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Gwanda to introduce paid parking in CBD
Gwanda Municipality is set to introduce paid parking in the Central Business District (CBD) as part of its efforts to maintain order and improve revenue collection in the mining town.This move...Published: 15 May 2025 at 09:27hrs | 194 | by Staff reporter
Police vow enforcement against all illegal vendors
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has pledged to assist municipalities and other security agencies in clearing vendors from the streets following a 48-hour ultimatum issued by Local Government and Pu...Published: 15 Mar 2025 at 10:12hrs | 218 | by Staff reporter
Vendors threaten to sue HCC over violence
INFORMAL traders have threatened to sue the Harare City Council (HCC) for using severe force during raids against suspected illegal vendors.This follows a video circulating on social media sho...Published: 21 Mar 2024 at 08:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo push cart operators spooked by new law
A Bulawayo pushcart operator Calvin Sawunyama says he works six days every week, mainly operating from the busy vegetable market in the city centre.Sawunyama's pushcart, like that of his colle...Published: 12 Nov 2023 at 19:35hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
BCC police pounce on vendors
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) municipal police have pounced on illegal vendors in the central business district (CBD) to reportedly decongest the city centre.Last week council police arrested il...Published: 18 Sep 2023 at 07:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Foreigners 'invade' retail space reserved for Zimbabweans
ZIMBABWEAN authorities have been allocating retail licenses to foreigners in contravention of the law, investigations have established.Retail space in the capital Harare is now dominated by In...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 07:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo vendors sell meat on streets
FEARS abound that a major disease outbreak could hit Bulawayo following an increase in illegal meat vendors in the city's high-density suburbs.The most affected suburbs are Pumula, Emganwini, ...Published: 15 May 2023 at 18:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
City Council defers vendor blitz
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has temporarily halted its plans to embark on an operation to clear and clean the city centre of illegal activities following advice from the security and intelligence comm...Published: 12 Jan 2023 at 07:40hrs | 9 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo pavements on Wednesday morning were generally empty
THE usually congested and chaos-filled Bulawayo pavements between 3rd and 6th Avenues were on Wednesday morning generally empty ahead of the blitz by the local authority to keep the City centre clean ...Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 16:50hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Council police officers to be given arresting powers
GOVERNMENT is crafting an enabling legislative framework for establishment of municipal courts across the country, giving council police officers arresting powers.The impending laws would spec...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rogue drivers menace on Zimbabwe roads
THE general behaviour of motorists on Zimbabwe's roads ranges from shocking to bizarre.It is now common to see motorists breezing through red traffic lights or overtaking in prohibited zones. ...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 09:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police operation targets buses
POLICE in Bulawayo have launched an operation targeting long distance buses using illegal pick-up points, impounding the vehicles and arresting both drivers and passengers.The operation starte...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 19:54hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Devolution funds ‘bankrolling' Zanu P F campaigns
The ruling Zanu-PF party has been accused of diverting devolution funds towards promoting party interests in Masvingo Province as the nation gears towards the March 26 by-elections. Zanu-PF has embark...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 18:15hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Vendors accuse council police of theft
VENDORS yesterday accused council police of "stealing" confiscated wares and selling them, adding that they had engaged lawyers to deal with the matter.Council police have been arresting vendo...Published: 24 Aug 2021 at 06:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Councillors rap 'bribe-taking' municipal cops
KWEKWE councillors have accused their municipal police of aiding lawlessness in the city by taking bribes from illegal vendors operating from undesignated sites.Deputy mayor Shadreck Tobaiwa t...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:45hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Former Harare Mayor distances himself from Budiriro demolitions
Herbert Gomba, the former Mayor of Harare and Councillor of Ward 27 in Glen Norah B has distanced himself from the recent Budiriro housing demolitions.This follows a letter that has been making ro...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 14:21hrs | | by Daniel Itai
Young petroleum mogul enters Zanu PF DCC race
