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News Zimbabwe » Bulawayo » Politics: Bulawayo mayor David Coltart rejects automatic 2030 extension

News channel or source: https://iharare.com/bulawayo-mayor-david-coltart-rejects-automatic-2030-extension/
Published on: Monday 07 September 2026

David Coltart rejects an automatic extension, putting Bulawayo voters first as he weighs his political future and the city’s needs.

News Zimbabwe » Bulawayo » Politics: Mnangagwa’s third term bid sparks violence and deepens political divisions in Zimbabwe

News channel or source: https://www.msn.com/en-za/politics/government/mnangagwa-s-third-term-bid-sparks-violence-and-deepens-political-divisions-in-zimbabwe/ar-AA1PzIxL
Published on: Friday 31 October 2025

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s bid for an unconstitutional third term turned violent this week. A hall in Harare was torched hours before his opponents were to meet there to launch a ...

News Zimbabwe » Bulawayo » Politics: Brett Muvheti: Zimbabwe’s next president, or just another internet sensation?

News channel or source: https://nehandaradio.com/2026/09/02/brett-muvheti-zimbabwes-next-president-or-just-another-internet-sensation/
Published on: Wednesday 02 September 2026

Brett “Muvheti” Holley has ambitions to transform Varanda VeZimbabwe from an online political movement into a force capable of challenging for power. Gabriel Manyati asks whether he is building ...

News Zimbabwe » Bulawayo » Politics: Zimbabwe: Chamisa resignation leaves CCC legislators in quandary

News channel or source: https://www.theafricareport.com/335234/zimbabwe-chamisa-resignation-leaves-ccc-legislators-in-quandary/
Published on: Wednesday 31 January 2024

Opposition lawmakers in Zimbabwe are torn between following former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa in his walk-out from the party or staying. The situation, following Chamisa ...

News Zimbabwe » Bulawayo » Politics: Bulawayo’s silent shutdown

News channel or source: https://www.msn.com/en-xl/politics/government/bulawayo-s-silent-shutdown/ar-AA1VEGW2
Published on: Tuesday 03 February 2026

Bulawayo’s industrial collapse is one of the most tragic and telling chapters in Zimbabwe’s economic history. Once celebrated as the country’s manufacturing powerhouse, the city now bears the scars of ...

News Zimbabwe » Bulawayo » Politics: Zimbabwe: ZANU-PF is redrawing electoral map in opposition strongholds

News channel or source: https://www.theafricareport.com/347945/zimbabwe-zanu-pf-is-redrawing-electoral-map-in-opposition-strongholds/
Published on: Thursday 16 May 2024

The ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party is on the path to taking over the legislature, after snatching two seats in the capital Harare that fell vacant following the ...

News Zimbabwe » Bulawayo » Politics: U.S. sanctions Zimbabwe leaders for political, economic, human rights abuses

News channel or source: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/03/04/bs-us-Zimbabwe-Biden-Mnangagwa-sanctions-Africa/3581709572340/
Published on: Monday 04 March 2024

March 4 (UPI) --The United States on Monday announced a new series of sanctions aimed at top Zimbabwe government officials -- including its president and vice president -- in response to what the ...

News Zimbabwe » Bulawayo » Politics: Zimbabwe Police Arrest Bulawayo Writer in Literary-Political Criticism Row

News channel or source: https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/zimbabwe-police-arrest-poet-in-literary-row-117665723/1456981.html
Published on: Tuesday 08 March 2011

Writer Styx Mhlanga said the poem by an unidentified writer who presented it at a cultural center should have mentioned heroes from other regions, including the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo, among ...

News Zimbabwe » Bulawayo » Politics: Kirsty Coventry and whiteness in Zimbabwe: how sport can rewrite the political rules

News channel or source: https://theconversation.com/kirsty-coventry-and-whiteness-in-zimbabwe-how-sport-can-rewrite-the-political-rules-253652
Published on: Wednesday 02 April 2025

Kirsty Coventry’s story is one of apparent contradictions. She’s a white woman celebrated as a national hero in a Black-majority Zimbabwe and an Olympic swimmer turned politician. She’s also now one ...

News Zimbabwe » Bulawayo » Politics: Zimbabwe’s water supply is in crisis: how political interference and underfunding did the damage

News channel or source: https://theconversation.com/zimbabwes-water-supply-is-in-crisis-how-political-interference-and-underfunding-did-the-damage-239864
Published on: Wednesday 23 October 2024

In Zimbabwe, control over water is supposed to be decentralised. In other words, the seven regions in the country have the authority to govern their own water resources in the way that best suits ...