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Zanu-PF tried and tested, says Obert Mpofu
ZANU-PF secretary for administration, Obert Mpofu, has said the MDC Alliance has no capacity to rule and develop the country and the electorate should vote for a tried and tested revolutionary party w...Published: 11 hrs ago | 1623 | by Staff Reporter
How CIOs benefited from Jonathan Moyo's ZIMDEF funds
Professor Jonathan Moyo has published documents that reveal that the Central Intelligence Organisation and the Zimbabwe Republic Police benefited from the ZMDEF money that he is alleged to have abused...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 16:29hrs | 7360 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa should release Chihambakwe, Dumbutshena commissions reports
This is the third in a series of a document on submissions made by chiefs from Matabeleland and Midlands provinces to President Emmerson Mnangagwa on the occasion of his meeting with them at the State...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 07:56hrs | 1141 | by Staff reporter
Internet woes a huge setback to devolution'
Local authorities here have described the lack of Internet connectivity as a major setback to the roll-out of the devolution agenda. Speaking at a recent devolution meeting, Vungu Rural Distri...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 07:38hrs | 106 | by Staff reporter
Perrance Shiri warns defaulting new farmers
Government has warned that resettled farmers who default on their land rental payments risk punitive action. In 2015, Government introduced land rental, with farmers resettled under the model ...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:39hrs | 486 | by Staff reporter
All set for tomorrow's anti-Mnangagwa demonstration
Prominent Bulawayo activist Josphat Mzaca Ngulube says it's all systems go for Wednesday's Citizen Demonstration to display public displeasure at the way the government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 17:38hrs | 12234 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Teachers vow to shutdown schools on 22 July
The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe says it will shut down schools on Monday 22 July if the government does not address the salary concerns of their members by then. In a statemen...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 15:19hrs | 4348 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chmaisa mustn't underestimate the electorate
Despite efforts by the opposition party, Movement for Democratic Change, to tarnish the image of Zanu-PF, the revolutionary party has remained the party of choice. The MDC has no policy and no selling...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 07:24hrs | 624 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe corruption on the increase
ZIMBABWE is failing to exorcise the ghost of corruption as it has been ranked as one of the most corrupt countries on the continent, a survey has revealed.According to Afrobarometer and Transp...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 07:54hrs | 397 | by Staff reporter
Diasporans contribute towards growth of rural economies
DIASPORANS continue to be the cornerstone of turning around the economies and livelihoods of families at most rural communities in Matabeleland South Province bordering the country with neighbouring c...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:37hrs | 330 | by Staff reporter
Batoka power project clears ESIA hurdle
THE multi-million dollar Batoka power project has been certified not to pose adverse effects on human settlement along the Zambezi River, passing one of the pre-project commencement processes and sett...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:29hrs | 168 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt target internet users
Government is set to put in place social media abuse laws amid revelations that there is an upsurge in internet abuse and the proliferation of illegal websites.This comes on the back of a rise...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:27hrs | 5138 | by Staff reporter
Teachers shortchanging pupils, parents and cheating government
Dear, We, the Murowa Ward Community would like to air our complaint regarding the conduct, performance and attitude of Murowa Secondary (aka Chinembeure) School teachers. The school has the wo...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 06:12hrs | 2728 | by Murowa Ward Community
Middleton Nyoni turning in his grave: His office of excellence is reduced to despicable genital-mother insults and death treats
We are watching on the sidelines seeing the gross mismanagement of Bulawayo residents' rates payments squandered to the extent that Bulawayo City council cannot resuscitate the water works for weeks a...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 17:50hrs | 4038 | by Nomazulu Thata
Bulawayo woman to represent Zimbabwe in US
A BULAWAYO woman has been selected to represent the country in the United States where she will be trained on the importance of inclusive education. Inclusive education is where schools put up...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:05hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
High school boys 'beef' turns Bulawayo CBD into warzone
IN A split second, a usually uneventful street corner adjacent to the Chronicle building is suddenly turned into a war zone by a handful of boys from Milton and Gifford high schools. The boys ...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:01hrs | 2930 | by Staff reporter
Schools, Households and Businesses are the game changers in curbing electricity crisis in Zimbabwe
Greetings Editor, Of recent I got an interest especially from Zimbabwean school and I realized that especially schools can be game changers that is in solving power crisis not only in Zi...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 20:02hrs | 1081 | by Justice Maphosa
