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Zanu-PF lines up events to celebrate Mugabe's life
ZANU-PF has lined up a number of events to celebrate the life of the nation's founding father former, President Robert Mugabe, until the day of the burial at the national Heroes Acre. Presiden...Published: 14 hrs ago | 1202 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, Belarus sign US$350m deals
Zimbabwe and Belarus last night signed deals worth US$350 million as the two countries step up efforts to enhance economic cooperation. President Mnangagwa witnessed the signing ceremony held ...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:51hrs | 91 | by Staff reporter
Gweru sued over shoot-to-kill policy on stray dogs
THE Gweru City Council has been dragged to court by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) over the local authority's decision to shoot stray dogs and donkeys, a senior council of...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 11:02hrs | 362 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe inflation 'slows' again
The month-on-month inflation rate for August 2019 slowed to 18,07 percent after shedding 2,97 percentage points on July's 21,04 percent. According to the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency, (...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:24hrs | 344 | by Staff reporter
Work on Mugabe's grave house begins
The construction of a mausoleum for former President Robert Mugabe has started, with preparatory work at the site under way, while work on the design is still to be completed. Local Government...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 01:08hrs | 4679 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants cry foul
CIVIL servants have called on the Government to set a framework that safeguards the value of salaries following the latest adjustments that have triggered significant price increases. Governme...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 06:42hrs | 2335 | by Staff reporter
Production of Zimbabwe buses starts next month
THE production of 500 buses offered to Zimbabwe to modernise its mass public transport starts next month, Belarus Chief of Presidential Affairs General Colonel Victor Sheiman has said. The vis...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 06:41hrs | 1890 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council workers demand housing stands
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) workers have demanded that the local authority avail non-monetary allowances as they seek to identify ways of cushioning their salaries, it has been learnt.This com...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:53hrs | 348 | by Staff reporter
'18 people living in one room'
BULAWAYO's oldest suburb, Makokoba is still struggling to resolve the issue of shared accommodation, with over 170 houses having three to four families sharing a single room, investigations have revea...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:51hrs | 689 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to construct special grave for Mugabe
Government has conferred a special honour to the country's founding President, Robert Mugabe, by constructing a mausoleum at the National Heroes' Acre hill top where the former leader will be buried, ...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 08:12hrs | 1082 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's pictures
AS the country continues to celebrate the life of the late former President Robert Mugabe, The Chronicle went to its archives to get some pictures taken by its photojournalists over the years....Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 23:23hrs | 9413 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sets up centre for xenophobia victims
Government has reactivated a reception centre at Beitbridge to handle Zimbabweans fleeing xenophobic attacks in South Africa. The first batch of 60 repatriates was expected to arrive last night....Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 14:05hrs | 638 | by Staff reporter
ZACC starts cleansing councils of corrupt officials
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has set sights on cleansing local authorities of corrupt officials, with Chitungwiza, Harare and Victoria Falls topping the investigations list, an offic...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 06:54hrs | 923 | by Staff reporter
Bury Mugabe at Heroes Acre, says Chiefs
Chiefs have mourned the passing on of the former President Robert Mugabe, and proposed that he be buried at the National Heroes Acre alongside his other brave colleagues who fought tirelessly to liber...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 23:39hrs | 8323 | by Staff reporter
'Keep your De Klerk, we will keep our Mugabe'
EFF leader Julius Malema gave a defiant tribute to former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe, who he called a "patriot", at a memorial service held by the party on Thursday."For so long we have ...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 21:36hrs | 574 | by City Press
