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BCC approves building plans valued at over US$3m
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has approved building plans worth over US$3 million for May 2025, reflecting a slight decrease in construction activity compared to the previous month. This is according to...Published: 19 Jul 2025 at 09:08hrs | 171 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa directs completion of unfinished projects
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has instructed the rapid completion of all unfinished projects across Zimbabwe's 10 provinces to ensure they contribute meaningfully to national development as the country...Published: 22 May 2025 at 10:09hrs | 359 | by Staff reporter
Villagers dragged to court for resisting eviction
Thirty-five villagers from Warwick Farm in Zvimba were denied bail on Monday when they appeared before Harare Magistrate Apollonia Marutya, facing charges of inciting public violence in relation to a ...Published: 05 Feb 2025 at 11:57hrs | 124 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe targets 1 million houses by 2025
Zimbabwe is on track to achieve an ambitious target of one million houses by 2025, as part of the Second Republic's commitment to ensuring decent shelter for all citizens. This milestone comes after t...Published: 04 Dec 2024 at 06:36hrs | 161 | by Staff reporter
Call for more arrests to stamp out corruption
Bulawayo is facing a corruption scandal within its city council, with land developers revealing that they have long been forced to pay bribes to city councillors to secure contracts. The allegations c...Published: 24 Nov 2024 at 10:09hrs | 151 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF title deed bait misfires
The ruling ZANU-PF party's election pledge to regularise informal settlements is progressing slowly, with only 11,000 title deeds issued in Harare's Epworth suburb since the start of 2023, according t...Published: 01 Nov 2024 at 06:49hrs | 1097 | 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....Published: 09 Sep 2024 at 08:10hrs | 136 | by Staff reporter
Sprouting Gweru suburbs are cholera hotspots
SPROUTING residential suburbs in Gweru have become cholera hotspots as the areas lack proper water and sanitation facilities, a senior council official has said.In his address at an ordinary c...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 18:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare, Chitungwiza floods a man-made disaster
The incessant rains that pounded the country in the past week have exposed a big problem that has been allowed to fester in Harare and Chitungwiza, which requires decisive action to save lives....Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 12:57hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Court acquits Umzingwane chief executive
UMZINGWANE Rural District Council chief executive Ndumiso Mpofu was on Wednesday last week acquitted at the close of the State's case where he was being charged with criminal abuse of office.M...Published: 27 Nov 2023 at 04:54hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa misses out as Beitbridge renames suburbs, streets
BEITBRIDGE Municipality has completed the process of renaming streets, suburbs and business centres in line with its modernisation drive.The exercise which involved the consultation of residents a...Published: 18 Jul 2023 at 06:19hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
74 estate agents blacklisted over dodgy deals
The Estate Agents Council of Zimbabwe (EACZ) has blacklisted 74 real estate companies operating in parts of the country for failure to register with the council and crimes such as fleecing unsuspectin...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 19:51hrs | 88 | by Staff reporter
Machaya acquitted
FORMER Midlands Provincial Affairs Minister Jason Machaya and provincial planning officer Chaisayanyerwa Chibururu who recently completed their 48 months imprisonment term for criminal abuse of office...Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
New housing deal for civil servants
GOVERNMENT is partnering the private sector to provide housing stands to civil servants through a system whereby it sells land to property developers at discounted rates and then it is given 10 percen...Published: 10 Apr 2023 at 07:27hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Local Govt ministry director up for abuse of office
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has arrested a director in the Local Government ministry, Mlindeli Sayi for alleged criminal abuse of office.Matters surrounding his arrest are t...Published: 28 Feb 2023 at 07:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
9 000 housing, commercial stands for Bulawayo
PROPERTY development and management firm, Radar Holdings Limited, has initiated a project to service close to 9 000 residential and commercial stands in Bulawayo as part of private sector efforts to c...Published: 25 Oct 2022 at 06:02hrs | 1 | 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 ...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter
Forex only for housing stands for Bulawayo
THE Bulawayo City Council has availed stands in Pumula South that are exclusively sold in foreign currency, with interested individuals being given six months to settle the payment or risk losing them...Published: 24 Jul 2022 at 10:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo avails 5 000 stands, another 5 000 in Masterplan
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has availed more than 5 000 residential stands in various suburbs with another 5 000 outlined in its master plan as part of efforts to clear the city's housing backlog,...Published: 08 Jul 2022 at 07:35hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter
Gweru to relocate residents in wetlands
GWERU City Council is planning to resettle people who were allocated stands in wetlands at Mkoba 21 housing project, a senior council official has said.Acting town clerk Vakai Chikwekwe told S...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:45hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimra border officers probed for building mansions, flats in Harare
BEITBRIDGE Border Post, the country's busiest inland port of entry, has been identified as the country's major corruption hot spot, with some Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officials under investi...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:44hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimra flags Beitbridge as corruption hotspot
BEITBRIDGE Border Post, the country's busiest inland port of entry, has been identified as the country's major corruption hot spot, with some Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officials under investi...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:41hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Ex-minister Mupfumira seeks High Court review
FORMER Public Service minister Priscah Mupfumira has asked the High Court to suspend her trial pending a review of magistrate Ngoni Nduna's decision to put her on trial.Mupfumira is accused of...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira put to her defence
HARARE magistrate Ngoni Nduna yesterday ruled that former Public Service minister Priscah Mupfumira should be put to her defence in a case where she faces a charge of criminal abuse of office....Published: 23 Mar 2022 at 05:35hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Gweru housing backlog balloons
GWERU's housing waiting list has ballooned to over 35 000 at a time when council has said it does not have residential stands on offer, Southern Eye has established.A 2021 report on housing in...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 05:45hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge runs dry
BEITBRIDGE town has gone for three days without water due to a burst pipe, forcing residents to resort to unhygienic sources of water.Town clerk Loud Ramakgapola told Southern Eye that the pip...Published: 04 Nov 2021 at 06:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Smelly Dube rehabilitates roads
