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Govt to assist Chikozho bus accident victims
The Zimbabwean government will aid in the burial of nine victims who died in a Chikozho bus accident near Topora Business Centre in Masvingo Central. The accident occurred when an overloaded b...Published: 11 Aug 2024 at 18:31hrs | 430 | by Staff reporter
Chikozho Bus Services owner commits suicide
On Wednesday afternoon, Alphabet Chikozho, a prominent businessman and bus operator, was found dead in his car on the Zvishavane-Masvingo highway. Chikozho, 60, is suspected to have taken his ...Published: 26 Jul 2024 at 14:26hrs | 3024 | by Staff reporter
Council divided over Go Beer revival
Gweru City councillors have called on management to compile a report on the defunct Go Beer Breweries before the local authority entertains any plans of reclaiming the business.The brewery was...Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 07:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Youths forced to produce Zanu-PF cards for stands
YOUTHS who want residential stands from Gweru City Council are allegedly being instructed by the ruling Zanu-PF to produce their party membership cards, The NewsHawks reported.Information gath...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:39hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa expels 14 more councillors
Fourteen Gweru urban and Vungu Rural District MDC Alliance councillors have been expelled from the party after they attended a meeting called by a rival faction led by Mr Douglas Mwonzora. Acc...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa fires councillors
The MDC faction led by Mr Nelson Chamisa has fired 10 Gweru urban and four councillors from Vungu Rural District Council after they recently attended a meeting which was called by MDC-T leader Mr Doug...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 05:52hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Gweru councillors in trouble for attending Mwonzora meeting
AT least 11 Gweru urban and four Vungu Rural District MDC Alliance councillors who last week attended a meeting chaired by MDC-T secretary for local government Faith Musarurwa Kamutsungira have expell...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 06:17hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC probes mass defections
THE MDC Alliance says it is investigating the defection of 11 of its Gweru councillors to the rival MDC-T last week.Media reports indicated that at least 11 Gweru Urban and four Vungu Rural Di...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 18:28hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's 11 councillors defect to Mwonzora's MDC-T
AT least 11 Gweru Urban and four Vungu Rural District MDC Alliance councillors have defected to the MDC-T party led by Douglas Mwonzora, Southern Eye reported.The councillors who left the Nels...Published: 04 Sep 2021 at 19:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Africa University develops umsuzwane medicinal cough drops
United Methodist Church run Africa University's College of Health and Agricultural Sciences has made headway in developing throat lozenges made from the umsuzwane plant, which many Zimbabweans have be...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 05:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's Smelly legacy of patronage
Smelly Dube, a businesswoman from Midlands province who was once close to former president Robert Mugabe's family, has been throwing a stink over a controversial housing project that is now giving the...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 10:22hrs | | by BRENNA MATENDERE
Gweru warns against drinking borehole water
RESIDENTS in some parts of Mkoba suburb in Gweru have been warned against drinking borehole water after traces of the Escherichia coli (E coli) bacteria were found in some boreholes. Respondin...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 10:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police pounce on ZCTU Midlands chairperson
LAW and order police officers yesterday pounced on Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions' Central Region chairperson, Kudakwashe Munengiwa, and arrested him at his Gweru City Council office over last week...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police docket on ZCTU leaders rejected
PROSECUTORS at the Gweru Magistrates' Courts over the weekend rejected a police docket in the trial of three Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions Midlands leaders who had been arrested for demonstrating ...Published: 15 Oct 2018 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU bosses await outcome on freedom bid
ZIMBABWE Republic Police (ZRP) officers on Friday altered charges faced by seven Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) leaders to public violence after initially charging them with disorderly condu...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 14:10hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
ZCTU activists granted bail
TWENTY Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) activists who were arrested in Mutare on Thursday on allegations of attending an illegal gathering with intent to promote violence were yesterday grante...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZCTU under siege as ZRP arrest more leaders in Gweru
