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The four best performing Zimbabwean football players in Europe
Soccer (popularly known as football) has emerged as one of the most popular sports in the world. It is played in many countries with other nations planning to participate amid its surging popularity. ...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 18:40hrs | 1413 | by Staff writer
Disaster looms as Harare runs out of water chemicals
Harare is in a serious water crisis further exposing the vulnerable residents to the lethal COVID 19 virus. The City has attributed poor water supply to shortage of water treatment chemicals."...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 21:17hrs | 2162 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Embassies caught in stands storm
WESTERN embassies (names supplied) were favoured in the illegal parcelling of residential stands by the MDC Alliance-led council in Harare as the opposition party used its control of the capital city ...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 09:11hrs | 709 | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus hits Harare City Council..offices shut down
I extend my warmest greetings to you all the residents and visitors to Harare and would like to take this opportunity to reinforce the message against the fight against Covid-19.Harare City Co...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 18:57hrs | 3427 | by Deputy Mayor Enock Mupamawonde
Chamisa's MDC sucked in land scam
MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa has been sucked into the latest swirl of residential stands allocation scam in the capital city, amid revelations that the opposition has been stripping the counc...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:25hrs | 1427 | by Staff reporter
Informal traders defy Mnangagwa
INFORMAl traders, who are currently unable to ply their trade on the capital's pavements, have invaded open spaces around industrial areas, mainly in Graniteside, posing a COVID-19 health hazard as th...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:51hrs | 3919 | by Staff reporter
Stiffer conditions to pass roadblocks
Police at roadblocks will now be seeking more detailed documentation signed by an employee's chief executive officer or general manager so that those legitimately going to work in an essential service...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:45hrs | 1051 | by Staff reporter
Panic as Covid-19 hits Zimbabwe prisons
Two positive Covid-19 cases have been recorded at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison, adding to unofficial reports of a coronavirus death at the same place and a third case at the correctional services...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:20hrs | 1257 | by Staff reporter
Police boss, prosecutor arrested over stands scam
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption (Zacc) has arrested a police boss and a regional prosecutor implicated in the Harare City Council (HCC)'s Kuwadzana stands scam involving council employees.Police ...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:45hrs | 631 | by Staff reporter
Council hikes maternity fees 14-fold
Harare City Council has announced a 14-fold increase in clinic and maternity fees, a move that is raising opposition as the charges will now vary directly with weekly changes in the exchange rate, wit...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:42hrs | 619 | by Staff reporter
ZACC arrests 4 police officers; magistrate over massive Harare land scam
Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) three police officers, a magistrate and a prosecutor over a major City of Harare tender scam, an online publication Zimmorning Post has reported. Acc...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 10:51hrs | 6871 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Chitembwe is the best coach'
WARRIORS assistant and Harare City Football Club coach Lloyd Chitembwe has been lauded by his former player, Ronald PFumbidzai, as one of the best coaches locally.The pair worked together at C...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 07:44hrs | 1808 | by Staff reporter
Police hunt for 6 Harare council employees
DETECTIVES from the Commercial Crimes Division have launched a manhunt for six Harare City Council employees who are at large over the US$1 million Kuwadzana stands scam involving director of human re...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:13hrs | 3869 | by Staff reporter
Khupe congress blocked
UNCERTAINTY looms over the MDC-T extraordinary congress which had been pencilled for July 31, amid reports that the police have refused to clear the event citing COVID-19 regulations which restrict ga...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:32hrs | 7989 | by Staff reporter
Recall of MDC-A Councillors
The MDC Alliance condemns the recall of 4 Harare City Councilors by Minister July Moyo of Zanu PF on the instruction of the MDC-T.This ...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 11:33hrs | 2444 | by Sesel Zvidzai
Khupe, Chamisa lock horns over chief whips
MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe and his MDC Alliance rival Nelson Chamisa have opened a new battlefront in their war for the control of the opposition party following their appointment of different set o...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 18:17hrs | 5249 | by Staff reporter