UZ blasted over command mourning
We cannot allow a shift from command agriculture to command mourning. This time we are ready to make sure that as they bury Robert Mugabe they also bury the dictatorial tendencies he planted in this c...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 12:36hrs | 3087 | by Ashlegh Pfunye
Interpol warrant of arrest red alert slapped on Robin Vela
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is lobbying the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) to issue red notices for former National Social Security Authority (Nssa) board cha...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 07:57hrs | 1686 | by Staff reporter
Lecturers demand $37,000 a month
Lecturers at state universities are demanding salary reviews that could push their monthly income up to as much as $37 000, it has been revealed.According to a letter written by the Zimbabwe S...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 08:46hrs | 986 | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe: The greatest trick the devil ever played
The fallacy of the hero-turned-villain narrative of Robert Mugabe is the greatest trick this devil ever played.The closest I have to feeling anything is quiet, seething rage.Rage that ...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 08:35hrs | 262 | by Siphosami Malunga
Vela battles anti-corruption tide
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is lobbying the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) to issue red notices for former National Social Security Authority (Nssa) board cha...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:41hrs | 594 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs is assistance, not interference
The Government of China recently provided Zimbabwe with a series of aid totalling US$13 million from South-South Cooperation Assistance Fund to WFP (World Food Programme), UNDP (United Nations Develop...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:03hrs | 72 | by Guo Shaochun, Chinese Ambassador to Zimbabwe
Tsvangirai destroyed the ZCTU
Those who have meticulously followed developments on the country's labour landscape since the turn of the millennium will, no doubt, concur with me that Morgan Tsvangirai (may his departed soul rest i...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 08:03hrs | 357 | by Cuthbert Mavheko
Zanu-PF drills 15 boreholes in Glen View ahead of the by-election
Zanu-PF has moved in to drill 15 boreholes in Glen View south constituency which has been hit by critical water shortages as result of negligence by the MDC led local authority.Located in Glen...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 12:58hrs | 1145 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Mnangagwa's minister says Ndebeles are not Zimbabweans
Deputy Government Spokesperson Energy Mutodi says Ndebele people who were led by King Mzilikazi were accommodated by Zimbabwe when they settled in the western part of the country fleeing Zulu King Sha...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 09:25hrs | 16297 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Former Bulawayo Deputy Mayor dies
Former Bulawayo Deputy Mayor, Alderman Elliot Madanke Dube, has died after a long illness.He was 79.Alderman Dube who was one of the longest serving members of the Council passed on Fr...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 18:22hrs | 1974 | by Staff reporter
What happened to Ubuntu?
I have been watching the violence and looting of foreign owned-businesses over the past few weeks across South Africa, first in Johannesburg and now escalating in Pretoria, with despair. The a...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 08:41hrs | 783 | by Susan Tolmy
New rules to deal with drunk councillors
Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Minister July Moyo has called on local authorities to formulate standing rules to rein in councillors who attend meetings while drunk. Minis...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 07:45hrs | 122 | by Staff reporter
Xenophobic attacks simmer up in South Africa
What started up as a mere smear on "foreign" truck drivers in Kwazulu-natal South Africa a few weeks ago has now turned into a national attack on foreigners.Yesterday a fire mysteriously set a...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 21:02hrs | 3313 | by Daniel Itai, Johannesburg South Africa
Kambarami by-election latest
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is waiting for official communication from the Bulawayo City Council to start preparing for a by-election after the High Court nullified the election of Bulaway...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 07:36hrs | 1296 | by Staff reporter
Chitungwiza graft exposed
A call by Chitungwiza North MP Godfrey Sithole for a forensic audit on the council's operations by the auditor-general Mildred Chiri has opened a can of worms with many people reportedly volunteering ...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:58hrs | 275 | by Staff reporter
Who Owns England?
