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Zimbabwe electricity generation to increase monthend
Power cuts being experienced across the country are expected to ease by the end of this month when power generation will increase on the back of two units being brought back to the national grid....Published: 16 Nov 2023 at 05:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's son vows to floor 'Bhuru' Mliswa
Richard Tsvangirai, son to late founding MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, has vowed to upstage sitting Norton legislator Temba Mliswa in the race for the seat during harmonised elections due this year....Published: 21 Mar 2023 at 19:36hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
CCC councillors accuse Mnangagwa of sidelining them
BEITBRIDGE councillors have accused the government of sidelining them during State functions held in the border town.The Beitbridge council is entirely made up of CCC councillors.The c...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 17:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Hwange power station expansion inches closer to completion
SIGNIFICANT progress has been made on the US$1,5 billion Hwange Thermal Power Station Unit 7 and 8 expansion project, whose completion is now more than 84 percent as the country inches closer to energ...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 06:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Haulage trucks damage highway
THE Bulawayo-Victoria Falls highway is in a bad state especially in Hwange where the road is almost caving in at some sections, with haulage trucks belonging to mining companies being blamed for infli...Published: 18 Mar 2022 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by Staf reporter
July Moyo sucked into US$10 million tender scam allegations
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has accused Minister of Local Government July Moyo of approving an overly priced US$10 million budget for the rehabilitation of Morton Jeffrey and Warren Contr...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 11:28hrs | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zesa restores power at Bulawayo water plant
Power utility Zesa says it has rectified the power blackouts that affected pumping of water at Bulawayo's Criterion Plant.The Bulawayo City Council had claimed that it was failing to pump adeq...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 06:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Human rights group praises Parly for rapping Zinwa over water cuts
MATABELELAND Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) has hailed the Parliament of Zimbabwe for castigating the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) for disconnecting water to Beitbridge and Gwand...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 08:46hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Anti-graft bodies swoop on city fathers
AT least four Harare City Council officials and 13 councillors are facing arrest over allegations of attempting to siphon millions of dollars in a dubious US$868 million Chinese loan deal.The ...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls seeks load shedding exemption
VICTORIA FALLS councillors have called for the resort town to be exempted from Zesa load shedding - which has also affected water supplies - and left the tourism hub with no electricity.The to...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa writes to Nelson Chamisa
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has appealed to MDC leader Nelson Chamisa to rein in his councilors who are reportedly sabotaging the Constituency by refusing to work with the Member of Parl...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 13:46hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Interbank rate throws HCC off rails
HARARE town clerk Hosiah Chisango yesterday said the interbank rate has drastically affected council operations because this year's budget was based on a 1:1 ratio to the United States dollar....Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Typhoid spreads towards Harare
TYPHOID, which has killed nine people in Gweru, has spread to Kadoma and Masvingo amid calls for residents to practice maximum hygiene. Three new cases were reported in Kadoma and two in Masvi...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 06:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
$40m Beitbridge water treatment plant lies idle
BEITBRIDGE Town Council's $40 million water treatment plant, which was commissioned by former Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko in August last year, is still not being utilised, Southern Eye can revea...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare now a huge sewerage pond?
The outbreak of typhoid in Harare last week torched a heated debate on social media with some observers blaming the city fathers for the scourge whilst others wanted to pin it on Government. As the ty...Published: 31 Oct 2017 at 04:47hrs | | by Charity Maodza
Mohadi, wife face off
STATE Security minister Kembo Mohadi had an unenviable time on Saturday sharing the same platform with his estranged wife, Tambudzani and pretending all was normal.His situation was worsened w...Published: 25 Sep 2017 at 08:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwanda wins against Zinwa, get back water facilities
THE Government has given Gwanda municipality the green light to take over the running of the town's water treatment plant from the Zimbabwe National Water Authority.The Deputy Director Water R...Published: 21 Jun 2017 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda community wants water treatment takeover
GWANDA council, residents' associations, civic groups and churches have said they will support the takeover of the water treatment plant from Zinwa when they meet a commission appointed to assess the ...Published: 20 Jun 2017 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
NRZ asset register in shambles
THE rundown National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) is sitting on countrywide real estate estimated to be worth more than $150 million, with the potential to raise at least $5 million in rentals monthly....Published: 22 Apr 2017 at 10:49hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Harare's water woes continue
World Water Day is celebrated annually on March 22nd. This year's theme was "Why Waste Water?"It was in support of Sustainable Development Goal 6.3 which aims to improve water quality by reduc...Published: 24 Mar 2017 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare city centre, suburbs run dry
Several suburbs in Harare, including the city centre have been without water for the past three days, forcing residents to depend on shallow wells and other unprotected sources, risking the outbre...Published: 02 Mar 2017 at 05:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's China master-stroke
President Mugabe's recent meeting with his Chinese counterpart, President Xi Jingping has started bearing fruits as several Chinese investors are already in the country to effect deals under Speci...Published: 22 Jan 2017 at 12:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwanda hospital faces closure
MATABELELAND South's biggest public health institution, Gwanda Provincial Hospital, on Friday discharged patients admitted for various ailments due to water shortage with indications that the hosp...Published: 09 Oct 2016 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Four day water cuts in Harare
Harare City Council are bracing for a four day water shut-down between Friday and Monday as the city is would be carrying maintenance works at its main water treatment plant Morton Jaffray Water Works...Published: 16 Feb 2016 at 09:42hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chiredzi town tapes to run dry
Chiredzi residents must brace for dry tapes as Chiredzi Town Council has embarked on massive maintenance of its water system which is starts this week.Masvingo Mirror reported that Counc...Published: 22 Jun 2015 at 08:25hrs | | by Staff Reporter
$3 million water plant construction to resume in Lupane
The Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) Gwayi catchment manager Fortune Musoni has confirmed that construction work at the water treatment plant for the Matabeleland North capital Lupane is set ...Published: 14 Feb 2014 at 04:48hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Valentine's day to mark end to smelly Bulawayo water
The Bulawayo City Council has gone on a limb promising the problem of smelly tap water would end in the city on 14 February. Residents have been complaining of muddy or rusty and smelly water ...Published: 07 Feb 2014 at 15:42hrs | 1 | by Mafu Sithabile
More Chinese engineers jet in to fix Harare's water and sewer infrastructure
A delegation of 16 engineers from China has arrived in Harare. The engineers are part of a team of 46 engineers seconded to Harare for the next four years to help rehabilitate Harare's water a...Published: 22 Sep 2013 at 18:08hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo water unsafe
Bulawayo town clerk Middleton Nyoni has warned that the water-shedding programme recently introduced to control the city's water usage could trigger a major health hazard owing to old infrastructure...Published: 02 Aug 2012 at 09:02hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Byo residents to be charged for getting water from neighbours
BULAWAYO residents who get water from others during the water shedding period will be billed for those supplies, the Chronicle reported.This comes amid revelations tha...Published: 02 Aug 2012 at 05:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nkomo, Dabengwa kiss and make-up
Matabeleland Zambezi Water Trust (MZWT) chairman Dumiso Dabengwa and Water Resources Development minister Samuel Sipepa Nkomo have ended their feud over control of the giant project.Dabengwa, ...Published: 13 Jul 2012 at 07:41hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
South Africa floods claim Zimbabwe man's life
Floods in the eastern provinces of South Africa claimed their first life when the roof of a dwelling collapsed in Tonga, near the Mozambique border, the Nkomazi local municipality said on Friday....Published: 20 Jan 2012 at 14:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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