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Liberation: Did somebody say Fanon?
DURING the African struggles against settler colonialism the name of Frantz Fanon used to scare settler colonialists that understandably banned his books and pamphlets. In the present era the name and...Published: 5 hrs ago | 94 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
Vegetables shortage hits Bulawayo, is it Mnangagwa inspired?
BULAWAYO is experiencing a shortage of vegetables due to water shortage, Chronicle has established. This has pushed prices up while removing vegetables from menus of most homes and restaurants. ...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 06:01hrs | 250 | by Staff reporter
BCC grants ZRP, BACFOZ free use of city hall car park
Bulawayo City Council recently granted the police and the Business Against Crime Forum of Zimbabwe (BACFOZ) free use of the city hall car park for their event.This is revealed in the council's...Published: 14 Jan 2020 at 09:45hrs | 1572 | by Stephen Jakes
ZIMRA rakes $60m from vendors
ABOUT 16 000 Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) registered to formalise operations of their businesses last year with the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) raking about $60 million from the new regis...Published: 12 Jan 2020 at 08:35hrs | 2138 | by Staff Reporter
'Teachers need new skills to counter Zanu PF enslavement' - name just one profession with 0% unemployment
Once upon a time, 40 years ago but it might as well be 400 years ago for we have regressed so quickly we are now back in the dark ages, Zimbabwe used to produce enough food to not only feed all her pe...Published: 10 Jan 2020 at 07:55hrs | 1064 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwean economy simplified
Issues concerning the economy are vital for any given country's revolutionary and evolutionary path since they are at the core of all movements. Most importantly an economic policy justifies the trans...Published: 08 Jan 2020 at 13:10hrs | 1279 | by Terence Simbi
Pizza Hut opens second branch in Bulawayo
AMERICAN fast food giant, Pizza Hut has opened a second branch in Bulawayo as the brand continues to focus on growing within the Zimbabwean market. The international fast food brand opened its...Published: 08 Jan 2020 at 07:41hrs | 2404 | by Staff Reporter
271 border jumpers nabbed
The South African Police Services in Limpopo province has arrested 271 border jumpers among them Zimbabweans and recovered smuggled cigarettes worth R2,2 million during the festive season.Prov...Published: 06 Jan 2020 at 20:53hrs | 5407 | by Staff Reporter
'A prosperous 2020' said Mnangagwa - not when failed to hold free elections and plant sapling of good governance
"As your Listening President and a Servant Leader, I will continue engaging with you and listening to your concerns so that we walk hand in hand, together in unity, love, peace and harmony towards a p...Published: 03 Jan 2020 at 10:18hrs | 1011 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa lacks Capital appeal to match generational consensus
The wider gap between the Government and citizens is detrimental. Objectivity becomes subjectivity if validated into a balanced message. Leaders must accept constructive criticism if they are to buy i...Published: 02 Jan 2020 at 15:36hrs | 3362 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Shot Malayitsha's wife and children boycott burial
THE wife and three children of a murdered South Africa-based Zimbabwean businessman yesterday boycotted his burial at his rural home in Phumula, Tsholotsho, Matabeleland North.Bheki Ndlovu (44...Published: 26 Dec 2019 at 09:06hrs | 10087 | by Staff Reporter
'Do POLAD because we love Zimbabwe' says Gutu - then why selling-out on free elections
Some of us still remember Bishop Abel Tendekayi Muzorewa, the 1979 (one year wonder) Prime Minister of the Republic of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia following the Internal Settlement with Ian Smith...Published: 25 Dec 2019 at 10:52hrs | 3665 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Old Mutual, Peter Moyo feud threatens growth
Old Mutual homecoming may get even rockier next year as an ongoing battle with its former head risks distracting the South African insurer from handling weak economic growth and rising competition. ...Published: 24 Dec 2019 at 06:02hrs | 3179 | by Staff reporter
Let's cherish the Unity Accord
Zimbabweans from all walks of life should cherish the peace and tranquillity we enjoy today firstly, because of the 1980 independence and more importantly the 22 December 1987 Unity Accord.Why...Published: 22 Dec 2019 at 08:59hrs | 259 | by Staff Reporter
UK Home Office application fees and NHS Surcharge obscene and inhuman
Home Office has always set up fees which are very high and obscene. Their fee levels are extremely high, unfair and unreasonable. The Home Office charging...Published: 21 Dec 2019 at 21:29hrs | 1754 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Govt responds to fake versity fees hike messages
GOVERNMENT has dismissed social media messages that universities have raised fees by more than 500 percent. One of the discredited messages reads: "Un...Published: 21 Dec 2019 at 08:31hrs | 1492 | by Staff Reporter
Pensioner fails to locate $33 000 pay out
A Bulawayo pensioner who was issued with a cheque of $33 000 as pay out from the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) in 2008 is failing to trace the money after it later emerged that the cheque ...Published: 20 Dec 2019 at 09:35hrs | 2051 | by Stephen Jakes