ZIMBABWE Republic Police (ZRP) officers have intensified their crackdown against Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) after arresting three leaders of the country's largest labour union in connect...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 12:21hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Gweru mayor, deputy elected unopposed
WARD Two councillor Josiah Makombe is the new mayor of Gweru after being elected unopposed while Clr Cleopas Shiri will deputise him after also sailing through unopposed. Gweru councillors wer...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Makombe elected Gweru mayor
MDC Alliance's Midlands South treasurer and ward 2 councillor Josiah Makombe has been elected Gweru mayor.He takes over from Charles Chikozho.Makombe was nominated unopposed by council...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-Alliance cracks deepen
FRESH fissures have emerged in MDC-Alliance party over the selection of Gweru's next mayor today. The opposition won all i8 council seats in Gweru in the just-ended July 30 harmonised elections, which...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 13:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC accused of imposing mayoral candidate
MDC-Alliance has been accused of trying to impose its choice for the Gweru mayoral post after inviting only five of the 16 MDC-Alliance councillors interested in the post for interviews in Harare last...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 06:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gweru loses water engineer over working conditions
GWERU City Council lost its recently hired water engineer to Rusape Town Council over poor working conditions, a senior council official has revealed.Mayor Charles Chikozho said the engineer r...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporterr
Chammisa violence timeline - February to present
February 20, 2018: At the burial of Tsvangirai, in Buhera, rowdy MDC-T youths harass party co-vice president Dr Thokozani Khupe and secretary general Mr Douglas Mwonzora before trying to torch the gra...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'I want to continue as Gweru Mayor'
GWERU mayor Charles Chikozho has expressed interest in retaining his mayoral post should he win the upcoming elections where he is standing as MDC Alliance candidate for ward 10.Chikozho said ...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gweru ordered to stop selling stands
GWERU's acting town clerk, Douglas Chikwekwe, has revealed that the local authority had received an order from Midlands Provincial Affairs minister Owen Ncube to stop parcelling out land in peri-urban...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gweru moots capital development fund
Gweru City Council has announced plans to set up a capital development fund that will assist in financing its future capital projects in a bid to move away from over reliance on rates and service fees...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimra raids Gweru council accounts
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has reportedly pounced on Gweru City Council bank accounts in a bid to garnish hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid tax, sources revealed to the Southern E...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 07:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gweru City faces waste nightmare
GWERU City Council continues to face a waste collection nightmare amid reports that a Harare engineering company, Deven Engineering, contracted to supply a new refuse truck is demanding a $36 000 top ...Published: 07 May 2018 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Deven Engineering slapped with $300,000 lawsuit
GWERU City Council is suing Deven Engineering Private Limited for failing to deliver a Nissan UD80 lorry they bought for $300 000, for refuse collection. The company indicated to council recently that...Published: 23 Feb 2018 at 05:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gweru to roll out prepaid water meters to recover debts
Gweru City Council has stopped issuing summons to its debtors and will soon roll out the prepaid metre programme to recover debts, an official has said. The local authority, which is owed over...Published: 17 Dec 2017 at 23:10hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Gweru roads project stalls
Bitumen World, a company which was contracted by Gweru City Council to resurface the city's heavily damaged road network, has suspended work amid reports the contractor is yet to be paid for the proje...Published: 13 Dec 2017 at 05:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Drama as councillors demand removal of Mugabe portrait
THERE was drama at the Gweru City Council chambers on Thursday when MDC-T councillors demanded that former President Robert Mugabe's portrait be taken down, as he was no longer head of State.T...Published: 02 Dec 2017 at 06:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere challenges Kombayi reinstatement
UNDER-SIEGE Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere has threatened to appeal a High Court order compelling him to reinstate Gweru mayor Hamutendi Kombayi and ward 4 councillor Kenneth Sithole, fi...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 05:05hrs | | by Satff reporter
Gweru starts servicing Mkoba 21 stands
