BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has resumed the construction of the US$60 million Egodini Mall with the first phase expected to be complete in the next three months. The project missed several deadlines, with South African contractor Terracotta Trading (Private) Limited (TTPL), which secured the tender in 2012, blaming it on economic challenges and Covid-19. With…
AN MDC Alliance employee has dragged Hwange Central MP Daniel Molokele and the party’s Matabeleland North province secretary Dalumuzi Khumalo to court challenging a directive for him to vacate a party-owned house in the coal mining town. In court papers filed before the Hwange Magistrates’ Court yesterday, Cleopas Ngwenya, who is employed as a provincial…
MATOBO residents are in a fresh headache following the return by a mining syndicate that was last year evicted from Domboshaba village after invading a world heritage site to prospect for gold. In September last year, the mining firm, Mazinahue Syndicate, was engaged in running battles with locals, who argued that the company could not…
MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora, says he is working on mending rifts in the party’s Bulawayo structures as he seeks to stabilise the party ahead of the 2023 elections. This comes as a group of women walked out of the party’s women assembly belated Women’s Day celebrations in Bulawayo over the weekend, expressing displeasure over the…
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) will approach the Local Government ministry seeking clarity on whether to provide its mayor with a mansion or…
ORGANISERS of the Bulawayo Arts Festival (Baf), which takes place every year in the first week of June, have promised a hybrid event catering for both physical and online audiences. The festival, now in its second year, provides an opportunity for Zimbabwe’s second largest city to showcase its cultural heritage and creative diversity. It came…
POLITICAL outfit Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP), which on Monday threatened to protest over transport woes in Bulawayo, has petitioned Transport minister Felix Mhona over Zupco’s continued monopoly as the country’s sole authorised public transporter. In the petition copied to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe, among other stakeholders, the party’s president, Mqondisi…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has not been impressed by the government’s decision to take over the rehabilitation of local roads. Some councillors view the recent Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme (ERRP) launched by the government as a political move ahead of the 2023 harmonised elections. According to the council’s latest report, some councillors felt that…
Jeffrey Muvundusi THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has approved a 20 percent critical shortage areas allowance (CSAA) for its medical officers to stop a crippling brain drain. This comes as the local authority has revealed that in the past few years it had experienced a high staff turnover in the medical department owing to poor…
BULAWAYO mayor Solomon Mguni says the country’s second largest city needs renewal and regeneration as part of its development agenda. Mguni, the youngest mayor that the city has ever had post-independence, last week sat down with the Daily News on Sunday’s Bulawayo Bureau Chief Jeffrey Muvundusi to look at the plethora of challenges his council is…
