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Zimbabwe govt to roll out policy to curb urban land chaos
The Government is preparing to launch a far-reaching Urban State Land Management Policy aimed at stamping out rampant land corruption, controlling illegal settlements, and ensuring orderly, sustainabl...Published: 27 Jul 2025 at 11:20hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's ally takes over City Sports Centre
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's special advisor, Paul Tungwarara, has been handed the reins to oversee the long-awaited renovation of the City Sports Centre, a once-proud Harare landmark that has suffe...Published: 09 Jul 2025 at 07:58hrs | 317 | by Staff reporter
Rufaro stadium on the brink of condemnation amid rapid decline
Rufaro Stadium, the historic heart of Zimbabwean football, is facing the grim possibility of being condemned once again-barely a year after it was reopened for top-flight matches.The Mbare-bas...Published: 17 Jun 2025 at 08:07hrs | 541 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo proposes US$13.4 million fleet overhaul amid tracking system lapse
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has recommended a US$13.4 million phased investment over five years to replace its ageing and unreliable municipal vehicle fleet, amid growing concerns over operational...Published: 09 Jun 2025 at 17:37hrs | 404 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo bans heavy vehicles from entering CBD
The City of Bulawayo has formally implemented a ban on heavy vehicles weighing more than 9 tonnes from entering the Central Business District (CBD), as part of new traffic management measures....Published: 05 Jun 2025 at 11:13hrs | 1721 | by Staff reporter
Trabablas Interchange commissioning on Friday
The state-of-the-art US$88 million Trabablas Interchange is scheduled for official commissioning this Friday, heralding a significant infrastructural milestone under President Emmerson Mnangagwa's adm...Published: 28 May 2025 at 10:57hrs | 401 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF chef loses fortune in toned down water deal
A controversial US$138 million contract awarded to Helcraw Electrical Projects, a company owned by Zanu PF legislator Farai Jere, for the development of Harare's water infrastructure has been signific...Published: 17 May 2025 at 14:03hrs | 333 | by Staff reporter
Diplomatic villas illuminate Mt Hampden
The transformation of Mt Hampden into Zimbabwe's new administrative hub is steadily progressing, marked by the completion of eight state-of-the-art villas at the Diplomatic Village, a key milestone in...Published: 06 May 2025 at 08:50hrs | 6414 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo sees surge in approved building plans
The Bulawayo City Council has approved building plans valued at over US$3.5 million as of December 2024, reflecting a slight 0.65% increase from November. These developments were detailed in the counc...Published: 16 Feb 2025 at 07:46hrs | 605 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo left to count the cost
Torrential rains accompanied by strong winds wreaked havoc in Bulawayo on Tuesday afternoon, leaving scores of families homeless as roofs were ripped off homes, schools, and a church. The storm, which...Published: 16 Jan 2025 at 07:06hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
Severe storm topples tree, causing extensive damages in Bulawayo
A fierce storm swept through Bulawayo on Thursday, leaving a trail of destruction as a decades-old tree crashed onto a family home in Kumalo suburb. Despite the extensive damage, no injuries or fatali...Published: 30 Nov 2024 at 12:54hrs | 195 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa cracks whip
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has issued a stern warning to local authorities involved in corrupt practices, pledging that no perpetrators will be spared as the Government intensifies its fight against...Published: 27 Nov 2024 at 06:43hrs | 446 | by Staff reporter
Harare churches, schools face closure
The Harare City Council has announced plans to shut down illegal churches and other indoor gatherings operating without Certificates of Place of Assembly, urging operators to comply with safety regula...Published: 23 Nov 2024 at 12:48hrs | 475 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's ZimSat-2 satellite launches
HARARE - Zimbabwe's agricultural landscape, mineral exploration capabilities, and urban planning efforts received a transformative boost yesterday as the country's second earth observation satellite, ...Published: 06 Nov 2024 at 06:48hrs | 134 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe launches second space satellite
Zimbabwe is set to launch its second earth observation satellite, ZimSat-2, on Tuesday, marking a significant milestone in the nation's growing space program. The satellite will be launched from Vosto...Published: 03 Nov 2024 at 10:02hrs | 398 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo whiz-kid creates pothole repair drone
Rahil Bhavan, an 18-year-old student from Christian Brothers' College (CBC) in Bulawayo, has developed a drone equipped with a machine-learning algorithm designed to detect and map potholes for repair...Published: 28 Aug 2024 at 10:07hrs | 6549 | by Staff reporter
BCC goes solar to light up Bulawayo
In response to the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company's (ZETDC) recent shift of tower lights to a prepaid system, the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has announced plans to install...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 13:38hrs | 1087 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa claims infrastructure developments not only for SADC Summit
President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced plans to extend the infrastructure developments currently underway in Harare to other provinces as part of Zimbabwe's broader modernization initiative. Speaking ...Published: 01 Jul 2024 at 04:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council condemns 161 CBD buildings
A recent report from the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has highlighted the dire condition of numerous buildings, with 161 structures identified as dilapidated and condemned. Most of these buildings were...Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 07:41hrs | 254 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabweans are already overtaxed'
AMERICAN financial literacy website, Investopedia defines 'wealth tax' as a tax based on the market value of assets owned by a taxpayer.A wealth tax is typically put on a 'high-net-worth' indi...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 17:37hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube squeezes everyone
