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BCC collects US$2,000 in environment fines
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has collected more than US$2,600 from environmental fines while still being owed over US$3,300, according to a new report from the council's Parks Section detailing int...Published: 18 Jun 2025 at 07:33hrs | 404 | by Staff reporter
Harare fails to procure tar, patches roads with soil
The City of Harare (CoH) has been without tar for over a year, forcing municipal workers to patch roads using soil and rubble, a stark indicator of the worsening state of basic service delivery in the...Published: 13 Jun 2025 at 06:54hrs | 696 | by Staff reporter
Chinese miner rehabilitates BCC roads
Haulin Quarry Mine, a Chinese-owned mining company operating in Pumula, Bulawayo, has joined forces with local construction company ZADA to rehabilitate some of the city's most damaged roads. The init...Published: 24 May 2025 at 10:57hrs | 343 | by Staff reporter
7 injured in Binga road accident
Seven people were injured in a terrifying accident on Saturday night when a commuter omnibus, travelling near Chilila in Binga, developed a mechanical fault and rolled backwards on a slope. The vehicl...Published: 28 Apr 2025 at 13:39hrs | 767 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Crumbling Roads: Where is the money going?
Zimbabwe's roads are in a state of disrepair, and people are dying because of it. Potholes large enough to swallow cars, faded markings that turn highways into death traps at night, and crumbling brid...Published: 20 Mar 2025 at 21:48hrs | 1041 | by Vusani Magwala
Bulawayo reveals road rehabilitation plan
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has requested authorization to utilize part of its allocation from the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) for the procurement of tools, plant, and equipment...Published: 14 Mar 2025 at 06:52hrs | 1874 | by Staff reporter
Gweru City Council under fire for US$155,000 mayoral vehicle purchase
The cash-strapped Gweru City Council (GCC) has ignited outrage among residents and ratepayers by purchasing a US$155,000 mayoral luxury vehicle, a Land Cruiser Prado, amid pressing service delivery is...Published: 07 Mar 2025 at 06:57hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge RDC starts road repairs
The Beitbridge Rural District Council (RDC) has embarked on a significant road rehabilitation initiative to repair and upgrade infrastructure damaged by torrential rains. This move is expected to impr...Published: 22 Nov 2024 at 06:59hrs | 77 | by Sgtaff reporter
TTI Boss Lizwe Mabuza: The Philanthropic Visionary Driving Bulawayo's Social Responsibility Agenda
In an era where corporate social responsibility (CSR) is often reduced to buzzwords and token gestures, one man stands as a testament to genuine commitment towards community upliftment. Lizwe Mabuza, ...Published: 16 Nov 2024 at 20:08hrs | 3740 | by Mandla Ndlovu
One-stop-shop for Victoria Falls road upgrade
The Zimbabwean government has established a one-stop-shop to streamline coordination between key stakeholders and expedite the finalisation of a concession agreement for the rehabilitation of the Beit...Published: 30 Oct 2024 at 07:54hrs | 1169 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ranked among scariest countries to drive in
Zimbabwe has been identified as the third scariest country in the world to drive in, according to a recent survey conducted by Scrap Car Comparison, a UK-based guide website. Scoring 6.9 out of 10, Zi...Published: 24 Oct 2024 at 08:06hrs | 2877 | by Staff reporter
Bad Zimbabwe road users to repair damages
Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister, Felix Mhona, has warned road users, particularly mining and brick-moulding companies, that those responsible for damaging newly-rehabilitated roads ...Published: 08 Oct 2024 at 07:24hrs | 2393 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt to withhold payment for shoddy road repairs
Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Felix Mhona has announced that the government will withhold payment from construction companies that deliver substandard work on road repair projects...Published: 09 Sep 2024 at 09:21hrs | 3848 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa extends road rehab
President Mnangagwa has extended the state of disaster for Zimbabwe's road infrastructure network until December 31, 2026, following the initial declaration on February 23, 2021. This extension is for...Published: 08 Sep 2024 at 09:30hrs | 134 | by Staff reporter
Chief Mathema of Matabeleland South appeals for Gwanda roads rehab
Chief Brave Mathema from Gwanda, Matabeleland South, has made a heartfelt appeal to the government to address the poor state of rural roads in the district. He expressed frustration over the neglect o...Published: 05 Sep 2024 at 07:17hrs | 141 | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls road conditions a deepening crisis for Zimbabwe's tourism hub
Victoria Falls, renowned as one of the world's most awe-inspiring natural wonders, is facing an alarming infrastructural crisis that threatens both local residents and the vibrant tourism industry tha...Published: 04 Sep 2024 at 10:15hrs | 4809 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ally's pointed rebuke of Mnangagwa
In absence, Zambian President Hichilema Hakainde cast a shadow at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's parade on Saturday as he assumed the rotational chairmanship of SADC.Mnangagwa had pulled all s...Published: 18 Aug 2024 at 13:10hrs | 1406 | by Staff reporter
