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Bulawayo City Council to repossess 2 000 stands
THE Bulawayo City Council has resolved to advertise with the intention to repossess and auction more than 2 000 properties including residential stands that have gone for between five to 50 years with...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:13hrs | 6306 | by Staff reporter
BCC girlfriend murder accused guard dies
THE Bulawayo City Council security guard who allegedly killed his girlfriend over a text message before attempting suicide by ingesting poison has died.Police confirmed the death of Absolom Nd...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:07hrs | 651 | by Staff reporter
BCC hikes stands prices by 50%
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has hiked by 50% the cost of residential stands to hedge against inflation and lifted the suspension it had imposed on prospective homeowners buying stands using RTGS d...Published: 18 May 2019 at 08:10hrs | 986 | by Staff reporter
BCC to give residents 30-day rates objection period
RESIDENTS still have a chance to reject the increase of rates by the Bulawayo City Council as the local authority has to wait for a 30-day objection period before sending the proposal to Government fo...Published: 16 May 2019 at 06:43hrs | 554 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Council to increase rates by 42%
Bulawayo City Council wants to increase rates by 42% without consulting residents leaked council minutes have revealed.The minutes which are written CONFIDENTIAL say: In response to a point ra...Published: 14 May 2019 at 13:59hrs | 2116 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Cop 'abducting, brutally assaulting' schoolboy over cellphone
A BULAWAYO police officer and a city council security officer are accused of abducting and brutally assaulting a schoolboy (16), leaving him for dead after pulling his private parts.The two ac...Published: 14 May 2019 at 07:34hrs | 513 | by Staff reporter
Water shortages threaten Silalatshani irrigation scheme
Silalatshani Irrigation Scheme in Insiza South, Matabeleland South, which has been a lifeline for Filabusi and surrounding areas for the past 50 years, is facing crippling water shortages due to low d...Published: 13 May 2019 at 08:55hrs | 432 | by Staff reporter
BCC guard on the run after killing lover over SMS
A BULAWAYO City Council security guard allegedly murdered his girlfriend on Saturday night over a text message. Absolom Ndlovu is suspected to have strangled his girlfriend Ms Vonai Mhoya (29)...Published: 13 May 2019 at 08:43hrs | 659 | by Staff reporter
Town clerk, senior officials schemes to increase their salaries
BULAWAYO Town Clerk Mr Christopher Dube and senior workers who fall under the council "executive group" have had a cap on their salaries and allowances removed, a move that will see their perks review...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:48hrs | 683 | by Staff reporter
BCC chases away Zanu-PF land invaders from Mazwi
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) municipal rangers recently chased away land invaders who had occupied two council farms on the outskirts of Bulawayo, a council report reveals.In 2014, Zanu-PF yout...Published: 11 May 2019 at 14:59hrs | 2030 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo resumes water disconnections
THE Bulawayo City Council has reintroduced water disconnections with immediate effect in a bid to force defaulting residents and businesses to clear arrears amounting to $100 million. Councill...Published: 10 May 2019 at 06:51hrs | 269 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents attack MDC's 'authoritarian' mayor
RESIDENTS here have taken a dig at Bulawayo mayor Solomon Mguni for rejecting objections to his mooted tariff hike.The city fathers have been conducting supplementary budget consultative meeti...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 16:58hrs | 4818 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents vow to resist BCC rates hike
BULAWAYO residents have reacted angrily to threats by the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to forge ahead with rates and tariff increases due to runaway inflation despite resistance from ratepayers....Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 07:12hrs | 1400 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents reject rates increase
Residents have denounced plans by Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to increase rates and service charges. Council has proposed to increase rates and service charges by more than 100 percent and the move ha...Published: 27 Apr 2019 at 07:43hrs | 1318 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Zanu-PF Councillor sworn in Bulawayo
Ward 28 Councillor Kidwell Mujuru was on Wednesday sworn into office by the Town Clerk following the Ward 28 By election.The Mayor of Bulawayo His Worship Solomon Mguni the Mayor welcomed him ...Published: 25 Apr 2019 at 13:26hrs | 1709 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Fraudsters target diasporan homeseekers
FRAUDSTERS are on the loose in Bulawayo mainly targeting Diasporan home seekers whom they dupe into buying incomplete houses and residential stands that do not belong to them. The fraudsters a...Published: 25 Apr 2019 at 07:53hrs | 2455 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents resist cemeteries solar projects
BULAWAYO residents are against the proposal by the city council to establish solar projects at city cemeteries as they feel the project will infringe on their traditional beliefs. In a m...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 07:20hrs | 640 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents reject new budget
