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POSA successor awaits Mnangagwa assent
Two major Bills designed to fulfil the goals of the Second Republic now await Presidential assent — the Maintenance of Peace and Order Bill (MOPA) and the Companies and Other Entities Bill. ...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 06:22hrs | 259 | by Staff reporter
I'm not a rebel: Cde Chipoyera
In a riveting account never before made public, Parker Chipoyera (PC) opens up on events leading to the arrest of the ZIPA leadership and how he ended up in captivity with his fellow comrades. ...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:28hrs | 176 | by Staff reporter
Govt opens help desk for small-scale miners
MINES minister Winston Chitando has revealed that government has opened a special department in the Mines ministry to deal with issues relating to small-scale miners, popularly known as makorokoza....Published: 09 Nov 2019 at 10:07hrs | 120 | by Staff reporter
Serial car battery thief break into cops' vehicles
A SERIAL car battery thief, who was doing community service for theft at Pumula Police Station in Bulawayo, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after he broke into cops' vehicles and stole more ...Published: 09 Nov 2019 at 10:06hrs | 318 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe students design app for church offerings
TWO students at the Bulawayo Polytechnic College have designed a mobile application that makes paying tithes and church offerings hassle-free.The application (app) does not need Internet conne...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 06:41hrs | 1444 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli tax funds roads rehabilitation, construction
GOVERNMENT spent ZWL$465 million rehabilitating road infrastructure in the first 10 months of this year using funds collected through the once contentious Intermediated Money Transfer Tax (IMTT). Gove...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 05:50hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
Govt moans it doesn't have money, but expects impoverished citizens to have money for ever-increasing tariffs!
I am not much of an economist, but the manner in which the Zimbabwe government is seemingly unapologetically overburdening its already suffering citizens with ever-increasing tariffs leaves me with a ...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 08:43hrs | 2656 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Darwendale platinum project up for next year
Construction work on the US$500 million Darwendale platinum project will start in the second quarter of 2020, first deputy chief executive officer of Vi Holdings, Alexander Ivanov, said on Thursday on...Published: 29 Oct 2019 at 06:56hrs | 313 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe set to gain from depreciating currency
Zimbabwe may have to roll up its sleeve with regards to the newly-established single continental market for goods and services, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).AfCFTA will ope...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 09:52hrs | 1192 | by Staff reporter
Uncle Roland opens up about the fame
It's a Beauties and a Beast affair . . . Akulaleki masambeni siyojaiva!Trending far-from-beauty valiant Roland Muchegwa well-known as Uncle Roland is unshaken by the negative comments on Black...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 09:37hrs | 5010 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa heaps all the country's economic troubles on sanctions
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa Friday took the occasion of the anti-sanctions march to heap all the country's economic troubles on the Western embargo.He was giving his keynote address in front ...Published: 26 Oct 2019 at 07:25hrs | 198 | by newzimbabwe
Mthuli Ncube faces criminal prosecution
Prosecutor General Kumbirai Hodzi has been petitioned to charge finance minister Mthuli Ncube with criminal abuse of office over a series of actions that have caused Zimbabweans financial losses in th...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 10:10hrs | 4674 | by ZimLive
Mnangagwa focuses on trade co-operation as summit starts
ZIMBABWE and Russia should work closely to promote economic trade co-operation and cement political ties that date back to the liberation struggle. President Mnangagwa made this call during an...Published: 23 Oct 2019 at 06:03hrs | 338 | by Staff reporter
Sadc sanctions message strong, says Mnangagwa
President Mnangagwa is optimistic that countries with sanctions against Zimbabwe will heed the thunderous voice of SADC countries that will protest the continued existence of the illegal sanctions. ...Published: 23 Oct 2019 at 05:51hrs | 238 | by Staff rpeorter
'You are a sell-outs!' - discredited opposition undermine ED's legitimacy
Up to now, many Zimbabweans have not fully appreciated the negative role the country's opposition politicians have played in our struggle to end the Zanu PF dictatorship. It is pleasing to note that m...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 16:33hrs | 1147 | by Wilbert Mukori
'New dispensation cushioning nation from sanctions'
The new dispensation is striving to cushion its people, especially women from the harsh effects of the illegal sanctions imposed on the country by Western nations, through a number of programmes guide...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 06:29hrs | 120 | by Staff reporter
