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How Bulawayo's townships reflect city's rich Ndebele heritage
IN 1894, Bulawayo had just one African township. Today, the city boasts close to twenty townships in the western suburbs. Bulawayo's first African township was Makokoba, also known as the "Location" o...Published: 02 Nov 2024 at 08:39hrs | 749 | by Fredrick Qaphelani Mabikwa
Zimbabwe shops impose limits amid panic-buying?
Some shops across Zimbabwe have imposed "one item per person" rules for products such as milk to fend off panic-buying triggered by a new loss of faith in the country's latest currency.Last we...Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 07:57hrs | 1181 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's Cowdray Park residents forced to use sewer water
Residents of Cowdray Park in Ward 15 have resorted to using sewer water for flushing toilets and other menial tasks as Bulawayo's water crisis deepens.Residents say the available water sources...Published: 14 Sep 2024 at 16:20hrs | 755 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's army, police 'burn' foreign miners
South African security forces, including the police and army, have been accused of setting fire to an area where illegal miners, known as zama zamas, had taken refuge to avoid arrest. This incident re...Published: 31 Aug 2024 at 11:10hrs | 349 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo, Zec corruption scandal spreads to SA
A JOHANNESBURG printing firm and its agent are being investigated by Zimbabwe's anti-corruption authority for price gouging on election-related material and equipment.Zimbabwe is no stranger t...Published: 20 Jul 2024 at 14:48hrs | 1967 | by Staff reporter
South Africa inspecting restaurants to flush out immigrants
The new South African Minister of Home Affairs, Dr. Leon Schreiber, has announced increased inspections at restaurants, spaza shops, farms, and mines to combat illegal immigration.South Africa...Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 16:33hrs | 2203 | by Staff reporter
ZEC scandal gobbles USD100 million
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) tender scandal, initially estimated at US$40 million, has now ballooned to involve over US$100 million in public funds. This massive sum was misappropriated thr...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 08:20hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Effluent flows 'become part of daily life'
Residents of Cowdray Park suburb in Bulawayo have been grappling with recurrent sewage floods that inundate their streets and homes, posing significant health hazards. Approximately 50 homes are affec...Published: 04 Jul 2024 at 09:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
We don't want crumbs from Mnangagwa's table
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration is unbelievable!I was at a loss for words after reading a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Ndavaningi "Nick" Mangwana, the permanent secretary for ...Published: 03 Jul 2024 at 16:53hrs | 14 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Tshabangu takes ZEC toilet scandal to Senate
Opposition senator Sengezo Tshabangu has demanded answers from the Finance Ministry on why Treasury went ahead to disburse US$9 million towards the procurement of portable toilets and vests from a Sou...Published: 01 Jul 2024 at 04:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt shields ZEC, Chivayo in US$40 million scandal
Government officials, including the Minister of State for Presidential Affairs, Lovemore Matuke, have dismissed persistent corruption allegations against the executive, despite reports linking unexpla...Published: 30 Jun 2024 at 18:36hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
ZEC paid US$5.4 million for fancy V11 display boxes that it never used
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) splurged US$5 million on gadgets to display digital V11 polling station forms for last August's elections - but the devices, bought at inflated prices, were onl...Published: 28 Jun 2024 at 09:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans should now see it's corruption, not 'sanctions', causing their suffering!
Zimbabweans has been engulfed in a seemingly unending debate as to what is the real source of their two-and-a-half-decade-long suffering.There have been two dominant narratives.Unsurpr...Published: 22 Jun 2024 at 21:50hrs | 10 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
BCC allocates US$187,000 to toilets
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has allocated US$187,000 to eliminate the shared toilet system in the Emabuthweni and Iminyela suburbs.Ward 9 Councillor, Donaldson Mabutho, disclosed this in a...Published: 03 Jun 2024 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is an underwear a leading economic indicator?
I was unfamiliar with the Men's Underwear Index - the MUI - until I heard it discussed this week on National Public Radio. Perhaps on the Marketplace Morning Report on WAMC. Or some similarly unassail...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 13:42hrs | 2 | by Ralph Gardner Jr.
It's easier to topple your mentor than run a country, isn't it Mr. President?