Who Owns England? The question sounds oblique, when one considers the country's documented long history of "civilisation". One would think that, by now, this question should have long been settled. Ye...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:33hrs | 126 | by Ranga Mataire
More Bulawayo councillors face the axe
THE much-anticipated report on the Government-stipulated investigation on the conduct of Bulawayo City Councillors is out, with indications that some councillors' conduct was deemed inappropriate and ...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 04:47hrs | 4711 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa okays salaries for Provincial Council staffers
President Mnangagwa has approved the payment of salaries for Provincial Council members as part of efforts to implement the devolution agenda. Addressing delegates during the Business Weekly M...Published: 31 Aug 2019 at 18:29hrs | 391 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe remains unitary state
ZIMBABWE is maturing as a democracy and in politics as evidenced by the devolution drive spearheaded by the Second Republic, but will however remain a Unitary State in the wake of the provincial and l...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:00hrs | 175 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to chair SADC disaster committee
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will chair the SADC committee that constitutes a minister from each Member State responsible for coordinating disaster-related issues, an official has said. The setting up ...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 07:56hrs | 85 | by Staff rpeorter
Honour Zesa debt, Chasi tells councils
Zesa Holdings is owed $360 million by local authorities, forcing Energy and Power Development Minister Fortune Chasi to intervene. In an interview, Minister Chasi said there was need for debto...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:23hrs | 136 | by Staff reporter
Harare council misses targets
Harare City leadership has failed to deliver on its targets in their first year in office in terms of providing essential services like water and sanitation, eradicating undesignated dumping sit...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:13hrs | 120 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants in Mnangagwa salary U-turn
ZIMBABWE'S impoverished civil servants yesterday made a volte-face and embraced a 76% salary adjustment made by their employer, hardly a week after they scoffed at the offer, describing it as falling ...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:39hrs | 2062 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants accept Mnangagwa pay offer
THE National Joint Negotiating Council (NJNC) yesterday provisionally agreed that Government would pay civil servants a cost of living adjustment (COLA) ranging from 50 percent to 76 percent of their ...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:30hrs | 910 | by Staff reporter
City council workers demand $2 000 basic pay
Harare City Council workers' representative unions have proposed a minimum salary of $2 000 and called for a review of hygiene allowances. The employees are represented by the Harare Municipal...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:23hrs | 347 | by Staff reporter
Gweru dangles carrot to residents
GWERU City Council has set aside a number of residential stands to offer to residents who settle their arrears and constantly pay their bills, as the city steps up efforts to recover millions of dolla...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 07:48hrs | 2614 | by Staff reporter
Mutare probes MDC, Zanu-PF councillors over stands
Mutare City Council is probing councillors and officials who were implicated in the forensic land audit for allegedly corruptly allocating themselves land cheaply.The investigations come after...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 07:07hrs | 867 | by Staff reporter
Democracy and philanthropism in governance and five of Africa's most rare men in politics
Democracy is a system of governance in which the people choose their leaders by voting for them in elections. ... Philanthropy is free-giving of help or money to those in need. Governance is control o...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 22:34hrs | 865 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Mnangagwa urged to put price control measures: ZIMTA
Civil servants have pleaded with Government to set a control framework that safeguards the value of salaries following the latest adjustments.Government has tabled a 76 percent salary adjustme...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 18:48hrs | 529 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe begins grain imports
Government has bought 20 000 tonnes of maize from Tanzania and is in active discussions with other countries in the region, particularly Zambia, as it moves to procure more than 1 million tonnes, it h...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:38hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter
BCC mulls tuition fee hike
BULAWAYO city fathers are considering hiking tuition fees at council-run schools next term, arguing the cost of subsidising education, among other services, had sunk the local authority into a $2 mill...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:44hrs | 739 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa launches PSC Strategic Plan
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa launched the 2019-20 Public Service Strategic Plan in Harare yesterday aimed at reforming the public service and improve productivity, accountability, remuneration and pension refo...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:39hrs | 254 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dragged into Mphoko, Zacc fight
FORMER Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko, who stands accused of abuse of public office, has dragged President Emmerson Mnangagwa into his case, saying the Zanu-PF leader in 2015 made a similar act whe...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 12:00hrs | 2947 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa fears Sudan-style protests will rock Zimbabwe
GOVERNMENT'S deep-seated fears of massive Sundanese-style protests over the deteriorating political and economic emergency have been exposed after it moved yesterday to block mass demonstrations calle...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 11:58hrs | 2467 | by Staff reporter
Huge payout plan for civil servants
GOVERNMENT is understood to be preparing a "meaningful offer" for civil servants as it seeks to address the challenges they face of high prices of goods and services. The offer is set to be ta...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 07:27hrs | 1531 | by Staff reporter
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