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Bulawayo City Council council have blocked a move to reverse a council resolution barring informal traders from operating along Fifth Avenue.
The councillors say the road should be opened for human and vehicular traffic.
The local authority closed the road to vendors at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
However, two years later, the council has failed to remove the informal traders operating along Fifth Avenue.
The local authority identified sites for vendors to operate from. The spots are near the Highlanders Football Club clubhouse and another at the corner of Lobengula Street and First Avenue. But the vendors say the sites are far away from their targeted clients.
According to the latest council report that was tabled before a full council meeting last Wednesday, council management had proposed the official reopening of the street to accommodate informal traders. Reads the report:
<blockquote>
With the coming of COVID-19, council on 3 June 2020 resolved that 5th Avenue (stretching from Robert Mugabe to Lobengula Street) be closed off permanently to any form of trading and henceforth the closed street be re-opened as a public road that accommodates two-way traffic as per the Roads Act provisions.
Despite the fact that this whole process was consultative, disgruntled informal traders took the matter to court.
The court dismissed their application and upheld the Council’s resolution of opening the road for vehicular traffic.
There had been an application from informal traders to close off 5th Avenue for informal trading activities, in light of the discussions around 5th Avenue, four options exist.
The options are informed by the need to strike a balance amongst a multifarious use, that is parking, informal trading and vehicular traffic and the property owners.
</blockquote>
The first option tabled would be to maintain the existing bays prior to COVID-19 and leave the planning area with 880 informal trading bays.
The second is to have the planning area with 952 informal trading bays occupying parking bays on both ends of the planning area.
The third option suggested is that the area will have two riding lanes and parking bays to the north but with 557 informal trading bays.
The fourth and final option is to maintain the status quo of opening up 5th Avenue to vehicular traffic without any consideration of informal trading activities.
Management was reportedly pushing for the adoption of option three, saying it leaves the area with fewer vending bays and would accommodate all the users including property owners.
However, councillors dismissed the move by management. Acting Mayor, Councillor Mlandu Ncube said what was dangerous with the move was that it would appear as if the local authority was regularising illegality. He said:
<blockquote>
We cannot create a problem by trying to solve another problem, in this city we are clear that 5th Avenue is a road, people must drive along that street.
When that street was closed there were people operating there, whom we consulted properly and gave them bays somewhere else, some, unfortunately, did not get them because of the limited space and went home.
Suddenly, despite this resolution, we woke up to people now operating there and two years after we are failing to remove these illegal elements, now we want to regularise those illegal elements, which is dangerous.
We will create a problem, with our people who were originally trading there, we can only start talking about that area when all offenders have left.
</blockquote>
| <a href="https://www.sundaynews.co.zw/councillors-block-reopening-of-fifth-avenue-market/">The Sunday News</a>

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Councillors Block Reopening Of Fifth Avenue Market In Bulawayo

The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has temporarily suspended the current 72-hour water-shedding programme in the Tuli Reservoir zone following a major pipeline burst.
In a public notice issued on Wednesday, 26 October 2022, the City of Bulawayo’s acting Town Clerk Sikhangele Zhou said several suburbs will be affected. She said:
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The City of Bulawayo would like to advise members of the public of water supply interruptions to all areas fed by the Tuli Reservoir.
This is due to a burst that occurred on the clear water line supplying the Tuli reservoir between Ncema and Fernhill Pump Stations.
The following areas are likely to be affected: Lochview, Sunninghill, Marlands, Glencoe, Riverside, Waterford, Manningdale, Willsgrove, Buenavista, Douglasdale, Fortunes gate, Selborne Park, Matsheumhlope Esigodini, Imbizo Barracks, Parklands, Khumalo, Queens Park, Suburbs, Mahatshula, Woodville, Kingsdale, Killarney.
The City of Bulawayo will temporarily suspend the current 72-hour water-shedding programme in the Tuli Reservoir zone until the burst pipe is repaired.
Residents are advised that supplies will be restored once the repair works have been completed and pumping has resumed and the Tuli reservoir has been raised to acceptable levels.
Residents are requested to conserve water and keep taps turned off in the event that the work is completed sooner.
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Bulawayo Council Suspends Water Rationing For Several Suburbs

Residents of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second-largest city, face a water crisis after the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) cut off electricity at the city’s water pumps for emergency maintenance of electricity infrastructure.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, 19 October 2022, the City of Bulawayo’s acting Town Clerk Sikhangele Zhou advised residents that the current 72-hour shedding programme will be suspended as water supplies will be cut off to all areas until the power utility restores electricity. Reads the statement:
<blockquote>
<h2>NOTICE OF POSSIBLE WATER SUPPLIES INTERRUPTION AND TEMPORARY SUSPENSION OF 72-HOUR SHEDDING DUE TO THE ZETDC SHUTDOWN AT ESIGODINI.</h2>
The public is hereby informed of water supply interruptions to all suburbs as a result of an emergency maintenance shutdown by Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) at Inyankuni in Esigodini on Wednesday, 19 October 2022 from 07:00hrs to 18:00hrs.
This will have an impact on raw water pumping volumes at both Ncema Treatment Works and Fernhill Booster Station, and consequently, affect production at Criterion Water Works. 
The shutdown will result in minimal pumping or treatment at all three of the above-mentioned stations, depleting the City’s Supply and Distribution reservoirs.
To prevent the water system from collapsing, the City of Bulawayo will temporarily suspend the current 72-hour shedding programme and cut off supply to all areas until the ZETDC shutdown is completed and power is restored at all three plants, allowing water treatment and pumping to resume.
Residents are advised that supplies will be restored once treatment and pumping have resumed and the city reservoirs have been raised to acceptable levels. 
Meanwhile, residents are advised to conserve water and keep taps turned off in the event that the work is completed sooner.
The City of Bulawayo wishes to apologise to its valued consumers for the inconvenience likely to be caused.
</blockquote>

