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Gweru makes it expensive to die
Residents of Gweru are expressing their outrage over the Gweru City Council's (GCC) proposed 2025 budget, which includes significant increases in cemetery fees, some rising by more than 100 percent. T...Published: 25 Oct 2024 at 08:47hrs | 372 | by Staff reporter
BCC conducts over 15 000 building inspections in 2024
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has conducted over 15,000 building inspections this year, approving all submitted plans and issuing 310 occupation certificates to residents. This announcement was made...Published: 04 Oct 2024 at 08:44hrs | 67 | by Staff reporter
Thieves vandalise region's heroes acres
BULAWAYO, Matebeleland North and South provincial heroes acres are being targeted by thieves who are stealing plants, flower pots and floral tributes from graves.The shocking incidents have be...Published: 16 Apr 2024 at 07:54hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Cyber City project threatens Mt Hampden graves
GOVERNMENT says it has no plans to desecrate and destroy graves in Mt Hampden area to pave way for the ambitious multimillion dollar Cyber City project.Online reports said graves were being de...Published: 15 Mar 2024 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Remains of 21 people exhumed in city
Remains of 21 people were exhumed from a housing development project site in Bulawayo's Killarney suburb before they were reburied at the city's Luveve cemetery.This was revealed in the latest...Published: 18 Feb 2024 at 13:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Maintaining graves is not Bulawayo City Council's job
THE Bulawayo City Council has urged residents with relatives buried at different cemeteries in the city to constantly check and maintain the graves as it is not the duty of the local authority to do t...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:36hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Graves cave in at Luveve Cemetery
AN elderly woman, accompanied by two young adults walks briskly into a section of Luveve Cemetery in Bulawayo, a little bit on the edge and sombre.They continuously scan across the hundreds of...Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 08:56hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
BCC to establish pharmacies at its six clinics
The Bulawayo City Council has announced its intentions to introduce pharmacies at six of its clinics, aligning with the government's efforts to offer affordable medication. Furthermore, plans are in m...Published: 01 Nov 2023 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube partners NRZ to create railway level crossing in Cowdray Park
FOR years, residents of Cowdray Park suburb in Bulawayo have been forced to travel long distances to access cemeteries located right at their doorsteps due to lack of accessibility as the road is clos...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 06:54hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Council urges cremation or rural home burials
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) which is fast running out of burial space is calling on residents to either cremate or bury their loved ones at their rural homes.The call also comes amid revel...Published: 07 Jul 2023 at 07:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fire burns part of Luveve Cemetery
A portion of Luveve cemetery was burnt by a veld fire which destroyed grave markers and some of the tombstones.The cause of the fire is unknown but some residents blamed the Bulawayo City Coun...Published: 05 Jul 2023 at 17:37hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt reveals plan to rebury National heroes
GOVERNMENT is processing requests from families of some national heroes to rebury their bodies at the National Heroes Acre in Harare.Some national heroes were buried at their homesteads after ...Published: 16 Jun 2023 at 07:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo running out of burial space
IF you are in Bulawayo do you know where and how you want to be buried?Be warned that there is a looming problem in the country's second largest city over what to do with dead bodies, as it is...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Highlanders legends to visit graves of fallen colleagues
Highlanders football legends meet in Bulawayo this Saturday to honour and celebrate the lives of their departed former teammates.Douglas Mloyi, the chairman of the Highlanders Former Players A...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 19:29hrs | | by Staff rteporter
BCC unveils US$158m budget
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) yesterday unveiled its US$157,99 million revenue budget and is proposing to set aside US$106 million to fund key infrastructural development projects that include construct...Published: 01 Nov 2022 at 05:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
200 000 graves cemetery for Bulawayo
BULAWAYO is set to have a 200 000-capacity cemetery which is expected to address the burial space shortage which has been haunting the city in recent years.The project is being implemented as ...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans commemorates Heroes Day
Zimbabweans from across the political divide, joined by Ministers, mayors and senior service officers, converged at venues across the country to commemorate Heroes Day and salute the fallen and living...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Graves to make way for residential stands
GRAVES in the high-density suburb of Glen Norah in Harare are set to be removed to pave way for the allocation of 300 residential stands.This was contained in a notice of an application for th...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 19:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Double interment open for other relationships, says BCC
Siblings who wish to be buried in the same grave at cemeteries managed by the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) are permitted, the latest council report has noted.Double interment is common with cou...Published: 02 Jun 2022 at 09:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC decommissions Athlone cemetery
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has decommissioned Athlone cemetery after it ran out of burial space.Town clerk Christopher Dube confirmed the development in a notice to residents yesterday, addin...Published: 08 Jan 2022 at 06:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
40 000 bodies face exhumation
MORE than 40 000 bodies that are buried at Chikomo Chemhute Cemetery, which is part of the Glen Forest Memorial Park face being exhumed after allegations were raised that the burial grounds and cremat...Published: 16 Dec 2021 at 23:26hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Residents resist BCC tariff hikes
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) yesterday bowed to pressure from residents and slightly slashed its proposed 2022 budget by $900 million, with the tariff regime going down by 16 percent.During las...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo grave diggers overwhelmed
GRAVE diggers at Bulawayo cemeteries are overwhelmed and the council has proposed that mourners do the back-filling of the graves while it recruits more staff.According to the latest council m...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:32hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Old shop licence fees cost BCC $29 million
THE Bulawayo City Council lost $29 million revenue due to charging old fees on shop licences.The council also overshot its 2021 budget by $71,5 million on town planning, environment management...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dead man buried in wrong grave
The Bulawayo City Council's records of cemeteries are in shambles leading to the mislaying of the dead in reserved graves and the reopening of graves with remains.According to the Council, thi...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 21:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC projects $24,7bn budget for 2022
