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NSSA, NBS drive affordable housing

Over the past three years, the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) has developed more than 1,700 residential stands, while its banking arm, the National Building Society (NBS), has constructed over 1,000 housing units, government off…

Published: 22 Aug 2025 at 09:44hrs | 257 | by Staff reporter

Mohadi to commission 37 new homes in Binga

Vice-President Kembo Mohadi will on Thursday commission 37 newly built houses in Nsungwale Village, Binga District, Matabeleland North Province, as part of a Government programme to permanently resettle families displaced by the devastatin…

Published: 31 Jul 2025 at 10:02hrs | 285 | by Staff reporter

Mzinyathini gardens housing project halted

Hundreds of home-seekers involved in the multi-million-dollar Mzinyathini Gardens housing project are facing uncertainty after the Umguza Rural District Council (RDC) ordered an immediate halt to all development works on the site, citing a…

Published: 11 May 2025 at 12:33hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

200 houses in Harare face demolition

Two hundred houses and properties, including two opulent mansions near the National Heroes Acre, were illegally built on land reserved for the Harare Drive expansion project and now face demolition, The Herald can exclusively reveal.Harare…

Published: 10 Mar 2025 at 08:30hrs | 763 | by Staff reporter

Harare launches murambatswina

The City of Harare launched a major demolition operation in Ridgeview, Belvedere on Thursday, destroying several properties that were built without proper approval. The operation left dozens of families homeless, as graders leveled houses …

Published: 08 Nov 2024 at 07:14hrs | 3652 | by Staff reporter

Zimta housing scheme for Matebeleland teachers

Forty-one teachers from the Matebeleland region are set to benefit from a new housing scheme launched by the Zimbabwe Teachers' Association (Zimta) as part of its non-monetary incentives for members.The initiative, aimed at enhancing the w…

Published: 09 Sep 2024 at 08:10hrs | 137 | by Staff reporter

Lying Ramaphosa apologises

President Cyril Ramaphosa has yielded to pressure from EFF leader Julius Malema and issued an apology to the residents of Alexandra for giving the impression in 2019 that his government would construct one million houses for them.On Thursd…

Published: 31 Aug 2024 at 21:35hrs | 1616 | by Staffreporter

City Council attaches 50 houses

The Harare City Council (HCC) has seized over 50 properties from residents and businesses that have defaulted on paying their monthly rates. More than 4,000 ratepayers with overdue balances exceeding 60 days have received court summonses a…

Published: 02 Jun 2024 at 09:00hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

More houses for Zimra officers

FINANCE, Economic Development and Investment Promotion Minister, Professor Mthuli, Ncube on Thursday officially commissioned a block of flats built for Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) workers deployed to Beitbridge.The Tsakani (Shangani…

Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 05:56hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter

Met Dept issues heavy rains alert

HEAVY rains are expected across much of the country for the next seven days from today to Wednesday next week, the Meteorological Services Department forecasts, as the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone combines with a cloud band moving in fr…

Published: 11 Jan 2024 at 05:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Only 30% of Bulawayo residents own houses

THE majority of Bulawayo residents live in rented houses amid revelations that only 30 percent are homeowners as the city council is struggling to clear the housing backlog of about 120 000 units.This is contained in the Zimbabwe National …

Published: 11 Jan 2024 at 05:12hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

Govt revises target from 220 000 to 1 million housing units by 2025

The government has revised from 220 000 to 1 million the target it had set to build housing units and related social amenities by 2025 following the tremendous progress that it has made across the country.Information, Publicity and Broadca…

Published: 11 May 2023 at 05:28hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

BCC transfers 2 000 houses to sitting tenants

The Bulawayo City Council has transferred close to 2 000 houses to sitting tenants under home ownership scheme following years of haggling over the issue.The 1 978 houses are in Iminyela, Mabutweni, Emganwini's Millennium section, Makokoba…

Published: 09 May 2023 at 06:12hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Mpilo doctors' quarters rehab complete

GOVERNMENT has completed the rehabilitation of Mpilo Central Hospital doctors' quarters that were razed by fire last year.Ministry of Health and Child Care secretary Jasper Chimedza told Southern Eye yesterday that the hostels would be com…

Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 05:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

60% of population owns houses

Almost 60 percent of Zimbabwean households own their home and more than 83 percent of Zimbabweans now live in modern houses and flats, showing both the high levels of home ownership and the rapid improvement in housing quality as most rura…

Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Gated communities give Bulawayo new face

FORGET about buying a housing stand, townhouses are the in-thing particularly for property developers building homes in Bulawayo's eastern suburbs.Modern classic standardised houses are being built in the city's eastern suburbs with archit…

Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter

Raw sewage flows into 50 Old Magwegwe houses

More than 50 households in Old Magwegwe suburb in Bulawayo are sitting on a health time-bomb as raw sewage from burst pipes continues to flow into their homes thereby exposing them to diseases such as cholera and typhoid. Disgruntled resid…

Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 07:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

ZPC set to construct 600 houses in Hwange

THE Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) and Hwange Electricity Supply Company (Hesco) have stepped up efforts to construct over 600 houses in Mpumalanga Phase 7, an area allocated to them by Hwange Local Board (HLB).This was confirmed last week b…

Published: 26 Apr 2021 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabweans among top property buyers in SA

In spite of a crippling foreign currency crisis ravaging the Zimbabwean economy, locals are finding the hard currency to buy real estate in South Africa.Interestingly, when it comes to splurging on property down South, Zimbabweans are in t…

Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 14:06hrs | 1 | by Fin24

New suburb for Esigodini

UMZINGWANE Rural District Council is in the process of getting suitable contractors for its new suburb in Esigodini, which is set to help ease accommodation problems in the mining town at an affordable cost.The suburb, Mlanjeni is the coun…

Published: 23 Jul 2017 at 13:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo residents to resume march against council

RESIDENTS of Sidojiwe low-cost housing scheme in Bulawayo have blasted the city council for allegedly demanding exorbitant rates and refusing to give them title deeds to houses which were built for them by an Australian donor agency.The re…

Published: 01 May 2017 at 12:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Zanu PF not buying votes through residential stands, Kasukuwere

Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere flatly denied that Zanu PF is rolling out residential stands to home seekers  in a bid to buy votes from the electorate. In a televised parliamentary session today, MDC-T vice presiden…

Published: 07 Dec 2016 at 13:40hrs | 1 | by Mary Charamba

300 000 Zimbabweans to get houses countrywide

GOVERNMENT will this year avail serviced stands, construct new flats and renovate old flats and housing units in Bulawayo to meet modern standards under the "Own Your Own Home" housing scheme which will see 300 000 housing units being avai…

Published: 03 Jan 2016 at 10:47hrs | | by Staff reporter

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