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A choking hazard for Cowdray Park residents
Whenever a plume of smoke rises from Bulawayo's Richmond Landfill site, popularly known as Ngozi Mine, Sazini Ncube's thoughts immediately turn to her six-year-old daughter, Audrey. Living in Cowdray ...Published: 06 Jul 2025 at 10:13hrs | 188 | by Staff reporter
Medical waste scandal at Bulawayo's dumpsite
A grave public health threat is festering at Bulawayo's Richmond landfill, commonly known as Ngozi Mine, where hazardous medical waste has been discovered dumped in the open - sparking fears of diseas...Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 11:13hrs | 91 | by Staff reporter
Coltart pushes for tighter enforcement to keep Bulawayo clean
Bulawayo Mayor David Coltart has called for tougher enforcement of city by-laws to combat littering and improve the cleanliness of Zimbabwe's second-largest city. Speaking at an event on Monday where ...Published: 10 Jun 2025 at 17:18hrs | 1655 | by Staff reporter
Nguwaya taking over waste management in all towns, cities
Geo Pomona Waste Management, the company controversially contracted by the government to manage Harare's refuse, is now expanding operations to all provinces of Zimbabwe - without entering agreements ...Published: 16 May 2025 at 14:07hrs | 556 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo city centre dumpsite worsens chaos, decay
AN illegal dumpsite, which resembles Bulawayo City Council (BCC)'s Richmond Landfill site, commonly known as Ngozi Mine has emerged, a stone's throw away from a busy road that connects the city centre...Published: 23 Jan 2024 at 04:38hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Mayor calls for a vote for change in August 2023
Outgoing Mayor of Bulawayo, His Worship Solomon Madlala Mguni, has called on Zimbabweans to vote for a new government that will bring about a different way of governing both the country and the city. ...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 14:54hrs | 2 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Bulawayo solar tile producer eyes Sadc market
A BULAWAYO entrepreneur who produces solar roof tiles and kitchen countertops from plastic waste is eager to penetrate the Southern regional market and help promote intra-regional trade.Solar ...Published: 16 Mar 2023 at 07:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe pays Pomona ‘investor' - even after US$320m contract cancelled
The government is paying millions of dollars to a company corruptly awarded a €304 million (about US$320 million) contract to turn Harare's waste into energy – even after the local authority cance...Published: 25 Oct 2022 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa goes after ANC's Pule Mabe
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) is probing a company with alleged links to ANC spokesperson Pule Mabe over a waste picking tender it scored in 2017.This comes after President Cyril Ramaph...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 07:54hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Human rights group exposes rampant violations of female waste pickers' rights
The Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) have revealed that female waste pickers in Bulawayo face challenges ranging from lack of protective clothing, poverty, very low prices of the picking...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
'Waste pickers saving BCC'
A BULAWAYO-BASED human rights group has defended Ngozi Mine squatters saying the waste pickers were assisting Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to deal with waste management issues.This follows plan...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt, companies challenged to adopt policies that advance female waste pickers
Government and various companies have been challenged to adopt policies that advance female waste pickers business as a way of empowering them.The call was made by the Matabeleland Institute f...Published: 18 Mar 2022 at 09:14hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Bulawayo council sued over air pollution
THE Environmental Management Agency (EMA) has taken Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to court for failing to properly manage its sanitary landfill site popularly known as Ngozi Mine in Richmond suburb resu...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 05:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ngozi mine fires worry human rights group
THE outbreak of prolonged fires at the Ngozi Mine dumpsite in Bulawayo have worried the Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights which has since started to engage stakeholders over measures to cu...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 13:01hrs | 10 | by Stephen Jakes
Ngozi Mine smoke chokes Bulawayo suburb
THICK plumes of smoke billowing from a sprawling Bulawayo City Council (BCC) landfill site popularly known as Ngozi Mine in Richmond suburb are a daily sight. The hazardous smoke is now encroa...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 05:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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