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Munyaradzi Musiiwa Midlands Correspondent The Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ) has availed US$300 000 to Gweru City Council for the drilling of 20 commercial boreholes to ease the water crisis that is bedevilling the city. This comes amid reports that Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) will soon decommission the city’s main water source, Gwenhoro […]
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Locadia Mavhudzi Midlands Correspondent Midlands has embraced the devolution agenda through the establishment of district development committees which will oversee the implementation of projects at grassroots level. Speaking at a district development meeting in Gweru, provincial administrator Mr Albiot Maronge, who is the acting Provincial Development Coordinator, said devolution was coming in to expand the […]
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Courtney Matende Midlands Reporter A Shurugwi couple has been sentenced to 20 years each for kidnapping a 14-year-old girl before the wife assisted her husband to rape her. The couple gave the girl 50 cents and wild fruits to buy her silence. This was heard when Daniso Sibanda (52) and his wife Vongai Hunwe (28) […]
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Redcliff town clerk Mr Gilson Chakauya escaped death by a whisker after the vehicle he was travelling in veered off the road and overturned along the Gweru-Kwekwe Highway on Tuesday evening.
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A ZAOGA church pastor from Gweru was kicked and punched on the face by a mechanic following a misunderstanding over a car radiator.
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Kwekwe City’s oldest long distance bus terminus, Amaveni, which has been lying idle for the past 10 years, will now be used by cross-border transporters after they won a tender to use the facility, deputy mayor, Councillor Shadreck Tobaiwa has said.
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Kwekwe City Council has adopted a $41 million supplementary budget despite strong opposition from a section of the residents.
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Gweru residents have expressed mixed feelings over the supplementary budget proposal that will result in up to 100 percent increase in water and rates charges.
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A 25-year-old man from Mberengwa fatally struck his 72-year-old father with an axe and dumped the body in a disused mine shaft because the father was opposed to his marriage.
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The newly-appointed Midlands Provincial Peace Committee has dismissed sentiments by MDC-Alliance Midlands provincial spokesperson Mr Takavafira Zhou that the committee is an extension of the ruling Zanu-PF.
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Zanu-PF National Political Commissar Cde Victor Matemadanda has encouraged all political players to bury their differences and work towards the development of the nation.
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A potential water disaster is looming in Gweru amid indications that main potable water supplier, Gwenhoro Dam, is now at 18 percent capacity and the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) is on the verge of decommissioning the main water source.
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GOVERNMENT has operationalised 98 out of 146 Community Information Centres across the country after identifying information and communications technology (ICTs) as an important economic development catalyst for both urban and rural areas.
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Gweru Mayor Councillor Josiah Makombe has ordered the city council to remove all illegal vendors operating in the central business district following his recent tour of Kudzanai bus terminus where backyard kitchens have emerged.
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KWEKWE residents are up in arms against their association’s leader Mr Alex Homela whom they are accusing of running a one-man show for over 10 years without representing their concerns.
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