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Chinese Steel Plant: Zimbabwe's economic boon
Zimbabwe is aiming to be home to Africa's largest steel plant, but disputes over the project continue even as it ramps up production.Over the past few months, villagers have been accusing the ...Published: 31 Oct 2024 at 06:53hrs | 7942 | by Staff reporter
Tobacco farmers to improve leaf quality
Senior agronomist Lazarus Gatawa has urged Tobacco farmers, with special reference to small-scale farmers who now constitute more than 90% of active tobacco farmers in the country to upgrade their lea...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 08:07hrs | 15 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Angry citizens to destroy Nehanda statue: Prophecy
POPULAR Prophet Blessing Chiza has once again courted controversy, and the ire of the government, after his weekend's prophecy predicting the newly-erected Mbuya Nehanda statue faces demolition by res...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Eccentric Luveve man causes a stir
HE's mad! He's a genius! He's creepy. He's amazingly gifted!The unassuming Mathamsanqa Tshuma (67), a bachelor from Gwabalanda in Bulawayo, ...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 08:29hrs | 1 | by Yvonne Ncube
Conversations must go beyond the forex auction and focus on production
Driving through Zimbabwe's once vibrant industrial hubs in Belmont (Bulawayo), Paulington (Mutare), Southerton, Graniteside, Working, Msasa (all in Harare), and elsewhere, one gets the sense that the ...Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 22:06hrs | 10 | by Andrew Lampard
Conversations must go beyond the forex auction and focus on production
Driving through Zimbabwe's once vibrant industrial hubs in Belmont (Bulawayo), Paulington (Mutare), Southerton, Graniteside, Working, Msasa (all in Harare), and elsewhere, one gets the sense that the ...Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 16:57hrs | 2 | by Andrew Lampard
Increased earthquake activities in Kariba
RECEDING water levels in Lake Kariba have resulted in increased earthquake activity in its environs, with the latest being a 3,5 magnitude moderate quake that hit Kariba and surrounding areas last Fri...Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Expansion of Hwange thermal power station going on schedule
State-owned electricity power generator the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) on Monday said that work on the 1.5-billion-U.S.-dollar Hwange expansion project was progressing steadily and on schedule....Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 07:46hrs | | by Xinhua
3.9 magnitude tremor rocks Zimbabwe
THE Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has confirmed that a moderate earthquake measuring 3,9 in magnitude was experienced in Kariba, Mashonaland West on Saturday and no injuries were recorded. ...Published: 03 Jun 2019 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
A Squirrel Wedding Party, As the MDC's Internal Independent Electoral Commission(IIEC) Makes No Show?
The originally proposed Internal Independent Electoral Commission(IIEC) by the Movement for Democratic Change(MDC), as it geared itself to hold its electoral congresses in 2019 had been hailed a...Published: 03 May 2019 at 15:20hrs | | by Nhlanhla Moses
Grand National Unity?
"The turbulence in India this time hasn't come from foreign invasion or conquest; it has been generated from within. India cannot respond in her old way, by a further retreat into archaism. Her borrow...Published: 09 Jun 2018 at 15:38hrs | 2 | by Igomombe
Mnangagwa's ultimate test
On January 15 this year, a bubbling President Emmerson Mnangagwa - freshly installed into office a month earlier after a coup against Robert Mugabe - promised that within 100 days of his rule, he woul...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 19:49hrs | | by Tapiwa Zivira
WATCH: Zimbabwean building utilizes a termite-inspired climate control system
How do you cool a building without air conditioning?In nature, termites build skyscraper-like mounds that are ventilated by a complex system of tunnels. By emulating the ingenuity of termites,...Published: 21 May 2018 at 12:27hrs | 9 | by nationalgeographic
Row over Zacc logo change
The changing of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption (Zacc) logo has ignited a row, amid allegations the alterations were done without approval from the executive of the anti-graft agency.The decision...Published: 07 Feb 2018 at 12:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Another Mugabe legacy of failure, neglect
There is no doubt that President Robert Mugabe's 37 years at the helm of Zimbabwe have been a disaster to the economy.Every sector of the country's economy has been affected directly or indire...Published: 05 Nov 2017 at 08:07hrs | | by Tapiwa Zivira
MSU campus blamed for prostitution
The Zvishavane community has called on responsible authorities to relocate the newly established Midlands State University campus as a way of dealing with the rise in prostitution, drug abuse and gend...Published: 26 Sep 2017 at 09:29hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
