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Zimbabwe pupils learning in tobacco barns and fowl runs
A joint parliamentary committee has raised the alarm over the deplorable state of school infrastructure across Zimbabwe, revealing that some pupils are attending lessons in disused tobacco barns, fowl...Published: 01 Jul 2025 at 12:37hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter
Villagers dragged to court for resisting eviction
Thirty-five villagers from Warwick Farm in Zvimba were denied bail on Monday when they appeared before Harare Magistrate Apollonia Marutya, facing charges of inciting public violence in relation to a ...Published: 05 Feb 2025 at 11:57hrs | 121 | by Staff reporter
Substandard solar installations fuel infernos
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) has identified substandard solar panel products and improper installations as the leading causes of fatal electrical accidents in the country, which hav...Published: 06 Nov 2024 at 06:57hrs | 353 | by Staff reporter
Slow progress of Nust projects
THE Government has raised concern over the slow pace that the administration at the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) in Bulawayo is taking in completing key development projects, s...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 16:43hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Cold spell affecting Zimbabwe to continue until Tuesday
THE Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has said the cold spell, cloudy and windy conditions that affected Matebeleland South, Bulawayo, Masvingo and Manicaland provinces from yesterday will cont...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 06:52hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Cold weather expected today, tomorrow
COLD, windy and cloudy conditions are expected today (Thursday) and tomorrow in Masvingo, Matebeleland South, Bulawayo Metropolitan, Midlands, Manicaland, Harare Metropolitan, southern areas of Mashon...Published: 20 Jul 2023 at 06:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo freezes
AS Zimbabwe experienced freezing weather that brought with it drizzles in some areas yesterday, Bulawayo city centre was adorned with images of people clad in an assortment of thick winter garb....Published: 12 Jul 2023 at 08:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans must brace for extreme cold spell
The ChronicleTHE Meteorological Services Department has warned of a cold front, which is expected to move across the country from today up to tomorrow, with Bulawayo set to record a minimum te...Published: 11 Jul 2023 at 07:38hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Government recruits 2 500 teachers
Government is in the process of recruiting 2 500 teachers and most of them will be deployed to rural areas where there is a critical shortage.This was revealed by Primary and Secondary Educati...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 05:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tips on rearing broilers
When you intend to start a poultry project, sometimes budget constraints may be very discouraging . That is not an excuse to shelve the project though. To cut on production costs, you can substitute a...Published: 19 Nov 2022 at 06:25hrs | 3 | by @Jamwanda2
Unpacking Nyika Inovakwa Nevene Vayo Philosophy
During our War of Liberation, we had a huge rear base in Mozambique called Mudzingadzi.As with many of our rear bases, Mudzingadzi suffered repeated Rhodesian air raids.One such raid c...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:18hrs | 4 | by E.D. Mnangagwa
High temperatures affect poultry production
The high temperatures felt throughout the country have been killing chickens in many backyard fowl runs in rural and urban areas. Many people have over the years started rearing broiler chicke...Published: 11 Nov 2021 at 06:20hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife officially opens female prison
Zimbabwe made history yesterday by being the first country in SADC to open a female open prison.The open prison gives credence to Zimbabwe's drive to modernise prison and correctional services...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 06:56hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ZRP Support Unit embroiled in farm dispute
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police Support Unit in Shamva has been accused of invading a farm belonging to one Cyril Gunda, in a matter that spilled into the courts yesterday.Gunda is seeking an order t...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 06:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: Tawanda Muchehiwa's gory story on how he was abducted by Ferret team
I often wake up in the middle of the night sweating profusely with a pulsating headache. At that moment, I can feel intense pain on the right side of my jaw. I never get back to sleep.I have t...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 09:49hrs | 38 | by Tawanda Muchehiwa
Unexplained wealth orders here to stay
THE proposed introduction of a free-standing procedure which compels an individual to explain the source of his wealth is a radical development in English law. For instance, the human rights and polit...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 08:03hrs | | by Prosper Simbarashe Maguchu
Zinara splashes millions on hiring luxury vehicles
