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Zimbabweans must boycott vehicle licence renewals
Zimbabweans are no strangers to economic hardship, but the recent enforcement of the Broadcasting Services Amendment Act of 2025 marks a new low in government overreach - and it d...Published: 15 Jul 2025 at 22:02hrs | 876 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe marks rise in digital surveillance
Zimbabwe is experiencing an alarming increase in digital surveillance by government authorities, severely impacting civil liberties and intensifying repression against journalists and human rights def...Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 14:45hrs | 125 | by Staff reporter
TTI remits over US$1,5 million to BCC in five months
BULAWAYO City's traffic management company, Tendy Three Investments (TTI) has remitted over US$1,5 million to the local authority in parking, towing, clamping, storage and special packages fees from J...Published: 09 Aug 2024 at 07:47hrs | 260 | by Staff reporter
Shortage of refuse trucks chokes BCC
SHORTAGE of refuse removal trucks throttles the Bulawayo City Council (BCC)'s garbage collection daily activities around the city.This ...Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 08:52hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Bulawayo's clamping and tow-away by-laws approved
THE Minister of Local Government and Public Works, in terms of section 229 of the Urban Councils Act [Chapter 29:15], has approved the City of Bulawayo (Clamping and Tow-away) By-laws, 2023 which allo...Published: 03 Nov 2023 at 09:29hrs | 54 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF and CCC must read this article
NOW that the elections are over, there is need for us to make a critical analysis of our country's political leadership. Zimbabwe has its fair share of problems.My wish is that the two leading...Published: 09 Sep 2023 at 08:05hrs | 1 | by Jonah Nyoni
City council to auction 142 clamped vehicles
HARARE City Council is set to auction at least 142 vehicles impounded for violating traffic laws and never claimed by their owners who would have to pay fines and charges to get them back.The ...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
What's the point of 'performance contracts' when the regime always blames sanctions for its failures?
How do you measure a cabinet minister's performance over a particular period?How does one judge whether a local government CEO (chief executive officer) has done a good or terrible job?...Published: 15 Mar 2023 at 10:16hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
BCC officers, vendors hurt in dawn market raid
BULAWAYO City Council fired rubber bullets and used a fire engine to spray vendors with water after launching an operation to clear 5th Avenue of illegal activities in the early hours of yesterday, a ...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 07:03hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo orders enforcement of traffic by-laws
THE Minister of Local Government and Public Works July Moyo has directed local authorities to enforce traffic regulations and by laws in the country's cities and towns to bring order in the public tra...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 07:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Build your house in a year or lose stand'
CHIKOMBA Rural District Council, which oversees Chivhu town, has unveiled new by-laws that include a requirement that residents should start building on stands they are buying from the council within ...Published: 10 Feb 2023 at 05:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
City of Bulawayo to get rid of all informal traders in the CBD
The City of Bulawayo has advised all stakeholders that it will be conducting an exercise to rid the City of all informal traders in the Central Business District (CBD) with effect from Wednesday, 11. ...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 16:03hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
New by-law for Bulawayo crafted
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has crafted a new by-law that bans free advertising on the city's public spaces with offenders facing three months imprisonment or a fine.However, according to ...Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 05:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Pushcarts face city centre ban
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) intends to ban push carts, popularly known as "Scanias" from operating within the city centre while also criminalising displaying goods on the city's pavements, triggering ...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 05:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
BCC proposes stringent by-laws
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has proposed new stringent by-laws that will see impounded vehicles unclaimed for 30 days being auctioned while dirty ones will be removed from the city roads or any area u...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 05:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Residents protest 'wrongful billing'
UMZINGWANE residents in Matabeleland South are up in arms with the Umzingwane Rural District Council (URDC) for wrongfully billing them using outdated by-laws.Amhlohe Sibanda of stand number F...Published: 28 Aug 2022 at 08:17hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Harare, Bulawayo top sand poaching stats - EMA
HARARE and Bulawayo have been identified as the country's leading provinces with rampant illegal sand poaching with authorities calling for stiffer penalties that are deterrent in order to ward off po...Published: 07 Jun 2022 at 23:58hrs | 10 | by Staff Reporter
Vehicle clamping rakes in over $100,000
Lately in Bulawayo's city centre, groups of grey uniformed men maraud the streets, hunting for motorists who park at undesignated areas to clamp their vehicles.Like clockwork, the moment a mot...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Oppressive Zimbabwe govt to blame for Elvis Nyathi's death
While we do not condon the killing of foreigners in SA by South African mobs that have taken the law into their own hands, the death of Elvis Nyathi at the hands of vigilantes in South Africa and many...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 13:22hrs | | by Israel Dube
CBD parking fees furore escalates
THE public backlash against the Bulawayo City Council's contentious parking management system in the city centre continues to escalate with more residents blasting council for failure to adequately co...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
+200 arrested for not wearing face masks
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested more than 200 people in the past two weeks for flouting Covid-19 prevention and control measures among them failure to wear masks properly.Bulawayo provincial ...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 09:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Harare issues a 48 hour ultimatum
HARARE City Council is set to remove illegal billboards on road verges and private property across the capital.In a statement, council yesterday issued a 48-hour ultimatum to those who erected...Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZEC raps rigging claims
Allegations of election rigging are normally raised by political parties that would have failed to field agents at polling stations to observe the conduct of polls, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Name-dropping in Zimbabwe proves prevalence of corruption at highest levels of power
To be quite honest, before a few years ago, I had no idea of the existence of the word "name-dropping" - not until it was popularized in this so-called "Second Republic", as it was transformed into a ...Published: 27 May 2021 at 13:37hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Situation in Zimbabwe has reached another level
THESE past few weeks, I have witnessed some horrific scenes.The poverty gripping people in communities across Harare is heart-breaking.I realise now we have a choice to make. We can do...Published: 17 May 2021 at 06:49hrs | | by Jacob Ngarivhume
Case against paying compensation to white farmers for land appropriation
