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Residents turn to sewer water
A HEALTH disaster looms in Umguza district after Mbundane residents, banned from fetching water from boreholes in Nketa 8, have resorted to sewer dams as Bulawayo's water crisis gets worse.Mbu...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 07:19hrs | 635 | by Staff reporter
Diarrhoea rocks Queens Park
BULAWAYO'S Queens Park suburb has recorded diarrhoea cases as more suburbs register outbreaks of the disease which claimed 13 lives in Luveve in July and infected nearly 2 000 people.Water sho...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:21hrs | 1184 | by Staff reporter
Teachers say they are open to dialogue
TEACHERS' unions say they are open to genuine dialogue with the government to end the current industrial action which has paralysed schools.This comes as teachers continue to stay away from school...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 23:54hrs | 1606 | by Staff reporter
2nd diarrhoea outbreak hits Bulawayo
BULAWAYO has recorded a second diarrhoea outbreak within four months as almost 100 cases mainly affecting children have been reported in the densely populated high-density suburb of Mzilikazi and surr...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 08:21hrs | 848 | by Staff Reporter
It is hard being poor in Zimbabwe
IT is an early and hot Sunday morning in Mbare's Majubheki area, Harare. A thick cloud of flies buzzes over filthy plates that are heaped in an outside sink because residents have not accessed water f...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:31hrs | 871 | by Staff reporter
Prioritise locals over Chinese contractors for the benefit of Zim economy
Kenyan law professor Patrick Lumumba gets animated when he talks about China's rising influence on the African continent where governments get blinded by their fraternal ties with the Communist Party ...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 10:51hrs | 1133 | by Anthony Matutu
Bulawayo residents complain over foul-smelling water
RESIDENTS of Bulawayo's high-density suburbs have raised concern over brownish, smelly water coming out of their taps, saying this could expose them to water-borne diseases.The residents said ...Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 07:37hrs | 291 | by Staff reporter
Residents boil sewer water to drink
CLOSE to 15 years since it was established, residents in Mbundane in Umguza District, adjacent to Mganwini (Bulawayo) still have no water connected to their households with residents forced to illegal...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:17hrs | 257 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere, Mzembi tell Chinamasa to 'stop throwing sewage at us'
FORMER Zanu-PF top officials have accused the ruling party's acting national spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa of using undiplomatic language to fight his opponents.Chinamasa is holding weekly pr...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:39hrs | 6735 | by newzimbabwe
City fathers under fire over water
SOME former Bulawayo councillors say the current council leadership cannnot escape blame for the grave water shortages in the city amid accusations the local authority is failing to manage the limited...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:45hrs | 198 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa, Biti: Zimbabwe's biggest producers of hot air
PATRICK Chinamasa and Tendai Biti this week once again confirmed their positions as two of the country's biggest producers of hot air. While Chinamasa moaned of urban voters, Biti talked down on rural...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:10hrs | 1978 | by Staff reporter
Cholera crisis looms in Harare
IMAGINE a crisis of COVID-19 and cholera in Zimbabwe, that is the crisis that the city is staring at. Why is it that Harare City Council cannot provide its residents with clean water?Water pro...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 06:16hrs | 589 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Service delivery has deteriorated to unprecedented levels in Harare
SERVICE delivery has deteriorated to unprecedented levels in Harare with residents going for days without water, while garbage goes for months uncollected. At the centre of the rot is the MDC ...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 06:18hrs | 462 | by Staff reporter
'Khami Dam sewage water good for drinking'
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has said tests have certified that Khami Dam water meets acceptable standards for drinking and is also considering a new aquifer which can supply the city with about 40 meg...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 07:26hrs | 735 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF warns corrupt law officers
Zanu-PF party has warned that it is ready to have law enforcement agents conniving with opposition MDC Alliance-led councils in the rampant illegal allocation of residential and commercial stands in u...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 07:21hrs | 520 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa shocked why residents continue voting 'corrupt' MDC Councillors
ZANU-PF acting spokesperson, Patrick Chinamasa is at pains to understand why urban voters continue to vote for corrupt councillors in the opposition who neglect in providing adequate service delivery ...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 07:22hrs | 2557 | by newzimbabwe
EMA sues BCC over raw sewage
THE Environmental Management Agency (EMA) has taken the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to court for failing to upgrade its water treatment plants and sewer systems, which has resulted in raw sewage flowi...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 07:22hrs | 227 | by Satff reporter
No budget for Khami sewage water purification, says BCC
BULAWAYO City Council has said its dry coffers cannot sustain a budget of US$28 million needed for Khami water purification, but insisted that the project remains oneof its options to improve the ...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 07:27hrs | 369 | by Staff reporter
Letter from Bulawayo in 2031