So, this where it has all come to? Those of us in urban areas now live without water and electricity!We are no longer any different from our compatriots in rural Zimbabwe.I may...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 16:20hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Diarrhoea outbreak hits Bulawayo
BULAWAYO residents have been urged to exercise extreme caution and adhere to strict hygiene standards following reports of a diarrhoea outbreak linked to water shortages, with Cowdray Park suburb bein...Published: 06 Mar 2024 at 04:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Bulawayo water crisis to increase sewer pipe bursts'
CITY of Bulawayo director of engineering services, Eng Sikhumbuzo Ncube, has said the continuing water supply challenges facing the city could trigger a serious challenge of sewer pipe bursts as the s...Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 04:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo water crisis worsens
BULAWAYO is sitting on a health time bomb as the city's water woes continue to mount with most suburbs going for weeks without running tap water, forcing residents to resort to unhygienic water source...Published: 27 Feb 2024 at 03:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mtukudzi tried to avoid Zanu-PF
AT the turn of the millennium, Zimbabwe's government introduced what it called "galas", where top musicians performed at different national events to mark important events in the country's history....Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:51hrs | 68 | by Staff reporter
Excited by the killings: How The Chronicle covered the Gukurahundi genocide
AbstractTHIS paper examines and interrogates the role of the state-controlled media during the Gukurahundi genocide in Zimbabwe. Gukurahundi is a genocide that took place in Zimbabwe betwe...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:51hrs | 9 | by Bhekinkosi Jakobe Ncube
More boys dropping out of school in Matebeleland South
MORE boys in Matebeleland South are dropping out of school compared to girls at both primary and lower secondary school levels, a Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) report has revealed....Published: 24 Jan 2024 at 04:49hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
'Bulawayo life expectancy at 63 years'
THE Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) has revealed that the life expectancy for Bulawayo province stood at 62,6 years compared to the national life expectancy of 64,7 years.ZimStat...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 17:50hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Severe consequences await armed robbers
POLICE's Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has reaffirmed its commitment to flushing out the armed robbers' menace to the preservation of law and order in the country saying the consequences fo...Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 08:54hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
9 robbers shot as cops name 20 most wanted criminals
NINE suspected robbers sustained injuries after they were shot by police in Harare on Thursday in a crackdown, while the hunt is on for 20 suspects whom detectives have named as Zimbabwe's most wanted...Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 09:42hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF in massive witch-hunt
Zanu-PF has reportedly initiated a massive witch-hunt to punish party leaders accused of sabotaging President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa after they won more votes than him in the August 23 and 24 electi...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Whether Hakainde Hichilema attends Mnangagwa's inauguration is entirely up to him, no big deal
IT WILL NOT BE THE START OR THE END OF THE WORLD IF ZAMBIA'S PRESIDENT HAIKAINDE HICHILEMA DOES NOT ATTEND TOMORROW'S INAUGURATIONWhether President Hakainde Hichilema attends the inauguration ...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 18:48hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
'Gukurahundi was planned before Zimbabwe independence'
Former Co-Minister of National Healing and Integration, Moses Mzila Ndlovu, believes the Gukurahundi genocide that killed over 20 000 people in Matebeleland and Midlands was planned before independenc...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 20:10hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zinara suspends employees over fraud
The Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) says it has suspended nine employees deployed at various tollgates for fraudulent activities.In an internal communique from the risk and loss...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Deported Nigerian journalist who wanted to enter Zimbabwe was using Ghananian documents
PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson George Charamba, has defended the deportation of Nigerian journalist David Hundeyin, saying he was an "agent provocateur."Hundeyin said he was detained on Wednesday a...Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Partisan institutions a danger to Zimbabwe democracy
ZIMBABWE'S elections since 1980 have been blighted by disputes and August 23 polls look no different.The culprits are the same - partial or politicised State institutions ranking from the Zimb...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 06:57hrs | 9 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Teenager dies in Gweru's freezing temperatures
A 16-year-old Gweru teenager was found dead in the city's Central Business District Wednesday morning after sleeping in the open, amid freezing temperatures.The recent cold spell which hit mos...Published: 12 Jul 2023 at 19:40hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Student privates parts stabbed with pen in school bullying
IN a suspected case of bullying, a Form Four pupil at St Columba's High School in Bulawayo collapsed after she was pushed against the wall in the toilet before she was allegedly stabbed with a ball po...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Drilling of boreholes by ZANU PF proves regime has no permanent solution to urban water crisis!