GWERU City Council has started servicing residential stands in the newly-created Mkoba 21 suburb almost three years after they were unveiled to potential buyers, a senior council official has said....Published: 13 Nov 2017 at 05:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Electronic parking system for Gweru
Gweru City Council will soon introduce a new electronic parking system and do away with the old system that has seen the local authority clashing with motorists. Under the current system, spike and cl...Published: 10 Oct 2017 at 01:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Windfall for MDC-T councillors
The 10 MDC-T councillors who were suspended in August 2015 from Gweru City Council and were reinstated in March this year, will receive about $4 500 each in backdated allowances.City mayor Cou...Published: 29 Sep 2017 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T run Gweru City Council to retrench 500 workers
THE MDC-T run Gweru City Council is set to retrench at least 500 employees before end of year. Both Gweru Mayor Councillor Charles Chikozho and Urban Councils Workers Union Gweru Branch chairperson, M...Published: 05 Sep 2017 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youth illegally sell council land
GWERU-BASED Zanu-PF youths, who run a private property development company, Just Home Properties, are allegedly illegally selling residential stands in the newly-established Mkoba 21 suburb without th...Published: 17 Jul 2017 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
$38,000 mayoral mansion curtains cause a stink
The decision by council to spend $38 000 on curtains for the mayoral mansion in Kopje, Gweru, has created an uproar among Gweru residents who are calling for council to rescind its decision and priori...Published: 08 Jun 2017 at 14:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gweru City Council rejects payment plans for unpaid bills
Gweru City Council has rejected 10-year payment plans from more than 50 companies for a combined debt of about $18 million in unpaid bills. The local authority has threatened to go ahead with auctioni...Published: 05 Jun 2017 at 06:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere stalls Gweru housing project
LOCAL Government, Public Works and National Housing minister Saviour Kasukuwere is still to reverse a directive stopping Gweru City Council from selling stands at the new Mkoba 21 housing scheme, almo...Published: 12 May 2017 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
400 Bulawayo residents to lose properties
MORE than 400 Bulawayo residents are set to lose their properties to council after the local authority obtained writs of execution against their assets to recover debts owed in unpaid water bills, Sun...Published: 07 May 2017 at 08:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF jittery over PA's transfer
THE Zanu-PF Midlands provincial leadership has bemoaned the recent redeployment of provincial administrator, Cecilia Chitiyo, saying this could negatively affect the party's 2018 election plans, r...Published: 05 Apr 2017 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kombayi seeks to block ZEC
Fired Gweru mayor Hamutendi Kombayi and former councillor Kenneth Sithole have approached the High Court seeking an order to block the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) from holding by-elections...Published: 23 Mar 2017 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T Chikozho appointed Gweru mayor
MDC-T Councillor Charles Chikozho was sworn in as the new Gweru mayor yesterday - the same day that his predecessor Mr Hamutendi Kombayi went to court challenging Local Government, Public Works an...Published: 10 Mar 2017 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF factions clash over Gweru mayoral elections
Two Zanu-PF factions are reportedly jostling to field candidates for the post of Gweru mayor, which recently fell vacant following the sacking of MDC-T's Hamutendi Kombayi on allegations of gross ...Published: 08 Mar 2017 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kombayi appeals at High Court
FIRED Gweru mayor, Hamutendi Kombayi, who was recently fired by Local Government minister, Saviour Kasukuwere will appeal against the decision at the High Court, the Southern Eye has established....Published: 07 Mar 2017 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T scramble for Gweru mayoral post intensifies
JOSTLING for the Gweru mayoral post has intensified ahead of elections set for tomorrow following the firing of former mayor Hamutendi Kombayi two weeks ago.Town Clerk Ms Elizabeth Gwatipe...Published: 06 Mar 2017 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Armed soldiers threatened to behead lawyer
Armed soldiers last week allegedly threatened to behead Harare lawyer Taona Sibanda for trying to stop them from forcibly taking property at Cynthia Maadza's farm.Sibanda said he was still...Published: 23 Oct 2016 at 11:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
State actors urged to respect legal profession and courts
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has expressed concerns over serious threats made on a member of the legal profession by a group of uniformed army personnel. ZLHR strongly condemns these scare...Published: 16 Oct 2016 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
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