ZESA Shutdown Triggers Water Cuts In Bulawayo

One primary school in Bulawayo — Aisleby — recorded a zero per cent pass rate in the 2021 Grade 7 Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (ZIMSEC) examinations.
According to the latest council report, the overall pass rate of the 30 Bulawayo City Council-owned primary schools was 55.92 per cent.
Mawaba in Lobengula West was the best performing school with a pass rate of 79.5 per cent, followed by JW Mthimkulu in Magwegwe West with a pass rate of 76.5 per cent.
4 807 learners set for the exams with 2 688 passing the six subjects with a five or better. Part of the report reads:
<blockquote>
The results were the first Junior Examination in Primary Schools, based on the Competence-Based Curriculum which has additional learning areas- Agriculture, Information Technology, Science, Technology, Social Sciences and Physical Education- being examined for the first time.
The 2021 pass rate was 55,92 per cent based on six subjects passed as per the City of Bulawayo standards, three schools performed above 70 per cent, nine schools performed between 60 per cent and 69 per cent, nine schools performed between 50 per cent and 59 per cent, five schools performed between 40 per cent and 49 per cent, one school performed between 30 per cent and 39 per cent and two schools performed below 10 per cent.
The top three council schools in the 2021 Grade 7 examinations were, Mawaba 79.5 per cent, JW Mthimkhulu; 76.52 per cent and Nketa 72.5 per cent.
</blockquote>
According to the report, Malindela which was in the first position in 2020 fell by 18.36 per cent and dropped to position seventh in 2021. Reads the report:
<blockquote>
Ntshamathe which was in the second position also fell heavily in 2021 from 75.97 per cent to 60.68 per cent dropping by 15.29 per cent, JW Mthimkhulu which was in third place in 2020 rose to position two gaining 5.33 per cent to 76.52 per cent.
Mganwini was also among the notable schools that fell as it dropped by 13.42 per cent from 60.12 per cent to 46.70 per cent.
Aisleby maintained the bottom place and had a zero per cent pass rate similar to 2020.
At second position from the bottom was St Peters which lost 11 per cent from 13.56 per cent to 2.56 per cent.
Ingubo at position three from the bottom continued to disappoint losing 3.26 per cent from 38.74 per cent to 35.48 per cent.
Josiah Chinamano was the most improved school gaining 26.04 per cent from 32.52 per cent to 58.56 per cent with Senzangakhona having three learners who scored six units each.
… Overall, 22 schools out of 30 schools had a pass rate above 50 per cent and eight compared to 10 in 2020 performed below 50 per cent.
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The local authority noted that the long period of schools closure from the first term to the second/third term in 2021 reduced teacher-learner contact time in the year 2021.
This meant that there was no adequate coverage of syllabi content and yet the examinations questions were derived from the entire syllabi, said the Council.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.sundaynews.co.zw/bulawayo-councillor-fumes-over-mwonzora-links/">The Sunday News</a></h4>

Bulawayo School Records Zero Percent Pass Rate In Two Consecutive Years

The eight Bulawayo City Council (BCC) councillors who won in the 26 March by-elections were sworn in on Monday.
The swearing-in ceremony, which was held at the council chamber, was attended by the newly-elected councillors, other councillors, heads of council departments, and invited guests.
All the eight councillors were elected on Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) tickets, with five of them formerly MDC Alliance councillors who were recalled from Council by the MDC-T.
The eight are Edwin Ndlovu (Ward 8), Donaldson Mabutho (Ward 9), Lilian Mlilo (Ward 12), Concilia Mlalazi (Ward 13), Christopher Dube (Ward 19), Alderman Earnest Rafamoyo (Ward 20), Tinevimbo Maphosa (Ward 21) and Mpumelelo Moyo (Ward 26).
The swearing-in ceremony was presided over by BCC Town Clerk Christopher Dube while council chamber secretary Sikhangele Zhou assisted the councillors in reciting the oath.
In his remarks soon after the swearing-in ceremony, Bulawayo mayor Solomon Mguni urged all the councillors to work together across the political divide. He said:
<blockquote>
For the first time in 20 years, we now have a multiparty chamber and we should work together as councillors for the City of Bulawayo.
We have been given the mandate to serve our people and we call upon unity in the cockpit and serve everyone equally and equitably and the committees should embrace each and every one of us.
Our mandate is to serve the people of Bulawayo. Our main mandate is carrying upon our shoulders the vision of the city, which is to be a smart and transformative city by the year 2024 and we expected all of us to champion this vision and be guided by the values of the city that is integrity, transparency, innovation, accountability, fairness and consultation.
</blockquote>
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.chronicle.co.zw/new-bcc-councillors-sworn-in/">Chronicle</a></h4>