Judging by the manner in which the ZANU PF government is so fond of always castigating the opposition for failing to run urban authorities, one would be excused for believing the party had solutions....Published: 15 May 2023 at 14:02hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Horror experience at Zimbabwe passport office
REPORTS of poor service delivery continue to haunt the Bulawayo registry offices with passport applicants expressing disappointment at the alleged arrogance of some officials, claiming corruption has ...Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 07:47hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's rigging tendencies exposed
Zanu-PF's rigging practices in elections were seriously exposed during internal primary polls to choose candidates who will represent the party in the coming watershed general plebiscite. The party ha...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 16:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Uebert Angel, Rudland accounts frozen
INDIVIDUALS implicated in the gold Mafia scandal including prophet Uebert Angel have had their assets frozen by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe's Financial Intelligence Unit with arrests imminent....Published: 07 Apr 2023 at 09:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cash flush panners prey on vulnerable girls
GOLD panners are reportedly preying on vulnerable young girls in Nkayi District in Matabeleland North by using their financial muscle to quench their sexual appetite on the adolescents thereby exposin...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe 'Gold Mafia' suspects' assets frozen
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has frozen the assets of four officials who are implicated in gold smuggling, money laundering, bribery and other corrupt activities whos...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa rescues Zanu-PF bigwigs
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday rescued some of his allies who lost in the party's recent primary elections, with Information Communication Technology (ICT) minister Jenfan Muswere bouncing bac...Published: 04 Apr 2023 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Drug lord in Zanu-PF primary election contest
VIOLENCE mongers, drug lords, and shoddy characters were disqualified from standing for the ruling party in the forthcoming elections as Zanu-PF maintains high ethical standards with rerun polls set t...Published: 04 Apr 2023 at 06:30hrs | 10 | by Mbuso Ndlovu
9 000 Cowdray Park houses use banned blair toilets
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is working on modalities to ensure that all houses in Cowdray Park are connected to the sewer reticulation system.The development comes after the Government imp...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 11:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
George Charamba's attempts to gag journalists, futile
IN a jaw-dropping social media outburst of mammoth proportions, C spat hellfire, telling the local media in no uncertain terms not to write anything about issues that are being raised by the internati...Published: 01 Apr 2023 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bus driver nabbed for $4 million mbanje
POLICE have arrested a bus driver at Dulivhadzimu Bus Terminus in Beitbridge and recovered 40kg of dagga, with a street value of $4 million.The dagga was found stashed in the boot of the bus....Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
This and that with Mal'phosa: Zan'arcissists
We are in a forced relationship with a narcissistic government. They think they are the best. They think they are great and important. They think we can never survive without them. And they think we d...Published: 12 Mar 2023 at 16:05hrs | 3 | by Clerk Ndlovu
Mnangagwa threatens murambatswina II?
Unplanned and chaotic urban settlements without proper sewers, water supply roads and social amenities and with building on land totally unsuitable for human habitation are a serious risk to public he...Published: 06 Mar 2023 at 05:17hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Land row threatens US$50m hotel construction
A ROW over land between Victoria Falls Town Council (VFTC) and a private company, Wild Horizons, is threatening to scuttle plans to construct a US$ 50 million hotel in the resort town.This com...Published: 20 Feb 2023 at 05:33hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Bad news for errant driving schools
DRIVING Schools not complying with regulations set down by the Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe (TSCZ), now come under the spotlight after the council this week started an inspection, giving the non...Published: 18 Feb 2023 at 19:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says days numbered for name-droppers
NAME-droppers, the corrupt and malcontents who pursue narrow selfish interests at the expense of broad-based development, will face the full wrath of the law, with Government departments on high alert...Published: 16 Feb 2023 at 04:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Manhunt for 10 drug kingpins
Police are on the trail of 10 prominent drug kingpins in the capital who are understood to have been supplying large quantities of illicit narcotics to the public.In the last two weeks, law en...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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