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By Staff Reporter Gweru city sewerage system has collapsed and needs complete overhaul with raw effluent polluting the environment posing a health hazard to residents, The Sun has learnt. Speaking at a recent full council meeting, deputy mayor, councillor Cleopas Shiri said the system was obsolete and had collapsed hence ...

By Staff Reporter MDC councillor Benjamin Mpala of Mdubiwa Ward 7 in Lower Gweru has accused the ruling Zanu PF party of using its losing candidate in the area for distributing government food aid, a move he alleged was politicisation of food aimed at sidelining opposition members. Mpala made the ...

Gweru Residents and Ratepayers Association (GRRA) has expressed concern at the lack of protective clothing for health personnel at council clinics saying the situation was putting both workers and patients at risk of contracting coronavirus which has so far claimed one life out of the three confirmed cases in the ...

By Staff Reporter City Councillors have reportedly rejected the outcome of the interviews for finance director with the local authority advertising for the post (finance director) and that of information technology manager respectively as council seeks to strengthen the management of its financial books and computerisation of its operations. The ...

By Staff Reporter The development of new Mkoba 21 residential stands will resume next month after Gweru City Council rectified anomalies that had stalled the housing scheme since it was unveiled in 2014, The Sun has established. Last December mayor, Josiah Makombe indicated that the project could not resume after ...

By Staff Reporter Three teachers from Mkoba 3 High School have been suspended by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education on allegations of having sexual relations with several pupils, some as young as in form one. The teachers (names withheld) were reportedly been served with suspension letters last Thursday ...

By George Vhudzi and Richard Shumba Popular “Back to Sender” Gweru prophet and Dombo Remhikidzano Apostolic Church leader, Madzibaba Learnmore Dombo has prophesied that a new deadly virus with symptoms of nose bleeding and severe headaches, will soon hit Zimbabwe resulting in millions dying globally. Madzibaba Learnmore told worshippers that ...

By Martin Mawaya Gweru Urban Member of Parliament Brian Dube has put aside Z$150 000 from the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) for the refurbishment of Ivene cocktail bar and the Pfende club house into state of the art clinics. The projects were revealed during his engagement meeting with the pastors ...

By Staff Reporter A total of seven under-age girls dropped from Selukwe Chrome Secondary School in Shurugwi after falling pregnant with some getting into early marriages last year. This was revealed by the school headmaster Mr Edmore Matatara during the handover of a state-of-the-art laboratory to Selukwe Chrome Secondary School, ...