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) will have to go back to the drawing board after stakeholders, including residents and vendors, rejected its plans to hike rates by a whopping 57 percent.This comes ...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 07:24hrs | 740 | by Staff reporter
Vendors reject BCC proposal to hike fees
INFORMAL traders and transport operators in Bulawayo yesterday rejected a proposal by the Bulawayo City Council to raise vending licence and other council fees by 56 percent, saying they can only affo...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 06:50hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter
Emergency water shedding introduced
The City of Bulawayo would like to advise members of the public that there will be an emergency re-introduction of a 48 hour water shedding programme to areas that are supplied by both Criterion and M...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 19:05hrs | 3611 | by City Council
Councillors reject water disconnections as debt recovery strategy
BULAWAYO City councillors have rejected a proposal by the finance department to resume water disconnections as a debt recovery strategy citing the prevailing socio economic challenges faced by residen...Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 07:11hrs | 312 | by Staff reporter
ZPC gets licence for Bulawayo Power Station, residents to take legal action
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority has issued a licence to the Bulawayo Power Company for the Bulawayo Power Station. In December last year, ZERA announced in a public notice that it had...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 06:49hrs | 763 | by Staff reporter
BCC, Zinwa face off over boreholes ownership
ZIMBABWE National Water Authority (Zinwa) is up in arms with the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) over the maintenance and running of the Epping Forest boreholes situated at Nyamandlovu Aquifer just outsid...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 14:44hrs | 495 | by Staff reporter
BCC to decommission Umzingwane Dam
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) will soon decommission Umzingwane Dam, one of its six supply dams, after water levels dropped to 26%, an official has said."The plan was to decommission the dam aro...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 07:09hrs | 471 | by Staff reporter
BCC to tap energy from graveyards
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) will soon be embarking on an ambitious project to turn its cemeteries into solar farms as the local authority pushes the concept of multi-use of land. According...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 06:32hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter
Pipeline repairs to leave Bulawayo dry
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) will today carry out major repair works along the Umzingwane/Mtshabezi pipeline — in an unavoidable move which will leave the whole city dry for 15 hours.This is ...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:49hrs | 2046 | by Staff reporter
BCC scraps 72-hour water shedding programme
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) yesterday suspended its weekly 72 hour water shedding programme that was introduced earlier this year, but may reintroduce it if the daily water consumption does not go dow...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:22hrs | 337 | by Staff reporter
Egodini mall developer shuts down public toilets
TERRACOTTA, the company contracted by Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to construct Egodini Mall last week shut down public toilets used by vendors who operate along Lobengula Street, drawing the ire of re...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 06:41hrs | 1191 | by Staff reporter
Fury over closure of Egodini toilets
BULAWAYO's Egodini Mall developer - Terracotta Private Limited - has triggered a storm after reportedly shutting down ablution facilities without notifying vendors operating within the site vicinity....Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 16:31hrs | 875 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo council to hike rates by up to 42%
COUNCIL is mulling raising service charges for water, refuse collection and leases by up to 42 percent to help balance its books.This flies in the face of the MDC-run municipality's pledge to ...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 07:51hrs | 2498 | by Staff reporter
BCC insists on forex for stands
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has shattered the dreams of scores of locals wishing to own homes, telling them to "shut-up" if they cannot afford housing stands that have been priced in foreign curre...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 21:26hrs | 1105 | by Staff reporter
Operation Florian to train BCC fire fighters
United Kingdom-based charity organisation, Operation Florian, will next week conduct refresher courses for the Bulawayo City Council's Fire Brigade crew at a cost of US$93 000 to the local authority....Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 16:39hrs | 375 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, South Africa increase collaboration on migration
ZIMBABWE and South Africa have increased collaboration on the management of migration and repartition of children across their border through the Cross-border Coordination Committee for Unaccompanied ...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 07:18hrs | 1215 | by Staff reporter
Woman walks 2 hours to donate to Cyclone Idai victims
