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US$5K fine for litter bugs
The City of Mutare is set to impose a hefty US$5,000 fine on anyone caught littering in undesignated areas, according to new by-laws currently being drafted by the local authority, The Manica Post has...Published: 13 Jun 2025 at 06:27hrs | 1080 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Water Crisis: Boreholes will cause more harm than good
This morning, as I watched a news report on the ongoing so-called ‘Presidential Borehole Drilling Scheme', my heart was troubled. Just how sustainable is the drilling of boreholes all over t...Published: 23 Sep 2024 at 18:29hrs | 2383 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
BCC under fire for not reviewing colonial era by-laws
The Bulawayo City Council is facing scrutiny over outdated by-laws that date back to before Zimbabwe's independence and are now seen as misaligned with modern urban needs. Concerns have been raised ab...Published: 11 Aug 2024 at 18:38hrs | 1145 | by Staff reporter
Only 22,2% urban households involved in urban agriculture
About 22.2% of households were involved in urban agriculture.This is revealed in the Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVAC) 2023 report which noted that therefore, the Government...Published: 01 Dec 2023 at 17:43hrs | 24 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa tells supporters to vote opposition out of Town House and 'go to heaven'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has promised Harare residents free agricultural inputs and a guaranteed place in "heaven" if they vote the opposition out of the local councils in the upcoming election....Published: 10 Aug 2023 at 06:47hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zacc okeys Bulawayo mayor's $165 per month rent
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission has cleared Bulawayo mayor, Councillor Solomon Mguni and the Town Clerk, Mr Christopher Dube, of any wrongdoing regarding corruption allegations that were level...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 09:03hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Agriculture crucial towards achieving vision 2030
Agriculture remains one of the key economic sectors in Zimbabwe that has a potential to turn tables towards achieving vision 2030 as outlined in the National Development Strategy (NDS1), "towards a pr...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 07:08hrs | 14 | by Derick Tsimba
The most overlooked but hard working woman in Zimbabwe, The Mazowe spirit.
Since the departure of comrade Matemadanda having been elevated to a diplomatic position the Commissariat has been left in the hands of the Iron Lady. Omega Sipani Hungwe the woman with the royal bloo...Published: 29 May 2021 at 18:55hrs | 18 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Council to slash maize fields
HARARE City Council plans to slash maize planted on undesignated land amid concerns chemicals from fertilisers used by farmers are contaminating the city's water sources.There are also fears o...Published: 07 Feb 2021 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Crops on council land to be slashed
HARARE has warned people growing crops on open spaces that their crops will be destroyed.Residents around Manresa and many other areas are illegally cultivating on council land and despite not...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 20:36hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Food relief for urban poor
Government is working on providing food aid in urban areas to ensure the estimated 2,2 million food insecure people living in towns do not go hungry, with a pilot project on indentifying the vulnerabl...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dirty, dirty Harare water
The toxicity levels in Lake Chivero have reached alarming levels, twice the stipulated minimum, with Harare City Council spending US$3 million monthly on a cocktail of water treatment chemicals to rem...Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 06:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Factional fights simmer in MDC led Bulawayo's new council
DIVISIONS are simmering among Bulawayo's new councillors amid revelations that there is bad blood between the city's Mayor Solomon Mguni and his deputy Tinashe Kambarami resulting in the former side-l...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 08:52hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Govt bans peri-urban land sales
SOME farmers who were allocated land on the outskirts of Harare and other towns are illegally converting the land into residential stands and selling them.It has emerged that these unscrupulou...Published: 30 Jan 2018 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Monkey terror
Mutare'S low-density suburbs of Darlington and Morningside have been turned into landscapes of human-wildlife conflict, as monkeys are invading houses and wrecking property in the process.A Da...Published: 16 Jan 2018 at 05:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC to hand over 1,000 stands
THE Bulawayo City Council will in the next few weeks hand over more than 1 000 stands in different suburbs in the city which were serviced under the Rapid Results Approach (RRA) programme launched in ...Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 10:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
City council to hand over 1 000 stands in Bulawayo
THE Bulawayo City Council will in the next few weeks hand over more than 1 000 stands in different suburbs in the city which were serviced under the Rapid Results Approach (RRA) programme launched in ...Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 08:05hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Councillor in night club scam
COWDRAY park councillor, Collet Ndhlovu was has been given the consent by the local authority to turn a sports bar into a night club despite owing the Bulawayo City Council more than $6 000 and the pr...Published: 28 May 2017 at 09:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Whites are better rulers says Oppah Muchinguri
The current crop of traditional chiefs are worse than former white colonisers, Environment minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has said.Muchinguri-Kashiri said the current crop of "chiefs are gi...Published: 24 Oct 2016 at 14:55hrs | 1 | by Thobekile Zhou
Corrupt Bulawayo councillors continue land grab
BULAWAYO councillors have reportedly continued with their alleged land and property grab in the city, with some allocating themselves unsubstantiated lease agreements despite the Government warnin...Published: 13 Jun 2016 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns Zanu-PF bigwigs
VICE President Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned bigwigs with vast tracts of land to brace for an exercise meant to reduce their farm sizes to acceptable hectares.VP Mnangagwa said corruption in l...Published: 09 Jun 2015 at 09:35hrs | 1 | by Clemence Manyukwe
Time is now for spatial and land use planning and re-building the land administration system in Zimbabwe
IntriductionIn this 10th of 12 articles I focus on the need to rebuild the land use planning system and how this how this will aid land administration....Published: 01 Dec 2013 at 08:44hrs | 6 | by Mandivamba Rukuni, a discussion paper in the Zimbabwe Land Series
Harare Council to slash maize on undesignated land
HARARE City Council (HCC) will slash maize planted on undesignated pieces of land to curb muggings and cases of assault and murder that become prevalent during the rainy season when the maize crop ...Published: 04 Oct 2013 at 01:57hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo Mayor rents council farm for a measly $45 per month
THE Bulawayo City Council has approved plans to lease out a two-hectare farm to Mayor Thaba Moyo for a measly $45 per month for the next five years.Part of the conditions are that the lease be...Published: 10 May 2013 at 07:23hrs | 2 | by Nduduzo Tshuma I newsday
Over 11 000 hectares of land to be given to urban farmers
MORE than 11 000 hectares of land that is lying idle in Bulawayo and its surroundings will soon be parcelled out to residents for use in urban agriculture, a Cabinet Minister has said. ...Published: 22 Aug 2012 at 03:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Get involved: Dr Paul Malaba tells professionals
Most professional Zimbabweans have been reluctant to participate in local and parliamentary elections over the years because of the dirty politics which normally characterises them."There are ...Published: 30 Mar 2012 at 09:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mayor Thaba Moyo blasts residents for 'unwarranted' criticism
BULAWAYO Mayor Councillor Thaba Moyo has castigated Bulawayo United Residents' Association (Bura) for what he described as unwarranted criticism of council. Speaking during the tour of Bulawayo water ...Published: 05 Mar 2012 at 20:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
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