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Zimbabwe's shisha tobacco sales top 400,000kg
At least 401,705 kilogrammes of shisha tobacco, valued at approximately US$13 million, have been sold since the opening of the marketing season, signalling rising global demand for the specialised tob...Published: 15 Jul 2025 at 08:30hrs | 285 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's son granted $200 bail
Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, the son of the late former President Robert Mugabe, was on Tuesday granted US$200 bail by the Concession Magistrates Court following his arrest on multiple assault charges ...Published: 02 Jul 2025 at 09:42hrs | 2396 | by Staff reporter
JR Goddard sues Bulawayo property developer
Renowned businessman James Ross Goddard has taken legal action against a Bulawayo property developer in an effort to recover over US$450,000 owed for contracted works.Through his company, JR G...Published: 28 May 2025 at 10:32hrs | 519 | by Staff reporter
Residents oppose Gwanda council vehicle tender
The Gwanda Progressive Residents Association (GPRA) has raised concerns over Gwanda Municipality's decision to initiate a tender process for the purchase of six new vehicles, arguing that such spendin...Published: 07 May 2025 at 09:38hrs | 329 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's infrastructural dilapidation fuels erratic water supplies
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has acknowledged that continuous repairs to the city's water reticulation system are causing disruptions in water supply, particularly in residential, industrial, and c...Published: 02 Apr 2025 at 09:00hrs | 200 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo faces water crisis as ageing infrastructure fails
The City of Bulawayo is grappling with yet another serious water supply challenge due to its ageing and deteriorating water infrastructure, affecting both residential and industrial areas.Town...Published: 28 Mar 2025 at 05:46hrs | 215 | by Staff reporter
The Second Republic: A Journey of Transformation and Unyielding Progress
In 2017, the Great Republic of Zimbabwe embarked on a transformative journey under the Second Republic, a bold and Visionary era led by HE Dr ED Mnangagwa. This new chapter was not merely a change of ...Published: 13 Mar 2025 at 16:26hrs | 149 | by Maxwell Haitengeswinyika Teedzai
BCC struggles with water bursts
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is facing significant challenges in addressing water bursts and leaks across the city, largely attributed to a severe shortage of resources. As a result, many residents...Published: 09 Mar 2025 at 13:15hrs | 70 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa shields Ruwa Local Board assets from seizure, sale
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has exercised his emergency powers to protect the assets of the Ruwa Local Board from sale and seizure, responding to a dire situation that threatens the well-being of the...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 07:51hrs | 240 | by Staff reporter
Emganwini clinic downgraded to 'baby clinic'
A year after its opening, Emganwini Satellite Clinic in Bulawayo has significantly scaled back its operations, reportedly due to a critical lack of running water. The clinic, initially designed to ser...Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 12:25hrs | 123 | by Staff reporter
US$816 000 for chemicals vanishes as Harare runs dry
Harare City Council could have lost US$816,000 in public funds due to alleged misconduct by water treatment chemicals supplier, Nanotech Water Solutions. The company reportedly acquitted only US$252,0...Published: 19 Sep 2024 at 07:28hrs | 3761 | by Staff reporter
Harare, Bulawayo face another deadly cholera outbreak
Experts are urging the government to declare the water crises in Harare and Bulawayo a state of national disaster to facilitate urgent external intervention and prevent a potential health crisis follo...Published: 06 Sep 2024 at 07:34hrs | 79 | by Staff reporter
India to support Zimbabwe Commonwealth, UNSC bid
India has pledged to lobby for support towards Zimbabwe's bid to re-join the Commonwealth and for a seat as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. This was stated by Mr...Published: 07 Aug 2024 at 11:24hrs | 75 | by Staff reporter
BCC loses 50% of water
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is facing significant challenges in accounting for almost 50% of the water it pumps from supply dams to consumers. This issue is primarily due to dilapidated infrastruc...Published: 30 Jul 2024 at 07:36hrs | 282 | by Staff reporter
Water crisis hits Cowdray Park
Bulawayo's Cowdray Park suburb is facing a severe water crisis as some residents are not receiving water due to the municipality's implementation of a water shedding regime. This crisis has perplexed ...Published: 05 Jul 2024 at 11:34hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
50% of treated Bulawayo water goes to waste!