'If elections fail Zanu PF will use any means' - free elections is a right, not a privilege
Zimbabwe's worsening economic meltdown has President Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF colleagues really worried. They know the economic situation is unsustainable and power is slipping out of their hands. Th...Published: 16 Dec 2019 at 09:29hrs | 636 | by Nomusa Garikai
Heed President's message, says Chiwenga
Zanu-PF should take a cue from President Mnangagwa's message as the direction that the party is taking going forward, Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga has said.He made the remarks as he ...Published: 15 Dec 2019 at 09:21hrs | 1321 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa signs Consumer Protection Bill
UNSCRUPULOUS businesspeople that engage in multi-tier pricing, charge unfair prices or display unpriced goods will now face prosecution after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed the Consumer Protectio...Published: 15 Dec 2019 at 08:05hrs | 2559 | by Staff Reporter
Relegation fight goes to the wire
TWO DOWN, and two more to follow. As many as six teams are involved. That is the story of this year's relegation battle, a fight which will go to the last round matches of the season.Mushowani...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 07:30hrs | 714 | by Staff reporter
'Matemadanda spilled the beans on Zanu-PF poll rigging'
DEFENCE deputy minister and Zanu-PF political commissar Victor Matemadanda inadvertently spilled the beans on vote-rigging when he lashed out at his party's Midlands provincial leadership over poor pe...Published: 12 Dec 2019 at 20:00hrs | 3047 | by Staff reporter
Illegal immigrants in fatal crash
A Ugandan died on the spot while four others including a Zambian were seriously injured when a vehicle allegedly ferrying illegal immigrants burst a tyre and overturned near Cross Jotsholo along the V...Published: 10 Dec 2019 at 06:46hrs | 1370 | by Staff reporter
UK set to introduce new immigration system - here's what you need to know
UK prime minister Boris Johnson plans to introduce a new visa system which will drastically lower the immigration rate to the country.Speaking in an interview with Sky News, Johnson said that ...Published: 09 Dec 2019 at 17:39hrs | 5020 | by Staff Writer
'What coup! It was a change of administration' said SADC - sheer folly, let coup gene out, again
For the last 39 years the country has drifted like a log, with ordinary people hang on to the log for dear life, in the flood Zambezi River, totally at the mercy of a corrupt, incompetent and murderou...Published: 09 Dec 2019 at 10:39hrs | 1665 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
New benefits for war collaborators
Government will not pay compensation to war collaborators but will establish a fund to bankroll income-generating projects, President Mnangagwa has said.War collaborators were pushing for gran...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 11:44hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans urged to leave the country
Former Zimpapers Head of Digital Services Dr Delta Milayo has urged all Zimabbweasn who are able to exit the country to do so as soon as they can. Milayo revealed that she had obtained a passp...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 10:39hrs | 17868 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Tshinga Dube scorns Mnangagwa talks with political nobodies
FORMER War Veterans Minister, Tshinga Dube Wednesday dismissed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's political dialogue with a group of less influential political leaders coalescing under the so-called Polit...Published: 07 Dec 2019 at 12:30hrs | 5968 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe's food crisis exposes Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe is facing one of the most serious food crisis in its history. The MDC is concerned at the lack of government response to the hunger that is befalling the nation as it continues to skirt aroun...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 10:28hrs | 1439 | by Rusty Markhan
Vendors to conduct fact finding tour in Glen View area 8
Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (VISET), is set to conduct a Fact-Finding Tour at Glen Area 8 furniture complex which was gutted down by an inferno on Tuesday. V...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 09:23hrs | 1242 | by Stephen Jakes
Zacc zeroes in on Gokwe Town Council
THE Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa (ACT-SA) has petitioned the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) to investigate alleged corruption and maladministration at Gokwe Town Council....Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 09:17hrs | 403 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF must introspect, address bread and butter issues
THE ruling Zanu-PF party holds its 18th Annual National People's Conference at Goromonzi High School in Mashonaland East province next week amid a plethora of challenges confronting the country and re...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 09:01hrs | 167 | by chronicle
Matabeleland North is open for business
Matebeleland North is open for businessZimbabwe is endowed with several majestic wonders and investment opportunities which require an open mind that sees beyond the negative media onslaught a...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 10:16hrs | 1318 | by Nicholas Ncube
'Gukurahundi killings not a closed issue'
