19/06/2026
In a move that will enhance public health, service delivery and environmental management, the Gwanda Municipality has officially decommissioned the Hlalanikuhle dumpsite, which had long posed a health and environmental hazard to residents and travellers.
For years, the dumpsite negatively affected nearby businesses, with traders suffering losses due to persistent foul odours and an influx of flies that threatened both their operations and the surrounding environment.
Residents particularly children as well as livestock and other animals, also bore the burden of living close to the waste site.
However, these challenges are now set to become a thing of the past following the Municipality's relocation of waste disposal operations to a new engineered landfill situated approximately 10 kilometres outside Gwanda along the GwandaβMaphisa Road.
Gwanda Municipality Mayor, Alderman Thulani Moyo, shares more on this development.
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