SENGEZO Tshabangu, who asserts to be the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim secretary-general, has continued to haunt former party president Nelson Chamisa after he won another court order barring the youthful leader and his alleged supporters to vacate the Bulawayo office. This comes after Tshabangu last month filed an urgent court application challenging Chamisa…
THE Union Zimbabwe Trust (UZT), in conjunction with the Stop TB (Tuberculosis) Partnership, has handed over the TB REACH project to the Health ministry, after a successful two year project which saw hundreds of vulnerable patients being treated of the Drug Resistant TB (DR-TB). In 2021, UZT was among recipients of the Stop TB Partnership…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has resolved to recruit retired and elderly nurses as the local authority continues to lose its skilled medical practitioners to greener pastures abroad. As part of the measures to curb the massive loss of its skilled workforce, the local authority resolved, according to the latest council report, to employ nurses…
BULAWAYO mayor David Coltart has come out in support of thousands of informal traders displaced in the ongoing operation against illegal vending in the central business district (CBD). Recently, the local authority and the Provincial Affairs ministry resolved to remove vendors operating along the popular Fifth Avenue to pave the way for the refurbishing of…
TRADITIONAL leaders have expressed reservations on the new Marriages Act, arguing that some sections were against traditional norms and values. This follows the enactment of a new Marriages Act last year after the repeal of Customary Marriages Act and the Chapter 5:11 of the Marriages Act. The new Act consolidates all marriage laws in Zimbabwe…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) finds itself mired in a fix after failing to address its long outstanding issue of estimated high bills to residents. Since the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak in 2020, the local authority has been issuing estimated bills due to movement restrictions imposed by the government then as part of measures to curb…
A LATEST study commissioned by the Southern Africa Aids Information Dissemination Service (Safaids) and the Women Affairs ministry reveals that women are more involved in unpaid care work than males. The study titled; “The Zimbabwe State of Father’s Report”, involves other partners, including Sonke Gender Justice and was supported by the German Development Agency (GIZ)…
FORMER co-minister of National Healing during the inclusive government, Moses Mzila-Ndlovu, says it is unfortunate that most politicians in the opposition were no longer fighting to represent the people, but for personal gain. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, the outspoken former MDC stalwart, who now leads the Freedom Alliance Party, said the…
THE government says it is committed to back up the Bulawayo City Council’s (BCC) bid to raise US$14 million and urgently alleviate the local authority’s perennial water challenges. This comes after Local Government minister Winston Chitando yesterday met with Bulawayo mayor David Coltart in a closed door meeting as part of the government’s intervention to…
BULAWAYO City fathers have proposed a name-and-shame policy against litterbugs, among a raft of deterrent measures meant to stop rampant littering and illegal dumping in residential areas and the central business district (CBD). This was revealed in the latest council report after councillor Khathazani Ndlovu had requested to know the council’s strategy regarding the city’s…