YOUNG petroleum mogul Danmore Mambondiyani has entered the race for a post in the ruling Zanu PF party's fiercely contested district coordination committees which the party had shelved for years over ...Published: 03 Oct 2020 at 13:59hrs | 7 | by Bernard Chiketo
From the 404 to the Honda Fit
"KIDNAP, robbery and near rape", the newspaper headline screamed on 22 August. "Honda Fit Crew robs osiphatheleni," our sister paper The Chronicle's headline read on 27 August. In the ...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:48hrs | 4 | by Bruce Ndlovu
Harare investigates police who threw teargas at journalists
Harare City Council says it condemns any form of harassment on journalists and has instituted investigations into allegations that some of its municipal police officers may have in their individual ca...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 19:08hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Police fire teargas canister at journalists
263 Chat's Nigel Mugamu says members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police on Thursday fired a teargas canister at the headquarters of 263 Chat in Harare after the journalists filmed council police and ZRP ...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 14:46hrs | 8 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa deploys army in another 'Murambatsvina'
Zimbabwe appears headed for another social crisis as authorities have embarked on a widespread operation to destroy illegal structures in urban areas, reminiscent of the 2005 disastrous Operation Mura...Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 19:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Criminal gang hijacks Kudzanayi rank
Six alleged criminals yesterday set up an illegal cash office at Kudzanayi rank in Gweru, chased away council police and cashiers before collecting toll fees from commuter omnibus and bus operators. ...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gold panner dies in Bulawayo gravel site shaft collapse
AN illegal gold panner died after a shaft collapsed on him at the Municipal Gravel site located along Cecil Road in Bulawayo on Friday, police confirmed. "I can confirm that a man was found de...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 06:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cops bash MDC official
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance elections director, Henry Chimbiri, was seriously injured after he was caught in the crossfire and assaulted by Harare law enforcement agents pursuing illegal vendors on Friday...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 07:08hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Gweru vendors bow down to Joc blitz
ILLEGAL vendors in Gweru have piled pressure on council to regularise their operations following a blitz by the Joint Operations Command in conjunction with municipal police to flush them out of the c...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Khothama vendors turn alley into Poop Avenue
RESIDENTS at the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) owned flats Parkhurst and Lyndhurst are accusing Khothama informal traders of pooing and urinating at the alleys of their flats.The flats are locat...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 07:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
City of Mutare Mayor's political career vanishing
City of Mutare Mayor Tatenda Nhamarare who is a mayor through being voted by Zanu pf members also is on another mission to remove all MDC-T councillors who does not support him.This comes out ...Published: 09 Jan 2018 at 10:17hrs | 3 | by Rumbidzai Mlambo
Lacoste thugs terrorizing Bulawayo communities
Mthwakazi Republic Party has accused the Zanu PF Lacoste faction of harassing vendors in Bulawayo forcing them to attend a meeting at Davis Hall.Ina statement party president Mqondisi Moyo sai...Published: 30 Nov 2017 at 06:13hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Army exposed the police
Since the military took over the control of vital organs and reigns of the government's parastatals including the usurping powers from the police when hey carried their coup last week in order to puri...Published: 24 Nov 2017 at 07:14hrs | 2 | by Leonard Koni
City cop in trouble for spiking vehicle
A Mutare city cop who spiked a vehicle in the central business district causing damages worth $250 has been dragged before the courts facing malicious damage to property charges.City of Mutare...Published: 29 Sep 2017 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sex pests worry female tenants
RESIDENTS in this eastern border city are pointing fingers at immoral municipal police officers and meter readers who are demanding sexual favours from female tenants who fail to honour their dues in ...Published: 13 Jul 2017 at 15:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Use of spikes wreaks havoc
Zimbabwe Peace Project has said the use of spikes by the police and local authorities security is wrecking haoc in people's lives.ZPP said it is alleged that a Karoi woman died after she was r...Published: 18 May 2017 at 06:42hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Touts wreak havoc
TOUTS at Fourth Street bus terminus in Harare are wreaking havoc, assaulting and harassing travellers on the Harare-Mutare highway resulting in many losing valuables.On Wednesday, Benita G...Published: 08 Apr 2017 at 12:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Blitz drives out CBD food vendors
