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Undeveloped stands divide BCC
BULAWAYO city fathers have been left sharply divided over how to handle undeveloped housing stands, with some councillors saying council should repossess them, while others want residents to be given ...Published: 4 hrs ago | 1049 | by Staff reporter
Ingwebu Breweries turns the corner
INGWEBU Breweries has returned to profitability following successive years of loss-making and is targeting to achieve revenue of US$24 million this year, the company's MD Dumisani Mhlanga has said....Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:01hrs | 707 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Communist Party corners Bulawayo Mayor Solomon Mguni
Controversial Bulawayo Mayor His Worship Solomon Madlala Mguni has received a letter from Zimbabwe Communist party requesting him to publicly publish a paper trail relating to his 4 287 square metres ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 08:16hrs | 1954 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bulawayo city blames KSB pumps
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has approved plans to decommission KSB pumps at its waterworks after investigations showed that they posed a risk to the quality and water security of the city.This...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:57hrs | 617 | by Staff reporter
BCC yet to receive devolution funds
GOVERNMENT has not yet disbursed devolution funds to the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) for roads rehabilitation, the local authority has said.Council had budgeted $20,7 million for resurfacing o...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:56hrs | 248 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Mayor Solomon Mguni gets another huge land from City Council
Bulawayo Mayor His Worship Solomon Mguni has acquired 4 287 square metres of land to construct six townhouses, online publication CITE has reported. According to the publication, the Mayor was...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 14:18hrs | 4811 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Luveve residents hit back at BCC
RESIDENTs in Luveve, Bulawayo have castigated the city council for claiming that the typhoid and dysentery that recently hit the suburb has now being contained, with fewer cases being recorded in the ...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:10hrs | 109 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents fume over steep council fines
RESIDENTS here have shot down proposals by the local authority to hike fines for alleged illegal vending and flouting other by-laws governing the operations of informal traders.The proposal by...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 17:09hrs | 857 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo water crisis persists
THE dwindling water levels at the Bulawayo city's supply dams has crippled the pumping of both raw and clean water to the Criterion Raw Water and Tuli Clear Water reservoirs.This was said by t...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:07hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
New fines proposals unsettle Bulawayo vendors
BULAWAYO residents have reacted angrily to proposals by the local authority to hike fines for alleged illegal vending and flouting other bylaws governing the operations of informal traders.The...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:30hrs | 769 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents resist renaming of streets after Mnangagwa
BULAWAYO residents have objected to the renaming of city streets after President Emmerson Mnangagwa, court papers filed at the High Court have revealed.Local Government minister July Moyo rece...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:37hrs | 4158 | by Staff reporter
BCC warns against smuggling of corpses
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has warned residents against smuggling groceries into the country following reports that omalayitsha (cross-border transporters) were either sneaking in corpses with basic ...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:07hrs | 889 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents sue over Mnangagwa's street names
BULAWAYO residents have taken Local Government and Public Works Minister July Moyo to court challenging Government's decision to change some of the city's street names as contained in Statutory Instru...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 07:42hrs | 1696 | by Staff reporter
LIST: Notice to claim derelict land in Bulawayo
Notice is hereby given to the owners of the listed properties to come forward and make the necessary payments to Council within the next 30 days. Failure to do so will result in Council disposing the ...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 21:56hrs | 8288 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Supreme Court reserves judgment on Tinashe Kambarami case
The Supreme Court has reserved its judgment on the matter of ousted Bulawayo Deputy Mayor Tinashe Kambarami. Kambarami approached the Supreme Court challenging his removal from office online publicati...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 17:21hrs | 2670 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Council insists on sewage contaminated Khami water
As debate on the use of Khami Dam water to ease water shortages in Bulawayo continues, the local authority has insisted there is no need for panic as the water posed no health riskto residents contrar...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:25hrs | 996 | by Staff reporter
City of Bulawayo, Mnangagwa govt headed for clash over renaming of roads
The government was on a collision course with the City of Bulawayo on Friday after the Local Government Ministry gazetted new names for some of its roads.The ministry, headed by July Moyo, ren...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 21:33hrs | 4580 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records 100% spike in pellagra cases
ZIMBABWE has recorded a sharp increase in pellagra cases, with 831 cases registered between January and May 2020, a 100% increase from 400 over the same period last year.Pellagra is a serious cond...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:48hrs | 1061 | by Staff reporter
BCC has no money to fix ageing water, sewer systems
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) yesterday said it did not have the funds to urgently address the issue of water contamination in Luveve and surrounding suburbs, which resulted in the loss of 13 lives and ...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 08:35hrs | 616 | by Staff reporter
Bowsers expose vendors to deadly COVID-19
Bulawayo Vendors and Traders Association (BVTA) members have expressed concern on the overcrowding of residents in bowser queues, which is greatly exposing them to the deadly COVID-19. Bulaway...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 08:02hrs | 1441 | by Stephen Jakes
BCC hands over donated COVID-19 materials to traders
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has handed over materials to fight COVID-19 on behalf of Bulawayo Vendors and Traders Association (BVTA).Th...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 07:54hrs | 326 | by Stephen Jakes
PHOTO: Bulawayo Council water burn child's hands?
