MOTORISTS who use Bulawayo-Beitbridge road are relieved that the badly damaged stretch near Makhado area is being rehabilitated. Prior to the reconstruction of the road, motorists endured difficulties in navigating the potholed section of the road. The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development is using funds from the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme Phase Two (ERRP2) […]
BEITBRIDGEs new Mayor and councillor for Ward 1, Peter Pirato Mafuta, made promises, among them reviewing workers’ salaries and stepping up service delivery. Cllr Mafuta of CCC made these promises in his acceptance and inaugural address to residents and fellow councillors soon after he was elected unopposed on Monday. He said his council will continue […]
GWANDA – ALL roads lead to the Matabeleland South Agricultural Show as it opens its gates to both the business community and members of the public in Gwanda. The 65th Matabeleland South Agricultural Show began on Thursday and will end on Saturday. The show started on a low note as some exhibitors were still putting […]
ALMOST without fail, every school holiday I would find time to break away from the drab serenity of the rural milieu where I was teaching and sample the pulsating life of the ghetto. I would visit my cousin in Majubheki (The Jo’burg lines along 22nd Street in Mbare). I had become so close to my […]