Staff writer In Bulawayo BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has reported significant progress in its road maintenance and rehabilitation programme, with over 57,7 kilometres of roads upgraded so far this year under the ongoing Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme Phase 2 (ERRP2). During a stakeholders’ meeting on Monday, acting director of Engineering Services Methusi Dibidi presented an…

BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has implored informal traders to adhere to licensing procedures to regularise the operations of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to restore order and cleanliness in the city. Speaking at a stakeholders meeting at the weekend, the BCC principal town planner, Shelton Sithole, said the council had launched a city-wide campaign…

THE Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Mudenda, has called out unschooled council officials for running down local authorities countrywide. Speaking during the just-ended Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce congress in Victoria Falls, Mudenda said the auditor general’s reports continued to paint a bleak picture with local authorities failing to present clean financial statements in recent years….

BULAWAYO City Council has commenced a review of its urban agriculture policy to align it with modern trends in the food systems value chain and address challenges in sustainability and policy enforcement. The existing policy, adopted in 2011, was originally crafted to promote urban agriculture as a strategy for food security, poverty alleviation, and income…

AUTHORITIES have warned that the country’s economic transformation goals risk being derailed by entrenched bottlenecks in local government systems, urging councils to urgently modernise operations and adopt private-sector friendly reforms. Addressing delegates at the just-ended Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) annual congress in Victoria Falls, the deputy minister of Local Government, Benjamin Kabikira, said…

ZIMBABWE’S Trade Development and Promotion Organisation, (ZimTrade), says the country must urgently strengthen its foothold in regional markets to unlock the full potential of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and reduce trade barriers within the continent. Speaking to the Daily News on the side-lines of the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) congress…

IN A BID to curb increasing accidents at railway level crossings, the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has announced plans to roll out boom barrier technology at high-risk sites across the country. The move comes in response to a spike in railrelated collisions caused by motorists ignoring safety rules. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday,…