Zanu-PF youths in collaboration with senior party bigwigs are spearheading the illegal invasion of buildings and properties in Bulawayo.
A 32-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly smuggling 21 children into South Africa through an illegal crossing point along the Limpopo River.
Zimbabwe’s NoViolet Bulawayo, who won the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing, talks about readers, writers and writing.
At Bulawayo’s posh Rainbow Hotel, Saviour Kasukuwere, shares a guffaw with the business executives sitting next to him.
An ailing power station and poor domestic service delivery is leaving residents of the city in the dark, reports <b>Ray Ndlovu</b>.
Zimbabweans are not big on Christmas trees, but love to decorate their homes with balloons, colourful ribbons and cards from loved ones.
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/ 2 September 2009
Africa’s diehard entrepreneurial spirit leaves Mgcini Nyoni feeling both impressed and a little older.
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/ 25 February 2008
Service delivery has collapsed in Zimbabwe’s second largest city, Bulawayo, after local authorities recently announced that the municipality was insolvent and unable to cater to the needs of its almost two million residents. The council could not pay salaries in January and employees have been on a go-slow since then.
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/ 17 September 2007
The government is refusing to tackle increasing water shortages and instances of waterborne diseases in Bulawayo because of a struggle over control of the city’s water supply. Unless local officials hand over control of the water supply to a government agency, the central authorities have said they will not help the residents of the second-largest city.
South Africa beat Zimbabwe by five wickets in the first one-day international at the Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo on Wednesday. Zimbabwe posted 206 all out from their regulation 50 overs, but South Africa reached that target with 19 balls to spare and five wickets in hand.