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Mzinyathini gardens housing project halted
Hundreds of home-seekers involved in the multi-million-dollar Mzinyathini Gardens housing project are facing uncertainty after the Umguza Rural District Council (RDC) ordered an immediate halt to all ...Published: 11 May 2025 at 12:33hrs | 1055 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's Mzinyathini gardens housing project faces delays
The ambitious Kensington gated community estate in Bulawayo, known as Mzinyathini Gardens, is facing significant delays due to challenges in obtaining a crucial development permit from the Umguza Rura...Published: 23 Nov 2024 at 12:56hrs | 3014 | by Staff reporter
Ntabazinduna poised to become a smart city
The Umguza Rural District Council (RDC) is transforming the Ntabazinduna area into a smart city, with the industrial corridor along the Ntabazinduna Road turn-off from the Bulawayo-Harare Road already...Published: 19 Sep 2024 at 07:30hrs | 1106 | by Staff reporter
New city takes shape in Umguza Rural District
A NEW city named Kings City with state-of-the-art facilities including shopping malls and gated townhouses is taking shape on the outskirts of Bulawayo in Umguza Rural District.The development...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 05:29hrs | 92 | by Staff reporter
Lovendale: A forgotten township
Have you ever heard of Lovendale Township? It's a small community located just 17 kilometres from the Bulawayo CBD, under Umguza RDC. Built in 2014, Lovendale Township is a relatively new development ...Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 11:01hrs | 259 | by Mncedisi Nyathi
Zacc probes abuse of devolution funds
DEVOLUTION funds are open to abuse and plunder by unscrupulous institutions and individuals who can easily turn them into feeding troughs at the expense of communities, NewsDay has established....Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo to incorporate neighbouring areas
THE Bulawayo City Council is set to take advantage of the ongoing delimitation exercise to finalise boundary changes that will see the city incorporating areas that fall under Umguza Rural District Co...Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 09:09hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Apostolic Faith Church fights over Ntabazinduna temple land
THE Apostolic Faith Church of Portland Oregon is locked in a protracted land wrangle with a Ntabazinduna villager whom it accuses of illegally setting up a homestead on its land acquired through the l...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zinara disburses more than $4,7bn for ERRP2
THE Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) has disbursed more than $4,7 billion for the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme (ERRP2) with road rehabilitation works now 50 percent complete....Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Joy as Umguza Councillors return back to work
A certain section of Umguza Rural District council residents has expressed joy after Umguza Rural District councilors were reinstated by the High court after being suspended for defying a ministerial ...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 13:51hrs | 10 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Govt blocks Binga RDC chair from resuming duties
THE Local Government ministry has reportedly blocked Binga Rural District Council (RDC) chairperson Wilson Siampolomba from resuming duty despite a High Court directive ordering his reinstatement....Published: 27 Aug 2021 at 06:41hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo lifts suspension of Umguza councillors
LOCAL Government minister July Moyo has reversed the suspension of four Umguza Rural District Council (RDC) councillors after they took him to court.The ministry suspended David Moyo, Ernest S...Published: 17 Aug 2021 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZACC moves to seize US$6m ill-gotten assets
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) wants to see the corrupt both jailed and stripped of their ill-gotten gains and so has this year so far referred 76 cases to the National Prosecuting Aut...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Umguza CEO, councillors suspended
THE Government has once again suspended Umguza Rural District Council (RDC) chief executive officer, Mr Collen Moyo and five councillors including its chairperson, Councillor Alexandra Gasela....Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police nab 6 notorious Bulawayo robbers
POLICE yesterday said they had nabbed six suspected robbers linked to a spate of robberies which occurred in and around Bulawayo between January and this month.The armed robbers on Wednesday p...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ndiweni seeks international protection for Ntabazinduna Mountain
DEPOSED Ntabazinduna Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Felix Ndiweni says efforts are being made to declare the sacred Ntabazinduna mountain a World Heritage Site.The mountain is at the centre of a wrang...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 20:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo slum dwellers survive on sewer water
OVER 2 000 squatters at Bulawayo's three slums have resorted to fetching domestic water from sewage ponds and open pits oblivious of the health implications, NewsDay Weekender has learnt.A sur...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 20:36hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
High Court blocks eviction of Heany Junction Farm settlers
MORE than 100 families occupying Heany Junction Farm in Umguza district, Matabeleland North got a reprieve after the High Court temporarily blocked the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) from evicting them ...Published: 12 Dec 2020 at 06:54hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council buys farms to set up new suburbs
THE Bulawayo City Council is in the process of buying farms on the outskirts of the city to expand the boundaries and meet the accommodation needs of the growing population.The move, Sunday Ne...Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 08:22hrs | 7 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Court orders 'resettled' people to vacate farm
