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Gwanda residents face water disconnections over debt
The Gwanda Municipality has intensified its water disconnection exercise across the mining town as part of efforts to recover mounting unpaid bills from residents and businesses.In an official...Published: 11 Jun 2025 at 17:51hrs | 220 | by Staff reporter
Gweru residents petition council over debt blitz
Gweru residents have petitioned the local authority to postpone a planned revenue collection blitz - which includes water disconnections and possible property attachments - fro...Published: 19 May 2025 at 09:22hrs | 113 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council cuts water supplies to schools
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has intensified its debt recovery efforts, cutting off water supplies to 59 schools in a bid to recover outstanding payments. This bold move comes as the local authorit...Published: 15 Dec 2024 at 09:14hrs | 493 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda launches blitz on illegal billboards
In a notice, Gwanda town clerk Priscilla Nkala said all billboards must be approved by the council to remain in place or to be installed.GWANDA municipality has launched an operation to remove...Published: 04 Jan 2024 at 06:02hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda mayor advises residents on council's door-to-door rates collections
Gwanda mayor Thulani Moyo has advised residents that council workers will start door-to-door collection of taxes as the local authority is still working on the upgrading of the payment systems....Published: 03 Jan 2024 at 12:24hrs | 11 | by Stephen Jakes
Zinwa disconnects supplies to irrigation scheme, demands US$300 each from rural folk
The maize crop at Silalatshani Irrigation Scheme in Insiza South, Matebeleland South province, is wilting before maturity after the Zimbabwe National Water Authority disconnected water supplies due to...Published: 05 Dec 2023 at 20:40hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda mayor says, 'I am Mnangagwa's first-born-mayor'
The only mayor from the ruling Zanu-PF party in Zimbabwe, Thulani Moyo of Gwanda Municipality, expressed his excitement at being referred to as President Emmerson Mnangagwa's "first-born mayor" follow...Published: 26 Oct 2023 at 13:31hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
BCC planning to disconnect water services to schools
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is planning to disconnect water services to nearly 60 percent of schools in the city as part of an intensified debt recovery effort due to unpaid property taxes and ser...Published: 08 Oct 2023 at 07:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
BCC intensifies water disconnections
THE Bulawayo City Council will this month intensify its water disconnection drive as it tries to recover over $200 billion which it is owed in property taxes and service fees by consumers as at the en...Published: 04 Oct 2023 at 06:45hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Plumtree gives residents water meter ultimatum
PLUMTREE Town Council has given pre-paid water users in the border town three weeks to revert to post-paid meters after some residents went for three years without paying for water.A number of...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BCC embarks on water disconnection blitz
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is carrying out a water disconnection blitz in all suburbs over unpaid rates amounting to $30 billion.The local authority says it is struggling to meet its financia...Published: 13 Feb 2023 at 05:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo schools operating without water
MORE than half of Bulawayo's schools are operating without water after council disconnected supplies due to non-payment of rates amid reports that they owe council a combined $100 million while those ...Published: 25 Sep 2022 at 10:38hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
'Water cuts a threat to Bulawayo fire services'
COUNCILLORS in Bulawayo fear that the ongoing water-rationing programme being implemented by the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) could serious affect firefighting services and lead to loss of properties i...Published: 15 Aug 2022 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Redcliff water crisis need to be thoroughly investigated and lasting solution found
Whenever I hear borehole drilling machines roaring and groaning away in my neighbourhood of Redcliff, I always think to myself, "Here goes the sound of failure".Certainly, not failure on the p...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 20:38hrs | 10 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Gweru defaulters face water cuts
Gweru City Council will from Monday start the process of disconnecting water to defaulting ratepayers.In a statement yesterday, the local authority said it could only offer adequate services i...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:45hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda Town Water supply to be reconnected tomorrow morning
WATER supply in Gwanda Town is expected to have been reconnected latest by tomorrow morning.In an interview, Gwanda Municipality Mayor, Councillor Njabulo Siziba said the local authority had e...Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 18:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zinwa disconnects water supply to Gwanda town
THE Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) has disconnected water supply to Gwanda Municipality over a $193 million debt, leaving residents from the mining town with no water.Zinwa has emba...Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 13:31hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
BCC take residents head on over $1,1 billion debt
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has threatened to take residents to court to recover the over $1,1 billion owed by ratepayers.During a recent virtual meeting, Bulawayo town clerk Christopher D...Published: 23 May 2021 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents to lose houses
Bulawayo City Council is on a collision course with residents after Town Clerk Mr Christopher Dube said the local authority will take drastic action that could see ratepayers losing their homes over u...Published: 20 May 2021 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Eight meter-readers available for entire city
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) could have put themselves on a collision course with residents as it has emerged that they have been estimating water bills since the beginning of the year.In a...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Affluent suburb residents not paying bills
BUSINESS and residents living in affluent suburbs like Burnside and Hillside are among those who have accumulated the highest unpaid bills to the Bulawayo City Council. The city is owed more t...Published: 18 Mar 2021 at 05:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BCC disconnects govt departments
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is disconnecting water supplies to government departments over outstanding bills running into several millions of dollars.Recently, the local authority switched off...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 06:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Recalling Kambarami a good move
Now that he is gone, Bulawayo residents must make sure that they pay there rates, as he was campaigning that people should not pay water bills. He was against water disconnections. ...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 18:49hrs | 1 | by Nothisa Dube
Town Clerk says water disconnections legit
BULAWAYO Deputy Mayor, Councillor Tinashe Kambarami, has once again clashed with the Town Clerk Mr Christopher Dube after announcing over the weekend that council should not cut water supplies to defa...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kambarami frustrates Town Clerk again
BULAWAYO City councillors will this week engage council management with the hope of stopping the wave of water disconnections that the local authority embarked on since yesterday to recover what is ow...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BCC disconnects water supplies to defaulting rate payers
