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Hydro-politics depriving Bulawayo and Matebeleland of water
MORE than a century ago in 1912, the people of Matebeleland and Bulawayo regions were promised that they will draw water from the Zambezi River, through the Matebeleland Zambezi Water Project (MZWP)....Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 11:56hrs | 706 | by Staff reporter
Why Zimbabwe needs judiciary reforms to be open for business
THE Zimbabwean Constitution enshrines the principle of separation of powers among three distinct arms of government, which are the executive, consisting of the President and Cabinet, the legislature, ...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 11:52hrs | 617 | by Mirian Mangwaya
BCC applies to borrow US$51m
THE Bulawayo City Council has applied to borrow US$51 million for them to implement major capital projects which include the acquisition of development land and rehabilitation of water and sewerage in...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 07:50hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
Gweru fined $1m for pollution
GWERU City Council has been fined over $1 million by the Environmental Management Agency (EMA) for discharging raw effluent into nearby streams, a senior council official revealed last week.Pr...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:20hrs | 607 | by Staff reporter
Chitungwiza COVID-19 isolation centre lies idle
A CHITUNGWIZA health facility set aside last year as a COVID-19 isolation centre is lying idle after work to transform it into a treatment hub was stalled due to lack of funds.In April last ye...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 22:23hrs | 232 | by Staff reporter
Gweru market contractors miss deadline
TWO companies contracted by Gweru City Council to renovate Kudzanai bus terminus and public markets have missed the deadline to complete the projects, alleging that they were facing challenges in impo...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 10:44hrs | 218 | by Staff reporter
Gweru sewage system collapses
The Gweru city sewage system has collapsed and needs complete overhaul with raw effluent now polluting the environment and posing a serious health hazard to residents.Speaking at a recent full...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:33hrs | 468 | by Staff reporter
MDC-led council show true colours
THE year2020 will go down in the history of the MDC-led Harare City Council as the worst under its leadership. The year exposed existing massive corruption, land scams, leadership crisis, arre...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:18hrs | 270 | by Blessings Chidakwa
Harare-Beitbridge road rehab on course
SEAMLESS progress is taking place in the construction of the Harare-Beitbridge Highway, with Phase One close to completion after local companies that have been contracted to work on the road delivered...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 07:04hrs | 421 | by Staff reporter
School in Vumba renamed after Joshua Nkomo
A PRIMARY school in the Vumba resort area near Mutare has been renamed after the late national hero, Vice President Dr Joshua Nkomo.Vice President Kembo Mohadi announced the renaming of the sc...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 06:38hrs | 297 | by Staff reporter
Kuvimba Mining House targets 500 000 ounces of gold
KUVIMBA Mining House is targetting 500 000 ounces of gold from all its subsidiaries which will turn the fortunes of the gold sector in Zimbabwe.The Group Chief Executive Officer, David Brown o...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 08:01hrs | 1299 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Indian investors target Vic Falls
Victoria Falls, which was declared a city last week and is already a special economic zone, has started attracting foreign investors, with an Indian transnational firm with interests in the health sec...Published: 16 Dec 2020 at 06:39hrs | 477 | by Staff reporter
Council lies on bus terminuses exposed
Harare City Council has been exposed for what now appears to be empty talk on sprucing up bus terminuses across the city, leaving passengers exposed to rains and scorching heat due to lack of shelter....Published: 07 Dec 2020 at 06:53hrs | 998 | by Staff reporter
BCC losing revenue from dilapidated properties
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is losing potential revenue from leasing out its buildings as tenants have deserted dilapidated properties.This was revealed in the latest council minutes in which ...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 06:47hrs | 182 | by Staff reporter
Facelift for Zanu-PF Chegutu offices
Zanu-PF Chegutu District offices have been given a new look following major renovations of the floors. A youth empowerment organisation, Zuvarabuda Empowerment Trust, financed the rehabilitati...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 06:49hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's unmonitored airstrips to be closed
Unmonitored airstrips will be closed, while a new radar control system to monitor aircraft flying in the country's airspace will soon be installed amid concerns some aeroplanes have become conduits to...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 06:44hrs | 553 | by Staff reporter
'Health budget big, but inadequate'
ZIMBABWE'S health budget allocation has been dismissed as grossly inadequate to tackle the myriad of challenges besetting the sector.Finance minister Mthuli Ncube allocated the health sector $...Published: 28 Nov 2020 at 07:21hrs | 478 | by Staff reporter
Funding constraints stall UBH COVID-19 centre refurb
