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Zimbabwe disability expo 2025 set to launch in Victoria Falls
The Zimbabwe Disability Expo 2025 is set to kick off tomorrow at Chinotimba Stadium in Victoria Falls, with President Emmerson Mnangagwa scheduled to officiate at the opening ceremony on Friday....Published: 24 Jun 2025 at 09:29hrs | 103 | by Staff reporter
Harare's disappearing hills
From a distance, the jagged ridgelines cutting across parts of Harare might appear to be natural geological remnants — monuments of the city's ancient terrain. But up close, these formations tell a ...Published: 22 Jun 2025 at 10:58hrs | 835 | by Staff reporter
Father accidentally runs over 2-year-old daughter
A tragic accident has plunged a Kensington family into mourning after a 55-year-old father accidentally ran over and killed his 2-year-old daughter while reversing his car out of the yard.The ...Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 19:11hrs | 1267 | by Staff reporter
Harare hikes public toilet fees by 100%
The City of Harare is facing a mounting public outcry after it controversially doubled the fee for accessing public toilets from US$0.50 to US$1.00 (approx. R18.50), drawing sharp condemnation from re...Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 18:50hrs | 439 | by Staff reporter
Professional beggars told to go back to Mnangagwa
A Zimbabwean woman begging at a traffic light in South Africa was publicly humiliated and forcibly driven away by a group of local women who accused her of damaging South Africa's image and demanded s...Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 09:46hrs | 289 | by Staff reporter
Residents urge funeral parlours to help BCC improve cemeteries
Residents of Bulawayo have issued a passionate plea to funeral parlours operating in the city to partner with the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) in restoring and maintaining the city's deteriorating ceme...Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 09:36hrs | 42 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi survivors at risk of re-traumatisation
Mounting criticism is trailing the government's proposed structure for the upcoming Gukurahundi hearings, set to begin on June 26, amid fears the process will intimidate and re-traumatise victims - pa...Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 09:33hrs | 85 | by Staff reporter
Mutare City to rid CBD of street food vendors
The City of Mutare has announced plans to launch a wide-scale operation to remove illegal street food vendors from the Central Business District (CBD) in a bid to restore order and address rising publ...Published: 19 Jun 2025 at 11:32hrs | 300 | by Staff reporter
Secondary Revenues from Sporting Events in Africa
Sporting events across Africa do more than fill stadiums. They create additional economic activity that touches tourism, retail, digital services, and hospitality. This type of income, called secondar...Published: 17 Jun 2025 at 23:22hrs | 96 | by Staff Reporter
Car thefts surge across Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has issued a warning to the public over a sharp increase in motor vehicle thefts across the country, calling on motorists to exercise greater caution and take proact...Published: 17 Jun 2025 at 17:50hrs | 2541 | by Staff reporter
Sanyatwe infurirates Chamisa's lawyer again
A storm of outrage has erupted after former Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) commander and current Minister of Sports, Anselem Nhamo Sanyatwe, declared during a church service that the ruling Zanu-PF part...Published: 17 Jun 2025 at 07:19hrs | 1016 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Council's cemetery excuses can't bury their neglect
Today's Saturday Chronicle highlights a distressing reality: young schoolchildren, some barely toddlers, are forced to walk through the overgrown and dilapidated Pelandaba Cemetery in Bulawayo on thei...Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 14:49hrs | 64 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo school children use cemeteries as a bee line
In Bulawayo's Old Magwegwe suburb, schoolchildren as young as four are forced to walk daily through the overgrown and neglected Pelandaba Cemetery to reach their homes in nearby Pelandaba West. This d...Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 14:37hrs | 41 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe moving to tighten social media regulation
The Zimbabwean government has announced plans to bolster the Data Protection Act as part of efforts to curb the rapid spread of false and harmful content circulating on social media platforms and onli...Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 14:33hrs | 123 | by Staff reporter
US$5K fine for litter bugs
The City of Mutare is set to impose a hefty US$5,000 fine on anyone caught littering in undesignated areas, according to new by-laws currently being drafted by the local authority, The Manica Post has...Published: 13 Jun 2025 at 06:27hrs | 1080 | by Staff reporter
Over 200 Bulawayo SMEs count losses after industrial site inferno
More than 200 small and medium entrepreneurs are grappling with the aftermath of a devastating fire that gutted their goods and machinery at the Save The Nation Industrial Site in Bulawayo on Mo...Published: 12 Jun 2025 at 19:07hrs | 395 | by Staff reporter
CBDs struggle as suburbs gain traction