A blitz carried out by the Zimbabwe Republic Police and Harare Municipal Police on food vendors in Harare since Tuesday has seen most of them heeding the call by city authorities to stop selling f...Published: 21 Jan 2017 at 11:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
6 municipal cops bash Vendor
SIX municipal police officers from the Bulawayo City Council yesterday allegedly handcuffed a vendor, beat him up and stomped on his head until he became unconscious.The cops were carrying...Published: 02 Dec 2016 at 05:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
#NoToPoliceBrutality, BCC police should stop beating up vendors
Some people might think this is not Newsworthy but Bulawayo24 could not ignore this Facebook post by Human Right Defender and activist Bekezela Maduma Fuzwayo.What Fuzwayo witnessed toda...Published: 20 Jul 2016 at 22:16hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
PICTURES: Cash in transit vehicle clamped in Gweru
There is a thin line that separates dedication to duty and being overzealous.To say someone is overzealous might be regarded as unfair judgement but residents of Gweru had no choice but to...Published: 03 Mar 2016 at 20:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC cop blamed in kombi crash
A COMMUTER omnibus driver crashed his kombi through a shop window following a nasty struggle for the steering wheel with a Bulawayo municipal police officer, popularly known as uMakhokhoba.The...Published: 26 Feb 2016 at 05:41hrs | | by Whinsley Masara
Serial rapist on the run
POLICE have warned Bulawayo residents that there is a suspected serial rapist on the loose following attacks on two women within three days. The suspected rapist is said to have pounced on his first v...Published: 12 Feb 2016 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Nqobile Tshili
Gun shots near Mugabe's State House - WhatsApp update
Please note that Bulawayo24 does not edit WhatsApp updates. We publish them as sent by our readers and we do not disclose the sender's telephone number. ...Published: 10 Jan 2016 at 09:33hrs | | by Concerned Citizen
Council police beat up 'vendor'
A BULAWAYO man has been hospitalised following an alleged assault by Bulawayo municipal security guards after they mistook him for a vendor.The guards allegedly swooped on Brighton Madegwe, 25...Published: 14 Dec 2015 at 08:41hrs | 1 | by Whinsley Masara
Vendors are law abiding citizens- ZISO
The Zimbabwe Informal Sector's Organisation (ZISO) has warned the Harare municipality police that vendors are law abiding citizens who need respect as they go about their business to sustain their fam...Published: 15 Oct 2015 at 07:10hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Harare council police assault residents
Harare City Council police are reported to have assaulted residents in Budiriro 2 during the demolishion of of illegal houses.Zimbabwe Human Rights Lawyers Communications manager Kumbirai Mafu...Published: 03 Oct 2015 at 07:34hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Fingaz journalist arrested by Harare municipal police
THE Financial Gazette Staff Reporter, Andrew Kunambura, was on Friday arrested by overzealous Harare municipal police officers for taking pictures of the officers while arresting some vendors in H...Published: 21 Sep 2015 at 16:21hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Council police assault Kombi driver
A MUTARE Municipal Police allegedly battered a kombi driver, damaging his ear drum in the process.William Chifamba (39) denied the assault charges and was remanded out of custody to August 13...Published: 08 Aug 2015 at 08:19hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Harare vendors vow to invade CDB
Harare vendors have threatened to move back into the central business district following a sudden slump in business caused by the non-strategic location of the new vending sites.The majority o...Published: 04 Aug 2015 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Vendors manhandle Chiredzi councilor
Chiredzi Ward 3 Councillor Tarusenga Makamba was manhandled by vendors and commuter omnibus owners, accusing him and his fellow councillors of chasing them from their selling point at Nyore-Nyore, in ...Published: 12 Jul 2015 at 10:50hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Drama as woman fights council police
Business came to a halt in Gweru on Thursday afternoon when a woman took refuge under her vehicle to deter council officials from towing it away.Watching helplessly as your car is being to...Published: 19 Jun 2015 at 15:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwanda council police loot vendors wares in Phakama
Gwanda council police on Wednesday reportedly engaged in the looting of vendors wares on condition that they were operating at undesignated points.Gwanda resident Sichasisile Ndlovu posted...Published: 04 Jun 2015 at 06:39hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Prophet Magaya calls for calm
As the Kwekwe community and the nation at large come to terms with the horrific death of 11 people at a church service conducted by Prophet Walter Magaya, the popular preacher yesterday refused to bla...Published: 23 Nov 2014 at 10:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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