Eight CCC Bulawayo Councillors Sworn In

The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has reduced its “exorbitant” parking fees following complaints from motorists and the public.
The City of Bulawayo, in partnership with Tendy Three Investments, recently introduced a new parking system where motorists were asked to pay US$1 for a 30-minute prime parking spot and US$1 for an hour parking spot in other zones.
In a statement released on Friday late afternoon, Bulawayo Town Clerk, Christopher Dube, said that with effect from Monday 21 March 2022, the Central Business District has been designated into a single US$1 for 1-hour fee zone.
This means that the US$1 for 30 minutes fee for a prime parking spot has been scrapped. Said, Dube:
<blockquote>
The City of Bulawayo would like to advise members of the public and the motoring public that with effect from Monday 21 March 2022, the Central Business District has been designated into a single zone of one hour/ US$1 or at equivalent bank rate through Ecocash POS or ZWL cash.
This notification cancels the 30 minutes /US$1 zone that was in place at the core of the city.
</blockquote>
<h4>More: <a href="https://cite.org.zw/bcc-in-parking-fees-climbdown/">CITE</a></h4>

City Of Bulawayo Adjusts Parking Fees

A 55-year-old man allegedly stole a Bulawayo City Council (BCC) vehicle last month and spray painted it to erase the logo.
The suspect was intercepted by the police in Esigodini on Friday while driving the stolen Mazda B1600 vehicle which had a car tracking system installed. Police said in a post on Twitter:
<blockquote>
Police in Bulawayo arrested Ignatius Sounds Mudzudzu (55) for theft of a motor vehicle case that occurred in Bulawayo CBD on 04/03/22 at about 1000 hours.
The suspect was intercepted by the Police while driving the stolen Mazda B1600 vehicle, installed with a car tracking system, at the Crocodile area in Esigodini.
A container of Glue Devil spray paint which he used to deface the company’s vehicle logo was recovered in the vehicle.
Further investigations linked the suspect to two more cases which occurred in Bulawayo CBD on 07/02/22 and 20/02/22, in which he allegedly stole two vehicles and sold them in Mozambique.
</blockquote>
Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) spokesperson in Bulawayo Province, Inspector Abednico Ncube, confirmed that the vehicle stolen and now recovered belongs to the City of Bulawayo.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.chronicle.co.zw/bcc-car-thief-arrested-in-esigodini-after-spray-painting-the-vehicle/">Chronicle</a></h4>

Thief Spray Paints Council Vehicle To Conceal Crime

The Bulawayo City Council has advised residents of an interruption to the water supply to all areas fed by the Tuli Reservoir this Wednesday.
In a public notice today, Acting Town Clerk, Sikhangele Zhou said water will be cut off from the affected areas to undertake some emergency repairs following a leak that developed within the last 24 hours. Said Zhou:
<blockquote>
The City of Bulawayo would like to advise members of the public that there will be an interruption to the water supply to all areas fed by the Tuli Reservoir on Wednesday, 23rd February 2022.
This is due to emergency repairs that need to be effected due to a bad leak that developed within the last 24 hours.
</blockquote>
The affected areas that are supplied by the Tuli Reservoir are Lochview, Sunninghill, Marlands, Glencoe, Riverside, Waterford, Manningdale, Willsgrove, Buenavista, Douglasdale, Lookout Masuku Barracks, Fortunes Gate, Selborne Park, Matsheumhlope, Parklands, Khumalo, Queenspark, Suburbs, Mahatshula, Woodville and Kingsdale. Added Zhou:
<blockquote>
Residents are advised to conserve water accordingly and ensure that taps remain closed.
Bulawayo City Council wishes to apologise to its valued consumers for the inconvenience likely to be caused.
</blockquote>
<h4>More: <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a></h4>

Bulawayo Cuts Water Supplies To Several Suburbs

The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has been rocked by a critical shortage of nurses who are resigning from council-run clinics in large numbers.
In its latest report, BCC revealed that apart from the shortage of nurses, the city had also been hit by a shortage of ambulances. The report reads:
<blockquote>
The Director of Health Services on 8 September reported that there was a critical shortage of nursing staff at clinics. Nurses were resigning in big numbers monthly.
… Council was operating with few ambulances. One ambulance is dedicated to COVID-19. Every time an ambulance completed the delivery of a patient, it is disinfected.
</blockquote>
The report said that during a recent council meeting, Ward 4 councillor <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Silas_Chigora">Silas Chigora</a> noted that some local council clinics and other COVID-19 vaccination centres in the city turned away residents with no identity documents.
This is being done in spite of a government directive instructing all health centres to accept recommendation letters from community leaders for people with no IDs. Read the report:
<blockquote>
The directive was instructing community leaders to write letters that were to be submitted to the vaccination centre by the residents without documents.
He noted that most council clinics and other vaccination centres turned away such residents with such a letter.
</blockquote>
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/nurses-resign-from-bulawayo-city-clinics-in-droves/">NewZimbabwe.com</a></h4>

