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Bulawayo residents resort to swamps for water
Bulawayo is facing a severe water crisis, with many suburbs going weeks without running tap water. Residents are forced to use unhygienic water sources in swampy areas and practice open defecation due...Published: 04 Sep 2024 at 07:52hrs | 144 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo water crisis worsens
BULAWAYO is sitting on a health time bomb as the city's water woes continue to mount with most suburbs going for weeks without running tap water, forcing residents to resort to unhygienic water source...Published: 27 Feb 2024 at 03:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo on high alert for cholera
WHILE Bulawayo has not recorded any cholera cases in the past four months, local health officials are on alert, urging residents to practise good hygiene and desist from shaking hands at public gather...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 05:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City council to destroy crops grown on illegal land
The Bulawayo City Council has issued a warning to residents regarding the unauthorized cultivation of crops in prohibited areas. Town Clerk Mr. Christopher Dube, in a statement, emphasized that this p...Published: 25 Sep 2023 at 08:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Water crisis hits Bulawayo
BULAWAYO residents have been hit by a water crisis with most suburbs going for days without running water following a burst pipeline connecting Ncema Water Treatment Works and Criterion Water Treatmen...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 06:49hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo water woes set to worsen
THE water situation in Bulawayo is set to worsen as two of the city's six supply dams are set to be decommissioned soon.Already, the city's residents spend most of their time fetching water fr...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
CEOs mount plan for US$3,2 trillion bloc
ZIMBABWEAN CEOs last week urged domestic industries to mount aggressive strategies to unlock big opportunities brought by January's launch of the African Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), a US$3,2 trillion ma...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
'State firms' crisis can be averted'
ZIMBABWE'S rundown state enterprises can bounce back without being transferred to private hands, a new report indicated last week, discounting the long –held view that privatisation presented the be...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 10:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt must revisit their anti-graft strategies
HE latest arrest of principal director in the epidemiology and disease control department in the Health and Child Care ministry, Portia Manangazira, brings the effectiveness and seriousness of the who...Published: 01 Mar 2021 at 05:00hrs | | by Nkosilathi Lesley Ngwenya
Time to revisit anti-corruption strategies
The latest in a string of arrests - that of Portia Manangazira, the principal director in the epidemiology and disease control department in the Health and Child Care ministry - once again brings the ...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:50hrs | | by Nkosilathi Lesley Ngwenya
Farmers face water logging
A NUMBER of farmers in Matobo are facing water logging challenges in their fields due to excessive rainfall that has been pounding the district for the past few weeks and are worried that their crops ...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
How to find a good residential lot to build a home
Let's admit we've all dreamt of building our dream homes from scratch and whilst it might seem like a far-off fantasy more and more people are choosing to build their own new homes. While it can be ea...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 21:00hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa launches crackdown on illegally settled farm occupiers
Hundreds of families have been left homeless after the government launched a crackdown on people who illegally settled on various farms countrywide.In Umguza, just outside Bulawayo, some 240 f...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 08:39hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Want a goblin? Ask these guys
MR Lameck Banda from Waterfalls, Harare is a shrewd and cunning businessman.Better known as Sekuru Chitsuwi, Banda understands the basic premise of capitalism: supply and demand.Each d...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff writer
Raw sewage flows in suburb for 3 weeks
A health time bomb is ticking in Harare's Mabvuku suburb as raw effluent has been flowing from the sewer system for more than three weeks without any corrective measures being taken.The putrid...Published: 28 Dec 2017 at 15:51hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Renaming the streets and surbubs is honoring our heritage
There has been much media debate on the spelling of some Zimbabwean street and suburbs' names going on, with some people strongly criticising former colonial administrators for deliberately distorting...Published: 20 Apr 2016 at 06:51hrs | 2 | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Zimbabwe government 'indigenises air'
GOVERNMENT has, under its revised frameworks, procedures and guidelines for implementing the Indigenisation Act, broadened its definition of natural resources to include air, grass, birds and swamps, ...Published: 06 Jan 2016 at 05:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
My Roots, my identity! - Pt1
I had just become one girl and two children old (16 years old) when we heard about the presence of pale people in our lands. My name is Lomamqhaka a Khoi name that means nearer to the "Goddess of ...Published: 10 May 2015 at 12:44hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe - a nation of misplaced priorities
An acceptable measure of civilisation is the way society takes care of its most vulnerable. Assuming this measure to be true, then this might explain why the majority of Africa, particularly Zimba...Published: 24 Sep 2014 at 10:46hrs | | by Moses Chamboko
Man, wife abuse elderly mother
IN a case that has left residents utterly dismayed, a Mpopoma man and his wife are alleged to have been abusing his elderly mother to an extent that she ran away and sought refuge in a filthy swampy a...Published: 26 Feb 2014 at 13:02hrs | | by Shiela Tsengwa
Nissan Patrol ambassador ready to tame Africa
• Nissan Patrol is vehicle of choice for Eben Delport • Popular safari tour guide leads 3 000 people per year throug...Published: 25 Sep 2013 at 07:20hrs | | by Tech Reporter
Don't be fooled, its election time
The state media today released the third part of a paper on development in Matabeleland by Bulawayo Metropolitan Province Governor Cain Mathema.In a statement Mathema claims that: ...Published: 11 Jul 2013 at 04:08hrs | | by Bhebhe Mandla
Pirates kidnap 24 Russian sailor off the cost of Togo
Lome - Pirates attacked an oil tanker on Tuesday off the coast of Togo, taking control of its bridge and kidnapping 24 Russian sailors before escaping amid an exchange of gunfire with a naval pa...Published: 28 Aug 2012 at 18:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe attends South Sudan official independence celebrations
President Robert Mugabe has arrived in South Sudan where he is attending that country's official independence celebrations.Mugabe will join over 30 heads of state and governments in South Suda...Published: 08 Jul 2011 at 16:38hrs | 3 | by Ndou paul
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