THE shortage of resources to refurbish United Bulawayo Hospital (UBH) has delayed the opening of the COVID-19 ward, which was expected to be functional at the beginning of November.UBH clinica...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:28hrs | 210 | by Staff reporter
Mbare tender scandal rocks council
Harare City Council has awarded a tender for palisade fencing and refurbishment of Mbare Bus Terminus to a local company when the same work had already been done for free by transport operators recent...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:06hrs | 200 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi appeals for support to refurbish prisons
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has appealed to Treasury for support to set up more magistrates courts, as well as refurbish prisons which are currently in a deplorable state.In his presentat...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:38hrs | 374 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo schools miss out on rehab offer
BULAWAYO'S ward 25 recently missed out on an opportunity to have its schools refurbished by a well-wisher after the local authority failed to provide materials needed for the exercise, a council repor...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:23hrs | 232 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF jingle angers MDC Alliance
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance officials in Masvingo are up in arms against a Zanu PF jungle which "wrongly" credits First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa for building an orphanage at Chambuta refugee camp in Chired...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:52hrs | 4389 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's reliance on donors, a security threat, says Chiwenga
Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga, who is also Health and Child Care Minister, has expressed concern over reliance on donors as the situation poses a security threat to the country. VP Ch...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:31hrs | 1148 | by Staff reporter
ZIFA reject Algeria's offer
ZIFA have rejected a crazy offer from Algeria to have the Warriors' home 2021 AFCON qualifier against the Desert Foxes played in Algiers. The Warriors take on the African champions away on Nov...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 06:24hrs | 874 | by Staff writer
Mnangagwa shops for military technology, hardware in Belarus
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's visit to Belarus last year, which was highly publicised as a strategic state visit to seal deals worth US$350 million spanning across various productive sectors of the e...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:39hrs | 1606 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa led City council in US$1bn tender storm
THE Harare City Council attempted to award water and sewage contracts worth close to US$1 billion to four Chinese firms without going to tender, available information suggests.The council's fi...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:37hrs | 1366 | by Staff reporter
UBH refurb behind schedule
UNITED Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) acting chief executive officer Narcacius Dzvanga has revealed that the refurbishment of the city's main COVID-19 facility was running behind schedule and it might not b...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:20hrs | 460 | by Staff reporter
Era of power cuts is over, claims Magombo
The era of load-shedding in Zimbabwe is over and the current power outages being experienced in some areas are a result of faults and vandalism, a senior Government official has said. Permanen...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 06:33hrs | 825 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga speaks on public private partnerships
GOVERNMENT is providing an enabling environment for public private partnerships in infrastructural development which will result in the attainment of Government's vision 2030. This was said by...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 06:44hrs | 908 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwelivesmatter, says Mnangagwa
THE lives of Zimbabweans matter more than the economy which is why the Second Republic put in place measures that have seen the country managing to ensure that Covid-19 infections do not spiral out of...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 06:44hrs | 1276 | by Staff reporter
Sinohydro restarts Hwange power plant facelift
A CHINESE firm undertaking the US$1,1 billion refurbishment and expansion of Zimbabwe's largest thermal power station says it has resumed operations on the project, seven months after construction was...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 06:59hrs | 1223 | by Staff reporter
Prioritise locals over Chinese contractors for the benefit of Zim economy
Kenyan law professor Patrick Lumumba gets animated when he talks about China's rising influence on the African continent where governments get blinded by their fraternal ties with the Communist Party ...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 10:51hrs | 1152 | by Anthony Matutu
NetOne, TelOne refurbish Mpilo Hospital ward
STATE-RUN telecommunications companies NetOne and TelOne yesterday unveiled a refurbished wing at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo as part of their corporate social responsibility project to capacit...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:37hrs | 1397 | by Staff reporter
Mastering art of 'villagising' cities