Harare reverses parking fees hike
With most motorists boycotting street parking in Harare city centre yesterday morning and shopkeepers counting severe losses, Harare City Council reversed the US$1 an hour new parking charges and reve...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:27hrs | 1173 | by Staff reporter
Khupe axes 4 Harare councillors
THE ongoing expulsion of MDC-Alliance officials who are refusing to toe the MDC-T line has extended to municipalities, with the axe yesterday falling on four Harare councillors. This follows t...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:06hrs | 1002 | by Staff reporter
MDC fights shift to Zec
NELSON Chamisa's MDC Alliance has vowed to block Thokozani Khupe and her party from replacing proportional representation (PR) legislators and senators recalled by the MDC-T from Parliament over the p...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:03hrs | 2005 | by Staff reporter
Ngodzo fights for dear life
REIGNING Castle Lager Soccer Star of the Year Joel Ngodzo and his compatriots Donald Teguru and Takudzwa Chimwe will resume their battle against relegation as Zambian Premier Soccer League (ZPSL) rest...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:24hrs | 1054 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira trial kicks off
THE trial of former cabinet minister Prisca Mupfumira has kicked off at the Harare Magistrates court this Wednesday with both Mupfumira and her then Permanent Secretary, Ngoni Masoka pleading not guil...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 20:23hrs | 3077 | by Staff reporter
5 in court over bond notes
Five shop managers and shop assistants in Harare city centre were arrested at the end of last week after refusing to accept bond notes, which remain legal tender, and were remanded on bail on Saturday...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:54hrs | 2084 | by Staff reporter
City health workers reject salary offer
Harare City Council nurses have rejected a $4 498,18 salary offer presented by the local authority, arguing that the proposed figures were below the poverty datum line, and have issued a 14-day ultima...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:20hrs | 989 | by Staff reporter
Debt cripples Harare
Harare City Council operations have been crippled by debtors that owe it more than $1. 4 billion with residents being the major debtors followed by business and Government, respectively. Accor...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:07hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
Council staffer commits suicide
A HARARE City Council employee based at Remembrance Drive offices in Mbare allegedly committed suicide recently under unclear circumstances amid claims that a suicide note has gone missing. Ms...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 07:52hrs | 672 | by Staff reporter
Harare repossess sports clubs
THE Harare City Council has resolved to terminate all leases with their sports clubs, council principal communications officer Innocent Ruwende has said.In an interview with the Daily News, Ru...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:45hrs | 1783 | by Staff reporter
HIV patients fail to access ARVs
PEOPLE living with HIV and AIDS are having difficulties in accessing second line drugs from public institutions and are being forced to buy them from pharmacies at US$25 for one-month's supply. ...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 06:36hrs | 516 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to the First Lady of Zimbabwe
Dear First Lady,I am writing this letter to Mrs Mnangagwa on behalf of our girls. I understand you have children that you love so dearly, l am kindly asking you to use the position that yo...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 08:07hrs | 8551 | by L. D Mungwari
Zanu-PF axe falls on Gomwe
ZANU-PF has intensified its purge on party malcontents with Harare district co-ordinating committee chairperson Godwin Gomwe recently suspended for accusing some party provincial chairpersons of faili...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 07:57hrs | 2832 | by Staff reporter
Chafa faces expulsion
VETERAN Ngezi Platinum Stars midfielder, Devon Chafa faces expulsion from the club before the season kickstarts over his continued involvement in social games in violation of his coach's directive and...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 07:42hrs | 810 | by Staff reporter
Govt mulls reviewing cash grants
For Sharai Chivasa, a middle-aged mother of four from Harare's high-density suburb of Glen View 3, surviving the current pricing madness is equally as important as enduring the virulent coronavirus....Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 09:26hrs | 150 | by Staff reporter
'Khami Dam sewage water unfit for Bulawayo consumption'
DESCENDANT of the Ndebele monarch, King Lobengula, Prince Peter Zwide Khumalo yesterday slammed plans by Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to pump the heavily-polluted Khami Dam water into households to all...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 07:54hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to rename US embassy road after George Floyd?