Nurses Resign From Bulawayo Council Clinics In Large Numbers

Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has warned residents against drinking borehole water saying it (council) has no capacity to treat the water.
In its latest council report, the local authority warned that borehole water was a potential health risk.
The council said sewer overflows and bacteriological contaminated soil are the main sources of borehole contamination.
The local authority advised residents to boil borehole water before drinking it. The council report read:
<blockquote>
The Director of Engineering Services reported (29th July, 2021) that borehole water was not treated water nor did Council have the capacity to treat or protect such water from contamination.
In that regard, bacteriological quality of borehole water could not be guaranteed since the water was untreated and subject to contamination at any time from environmental factors like sewer overflows and bacteriological contaminated soil.
</blockquote>
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.bmetro.co.zw/bcc-warns-residents-against-drinking-borehole-water/">B-Metro</a></h4>

Bulawayo Warns Residents Against Drinking Borehole Water

Bulawayo City Council has made it mandatory for homeowners to display the property number outside.
The local authority has updated its Fire Brigade by-laws and will fine homeowners Z$5 000 for failure to display the street number.
It says displaying numbers will assist emergency services to locate addresses quicker. The amended by-laws state:
<blockquote>
For purposes of easy identification by any member of the Service in an emergency, every owner or occupier of premises must ensure that the correct street number of the premises is displayed clearly on the street boundary of the premises in numbers at least 75 millimetres high; is visible from the street and is maintained in a legible condition at all times.
</blockquote>
Moreover, it is now an offence for anyone to make a bonfire or burn any rubbish or straw, shavings, standing grass or other vegetation or other flammable or combustible materials in any street, sanitary lane or thoroughfare or in any park or open space or within a distance of 15 metres of any building, whether private property or not, without first having obtained the written permission of the council. The by-law reads:
<blockquote>
The council shall have the right to refuse permission in any case in which it considers the lighting of a fire for any of the purposes mentioned would endanger life or property.
No person having control of any vacant piece of land shall allow grass or rubbish to accumulate in such a manner and in such quantities as may be likely to cause danger of fire to any building.
Council may, by notice in writing, require any person to remove such materials or such grass or rubbish or to take such reasonable precautions as the council may deem necessary…
If such person fails to comply with such notice the council may remove such materials or such grass or rubbish and may recover the cost of so doing from such person, in addition to which such person shall be liable to prosecution for a breach of these by-laws.
</blockquote>
The local authority has also authorised the Fire Brigade to examine any building for adherence with fire prevention protocols. Reads the amended by-laws:
<blockquote>
If in the opinion of the council, any building or its use is a source of danger to persons or property by reason of the risk of fire, the council shall, by notice in writing, advise the owner and/or occupier of such building that the use of such building or premises is to be restricted by the total prohibition of its use until such time as it has been modified to meet the council’s requirements.
</blockquote>
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.sundaynews.co.zw/5-000-fine-for-failure-to-display-house-number/">The Sunday News</a></h4>

Residents Face $5 000 Fines For Failing To Display House Number

MDC-T Councillors have abandoned plans to construct a ZWL$25 million luxurious mansion for the city’s Mayor Solomon Nguni at Selbourne Park following a public outcry over the move.
The Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC-T dominated Bulawayo City Council had recommended the local authority should build a mayoral house on a stand owned by the council in the low-density suburb.
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The decision, however, angered residents and was also criticised by the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance.
In a statement, Silas Chigora, the MDC-T council chief whip said the council had only agreed to build the mayor a house in Selbourne Park subject to the availability of funds. Said Chigora:
<blockquote>
Under the item we had, three options: (1) the already existing resolution to renovate a council house at Hornung in Burnside at a cost of USD146 000, (2) purchase a house at a cost of US$200 000 for use by the current mayor and future mayors, (and) (3) build a house at an already reserved stand in Selbourne park when funds become available.
Cognisant of the current financial status of the city we resolved to pursue the long-standing position of building a mayoral house in Selbourne Park at the already reserved stand when funds become available at a cost yet to be quantified.
</blockquote>
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<h4>More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/byo-councillors-make-u-turn-on-mayors-mansion/">NewZimbabwe.com</a></h4>

Bulawayo Councillors Make U-Turn On Mayoral House

The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has announced plans to demolish several church buildings in the city for not adhering to the local authority’s building standards.
Demolition notices have also been sent to residents who failed to comply with the city’s model building by-laws.
In its latest council report, BCC revealed that about 16 churches, mostly in Cowdray Park and Entumbane high-density suburbs were issued with demolition notices. The report read:
<blockquote>
The department of housing and community services has carried out routine inspections around the city.
</blockquote>
Some of the churches targeted for demolition are Tabernacles of God, Marimba Church of God, Bethesda Church of Zion, Masimba Apostolic Church, Assemblies of God Church, Sangano Revapositori Church and Jesus Promotion Ministries, among others.
The city’s director of housing and community services, Dictor Khumalo said no construction should be done in the city without approved plans and requisite inspections.
He said the affected churches had been given a 21-day notice to rectify the structures.
Recently, Council condemned 51 buildings in the city centre after they were adjudged to be dilapidated and posing a danger to inhabitants and passers-by.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/2021/08/16-byo-church-buildings-face-demolition/">NewsDay</a></h4>

