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Trio in soup for stealing city council property
Three men appeared before Mutare Magistrates Court charged with multiple counts of theft and unlawful entry involving property belonging to Mutare City Council.Tinashe Makonese, 22, together w...Published: 31 May 2025 at 13:51hrs | 95 | by Staff reporter
Council boss blows thousands on bling
Chiredzi Council, which is struggling to deliver standard services to its 300 000plus residents, is in the eye of a storm following revelations that the local authority could be pampering its executiv...Published: 16 Apr 2024 at 17:56hrs | 98 | by Staff reporter
Massive rot hits RDCs
SEVERAL rural district councils (RDCs) across the country have come under the spotlight amid allegations of rot following audits by relevant authorities.The Zimbabwe's Anti-Corruption Commissi...Published: 25 Mar 2024 at 05:33hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents demanding their power station back
Some Bulawayo residents are demanding that the Bulawayo Thermal Power Station be handed back to the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) instead of being decommissioned.This came out during an engageme...Published: 24 Jan 2024 at 19:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa reportedly eager to cut official Rufaro opening ribbon
ANTI-Riot police officers were Thursday ordered to stop Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume's commissioning of Rufaro Stadium, with unconfirmed reports indicating President Emmerson Mnangagwa was planning on do...Published: 10 Aug 2023 at 19:18hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Suspended Gweru town clerk faces car theft charge
GWERU mayor Hamutendi Kombayi yesterday ordered a senior council official to file a vehicle theft report against suspended acting town clerk Vakai Chikwekwe."We need to make a police report on...Published: 20 Apr 2023 at 16:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls corruption jolts July Moyo into action
LOCAL Government and Public Works minister July Moyo has recommended the Victoria Falls City Council to come up with a robust housing policy whose absence is fuelling the rampant illegal allocation of...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 16:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mbare violence signals worse to come ahead of 2023 elections
VIOLENT clashes between marauding Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) and Zanu-PF youths at the weekend left a trail of destruction at vending sites near Mupedzanhamo Complex, one of the busiest area...Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF secretary steals council property
ZANU PF secretary for Mazowe ward eight was dragged to Concession magistrates courts yesterday together with his two accomplices....Published: 09 Sep 2022 at 22:01hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zacc probes abuse of devolution funds
DEVOLUTION funds are open to abuse and plunder by unscrupulous institutions and individuals who can easily turn them into feeding troughs at the expense of communities, NewsDay has established....Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zacc pounces on councils
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is reportedly targeting local authorities ahead of the 2023 elections in a bid to weed out corrupt elements.Yesterday, Zacc pounced on Guruve chi...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Uproar as recalled Gweru mayor clings to luxury car
GWERU residents this week came out guns blazing, amid reports that former mayor Josiah Makombe, who was recalled by the Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC, is refusing to hand over to council a high-powered Toy...Published: 29 Jan 2022 at 14:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Offensive' King Lobengula and Nehanda mural erased
OVER the course of this weekend, Bulawayo woke up to a mural of King Lobengula and Mbuya Nehanda in the City Centre and after gaining traction on social media, the artwork has been erased by City Coun...Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 16:56hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
Councillor pays $750 for rent in two years
A BULAWAYO councillor reportedly leased a council property in 2019 which is fully guarded by council security and to date has only paid $750.Further, despite added costs of securing the ...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:13hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Thousands face eviction from council farm
Harare City Council has secured a court order to evict thousands of families who were settled illegally on its Crowborough Farm's Lot 2 of Parkridge Estate by land barons.The matter has been w...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:16hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
House sale scandal rocks council
A Harare City Council junior employee in the housing department, who is on suspension over allegations of abuse of office and corrupt parcelling out of stands, has become the owner of an expensive low...Published: 09 Aug 2021 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's fired ally allocated cheap industrial stand by Bulawayo City Council
THE uproar that resulted in former Bulawayo deputy mayor, Mr Tinashe Kambarami attempting to bulldoze a full council meeting despite his recalling has been exposed as a "mere smokescreen", as during t...Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 19:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Court clears Beitbridge town engineer of theft charges