A photo by seasoned journalist Annahstacia Ndlovu showing a child with seemingly burnt hands has circulated widely on the internet.The child is said to have developed the condition after using...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 07:14hrs | 1610 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Khupe wants Bulawayo councillors to report to her
MDC leader Thokozani Khupe is demanding daily reports from Bulawayo city fathers on the local authority's action plans towards addressing the typhoid, diarrhoea and dysentery outbreak that has claimed...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:48hrs | 633 | by Staff reporter
ZACC to investigate BCC
THEZimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission said it would investigate the goings-on at the local authority after a lobby group, Chapter 2 Movement, said the council must be held accountable over the ...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:46hrs | 806 | by Staff reporter
BCC insists on sewage contaminated Khami water
THE city council here has remained defiant on its push to have Khami Dam as one of its suppliers of water.This comes as the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has for some time now been entangled in ...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 16:22hrs | 768 | by Staff reporter
BCC goes paperless
BULAWAYO City Council has gone paperless and will be distributing statements via SMS, with ratepayers who have access to the internet viewing their accounts online.Town clerk Christopher Dube ...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:09hrs | 1939 | by Staff reporter
BCC struggles to pay workers
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) says its coffers are running dry and as such it is struggling to pay its workers and deliver services effectively. The council which says its revenue declined by 80...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:06hrs | 496 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo sits on perennial river
IN a case depicting poverty amid plenty, part of the Bulawayo Central Business District (CBD) was built on top of an underground perennial river, despite the city experiencing a crippling water shorta...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:06hrs | 1897 | by Staff reporter
BCC to repossess undeveloped stands
THE Bulawayo City Council has resolved to repossess 179 stands in Cowdray Park, Entumbane and Pumula after the owners failed to develop them.Some of the property owners have gone for 22 years ...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:06hrs | 1632 | by Staff reporter
BCC to bill in forex
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is considering billing residents in foreign currency and has re-adopted selling of residential stands in US dollars. The local authority, in the latest council repo...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:35hrs | 1734 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo pushes for out of court settlement
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is reportedly pushing for an out-of-court settlement with residents who dragged it to court demanding answers to the diarrhoea, typhoid and dysentery outbreak in the city....Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:24hrs | 1570 | by Staff reporter
'BCC might destroy damning diarrhoea outbreak evidence'
BULAWAYO residents have expressed fear that the local authority (BCC) could destroy evidence that implicates it in the diarrhoea, typhoid and dysentery outbreaks in the city which recently claimed a d...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:27hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
Only MDC Alliance vendors getting vending bays in Bulawayo
INFORMAL traders have accused the MDC-Alliance dominated Bulawayo City Council (BCC) of politicising allocation of vending bays by sidelining vendors with Zanu-PF links.Speaking at a meeting w...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:19hrs | 1416 | by Staff reporter
BCC closes roads to under take sewer rehabilitation
BULAWAYO Water and Sewerage Services Improvement Projects (BWSSIP) declared road closure on Thursday in some parts of the city to avoid disturbance as sewerage works commence are likely to take the wh...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:07hrs | 440 | by Stephen Jakes
Residents sue BCC over typhoid, Harare laboratory roped in
BULAWAYO residents have approached the High Court seeking an order directing council to release the laboratory samples of tap water and other vital information relating to the diarrhoea outbreak in Lu...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 286 | by Staff reporter
Typhoid outbreak in Bulawayo
TESTS done at private laboratories to ascertain the cause of 12 deaths and illness to more than 1 500 residents of Luveve in Bulawayo have revealed that they suffered from typhoid and dysentery....Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:24hrs | 385 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Mayor blames residents for Luveve water death crisis
Bulawayo Mayor Solomon Madlala blamed Luveve residents for the Gastrointestinal Disease that has claimed 12 lives leaving thousands seeking medical attention. Speaking on camera, Mguni said th...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 16:47hrs | 2076 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Bulawayo Council guilty of Luveve water crisis'
Since the outbreak of the waterborne disease in Luveve Old and New that has so far claimed 12 lives, while over a thousand have been hospitalized, Bulawayo City Council management have been busy with ...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 06:59hrs | 1188 | by Mbonisi Gumbo
Will IPL 2020 be canceled?