Zimbabwe power outages a manifestation of endemic corruption in govt
THE massive daily power outages rocking the country have had a devastating impact on an already fragile economy, throwing into disarray President Emmerson Mnangagwa's mantra that "Zimbabwe is open for...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 09:24hrs | 1082 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo fears cholera outbreak
BULAWAYO residents are wary of a cholera or typhoid outbreak in the city after the local authority indefinitely shutdown water supplies to the entire city on Tuesday without notice.The indefin...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:31hrs | 446 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala to appear before Bikita magistrate
The MDC-Alliance deputy national chairperson, Job Sikhala, who was arrested on Monday for allegedly subverting a constitutionally elected Government is expected to appear before a Bikita magistrate to...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:23hrs | 537 | by Staff reporter
Chiredzi facing shortage of schools
CHIREDZI urban is facing a shortage of schools with hundreds of pupils failing to enrol for Early Childhood Development (ECD) and Grade 1 every year. The town has a population of 30 197, according to ...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 06:56hrs | 276 | by Staff Reporter
ICT Zimbabwe's true economic driver
In the 80s and the 90s life was so great in Zimbabwe, just by attending a university and graduating with a good degree was all you needed to secure a good job. Zimbabwe of today, things ha...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 23:28hrs | 736 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Africa the 'Sun Continent' and Investors understand that Solar Energy is a Low Risk Business
Africa is often considered and referred as the "Sun continent" or the continent where the Sun's influence is the greatest.According to the "World Sunshine Map", Africa receives many more hours of brig...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 15:24hrs | 578 | by Enos Denhere
Bulawayo Residents Association calls for a shutdown of schools
The Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BUPRA) is calling for a shutdown of schools until the water situation returns to normalcy in Bulawayo. It is further calling for heads to roll in counci...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 08:55hrs | 3303 | by Ndou Paul
More water woes for Bulawayo as city goes on total shutdown
The Bulawayo city council has announced that water would be shutdown totally in the whole of Bulawayo, until its water systems stabilises.This means Zimbabwe's second largest city will go with...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 08:46hrs | 1626 | by Staff reporter
'We don't eat Nationalism' says Mthwakazi President
So many people in Zimbabwe particularly shonas and some of our Ndebele speaking people do not really understand or comprehend with what is meant by the term "Nationalism". To Shonas, nationalism means...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 08:11hrs | 1173 | by Mqondisi Moyo
Matebeleland South teachers call for strike
EMBATTLED teachers in Insiza district, Matebeleland South, have called on their union, the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe, to urgently organise a strike over their deteriorating working ...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 08:07hrs | 1195 | by Staff reporter
'Coup plotter' Sikhala to appear in court today
MDC-Alliance deputy national chairperson Job Sikhala was yesterday arrested on allegations of subverting a constitutionally-elected Government and is expected to appear in court today. He was by last ...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 07:37hrs | 458 | by Staff reporter
To compare 1950 USA 'opulence amidst public squalor' to same in Zimbabwe is compare mouldy strawberries to yew berries
"The late JK Galbraith, an influential economist in the US public sphere more than 60 years ago, described Americans' conspicuous consumption in his book The Affluent Society as "private opulence amid...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 08:32hrs | 744 | by Wilbert Mukori
High Court throws out Gweru residents' case on State land
THE High Court has dismissed an application by 11 residents who sought a court order blocking the Land Commission from re-convening in Harare for an inquiry into the sale and acquisition of State land...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 07:55hrs | 348 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally berates Chamisa's MDC at clean-up campaign
ZANU-PF national political commissar Victor Matemadanda yesterday turned a national clean-up campaign in Gweru into a platform to attack the MDC led by Nelson Chamisa, saying the opposition party shou...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 10:10hrs | 971 | by Staff reporter
Linda Masarira to write book on Chiwenga's coup
Former MDC-T Spokesperson Linda Masarira has revealed that she is writing a tell-all book about how she started an organic anti-Mugabe protest that was hijacked by some MDC activists. She anno...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 10:07hrs | 4921 | by Mandla Ndlovu
War vets demand $600 monthly pension
THE Defence and War Veterans ministry has requested a review of pensions for war veterans which are currently pegged at the salary grade of an army warrant officer of $350 per month.Former fre...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 08:29hrs | 2472 | by Staff reporter
Perverse opulence amid squalor likely to sink Zimbabwe
