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'We can only afford 232 houses, not 300 000'
HOUSING Amenities minister Daniel Garwe yesterday said government had budgeted to build less than 250 houses this year, indirectly admitting to selling the public a dummy when it pledged 300 000 annua...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Low to middle-income housing project takes off from Bulawayo
BULAWAYO yesterday witnessed the official launch of a US$11 million housing project that will result in the construction of thousands of low-cost housing units in selected parts of the country with th...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:26hrs | 31 | by Staff reporter
Masvingo master plan raises stink
RED flags have been raised over a deal to design a master plan for development between Masvingo City and the Urban Development Corporation (UDCORP) amid allegations of flagrant violation of public...Published: 01 Apr 2022 at 10:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa must not contest the 2023 presidential election'
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa must regularise his illegitimate leadership position, but not contest the 2023 presidential election, as he would be a geriatric by then, prominent corporate ex...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:06hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Govt rescues duped UDCORP beneficiaries
THE government has pledged to assist Urban Development Corporation (Udcorp) beneficiaries that paid for residential stands four years ago in Chitungwiza that were not delivered.The stands in q...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 08:01hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Cabinet halts sale of houses, flats
The sale of Government houses and flats to sitting tenants has been halted with immediate effect as part of measures to address shortages of accommodation for civil servants, with more housing to be b...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt promises 200 000 new houses by 2023
At least 200 000 new houses will be constructed by 2023, while apartments that are unfit for human habitation will be rebuilt and informal settlements revamped as part of a raft of measures to overhau...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:40hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Govt to injects $264 million into housing
Government will next year invest $264 million in housing construction in a bid to reduce the national housing backlog estimated at more than 1,3 million. The demand for housing has over the ye...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 08:41hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
Makokoba, Sakubva, Mbare set for a facelift
GOVERNMENT has mobilised $139,24 million to regenerate the country's oldest urban settlements, with Mbare, Makokoba and Sakubva suburbs set to benefit, a Cabinet minister has said.Addressing j...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa cries
Harare South legislator, Tongai Mnangagwa broke down in parliament this morning as he narrated how the government has left land seekers at the mercy of land barons.Narrating to the situation i...Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 19:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt to set up new suburb in Bulawayo
GOVERNMENT is set to establish a new suburb in Bulawayo with more than 2 000 housing stands and will build civil servants' houses in Lupane, Matabeleland North. Delays in construction of civil...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 06:32hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
5 000 'duped' in stands deal
AT least 5 000 Bulawayo residents, mainly youths from the ruling Zanu-PF who registered to benefit from Umvutshwa housing project could have been duped of their monies after Government indicated it wa...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 08:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to establish policy think-tank
ZANU-PF is set to establish a think-tank that will research on policies that the party intends to implement to avoid implementing programmes that may negatively impact on the economy. In an in...Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 07:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Government secures $940m lifeline for Harare water
Government has secured funding commitments worth $940 million from China to overhaul Harare's water and sewer system, which is in a state of disrepair and has been blamed for the current cholera outbr...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 07:19hrs | 10 | by Staff Reporter
Government to float $150m housing bond
The government will in the next few weeks float a $150 million bond to kick start the command housing project across the country.The plan which is being made through government housing investm...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 16:26hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Calls for Kasukuwere's arrest
ZANU-PF Central Committee member Elifasi Mashaba has called for the arrest of former Cabinet Minister, Mr Saviour Kasukuwere, accusing him of duping Bulawayo residents over stands at Umvutshwa on the ...Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 07:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF warns party's aspiring candidates
ZANU-PF yesterday warned the party's aspiring candidates to stop conducting unsanctioned primary election campaigns with immediate effect.In a statement, Zanu-PF Secretary for Information and ...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo youths sold bottled smoke
Zanu-PF youths in the second largest city and its hinterland are seething with anger after President Robert Mugabe 's government claimed last year to have made available swathes of land for housing de...Published: 27 Sep 2017 at 15:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere reads riot act
Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Minister Saviour Kasukuwere has threatened to fire the Urban Development Corporation management for reported failure to perform to expectations....Published: 25 Jul 2017 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, Grace branded cars stinker
ZANU-PF politburo members Sydney Sekeramayi (war veterans' secretary) and Saviour Kasukuwere (political commissar) yesterday said party activists, political hooligans and criminals had resorted to dri...Published: 24 Jul 2017 at 08:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere fires warning shots
The scramble for land has caused heartaches for many Zimbabweans who have sacrificed their hard earned money for pieces of land only to realise later they have fallen prey to land barons.Howev...Published: 20 Jul 2017 at 17:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's govt focuses on high-rise buildings
Government is now moving towards constructing high-rise apartments as opposed to expending more land on single storey houses following President Mugabe's call to stop the wanton distribution of land f...Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 09:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere in contempt of court over land
Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Minister Saviour Kasukuwere has been taken to court for contempt together with the Urban Development Corporation (Udcorp) after they sub-div...Published: 20 Apr 2017 at 06:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Why Mugabe wants Kasukuwere out
President Robert Mugabe was influenced to turn against Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere after being lobbied by a businessman close to his wife and a State House official angered by a $20 m...Published: 09 Apr 2017 at 08:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe's SONA address - Fulltext
STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT, COMRADE RG MUGABE, TUESDAY 6TH DECEMBER 2016.Madame Presi...Published: 07 Dec 2016 at 04:54hrs | 20 | by Roberg G Mugabe
Civil servants demand bonus, salary dates
Civil servants have written to the Government demanding to be furnished with dates for the 2016 bonuses and their salaries.The workers said they wanted their salaries before December 25 to...Published: 06 Dec 2016 at 09:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants stands going for a song
Cabinet has directed that residential stands civil servants are expecting under a Government non-monetary incentive scheme be pegged at $4 per square metre to ensure affordability.The work...Published: 17 Nov 2016 at 04:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa drags manager to court
Flamboyant businessman Philip Chiyangwa's company - Pinnacle Property Holdings (Pinnacle) - has dragged its site manager to court for allegedly siphoning $6 500 received from clients.The a...Published: 16 Nov 2016 at 13:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa unleashes Kasukuwere on 'corrupt' MDC-T councillors
VICE-PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has unleashed Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere on MDC-T councillors, accusing them of corruptly acquiring land.Addressing Zanu PF supporters o...Published: 22 Oct 2016 at 10:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF lures voters with food, residential stands in Norton by-election'
In an attempt to garner support for Zanu PF candidate Ronald Chindedza ahead of the Norton by-election, Zanu PF officials are reportedly parcelling out food and stands among other freebies during rall...Published: 21 Oct 2016 at 09:27hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jake
Takamuka petition Mugabe on bond notes
Protest movement #Tajamuka has drafted a petition to President Robert Mugabe over planned introduction of controversial bond notes.The group which has in recent months organised demonstrations...Published: 10 Oct 2016 at 09:31hrs | 1 | by Thobekile Zhou
Mugabe blasts Kasukuwere for selling land to Prophet Magaya
President Mugabe yesterday blasted Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Minister Saviour Kasukuwere for reportedly selling land earmarked for Harare youths to Prophet Walter Magaya and ...Published: 08 Sep 2016 at 06:37hrs | | by Felex Share
Mutsvangwa lash out at Mugabe for plundering State resources
OUTSPOKEN war veterans' leader, Christopher Mutsvangwa has lashed out at President Robert Mugabe for allegedly plundering State resources trying to settle "senseless apostolic sect disputes" and a...Published: 07 Sep 2016 at 06:43hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Home seekers urged to join Umvutsha Housing Scheme
REGISTRATION for the Umvutsha Housing Scheme is progressing well in Bulawayo with home seekers urged to take advantage of the Government-driven initiative to secure affordable accommodation....Published: 25 Jul 2016 at 07:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's youths warn 'malcontents'
In a massive show of support for the ruling party, thousands of Zanu-PF youths yesterday brought Harare traffic to a standstill as they marched along Jason Moyo Avenue before converging at the party's...Published: 21 Jul 2016 at 06:58hrs | | by Tendai Mugabe and Felex Share
Thousands of Zanu-PF youths march
IN a massive show of support for the ruling party, thousands of Zanu-PF youths yesterday brought Harare traffic to a temporary standstill as they marched along Jason Moyo Avenue before they thronged t...Published: 21 Jul 2016 at 06:43hrs | | by Tendai Mugabe and Felex Share
Mugabe calls for removal of bottlenecks to ease housing delivery
President Mugabe has challenged stakeholders in the housing sector to take the national housing backlog of 1,25 million as an investment opportunity rather than a problem.Officially opening th...Published: 14 Jul 2016 at 07:15hrs | 1 | by Innocent Ruwende and Blessing Malinganiza
Mugabe deeply loves Bulawayo says Zanu-PF Minister
The Minister of State for Bulawayo Provincial Affairs, Eunice Sandi-Moyo has claimed that her boss President Robert Mugabe deadly loves Bulawayo.She said Mugabe's demonstration of his concern ...Published: 17 Jun 2016 at 09:08hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Stands allocation apolitical, claims Kasukuwere
THE allocation of 20,000 residential stands to youths in Bulawayo by the government will not be done on political grounds, a Cabinet Minister has said.The Minister of Local Government, Public ...Published: 10 May 2016 at 07:25hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Bulawayo youth suburb takes shape
THE Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing, Saviour Kasukuwere, has identified 318 hectares of land for the construction of between 10,000 and 20,000 high density resident...Published: 30 Apr 2016 at 20:32hrs | | by Whinsley Masara
Four new suburbs in the pipeline
THE government will use various funding mechanisms to develop three new suburbs in Harare and one in Bulawayo, Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Minister Saviour Kasukuwere has said....Published: 12 Apr 2016 at 11:19hrs | 2 | by Happiness Zengeni and Martin Kadzere
New town to be constructed near Bulawayo
The government has endorsed for the construction of three new towns around Zimbabwe, two near Harare and one near Bulawayo.The project will see construction of over 150 000 housing unit. Benef...Published: 10 Mar 2016 at 06:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Housing co-operatives NOT banned
HOUSING Co-operatives were not banned but were prohibited from occupying state land, a senior Government official has said.SMEs and Co-operatives Development Deputy Minister Noveti Muponora sa...Published: 28 Feb 2016 at 08:11hrs | | by Tafadzwa Kadani
Govt bans housing co-ops
Government has stopped allocating land to developers and housing co-operatives with immediate effect, while all servicing and housing development on State land will be done by the Urban Development Co...Published: 28 Jan 2016 at 05:20hrs | 3 | by Innocent Ruwende and Farai Mukuwane
Government freezes land allocation
GOVERNMENT has put a freeze on allocating of land to land developers as it is concerned with mushrooming of illegal settlements. Local Government minister Christopher Chingosho on Tuesday...Published: 27 Jan 2016 at 11:04hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Chitungwiza faces collapse
CHITUNGWIZA Municipality faces total collapse amid revelations that its monthly revenue collections have dwindled to between $700 000 and $900 000 against a wage bill of $1,4 million. This leaves the ...Published: 15 Sep 2015 at 06:31hrs | | by Lovemore Meya
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