wednesday without water supplies. This has been attributed to vital maintenance work being undertaken by the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission ...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 08:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo water crisis forces pupils to cut short lessons
BULAWAYO's water crisis has worsened forcing some schools to dismiss learners early as part of contingency measures in light of a looming health disaster. There are also reports that public schools in...Published: 19 Nov 2021 at 06:23hrs | 10 | by Staff Reporter
City Council struggles to pump water to Bulawayo residents
BULAWAYO residents are set to endure a three-day weekly water shedding exercise as the local authority struggles to pump water to the city due to alleged power outages. On the other hand, Zimb...Published: 18 Nov 2021 at 07:35hrs | 12 | by Staff Reporter
48-hour water shedding for Bulawayo
THE Bulawayo City Council has introduced a two-day water shedding schedule for the entire city as power cuts continue to affect its water works.In a statement, the city's Town Clerk, Mr Christ...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:40hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
BCC tables 144-hour water shedding plan
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) yesterday released a 144-hour weekly water shedding programme which will see most suburbs receiving water twice a week. The industry, city centre and mining are...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:41hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Council battles to clear garbage backlog
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has unveiled a revised refuse collection schedule for the city's eastern and industrial areas as the local authority battles to clear heaps of garbage which have been pilin...Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 06:29hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Trump hammers nail into coffin of US's fake democracy
WE all knew it was coming, and now it is here: an attempted coup. There is no other way to describe what US President Donald Trump did in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.Standing in the Eas...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 19:08hrs | | by Lowenstein
Bouncers hired in nasty house wrangle
A PROMINENT Bulawayo businessman and his ex-wife allegedly hired bouncers on Monday to prevent a woman the couple sold a house to, from occupying the property.The stage was set for an epic cla...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 20:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BCC disconnects water supplies to defaulting rate payers
BULAWAYO City Council will today start disconnecting water supplies to defaulting rate payers as the municipality moves to recover what it is owed by residents and commercial entities in the city. Res...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:08hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo municipality disconnects water supplies
BULAWAYO City Council will today start disconnecting water supplies to defaulting rate payers as the municipality moves to recover what it is owed by residents and commercial entities in the city. ...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 08:59hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Cop dies in car accident
A POLICE officer died on the spot while another passenger was injured in a car accident along Airport road in Bulawayo's Romney Park suburb yesterday.The police officer, Brian Mpandla (29), wh...Published: 18 May 2019 at 08:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
48-hour water cuts are back in Bulawayo
Reporters THE Bulawayo City Council has with immediate effect re-introduced a 48-hour water shedding schedule in all suburbs amid revelations the city is among areas that will be hit by severe water s...Published: 03 May 2019 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
25 Bulawayo violence ‘hooligans’ appear in court
TWENTY-FIVE suspected hooligans who are alleged to be part of a mob that unleashed violence in Bulawayo, burning cars, property and looting shops, appeared in court yesterday. The accused pers...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 00:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Inflated' Ecocash fares rile commuters
COMMUTERS in Bulawayo have expressed frustration over inflated EcoCash fares charged by kombi and taxi operators despite adoption of mobile transport payments.Commuters who spoke to Business C...Published: 03 Aug 2018 at 07:12hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Boyfriend from hell?: Tries to use lover's body for rituals
A WOMAN from Bulawayo is stuck with a walker after her lover allegedly hit her with a car intentionally in a suspected ritual incident.Siphilisiwe Nxumalo (33) curses the day she met her ex-lo...Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ban covers all concerts says Bulawayo Mayor
BULAWAYO Mayor Councillor Martin Moyo has said the ban of shows at the Amphitheatre was not for Harare artistes only but for all concerts, church services and activites that take place well into the w...Published: 14 Jun 2017 at 06:09hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Bond notes: When mere depositors debate
An interview Donald Trump is alleged to have had with People Magazine in 1998 quoted him as saying: "If I were to run [for US presidency], I'd run as a Republican. They're the dumbest group of voters ...Published: 26 Nov 2016 at 15:49hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Woman blows sister's $16 000, tries to kill her
A BULAWAYO woman who was sent more than $16 000 by her Australia-based sister, squandered the money and tried to suffocate the sister with a sofa cushion when she asked for the money upon her return....Published: 12 Sep 2016 at 11:21hrs | 2 | by Tanaka Mrewa