BULAWAYO City Council will today start disconnecting water supplies to defaulting rate payers as the municipality moves to recover what it is owed by residents and commercial entities in the city. Res...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:08hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo municipality disconnects water supplies
BULAWAYO City Council will today start disconnecting water supplies to defaulting rate payers as the municipality moves to recover what it is owed by residents and commercial entities in the city. ...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 08:59hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Forex shortages grossly affect BCC service delivery
THE Bulawayo City Council is getting less than one percent of its revenue collection in forex as the local authority is still struggling to raise foreign currency required to boost some of its service...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 08:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo resumes water disconnections
THE Bulawayo City Council has reintroduced water disconnections with immediate effect in a bid to force defaulting residents and businesses to clear arrears amounting to $100 million. Councill...Published: 10 May 2019 at 06:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Residents stop paying bills after water disconnections were outlawed
BULAWAYO City Council says payments for water bills have dropped sharply since the High Court blocked local authorities from disconnecting water over non-payment.The Court ruled last year that...Published: 01 May 2019 at 09:00hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Harare starts disconnecting water
KUWADZANA residents woke up to no water meters after Harare City Council (HCC) employees removed them over non-payment of bills.Community Water Alliance (CWA) Ward 44 chairperson Miriam Nyaman...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 09:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Councillors reject water disconnections as debt recovery strategy
BULAWAYO City councillors have rejected a proposal by the finance department to resume water disconnections as a debt recovery strategy citing the prevailing socio economic challenges faced by residen...Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 07:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo to introduce water limiters?
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is mulling over the introduction water flow limiters as part of its strategies to manage the use of the natural resource.Flow limiters/restrictors are gadgets i...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 10:21hrs | 1 | by newzimbabwe
Gweru water disconnections ignite typhoid fears
GWERU residents have slammed the local authority for resuming the disconnection of water supplies to its debtors in the high-density suburbs, saying the development has the potential to slide the comm...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Councils given go ahead to garnish Govt departments
THE Government has given councils the green light to take drastic measures to recover debt even from its departments which owe local authorities various amounts of money.Councils, through the ...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 08:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court allows water disconnections
Municipalities' power to disconnect water supplies to non-paying residents is reasonable and does not in any way contravene Section 77 of the country's Constitution that guarantees the right to clean ...Published: 02 Oct 2018 at 22:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare vendors get 24-hr ultimatum to vacate
The National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe (Navuz) yesterday started mobilising its members to leave undesignated vending sites in Harare's central business district today in order to contain the cholera ...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:00hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
UZ graduation postponed
The University of Zimbabwe (UZ) has deferred a graduation ceremony that was set for today owing to an outbreak of cholera which has claimed 25 lives and left several people hospitalised mostly in Glen...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Incumbents promising slashed bills to buy votes: Aspiring councillor
Aspiring independent councillor for Bulawayo's Lobengula ward 14, Lwazi Khanye (27), has accused incumbent councillors of seeking to buy votes by proposing that council should suspend water disconnect...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Stop water disconnections: Chiwenga
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday said it was improper for local authorities to disconnect water from defaulting residents as such measures pose a health hazard. Addressing Zanu-PF...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zinara owes BCC $400 000 for water
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has revealed that Zinara owes it $400 000 after it recently paid $200 000 part of the debt which has placed the local authority in a precarious situation where it struggles...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Councillors call for 50% debt write-off
BULAWAYO councillors are calling for a 50% debt write-off for ratepayers or two months exemption from paying bills to cushion them against the harsh economic conditions.According to the latest...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Big cheer for residents ahead of crucial polls
Bulawayo mayor Martin Moyo has given residents a big cheer ahead of the impending national elections by stopping the city fathers from disconnecting water supplies to defaulting consumers.Moyo...Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 16:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Madhuku' - arrested 18 times but still standing
As the country hurtles towards the general election next month, aspiring candidates from across the political divide have started canvassing for votes - promising the electorate development and someti...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 12:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare cuts off water supplies to residents
Harare City Council (HCC) has started shutting off water service to "nonpaying" residents by removing water meters.Residents in high density suburbs such as Highfield, Glen Norah, Glen View an...Published: 02 Apr 2018 at 11:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Council scraps interest on debts
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has scrapped interest on ratepayers who make a payment plan to clear their arrears amid reports the local authority is owed more than $169 million by ratepayers....Published: 09 Jan 2018 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC in water disconnection blitz
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has launched a water disconnection blitz in the city's suburbs to recover over $90 million owed by residents.A previous High Court order declared that local authori...Published: 03 Jan 2018 at 10:48hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Ruling reserved on water disconnections
THE Supreme Court has reserved judgment in the case in which Harare City was contesting a High Court decision preventing the local authority from disconnecting water supplies without seeking recourse ...Published: 25 Sep 2017 at 23:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls in massive water disconnections
VICTORIA Falls Municipality has embarked on a massive water disconnection exercise in violation of a recent High Court ruling that such action is illegal without a court order.Hundreds of Vict...Published: 05 Sep 2017 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai, Mugabe descend on Matabeleland
MATABELELAND region will be a hive of activity on Friday, as President Robert Mugabe and MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai descend on the region to canvass for support ahead of next year's general elect...Published: 19 Jul 2017 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
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