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Marshals hijack Gweru bus terminus toilets

The Passengers Association of Zimbabwe (PAZ) has confirmed widespread concerns over the deteriorating state of bus terminuses across the country, highlighting ongoing complaints from travellers being denied access to free public toilets at…

Published: 18 Jul 2025 at 08:32hrs | 272 | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo City Council hit by US$82,000 bitumen scandal

The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has been rocked by yet another corruption scandal, this time involving the mysterious disappearance of 285 drums of bitumen - vital road construction material - worth over US$82,000 from the council's Kelvin…

Published: 06 Jul 2025 at 10:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Foreign vendors turn Bulawayo pavements into open-air toilets, bedrooms

The heart of Bulawayo's Central Business District is fast degenerating into a public health crisis as illegal vendors - many of them from outside the city - have turned pavements into makeshift homes, toilets and kitchens, creating dangero…

Published: 06 Jul 2025 at 10:06hrs | 336 | by Staff reporter

Councillor fumes over toilets

Ward 25 Councillor Mpumelelo Moyo has taken a swipe at the Bulawayo City Council's Department of Works for stalling the construction of public toilets at Tashas Business Centre in Emganwini, despite funding for the project having been appr…

Published: 06 Jul 2025 at 10:05hrs | 63 | by Staff reporter

Storm over public toilets commercialisation

HUMAN rights watchdog, Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR), has criticised government's plans to commercialise public toilets as a measure to promote sanitisation and hygiene.The Local Government and Public Works minister Winsto…

Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 06:32hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo council shuts down public toilets

BULAWAYO City Council has been forced to shut down public toilets in the central business district and surrounding suburbs fearing an outbreak of water-borne diseases as the city grapples with its worst water challenges in years.Latest cou…

Published: 07 Mar 2024 at 05:10hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Inadequate toilets leave Plumtree stinking

PLUMTREE residents have bemoaned inadequate ablution and sanitation facilities in the town centre especially at the vendors trading points, amid fears of possible outbreaks of waterborne diseases.Zimbabwe is currently battling a cholera ou…

Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 13:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Harare battles acute public toilets shortage

Harare faces further risks of cholera infection with the shortage of public toilets in the city centre as the majority are closed or inaccessible.The city has public toilets dotted around the CBD, but of these, only pay toilets are working…

Published: 15 Jan 2024 at 05:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Public toilets shortage blamed for filthy Bulawayo alleys

THE shortage of public toilets in the Bulawayo Central Business District (CBD) has been blamed for filthy alleyways as people are forced to relieve themselves anywhere leading to the spread of diseases such as cholera.The Bulawayo City Cou…

Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:41hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter

Filabusi residents resort to bush toilets

Residents at a suburb in Filabusi have been forced to use bush toilets due to lack of water and sewer reticulation services since 2014, it was established.Bekezela residents raised fears of a possible health disaster as human waste is bein…

Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 18:04hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF toilets â€˜invaders' released without charge

TWO Zanu-PF officials, who were arrested in Mbare, Harare, after they forcibly took over council toilets and started charging members of the public were yesterday released by the National Prosecuting Authority before they appeared in court…

Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 04:33hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

SA encloses open toilets

South Africa's Free State government has enclosed more than 1600 of its 1800 open toilets in the Moqhaka municipality in Viljoenskroon, Times Live Reported. The ANC-led provincial government was embarrassed in May - ahead of the local gove…

Published: 11 Aug 2011 at 06:09hrs | 16 | by Ndou Paul

South Africa's un-enclosed toilets unlawful

High Court Judge Nathan Erasmus has found that the City of Cape Town acted unlawfully in providing unenclosed toilets to the residents of Makhaza informal settlement in Cape Town.The Makhaza toilet row has been one of the ANC's strongest e…

Published: 29 Apr 2011 at 13:44hrs | 78 | by Sapa

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