11 August 2031. Dear Mr Tanaka Chinembiri, Mayor of Guruhusva (Formerly Bulawayo). I am writing to you registering my concern over the way the town clerk Mr Nyasha Tinevhan...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 19:03hrs | 1108 | by Kudzai Mahere
Bulawayo city blames KSB pumps
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has approved plans to decommission KSB pumps at its waterworks after investigations showed that they posed a risk to the quality and water security of the city.This...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:57hrs | 645 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC sucked in land scam
MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa has been sucked into the latest swirl of residential stands allocation scam in the capital city, amid revelations that the opposition has been stripping the counc...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:25hrs | 1445 | by Staff reporter
Council insists on sewage contaminated Khami water
As debate on the use of Khami Dam water to ease water shortages in Bulawayo continues, the local authority has insisted there is no need for panic as the water posed no health riskto residents contrar...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:25hrs | 1029 | by Staff reporter
Gweru hikes tariffs 100%
GWERU City Council has imposed an over 100% tariff hike for high-density suburbs, while those for business vary.The local authority cited the runaway inflation for the increases in a developme...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 08:45hrs | 1480 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi Nation's Address - MLF
Revolutionary greetings to you all, in all corners of earth. I hope you are doing well and are safe from the coronavirus.Fellow Mthwakazi citizens, this has been one challenging quarter of the...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 15:19hrs | 1955 | by MLF
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 | 772 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1690 | 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 | 1573 | by Staff reporter
'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 | 301 | 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 | 2500 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF is debris, embrace Nelson Chamisa' advised Moyo - two faced buzzard, celebrated MDC GNU blunders
When Mai Mujuru was booted out of Zanu-PF in 2014 within months she was criticizing Zanu-PF and her former mentor, Robert Mugabe, for mismanagement, corruption, vote rigging, murderous oppression, etc...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 20:29hrs | 4251 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Council worker drowns in sewage
Chegutu Town council employee Love Chengeni (35) drowned yesterday while fixing sewage pipes in Chegutu.Sources familiar with incident allege a trench collapsed while he was changing dil...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 09:50hrs | 1655 | by Simbarashe Sithole
'Bulawayo Council guilty of Luveve water crisis'
Since the outbreak of the waterborne disease in Luveve Old and New that has so far claimed 12 lives, while over a thousand have been hospitalized, Bulawayo City Council management have been busy with ...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 06:59hrs | 1209 | by Mbonisi Gumbo
Bindura women laments poor water sanitation
Young Women in Bindura under the banner of Institute for Young Women's Development (IYWD) last week bemoaned poor water sanitation in their area....Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 13:13hrs | 340 | by Simbarashe Sithole
MDC Alliance blames govt for Bulawayo water crisis
THE opposition MDC Alliance yesterday blamed government for the deteriorating water situation in Bulawayo, saying the Zanu-PF administration refused to grant the local authority permission to construc...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 08:10hrs | 448 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents sleep in water queues
Twice a week, Nothi Mlalazi joins a long line with dozens of other people - some of whom have slept there overnight - and stands for hours waiting for water in Zimbabwe's second-largest city.A...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:46hrs | 666 | by Staff reporter
Mysterious disease strikes Luveve, open letter from former water treatment chemist
Dear Sir/Madam I write in absolute distress over the video, (below) and communications I have been receiving over social media regarding the above. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88oC...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:49hrs | 1783 | by Manda
Families sleep in water lines as drought grips Bulawayo
TWICE a week, Nothi Mlalazi joins a long line with dozens of other people - some of whom have slept there overnight - and stands for hours waiting for water in Zimbabwe's second-largest city.A...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 08:15hrs | 539 | by Staff reporter
Accept sewage polluted Khami water, BCC pleads with residents
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is pleading with residents to accept the recycling of Khami Dam water as it works on alternative solutions to the city's water crisis. The city is facing a serious ...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 07:42hrs | 429 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa is surrounded by phalanx of bandits, gangsters, crooks, and scoundrels
The most remarkable benefit of Zimbabwe liberation struggle is the disappearance of the institution of government. "Government," as we knew it at independence, does not exist anymore. As the war was r...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 21:16hrs | 4173 | by Sam Wezhira
'Khami Dam sewage water unfit for Bulawayo consumption'
DESCENDANT of the Ndebele monarch, King Lobengula, Prince Peter Zwide Khumalo yesterday slammed plans by Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to pump the heavily-polluted Khami Dam water into households to all...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 07:54hrs | 372 | by Staff reporter
A monumentally fatal proposal for Bulawayo: Khami Dam water for drinking?