THE High Court has ordered a group of people allegedly resettled at Storny Croft farm in Umguza district to vacate the property. The ruling by Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Martin Makonese...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 07:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Umguza's polluted water pose health risk - Residents
Residents of communities on the outskirts of Bulawayo have warned that their main source of water, Umguza River has become a serious health time bomb as the water is contaminated with sewerage dischar...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa must step down, says MDC
THE Welshman Ncube-led MDC's Matabeleland North leadership has called on MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa to step down for allegedly disrespecting alliance partners and grabbing thei...Published: 21 Jun 2018 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF probes 'corrupt' councillor
ZANU-PF Matabeleland North province is investigating a councillor from Umguza district who is allegedly illegally parcelling out land and promising non-existent scholarships to aspiring university stu...Published: 16 Aug 2017 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Developer ordered to halt development project in Ntabazinduna
A property developer Nicholas Masuku, N & S Properties has been ordered to stop any development projects at a land in Ntabazinduna township on condition that the project was illegally initiated....Published: 29 Apr 2017 at 07:45hrs | 3 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF will remain in charge of the Government, says Mpofu
AN attempt by opposition parties to form a coalition against Zanu-PF in the 2018 elections will yield nothing as the ruling party's liberation and empowerment ideology is firmly rooted among Zimba...Published: 03 Apr 2017 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mbundane residents lament service delivery challenges
Residents of Mbundane suburb in Bulawayo are petitioning various government arms over failure by responsible authorities to provide them with proper service delivery in their area for over 10 year...Published: 01 Feb 2017 at 15:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mbundane residents neglected, left out
Residents of Mbundane suburb in Bulawayo are petitioning various government arms over failure by responsible authorities to provide them with proper service delivery in their area for over 10 years....Published: 01 Feb 2017 at 15:07hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Guta Ra Mwari leader in sand poaching storm
CONTROVERSIAL Guta Ra Mwari leader Joseph Tayali has taken Umguza Rural District Council to court for impounding his truck, which was allegedly used to poach river sand.The truck, a Nissan UD,...Published: 02 Jun 2016 at 06:27hrs | 1 | by Mashudu Netsianda
Boundary war between BCC and Umguza escalates
THE Bulawayo City Council has informed the Government that it has annexed areas which were under the Umguza Rural District Council to expand its boundaries heightening tensions between the two local a...Published: 06 Mar 2016 at 06:58hrs | 17 | by Vusumuzi Dube
Bulawayo squatter camps to be turned into suburbs
AS the Bulawayo City Council continues to struggle to further expand the city to cater for a growing population, it has since taken the unprecedented move of formalising six squatter camps and two inf...Published: 25 Oct 2015 at 08:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko loses farm wrangle
BULAWAYO - THE High Court yesterday ruled in favour of Terridan Motors (Pvt) Ltd in a land dispute involving the motoring firm and a city businessman, Siqokoqela Mphoko.Terridan Motors thr...Published: 14 Nov 2014 at 05:40hrs | 1 | by Court Report
VP aspirant fuming, threatens to sue unless firm says sorry
ZIMBABWE'S former ambassador to Botswana and South Africa, Ambassador Phelekezela Mphoko, has demanded an urgent apology from Terridan Motors (Pvt) Ltd, after the company wrongfully linked him to a la...Published: 26 Oct 2014 at 10:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mphoko distanced himself from land wrangle
ZIMBABWE'S former ambassador to Botswana and South Africa, Phelekezela Mphoko, has distanced himself from the ongoing land wrangle with a local firm, Terridan Motors (Pvt) Ltd, saying he has no in...Published: 24 Oct 2014 at 05:30hrs | | by Mashudu Netsianda
Bulawayo, Umguza in boundary wars
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) and Umguza Rural District Council are deadlocked in metropolitan boundary wars, a situation that has left some rate paying residents in a quandary as they cannot access wat...Published: 14 Jun 2014 at 14:44hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mbundane suburb declared illegal
UMGUZA Rural District Council (RDC) chief executive officer Collen Moyo has charged that Mbundane residents in Bulawayo's Upper Rangemore area were illegally settled by the land developer, Mehluli Khu...Published: 24 Feb 2014 at 06:43hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Housing stands scandal rocks Nkayi council
THE Nkayi Rural District Council has been rocked by a housing stands scandal which has seen the council unscrupulously repossessing stands and selling them to people who do not appear on the housing w...Published: 29 Dec 2013 at 04:01hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Council demolishes Reigate houses in defiance of a govt directive
UMGUZA Rural District Council has started demolishing old houses at Reigate Compound on the outskirts of Bulawayo in defiance of a Government directive not to do so.At least 300 people risk be...Published: 21 Nov 2013 at 00:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Six years without running water - residents to finally get a drop
SIX years without running water - the Bulawayo City Council (BYO) together with Umguza Rural District Council has finally agreeing that water be connected to Mbundane suburb...Published: 03 Aug 2012 at 03:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BCC, Umguza in dispute over Mbundane suburb
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) and Umguza Rural District Council (RDC) are in dispute after BCC acceded to an application by Mehluli Khumalo Land Developers for "voluntary incorporation" of Mbundane ...Published: 08 Jan 2011 at 05:49hrs | 20 | by Byo24NEWS
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