Basil Matsika hopes his joyful murals of Mbare’s music and sports stars will inspire others to look beyond the area’s poverty and crime Street artist Basil Matsika paints murals of local musicians and ...

Harare City Council has embarked on a sewer pipe rehabilitation programme in Mbare aimed at replacing smaller diameter pipes with bigger ones to ease congestion and end persistent blockages in the ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Tucked in a corner of a dimly-lit hallway of a rundown block of flats in Zimbabwe's Mbare township, a few drug users desperate for recovery prayed and encouraged each other to ...

CITY of Harare (CoH) has announced that recent reports of bed bugs (tsikidzi) infestations spreading to suburbs such as Mabvuku, Glen View, and Budiriro are pending investigations, confirming that the ...

HARARE City Council is seeking the reversal of a High Court judgment that ordered the municipality to renovate the Mbare flats, a move that has riled the capital's residents. Harare City Council has ...

Fifty-eight hostels in Mbare, Zimbabwe’s oldest and poorest township, have had their power cut off by the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) for failure to pay the bills. The Mbare hostels, ...

Chiedza Mazhindu stood outside her apartment block in Mbare, a densely populated suburb of Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, waiting for a truck. The 55-year-old is a volunteer at Mbare’s hand-washing ...

MUTARE, Zimbabwe, April 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Zimbabwe has reopened fresh produce markets after pressure from farmers who struggled to sell their harvest under restrictions aimed at ...

THE Chamber of Chinese Enterprises Zimbabwe (CCEZ) yesterday handed over the fully refurbished George Hartley Swimming Pool in Mbare, Harare, which had been lying idle for over three years. The ...

In southern Africa townships were built as segregated urban zones for black people. They were created under colonial and white minority rule policies that controlled movement, confined opportunity, ...