StanChart opens Anfield gates
Standard Chartered Bank has flung open the doors of Liverpool's Anfield Stadium in a lifetime experience for seven footballers who will win the fourth edition of the popular Standard Chartered Cup tha...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 07:02hrs | 273 | by Staff reporter
David Pocock's vision for Zimbabwe's World Cup return
He can't see himself ever contributing as a coach but David Pocock admits it would make him happy if Zimbabwean rugby was able to rise from the ashes and compete again in a World Cup.It takes ...Published: 08 Oct 2019 at 13:45hrs | 1238 | by Wayne Smith
Mugabe: A champagne Pan-Africanist
Since the death of Robert Mugabe on September 6, both the local and international media has been saturated with competing, complementary and contradictory obituaries, opinion pieces and narratives abo...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:53hrs | 17 | by Blessings Denhere
Serial thief steals from police station
A SERIAL car battery thief, who was doing community service for theft at Pumula Police Station in Bulawayo, allegedly broke into cops' vehicles and stole more batteries. Godknows Moyo (24) fro...Published: 01 Oct 2019 at 06:37hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Command Agriculture facing financial challenges
LAST week, the Government of Zimbabwe announced that its Command Agriculture programme shall look to be financed by the banking sector. The country's planting season is already upon us. Field preparat...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 16:53hrs | 71 | by Chris Chenga
Mnangagwa set to walk into another MDC ambush
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa could run into yet another MDC humiliation episode in parliament when he officially opens the Second Session of the Ninth Parliament on Tuesday.Mnangagwa is also e...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 06:39hrs | 566 | by newzimbabwe
Sanctions - when poor citizens become collateral damage
MS Nosizo Ncube is a 74-year-old widow who lives in a village tucked in the remote Nkayi district, a little far from modern civilisation. She has been in and out of hospital with asthma and swollen le...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 12:37hrs | 335 | by Vincent Gono
Mnangagwa's Sona slated for Tuesday
President Emmerson Mnangagwa will deliver his State of the Nation Address (Sona) when he officially opens the Second Session of the Ninth Parliament on Tuesday.Rehearsals for the ceremonial pa...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 12:26hrs | 152 | by Staff reporter
Hectic schedule for new Parly session
During the Second Session of the Ninth Parliament, which opens on Tuesday, Government intends to fast-track the enactment of legislation that underpins political and economic reforms, including introd...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 12:16hrs | 38 | 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
High Court outlaws Mnangagwa government's illegal tax
In a landmark case argued by MDC Vice President Hon. Tendai Biti, the High Court today outlawed government's two per cent tax on despondent Zimbabweans in a move that vindicated the MDC position that ...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 11:35hrs | 2841 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
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 | 9637 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF opens fire on Mutodi
Deputy Information minister Energy Mutodi, is under fire from his Zanu-PF party after he appeared to suggest President Emmerson Mnangagwa elevated Justice Webster Chinamhora to the High Court because ...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 06:33hrs | 1312 | by Staff reporter
Zera re-opens search for CEO
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has re-opened its search for a substantive chief executive officer, six months after it first advertised the job. The new CEO will replace forme...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 06:06hrs | 254 | by Staff reporter
It's time the opposition competed on ideas
A cursory perusal of last week's mainstream and online media publications painted a gloomy picture of the opposition's compound. In one online media story, the MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa is reported t...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 14:22hrs | 406 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Robert Mugabe: The leader who shouldn't have been
About a kilometre from State House - the official residence of the Zimbabwean president, where Robert Mugabe lived until the mid-2000s before moving to his hideous mansion popularly known as Blue Roof...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 15:38hrs | 2498 | by Percy Zvomuya
US$700k Spar outlet opens in Bulawayo
RETAIL chain, Spar Zimbabwe, yesterday officially opened a new branch in Bulawayo after investing US$700 000, bringing the number of its shops to 16 countrywide. The investment has created 75 jobs, ma...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 08:26hrs | 2167 | by Staff reporter
Can Zimbabwe Diaspora Women in UK allow trade talks, with a country abusing its women?