16 Church Buildings In Bulawayo Face Demolition

Bulawayo City Council says its ability to attend to sewer chokes has greatly been compromised by surging coronavirus infections in the country which have also affected its employees.
In a statement this Saturday, Bulawayo Town Clerk Christopher Dube revealed that five out of eight teams are currently in quarantine and isolation after some of their members tested positive for COVID-19. The statement read:
<blockquote>The City of Bulawayo would like to advise the public that its sewer task teams have been affected by the rising number of COVID-19 cases.
As a result, this has impacted negatively on service delivery resulting in a growing backlog of sewer chokes that need to be attended to.
Whilst all the precautionary measures of masking up, social distancing and hand sanitizing have been meticulously observed as well as vaccination is underway, this has not averted the spread of COVID-19 among Council staff, especially outside the work environment.
The COVID-19 cases have resulted, in some instances, in the quarantine of the whole teams, wherein a member has tested positive, with five out of eight teams currently in quarantine and isolation.
This has greatly reduced staffing levels available to attend to outstanding sewer blockages throughout the city, hence negatively impacting the reaction time for attending to sewer reports.
As a consequence, a further increase in the sewer blockage backlog might be observed. Council is currently exploring ways to combat the situation through other means.
The City of Bulawayo, thus, wishes to apologise to its valued customers for any inconvenience that is likely to be caused.</blockquote>
<h4>More: <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a></h4>

Bulawayo Struggles To Attend To Sewer Chokes As COVID-19 Strikes Employees

Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has warned residents that it will ban funeral gatherings at its cemeteries if people continue exceeding the number of mourners permitted under current lockdown regulations, saying burials were becoming coronavirus super spreaders.
The government announced that not more than 30 people must attend funerals but it has been noted that most people were not adhering to the directive.
Bulawayo Deputy Mayor Councillor Mlandu Ncube said that funerals were fast being singled out as hotspots and they would soon be forced to reserve burials for undertakers only. He said:
<blockquote>Health experts have told us that these funerals are now super spreaders therefore our residents should have this in mind and comply with the laid down guidelines in terms of the people who can attend funerals.
However, if the public chooses to continue ignoring these guidelines we will be forced to introduce a policy where we will ban funeral gatherings as a means of saving lives because we cannot continue relaxing while this pandemic takes our close friends and relatives.</blockquote>
Debating at a virtual full council meeting, councillors singled out burials and the continued flocking into the Central Business District (CBD) by residents as some of the avenues that were causing high levels of infections in the city.
Statistics from the Ministry of Health and Child Care revealed that in the past six days up to Friday, out of the 394 deaths recorded in the country, Bulawayo had 74 COVID-19 related deaths.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.sundaynews.co.zw/city-to-ban-mourners/">The Sunday News</a></h4>

Bulawayo Mulls Banning Mourners From Cemeteries

Bulawayo City Council (BCC) Tuesday told residents that it cannot guarantee uninterrupted water supplies to all areas due to intermittent power supply being experienced.
In a statement, Bulawayo Town Clerk Christopher Dube said if the power supply situation continues, high lying areas may start experiencing low water pressure and water cuts. Said, Dube:
<blockquote>The City of Bulawayo would like to inform residents of Bulawayo that there may be possible water supply interruptions due to the intermittent power supply being experienced citywide.
The Ncema and Fernhill Pump Stations last night lost 3hrs of pumping and the Criterion Water Treatment Works still has no power since 18:18hours yesterday (Monday, 28 June 2021).
Residents are advised that this has negatively affected the treatment of water as well as pumping of both raw water and clear water.
If this situation continues, high lying areas may start experiencing low water pressure and intermittent water supply.
As these challenges are being experienced residents are requested to note that the city is not under Water Shedding except for the suburbs supplied by Tuli Reservoir.
The City of Bulawayo urges residents to conserve water.</blockquote>
On Monday, Energy and Power Development Minister Zhemu Soda Monday <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/zimbabwe-faces-prolonged-power-outages-after-surge-hits-power-stations/">said the country faces prolonged power outages</a> after a surge in electricity imports from neighbouring South Africa overloaded the network and caused generating plants to fail.
Speaking by phone to Bloomberg, Zhemu said the surge caused a nationwide blackout in the early hours of Monday, as it affected output at the Kariba hydropower plant and the coal-fired Hwange Power Station.

Power Outages Interrupt Water Supply In Bulawayo

Bulawayo City Council has reportedly awarded former deputy mayor, Tinashe Kambarami an industrial stand.
Early this month, Kambarami caused a stir at council chambers after he tried to attend a full council meeting despite his recalling by the MDC-T.
He demanded to be recognised as the deputy mayor after his acquittal by the Supreme Court but the ruling was of no effect as he was recalled by the Douglas Mwonzora-led party.
The former deputy mayor had to be ejected from the chambers by security, with the mayor, Councillor Solomon Mguni labelling him an intruder.
The Sunday News claims the mayhem could have been used as a smokescreen to divert the public from a deal between Kambarami and the council.
The publication said Kambarami had applied to purchase an industrial stand in the city, through a company he co-owns with his wife Rosemary — Grade One Private Limited.
Although in the council report, the Kambaramis are not named as directors, enquiries at the Companies and Deeds office revealed that the two are co-directors of the company.
The stand in question was to an extent of 3373 square metres that was surrendered to council by the previous owner and made available for re-allocation to other deserving applicants.
The Kambaramis are expected to pay a selling price of US$11 300 excluding 14,5 per cent Value Added Tax or Zimbabwe dollar equivalent subject to the foreign currency exchange auction rate, among other conditions.
Meanwhile, Bulawayo City Council corporate communications officer, Bongiwe Ngwenya said Kambarami is no longer a serving councillor.
She said the only way he could make it back to council chambers was if he challenged his expulsion in the courts.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.sundaynews.co.zw/council-allocates-fired-kambarami-industrial-stand/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Sunday News</a></h4>

