Jeffrey Muvundusi

MAYOR Solomon Mguni, pictured, is in the news once again after being granted a development permit to construct six townhouses on a piece of land measuring 4 287 square metres.

ACTING Mpilo chief executive officer Solwayo Ngwenya has challenged people to take the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic seriously as the worst is yet to come.

THREE Bulawayo residents who were arrested over the weekend in connection with the July 31 anti-government demonstration have been released on bail.

ZIMBABWEAN immigrants have once again been given a reprieve after the South African government extended the expiry date of their visas to October.

DUB poet Desire Moyo has challenged local established musicians to use their work to interrogate the prevailing social, economic and political situation in the country.

BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has been forced to temporarily shut down Princess Margaret Rose Clinic after one of the nurses at the institution tested positive for Covid-19.

THE trial of six police officers who are facing charges of allegedly brutally assaulting two women from Cowdray Park suburb during the lockdown period has been halted following closure of business at the Western Commonage Court after one…

RESIDENTS here have shot down proposals by the local authority to hike fines for alleged illegal vending and flouting other by-laws governing the operations of informal traders.

BULAWAYO-based brand activist and conceptual strategist Godwill Tasunga believes the Covid-19 pandemic was to some extent a blessing in disguise to the artists as it has given them an opportunity to think deep outside the box and embrace…

A rare collection of rediscovered early works by young Zimbabwean painters is being exhibited in the United Kingdom for the first time in almost 70 years.

THE Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) has reported no further coronavirus (Covid-19) cases at its Bulawayo prison after four inmates and one prison officer recently tested positive for the deadly pandemic.

BULAWAYO-born preacher Mduduzi Dube, popularly known as Black Elisha, pictured, pulled off another first in the second largest city after “centrally locking” a married cheating man.

BULAWAYO legislator Anele Ndebele has revived calls for the city’s on-going  water crisis to be declared “a state of national disaster” as 13 residents have died due to diarrhoea-related diseases arising from contaminated tap water.

A total of 13 student nurses at Mpilo Central Hospital have tested positive for Covid-19 amid concern that frontline health workers remain exposed to the deadly pandemic.

MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has with immediate effect appointed his deputy, Welshman Ncube, as the acting party president till further notice.

SIX police officers who allegedly assaulted two women from Cowdray Park suburb have filed an application to have their charges dropped.

THE city council here has remained defiant on its push to have Khami Dam as one of its suppliers of water.

ORGANISERS of this year’s ROIL Bulawayo Arts Awards (BAA) have hinted that the annual ceremony will take place online.

BULAWAYO-BASED hip-hop outfit Killemol has featured local songbird and Afro-soul queen Qeqeshiwe Mtambo on a new track titled I Tried.

THE MDC Alliance has suspended Bulawayo’s ward 4 councillor Silas Chigora after he was accused of denigrating the party’s president Nelson Chamisa on social media, the Daily News has learnt.

THE controversial Garikai/Hlalani Kuhle housing scheme launched by the government in 2005 following Operation Murambatsvina is proving to be a headache for local authorities.

Residents here yesterday said they were in full support of the proposed Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill, a development they said was crucial in putting to an end the misuse of the Internet and social media.

THE decision by Catholic-run private hospital Mater Dei to demand exorbitant fees from coronavirus (Covid-19) patients has apparently caused a furore in the city and beyond.

THE decision by Catholic-run private hospital Mater Dei to demand exorbitant fees from coronavirus (Covid-19) patients has apparently caused a furore in the city and beyond.

WITH beer halls and bars officially closed because of the coronavirus (Covid-19) national lockdown, shebeens have taken over and like a bush fire, are spreading to the affluent suburbs of Bulawayo.