Some Zimbabweans have approached Harare City Council to rename Flame Lily Way along the American Embassy after George Floyd as a way of paying tribute to the black American who was gruesomely murdered...Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 08:06hrs | 2810 | by Staff reporter
Lyon unveil Kadewere
French giants Olympique Lyon yesterday officially unveiled Zimbabwe striker Tino Kadewere in a €12 million transfer from Le Harve.The Ligue 1 club, who failed in their attempts to restart th...Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 07:50hrs | 731 | by Staff reporter
The Republic of Matabeleland (ROM) beckons
With Ambazonia's final breakthrough in their quest for self-determination, it has become abundantly clear that after experiencing a series of tragedies under Zimbabwe's colonial rule Matabele people c...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 20:15hrs | 2790 | by George Mkhwanazi
No longer the Sunshine City
The Zimbabwe capital city which was once called Salisbury during the colonial era changed its name to Harare on 18 April 1982.During the second anniversary of Zimbabwean independence, th...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 14:37hrs | 967 | by Leonard Koni
A monumentally fatal proposal for Bulawayo: Khami Dam water for drinking?
The Bulawayo community read with a shock in The Chronicle about the City's proposal to use decommissioned Khami Dam water to supplement the City's potable water supply. The City of Harare's current wa...Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 10:10hrs | 6371 | by Prince Zwide Khumalo
Council freezes stands allocation
Desperate home seekers in Harare will have to wait a bit longer to get stands from council after the local authority temporarily froze new stand allocations and suspended operations of the allocation ...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 07:09hrs | 1132 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tightens lockdown
ZIMBABWE yesterday tightened the COVID-19 lockdown in major cities, with police and army blocking motorists and commuters from entering central business districts around the country after infections t...Published: 03 Jun 2020 at 10:14hrs | 7192 | by Staff reporter
Coup brewing in Zimbabwe?
THOUSANDS of workers have been inconvenienced after being ordered to return home by police and soldiers manning roadblocks in most roads leading into the Harare city centre.According to report...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 13:17hrs | 24647 | by Staff reporter
Security forces up lockdown enforcement
THOUSANDS of workers have been inconvenienced after being ordered to return home by police and soldiers manning roadblocks in most roads leading into the Harare city centre.According to report...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 09:06hrs | 1180 | by Staff reporter
The great Moses Chunga
A rare talent , top marksman. He was a football genius, a complete footballer and did not shy away to make his views and feelings known - Can't play for peanuts.Moses 'Razorman' Chunga -now Ba...Published: 27 May 2020 at 10:13hrs | 2860 | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwe bucks the trend as more patients recover from Covid-19
Almost half of Zimbabwe's confirmed Covid-19 patients have now fully recovered with more shrugging off the last of their infection almost every day, but medical experts warn that this is no reason to ...Published: 26 May 2020 at 07:09hrs | 906 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Justice Wadyajena's car impounded by police
Information coming from Harare indicate that a vehicle belonging to a compony owned by Gokwe-Nembudziya Member of Parliament Justice Mayor Wadyajena has been impounded after the driver was found condu...Published: 25 May 2020 at 16:26hrs | 9654 | by Mandla Ndlovu
800 kombis impounded
HARARE City Council has impounded more than 800 commuter omnibuses in the past two weeks for flouting several by-laws since opening the Coventry Road holding bay. The commuter omnibuses are be...Published: 22 May 2020 at 06:25hrs | 1171 | by Staff reporter
Cornered robber surrenders
A cornered robber, who was allegedly part of a gang that stole US$59 000 from a businessman after posing as police officers enforcing lockdown regulations in Harare city centre, surrendered himself to...Published: 14 May 2020 at 17:06hrs | 2789 | by Staff reporter
Stop complaining and get involved!
IT would be remiss to not ac-knowledge the outpouring of responses to last week's article entitled What are Zimbabweans known for. It touched a raw nerve with many people, especially those who deliber...Published: 09 May 2020 at 08:17hrs | 1051 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Harare CBD roars back to life
THERE was increased human activity in the Harare city centre yesterday as the central business district (CBD) awoke from a 36-day slumber induced by the coronavirus lockdown.President Emmerson...Published: 05 May 2020 at 08:53hrs | 2478 | by Staff reporter
Manual respirators for rural communities
Local firm FAW Zimbabwe intends to acquire as many mobile respiratory units as possible to help some rural communities fight Covid-19.Last week, the company donated a 75-horsepower tractor equ...Published: 03 May 2020 at 08:58hrs | 143 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance led Harare seeks $180m Mnangagwa govt bailout
HARARE City Council has approached Finance minister Mthuli Ncube seeking a $180 million rescue package or the local authority will collapse under the strain of coronavirus-induced lockdown. Ma...Published: 30 Apr 2020 at 07:31hrs | 873 | by Staff reporter
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