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Midlands hotel to face demolition
Gweru city council acting Town Clerk, Vakai Chikwekwe warned that the local authority will not hesitate to demolish buildings with structural defects and Midlands hotel is one of the 60 buildings to f...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 08:41hrs | | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Politicians are fuelling hate crimes
ONLY hate and barbarism could have produced the sort of spectacle the world witnessed a few weeks ago when a baying mob of South Africans moved from house to house in Johannesburg's Diepsloot slum to ...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:37hrs | 2 | by Addy Kudita
Rehabilitation of Manama Hospital maternity wing stalls
MANAMA Mission Hospital maternity ward in Gwanda, Matabeleland South province has failed to re-open despite undergoing some renovations after it was extensively damaged by a violent storm last year....Published: 26 Mar 2022 at 06:21hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'South Africa needs a total judicial and system overhaul and transformation'
It's not just the Zulus, it's the generality of the South African masses that are living pathetic lives in desperation, poverty, hunger, joblessness and in a continuous state of debt with no hope for ...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 14:25hrs | 7 | by Linda Tsungirirai Masarira
Alarm over Harare flyover bridge
HARARE City Council yesterday admitted it was not inspecting its infrastructure due to resource and skills constraints, a development that could prove disastrous following claims that a bridge on a bu...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Substandard vehicles, goods flood Zimbabwe
SMUGGLED inferior goods, including second hand clothes and imported used defective vehicles, have flooded Zimbabwe to the detriment of the local industry, according to a recent report by AuditorGenera...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 21:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo councillors walk out of Zesa, Chasi meeting
BULAWAYO councillors yesterday walked out of a stakeholder consultative meeting between government and Zesa officials, protesting against lack of consultation over demolition of the Bulawayo thermal p...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 10:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Harare's 'flyovers' structural fault scare
ALMOST all overpasses in Harare, commonly known as flyovers, have developed structural faults due to lack of maintenance, posing harm to the public if remedial action is not taken urgently, The ...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 09:30hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Econet goes full force in search of Cyclone Idai survivors
ZIMBABWE's largest telecommunications firm, Econet Wireless, says it has deployed the full might of its organisational capacity in search of survivors of the recent Cyclone Idai. In a st...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 22:47hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Idai deaths shoot to 259 in Zimbabwe
ABOUT 259 people have so far been confirmed dead and 217 unaccounted for, while over 16 000 households have been displaced by Cyclone Idai-induced floods that hit the eastern part of the country last ...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 05:53hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Clinic in Bulilima on the verge of closing down
A Business man in Bulilima, Tjiyapo Velempini has said Hingwe Clinic in the district is on the verge of closing down operation if structural defects are not rectifiedThe clinic is said to be i...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 10:45hrs | 3 | by Prosperity Mzila
Govt yet to identify partner for Ekusileni Medical Centre
THE Zanu-PF government has not yet identified a suitable partner to operationalise the late Vice-President Joshua Nkomo's project, Ekusileni Medical Centre in Bulawayo, more than a decade afte...Published: 19 Apr 2017 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
'T.B. Joshua's church was bombed!!!' - Femi Fani Kayode
Nigeria's former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani Kayode, has made a staggering revelation on Facebook about the building that fatally collapsed within The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations premises in ...Published: 14 Mar 2017 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Ihechukwu Njoku
35 buildings condemned in Bulawayo CBD
A week after a Bulawayo building that housed popular fast food outlet Nando's collapsed and killed one person, it has emerged that 35 more buildings in the city were condemned and need urgent attentio...Published: 26 Feb 2017 at 07:31hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Opposition parties too self-centred and disorganized to coalesce
In the aftermath of the well-subscribed Zanu PF Million Man March, it appears the opposition is scurrying in fear and are fearfully fumbling to patch up a coalition they think would be formidable enou...Published: 03 Jun 2016 at 06:50hrs | 1 | by Indrah Zvenyika
Youths Describe TB Joshua Building Collapse Verdict As 'Rape Of Justice'
The controversies ensuing in the wake of the verdict given by the Lagos Coroner's Court about The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) building collapse last year show no signs of abating as a...Published: 10 Jul 2015 at 18:05hrs | 2 | by Ihechukwu Njoku, a freelance Nigerian journalist, wrote in from Lagos, Nigeria
Foreigners Fault Nigeria on TB Joshua Building Verdict
Thousands of foreign supporters of Nigerian Pastor T.B. Joshua have taken to Facebook to express their dismay and disgust at the controversial verdict released by the Lagos coroner's court which ...Published: 10 Jul 2015 at 05:53hrs | | by Ihechukwu Njoku
Binga community being forced to relocate - WhatsApp Update
Please note that Bulawayo24 does not edit WhatsApp updates. We publish them as sent by our readers and we do not disclose the sender's telephone number....Published: 11 Mar 2015 at 13:54hrs | | by Concerned Citizen
Welshman Ncube, Tendai Biti in futile endeavour
Yesterday, Zimbabwe witnessed the launch of what should certainly become yet another futile opposition adventure.MDC and MDC Renewal launched an alliance, United Movement for Democratic Change...Published: 02 Mar 2015 at 09:12hrs | | by chronicle editorial
TB Joshua Church Collapse Inquest Day 5: Counsel Picks Holes in Witnesses' Reports
Contradictions and insufficient information from witnesses at the inquest into the collapse of The Synagogue building last month provided strong indications that ascertaining the real cause of the...Published: 30 Oct 2014 at 21:00hrs | | by Nosa Osazuwa - freelance journalist
Why T.B. Joshua's church collapse actually convinced me he is a genuine man of God
I know many will be surprised at this opinion but it is an honest and frank progression of thoughts from an open-minded individual, not emboldened by any personal bigotry, political agenda or reli...Published: 22 Oct 2014 at 06:24hrs | | by Johnson Abayomi
SCOAN cautions media on preempting investigation
The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN), via a statement released through their social media page on Facebook, has warned media houses about releasing 'unconfirmed stories' about the cause of the...Published: 26 Sep 2014 at 18:53hrs | | by Tawia Acheampong
Top MDC-T official dies at TB Joshua's collapsed hostel
One of the more than 80 people who died when a hostel at T.B Joshua's Synagogue Church of all nations in Nigeria collapsed is reportedly a top official of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) l...Published: 19 Sep 2014 at 09:52hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
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