Fired Former Bulawayo Deputy Mayor Allocated Industrial Stand

Bulawayo City Council (BCC) Town Clerk Christopher Dube said the local authority will take drastic action that could see ratepayers losing their homes over unpaid bills.
BCC is owed over $1.1 billion by residents, businesses and Government departments in the city and its ballooning debt has left it technically insolvent as its debtors almost equal its creditors.
As of March 2021, the local authority was owed $1.13 billion while it owed $1.06 billion.
Dube told a media briefing on Tuesday that water disconnection was not an effective debt recovery strategy and Council will be forced to take radical measures to force ratepayers to clear their debts. He said:
<blockquote>We are not going to be using one strategy (water disconnections), we are going to use so many of these strategies.
First, we will disconnect you, if it doesn’t work, we will take you to court and, in the end, you will end up losing your property.
We try to conscientise our residents through various forms of media and also through our councillors.
We also try to make sure that the money that has accumulated through a 10 per cent retention scheme is also used in various wards so that people can understand that payments is good for everyone maybe that will also encourage the residents.
The serious one would be taking you to court and take away properties, unfortunately.</blockquote>
The Council is under fire from residents due to failure to attend to burst sewers on time, dilapidated road networks, failure to consistently provide water and collection of refuse.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.chronicle.co.zw/residents-to-lose-houses/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Chronicle</a></h4>

Council To Seize Residents' Houses Over Unpaid Bills

10 000 litres of diesel meant for major road projects disappeared from Bulawayo City Council (BCC)’s roads department, it has emerged.
BCC reportedly conducted an internal investigation on the matter where the acting director of roads, Dalithemba Sibanda, got away with just a written warning.
Bulawayo Town Clerk Christopher Dube confirmed to Sunday News that they have supplied the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) with all the documents relating to the matter which they had requested for further investigations.
A source revealed to the publication how the local authority discovered that 10 000 litres of diesel were unaccounted for. The source was quoted as saying:
<blockquote>The audit findings had indicated that between December last year and February, council received 20 000 litres of diesel for service delivery and road projects.
The fuel was delivered and stored at the Khami Road main stores. Between January 11 and February 26, Mr Sibanda allegedly issued several requisitions to stores instructing the stores controller to issue fuel to fuel tankers that were purportedly said to belong to Asphalt Products (Pvt) Ltd, a contractor that had won the contract to undertake road works in the city.
Sometime in February, the contractor ran out of fuel before completion of the project and was asked why he could not complete the works as per the contract after having been paid in advance and he explained that he had not received fuel and was expecting 10 000 litres, which Mr Sibanda could not account for.</blockquote>
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.sundaynews.co.zw/10-000-litres-of-council-fuel-vanish/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Sunday News</a></h4>

10 000 Litres Of Council Diesel Vanish

The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) will slowly introduce a programmable water-shedding regime which will be gradually suspended towards mid-March 2021 following improved water levels in the city’s supply dams.
In a statement issued after a special council meeting held today, Friday, 5 February 2021, the mayor of Bulawayo, His Worship Solomon Mguni revealed that dam levels have risen by at least 30% from an overall percentage of 20% in November 2020 to 53%.
Cllr Mguni said the Council today resolved for a gradual water restoration strategy which will depend on the available raw water and available pumping capacities. Mguni said:
<blockquote>Council today (5/2/2021) met and resolved for the progressive rolling out of the water restoration strategy against the available raw water and available pumping capacities so as to slowly introduce a programmable water-shedding regime which will be gradually suspended towards mid-March 2021.
It will be recalled that in the year 2020, the City of Bulawayo installed new Flowserve pumps to replace the obsolete KSB Pumps at both Fernhill and Ncema Pump Stations.
The pumps were initially earmarked for technical commissioning in December 2020, but due to challenges faced with the failure of the Non-Return Valves, the commissioning was rescheduled for January 2021.
Council would like to advise that the progressive recommissioning of the Flowserve pumps is being done from the 25th of January 2021 with the final snags expected to be completed by March 2021.
The additional pumping through the Flowserve pumps is expected to increase the treatment capacity from the current 92ML/ day to 145 ML/ day.
This will assist in building the raw water reservoir and ensure its gradual restoration to the water supply system. The City had thus proposed a formal 144-hour water-shedding programme which will be gradually normalised to ensure water twice a week.
It is anticipated that from the third week of February 2021 onwards the reservoirs will have stabilized enough to make way for a formal 72 hours shedding programme.
This delivery capacity will remain the same up to the 16th of March 2021 when the second set of the Flowserve pumps are introduced and become operational.</blockquote>

