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Bulawayo-Victoria Falls Road a death trap
A recent near-fatal accident along the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls Highway has shed light on the growing dangers posed by abandoned burst tyres left on the road by haulage truck drivers. Mr. Thomas Chauke...Published: 01 Jan 2025 at 10:18hrs | 1048 | by Staff reporter
Proliferation of firewood using food cookers worry Tree Ambassador
National Tree Ambassador Never Bonde has expressed concern over the increasing number of small scale food outlets that are using firewood indicatin...Published: 17 Dec 2024 at 05:22hrs | 150 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa caps 1,708 at Lupane State University
President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday awarded degrees to 1,708 students at Lupane State University (LSU)'s 15th graduation ceremony, celebrating the institution's first cohort of students under the S...Published: 10 Nov 2024 at 10:43hrs | 92 | by Staff reporter
John Landa Nkomo's son banished from Zanu-PF conference
Jabulani Nkomo, son of the late Vice-President John Landa Nkomo, has been barred from attending the upcoming Zanu-PF annual conference after his name was mysteriously removed from the accreditation li...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 09:04hrs | 1142 | by Staff reporter
Lupane benefits from ZNA medical outreach
The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA)'s recent free medical outreach programme in Lupane District, Matabeleland North Province, has been hailed as a success, with more than 500 villagers receiving healthca...Published: 29 Sep 2024 at 11:16hrs | 65 | by Staff reporter
Man axes woman to death
A 24-YEAR-OLD man is on the run after allegedly fatally axing a woman (84) in Lupane.In a statement on X, police said they are investigating a case of murder with occurred at Mlonyeni on 12 Ju...Published: 16 Jul 2024 at 13:45hrs | 881 | by Staff reporter
Chief Ndiweni accuses Zanu of hypocrisy
Outspoken Ntabazinduna traditional leader, Chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni has accused the Zanu-PF government of "hypocrisy" in commissioning the Pupu Battlefield Memorial Site in Lupane....Published: 24 Mar 2024 at 15:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mutasa, Mliswa land fight deepens
FORMER State Security Minister Didymus Mutasa has refuted claims made by his nephew, Temba Mliswa, regarding share ownership in Muungwe Investments Private Limited as the fight for vast pieces of land...Published: 22 Feb 2024 at 04:59hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Lake Gwayi-Shangani completion date unknown, might take decades
THE completion of Lake Gwayi-Shangani which might take ages will see Matabeleland South also benefiting from the project through increased land under irrigation as dams which are currently supplying B...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 04:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Completion of Lake Gwayi-Shangani to benefit Matebeleland South
THE completion of Lake Gwayi-Shangani will see Matebeleland South also benefiting from the project through increased land under irrigation as dams which are currently supplying Bulawayo with water wil...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Timber war erupts in Lupane
A WAR of words has erupted in Lupane, with locals taking aim at the Kusile Rural District Council (KRDC) which oversees the administration of the Matabeleland North provincial capital, over misplaced ...Published: 12 Nov 2023 at 20:39hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, CCC chart way forward after 2023 disputed elections
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has announced that its leader, Nelson Chamisa, has completed his nationwide engagements with party members to discuss the way forward following the disputed gen...Published: 08 Oct 2023 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Spirit of vengeance cited in Lupane double murder
Spiritual leaders believe that Clever Ngwenya of Gwalubha village in Lupane District, who brutally killed his elderly parents, may have been influenced by vengeful spirits haunting him.Clever ...Published: 26 Sep 2023 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Final Matabeleland North civil servants' relocation by December 2023
The government has made a commitment to promptly address pending water and electricity connections for civil servants' residences in Lupane, facilitating the relocation of all government employees to ...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Burglars raid Nedbank
Burglars broke into a Nedbank building in Bulawayo's Belmont industrial area where they damaged three safes before stealing over US$270 000 and about R2 million, police confirmed yesterday.The...Published: 30 Aug 2023 at 06:44hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Huge turnout for elections countrywide
Thousands of people thronged polling stations across the country to cast their votes for their preferred candidates for Presidential, National Assembly and local authority elections.A peaceful...Published: 24 Aug 2023 at 06:37hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mudenda rallies Zanu-PF supporters
Zanu-PF Secretary for Legal Affairs Advocate Jacob Mudenda yesterday implored citizens to remain resolute in safeguarding the gains of the country's liberation struggle by voting for ruling party in t...Published: 18 Aug 2023 at 06:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Opposition members condemn Ndlovu cockroach remarks