The Sunday NewsWITH Bulawayo grappling with one of its worst water crises in recent years, there are indications that the city council is losing almost half of its treated water before it reac...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 16:42hrs | 40 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, elected officials renege on election pledge
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa together with hundreds of elected officials have reneged on their pledge to enhance the provision of basic amenities to the public, a few months after they were voted into...Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 04:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
50% Harare boreholes unsafe
Half of the boreholes in Harare's western and northern districts are contaminated with human waste and could be potentially unsafe sources of drinking water.Water samples from boreholes in the...Published: 14 Jan 2024 at 20:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cowdray Park and town zones most burst pipes
Bulawayo City Council identified Cowdray Park and Town zones as the areas with the most burst water pipes in November 2023.This is contained in the Water branch report attached in the latest F...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 16:24hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's urban majority have no access to basic water
Most households in urban centres have no access to basic water and only 48,4% having that access amid fears this will result in outbreak of diseases.Latest Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Co...Published: 04 Dec 2023 at 11:03hrs | 17 | by Stephen Jakes
Gweru water crisis deepens
GWERU residents associations have called on government to intervene and address the dire water crisis in the city.Most parts of the Midlands capital have gone for two weeks without tap water....Published: 15 Nov 2023 at 05:10hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda sewer system not in a good state
GWANDA residents have called on the municipality to timeously upgrade the town's sewer reticulation system saying its failure may result in the outbreak of a number of diseases including cholera. ...Published: 12 Nov 2023 at 11:44hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo shuts off road to lay pipes
THE Bulawayo City Council will close off part of Moffat Avenue in Four Winds to lay a 90mm water pipe between 26 and 27 October.In a statement, Bulawayo Town Clerk Mr Christopher Dube sa...Published: 25 Oct 2023 at 13:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's young children hit hard by diarrhoea
In townships throughout Zimbabwe, the shortage of clean water and the presence of deteriorating, rusty water pipelines are poised to exacerbate the spread of waterborne diseases as the approaching rai...Published: 25 Oct 2023 at 10:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
High expectations for new Bulawayo councillors
Bulawayo residents have called on incoming Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) councillors to restore the city's glory by tackling collapsing service delivery and recurrent water shortages among other...Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 12:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt moves to relocate Gwayi-Shangani villagers
Matebeleland North Provincial Affairs minister Richard Moyo says government has deployed teams to plan for the relocation of Lubimbi villagers in Binga whose homesteads are in the Gwayi-Shangani dam c...Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Thousands benefit from Hwange 7 & 8 spin-offs
THE US$1,5 billion Hwange Thermal Power Station Unit 7 and 8 expansion project in Matebeleland North province has generated immense economic and social spin-offs amid reports that 50 000 people and in...Published: 29 Jun 2023 at 06:25hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
If ED doing great job why is he afraid to be questioned by the nation?