OUR Excellency, President ED Mnangagwa.We are living in a time when the vestiges of white hegemony and entitlement are, at long last, being challenged almost on a daily basis all over the worl...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 07:05hrs | 2 | by Cedric Steele
We must not politicise the Zimbabwean judiciary system
Zimbabwe has been on the social media, news , whatsapp and any other news outlet took time to cast a flood light upon Zimbabwe. Indeed the world in now global village and any events in any country are...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 13:08hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Town Clerk says water disconnections legit
BULAWAYO Deputy Mayor, Councillor Tinashe Kambarami, has once again clashed with the Town Clerk Mr Christopher Dube after announcing over the weekend that council should not cut water supplies to defa...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF abusing the law to punish rivals'
Former cabinet minister and renowned lawyer David Coltart says the Zanu-PF led government disrespects the rule of law and has continuously used it as a weapon against its perceived enemies and not an ...Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 10:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ngarivhume says ban on forex will further destroy the economy
The ban on forex by the ED regime is an ill advised move, a sugar cotted plot to swindle all the forex in the nation and land it in the hands of cartels who seem desperate to destroy the country. The ...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 07:27hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
7-day ultimatum for illegal advertisers
HARARE City Council has issued a seven-day ultimatum to all property owners with illegal billboards within their premises to visit its offices for possible regularisation or risk facing the law. ...Published: 14 May 2019 at 07:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP in trouble over fertilizer debt
Zanu-PF legislator for Bindura South Remigious Toendepi Mutangira has been dragged to court by a fertilizer and chemical manufacturing firm which is seeking over $18 063 for services rendered to him a...Published: 11 May 2019 at 15:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa calls for stiffer littering laws
President Mnangagwa has called for the tightening of by laws on littering in the country as a way of conserving the environment. Mnangagwa led the monthly National Environment Cleaning Day exe...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 20:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers in urgent meeting over army killings.
The Law Society of Zimbabwe has invited all lawyers to attend an Extraordinary General meeting to discuss the state of lawless in the country particularly the one happening in the courts where accused...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 09:41hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's govt reviewing city by-laws to manage vendors
LOCAL Government minister July Moyo says government is reviewing harsh by-laws targeted at managing vendors in a bid to contain cholera outbreaks.Addressing councillors from across the Midland...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe inflation hits 155%
Government has triggered a storm after forging ahead to effect a draconian two percent tax on electronic transactions through a process legal experts say is unlawful.This comes as financial in...Published: 14 Oct 2018 at 13:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
2% tax headache for Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government violated the law by gazetting a legal instrument that put into force the 2 cents tax on electronic transactions as part of a cocktail of austerity measures, f...Published: 14 Oct 2018 at 09:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to deliver SONA, set agenda
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is today expected to deliver his first State of the National Address (SONA) and officially open the first session of the Ninth Parliament during which he will set the legislative a...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to present his first SONA
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is on Tuesday expected to officially open the first session of the ninth Parliament and present his first State of the Nation Address (Sona) since being elected into office on July...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe sued for $278K
FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe has been sued by lawyers who represented her in several court cases involving a $1,2 million diamond ring deal after she failed to pay them legal fees amounting to $278 ...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 06:12hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Social media liars, you better get it straight, ask Chofamba Sithole
There is no better combination in a journalist than possessing both intelligence and objectivity in equal measure, particularly so in this knowledge-based world where information and misinformation is...Published: 09 Jun 2018 at 17:21hrs | | by Conway Tutani
MDC-T run Harare threatens imminent demolitions
Harare City Council (HCC) has opened a Pandora's Box on the eve of elections set for July 30 after the municipality declared war on illegal settlers residing in Crowborough, Churu and Eyestone Farms....Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 12:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Voters' roll inspection to wind up
The 14-day inspection of all polling stations to correct errors which might have occurred during the biometric voters' registration ends on Wednesday with millions of voters confirming their reg...Published: 28 May 2018 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Mnangagwa enrols for PhD
First Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa was among Midlands State University (MSU) PhD students who attended a research ethics workshop in Gweru yesterday. The workshop was facilitated by Professor Paul Ndebele, ...Published: 25 Apr 2018 at 07:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Gweru to enforce anti-litter by-laws
Gweru City Council has set up plans to enforce anti-littering by-laws as part of the local authority's solid waste management, a senior council official has said.Council health services direct...Published: 30 Mar 2018 at 08:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
$2m Harare mansion up for grabs
Head to Helensvale if you're the sort of person who fancies a lavish double story - on three floors property - situated in a prime and secure Helensvale Borrowdale sights which boast of an idyllic out...Published: 12 Feb 2018 at 12:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZRP boss fakes hubby's death
The officer-in-charge of Highfield Police Station, Eyelet Gutu, was hauled before the courts after reportedly faking her husband's death in a bid to illegally benefit from his funeral cover.Gu...Published: 15 Jan 2018 at 15:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's govt flirts with price controls
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's government this week announced a major step towards price controls, placing 16 products under a monitoring list and triggering fears of imminent shortages.Although th...Published: 09 Nov 2017 at 05:53hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council abuse disabled residents
I am a resident of city of Bulawayo with a disability. I have a disabled wife and also a disabled daughter.I got a donation of a Gas Popcorn making machine last year from Edgars stores. Govern...Published: 25 Oct 2017 at 12:53hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mphoko's externalisation case drags on
A CASE in which former operations manager at Bulk Cash and Carry Wholesalers implicated Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko in the externalisation of millions of dollars involving Pakistan businessman I...Published: 16 Aug 2017 at 14:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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