Human rights activists and opposition members have condemned Zanu-PF Matebeleland South chairman Nqobizitha Mangaliso Ndlovu, for referring to the opposition as ‘cockroaches', saying he does not des...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 16:09hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers blow open bank safe
AN armed robber who is part of a five-man gang that used explosives to blow open a safe at Agribank Lupane branch is recovering in hospital under police guard after he was shot.Police national...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 07:09hrs | 11 | by Staff rporter
A vote to remain masters of our own destiny
Here we reproduce excerpts of President Mnangagwa's speech to Zanu-PF supporters at Nyele Primary School in Bulilima, Matebeleland South province, yesterday.SalutationsWhen Jesus was b...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:39hrs | 18 | by Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa
Lupane varsity starts chicken artificial insemination project
LUPANE State University (LSU) has started a chicken artificial insemination project to improve indigenous breeds in the country with similar projects also being done with goats and pigs.The un...Published: 15 Jun 2023 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe edges closer to methane gas extraction
ONE of the six investors awarded special grants by Government to prospect for coal-bed methane (CBM) gas in Matebeleland North has made significant progress and is inching closer to tapping the resour...Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 21:32hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's bulletproof car gathers dust in police custody
POLICE in Lupane, Matebeleland North are still holding the late former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangiri's car, which they seized 15 years ago.NewsDay visited a police compound in Lupane and obs...Published: 05 Jun 2023 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe continues to digitalise passport application
THE Government is putting in place a cocktail of measures to ensure easy access to travelling documents and is expecting services to decentralise to all districts by year-end while efforts are being m...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 13:36hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's spin doctors rattled by Al Jazeera exposé
THE Al Jazeera documentary which exposed how people close to President Emmerson Mnangagwa are involved in gold smuggling and money laundering has torched a storm, with citizens openly expressing anger...Published: 26 Mar 2023 at 20:28hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Lions cause havoc in Matebeleland North
A pride of lions is reportedly causing havoc in parts of Lupane, Matebeleland North, where herds of cattle belonging to different farmers have been killed.Children have not been to school as v...Published: 21 Mar 2023 at 08:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Absconding teachers contributing to poor pass rate in Lupane
Local government and public works Minister, July Moyo, has said that absconding teachers are a major source of poor examination results and has urged the Lupane community to report those who do not re...Published: 28 Feb 2023 at 09:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Youths expected in Lupane for Mugabe day
THOUSANDS of youths from Matabeleland region and the Midlands province are expected to attend the National Youth Day celebrations that will be headlined by President Mnangagwa in Lupane today....Published: 21 Feb 2023 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt goes all out to complete Lupane Hospital
WORK on Lupane Provincial Hospital, the first public referral health institution in Matabeleland North Province, has gained pace as the Government steps up efforts to meet the end of year deadline to ...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 23:45hrs | 9 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe in massive teacher recruitment drive
MORE qualified teachers are being recruited to be deployed in 28 largely rural districts of the eight non-metropolitan provinces to improve delivery of quality education with special focus on infant e...Published: 16 Jan 2023 at 16:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF stalwarts and ex-ministers troop back
Zanu-PF stalwarts and ex-ministers in the current administration and late former President Robert Mugabe's government are plotting a political comeback after they were cleared by the politburo to cont...Published: 08 Oct 2022 at 21:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Headmaster seeks help for bedridden wife
THE headmaster of Regina Mundi Primary School in Lupane Mr Nkululeko Msimanga is asking for about US$6 000 to help his bedridden wife Mrs Sihlalisiwe Msimanga (51) undergo a brain therapy in Harare....Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
US$30 million for Lupane State University students accommodation
THE Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ) has released US$30m for the construction of Lupane State University student accommodation and work has already begun in earnest on the seven-hect...Published: 11 Sep 2022 at 11:05hrs | 23 | by Staff Reporter
Rasta to paint Cont Mhlanga
SOUTH Africa-based, Zimbabwean visual artiste painter, Rasta the artiste, is in Bulawayo to honour the late arts legend Cont Mhlanga.The Pumula East born Rasta, real name Lebani Sirenje, arriv...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Who will Continue your work?