Zinara could be splurging up to $2 million each year on hiring luxurious vehicles for its top management and board executives. Despite the dismissal of some top executives over corruption alle...Published: 30 May 2019 at 08:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Prosecutor-General guns for ex-Zinara boss' property
Prosecutor-General, Kumbirai Hodzi, the head of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), has petitioned the High Court seeking an order to freeze former Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara)...Published: 11 May 2019 at 14:54hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Military evicts Mnangagwa's elderly cleric at gunpoint
ZIMBABWE'S military, enforcing a government order, has forcibly evicted President Emmerson Mnangagwa's elderly cleric neighbour - at gunpoint - from a well-developed and equipped 250-hectare farm on t...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Shiri stops farm fights
The Minister of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement, Chief Air Marshal (Retired) Perence Shiri, has moved in to stop land fights in Manicaland and warned that the final authority to change owner...Published: 12 Jan 2018 at 06:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Fire razes judge's farm, judge taken ill with hypertension
Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Maxwell Takuva was recently taken ill with hypertension (blood pressure) after his Sub-Division 5 Ally Slopter Farm on the outskirts of Gweru caught fire resulting in...Published: 20 Nov 2017 at 04:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is happy, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, following the success of the youth interface rallies that we are now winding up, I suggest we move to mothers' interface rallies, then to fathers' i...Published: 08 Oct 2017 at 16:38hrs | | by CZ
Drivers cause accidents, not road blocks
It used to be that whenever one travelled a long journey by plane, parents would insist on being informed of a safe arrival. Even though the news would have reported no plane crash anywhere in the wor...Published: 29 Aug 2017 at 06:11hrs | 1 | by Nick Mangwana
Mysterious fire at Mnangagwa's home
A mysterious fire broke out at Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa's home in Tynwald, Harare and ravaged some sections of the sprawling property before the City of Harare fire tenders battled to put out...Published: 26 Aug 2017 at 16:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF officials loot $40 million youth fund dry
The Youth Development Fund has proved to be a monumental failure due to looting and fraud which came in the form of bogus projects. In the end, the economy is the biggest loser as the $40 million that...Published: 21 May 2017 at 16:19hrs | 1 | by Veneranda Langa
Mphoko warns residents of unruly elements
VICE President Phelekezela Mphoko yesterday donated 6,000 day-old broiler chicks to residents in Nkulumane constituency as part of the poultry project he unveiled last month. The project, whic...Published: 11 Jul 2016 at 06:58hrs | | by Pamela Shumba
National Foods offering credit facility to farmers
The National foods limited (NFL) is offering a credit facility to farmers who can account for $5 000, $10 000, $30 000, $100 000, depending on built up capacity of fowl runs or feedlot. A...Published: 04 Jul 2016 at 04:10hrs | 3 | by Stephen Jakes
Dzamara worth more than the others who have disappeared or killed
CHIKUKUVATAVATA. It used to be a game we played in our youthful, colonial days. Mother asks you and your siblings to catch a cock or hen for dinner, most probably because sekuru in the sense of your m...Published: 18 Jul 2015 at 13:24hrs | 27 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Heal Zimbabwe Trust embarks in peace programme
Heal Zimbabwe Trust has launched peace programmes in various parts of the country to make people aware of the vagaries of engaging in violence and desist from such activities.In a statemen...Published: 10 Jul 2015 at 08:30hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Maleme, a farming paradise locals refuse to lose
For the past three years, Bongani Masuku, a subsistence farmer's wife from Matobo district in Matabeleland South province, has managed to pay school fees for her daughter at boarding school on time wi...Published: 16 Mar 2015 at 09:50hrs | | by Arnold Mutemi
Obert Mpofu's empire
"AT the end the acquisition of wealth is ignoble in the extreme. I assume that you save and long for wealth only as a means of enabling you the better to do some good in your day and generation," wrot...Published: 23 Mar 2014 at 09:33hrs | | by Robin Muchetu
Housefly outbreak hits Bulawayo
POOR hygiene by residents, open sewer lines and a failure by the Bulawayo City Council to regularly collect refuse have been cited as the causes of an "uncontrollable" outbreak of house flies.Bulaway...Published: 25 Nov 2013 at 01:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Four-legged chicken, photo goes viral online
THE PICTURE of a four-legged chicken at the Midlands State University (MSU) has gone viral on social networks after it was posted on the university's official Facebook page.The chicken that ha...Published: 27 Oct 2013 at 03:34hrs | 13 | by Staff Reporter
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