Road rehab shifts to suburbs
A major road rehabilitation programme targeting residential areas is set to commence this week, shifting the Government's focus from major trunk roads to addressing the deteriorating state of local ro...Published: 04 Aug 2024 at 13:54hrs | 206 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police bolster deployments ahead of summit
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) will deploy adequate personnel to maintain law and order during the upcoming SADC Heads of State and Government Summit, as well as the Heroes Day and Defence Forces ...Published: 04 Aug 2024 at 13:53hrs | 90 | by Staff reporter
Councillor starts street lights repairs programme
Councilor Dumisani Nkomo of Bulawayo's Ward Five has launched an ambitious initiative to repair 1,000 streetlights using funds allocated from the city council's Ward Retention Fund.Nkomo repor...Published: 28 Jun 2024 at 09:58hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
300 tractors to speed up rural roads rehab
Rural roads are set for a major facelift in line with Vision 2030 after President Mnangagwa secured 300 Belarus tractors to boost the capacity of the Rural Infrastructural Development Agency (RIDA) to...Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 04:42hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
CCC's Ostallos Siziva put on tight spot by Pelandaba-Tshabalala residents
Ostallos Siziva, the purported 'candidate' for the Pelandaba-Tshabalala constituency under the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), recently found himself under scrutiny from constituents who question...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 04:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
BCC warns people embarking on road repairs without seeking permission
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has warned that people who carry out road repairs without seeking permission from the council risk being jailed or fined as it is an offence under the city's by-laws....Published: 26 May 2023 at 17:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt claims to have delivered 600 000 jobs
NEARLY 600 000 new formal jobs have been created in various sectors from 2018 to date, an indication that the formal economy is growing in tandem with increased economic activity, latest figures from ...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 09:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police warn against blocking roads
POLICE have said they will arrest people blocking roads purporting to be fixing them as they disturb the flow of traffic and put their lives at risk.Most of those involved in the activity are ...Published: 02 Nov 2022 at 05:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo gets $1 billion for road repairs
THE Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) has disbursed about $12 billion to road authorities across the country for road maintenance and rehabilitation since the beginning of the year under...Published: 05 Sep 2022 at 06:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The death of the Zimdollar shows the King has no clothes
The death of the Zimbabwe dollar is proof that with all our education, there is something terribly rotten in Simbao (ancient name for Zimbabwe).I want to make an apology to Sister Fay Chun...Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 09:16hrs | 27 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Potholes eat into Bulawayo motorists' pockets
MOTORISTS driving in Bulawayo's city centre are having a torrid time negotiating potholes, a hazard that is resulting in accidents and damage to cars in some cases.Last month, the Bulawayo Cit...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 05:37hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) suspends road repairs
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has said 75 percent of its road network is in poor condition but has suspended road repairs until the end of the rainy season.Driving around Bulawayo's roads is...Published: 19 Jan 2022 at 05:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Road rehab moves to high-density suburbs
The emergency road repairs and rehabilitation being undertaken by the Government are now moving into the suburban roads in high-density suburbs, which have been neglected for years by inept and corrup...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt splashes $30 billion on Harare-Beitbridge road
THE Government has spent more than $30 billion on funding the reconstruction of over 260km of the Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge highway, while an additional $1,3 billion has been directed towards the reh...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:14hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
We'll not wait for polls to deliver, says Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF has said it will not wait to be elected to improve the lives of urban residents, already benefiting from a number of central Government initiatives taken after local authority failures. ...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 05:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa vows to reclaim urban constituencies in 2023