GOVERNMENT yesterday announced a cocktail of tax increases, pushing up the cost of living and ease of doing business after reviewing its 2024 revenue projection upwards by 22,22% to ZWL$53,9 trillion....Published: 02 Dec 2023 at 05:42hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa's Alienating 100 Page Manifesto
The Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) lost in the 2023 electoral plebiscite, and as expected immediately rejected the results complaining the elections were "marred by vote suppression and egregious ...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 22:29hrs | 3 | by Dr Moses Moyo
Harare-Beitbridge highway project: A new big step in the right direction
AS we turn right off the Harare-Beitbridge highway - just before the intersection of the Harare and Bulawayo arteries five kilometres north of Beitbridge Border Post on the banks of the Limpopo River ...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 07:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Flash floods hit Pumula suburbs
Bulawayo's Pumula East, North and South suburbs were on Sunday afternoon hit by flash floods that left some houses submerged in water following heavy rains that pounded the city at the weekend....Published: 04 Jan 2022 at 05:57hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Govt rehabilitates urban infrastructure such as roads, street and traffic lights
As the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme gathers momentum, government has taken over the repair of urban infrastructure such as roads, street and traffic lights.Tickerhead: Infrastructur...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 14:26hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF youth league rocked by indiscipline
ACTING deputy secretary for youth affairs in the Zanu-PF politburo, Tendai Chirau has accused some members of the ruling party's youth league of acting in a manner detrimental to the moral standing of...Published: 04 May 2021 at 07:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Organizing committee prepares for Russia-Africa Summit
On March 19, under the Chairmanship of Yury Ushakov, an Aide to the Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Organizing Committee on Russia-Africa held its first meeting in Moscow. The Organizing Committ...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 08:05hrs | 10 | by Kester Kenn Klomegah
Government allocates US$310 million for devolution
Minister of Minister of Finance & Economic Development has announced that it has allocated US$310 million for the implementation of devolution. The move has been welcomed by Zimbabweans who are ke...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 15:09hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Cholera outbreak a wake-up call
Indications that the cholera outbreak that has killed 49 people out of 6 643 suspected cases countrywide has been contained must not lull the country into complacency.This is the time to put i...Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 07:35hrs | 14 | by The Standard Comment
Allow investors to repatriate funds
GOVERNMENT should first assure investors on how they would be able to repatriate their investment before running around preaching the mantra of the country being open for business, Alpha Media Holding...Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 09:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
No debt write-offs again, govt tells residents
THE Local Government ministry has called on all ratepayers to pay up their bills at their respective councils to improve service delivery, saying there would be no debt write-off ahead of this year's ...Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 08:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Councils have 40-year infrastructure gap'
LOCAL authorities have an infrastructure development gap of 40 years and require quick interventions to stimulate growth and improved service delivery, the Urban Councils' Association of Zimbabwe (UCA...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 07:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
All set for urban infrastructure summit
ALL is set for the Zimbabwe Urban Infrastructure Investment summit which is set to be held at the Zimbabwe International Exhibition Centre in Bulawayo tomorrow.The summit which will be hosted ...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 10:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
No sympathy for Chinamasa but Chombo will be worse - PDP
The man at the centre of economic decline in the Motherland is in the United States attending to meetings meant for treasury officials, with the shock from non-event called a reshuffle in ZANUPF dicti...Published: 11 Oct 2017 at 15:58hrs | | by PDP
Effects of Climate Change, the Zimbabwe story
Society is usually ignorant when committing sin, sin that bring heinous and disastrous situations, when not averted in time. Zimbabwe like all other countries has created its own sins that resulted in...Published: 29 Aug 2016 at 23:14hrs | 6 | by Mbizo Chirasha
PDP gives weekly economic policy Brief
People's Democratic Party (PDP) has said social services delivery in Zimbabwe has inevitably collapsed for many reasons the major one being a collapsing economy and the resultant decline in inco...Published: 07 May 2016 at 10:42hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
PDP Weekly Economic Policy Brief - Social Services Delivery
Social services delivery in Zimbabwe has inevitably collapsed for many reasons the major one being a collapsing economy and the resultant decline in incomes. Zimbabweans have generally become unhealth...Published: 06 May 2016 at 08:02hrs | | by Vince Musewe
Zimbabwe: Dealing with America
OUR long history - before, during and after colonisation, and since Independence - presents an image of America that is ambiguous, an America appears, disappears, appears and disappears from our radar...Published: 20 Feb 2016 at 17:44hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
MDC-T launches own blueprint
The main opposition MDC-T yesterday launched a local governance blueprint to guide its councilors leading various local authorities across the country. The blueprint titled Smart City Camp...Published: 21 Aug 2015 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe connects to undersea broadband network
Two Zimbabwean telecommunications companies have linked up to the SEACOM and EASSy undersea fibre-optic cables. This development is set to bring high speed broadband internet connectivity to the...Published: 17 Feb 2011 at 12:45hrs | 1 | by Byo24News
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