The Bulawayo community read with a shock in The Chronicle about the City's proposal to use decommissioned Khami Dam water to supplement the City's potable water supply. The City of Harare's current wa...Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 10:10hrs | 6379 | by Prince Zwide Khumalo
Heavily polluted Khami sewage water coming soon to a tap near you
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has approved a plan that will result in the city drawing water from Khami Dam by December saying the water will be safe for drinking once purified. Water from the d...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 08:27hrs | 463 | by Staff reporter
Mtetwa, I'm done flattering tyrants: if ED 'committed no crime' then who is 'the monster of depravity'
My dear sister Beatrice Mtetwa, I am done with appeasing tyrants! We have allowed tyrants like Mugabe and Mnangagwa ride roughshod over us, denying us our freedoms and rights for the l...Published: 20 May 2020 at 07:56hrs | 3899 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa using coronavirus as cover for arbitrary rule
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Nelson Chamisa warned that President Emmerson Mnangagwa "opened an avenue to arbitrary rule" when he extended the coronavirus lockdown for an indefinite per...Published: 19 May 2020 at 08:25hrs | 1860 | by Staff reporter
Sewage contaminated Khami Dam water for drinking, as BCC goes back to 'objectionable' plan
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is exploring possibilities of purifying the dirty Khami Dam water for drinking as the city' s water situation reaches critical levels.The city is conducting a f...Published: 11 May 2020 at 15:01hrs | 621 | by Staff repprter
Zimbabwe's 4 decades of independence and the Agrarian reform law
Land reform formally began in 2002 under the disguise of taking back our land from white farmers and distribute it to the poor and landless Zimbabweans. The major beneficiaries weren't the general pop...Published: 20 Apr 2020 at 09:15hrs | 186 | by Bigboy Sibanda
No independence for Africans: Their children will play on sewage drainages and will not recognize or smell it
There are numerous themes to talk about Zimbabwe that is celebrating 40 years of wasted opportunities for decades. It is difficult to ignore what White Former Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith prophesi...Published: 19 Apr 2020 at 07:52hrs | 1896 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe shall rise again. . .
INDEPENDENCE Day speech by His Excellency, the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Cde Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, April 18, 2019 I welcome you all ...Published: 18 Apr 2020 at 08:35hrs | 825 | by Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa,
Sewer system collapses
A health hazard is looming in most high density suburbs of Gweru City following the collapse of the sewer reticulation system. The development has seen raw sewage flowing down the streets of s...Published: 10 Apr 2020 at 08:01hrs | 382 | by Staff reporter
Sell-outs: are they going to be exonerated if they contributed to the Mthwakazi-begging kitty?
There are three appeals in Mthwakazi region taking rounds: one was done by Comrade Ezra Tshisa Sibanda: he is appealing to the public to contribute to his crowdfunding, the money he is going to use to...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 18:01hrs | 3387 | by Nomazulu Thata
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