The world over, heads of state and government are never wary of availing themselves to the media.Even unpopular ones, as former US president Donald John Trump - who knew he would be ruthlessly...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 11:27hrs | 14 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Uproar over Mthuli Ncube's projects
SOME Cowdray Park residents claim that Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's unsanctioned road projects in the constituency are disrupting their informal businesses.Ncube, who wants to represent the...Published: 18 Jun 2023 at 08:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Luveve Road works test Bulawayo engineers
BULAWAYO City Council's (BCC) civil engineering expertise is being put to test in the rehabilitation of Luveve Road near Renkini as the scope of works have significantly changed due to underground wat...Published: 12 May 2023 at 06:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Construction of 12 large dams accelerated in Zimbabwe
Construction of 12 large dams is being accelerated to put at least 350 000 hectares under irrigation by 2025 as the need to boost crop production grows.The rolling out of dam construction coun...Published: 25 Apr 2023 at 06:31hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Water crisis overwhelms BCC
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) says a deadly mix of challenges such as system failures among others were crippling its capacity to quench the thirst of residents who are going for several days without wa...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 11:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo hit by water crisis
RESIDENTS in Bulawayo have been hit by a serious water crisis with most suburbs going for weeks without running water amid fears of a disease outbreak.The city is enduring a prolonged water-sh...Published: 21 Mar 2023 at 08:41hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Hwange power plant output falls to 10%
THE Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) is at various stages of repairing four units at Hwange Power Station after a series of breakdowns led to a sharp drop in power supply, after output at the country's se...Published: 01 Mar 2023 at 06:54hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo council, police joint operation nets 200 panners at supply dams
At least 201 illegal gold panners were arrested in 2022 during a joint operation by police and city rangers to curb the vice around the city's water supply dams.This is contained in the Bulawa...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rising inflows boost Kariba power output
KARIBA Hydro-Power Station has increased its daily electricity generation output by 40 percent from 250 megawatts to 350 megawatts in response to the rising water inflows into Lake Kariba, the Zimbabw...Published: 09 Feb 2023 at 05:07hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Town Clerks, Mayors face Zimbabwe government wrath
THE Government says it is disappointed with poor service delivery obtaining in the country's towns and cities that does not signal a collective agenda steeped towards achieving an upper-middle income ...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 11:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jitters over Gwai-Shangani Dam relocations
A MATABELELAND based human rights group has accused government of dithering on plans to relocate hundreds of villagers in Lubimbi, Binga in Matabeleland North to pave way for the Gwayi-Shangani Dam....Published: 13 Jan 2023 at 20:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt delays payment to contractors
The delays in paying contractors is a result of the due diligence which the government has to carry out after some of them were charging extortionate prices, a cabinet Minister has said. Minis...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Hwange Unit 7 trial run starts
ENGINEERS have started synchronising various sub-systems at the Hwange Thermal Power Station Unit 7 plant which is 97 percent complete and ready for commissioning in November, paving way for its conne...Published: 29 Sep 2022 at 05:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mtshabezi greenbelt transforms rural agriculture
AN 87-year-old dream turned into reality following Government's bold move to transform Mtshabezi Irrigation Scheme in Gwanda District, Matabeleland South, into a greenbelt in line with the Second Repu...Published: 20 Sep 2022 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe expects record 380 000 tonnes wheat harvest
FARMERS have started harvesting the winter wheat crop and for the first time since wheat growing started in 1966, Zimbabwe expects to reach self-sufficiency with a harvest of 380 000 tonnes.Sp...Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 05:57hrs | 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
Water crisis cripples Bulawayo hospitals, clinics
AN acute water crisis is threatening operations at Mpilo Central Hospital and United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) which are the city's major public hospitals as they are going for several days without run...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Thieves target city boreholes
BULAWAYO City councillors are concerned about the theft of solar panels and vandalism of the solar powered boreholes at a time when the city is facing acute water shortages.The local authority...Published: 24 Jul 2022 at 10:01hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
400 solar boreholes for Matabeleland North
GOVERNMENT aims to drill 400 solar-powered boreholes in Matabeleland North Province by December this year, which will boost access to clean water and facilitate establishment of nutritional gardens in...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 08:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
48-hour water cuts in Bulawayo after mainline pipe burst
A MAJOR water pipeline burst in Esigodini has forced Bulawayo City Council to announce an emergency week-long 48-hour water shedding regime starting today, affecting all suburbs and surrounding areas ...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Ageing infrastructure to blame Gweru water challenges'
GWERU town clerk Vakai Chikwekwe says the city's ageing reticulation infrastructure is to blame for the intermittent water shortages facing residents.Chikwekwe said council had bought new wate...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:30hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
80-year Mtshabezi dream comes to life
MTSHABEZI Irrigation Scheme in Gwanda District, Matabeleland South, had been a pipe dream for over 80 years, but is now up and running, as has become the norm under the Second Republic.Last ye...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Councils dig in as residents cry foul
NAOMI Chimbganda is still agonising over last month's council bill, which puts her debt at a staggering $1,8 million.The widow now has sleepless nights over how she will settle it, considering...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
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