The coronavirus pandemic has brought to a standstill many sporting events globally. The India premier league (IPL) has not been spared. Cricket fans in India can only hope that the league will take pl...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 11:54hrs | 619 | by Staff writer
New guidelines for Bulawayo clinics
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) Health Services Department has introduced a raft of measures to protect health personnel and patients against Covid-19 at local clinics. The municipality runs 1...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:11hrs | 956 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents petition over mayor's US$2 land deal
Residents dumped mock coffins at the Luveve housing offices in Bulawayo in protest against contaminated water, which has resulted in 60 diarrhoea cases being reported, while five people have died as a...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 08:11hrs | 610 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance blames govt for Bulawayo water crisis
THE opposition MDC Alliance yesterday blamed government for the deteriorating water situation in Bulawayo, saying the Zanu-PF administration refused to grant the local authority permission to construc...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 08:10hrs | 446 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents sleep in water queues
Twice a week, Nothi Mlalazi joins a long line with dozens of other people - some of whom have slept there overnight - and stands for hours waiting for water in Zimbabwe's second-largest city.A...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:46hrs | 664 | by Staff reporter
BCC directors sucked into city land row
RESIDENTS have submitted their objections to the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) over a proposed land offer to the Mayor, Councillor Solomon Mguni, amid revelations that two council directors are also set...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:06hrs | 328 | by Staff reporter
There should not be any outcry over the offer of land to the mayor of Bulawayo
Whilst the Bulawayo residents must not condone corruption by the city council managers, this case can be distinguished from others, as it does not fall under the ambit of corruption. Here there is tra...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:03hrs | 145 | by Njabulo
Bulawayo Mayor speaks on Luveve's Gastrointestinal Disease
Bulawayo Mayor His Worship Solomon Madlala Mguni says Luveve clinic has experienced 726 cases of the Gastrointestinal Disease, that is currently bedeviling Bulawayo, have been seen at Luveve Cli...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 14:14hrs | 2915 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Displaced Bulawayo vendors approach High Court
MORE than 600 informal vendors in Bulawayo who were affected by the closure of the 5th Avenue market place in the city centre have approached the High Court challenging Bulawayo City Council's decisio...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:13hrs | 296 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Bulawayo residents dump coffins at City Council offices
Disgruntled residents of Bulawayo’s Luveve township staged a mass action at Luveve Housing office to register their displeasure at the death of children who are said to have perished aft...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 11:48hrs | 7849 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BCC refills wells after diarrhoea outbreak
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is refilling all water wells dug by residents to augment supplies delivered by the local authority following the death of six residents from a diarrhoea outbreak in Luv...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:03hrs | 297 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents to object to Chamisa mayor's land offer
THERE has been a public outcry after the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) offered the Mayor, Councillor Solomon Mguni 3,5 hectares of agricultural land in Lower Rangemore under a 25-year lease at $165 per ...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 07:32hrs | 1203 | by Staff reporter
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