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Bulawayo fails to avail land for development
Bulawayo City Council is facing a deepening housing crisis after failing for more than a year to secure contractors to develop new housing stands in the city. Despite multiple attempts and repeated ad...Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 14:17hrs | 133 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to conduct nationwide assessment of illegal settlements
The Zimbabwean government has announced plans to undertake a comprehensive assessment of illegal settlements across the country, with the goal of regularising some areas in alignment with national hou...Published: 31 May 2025 at 14:02hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe plans to construct high-rise flats in rural district centres
The Government of Zimbabwe is set to embark on an ambitious plan to construct high-rise flats at rural district centres, with initial construction already underway in Mashonaland East province, accord...Published: 24 Apr 2025 at 07:26hrs | 199 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo housing waiting list balloons
A Bulawayo councillor has proposed converting certain flats to homeownership in an effort to alleviate the city's growing housing backlog. The suggestion was made on Wednesday during a full council me...Published: 05 Apr 2025 at 12:28hrs | 444 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's housing waiting list surges to over 130,000
The housing waiting list in Bulawayo has reached a staggering 130,000 as of November last year, slightly rising from 129,000 in the previous month. This development highlights the escalating demand fo...Published: 13 Jan 2025 at 07:21hrs | 312 | by Staff reporter
Harare begins mass demolition
The Harare City Council is set to launch a city-wide demolition campaign on Thursday, targeting structures built without approval on land designated for public amenities. The exercise, which will enfo...Published: 01 Dec 2024 at 08:47hrs | 19046 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa commissions US$18,5m Bulawayo students' complex
President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday officially commissioned the state-of-the-art Bulawayo Students Accommodation City Complex, a landmark project in Matsheumhlope suburb valued at US$18.5 million. ...Published: 16 Nov 2024 at 14:22hrs | 352 | by Staff reporter
Russia seeks labour from Zim to boost human capital
Russia is looking to Zimbabwe to bolster its labor force, particularly in the construction sector, as it experiences rapid growth despite Western sanctions. The call for skilled labor emerged from dis...Published: 06 Nov 2024 at 06:49hrs | 32580 | by Staff reporter
Scathing indictment of Harare City Council's corruption and mismanagement
The Harare City Council (HCC) has been exposed as nothing short of a cesspool of corruption, gross mismanagement, and unchecked incompetence since 2017, according to a damning Commission of Inquiry le...Published: 11 Sep 2024 at 19:34hrs | 364 | by Dereck Goto
ZBC, ex-workers fight over apartments
THE Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) has given its former employees a 90-day ultimatum to vacate some apartments they have been staying at for decades to pave way for "renovations."The ...Published: 15 Mar 2024 at 07:15hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Harare Council warns of third flooding in Budiriro, Kuwadzana areas
Harare City Council has issued a warning about a potential third round of flooding in the heavily affected areas of Budiriro and Kuwadzana.This alert follows the first wave on Unity Day, durin...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 05:58hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Harare families evacuated from flooded areas
More than 100 families have been relocated to temporary shelters due to flash floods displacing residents in the Budiriro and Kuwadzana suburbs of Harare.Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume has urged th...Published: 30 Dec 2023 at 08:31hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe blow as Britain scraps dependent visa for migrant workers
Zimbabweans hoping to migrate to the United Kingdom to take up better paying job opportunities under the rich country's health and social care sector have been dealt a blow after authorities in London...Published: 05 Dec 2023 at 05:44hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Former MDC senator blasts Mthuli Ncube over wealth tax
FORMER MDC senator for Matabeleland North Chief Ndlovu has blasted the Finance Minister over the wealth tax he imposed during the announcement of the 2024 national budget."I want to believe th...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 09:56hrs | 14 | by Stephen Jakes
Lovendale: A forgotten township
Have you ever heard of Lovendale Township? It's a small community located just 17 kilometres from the Bulawayo CBD, under Umguza RDC. Built in 2014, Lovendale Township is a relatively new development ...Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 11:01hrs | 261 | by Mncedisi Nyathi
The poor are on their own in Zimbabwe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa was all smiles as he officially opened the privately-developed Aspindale apartments in Harare. His infrastructure programme - housing for all - seemed to be all in order y...Published: 20 Feb 2023 at 05:30hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Mnangagwa's govt promises 220 000 houses by 2025
NATIONAL Housing and Social Amenities minister Daniel Garwe yesterday said government was adopting new house construction technologies to address the national housing backlog that stands at two millio...Published: 16 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
'We can only afford 232 houses, not 300 000'
HOUSING Amenities minister Daniel Garwe yesterday said government had budgeted to build less than 250 houses this year, indirectly admitting to selling the public a dummy when it pledged 300 000 annua...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe housing crisis laid bare
ZIMBABWE is facing a housing crisis that has left nearly half of its urban population of almost 5,7 million people living in rented accommodation, while the national housing waiting list stands at ove...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's urban sprawl exposes housing crisis
Ndaba Dube, a Bulawayo resident, says he built himself a home on a small piece of land after the authorities kept him on the housing waiting list for more than two decades.The land he chose is...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 08:16hrs | 3 | by Ignatius Banda
Govt pledges to address border posts housing crisis
GOVERNMENT yesterday said it would put in place measures to ensure the construction of adequate staff houses at border posts after MPs recently toured the country's entry points and found the staff ho...Published: 05 Aug 2021 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga must crack the whip!