Beitbridge Municipality's director of engineering and works Mr Douglas Siphuma has been acquitted by a local magistrate court on charges of stealing fencing wire worth $14 850 from his employer....Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 06:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mayor defends mansion allocation
BULAWAYO mayor Solomon Mguni yesterday said residents should not blame him after council proposed to relocate him from his Nkulumane house to a council property in Burnside.Mguni said resident...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 07:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mayor's relocation angers Bulawayo residents
BULAWAYO residents have lambasted a council resolution to relocate Mayor Councillor Solomon Mguni from his Nkulumane house to a council property in Burnside, describing it as an insult to the people w...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 07:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo pampers Mayor with double storey mansion
IN a first for Bulawayo, the city council is set to pamper the Mayor, Councillor Solomon Mguni, with a mayoral mansion located in the exclusive Hornung Golf Club in the leafy suburb of Burnside, Sunda...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 06:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Council splashes US$480k on chefs' cars
CHIREDZI Rural District Council (RDC) has pampered its six top executives with top-of-the-range Toyota Hilux GD-6 double-cab vehicles at a time service delivery has plunged to unprecedented levels....Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:23hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Council shuts water treatment plant
Harare City Council (HCC) has announced a temporary shutdown of Morton Jaffray and Warren Control waterworks treatment plants until Sunday, forcing many residents in the capital to experience a dry we...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 06:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Fired Rural District Council CEO refuses to surrender vehicle
Tongogara Rural District Council CEO, Brian Rufasha who was fired last week has refused to surrender a council Toyota Hilux that he was using as his official vehicle.Rufasha was fired on Novem...Published: 28 Nov 2020 at 17:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Corrupt councils need cleansing
AS the umbrella organ playing the oversight role over the way Zimbabwean local councils discharge their mandate for service delivery, the Zimbabwe National Organisation of Associations of Residents Tr...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:02hrs | | by Shepherd Chikomba
Nkayi District Council withdraws order to suspend CEO
NKAYI Rural District Council (RDC) has withdrawn its application at the High Court in which it sought an order interdicting its suspended chief executive officer Mr Zimbabwe Ndlovu from accessing coun...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 07:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cry our beloved 'Sunshine City'
In the mid-1990s, I left my village in Guruve to work in Harare and it was a city of bliss and flamboyance. My uncle Obedience Masakara, who was streetwise aat the time, took me around the city centre...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 06:56hrs | 2 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Kambarami suspends Bulawayo Town Clerk, trying to capture City council
Acting Bulawayo mayor Tinashe Kambarami has reportedly suspended the city's Town Clerk Christopher Dube on allegations of misappropriating council funds.In a letter dated July 11, 2019, Cllr K...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 17:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mayor gives up on bottle store bid
BULAWAYO Mayor, Councillor Solomon Mguni has given up on a controversial bid to lease a council-owned bottle store amid growing pressure from concerned residents on the logic of awarding him the lease...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo councillors divided over mayor
BULAWAYO councillors are reportedly divided regarding a recent application by the Mayor, Councillor Solomon Mguni to rent a council-owned bottle store, after the matter failed to be deliberated at Wed...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police, courts corrupt, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has said the country's institutions such as police, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and the judiciary are so corrupt so much that it is a herculean task to fight ...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 11:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC nominates corrupt former councillor for Chairman
MDC Bulawayo Province has alleged nominated for Provincial Chairmanship former Ward 7 Councillor James Sithole who was once convicted of abusing public office and stealing funds before being pardoned ...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 10:40hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Councillors scramble for heavily discounted stands
COUNCILLORS in Bulawayo have started getting land with most of them identifying residential stands in some of the city's affluent suburbs, Sunday News can exclusively reveal.The scheme meant t...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 22:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fifa orders Dembare to pay $17,000