RESPECTED former Cabinet minister Tshinga Dube has re-ignited debate on the highly-emotive killings that occurred in the southern parts of Zimbabwe in the 1980s declaring boldly that the sad cha...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:43hrs | 1400 | by Staff reporter
Tinashe Nengomasha in divorce row with Tuku daughter
FORMER Warriors star Tinashe Nengomasha's marriage is on verge of collapse after his wife, Samantha (nee Mtukudzi), has filed divorce summons against him.Samantha, daughter of the late veteran...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:29hrs | 5041 | by Staff reporter
Mutendi can't tell ED truth of rigged elections, can't stand political heat - get out of the kitchen
"If you see a frog hoping in the midday heat, you can be certain something is amiss!" so goes the adage. Zimbabwe's economic situation is getting worse and worse. Unemployment still 90% plus; 3/4 ...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 06:21hrs | 2327 | by Wilbert Mukori
Timothy Sykes scam and characteristics required for Penny Stock trading
Timothy Sykes Scam has been the most controversial topic on the internet for quite some time now. If you are in the trading world, there is no way you would not be familiar with Timothy sykes a...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 11:27hrs | 933 | by Staff writer
Does the people's land belong to the state or the government of the day
IN a recent article I attempted to explain the historical background of land ownership in this country, which was introduced by colonists and has since been inherited and accepted as the norm by today...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:15hrs | 413 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
'Expect steady economic recovery by December 2019' - nonsense, none as long as we remain a pariah state
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 10:52hrs | 1813 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Open letter to President Ramaphosa about Zimbabwe
Dear Mr President, ordinarily I would have sent this matter for your attention to your office; but as things stand north of Limpopo, the situation is dire and warrants urgent attention. This is why I ...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 22:06hrs | 2948 | by Olwethu Sipuka
Water charges to go up 400%
Harare City Council's budget proposals delivered last night will see the average bill for high-density householders rise to $225 a month. In the budget, council quadrupled water charges, raise...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 06:18hrs | 543 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans on 950km Cape Town-Namibia walk to escape xenophobia
SCORES of South Africa based Zimbabwean migrants are reported to be among more than 200 refugees who have started a long walk from the port city of Cape Town into neighbouring Namibia.The dist...Published: 25 Nov 2019 at 07:12hrs | 2809 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa unleashed vicious crack unit on us, says MDC
THE opposition MDC has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of setting up a "vicious" crack team comprising members of the Police Support Unit, army and the Central Intelligence Organisation to suppre...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 17:21hrs | 1047 | by Staff reporter
What is sphere of our influence in the global village?
IT is the ability and willingness to stay in your club. What is one's club? It is the body of those who share common beliefs and values. When Robert Mugabe stormed out of the British Commonwealth of N...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:40hrs | 48 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
What is Decolonial Heroism?
EVERY living philosophy has its dilemmas and frustrations. Philosophies, if they are not sophistry and charlatanry, always arise from perplexity. The perplexity of decoloniality as a philosoph...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:15hrs | 97 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
Zanu-PF MPs disrupt meeting chaired by Biti again
ZANU-PF MPs Friday again disrupted a committee meeting chaired by MDC legislator Tendai Biti, insisting they did not recognise the politician's leadership of parliament's Public Accounts Portfolio Com...Published: 23 Nov 2019 at 06:50hrs | 2827 | by newzimbabwe
China corners Mthuli Ncube
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube on Wednesday held crunch talks with China's Deputy Ambassador to Zimbabwe Zhao Baogang following a nasty fallout over development-partner support figures presented in the...Published: 22 Nov 2019 at 18:07hrs | 2005 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa chides Mnangagwa for 'rogue behaviour'
Opposition MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa against his continued use of force on unarmed civilians, saying the Zanu PF leader was behaving like a dictator and has not...Published: 22 Nov 2019 at 16:07hrs | 978 | by Staff Reporter
You have no honour here, Minister Mthuli
Far from the quixotic idealism of city life, the rural setting presents life in its most raw form, including the intimate and inextricable relationship between man and nature.Nowhere is man fo...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:20hrs | 225 | by Bishop Lazi
Undocumented Zimbabweans arrested in SA for immigration violations
AT least 380 Zimbabweans and Malawians were recently arrested in South Africa for allegedly violating the immigration laws.They failed to produce documentation authorising their stay in South ...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 07:14hrs | 4318 | by Staff Reporter
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