A damning 2024 Auditor-General's report has exposed deep-seated financial mismanagement at Gweru City Council, revealing unreconciled bank variances amounting to ZWL$4,9 billion, missing asset records...
By Staff reporter | Published: 15 August 2025
Gweru City Council has temporarily stopped pumping water from Gwenhoro Dam following a major pipe burst along the main supply line.In a statement issued on Tuesday, the local authority confirmed that ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 12 August 2025
The Gweru City Council has announced plans to establish a modern crematorium at one of its cemeteries as part of efforts to improve burial services in the city.Mayor Martin Chivhoko confirmed the deve...
By Staff reporter | Published: 24 June 2025
The Gweru City Council has taken delivery of four brand-new vehicles valued at approximately US$165,000, marking a significant step toward improving service delivery in the city.The new fleet includes...
By Staff reporter | Published: 21 May 2025
Gweru residents have petitioned the local authority to postpone a planned revenue collection blitz - which includes water disconnections and possible property attachments - fro...
By Staff reporter | Published: 19 May 2025
Gweru City Council is still in the process of procuring an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software system to automate its operations and enhance efficiency. Despite the growing need for automation...
By Staff reporter | Published: 28 April 2025
GWERU city fathers have rejected a deal put forward by the local authority's management to channel over $200 000 from its coffers to pay a private company to complete rehabilitation of roads in the de...
By Staff reporter | Published: 09 July 2019
Gweru City Council has announced plans to decommission its major supplier, Gwenhoro Dam, by October as the water source is left with only six months' supplies, a senior council official has said.Actin...
By Staff reporter | Published: 01 May 2019
FOR Gweru food lovers, the much-awaited Chicken Hut, a Portuguese restaurant, has opened its branch in the city with affordable prices. This is the fast food outlet's fourth branch in the country afte...
By Staff reporter | Published: 25 April 2019
GWERU City Council has proposed to more than double burial charges to $160 from $60 for non-residents and $80 from $30 for adults and children respectively, a senior council official has said.Acting d...
By Staff reporter | Published: 11 December 2018
Gweru Urban MP Brian Dube (MDC Alliance) says he is preparing a court challenge to compel police to return various commodities they confiscated from vendors operating inside Gweru's Kudzanayi long dis...
By Staff reporter | Published: 19 November 2018
ILLEGAL vendors in Gweru have piled pressure on council to regularise their operations following a blitz by the Joint Operations Command in conjunction with municipal police to flush them out of the c...
By Staff reporter | Published: 07 September 2018
WARD Two councillor Josiah Makombe is the new mayor of Gweru after being elected unopposed while Clr Cleopas Shiri will deputise him after also sailing through unopposed. Gweru councillors were on Tue...
By Staff reporter | Published: 06 September 2018
A GWERU-BASED private land developer has submitted a proposal to partner proprietors of Harare's Glen Forest Memorial Park and set up an upmarket burial site at the council-owned Mutasa Cemetery.Actin...
By Staff reporter | Published: 20 July 2018
WERU mayor Charles Chikozho has expressed interest in retaining his mayoral post should he win the upcoming elections where he is standing as MDC Alliance candidate for ward 10.Chikozho said his counc...
By Staff reporter | Published: 20 July 2018
GWERU's acting town clerk, Douglas Chikwekwe, has revealed that the local authority had received an order from Midlands Provincial Affairs minister Owen Ncube to stop parcelling out land in peri-urban...
By Staff reporter | Published: 13 July 2018
THE Midlands Show Society has postponed the Gweru Agricultural Show, which was scheduled to run from July 26 to 29, to next month as the initial dates were too close to the July 30 general elections.T...
By Staff reporter | Published: 12 July 2018
Gweru City Council has announced plans to set up a capital development fund that will assist in financing its future capital projects in a bid to move away from over reliance on rates and service fees...
By Staff reporter | Published: 09 July 2018
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has reportedly pounced on Gweru City Council bank accounts in a bid to garnish hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid tax, sources revealed to the Southern E...
By Staff reporter | Published: 29 June 2018
Gweru City Council is operating with three functional fire tenders out of a possible six, a situation that compromises on effective mitigation against loss of human life and property, NewsDay has lear...
By Staff reporter | Published: 18 June 2018
Former Zanu-PF ward 2 councillor, Tiripayi Chipondeni, who was recently recalled from the ruling party on allegations of fanning factionalism, has bounced back into the political limelight and thrown ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 11 June 2018
Gweru Town Clerk, Mrs Elizabeth Gwatipedza has confirmed that the local authority sold the Gweru's iconic Kudzanayi long-distance bus terminus to investors who are set to transform the area into a sta...
By Staff reporter | Published: 05 June 2018
GWERU City Council is losing at least 57% of its treated water through burst pipes and leakages, with most of its equipment having outlived its lifespan, a service level benchmarking peer review repor...
By Staff reporter | Published: 05 June 2018
GWERU City Council's accounts were last audited four years ago, a situation that compromises on good corporate governance, chairperson of the Service Level Benchmarking (SLB) peer review committee, Ge...
By Staff reporter | Published: 04 June 2018
GWERU City Council has unveiled a plan to construct a modern intercity transport hub at an estimated cost of $40 million.The local authority would soon be calling for expressions of interests from pot...
By Staff reporter | Published: 18 May 2018
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