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Bulawayo residents raise alarm over council procurement processes
Bulawayo residents have voiced growing concern over the Bulawayo City Council's (BCC) procurement and tender procedures, accusing the local authority of a lack of transparency that has led to shoddy w...Published: 07 Jul 2025 at 08:45hrs | 104 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt slams shoddy workmanship
The government has strongly condemned the poor construction standards at Bhale Rural Health Centre in Hwange District, warning the contractor to urgently rectify the substandard work or risk having th...Published: 06 Jul 2025 at 12:30hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
Steady progress in Bulawayo-Nkayi Road rehab
The rehabilitation of the Bulawayo-Nkayi Road has gained momentum, with the contractor working on a 23km stretch from Inyathi Business Centre, affirming the Second Republic's commitment to infrastruct...Published: 12 Mar 2025 at 07:41hrs | 367 | by Staff reporter
City of Harare blames poor road work on private contractor
The City of Harare has officially acknowledged its responsibility for the poor condition of a stretch of Harare Drive, confirming that it was the local authority's project and not that of the Ministry...Published: 26 Feb 2025 at 16:23hrs | 693 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt to withhold payment for shoddy road repairs
Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Felix Mhona has announced that the government will withhold payment from construction companies that deliver substandard work on road repair projects...Published: 09 Sep 2024 at 09:21hrs | 3848 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt warns road contractors over shoddy work
Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Felix Mhona announced that contractors delivering substandard roadwork will not be paid until they reconstruct or rehabilitate the roads to the Gover...Published: 05 Jun 2024 at 07:06hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Poor workmanship in government contracts is due to corruption
Zimbabwe's Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Felix Tapiwa Mhona, whilst answering questions in Parliament recently, expressed concern over shoddy work by those contracted to construct...Published: 17 May 2024 at 13:49hrs | 15 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zinara tightens screws on road contractors
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) has tightened its screws on companies contracted by the government to rehabilitate national roads after some companies were blamed for substandard wo...Published: 24 Feb 2024 at 15:13hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Suspected armed robbers acquitted due to 'shoddy police work’
Only two members of a seven-person gang were found guilty of carrying out a series of armed robberies in and around Karoi, revealing flaws in the investigations conducted by local police detectives....Published: 01 Jan 2024 at 17:26hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean 'mbingas' flashy lifestyles reflect a corrupt economy
So, another so-called mbinga (wealthy person) in Zimbabwe has been active once again, on social media flaunting his latest acquisitions.This time around, he bought himself the latest Maybach B...Published: 12 May 2023 at 06:22hrs | 2 | by Tendai Mbofana
Zinara blasts contractors over shoddy jobs
THE Zimbabwe National Road Authority (Zinara) has warned private companies contracted by government to rehabilitate national roads against shoddy work after some of the rehabilitated roads developed p...Published: 28 Apr 2023 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa under fire
Civil society organisations have accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of refusing to implement electoral reforms in order to gain an unfair advantage in this year's hamornised elections.The cl...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 15:11hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Next, university graduates will be 'hailing' Mnangagwa for capping them!
It is now a well-established fact that the state-controlled broadcaster, ZBC - as well as the rest of the state media in Zimbabwe - is an embarrassment not only to the journalism profession, but also ...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 19:15hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Critiquing and exposing flaws in government policies central to 'development journalism'
Lately, there has been a noticeable resurgence in calls - more specifically from Zimbabwe government officials - for media to focus more on what is termed 'developmental journalism'.The latest...Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 09:10hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Only 5km of the Mberengwa-West Nicholson Road tarred
GOVERNMENT has tarred only 5km of the Mberengwa-West Nicholson Road in Mberengwa linking Midlands and Matabeleland South provinces under the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme (ERRP2).The...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 06:08hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo road rehab works begin
ROAD rehabilitation works have commenced in Bulawayo and contractors have started working on a section of Cecil Avenue as part of Government's Emergency Road Rehabilitation 2 (ERRP 2) Phase II meant t...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 06:10hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Parliament speaker confirms Khupe's recall from parliament
SPEAKER of Parliament Jacob Mudenda yesterday confirmed that embattled MDC T leader Thokozani Khupe and her ally Nomvula Mguni have been recalled from ParliamentKhupe was suspended by MDC-T le...Published: 17 Feb 2022 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Magistrate raps police shoddy work
BEITBRIDGE regional magistrate Sithembiso Ndebele on Wednesday chided the police for their poor performance after the court failed to nail two men accused of a R40 000 robbery due to lack of evidence....Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 07:42hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Biti apologises for Chipinge witchcraft 'joke'
Tendai Biti, the MDC Alliance vice president, has given a half-hearted apology to the Chipinge people for calling them witches in his response to a comment by Professor Lovemore Madhuku.In the...Published: 10 Mar 2021 at 17:30hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
MDC-led council show true colours
THE year2020 will go down in the history of the MDC-led Harare City Council as the worst under its leadership. The year exposed existing massive corruption, land scams, leadership crisis, arre...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:18hrs | 3 | by Blessings Chidakwa
Council lies on bus terminuses exposed
Harare City Council has been exposed for what now appears to be empty talk on sprucing up bus terminuses across the city, leaving passengers exposed to rains and scorching heat due to lack of shelter....Published: 07 Dec 2020 at 06:53hrs | 1 | 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.