Zimbabwe's property market is grappling with a complex mix of economic pressures and changing tenant preferences, according to a recent report by Knight Frank.Vacancy rates in prime urban area...Published: 10 Jun 2025 at 08:47hrs | 305 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo councillors raise alarm over tough business registration rules
Bulawayo city councillors have voiced serious concern over the stringent registration requirements imposed by the local authority on small business operators, warning that the rigid system is fuelling...Published: 10 Jun 2025 at 08:44hrs | 157 | by Staff reporter
Gated communities redefine Bulawayo's residential landscape
Once considered exclusive enclaves for the elite, gated communities are rapidly transforming the urban fabric of Bulawayo, introducing new standards of security, lifestyle, and legal property ownershi...Published: 09 Jun 2025 at 08:42hrs | 5087 | by Staff reporter
WhatsApp's new feature might be a gift to con artists
There is a seductive appeal to the word "privacy." It conjures images of safety, control, and autonomy. It suggests a world in which one can participate without being exposed, speak without being watc...Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 21:57hrs | 730 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Harare vendors live in fear as Municipal police crackdowns intensify
The sudden silence before chaos is the hallmark of Harare's latest crackdown on informal street vendors. Municipal police, some in plainclothes, others in uniform, move swiftly and silently through cr...Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 12:05hrs | 63 | by Staff reporter
Man sentenced to 400 hours for army-style fashion flop
A 22-year-old Bulawayo man has learned the hard way that street fashion choices can carry legal consequences after being sentenced to 400 hours of community service for wearing a camouflage jacket in ...Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 12:14hrs | 444 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Sneakers Expo returns bigger and bolder
Bulawayo is bracing for a major cultural explosion as the Bulawayo Sneakers Expo returns for its fourth edition on October 18, promising an unforgettable blend of fashion, creativity, and urban identi...Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 12:13hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
Zida courts investors for US$150m Victoria Falls project
The Zimbabwe Investment and Development Agency (ZIDA) is actively seeking both local and international investors to participate in the development of Lot 1 of Jafuta Estate, a flagship project within ...Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 14:26hrs | 112 | by Staff reporter
11-year-old boy found hanging in school cottage
A sombre mood has gripped the Filabusi community in Matabeleland South following the tragic death of an 11-year-old boy who died by suicide last week.The boy, identified as Junior Moyo, was fo...Published: 31 May 2025 at 13:44hrs | 324 | by Staff reporter
Zacc cracks down on rampant land grabs
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has raised alarm over the persistent and unlawful takeover of State and communal land by powerful land barons, despite repeated government warnings again...Published: 30 May 2025 at 08:56hrs | 128 | by Staff reporter
What value systems, dignity and integrity does Mnangagwa know? Stuff and nonsense!
In Shona, I would have said: Ndiko kunonzi kujairira Vahnu uku! This man can just open his mouth wotanga kubukura, ogo bukura ogo bukura! A Portuguese adage says: even a small ass can do it if a stoma...Published: 29 May 2025 at 21:32hrs | 773 | by Nomazulu Thata
Woman arrested for allegedly draining blood from 10-year-old girl
Residents of Gokwe Town have been left in shock following the arrest of a 33-year-old woman accused of assaulting a 10-year-old girl and allegedly draining her blood in a chilling incident that has sp...Published: 28 May 2025 at 12:14hrs | 1040 | by Staff reporter
15,00 Zimbabwean teachers dump profession
Zimbabwe's education sector is reeling from a deepening crisis as teacher unions report a mass exodus of educators, with at least 15,000 leaving the profession annually due to low salaries, poor worki...Published: 21 May 2025 at 13:52hrs | 702 | by Staff reporter
Scottland roped in for Egodini Mall project
Terracotta Trading Private Limited, the contractor behind the long-delayed Egodini Mall redevelopment project, has brought on board Better Brands Construction in a bid to accelerate progress amid moun...Published: 20 May 2025 at 10:09hrs | 919 | by Staff reporter
Conference Facilities named after Tshinga Dube
Bethel Facilities and Conference Centre in Bulawayo has paid tribute to the late national hero, Colonel Tshinga Judge "Embassy" Dube, by naming one of its key conference rooms in his honour.Th...Published: 20 May 2025 at 09:49hrs | 149 | by Staff reporter
US$43 million Victoria Falls project takes shape
ZIMRE Holdings Limited (ZHL), through its Eagle Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), has commenced construction of the much-anticipated US$43 million Eagle Heights Mixed-Use Development in Victoria Fa...Published: 20 May 2025 at 09:45hrs | 203 | by Staff reporter
Harare man loses Mercedes-Benz to mystery woman
A 31-year-old man was left stunned and without his car after a brief encounter with an unidentified woman led to the theft of his white Mercedes Benz C200 at a popular restaurant in central Harare on ...Published: 18 May 2025 at 16:11hrs | 2252 | by Staff reporter
Councils dismiss bedbug social media reports
