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Cain Mathema's appointment as Education Minister a disaster for Mthwakazi
The recently announced changes in the cabinet by Mishack Sibanda effected by Emerson Mnangagwa government leaves a lot to be desired.Cain Mathema is a former member of the Froliz party which l...Published: 10 hrs ago | 2691 | by Mqondisi Moyo MRP President.
Chamisa MDC admits to not having sound rural structures
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC has admitted that it has no sound structures in rural areas, a move that has allowed Zanu-PF to have a stroll in the park in many council and parliamentary by-elections....Published: 11 hrs ago | 784 | by Staff reporter
Child snatched by destitute woman found alive
A FOUR-YEAR-OLD girl who was snatched away from her home in Bulawayo's Emganwini suburb by a stranger has been reunited with her family after she was found in Tsholotsho. Nosipho Ndlovu ...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 06:35hrs | 2397 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF trounce MDC in Tsholotsho and Wedza council by-elections
Zanu-PF had a clean sweep in council by-elections held on Saturday - two in Tsholotsho, Matabeleland North, and one in Wedza, Mashonaland East.Amid biting poverty and a collapsed economy, the ...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 21:32hrs | 980 | by Staff reporter
All set for stable Zimdollar
As the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe releases $2 coins into circulation tomorrow ahead of the introduction of $2 and $5 Zim-dollar notes, Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube is...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:22hrs | 637 | by Staff reporter
Heavy rains with violent storms predicted
THE Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has predicted heavy rains accompanied by violent thunderstorms with possible flash floods with effect from this evening. The announcement comes at ...Published: 09 Nov 2019 at 10:05hrs | 2753 | by Staff reporter
Plea for water at rural schools
MATABELELAND South Provincial Education Director (PED) Mr Lifias Masukume is appealing to well-wishers to supply teachers with water at rural schools as water scarcity is crippling school activities. ...Published: 09 Nov 2019 at 07:33hrs | 228 | by Staff Reporter
Met Dept: Heavy rains with violent storms predicted
THE Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has predicted heavy rains accompanied by violent thunderstorms with possible flash floods with effect from this evening. The announcement comes at ...Published: 09 Nov 2019 at 07:30hrs | 9209 | by Staff Reporter
Lupane council to sue defaulters
LUPANE'S Kusile Rural District Council (RDC) has threatened court action against government ministries, businesses and ordinary residents over outstanding debts running into millions of dollars....Published: 07 Nov 2019 at 05:50hrs | 244 | by Staff reporter
Ted Fellow Carl Joshua Ncube stars in a documentary
One of the pressing questions both worldwide and in Zimbabwe is ‘How do we sustainably use our natural resources and protect our wild life from extinction?'Produced by MMX Productions and Re...Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 07:47hrs | 593 | by Staff reporter
We won't watch people die, says Mpilo boss
MPILO Central Hospital Clinical Director Dr Solwayo Ngwenya has said his staff will continue to attend to patients seeking medical services despite the ongoing strike by some doctors.In an int...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 06:37hrs | 360 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, Sadc have spoken; racists sanctions must go now!
Sadc rallied in resounding fashion against Western sanctions on Zimbabwe yesterday. The events across the region marked the climax of a process that started with the declaration, on 18 August this yea...Published: 26 Oct 2019 at 07:31hrs | 127 | by chronicle - editorial
Provinces march against racist US sanctions
Zimbabweans from all walks of life yesterday took part in the historic anti- sanctions march in different parts of the country. While the main activities were in Harare, there were other marches that ...Published: 26 Oct 2019 at 07:29hrs | 283 | by Staff reporter
Lecturers strike triggers students demonstration
STUDENTS at Lupane State University (LSU) on Wednesday staged a demonstration blocking the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls highway protesting against lack of food, electricity and water at a time when lecture...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 09:32hrs | 237 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe stands up against sanctions
ALL is set for today's anti-sanctions march, with Government availing 265 buses to ferry people from the country's 10 provinces to the main event to be held at the National Sports Stadium in Harare. ...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 07:53hrs | 891 | by Staff Reporter
O, A-Level exams to go ahead as nation marks anti-Sanctions day
GOVERNMENT has said public examinations set for Friday will proceed on the day as scheduled. In a statement yesterday, the Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Professor Paul Mavima, s...Published: 23 Oct 2019 at 06:01hrs | 721 | by Staff reporter
Lupane University lecturers, staff go on strike
Lecturers at Lupane State University (LSU) have reportedly embarked on industrial action citing incapacitation to continue reporting for duty.This comes at a time when state doctors have gone ...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 16:48hrs | 1781 | by Staff reporter
5 Lupane State University student protesters freed
BULAWAYO magistrate Gladmore Mushowe on Thursday last week acquitted five Lupane State University (LSU) students who were facing charges of defeating or obstructing the course of justice after they al...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 07:45hrs | 819 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to Emmerson Mnangagwa
14 October 2019Petition to The Ministry of Health and Child Welfare.Cc: Ministry of Health, Matebeleland North Province.Cc: CEO Tsholotsho HospitalCc: St Lukes Hospital....Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 16:55hrs | 2035 | by Mqondisi Moyo
Outcry over high graduation fees
GRADUANDS at various universities are in a quandary over whether they will be able to graduate after most institutions announced exorbitant graduation fees.Most universities hold their graduat...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 07:48hrs | 794 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland Collective speaks on tribal recruitment of student nurses in Matabeleland.
