THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has urged residents to pay their bills using online platforms in order to decongest their premises in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. This comes as residents have continued to flood the revenue halls despite BCC having introduced an effective online payment platform two months ago. “Deputy mayor Mlandu Ncube was…
BULAWAYO mayor Solomon Mguni, has welcomed the approval of the city’s vehicle management system, a development he believes will boost the cash-strapped local authority’s revenue collection through parking fees. The Bulawayo Vehicle City Management System, a public-private partnership between the Bulawayo City Council and Tendy Three (Pvt) Ltd, which will see surveillance systems being installed on all…
HWANGE Local Board (HLB) says it has intensified monitoring the town’s infrastructure development as part of efforts to ensure that properties being…
AN estimated 1 500 National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) short term contract (STCs) employees are set to lose their jobs as the parastatal implements its restructuring exercise. On the other hand, the exercise has also sparked low morale particularly in those in top positions following the management’s move to freeze other departments and redeploy those…
ZANU PF Hwange district coordinating committee (DCC) is up in arms with hordes of coal mining companies, who it is accusing of causing pollution of Deka River as well as destruction of the town’s roads without ploughing back into the community. This emerged during a meeting which took place in the mining town on Tuesday where…
MPILO Central Hospital authorities are mulling converting one of the institution’s children units into a Covid-19 treatment centre exclusively for minors as the pandemic is now beginning to take its toll on children in the city. This comes as most hospitals countrywide have in recent weeks revealed that they have been overwhelmed by the continued…
MORE than 100 refugees believed to be Congolese migrants, who include children, are reportedly being detained in Bulawayo by authorities after they were found at a house in one of the city’s low-density suburbs following a tip off. The refugees were detained at Hillside Police Station as the authorities, led by the Social Welfare department,…
THE country’s second city has become the latest local authority to struggle with space to bury people due to soaring Covid-19 deaths. Apart from having to deal with high local coronavirus deaths, the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is also having to contend with more bodies of Zimbabweans who would have succumbed to the lethal disease…
MDC Alliance Bulawayo provincial executive says it is still in the dark on the outcome of a probe conducted by the national executive in June following serious factional fights in the province. The party leader Nelson Chamisa dispatched a five-member team to Bulawayo led by one of his deputies, Lynnette Karenyi-Kore, in a bid to…
THE State has withdrawn charges against Dinde Residents Association vice president, Never Tshuma, who was facing public violence charges after he led…