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has vowed to lead Zanu-PF to a resounding victory over the opposition and reclaim urban constituencies during the 2023 harmonised elections, saying successive MDC administrations i...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 06:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo councillors slam 'shoddy' government road repairs in city
Bulawayo councillors on Wednesday slammed a government-led road rehabilitation exercise, questioning the workmanship which they said was shoddy.Speaking during a full council meeting, the coun...Published: 02 Sep 2021 at 11:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Smuggling cartels control Mutare
CARTELS smuggling fuel and second-hand clothes into the country have become powerful and daring to an extent of hiring earth-moving equipment to clear and periodically repair gravel roads connecting i...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MPs demand farms
MDC-Alliance legislators yesterday demanded that they be allocated farms under the historic land reform, despite the opposition party consistently denouncing the programme at home and abroad for...Published: 22 Apr 2021 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare proposes road levy
THE Harare City Council (HCC) plans to introduce a road levy for residents as the local authority seeks to raise funds to rehabilitate its dilapidated road network. This comes after the HCC De...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 16:58hrs | 3 | 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
Transport Ministry in lousy Beitbridge - Bulawayo highway repair
GOVERNMENT through the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure Development has started repairing the damaged Beitbridge-Bulawayo highway road.The road repairs are temporarily in the sense tha...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare declares incapacitation
The road network in Harare has continued to deteriorate to alarming levels with unattended potholes now the "new norm". Rains being experienced in the city present a worrisome situation as cou...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 07:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC plunging depths of desperation
Following the launch of its RELOAD policy document, which turned out to be a damp squib, the MDC last week announced its intention to embark on what it described as Reload rallies throughout the count...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 18:31hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
NRZ refurbishes 10 locomotives, 336 wagons
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has completed refurbishment of 10 locomotives and 336 wagons in an effort to boost its fleet and position the entity for increased freight volumes, a senior Gov...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 08:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai family won't hesitate to approach Mnangagwa for help
THE family of the late MDC founder Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday said it would not hesitate to continue approaching President Emmerson Mnangagwa for assistance should need arise, saying the country's le...Published: 05 Jun 2019 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police rescue teams stuck #CycloneIdai
Dozens of police officers deployed for a search and rescue mission in the cyclone- hit Chimanimani were on Tuesday stuck at Rutengeni, several kilometres from the affected areas, as repairs on a damag...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 18:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Local authorities seek exemption from 2c tax
LOCAL authorities have appealed to Government seeking exemption from the two percent Intermediated Money Transfer Tax, which they say is impacting negatively on effective use of road fund allocations ...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 22:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Road rehab shelved due to heavy rains
The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development has suspended road rehabilitation projects in the Midlands Province due to heavy rains. The ministry last year embarked on a massive r...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 08:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Anyone still denying Zimbabwe is open for business?
Some people have to sharpen their lying skills, failing which they have to stop lying altogether.Last week, I had an encounter with one such less than skilful liar — a former opposition MDC ...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Conway Tutani
$400m for roads rehabilitation
GOVERNMENT is working towards raising US$300 million from bonds issued by the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) for road repairs across the country.Separately, US$100 million has...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 16:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kickbacks delay city road rehab
Some Harare City Council workers are reportedly sabotaging the city's road rehabilitation programme by demanding kickbacks from contractors to facilitate payment from Zimbabwe National Roads Administr...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gweru roads equipment grounded
GWERU City Council is operating with only one tipper and a grader with the rest of the equipment broken down, a situation that is compromising the rehabilitation programme of roads, a senior council o...Published: 04 Apr 2018 at 10:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
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