The late JK Galbraith, an influential economist in the US public sphere more than 60 years ago, described Americans' conspicuous consumption in his book The Affluent Society as "private opulence amids...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 08:24hrs | 828 | by Staff reporter
Potraz boosts Govt's e-learning initiative
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) donated 10 computers and 100 backpacks to five schools here on Wednesday to complement Government's e-learning initiative. ...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 07:57hrs | 56 | by Staff reporter
AG report puts ZACC to test
The efficiency of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) will be put to test by its response to the scathing Auditor- General's report that exposed serious rot in government and parastatals....Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 18:48hrs | 872 | by Mona Lisa Dube
ZACC receives 38 corruption cases in 2 months
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has received 38 cases of corruption since the appointment Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo as chairperson in May.Addressing a press conference earlier ...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 17:00hrs | 1171 | by Staff reporter
Protests: MDC caught between the devil and the deep blue sea
Conversations with insiders suggest that the MDC has been agonising over whether or not to call for protests since the beginning of the year. That no decision has been reached on the matter speaks to ...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 12:29hrs | 3443 | by Tendai Chimunda
Gang wars - Sikhulile High pupils injured, hospitalised
THREE Sikhulile High School pupils in Bulawayo were rushed to hospital after they were injured during a school gang war yesterday morning. Teachers at the school were in panic as bloodied pupi...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 08:19hrs | 1127 | by Staff reporter
Emmerson Mnangagwa's cabinet review
News doing the rounds says the Vice President of the Republic of Zimbabwe has passed on , it seems Chiwenga and Robert Mugabe have one thing in common - they both die in the media and resurrect miracu...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 09:51hrs | 10761 | by Nicholas Ncube
Ndiweni praises Mnangagwa? Setting the record straight
Outspoken traditional leader, Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni - who has in recent months courted the ire of Zanu-PF apparatchiks with his stinging criticism of the government - has praised President Em...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:55hrs | 5936 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and his shona speaking chiefs must blame Gukurahundi not Ndebele chiefs
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT PRESS STATEMENT01 JULY 2019As chiefs we are deeply disappointed by statements by some that Chiefs from the Midlands province were invited to a meeting with the Pres...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:42hrs | 1712 | by Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni
Tajamuka shut down flops
ZIMBABWEANS yesterday ignored desperate calls by a shadowy, pro-MDC Alliance group, Tajamuka and its affiliates to shut down the country on an anti-Government move to demonstrate against President Mna...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:11hrs | 212 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt 'warns perpetrators of violence'
The Ministry of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage has issued out a stern warning to anyone who organises, incites or invites members of the public to engage in any form of disturbance saying perpetra...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 13:30hrs | 2664 | by Staff reporter
Latest update on today's Shutdown Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean from all walks of life snubbed the #ShutdownZimbabwe call by Tajamuka/Sesijikile which was set to commence on Monday till Friday. Reports coming from Hara...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 12:11hrs | 23979 | by Mandla Ndlovu
REA targets to electrify 60% of rural areas
Government is forging ahead with its thrust to modernise rural areas, with the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) pledging to bring access to electricity to 60 percent of the rural populace in line wi...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 07:31hrs | 211 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar return: Financial engineering not the answer
If the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) was a ship it would be the Titanic, sailing with the patronage of a well-heeled elite with privileged access to the life boats towards a deadly iceberg.Th...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 09:04hrs | 330 | by Sipho Malunga
Talk openly about Gukurahundi, says Mohadi
Gukurahundi should be discussed freely and openly by people in order to find lasting solutions and closure on the matter, Vice President Kembo Mohadi has said.Speaking after a closed-door meet...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 08:59hrs | 218 | by Staff reporter
Audit exposes shocking govt rot
GOVERNMENT last year overspent by more than $2 billion without seeking parliamentary approval, while various departments and local authorities flagrantly flouted accounting procedures, Auditor-General...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 16:45hrs | 1327 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to recruit 5 000 teachers
THE Public Service Commission (PSC) is negotiating with Treasury for the employment of 5 000 teachers to reduce the deficit of educators in schools which have almost 13 000 vacancies, a Cabinet Minist...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 16:43hrs | 847 | by Staff reporter
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