Hwange Town

ZIMBABWE National Water Authority (ZINWA) today held a stakeholders engagement meeting on the roll-out of prepaid water meters in Hwange Local Board’s area of jurisdiction.
The prepaid meters are replacing the post-paid metering system which has been in place.
The use of prepaid water meters mean that water users can now pay for their water in advance. This brings, with it, great convenience to users who will now have greater, clear and firm control over their water.

MEMBERS of Sizimisele Community Garden are anticipating a bumper harvest following a recent wet spell.
The community garden situated in Empumalanga suburb is a Hwange Local Board initiative aimed at improving household food security for vulnerable families.
Members of the project have grown maize through pfumvudza/intwasa farming concept.
They are looking for an organisation or individuals to assist them to install a borehole as well as erecting a fence around their garden so as to embark on extensive horticultural production.

HWANGE Local Board is clearing overgrown vegetation on roadsides in its area of jurisdiction as part of its efforts to improve road visibility for motorists.
Roadside vegetation clearing is part of the routine road maintenance being carried out by the local authority including storm water drainage clearing.
It improves safety by providing clear sight lines, unobstructed clear zones and proper storm water drainage.

MINISTER of State for Matabeleland North Provincial Affairs and Devolution Cde Richard Moyo yesterday officiated at the ground breaking ceremony of South Mining Empumalanga Community Library.
The community library will be constructed through a Public Private Partnership between South Mining Private Limited and Hwange Local Board at a cost of US$100 000.

MINISTER of State for Matabeleland North Provincial Affairs and Devolution Cde Richard Moyo yesterday commissioned an Early Childhood Development block at Nechibondo Primary School.
The state-of-the-art ECD block was constructed through utilisation of the Devolution Funds.

Construction of an Early Childhood Development (ECD) block at Hwange Local Board's Nechibondo Primary School in Empumalanga is expected to be completed in two weeks. The ECD block is being constructed through utilisation of the Devolution Fund and is expected to play a big role in curbing "hot sitting" at the learning institution.

Hwange Local Board is on the verge of completing road rehabilitation work at Dingani Street in Chibondo under Government's funded Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme.

Ward Five Councillor Tendai Sibanda was today accompanied by Hwange Local Board's Empumalanga sister-in-charge Sindiso Mhlanga to handover foodstuff donated to a pregnant woman who was chased away from home together with her two children aged nine and six years for being Covid-19 positive.

A Hwange resident, Ms Sithabile Ndlovu today donated foodstuff to a pregnant Hwange women who was kicked-out from home with her two children after testing positive for Covid-19.
The donation, which comprised of mealie-meal, rice, sugar, salt, soya chunks, a loaf of bread, cooking oil, bag of potatoes, bundle of chomolia and petroleum jell was received by Empumalanga Clinic sister-in-charge Sindiso Mhlanga.
The pregnant woman who was employed as a maid at Baobab was chased out by her employer two weeks ago after she tested Covid-19 positive.
It is said efforts to seek refuge at her mother’s place were also futile as she was also chucked out after she had divulged her status.
The woman is said to have made her way to her live-in boyfriend’s place where he was also forced to move out by other tenants who had got wind of her status.
The women was later picked up by a Hwange Local Board ambulance crew at night together with her two children aged six and nine and put up at Empumalanga Clinic.
She was taken to Five Mile Isolation Centre the following day where she’s currently under isolation.