Three local authorities in Zimbabwe's Midlands Province - Redcliff Municipality, Kwekwe City Council, and Gweru City Council - have dismissed recent social media reports alleging a bedbug (insikizi/ts...Published: 16 May 2025 at 10:11hrs | 129 | by Staff reporter
Girl kidnapped at Zimbabwe hospital, kidnappers demand US$2,000 ransom
A 12-year-old girl was kidnapped from Sally Mugabe Central Hospital on Saturday in a shocking abduction that has left her family distraught and police scrambling to track down the suspects. The kidnap...Published: 14 May 2025 at 12:49hrs | 1473 | by Staff reporter
Mbare Musika model to go national
The government has announced plans to replicate the modern Mbare Musika Traders Market model across Zimbabwe's 10 provinces as part of a nationwide initiative to provide safer and more dignified vendi...Published: 14 May 2025 at 08:49hrs | 573 | by Staff reporter
Land earmarked for public schools sold to land barons
Residents of Eastview and Caledonia in Harare have called for an urgent investigation into the alleged illegal sale of State land, initially earmarked for the construction of a public school, to a pri...Published: 13 May 2025 at 18:29hrs | 647 | by Staff reporter
Baker's Inn accused of staging fake donation to visually impaired entrepreneur
BAKER'S INN, a bread manufacturing company under Innscor Limited, has been accused of making a fake donation of a scooter bike and a container to partially visually impaired entrepreneur John Jemwa. T...Published: 13 May 2025 at 14:01hrs | 3583 | by Stephen Jakes
Why Zimbabweans should worry about our relationship with Belarus
How is it that Zimbabwe consistently chooses to engage with questionable figures?President Emmerson Mnangagwa is in Minsk for a working visit, marking his third trip to Belarus since assuming ...Published: 12 May 2025 at 19:32hrs | 724 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe opposition power struggles a gift to Zanu-PF
Zimbabwe's opposition movement is increasingly being torn apart by internal power struggles and factionalism, raising fears it could soon collapse altogether, analysts warn.The Citizens Coalit...Published: 11 May 2025 at 12:39hrs | 199 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to retest all drivers in some money making scheme
All licensed drivers in Zimbabwe will soon be required to undergo retesting as part of a new initiative to account for changes in their facial features and health conditions, a government official rev...Published: 10 May 2025 at 18:05hrs | 14717 | by Staff reporter
Zwigananda roped into Egodini Mall project
Better Brands Construction, a company owned by businessman and ZANU-PF politician Scott Sakupwanya, has been brought on board in a last-ditch attempt to revive the long-delayed Egodini Mall redevelopm...Published: 10 May 2025 at 14:21hrs | 4129 | by Staff reporter
'Bulawayo looking like a growth point'
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has raised alarm over the worsening state of urban cleanliness and the sharp rise in illegal street vending, which has begun spreading from the central business distric...Published: 10 May 2025 at 14:20hrs | 7536 | by Staff reporter
Switzerland pledges $200,000 to renovate Bulawayo's Bhaktas market
Switzerland has pledged a US$200,000 donation towards the development of Bhakta's Market in Bulawayo, offering a significant boost to the city's drive to formalise and modernise trading spaces for inf...Published: 10 May 2025 at 14:19hrs | 157 | by Staff reporter
Have our churches turned into sanctuaries for the corrupt?
Have our churches become places where criminals go to cleanse their reputations and whitewash their activities?In Zimbabwe, we are witnessing a deeply troubling phenomenon - one that strikes a...Published: 09 May 2025 at 10:38hrs | 269 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Minister calls for fact-based journalism
Journalists have been urged to prioritise fact-based reporting to effectively convey the true Zimbabwean story and contribute to the development of the Matabeleland South province. This call was made ...Published: 06 May 2025 at 08:49hrs | 138 | by Staff reporter
Gutu villagers want Tagwirei for MP
A group of villagers in Gutu are reportedly mobilising to persuade businessman Kuda Tagwirei to stand as their representative in the upcoming Parliamentary by-election, citing his track record of succ...Published: 05 May 2025 at 14:05hrs | 1014 | by Staff reporter
NetOne champions cleaner Zimbabwe, partners with Harare City
The streets of Harare were alive with action early Friday morning as hundreds of NetOne and Harare City workers came together, brooms in hand, to answer President Mnangagwa's call for a cleaner nation...Published: 03 May 2025 at 12:42hrs | 385 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Why community engagement and dialogue are key for Zimbabwe's development
Communities are the backbone of any country.I was recently privileged to moderate the Multi-Stakeholders Dialogue on Bridging Community Solutions and National Policy - organized by the Institu...Published: 03 May 2025 at 11:45hrs | 154 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Foreigners turn Bulawayo sanitary lanes into 'toilets'
The Bulawayo City Council has appealed to residents to refrain from using sanitary lanes and shop alleyways in the central business district as makeshift toilets, warning that such behaviour could tri...Published: 02 May 2025 at 20:16hrs | 1270 | by Staff reporter
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