A GWERU land developer, River Valley Properties, is complementing council efforts in the rehabilitation of roads and drainage in a bid to minimise the effects of flash floods that usually hit the city...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:22hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zacc arrests raise eyebrows
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is in the eye of a storm after it summoned four Midlands provincial government officials over charges that are already before the courts. The case has no...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 09:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Toponymic identity in Bulawayo and the need to recognise Black women
Histories of many states and nations in the world are generally histories of men and in some cases a few outstanding women, seemingly those whose absence in the historical narrative may discredit hist...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 14:42hrs | 6 | by Staff
Smelly Dube's trial stopped
GWERU regional magistrate Mr Christopher Maturure has stopped the criminal trial of River Valley Properties chief executive officer Smelly Dube, who was facing US$9 million fraud allegations, pending ...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 17:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
We have stopped prosecution of Smelly Dube - Gweru magistrate's court
Gweru Magistrate Christopher Maturure has accented to the High Court ruling granting Smelly Dube a stay of prosecution in a case in which the businesswoman is facing corruption involving $9 million....Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 22:44hrs | 6 | by Simbarashe Sithole
High Court stops Smelly Dube trial
THE High Court has stopped the criminal trial of River Valley Properties chief executive officer Smelly Dube, who is facing US$9 million fraud, pending a determination by the same court of her applica...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 06:22hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Houses encroaching into Joshua Nkomo Airport
LAND developers in Bulawayo are reportedly encroaching into the land reserved for expansion of Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Airport land, Southern Eye has learnt.This was revealed in a recent report b...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Luxury car purchases rile Gweru residents
MRS Naome Mashoko is a resident of Mkoba 6 suburb in Gweru and for the past two weeks, she has been forced to walk a long distance to fetch water from a borehole at Mkoba Six Shopping Centre. ...Published: 15 Mar 2021 at 05:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Smelly Dube denied bail over US$9 million land deals
PROMINENT Gweru businesswoman and property developer - Smelly Dube - who is the chief executive officer of River Valley Properties - has been remanded in custody to Tuesday after a Gweru court ruled t...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 07:47hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Over 7 000 stands for Bulawayo
THE Bulawayo City Council is set to avail more than 7 000 stands as the local authority steps up efforts to ease accommodation woes in the city.This comes at a time the local authority is work...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 07:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Govt bans land allocation in Midlands
GOVERNMENT has with immediate effect banned the allocation of residential stands in the Midlands province following revelations that 25 out of 100 dysfunctional settlements in the province were sittin...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 06:58hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
241 new houses for Beitbridge
A PROPERTY developer in Beitbridge, Alpha International Land Developers has struck a deal with a local bank to construct 241 houses in the border town.The project will include the construction...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 08:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF playing losing game in Harare'
TENSION is rising over the land issue in Harare, Chitungwiza and other major cities across the country with Zanu-PF accusing the opposition MDC Alliance of running down urban areas as well as being th...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 12:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF land baron Chivhanga in dramatic 'catch and release'
ZANU-PF Chitungwiza youth leader Taurai Chivhanga was last week involved in a dramatic ‘catch and release', when he was arrested and released with no charge under unclear circumstances on the next d...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 20:13hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF disowns housing co-operatives
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday said it was supportive of government and Harare City Council's proposed demolition of illegal structures, including those under co-operatives led by party members....Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 15:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
NPA moves to block Machaya appeal
THE National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has filed a notice of opposition at the High Court challenging jailed former Midlands Provincial Affairs Minister Jason Machaya's application for leave to appe...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Machaya in fresh bid to get out of jail
JAILED former Midlands Provincial Affairs Minister Jason Machaya has filed an application for leave to appeal at the Supreme Court after his application for bail pending appeal against conviction and ...Published: 04 Feb 2021 at 05:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Councils exposed by recent heavy rains
This cropping season's heavy rains have exposed the shortcomings of most local authorities that have been allocating home seekers stands in wetlands. Some of the culprits are land barons that ...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jason Machaya's freedom bid dismissed
JAILED former Midlands Provincial Affairs Minister Jason Machaya had his application for bail pending appeal against conviction and sentence dismissed by the High Court while his accomplice, provincia...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge municipality hit by mass resignations
BEITBRIDGE municipality has been hit by mass resignations of key staff amid allegations of conflict of interest and abuse of office.It is understood that despite having been swept under the ca...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Developer swindles govt of over $2,5m
FOUR company officials from Savanna Land Developers appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court at the weekend on charges of swindling government of over $2,5 million.The quartet, who comprised G...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 05:10hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Stern warning to State land sellers
All those invading State, council and private land and creating bogus housing cooperatives are criminals that deserve to be arrested and prosecuted for fraud, corruption and land invasions, despite th...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gweru suspends corrupt workers
TWO Gweru City Council (GCC) employees have been suspended for allegedly illegally subcontracting themselves to provide services to private land developers. Town clerk, Ms Elizabeth Gwat...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 08:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chombo implicated in Midlands land scam
FORMER Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo has been implicated in the irregular allocation of State land to private developers in the Midlands province.Cecilia Chitiyo, the former Midlan...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 16:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
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