THE government last week set up a Cabinet Committee on Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management to bring sanity and order in urban areas by deregistering housing cooperatives being run by corrup...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 18:19hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Who Owns England?
Who Owns England? The question sounds oblique, when one considers the country's documented long history of "civilisation". One would think that, by now, this question should have long been settled. Ye...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:33hrs | | by Ranga Mataire
Business opportunities in Zimbabwe that will make more millionaires in 2018
The term "millionaire" is taking on a new meaning in Zimbabweans abroad. It's no longer just about the size of your bank account; any shady politician, corrupt bureaucrat, or unscrupulous busi...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 06:41hrs | 12 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Access to housing remains a challenge in Zimbabwe
Access to housing stands from local authorities at affordable prices is still a struggle many Zimbabweans are faced with.Banks have been called upon to assist local authorities with finance as...Published: 15 Aug 2017 at 20:33hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Residents fume over water charges
Unit L residents in Seke, Chitungwiza are a bitter community as they complained that the council was charging them for water yet they are not getting any running precious liquiid from the councl....Published: 22 Sep 2016 at 07:12hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe ranked number one in housing cooperatives - Zanu-PF Minister
Despite the alarming housing crisis in Zimbabwe - Small to Medium Enterprises Minister Sithembiso Nyoni has claimed that the country is ranked number one in the issue of housing cooperatives.S...Published: 28 Jul 2016 at 06:49hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Teachers riled by Govt's attempt at 'raping' them
We the Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe are riled by the government's shameful attempt at raping teachers and hoodwinking them into accepting shift in their pay dates.What is clear and must be...Published: 27 Jun 2016 at 16:58hrs | | by RTUZ
Kasukuwere must stop his madness
While Zimbabwe is on a charm offensive aimed at convincing the international community to support Zimbabwe's debt relief strategy and attract new funding, at home the actions of the ZANU PF government...Published: 25 Apr 2016 at 14:33hrs | | by Jacob Mafume - PDP National Spokesperson
Statement by the Gwanda Residents Association on water and housing crisis in the town
On Saturday 21 February 2015, the Municipality of Gwanda invited residents to a public meeting purportedly to discuss the water crisis faced by the town for the last 18 months.We would like to...Published: 26 Feb 2015 at 08:55hrs | | by Bekezela Maduma Fuzwayo Spokesperson Gwanda Residents Association
Former civil servants live like squatters
Over 200 families residing in appalling community blocks in the city's oldest suburb of Mtapa, have accused government of neglecting their housing crisis since 1980.A visit to the community bl...Published: 07 Feb 2015 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Don't blame squatters, says Tsvangirai
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai says the government is clueless about solving Zimbabwe's housing crisis.Speaking in Epworth, a shanty suburb in Harare, yesterday - where government is demo...Published: 30 Jan 2015 at 17:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government geared to implement Zim-Asset
The recent launch of the National Housing Delivery Programme by Cde Ignatius Chombo, the Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing is a reflection of Government's sincerity i...Published: 12 Nov 2014 at 08:56hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Govt to roll out Murambatsvina part 2 in two weeks
Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo has revealed that a nation wide demolition of illegal settlements in Zimbabwe is expected to start soon in Chitungwiza and Seke communal lands in two weeks ti...Published: 31 Oct 2013 at 13:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
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