Council To Gradually Suspend Water-shedding For Bulawayo Residents

Workers at Beitbridge Municipality yesterday reportedly staged a 2-hour sit-in protest over the nonpayment of COVID-19 allowances, The Zimbabwe Daily reports.
According to the publication, the 50 workers who protested said they decided to protests as a way to seek an audience with their superiors since they could not yield any result otherwise. The workers are reportedly demanding that the council pay them their 3 months allowances of $75 per month.
The publication alleges that:
<blockquote>To show their displeasure, the workers parked their service vehicles at the Dulivhadzimu and Main town offices and did not report to their usual workplaces between 7 AM and 9 AM.
This forced the management led by the Director of Administration, Mr Sathulani Moyo, to convene an urgent crisis meeting to salvage the situation. The workers said they were getting a raw deal because they were meant to perform their duties without proper personal protective gear and uniforms.</blockquote>
This comes barely a week after <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2020/12/19/bcc-workers-down-tools/">Bulawayo City Council workers also downed their tools</a> as they were protesting late salary payments and low wages.
More: <a href="https://thezimbabwedaily.com/news/525912-sit-in-protest-at-beitbridge-municipality.html">Zimbabwe Daily  </a>

Beitbridge Council Workers Strike Over COVID-19 Allowances

Bulawayo City Council (BCC) workers this week staged a demonstration against their employers over salary delays and poor remunerations, The Southern Eye reports. The strike was reportedly confirmed by Ambrose Sibindi who is the president of Zimbabwe Urban Councils Workers Union (ZUCWU).
Sibindi told the publication that:
<blockquote>The workers struggle, their energy levels are so low that they are unable to perform their
normal duties. Also, agreements reached at works council meetings are unilaterally changed without engaging workers.
The case in point is payment of November salaries and bonus on December 16. The employer later wrote a memo contrary to the works council resolution.
The employer negotiated in bad faith and has grossly proved that in terms of priorities, workers’ salaries are at the lower table and workers have said it is enough.
..workers are paid a basic salary of less than $2000 when the poverty datum line
was around $20 000 a month.
Workers have decided not to work on December 17 and 18 but will report for duty and sit in demanding that the employer abides by the December 7 works council resolution and pay all workers November salaries plus bonus.</blockquote>
According to the publication, there are BCC workers who are earning $1900 a month. Meanwhile BCC This week headlined for <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/bulawayo-councilors-anger-residents-after-they-spent-1-5-million-on-a-2-day-workshop/">spending $1.5 Million on an Ingwebu Breweries</a> AGM which was held in Matopos.
More: <a href="https://www.southerneye.co.zw/">The Southern Eye </a>

BCC Workers Down Tools

Bulawayo City Council, BCC is reportedly considering having residents in the Metropolitan City who benefited from the stands pre-sale to pay more money for the council to provide them with key services that include water, sewer, and roads, The Sunday News reports.
BCC reportedly reached this decision after Private developers they engaged to develop the stands abandoned the project and the council is looking for a way forward to complete the project hence the decision to possibly get the funds to service the stands from the beneficiaries.
The matter came to light in a letter seen by the publication from the local authority’s director of engineering services to a beneficiary of the Magwegwe Extension Council project that reportedly reads in part:
<blockquote>The council resolution on these stands is to terminate the contract with the contractor and re-engage with beneficiaries on the way forward with a view of topping up payments to cover outstanding works.
The contract was successfully terminated in May 2020 and re-engagement is scheduled for any time before the end of December 2020. The outstanding works are estimated to cost US$1 740 000, the duration of servicing the area will be highly dependent on the strategy engaged vis-a-vis availability of funds to undertake these works
All the funds received from the beneficiaries will be used for the servicing of the residential stands. Please note that the servicing is full cost recovery. With the various maintenance programmes planned by Council, a scenario of fully pledging Council equipment for the servicing projects is not possible, although cost cutting measures where possible on plant hire can be engaged</blockquote>
BCC introduced the concept of stands pre-sales in that would see residents prepaying for stands and the council, in turn, uses the proceeds to develop the stands bought by the residents.
More: <a href="https://www.sundaynews.co.zw/bcc-demands-top-ups-for-purchased-stands/">The Sunday News </a>

BCC Mulls Demanding Top Ups From Stands Pre-Sale Beneficiaries

Since May this year, Bulawayo has reported almost 3 000 diarrhoea cases in three major suburbs namely Luveve, Magwegwe and Mzilikazi with five more suburbs having been added to the list this last month.
The attaining situation has become a major public health concern especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Recently in an interview with the Divisional Environmental Health Officer for Bulawayo City and Vice-Chairperson for Emergency Preparedness and Response for Bulawayo Metropolitan province, Patrick Ncube, alluded the prevailing situation in the City owing to the state of water and sanitation.
Residents have for the past months been subjected to acute water shortages which has seen the Bulawayo City Council managing to provide water to only a few suburbs per day. Ncube said:
<blockquote>The city has always experienced water shortage and in the past 4 years, we have not received adequate rains.
Currently, all our 6 dams are sitting at 21 per cent capacity with 3 of them having been decommissioned.
Diarrheal cases have been going down, but the problem remains until we receive rains.
It is this situation that has necessitated water shedding in the city. We are currently having 144 water-shedding regiments once in 7 days, with each household receiving water 1 day per week.
More so, some households do not even receive water at all because of high gravitation.</blockquote>
However, Ncube reassured residents that the city was religiously treating its water and it is safe for drinking. He added that problems arise when residents store water for long periods and in so doing compromising its quality.
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Diarrhoea Infections In Bulawayo Explained