IT just keeps getting worse for ailing Premiership giants Dynamos, with the ghost of Christian Joel Epoupa, who left them in acrimonious circumstances earlier this year, returning to haunt them ...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 05:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Moyo's caretaker commissions illegal'
Commissions set up to run local authorities by Local Government minister July Moyo are illegal and should be abolished, constitutional and local government experts have said.This comes after M...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 15:43hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt appoints commissioners to run local authorities
Government has appointed commissioners to run local authorities countrywide to avert a leadership vacuum as the newly-elected councillors are yet to take oath of office.In Harare, government a...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 07:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Trial dates set for Chombo, Chipanga
HARARE magistrate Victoria Mashamba has set July 26 as the trial date for former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo and three ex-Zanu PF youth leaders − Kudzanai Chipanga, Innocent Hamandishe and Math...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 13:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chombo gets passport back
Former Home Affairs Minister Ignatius Chombo was on Tuesday given back his passport to enable him to travel to South Africa for medical attention. He will have the passport until June 13. The ...Published: 17 May 2018 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chombo wants passport for SA trip
Former Home Affairs Minister Ignatius Chombo, who is facing a slew of corruption charges and was in South Africa recently for medical attention, intends to apply for the release of his passport again ...Published: 11 May 2018 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiredzi town chair up for murder
CHIREDZI - The chair for the Zanu PF led Chiredzi town council is in the eye of the storm after he was implicated in a murder cases that occurred more than seven years ago. Francis Moyo (43) is allege...Published: 05 Mar 2018 at 09:24hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Irene Zindi faces ZACC probe
MUTARE City Council has resolved to rope in the services of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) in a matter in which Mutasa South legislator Irene Zindi is alleged to have corruptly acquire...Published: 06 Feb 2018 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zindi faces ZACC probe over council property
MUTARE City Council has resolved to rope in the services of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) in a matter in which Mutasa South legislator Irene Zindi is alleged to have corruptly acquire...Published: 06 Feb 2018 at 01:22hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Sheriff attach Harare Council property over storm drain accident
The Sheriff from the Harare office a Mr Karasa has successfully carried out an attachment in execution in a case of Sihle Ncube (the Forum's client) and the Harare City Council for council negligence....Published: 25 Jan 2018 at 06:59hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Chombo co-accused's application dismissed
HARARE magistrate, Rumbidzai Mugwagwa yesterday ruled that two Local Government ministry employees, Rejoice Pazvakavambwa and Lazarus Chimba, accused of illegally facilitating the transfer of Harare C...Published: 09 Jan 2018 at 06:04hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
D-Day for Chombo
Former Finance Minister Ignatius Chombo, who is facing a slew of corruption charges, will know his fate today when the High Court makes a ruling on his appeal for bail.This comes amid reports ...Published: 06 Dec 2017 at 05:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chombo, Chipanga to spend weekend in custody
EX-Finance Minister Ignatius Chombo will spend the weekend in custody after the High Court deferred his bail hearing to next week because of the magistrates' bad handwriting.Chombo, who is fac...Published: 02 Dec 2017 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
2 more arrested in Chombo case
Two more people - the deputy director of valuations and estate management in the Ministry of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Rejoice Pazvakavambwa (43) and the registrar of valuers...Published: 01 Dec 2017 at 04:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Councils stripped of borrowing powers
GOVERNMENT has suspended granting councils borrowing powers to save them from the humiliation of having their properties attached when they fail to repay, Secretary for Local Government, Public Works ...Published: 25 Sep 2017 at 23:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dembare set for another boardroom victory as PSL goes rogue
The Premier Soccer League (PSL) has referred the abandoned Castle Lager PSL match between Chapungu and Dynamos played at Ascot Stadium in Gweru on Sunday 18 June to the PSL Disciplinary Committee....Published: 24 Jun 2017 at 15:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mbare violence has origins in commercial trading space allocation
Zimbabwe Peace Project has claimed that violence in Mbare Harare has its origins in the manner in which commercial trading space is allocated and leased by the bureaucrats in the Harare City Council (...Published: 26 May 2017 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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