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Police officers jailed for receiving bribes at roadblock
Two Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers, Dennis Takudzwa Chivaku and Sharon Madondo, have been convicted of criminal abuse of duty and sentenced to imprisonment. This week, Harare Magistrates Cour...Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 09:49hrs | 420 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo cracks down against gold panners
In a bid to curb the increasing menace of illegal gold panning and sand poaching in Matabeleland South province, the Bulawayo City Council is planning to establish a permanent base for its rangers and...Published: 14 Apr 2025 at 09:13hrs | 175 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo commissions 141 housing stands in Luveve North
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC), in collaboration with private land developer Natwecraft Investments (Pvt) Limited, has successfully commissioned 141 high-density housing stands in Luveve North suburb...Published: 07 Oct 2024 at 07:58hrs | 548 | by Staff reporter
Gold panners wreak havoc in Bulawayo
BULAWAYO municipal police have arrested 140 illegal miners since January for panning for gold near the city's water bodies, causing massive siltation.This is revealed in the council's environm...Published: 14 Nov 2023 at 04:48hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo councillor eyes council mine dump
BULAWAYO councillor Monica Lubimbi, her partner Sikhanyisiwe Nyathi and Belmac Investments (Pvt) Ltd are seeking permission from the local authority to collect mine dump sands from Paddock 40 Farm at ...Published: 16 Aug 2023 at 06:41hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo police rescue 2 abandoned babies amid 'baby-dumping' spike
Police in Bulawayo rescued two babies found dumped at two locations in the city.Police said both tots, thought to be just two weeks old, have been hospitalised.In the first incident on...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 19:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare braces for second Operation Murambatsvina
MUNICIPALITIES in Harare Province have been ordered to provide material and human resources amounting to tens of thousands in US dollars for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's 45-day presidential cleanup ...Published: 11 Nov 2022 at 20:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest 112 gold panners in Bulawayo
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC), in conjunction with the police, the Environmental Management Agency (Ema) and the Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority have since January this year ar...Published: 08 Jul 2022 at 07:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Armed sand poachers invade Bulawayo
BULAWAYO residents' associations have called on government to deploy armed police to stop sand poaching activities in most residential areas.The residents' associations said sand poachers were...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:12hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Sand poachers wreak havoc in Bulawayo
ILLEGAL sand poachers are now targeting undeveloped housing stands in Bulawayo's Cowdray Park suburb, leaving unclaimed pits that pose a danger to children.Two children drowned in one of the u...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 08:48hrs | 16 | by Staff Reporter
Sand poachers steal road rehabilitation sand
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has declared war on sand poachers in St Peter's on the outskirts of Bulawayo and yesterday council rangers deflated tyres of some of the suspects' vehicles in a bid to ...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 06:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Sand poachers degrade Bulawayo
RAMPANT sand poaching and chopping down of trees is causing environmental degradation in and around Bulawayo amid revelations that the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) only has five rangers instead of 74 n...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 05:53hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
BCC fills up death pits
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has allocated US$200 000 to rehabilitate open pits which were left open over the years during infrastructural construction and those dug by sand poachers harming the enviro...Published: 28 Jun 2021 at 13:39hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Council finally covers 'death pits'
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has started filling up the "pits of death" in Pelandaba West suburb and is employing Geographic Information System (GIS) technology to map and identify similar dangerous sp...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC reclaims 'pits of death'
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has started reclaiming the city's "pits of death" following an outcry from residents and human rights activists.This was after two people drowned in disused pit...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 06:47hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Council pounces on illegal operations
MORE than 59 people have been arrested in a joint operation by the Bulawayo City Council (BCC), Zimbabwe Republic Police and the Environmental Management Agency (EMA) to bust syndicates that are invol...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 23:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Some road construction companies short-changed us
Most urban roads and streets constructed during the colonial era are not damaged and potholed as those made after Uhuru. The colonial roads are still trafficable though in dire need of repairs...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 20:46hrs | 2 | by Thomas Murisa.
Cases of drowning are on the rise
Needless and avoidable loss of lives continue to happen nationwide due to drownings despite several warnings. Rains are a good servant but a bad master, attempting to cross flooded rivers are risks on...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 22:36hrs | 1 | by Thomas Murisa.
4 pupils die in water mishaps
FIVE people, including four school children, drowned in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces in separate incidents between Friday last week and Sunday.In the first incident, five pupils wer...Published: 08 Feb 2017 at 05:36hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo family's security man beaten up
A SECURITY guard employed by the late Vice President Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo's family was allegedly killed on Friday after he tried to stop a gang of men from poaching sand from one of their premi...Published: 21 Nov 2016 at 05:24hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Sand poachers wreck havoc in Harare
Sand poachers are reportedly wrecking havoc in Harare amid concerns have been raised by the Harare Residents Trust.The trust said sand poachers have destroyed the land at Granville Cemetery C ...Published: 20 Jan 2016 at 05:57hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Cowdray Park in water crisis as donors stop drilling boreholes
Bulawayo's Cowdray Park's Garikai/ Hlalani Kuhle residents have been abandoned by donors who were drilling boreholes after they failed to yield adequate water volumes, council has said....Published: 11 Jan 2016 at 12:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sand poachers target city graves
Bulawayo City Council officials have expressed concerns that sand poachers who are terrorising the city's secluded areas are now targeting the Hyde park area close to the cemetery a development th...Published: 04 Jun 2015 at 06:33hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Sand poachers dig up graves, expose coffins at cemetery
SCORES of sand poachers in Bulawayo's Hyde Park Cemetery are digging up graves leaving coffins exposed, Bulawayo City Council has said.Zanele Hwalima, the city's health director, said sand poa...Published: 11 May 2015 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Harare boy (12) drowns in shallow pit
A 12-year old boy drowned last Friday night in a shallow pit in Mainway Meadows, Waterfalls, in Harare.The boy has been identified as Laurence Munjaranji.Laurence was playing with his ...Published: 10 Jan 2015 at 20:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cowdray Park rentals plummet due to water crisis
THE continued unavailability of water, electricity, sanitation facilities and resultant threat of disease outbreak at the Garikai/Hlalani Kuhle Housing Scheme in Cowdray Park has seen the area ranking...Published: 09 Nov 2014 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Sand poachers causing serious environmental degradation in Tsholotsho
Sand poachers and brick moulders are wreaking havoc in Tsholotsho causing serious environmental degradation with most parts of the Matabeleland North district slowly turning into gullies.Local...Published: 14 Jul 2014 at 15:19hrs | 1 | by Makhosi Sibanda
Bulawayo water woes worsen
WATER shortages and the Bulawayo City Council's rationing programme are increasingly becoming a bitter pill for Cowdray Park residents who go for days without water.The situation is worse for ...Published: 15 May 2013 at 10:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
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