BULAWAYO City Council has proposed a $24,7 billion budget for 2022, which will hike tariffs by over 216%.This was revealed by BCC financial director Kempton Ndimande yesterday while presenting...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe accuses United States of 'gross provocation'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesman claimed the United States government is a "clear contestant" after its embassy in Harare called for the lifting of a ban on by-elections.George Charamb...Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 19:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC, CAAZ object to cemetery near airport
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has turned down an application by a local private company to establish a cemetery adjacent to the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport.The snub came after...Published: 04 Sep 2021 at 19:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt moots military cemeteries
GOVERNMENT is establishing provincial cemeteries for the military and consultations have been conducted with provincial leaders on how the programme will be implemented. Military cemeteries are a comm...Published: 28 Aug 2021 at 05:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Scramble for burial space at Luveve Cemetery
There is scramble for burial space at Luveve Cemetery in Bulawayo after an excavator used to dig graves at Athlone Cemetery broke down last week.The machine replaced manual labour years ago to...Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 19:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo suspends burials as grave-digging machine breaks down
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has suspended burials at the Athlone West cemetery due to a breakdown of a grave-digging machine.Council sources told New Zimbabwe.com that following the breakd...Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 08:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare faces grave diggers, nurses crisis
HARARE City Council has been hard hit by a shortage of grave diggers with the few remaining at the local authority's eight cemeteries overwhelmed as they are burying at least 40 people per day....Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Demand for graves surges in Gweru
THERE has been a surge in demand for graves in the city of Gweru amid indications that from January to date, 65 people have been buried at council cemeteries compared to 45 the whole of last year. ...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC suspends burials at Athlone after excavator breaks down
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has suspended burials at Athlone cemetery after the excavator used digging graves broke down, sources have said.Athlone cemetery is situated just after Northend...Published: 01 Aug 2021 at 19:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Toponymic identity in Bulawayo and the need to recognise Black women
Histories of many states and nations in the world are generally histories of men and in some cases a few outstanding women, seemingly those whose absence in the historical narrative may discredit hist...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 14:42hrs | 2 | by Staff
Mpilo Hospital operations crippled
More than 60 doctors and nurses at Mpilo Central Hospital are in isolation after testing positive to Covid-19, a development that has crippled health care service delivery at the hospital. The...Published: 19 Jul 2021 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
City to ban mourners
THE Bulawayo City Council will soon introduce a policy to ban mourners from attending burials at its cemeteries as concerns grow that gatherings at funerals and burials were becoming Covid-19 super sp...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 07:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gweru records surge in demand for graves
DEMAND for burial space at Gweru council cemeteries has increased since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, mayor Josiah Makombe has revealed.In his state of the city address, Makomb...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bodies from SA congest Bulawayo cemeteries
BODIES repatriated from South Africa are topping the list of burials at most Bulawayo cemeteries, with council expressing concern that residents were not adhering to the 30 stipulated numbers of peopl...Published: 10 Jul 2021 at 10:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Air Force of Zimbabwe in crash landing with Mi-35 helicopter gunship
Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) pilots have been commended for averting a major accident after an emergency landing with their Mi-35 helicopter gunship in Chitungwiza, which had developed a technical faul...Published: 10 Jul 2021 at 10:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Council takes over private cemetery
BULAWAYO City Council is set to take over the privately-owned Umvutcha Cemetery with an estimated 45 000-grave capacity to ease a shortage of burial space.The city has been battling burial spa...Published: 07 May 2021 at 06:44hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Illegal gold panners unleash reign of terror in Mat South, Mberengwa
GOLD panners have unleashed a reign of terror in Malungwane Village in Umzingwane District, Matabeleland South attacking villagers with axes, machetes and knobkerries. The development has seen...Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 09:09hrs | | by Lovemore Dube
Govt gazettes Harare's new burial, water charges
LOCAL Government minister July Moyo yesterday gazetted new fees for burial space in Harare while also announcing a massive hike in water charges and refuse collection fees for the capital.The ...Published: 13 Mar 2021 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo to set up solar farm to generate 50MW
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has received an unsolicited bid from a local engineering firm for a joint venture project to set up a solar farm to generate 50 megawatts of electricity to be fed into the ...Published: 01 Mar 2021 at 05:04hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Funerals without mourners the new normal
IT WAS one cold winter evening and the streets of Corby were deserted because of the snow. As John was sleeping, a sharp ring interrupted him. He jumped out of his bed and answered with his hands trem...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:39hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chitungwiza suspends demolitions
CHITUNGWIZA Municipality has halted demolition of illegal structures that have sprouted in the dormitory town until it received "policy direction" from central government. The local authority ...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rains stall grave digging in Bulawayo
BULAWAYO City Council is facing imminent grave shortage as a result of incessant rains that have caused flooding at Luveve Cemetery, making the graveyard soggy and unfit for burials.This has f...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:43hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Council faces shortage of undertakers
A SHORTAGE of undertakers, some of whom have been stricken by Covid-19, has resulted in Harare City Council failing to provide graves to bereaved families at Warren Hills cemetery. The local a...Published: 01 Feb 2021 at 05:34hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Zimbabwe funeral parlours overwhelmed by COVID-19
AS AUTHORITIES continue to battle to contain the deadly coronavirus, amid alarming deaths and new infections in the country, Zimbabwe's stretched funeral parlours say they are now being overwhelmed by...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 13:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF skeletons tumble in Chitungwiza demolitions
LEAKED letters addressed to Chitungwiza Town Council bosses have exposed the government's involvement in the demolition of homes and other illegal structures in Harare and the dormitory town with the ...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
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