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Ruwa aims for town status

Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution for Harare Metropolitan, Charles Tawengwa, has praised Ruwa Local Board for its progress in infrastructure and community projects, urging authorities to accelerate development in a bi…

Published: 17 Sep 2025 at 10:32hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

Shurugwi Town Council proposes 10km radius expansion

Shurugwi Town Council has unveiled plans to expand the town's boundaries by 10 kilometres, a move aimed at creating space for orderly housing, commercial growth, and better land management.Town secretary Archibald Ncube said the proposed e…

Published: 11 Sep 2025 at 17:39hrs | 39 | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo is not a shanty town

BULAWAYO is not a shanty town where trade shambles are wont to be germane.No, the City of Kings and Queens, alias royal palace of international trade fairs, should not be turned into an eyesore by unregulated street vendors who litter a ci…

Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 09:31hrs | 571 | by Stephen Mpofu

Kariba turns into ghost town

The eastern shoreline of Kariba, once a crown jewel in Zimbabwe's tourism industry, is fast slipping into obscurity as tourism operators flee the area amid plummeting visitor numbers, collapsing infrastructure, and rising investor pessimis…

Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 12:04hrs | 11505 | by Staff reporter

Chitungwiza eyes growth with town expansion project

Chitungwiza is gearing up for a major transformation aimed at shedding its longstanding image as merely a dormitory town for Harare and emerging as a self-sustaining, resilient urban centre by the year 2045.This ambitious vision was unveil…

Published: 26 May 2025 at 08:34hrs | 339 | by Staff reporter

Gwanda town runs out of expansion land

Gwanda Municipality in Matabeleland South is embarking on a land acquisition drive to support the town's expansion and facilitate various development projects, aiming to enhance service delivery. This initiative aligns with President Mnang…

Published: 12 Jun 2024 at 06:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Cowdray Park and town zones most burst pipes

Bulawayo City Council identified Cowdray Park and Town zones as the areas with the most burst water pipes in November 2023.This is contained in the Water branch report attached in the latest Full Council minutes. The report noted that 387 …

Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 16:24hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Without Zimbabweans, Musina is going to be a big ghost town

By 7AM, lines of customers snake down the block outside stores on the main commercial strip in Musina, a bustling South African border town where thousands of people arrive daily from neighboring Zimbabwe to buy food, clothes and other nec…

Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 08:46hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter

10,000 stands for new suburb in Umguza

A major new suburb with 10 000 houses and flats is being developed in Umguza on the outskirts of Bulawayo where low-density and high-rise buildings will be constructed by developer Radar Properties in conformity with Government standards.T…

Published: 07 Apr 2023 at 09:08hrs | 191 | by Staff reporter

Tsholotsho gets town board status

GOVERNMENT has granted Tsholotsho a town board status in line with the national vision of transforming the country into an upper middle-income economy by 2030.This was revealed by Local Government and Public Works Minister July Moyo during…

Published: 30 Mar 2023 at 06:35hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Dembare in town

HARARE soccer giants Dynamos lived true to their moniker "Glamour Boys" as they showed off a fine sense of fashion with a trendy photoshoot in the build-up to the start of the 2023 Castle Lager Premier Soccer League season.If their stylish…

Published: 18 Mar 2023 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Town House, Sakunda trade barbs over bungled Rufaro deal

Harare mayor Jacob Mafume has accused Kuda Tagwirei's Sakunda Holdings of attempts snatch Rufaro Stadium from the local authority on the mere promise of terrace bucket seats as the two parties took to the media to trade accusations over th…

Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 19:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Cowdray Park: It's not a suburb, it's a town

THE number of people in Cowdray Park suburb has grown exponentially, surpassing towns such as Gwanda at a time when the population of Bulawayo is almost stagnant, increasing by a mere 12 000 in the past decade.Cowdray Park (Ward 28) with 7…

Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 06:28hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter

Figtree earmarked for smart city status

NATIONAL Housing and Social Amenities minister Daniel Garwe has proposed that Figtree in Matabeleland South be developed into one of the country's planned smart cities.Figtree is about 40km from Bulawayo and 60km from Plumtree town.Speakin…

Published: 07 Jul 2022 at 08:04hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Former Bulawayo town planner shortlisted for US city manager position

Norman Khumalo, who has served as Hopkinton's town manager since 2009, was announced as one of three finalists for the city manager position in Watertown.Watertown is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and is part of Greater Boston…

Published: 01 May 2022 at 19:32hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

Victoria Falls gets city status

PARLIAMENT has approved Victoria Falls' city status following recommendations by a commission that was set up to assess the town's capacity. Local Government and Public Works Minister July Moyo set the commission three years ago following …

Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:21hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Temba comes to town

When all was well in the white man's camp, farms at peak of colonial production, some blacks like me tried to jump ship. Remember industry and commerce had three categories of remuneration. There was European wages, Colored wages and lastl…

Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 09:55hrs | 175 | by Tondo

Residents walk to town for groceries

SCORES of desperate residents were on Wednesday and yesterday forced to walk into town to buy groceries as some shops in their respective residential suburbs were vandalised by hooligans. Some unscrupulous traders have since taken advantag…

Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Work on $2 billion Bulawayo up-market satellite town begins

A consortium of local businesspeople has started work on the estimated $2 billion up-market satellite town project located on the outskirts of the City of Bulawayo.Thompson Properties managing director Mr Jonathan Thompson said the first s…

Published: 16 Jul 2017 at 13:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Ghost town status stalks Hwange

The sun appears to be setting for Hwange Town, an urban settlement whose origins and growth are anchored on coal mining activities in Hwange District. Hwange Colliery Company Limited, for decades the heart and soul of the town's economy, i…

Published: 20 Jun 2016 at 06:59hrs | 4 | by Kamangeni Phiri

Pupil loses testicle after attack at a boarding school

Cape Town, South Africa âˆšÂ¢â€šÃ‡Â¨â€šÃ„Ãº A pupil from the top school, Paarl Gymnasium, underwent an operation on Saturday after he was earlier in the week seriously assaulted while sleeping in his boarding house room.Doctors had to remo…

Published: 06 Feb 2011 at 11:12hrs | 7 | by Byo24News

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