People only die from what's meant to kill them
'Something must kill a man!' As heartwarming and pleasant as that phrase sounds, it's a nagging reminder that neither of us will be lucky to get out of Earth alive! Well, of course, except the Astrona...Published: 03 Aug 2017 at 12:24hrs | | by Nimi Princewill
Chimney thief jailed for 36 months
A THIEF who got stuck for two days in a chimney at Thabiso Youth Centre in Bulawayo while on a mission to steal has been sentenced to 36 months.Andrea Zunga (33) of Makokoba suburb app...Published: 22 Apr 2017 at 10:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chimney trapped 'thief' now a celebrity
A SUSPECTED thief from Bulawayo who became a prisoner of his own scheme after he got stuck for two days in a chimney appeared in court yesterday.Andrea Zunga (33) of Makokoba suburb was pa...Published: 31 Mar 2017 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sick thief stuck in chimney for two days
A suspected thief - Andrea Zunga (33) of Makokoba was left stuck for two days in a chimney at Thabiso Youth Centre by his gang members during a robbery.That was on Monday night, Chronicl...Published: 30 Mar 2017 at 04:47hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe cabinet reshuffles humiliate Matebeleland
This week I am meant to write about our manufacturing industry, but how do I do that without some reference to the bizarre event of the week when our Head of State, Head of Government and Commander in...Published: 20 Sep 2015 at 12:48hrs | | by Welshman Ncube
Govt takes over construction of Tsholotsho Stadium
THE government has taken over construction of Tsholotsho Stadium. This was revealed by the Minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services, Professor Jonathan Moyo when he toured the c...Published: 14 Feb 2015 at 08:51hrs | | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo
Zambia Hunts for Successor 58 - Cabinet Crisis: Time to defang and cure Sata
As the Honorable Minister shut the door to his official car, a sense of worthlessness threatened to overwhelm him. He closed his eyes and felt anger rising in tandem. "This is too much," ...Published: 14 May 2014 at 18:34hrs | | by Field Ruwe
Chinamasa summons bank over cut in lending
FINANCE and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa has summoned senior management of an international bank in the country to provide explanation on why the bank has drastically cut its lendi...Published: 03 Mar 2014 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Genocidal love
Zimbabweans from all walks of life joined the First Family in mourning the passing on of President Mugabe's sister, Bridgette. She had been in a coma for nearly three years. May her dear soul rest...Published: 22 Jan 2014 at 13:38hrs | 1 | by Tshilamoya Nkala
Gideon Gono farewell statement - Full text
1. It is exactly ten years or 120 months since I joined the RBZ family on a tour of duty as Governor and while it seems like yesterday, in reality it isn't. Children who were born at the time I ...Published: 29 Nov 2013 at 16:37hrs | | by Gideon Gono
All politicians are ugly
When you really want to stoke the furnace of misanthropy, the thought-ages to visit are the Augustans and the Romantics. But that is to reckon time by way of literary movements, something decidedly es...Published: 02 Nov 2013 at 07:18hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina becomes pope, takes Francis as name
Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina was elected in a surprise choice to be the new leader of the troubled Roman Catholic Church on Wednesday, the first non-European pontiff in nearly 1,300 years, and ...Published: 13 Mar 2013 at 19:18hrs | | by Reuters
Black smoke over the Sistine Chapel again
Cardinals in secret conclave failed twice on Wednesday morning to elect a new pope, as black smoke over the Sistine Chapel showed ballots on the first full day of voting were inconclusive....Published: 13 Mar 2013 at 09:35hrs | | by staff Reporter
Black smoke from Sistine chapel chimney: No pope yet
This time there was no doubt. There was no new pope yet, and the mystery of who - and when - was as thick as the unmistakable heavy black smoke billowing from the Sistine Chapel chimney.As tho...Published: 13 Mar 2013 at 10:01hrs | | by Sapa-AP
Police officers steal dockets, stash them in community toilets
TWO Mberengwa police officers stole and plucked off pages from the crime register, docket movement book and two docket-receiving books and stashed them in three community toilets that were later dug u...Published: 24 Jun 2012 at 10:47hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
To win back Bulawayo, Zanu-PF must deliver
For the next seven days, Bulawayo will temporarily transform from a decaying metropolis to Zimbabwe's most important city.Among all the towns and cities in this country that are crying out for...Published: 04 Dec 2011 at 07:16hrs | | by Editorial Comment
Prince Harry's Chelsy parties in Zimbabwe
Surrounded by male admirers as she parties at a music festival in Zimbabwe, Chelsy Davy clearly does not need a Prince around to have fun.UK Prince Harryâ€â€...Published: 19 Jan 2011 at 17:56hrs | | by Byo24News
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