Matabeleland Collective strongly condemns the unfair, tribal motivated recruitment of student nurses at Brunapeg, Mangwe, Gwanda, only one student at St Lukes, over 95 % of student nurses at Mpilo Sch...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 12:52hrs | 1331 | by Matabeleland Collective
Mashonaland nurses programme, few 'southerners' added to list
MORE people from the southern region have been added to lists of student nurses enrolled last week at two Bulawayo hospitals after claims that more than 90 percent of the recruits were from Harare and...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 06:35hrs | 467 | by Staff reporter
MDC Bulawayo province to be dissolved?
MDC Matabeleland North provincial executive has petitioned the party's national executive to dissolve the Bulawayo structures, on allegations it was fraught with factionalism, mostly influenced by tri...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 20:31hrs | 1587 | by Staff reporter
Nurses recruitment sparks uproar as only shonas get positions at Mpilo
DISGRUNTLED Bulawayo residents have criticised the selection process of 24 student nurses at Mpilo Central Hospital after 20 were selected from outside Matabeleland. The 24 reportedly started th...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 06:59hrs | 1489 | by Staff reporter
Mahiya rallies war vets against sanctions
The Zimbabwe National War Veterans' Association has embarked on a countrywide programme to mobilise its 60 000 members to participate in the anti-sanctions day scheduled for October 25. The da...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 06:54hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to Mthwakazi
Firstly I bring you greetings from Mthwakazi Liberation Front. The Movement which strives to bring back life, dignity, joy and prosperity to all Mthwakazi people.Mthwakazi, some 9years ago, in...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 21:05hrs | 1190 | by David Magagula
Exhumation in the context of Gukurahundi and Ndebele thought
AS efforts continue to find closure to the Gukurahundi conundrum, hopes are being raised that there might be some light at the end of the tunnel. While people may be speaking freely on the subject, cl...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 16:01hrs | 207 | by Pathisa Nyathi
Consortium provides feed and water for Matabeleland South cattle
A group of non-governmental organisations have initiated a programme called Sizimele in Matabeleland South aimed at providing survival stock feed and drilling boreholes pumped by solar to save livesto...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 15:17hrs | 119 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC pushes for ministers' arrest
MDC is pushing for the arrest of deputy Defence minister Victor Matemadanda and his Health counterpart Obadiah Moyo on allegations of abuse of office in connection with the distribution of medicines i...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 08:01hrs | 2693 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa headlines clean-up
President Mnangagwa today headlines the 10th National Clean-Up Campaign at Mzimba Shopping Centre in Chinhoyi before presiding over Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT)'s 15th graduation ceremony. ...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 06:57hrs | 31 | by Staff reporter
Problems at Lupane University need mature and professional approaches
Dear Editor, Thank you for the information on the challenges and happenings at the university. Following the stories and the videos, it is clear that action is needed to find a solution to the...Published: 01 Oct 2019 at 06:36hrs | 743 | by Concerned Citizen
Matebeleland North, Namibia agree to co-operate in 8 sectors
MATEBELELAND North province and Namibia's Omaheke region have agreed to co-operate in at least eight sectors with agreements set to be signed before the end of the year. Matebeleland North Pro...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 06:43hrs | 412 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Lupane university campus turns into brothel
A video of drunk male and female students at Lupane university campus, has surfaced. The video which was allegedly shot at about 1:30AM shows the students turning the female hostels into some sort of ...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 04:53hrs | 3623 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Salary hike for mayors Stands, free graves for councillors
THE Government has approved a 50 percent allowances increase for councillors and mayors in the country and further awarded each councillor a privilege of a residential and industrial stand during thei...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 12:39hrs | 626 | by Staff reporter
The recruits who challenged the Zipra leadership