Diarrheoa cases have increased in Queens Park Suburb in Bulawayo amid reports that they are being caused by water shortages, the Daily News reports.
This was contained in Bulawayo City Council minutes seen by the publication that reads in part:
<blockquote>The community health worker for Queens Park alerted the area environmental health officer on concerns that a number of people seemed to be suffering from diarrhoea in the area. The concern was investigated and confirmed.</blockquote>
No deaths have been recorded so far and the government is yet to say anything about the possible outbreak, Bulawayo is having a dire water shortage crisis which the government promised to solve to help the country’s second-largest city.
In July typhoid and dysentery outbreak in Luveve claimed the lives of 13 people and over 1500 were treated for the waterborne disease. The Local Government Minister July Moyo <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2020/07/05/bulawayo-water-contaminated-with-human-waste-report/">confirmed that the water that was pumped to Luveve had human waste. </a>
More: <a href="https://dailynews.co.zw/diarrhoea-continues-to-ravage-bulawayo/?_ga=2.214129492.2113304458.1602994906-758380253.1602847777">Daily News </a>

Diarrhea Rocks Bulawayo's Queens Park Suburb

The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has admitted that some residents could be getting contaminated water from their taps but the bacteria is not life-threatening as it did not come from burst sewer pipes.
BCC spokesperson Nesisa Mpofu on Friday said council took some water samples for testing for one suburb after receiving numerous calls from residents who claimed that they had received discoloured water from their taps. She said:
<blockquote>Council responded by collecting water samples and testing the quality of water in the affected section of the suburb.
Test results indicated that water collected from a particular house (address withheld) was contaminated with bacteria, which was, however, not of the worrisome faecal coliform nature.
The absence of faecal coliforms meant that there was no connection of contamination from the sewerage system.</blockquote>
This comes after 13 Bulawayo residents succumbed to diarrhoea after drinking contaminated water that left over 2 000 seeking medical treatment in June this year.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/2020/09/council-admits-pumping-bacteria-infected-water/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">NewsDay</a></h4>

Council Pumping Bacteria-infected Water To Residents

Bulawayo residents have expressed anger over Bulawayo mayor Solomon Mguni and Town Clerk Dube’s recent land grabs while thousands of residents in the city have been on the house waiting list for years with little prospect of ever becoming homeowners.
According to the latest council minutes, Dube was offered a 24 407-hectare commercial stand in Selbourne Park which is adjacent to another piece of land also offered to him by the local authority a few years ago as part of his conditions of service.
Mguni was recently allocated a 2.5-hectare prime land in Lower Rangemore for a paltry $165 per month for 25 years.
Bulawayo residents have demanded the reversal of the deals, with Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BPRA) Coordinator Emmanuel Ndlovu, saying in a letter to Council:
<blockquote>Does the town clerk need a hectare for accommodation? The land in question is given to him as a commodity for commerce rather than conditions of service. Even corporates have been unable to negotiate for such terms that are out of touch with emergent realities.
We are calling forward the mayor and town clerk to declare what they already own in assets in line with the declaration of assets and interest policy adopted by the BCC (Bulawayo City Council) some time ago in keeping with section 198 of the Constitution…</blockquote>
Mguni chairs the powerful General Purposes Committee that approved the land transactions and residents said they have noted a trend between the town clerk and the mayor doing each other favours.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/residents-up-in-arms-as-mayor-town-clerk-grab-land/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">NewZimbabwe.com</a></h4>

Mayor, Town Clerk Land Grabs Anger Residents

The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) says the water from Khami Dam is safe for drinking as it meets the World Health Organization set standards.
Over the years, Bulawayo residents have resisted attempts by the city fathers to pump water from Khami Dam for domestic consumption as raw sewer and industrial effluent is discharged into the reservoir, making the water undrinkable.
In 2007, the then Bulawayo Mayor Japhet Ndabeni Ncube said the quality of water from Khami Dam was seriously compromised.
That was after the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA) had proposed to draw water from the dam.
However, due to a permanent water crisis in the city, BCC has made a U-turn and now want to pump water from the dam. BCC Engineer Sikhumbuzo Ncube said:
<blockquote>We have already done some assessment to see how much we can draw from the dam. We are engaging different partners and investors to see how best we can tap into this water.</blockquote>
But still, residents are not convinced, with the majority questioning the city council’s capacity to purify the water.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.zbcnews.co.zw/bulawayo-city-fathers-say-khami-dam-water-safe/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ZBC News</a></h4>

Khami Dam Water Safe For Drinking - Council

Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has announced that there will be no water supplies to all areas in the city with effect from today due to a power surge at Fernhill Booster Station.
In a statement on Tuesday, BCC Town Clerk Christopher Dube said the power surge has affected water delivery to Tuli Reservoir and Criterion Water Works. The statement read:
<blockquote>The City of Bulawayo would like to advise the public of water supply interruptions to all the areas across the City with effect from Tuesday the 1st of September 2020 due to a power surge at Fernhill Booster Station that has affected clear water and raw water delivery to Tuli Reservoir and Criterion Water Works respectively.
This affects the whole City’s Water Supply System until the problem is resolved.
Consumers are further advised that water supply to both Eastern and Western areas will be closed and shall be available when reservoir levels per each reservoir zone allow after the rectification of the above-mentioned development.
Bulawayo City Council wishes to apologise to its valued consumers for the inconvenience likely to be caused.
C. Dube (BCC Town Clerk)</blockquote>

Bulawayo Water Supplies Interrupted By Power Surge - Council

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