Zim Government lacks consistency on Policy and economic projects
Succession politics is a major stumbling block to the success story and progressive ideas in Zimbabwe. It is not about Mnangagwa, Chamisa or Mugabe, but it is about the future of this country. Governm...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 21:38hrs | 5 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Schoolboy was murdered
A SCHOOLBOY from Nkulumane suburb in Bulawayo who was certified by a post-mortem last month to have died due to excessive alcohol consumption was actually killed, a second post-mortem has revealed. ...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 11:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Keep your Juntaprenuers and will keep our Prof Jonathan Moyo
I am neither here to attack Strive Masiyiwa nor defend him but some issues raised by Prof Jonathan Moyo are pertinent. I am anxious to see how Masiyiwa is going to cleanse himself. The cold war betwee...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 20:03hrs | | by Don Chigumba
Mnangagwa's govt to engage local firms for Beitbridge-Chirundu highway
Government is moving to engage Zimbabwean road construction firms in a major road expansion programme connecting Beitbridge and Chirundu amid indications the deal reached with Chinese firm Anhui Forei...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 12:54hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF manifesto populist scam'
POLITICAL analysts and residents' associations yesterday described the recently-launched Zanu-PF 2018 election manifesto as jumbled up, unrealistic and contemptuous of the electorate, as most of the p...Published: 07 May 2018 at 07:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Shoddy work at Montrose Studios irks Charamba
The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Mr George Charamba says he is not pleased with the progress of infrastructural development at Montrose S...Published: 19 Apr 2017 at 15:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare-Beitbridge Highway project raises eyebrows
THE construction of the Airport Road, known as the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Expressway, in Harare, which was plagued by inflated cost structures, incompetence and unprofessional conduct by local const...Published: 09 Dec 2016 at 10:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chihuri at war with State over demos
Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri is cranking up the heat on the office of the Attorney-General(AG) to put a better show in the courts when stretched law enforcement agents nab protest...Published: 26 Sep 2016 at 14:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Judge raps 'shoddy' police as murder suspect cleared
A Chegutu man accused of murdering a fellow reveller in a drunken brawl has been acquitted, with the court condemning the police for shoddy work. A High Court judge slammed police for clumsy investiga...Published: 25 Aug 2016 at 07:57hrs | | by Court Reporter
Zesa corruption scandal deepens, Wicknell Chivayo involved
CORRUPTION-RIDDEN Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) is embroiled in a fresh tender scandal in which convicted fraudster Wicknell Chivayo was awarded another US$113 million deal on top his s...Published: 19 Aug 2016 at 08:20hrs | 46 | by Staff reporter
DStv SupperSport 9 does shoddy work at Chan
VIEWERS and advertisers were on Tuesday afternoon short-changed during the screening of the Group D African Nations Championship (Chan) opener between Zimbabwe and Zambia on pay per view channel Super...Published: 22 Jan 2016 at 05:27hrs | | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo
Zanu-PF consumed by own tide
Given that last year's Zanu-PF annual conference was held a stone throw from the mighty Zambezi river, the verity of Shakespeare about a tide in the affairs of men, ought have inspired some of the del...Published: 06 Jan 2016 at 05:34hrs | 1 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Mugabe hit nail on the head
PRESIDENT Mugabe last week implored authorities to engage contractors with the capacity to deliver quality work on our roads after noting that a lot of money had been spent on some shoddy work in the...Published: 29 Nov 2015 at 10:04hrs | | by Comment
Council employee loses finger while trying to spike a fleeing kombi
There was drama in Harare Friday afternoon when a City of Harare employee lost a finger while trying to put a spike under a fleeing commuter omnibus.The sad incident followed a high speed chas...Published: 25 Jul 2015 at 14:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bosso hold ZPC Kariba
ZPC Kariba 1-1 HighlandersHIGHLANDERS assistant coach Mark Mathe says the underdogs tag has suited ZPC Kariba well early in the season after Saul Chaminuka's men staged a swift comeback in the se...Published: 12 May 2014 at 06:41hrs | 2 | by Eddie Chikamhi
Two diamond firms to remain in Marange
Government has formally informed diamond companies in Marange that only one or two of them will be left to mine, after they failed to properly account for revenue realised from their operations....Published: 23 Apr 2014 at 23:34hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Bindura municipality fighting a Harare based company
The Bindura Town Municipality is fighting a Harare based construction company to recover a total of US$1,5 million that was meant for road maintenance in the town last year.Bindura last year r...Published: 21 Jun 2012 at 13:19hrs | 3 | by Ndou Paul
In the Diaspora: The Truth and the Lies
Ever wondered what it was REALLY like going to the UK to look for the proverbial pot of gold? A friend of mine called Vusi Moyo gave me this piece which is a no holds barred, blow by bl...Published: 13 Apr 2011 at 13:52hrs | 1 | by Lenox Mhlanga
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