People in Zimbabwe's capital Harare have been donating food, clothes and other household essentials to victims of Cyclone Idai at the Presbyterian church.One of the volunteers at the church, N...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 10:24hrs | 3169 | by BBC
Bulawayo council defends selling stands in US$
THE Bulawayo City Council has defended the sale of residential stands in low density areas in foreign currency, saying the pricing was on a cost recovery basis at no profit. The city council s...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 07:24hrs | 1211 | by Staff reporter
BCC faces questions over lavish spending
CASH-STRAPPED Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has set itself on a collision course with residents after it approved a plan to splash US$900 each per day on hotel accommodation for four council officials f...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 07:32hrs | 1189 | by Staff reporter
BCC to host eThekwini officials
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is set to host four eThekwini Council [Durban] officials as part of their twinning arrangement with the South African local authority.The meetings were meant to boo...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 06:48hrs | 452 | by Staff reporter
Egodini Mall project stalls
ZIMBABWE's financial meltdown has brought the construction of the Egodini Mall — set to be the biggest public transport terminus boasting a retail section and parking bays in Zimbabwe's second large...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 18:09hrs | 1629 | by Staff reporter
CBZ: Zimbabwe's best bank in 2018
CBZ Bank has been voted as Zimbabwe's best-performing bank in 2018 by US-based Global Finance Magazine.CBZ Bank, which has an asset base of US$ 2billion and deposits worth $1,8 billion, is con...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:32hrs | 588 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo repairs pump station
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is today expected to conduct repairs at the Umzingwane Booster Pump Station, which will result in disconnection of water supplies in some areas, town clerk Christopher Dube...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 12:01hrs | 871 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents fear 'Harare disease' outbreak
Bulawayo residents say they are at grave risk of contracting deadly diseases such as cholera and typhoid, unless the government urgently bails out their city council to replace its decrepit sewer and ...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 06:59hrs | 3383 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo runs out of water treatment chemicals
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has run out of water treatment chemicals for the second time in less than two months as foreign currency shortages continue to haunt the local authority.According t...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 06:58hrs | 486 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo blames faulty valves for UBH water woes
BULAWAYO City Council has said faulty valves were the major cause of United Bulawayo Hospitals' water problems and urged the institution to repair them.Council said it exempted hospitals from ...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 07:19hrs | 102 | by Staff reporter
Govt concerned over delays in Egodini Mall project
GOVERNMENT has expressed concern over delays in the construction of Bulawayo's proposed Egodini Mall, more than three years after South African firm Terracorta won the tender to undertake the project....Published: 28 Feb 2019 at 06:18hrs | 1230 | by Staff reporter
UBH suspends surgical ops again
THE United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) was over the weekend forced to suspend surgical operations due to water challenges affecting the health institution. This is the second time in a month the ...Published: 26 Feb 2019 at 06:50hrs | 367 | by Staff reporter
Caf recommend improvements to Barbourfields Stadium
THE Confederation of African Football (Caf) has recommended improvements to Barbourfields Stadium and the National Sports Stadium for the two facilities to meet the continental body's standards before...Published: 26 Feb 2019 at 06:49hrs | 1731 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo takes deliberate affirmative action policy
BULAWAYO Mayor Councillor Solomon Mguni has said council has taken a deliberate affirmative action policy that will see local companies being prioritised in the awarding of tenders to promote the city...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 22:27hrs | 792 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council loses $300k in botched deal
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is in a fix after it emerged that it was yet to account for a fleet of ambulances it purchased in a botched deal almost a decade ago.In 2010, the local authority aw...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 14:51hrs | 824 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo has no title deeds to City Hall, Tower Block
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) does not have title deeds to some of its important assets such as the City Hall, Tower Block and dams, among others, an official has said.Title deeds are import...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 07:25hrs | 1729 | by Staff reporter
BCC in financial dire straits
The Bulawayo City Council financials are in the red, a development officials equated to being technically insolvent. The crisis saw the local authority calling for an emergency financial perfo...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 22:38hrs | 307 | by Staff reporter
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