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FOUR Umguza Rural District Council (RDC) councillors who had filed an urgent chamber application with the Bulawayo High Court challenging their suspension last month have been reinstated. David Moyo, Sisa Moyo, Ernest Sibanda and Mary Shelton  of wards 15, 13, eight and two respectively were suspended together with their chairperson Alexander Mhlanga last month by Local…

A FORMER MDC Alliance councillor for ward 12 in Chitungwiza has appeared in court accused of swindling a house seeker of US$3 800 in a botched residential stand deal. Darlington Musonza allegedly sold an open space to the complaint which was not set for residential purposes. He was not asked to plead to allegations of…

A RUWA drug dealer has been arrested over murder after he allegedly assaulted two men he accused of stealing money, property and crystal meth (mutoriro) from him. One of the assaulted people, Tinotenda Mandiyanike, later died. Masimba Makoto is alleged to be behind the death of Mandiyanike and dumping the body along Bulawayo road after…

THE DEAF Zimbabwe Trust (DZT) has made recommendations to the government and relevant stakeholders to come up with initiatives to support children with disabilities in the run-up to the reopening of schools. DZT director and founder Barbra Nyangairi, said children with disabilities have continually been left out of return-to-school plans since learning institutions were closed…

A 39-YEAR-OLD man from Makokoba in Bulawayo on Friday appeared before the courts for allegedly murdering another man who had accused him of proposing love to his wife. Nkosilathi Ncube allegedly stabbed Brighton Mandishana to death over the latter’s wife. Ncube appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Marygold Ndlovu facing a murder charge and was remanded in…

IN the eyes of many, the late Independent End Time Message founder Robert Martin Gumbura was nothing, but a criminal and a rapist, but his family paints a different picture altogether. Gumbura, who was serving a 20-year jail term after his sentence was slashed by half last year, died at the Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison…

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…

RESIDENTS in Mpopoma suburb in Bulawayo have bemoaned high water bills which have resulted from the local authority’s bid to compensate for previously underestimated bills. Councillor Charles Moyo confirmed the development, adding that he was currently engaging council management on the issue. “l am aware of the issue and we are currently investigating the problem….