Development partners secure US$25 million for Zim humanitarian assistance
Zvamaida Murwira, Harare Bureau Zimbabwe yesterday got US$25million from development partners that will go towards humanitarian assistance. The United Nations committed $10 million. The United States...
View ArticlePresident ED explains national dialogue
Tendai Mugabe, Harare Bureau President Mnangagwa says he has opened the avenue for dialogue with other political parties in Zimbabwe to ensure that they also have an input in the country’s governance...
View ArticleBillion pula deal…Botswana leader signs increased bailout package
Tendai Mugabe, Harare Bureau Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi has confirmed the one billion pula Botswana credit facility that will be chanelled towards Zimbabwe’s private sector. Fielding...
View Article56 pupils eat jatropha fruits, hospitalised
Kudzai Chikiwa, Chronicle Reporter FIFTY-SIX Grade Four pupils from Sigombe Primary School in Bulawayo’s Nkulumane suburb have been hospitalised with one reported to be in a criticial condition at...
View Article‘Congress could split MDC Alliance’
Nqobile Tshili, Chronicle Correspondent MDC Alliance deputy president Engineer Elias Mudzuri yesterday said the forthcoming opposition party’s elective Congress in May could split the party due to...
View ArticleHwange Power Station expansion project kicks off
Leonard Ncube in Hwange CONSTRUCTION of the $1,4 billion Hwange Expansion Project for Unit 7 and 8 has started in earnest with the laying of the foundation at Hwange Power Station yesterday. Sinohydro...
View ArticleUPDATED: President calls for clean cities…First Lady leads Bulawayo clean up...
Felex Share/Pamela Shumba,Harare Bureau/Chronicle Reporter PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday urged Zimbabweans to develop and maintain healthy cities, towns and resort areas attractive to investors and...
View ArticleSchools told to remove jatropha trees
Andile Tshuma, Chronicle Reporter SCHOOLS have been urged to get rid of or fence off Jatropha trees in the wake of the hospitalisation of 59 Grade Four pupils last Friday after eating the plant’s...
View ArticleHeads to roll in Zanu-PF
Mashudu Netsianda, Senior Reporter ZANU-PF has warned that heads will roll in the ruling party in line with its restructuring exercise amid revelations that there were some unrepentant members of the...
View ArticleZanu-PF distances self from MDC infighting
Zvamaida Murwira, Harare Bureau THE ruling Zanu-PF party has no hand in the internal fights within the opposition MDC Alliance and suggestions that the revolutionary party is involved in the latter’s...
View ArticleLoans for looted shops…Government starts disbursement of recovery funds
Mashudu Netsianda/Pamela Shumba, Senior Reporters THE Government says the emergency relief loan fund to assist Bulawayo businesses that were looted and destroyed during the January violent protests, is...
View ArticleUPDATED: Econet glitch leaves subscribers stranded
Andile Tshuma, Chronicle Reporter ECONET subscribers have been stranded for days following interruptions to voice, data and EcoCash services. Scores of stranded people queued at Zesa offices over the...
View ArticleMDC MPs in court for subversion
Tendai Rupapa / Yeukai Karengezeka, Harare Bureau Two MDC Alliance legislators, Joanah Mamombe and Godfrey Sithole, have appeared in court charged with subverting a constitutional Government and...
View ArticleRBZ boss exposes Biti. . .Tension-filled deliberations in Parliament
Zvamaida Murwira, Harare Bureau Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor, Dr John Mangudya, yesterday exposed former Finance Minister Tendai Biti’s hypocrisy after the former Cabinet minister accused Treasury...
View ArticleLATEST: Chief Mtshane dismisses reports that he wants Chief Ndiweni recalled
Auxilia Katongomara, Chronicle Reporter THE deputy president of the Chiefs Council, Chief Mtshane Khumalo, has dismissed as false reports that he has written to the Government to recall Chief...
View ArticleJUST IN: Founders High School prefects torture juniors in middle of night...
Nqobile Tshili, Chronicle Correspondent TWO prefects at Founders High School in Bulawayo allegedly tortured Form One juniors in the middle of the night in a suspected bizarre initiation rite. Form One...
View ArticleJUST IN: Machete gang terrorises travellers along Bulawayo-Nkayi road
Leonard Ncube, Victoria Falls Reporter AN eight-man gang of machete-wielding robbers allegedly attacked and robbed six travellers along the Bulawayo-Nkayi road. Police spokesperson for Matabeleland...
View ArticleBREAKING: Two dead, 7 injured in road accident
Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau Two people including a toddler aged 15 months were killed while seven others were seriously injured when a vehicle they were travelling in overturned at the 70km peg...
View ArticleArmed robber serving 25 years in court for four murders
Mashudu Netsianda, Senior Court Reporter AN alleged serial killer dubbed the “Underwear Robber” for stealing his victims’ clothes and forcing them to walk naked, appeared in court yesterday for...
View ArticleWelshman Ncube joins Chamisa’s sycophantic brigade
Nqobile Tshili, Chronicle Correspondent MDC Alliance deputy president, Professor Welshman Ncube, has joined a slew of the opposition party’s sycophantic officials who are shielding party leader Mr...
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