INTABA enkulu idilikile sums up the impact of the death of one of the country's icons of the arts, Cont Mhlanga.Cont (64) died yesterday morning at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) after be...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cont Mhlanga mourned
One of the country's icons of the arts, Cont Mhlanga, died yesterday morning at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) after being admitted 10 days ago.He was 64.His family said he succum...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zapu official in trouble over firearm
Top Zapu official who once contested for the party presidency will appear before the Bulawayo Magistrates Court on Thursday next week facing a charge of failing to secure his firearm after it was repo...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cop in soup over missing firearm
A 59-YEAR-OLD police detective from Kensington's Plot B in Hope Valley, Bulawayo is in trouble after his service pistol mysteriously went missing.Mathew Sibanda appeared before Bulawayo provin...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lupane Govt complex complete
The new Elitsheni Government Complex in Lupane, capital of Matabeleland North province, is complete and Government departments have been allocated offices to pave way for relocation of civil servants ...Published: 01 Jun 2022 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt urged to complete outstanding projects in honour of Chief Mabhikwa
Lupane West Member of Parliament (MP) Martin Khumalo has challenged the government to complete all the outstanding projects in Matabeleland North in honour of the late Chief Mabhikwa of Jotsholo, Lupa...Published: 31 May 2022 at 12:38hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF moves out of Obert Mpofu's offices
ZANU-PF Umguza district has moved out of the offices (pictured) that are owned by the party's Secretary for Administration Obert Mpofu located along Canaught Avenue in Bulawayo. A visit to the...Published: 26 May 2022 at 11:58hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chiwenga mourns Chief Mabhikwa
ACTING President Dr Constantino Chiwenga has mourned the death of Chief Mabhikwa saying the nation has been robbed of a humble, intelligent, resourceful and dynamic youthful leader who was barely in t...Published: 24 May 2022 at 15:48hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Unpacking the origins of the Mabhikwa Chieftaincy
FOLLOWING the death of Chief Mabhikwa, Chronicle sought the views of historian Mr Thomas Sibanda, who helped shed more light on the historical background of the chieftaincy.He shares his views...Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:20hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
77 goats die at LSU due to procurement malpractices
Seventy-seven (77) goats died at Lupane State University due to procurement malpractices in a clear abuse of state funds.The $52 000 000 for Innovation and Industrialisation from ZIMDEF has co...Published: 22 May 2022 at 13:37hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
LSU rocked by unscrupulous procurement deals
LUPANE State University (LSU) is reportedly rocked by unscrupulous procurement deals after it received 52 000 000.00 for Innovation and Industrialisation from ZIMDEF.Indications are that...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 10:51hrs | 6 | by Stephen Jakes
Lupane, Binga battles relived
TODAY as we continue our interview with Lieutenant-Colonel (Retired) Stanford Moyo pseudo name Lloyd Zvanananewako or Mabhikwa, the former freedom fighter takes us through operations in the Zipra oper...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 07:03hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Glow Petroleum opens US$1,5m facility in Vic Falls
GLOW Petroleum has opened a US$1,5 million state-of-art fuel service station in Victoria Falls and has committed to ensuring quality supplies and enhancing the tourism business growth.The gara...Published: 11 Nov 2021 at 06:20hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Rural teachers mobilise votes for education
THE Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) has intensified the #SaveOurEducationZw campaign through embarking on a drive to mobilise voters who will vote for a more inclusive and efficie...Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 05:26hrs | 8 | by Artuz
Senior cop sucked in cattle rustling racket
A senior female police officer based at Lupane Police Station in Matabeleland North Province is at the centre of cattle rustling racket amid revelations that she allegedly connived with two witch-hunt...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mat North civil servants relocation imminent
GOVERNMENT is inching closer to fully relocating Matabeleland North civil servants to Lupane as construction of the Lupane Government Complex is now 88 percent complete with all works expected to be c...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
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