SEVENTY-THREE-year-old Tapson Ncube passes for just another villager in the Inyankuni area in Umzingwane District, but when one goes down memory lane, the man whose pseudo name was Makhula Thebe durin...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 12:25hrs | 606 | by Staff reporter
MDC is fighting against a brutal system
The MDC, two weeks ago, postponed its 20th anniversary celebrations following the death of former President Robert Mugabe, a man the party supporters would love to hate even in death.NewsDay (...Published: 28 Sep 2019 at 19:10hrs | 458 | by Staff reporter
Farewell and happy retirement MR M. Madlela
"Life is not a bad of roses" these were the words uttered by Mr. Madlela on various occasions while standing at the Mabhikwa High School podium. "You will be square pegs in a round hole" he would cont...Published: 28 Sep 2019 at 06:32hrs | 773 | by Mberi Prince
Lupane University students in sex craze storm
Females students at Lupane State University risk being raped by their male counterparts after the Higher Learning Institution housed males at the female hostels sources have alleged. A source ...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 11:02hrs | 4418 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa's MDC defends pathetic rural electoral show
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC has justified its perennial poor electoral performance in rural areas across the country, accusing Zanu-PF of using State resources, particularly food aid to manipulate rura...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 08:28hrs | 1514 | by Staff reporter
Knives out for MDC leader
MDC elections Boss Jacob Mafume is under fire for failing to coordinate the party to win various by elections held recently, media house proprietor Brighton Musonza has alleged. Said Musonza, ...Published: 23 Sep 2019 at 14:22hrs | 5562 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zacc probes vote-buying claims
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has spread its tentacles to include a probe into vote-buying allegations raised by the opposition MDC in the just-ended parliamentary by-elections....Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 16:34hrs | 1390 | by Staff reporter
Zaka East by-election on today
All is set for the Zaka East parliamentary by-election today, with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission(ZEC) yesterday saying it was all systems go for the plebiscite. The by-election will be held to fil...Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 06:51hrs | 119 | by Staff reporter
Ndux Jnr to launch 10th album
PLUMTREE's favourite Rhumba musician, Ndux Jnr, will launch his 10th album titled, ''Ukhona Ongizwayo'', in South Africa next month. The musician, son to the late Ndux Malax, said the six trac...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 06:41hrs | 163 | by Staff reporter
Nust underdevelopment rapped
THE underdevelopment of the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) is inexcusable and the tertiary institution cannot blame Government for lagging behind, legislators said yesterday. ...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 06:49hrs | 747 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa $720k richer as Mnangagwa's treasury releases $3.4 million to MDC
TREASURY has released $3,4 million to the opposition MDC under the Political Parties Finance Act.The money was released two weeks ago following months of bickering, with the opposition party a...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:37hrs | 11148 | by Staff reporter
Man torches ex-lover's hut
A LUPANE villager has been slapped with a 10-year jail term for torching a hut in which his ex-girlfriend was sleeping with two minors.Silandulo Tshuma (38) was convicted of attempted murder b...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 23:52hrs | 203 | by Staff reporter
Man jailed for attempting to kill ex-wife
AN estranged Lupane man has been sentenced to 10 years in jail after he attempted to kill his ex-wife and two minors by burning them in a hut. Silandulo Tshuma (38) of Sibangani 1 Village proc...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 07:12hrs | 234 | 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 22:23hrs | 9635 | by Staff reporter
Let's be fair to Mugabe deeply flawed as he was
The death of Robert Mugabe, the only Executive Prime Minister and only Executive President that Zimbabwe had known since independence in 1980 until 2017 - all of 37 years - has shown that he was not a...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 20:41hrs | 1298 | by Conway Tutani
Nust receives $900,000 for DNA lab
THE Government has released $900 000 to the National University of Science and Technology's (Nust) DNA lab which is involved in national projects including profiling of Cyclone Idai victims. T...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 06:12hrs | 471 | by Staff reporter
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