Bulawayo condemns murambatsvina

July 14, 2005

The Bulawayo City Council, which last week barred three government ministers from attending its private briefing with United Nations special…

Bulawayo introduces water cuts

June 30, 2005

The Bulawayo City Council is to introduce water rationing from tomorrow. Individually metered houses in the high density suburbs as…

Was Murambatsvina political backlash or genuine clean-up?

June 9, 2005

The people should have seen it coming. It was common talk before the March 31 elections that there would be…

Dollar overvalued but . . .

June 9, 2005

The Zimbabwe dollar should have been trading at $18 300 to the United States dollar by the end of April…

Grave problem

June 2, 2005

The Bulawayo City Council has been forced to put out tenders for grave diggers for a third time because bids…

Tsvangirai still all the MDC has got

May 27, 2005

Politics is like soccer, award-winning sports journalist Tendai Dindingwe says. "When a team loses, blame is heaped on the coach.…

Fuel shortage chokes business

May 27, 2005

The shortage of fuel that has paralysed Bulawayo for more than a month is now choking industry and commerce. Several…

Government upped domestics’ wages to fix MDC

May 20, 2005

In what critics see as a deliberate move to get back at the urban voters, most of whom are considered…

Organisers blamed for Independence Day vandalism

May 20, 2005

Some Bulawayo city councillors have castigated the organisers of the Silver Jubilee celebrations at Barbourfields Stadium for the chaos that…

Parklands stands taken

May 20, 2005

All 119 stands being serviced by the Bulawayo City Council in the low-density suburb of Parklands have already been bought,…