Man kills 'cheating spouse', burns body
AN ENRAGED Bulawayo man fatally stabbed his "cheating" wife 30 times using a sharp object before burning her body using an unknown flammable substance, a High Court judge heard yesterday.Bulaw...Published: 20 Jul 2016 at 06:49hrs | | by Mashudu Netsianda
Egodini demolition to affect 2k vendors, kombi operators
ABOUT 2,000 vendors and commuter omnibus operators in Bulawayo would be displaced as council prepares to demolish Basch Street Terminus, popularly known as Egodini, next month.The local author...Published: 28 Mar 2016 at 10:41hrs | | by Bianca Mlilo
Kombis, vendors ordered out of Egodini
THE Bulawayo City Council has ordered commuter omnibus operators and vendors to vacate Basch Street Terminus by April 30 to pave way for the construction of the multi-million dollar Egodini Shopping M...Published: 25 Mar 2016 at 11:55hrs | 1 | by Auxilia Katongomara
Car crashes into bee hive, 7 pupils stung
SEVEN pupils and a driver were stung by a swarm of bees whose hive was disturbed when the vehicle they were travelling in veered off the road and hit an electricity pole in Romney Park suburb in B...Published: 21 Mar 2016 at 09:19hrs | 1 | by Whinsley Masara
NOTICE: Interruption of water supply
The City of Bulawayo would like to advise members of the public that there was an electrical fault at the Ncema Water Treatment station which has affected the pumping of treated water from Ncema to Tu...Published: 02 Mar 2016 at 14:47hrs | | by S Zhou
Street knockdown man dies
A BULAWAYO man who was hit by a speeding vehicle in the city centre on Thursday afternoon has died. Lloyd Mdhluli of Paddonhurst suburb was hit by a Mercedes Benz E320 along 9th Avenue, directly oppos...Published: 28 Nov 2015 at 08:15hrs | | by Whinsley Masara
Speeding driver knocks down man
A BULAWAYO man is fighting for life at the United Bulawayo Hospitals after he was hit by a speeding vehicle in the city centre yesterday.Lloyd Mdhluli of Paddonhurst was hit by a Mercedes Benz...Published: 27 Nov 2015 at 10:03hrs | | by Whinsley Masara
57 vuzu party youths arrested
POLICE in Bulawayo arrested 57 youths, while scores more escaped by scaling a precast wall during a midnight raid at a vuzu party in Lochview suburb.The vuzu party craze is sweeping across the...Published: 31 Aug 2015 at 07:20hrs | 4 | by Pamela Shumba
$13 robber falls down 30m well
A SUSPECTED robber, fleeing a crime scene, drowned in a 30-metre unprotected water well on Saturday night while his teenage accomplice escaped death by spreading his legs and hands and clinging to the...Published: 25 May 2015 at 07:10hrs | | by Patrick Chitumba
Kombi-pirate taxi war looming
A TAXI war is looming in Bulawayo amid reports that two transport companies that won the right to operate in the city - the Bulawayo Public Transport Association (Bupta) and Tshova Mubaiwa had hired b...Published: 26 Apr 2015 at 10:07hrs | | by Vusumuzi Dube
Man stabbed to death in a beer garden
A-37-YEAR old Mzilikazi man died on the spot after he was stabbed in the neck and stomach for admonishing a youth he found insulting his aunt minutes after walking into a beer garden.Simon Ncu...Published: 13 Apr 2015 at 07:22hrs | | by Oswell Moyo
Murder over court order
A-33-YEAR old man from Romney Park suburb in Bulawayo allegedly murdered his ex-girlfriend's sister whose stomach he ripped open exposing her intestines after she barred him from talking to his former...Published: 06 Apr 2015 at 22:08hrs | 1 | by Oswell Moyo
Bulawayo commissioned a new suburb - Emhlangeni
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has just commissioned a new suburb - Emhlangeni in Ward 3, by unveiling 391 medium density residential housing stands.Emhlangeni is adjacent to Romney Park and Padd...Published: 05 Mar 2015 at 19:00hrs | 136 | by Lulu Brenda Harris
Man steals a car, crashes it, dies on the spot
AN unlicensed driver from Bulawayo allegedly stole a vehicle from a man he lives with in a bid to ferry four relatives but crashed and died on the spot after he lost control of the car yesterday morni...Published: 08 Sep 2014 at 07:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Three die in road accidents
THREE people died on the spot in two separate road traffic accidents in Nkayi and Bulawayo over the weekend. In Nkayi, a Samaboys bus on its way to Gokwe veered off the road, rolled once a...Published: 08 Sep 2014 at 04:55hrs | 4 | by Patrick Chitumba | Mpumelelo Nyoni
Car 'thief' crashes, dies
AN UNLICENSED driver crashed a stolen taxi into a tree and died after allegedly disappearing with the vehicle during a wedding after-party. The tragic accident that killed Peter Mutungwazi, 34...Published: 25 Aug 2014 at 08:03hrs | | by Mpumelelo Nyoni and Simbarashe Mutizwa
Parirenyatwa wife dies
The wife to founding PF Zapu vice president and first Zimbabwean trained physician Samuel Parirenyatwa, Elina Khumalo died in Harare today at the age of 86. According to family sources, Khu...Published: 16 Jul 2014 at 17:24hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Man stabs wife to death, burns body
AN ENRAGED Bulawayo man stabbed his wife to death and burnt her body using an unknown flammable substance after the two had a domestic dispute.Jonathan Manguyana, 31, of Romney Park in Bulaway...Published: 08 Mar 2014 at 12:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Diasporan seeks eviction of elderly Romney Park woman
AN ELDERLY woman from Romney Park in Bulawayo faces eviction from a house after the death of her husband who had reportedly agreed with his employer that she would buy the couple a house after ...Published: 02 Jul 2013 at 05:19hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
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