A view of the recently completed 5km dual carriage way in Beitbridge that links the port of entry and major highways leading to Bulawayo and Harare. — Picture: Thupeyo Muleya Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau THE upgrading of the road linking the Beitbridge Border Post to the junction where the roads to Bulawayo and Harare split […] …
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Monthly Archives: August 2022
Sikhala in another bail bid
Job Sikhala Senior Court Reporter CCC lawmaker Job Sikhala has today mounted a fresh bail bid on changed circumstances in a matter he is accused of inciting his party followers to cause violence in revenge of the killing of Moreblessing Ali in Nyatsime sometime in July this year. Sikhala is charged with incitement to commit […] …
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Regina Chinamasa confirmed as new Zimra boss
The new Zimra chief is a tax expert with over 28 years of experience in the diverse field of revenue mobilisation customs, domestic taxes and enforcement of compliance to fiscal laws. …
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Harare residents spend month with no running water
‘The most frightening part is that Budiriro and Glen View suburbs which were the epicentres of the cholera outbreak in 2008-2009 have had inconsistent water supplies’ …
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The neoliberal restructuring of land and agriculture in Africa: two new books
Two important new books have come out on the neoliberal restructuring of land and agriculture in Africa recently. Both take a radical agrarian political economy stance on the theme, but from different angles. Such analyses have important implications for thinking … Continue reading → …
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Zanu PF bags Gokwe by-election marred by violence
‘The Gokwe by-election demonstrated beyond any doubt that violence is a tool of the weak’ …
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More houses for civil servants in Matabeleland North
Mashudu Netsianda, Senior Reporter GOVERNMENT has pledged to build more houses for civil servants in Matabeleland North capital, Lupane while civil works for the 19 housing units earmarked for civil servants have started at the Lupane Hlalani Kuhle housing project, which had stalled for years. A local company, Saltaway Enterprises, was contracted by the Ministry of National […] …
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Inflation tumbles
Business Reporter ZIMBABWE’s month on month inflation has sharply dropped to 12,4 percent this month from 25,6 percent in July in response to corrective macro-economic policy measures being implemented by the Government, which have started pushing the cost of living downwards. The slowdown is also being buttressed by the continued decrease in fuel prices as […] …
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President commends Cold Storage Company revival
Chronicle Reporter PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has said the revival of the Cold Storage Company (CSC) is critical in the country’s agriculture value chain and would contribute more towards expanding the national herd and the revival of leather and allied industries. CSC resumed operations two weeks ago at its giant Bulawayo beef processing plant after 22 years […] …
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Prophet feeds Bulawayo’s homeless
Rejoyce Sibanda, Chronicle Reporter BULAWAYO based Royal Priesthood Solution Ministries leader, Prophet Joshua Zulu, has embarked on a programme to assist the homeless in the city by providing them with free meals. The Pentecostal church pioneer, said they opened their congregation in August 2019 and began the feeding programme at the beginning of this year as […] …
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