In Bishop Lazi's village, there lived this super-reclusive chap who, after a quarrel with his father over witchcraft, decided to build his own hut a spitting distance from the family homestead....Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:30hrs | 431 | by Bishop Lazarus
Mnangagwa govt promises 200 000 new houses by 2023
At least 200 000 new houses will be constructed by 2023, while apartments that are unfit for human habitation will be rebuilt and informal settlements revamped as part of a raft of measures to overhau...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:40hrs | 257 | by Staff Reporter
ZimThrive donates to Parirenyatwa hospital to help fight Covid-19 in Zimbabwe
ZimThrive, in collaboration with Covid-19 Zimbabwe, has donated $5900 USD to Parirenyatwa hospital to support the welfare of frontline health workers.The rise in cases in Zimbabwe has led to a...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 07:21hrs | 316 | by ZimThrive
King Mzilikazi's Commemoration 2020
The Covid 19 pandemic protocols made it impossible for formal annual first week of September celebratory gatherings and festivities to take place at the Royal Palace, Emhlahlandlela in the Matop...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 09:10hrs | 850 | by Prince Zwide Peter Khumalo
Mugabe, a year on
Angry and defeated! This is exactly how I feel one year since Robert Mugabe passed on. Angry because the country he left in a mess has gone completely bad and inhabitable in many respe...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 20:04hrs | 897 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Bulawayo fails to service 2 000 pre-sale stands
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is failing to service more than 2 000 pre-sale residential stands that were bought more than two years ago. The local authority in 2012 introduced a scheme to ...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:12hrs | 1822 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi in mid-air chopper scare
A MILITARY helicopter carrying Vice-President Kembo Mohadi was yesterday forced to abort landing at the Josiah Tungamirai Airbase, formerly Thornhill in Gweru and return to Harare under unclear circum...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 07:47hrs | 4774 | by Staff reporter
Chinese giant resumes US$12m talks with NetOne
CHINESE technology conglomerate, ZTE Corporation has confirmed that it has resumed discussions with local telecommunication firm, NetOne, for the supply of equipment, despite the state-owned entity no...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 09:53hrs | 1938 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga tells farmers to 'utilise land or lose it'
FARMERS not using their farms fully risk having them repossessed or reduced to sizes they can use productively, so agricultural production can rise and play a pivotal role in the attainment of an uppe...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 06:48hrs | 962 | by Staff reporter
BCC yet to receive devolution funds
GOVERNMENT has not yet disbursed devolution funds to the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) for roads rehabilitation, the local authority has said.Council had budgeted $20,7 million for resurfacing o...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:56hrs | 263 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean state capture
In my weekly political review show on the Gambakwe media platform two Sunday ago, we discussed about the planned demonstration on the 31st of July 2020. During the interview I invok...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 22:59hrs | 4290 | by Terence. T. Simbi
Council insists on sewage contaminated Khami water
As debate on the use of Khami Dam water to ease water shortages in Bulawayo continues, the local authority has insisted there is no need for panic as the water posed no health riskto residents contrar...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:25hrs | 1043 | by Staff reporter
Fake donor promised Mnangagwa 2m face masks
POLICE are on the hunt for owners of a local company, King David Global Foundation after they allegedly lied to President Emmerson Mnangagwa that they were importing two million face masks as a donati...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 08:36hrs | 3657 | by newzimbabwe
'Demolition of BF not an option'
MATABELELAND North Senator Alice Dube, says demolishing Barbourfields for the iconic structure to meet FIFA and CAF standards must never be an option. Instead, Dube, a member of the Parliament...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 08:12hrs | 1329 | by Staff reporter
BF stadium set for partial demolition
Bulawayo's ceremonial home of football, Barbourfields Stadium is set for partial demolition as part of the refurbishment works in line with CAF requirements.As part of efforts to ensure that E...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 16:54hrs | 2047 | by Staff reporter
NRZ splurges US$319K on vehicles
THE state-owned National Railways of Zimbabwe has spent more than US$319 000 on six luxury cars for top managers, amid allegations the money was diverted from a purse meant for the refurbishment of lo...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:18hrs | 2467 | by Staff reporter
New stadium for Bulawayo
THE Bulawayo City Council has identified a site where it intends to construct a new state of the art Stadium that conforms to Fifa and Caf standards.It has also emerged that installation of ne...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 20:53hrs | 7164 | by Staff reporter
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