ZHRO (Zimbabwe Human Rights Organisation) Leadership has rallied its members to join the MDC (Movement For Democratic Change) (Zimbabwe's main Opposition party) in the UK to Protest the arrival of a h...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 12:55hrs | 4213 | by ZHRO
George Charamba opens up on General Chiwenga
Presidential spokesman George Charamba has reportedly dismissed poured cold water on circulating reports that Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has returned from China. Online media portal Z...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 20:04hrs | 19555 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa ally to spend weekend in remand prison
MDC organising secretary Amos Chibaya, who was arrested on Thursday for failing to call off the opposition party's demonstration in Harare last week, will spend the weekend in remand prison after magi...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:13hrs | 374 | by Staff reporter
MDC secretary to spend weekend in remand prison
MDC organising secretary Amos Chibaya, who was arrested on Thursday for failing to call off the opposition party's demonstration in Harare last week, will spend the weekend in remand prison after magi...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 08:05hrs | 266 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangaga appoints five new judges
President Mnangagwa has appointed five new judges to the High Court bench in an effort to solidify the judicial organ and ensure expeditious justice delivery. The judges comprising four ...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe youths rally behind Chief Ndiweni
A section of Zimbabwean youths under the banner of National Youth Development Trust has condemned the arrst and sentencing of Nhlambabaloyi Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni as an act judiciary capture b...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 17:16hrs | 3164 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Moral authority is a pre-requisite for Good Governance
I'm writing this article with tears, with a heavy heart Lord help Zimbabwe!!!It is not about money or power, it is about conscience, reputation, moral power & obligation. It is about the p...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 16:45hrs | 232 | by Big Monday with Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo writes:
Zimbabwe ready to engage the world, says Magufule
NEW Sadc chairperson Tanzanian President Dr John Magufuli yesterday called on the international community to remove sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe, saying the country has "now opened a new chapter and ...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:36hrs | 199 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Chief Ndiweni jailed for 18 months by Mr Gladmore Mushove
Reports from the Magistrate Courts indicate Magistrate Gladmore Mushowe has sentenced Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni to 24 months in prison.Six months were suspended for five years leaving him...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 17:13hrs | 9141 | by Mandla Ndlovu
R10m reward after Zimbabwe tycoon Simon Rudland shooting
Gold Leaf Tobacco Corporation has posted an R10m reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of those behind the shooting of its co-owner Simon Rudland.Rudland was shot outs...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 14:00hrs | 1564 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa demands release of Chief Ndiweni
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has castigated the incarceration and dentention of Ntabazinduna chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni saying the move will open fresh wounds that will not heal.Ndiw...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:39hrs | 4569 | by Staff Reporter
Parirenyatwa graft trial put on ice
The corruption trial of former health minister David Parirenyatwa was put on ice on Monday, a court heard at the request of Prosecutor General Kumbirai Hodzi.Prosecutor Brian Vito of the Speci...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 17:22hrs | 1146 | by ZimLive
Robert Mugabe's son opens up
Former President Robert Mugabe's son Chatunga Bellarmine Mugabe says the former first couple gave him money to start his business ventures that he is running in Sandton.Speaking to Hmetro Chat...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 15:11hrs | 55928 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Russia rebuilding a bridge to Africa
About 35 leaders of African countries have officially confirmed their participation in the Russia-Africa Summit, Russian Presidential Envoy for the Middle East and Africa and Deputy Foreign Minister, ...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 09:17hrs | 2185 | by Kester Kenn Klomegah
MDC plunging depths of desperation
Following the launch of its RELOAD policy document, which turned out to be a damp squib, the MDC last week announced its intention to embark on what it described as Reload rallies throughout the count...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 18:31hrs | 1692 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Icsaz lecturer's resignation opens can of worms
The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Zimbabwe (Icasz) is under the spotlight after a former lecturer, Last Mapuranga, quit his job alleging exam fraud and poor corporate govern...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 07:50hrs | 1621 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira's arrest opens can of worms
Tourism minister Prisca Mupfumira was yesterday denied bail and will spend 21 days in custody as the government dismissed accusations that her arrest was linked to Zanu-PF's internal fights.Ac...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 18:27hrs | 6177 | by Staff reporter
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