Monthly Archives: December 2022

Nqobile Tshili, Chronicle Reporter “AN African child is raised by the whole village,” says Dr Sikhulile Moyo as he pays tribute to the Donkwe-Donkwe community in Kezi for playing a significant part in his upbringing. Dr Moyo is the laboratory director and research scientist at Botswana Harvard Aids Institute.  He is also a research associate at […] …
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Harare Bureau THOSE lighting fireworks on New Year’s Eve require advance police or local authority permission and need to tell their neighbours, or they face arrest and prosecution for causing a public nuisance.  They can be made to pay a level 5 fine or be jailed for six months, police have reminded would-be noisy merrymakers. […] …
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Mbulelo Mpofu, Showbiz Reporter THE last quarter of 2021 ushered in the sure and steady return of live performances for creatives in the arts sector after forced inactivity due to Covid-19 lockdowns. The turn of the year, 2022 would spell relief and become a renaissance to the sector’s dearth with the resumption of live shows as […] …
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2022 ends on a high note where, despite the adverse macroeconomic shocks in the course of the year, the Government aggressively pushed the implementation of high-impact projects towards the transformation of people’s lives. The Government rolled out projects in all parts of the country as the Second Republic lived up to President Mnangagwa’s philosophy of […] …
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Pelé, who has died aged 82 after suffering from cancer, is widely regarded as the greatest footballer the game has ever seen. He was the only player to have won the World Cup three times, and perhaps the most remarkable aspect of his long career was that he reached his apotheosis so early, and on […] …
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Raymond Jaravaza recently in Lower Gweru SHE doesn’t consider herself lucky but says she is favoured by the Grace of God to have lived long enough to raise, love and care for three generations. Gogo Sibikiwe Sibanda lived through a time the world witnessed World War 2, witnessed her own country’s liberation war heroes fight […] …
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Nqobile Tshili, Chronicle Reporter ACTING President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday said the Government’s citizen-centric policies of rebuilding the country have started benefiting communities at the grassroots level.  He said this while addressing hundreds of Christians who had converged at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair Exhibition Centre for the sixth edition of the National Thanksgiving and Dedication Service. The […] …
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Stephen Mpofu, Perspective DISCREET but nauseating scams are reportedly the order of things at both the Zimbabwean and South African border posts at Beitbridge with authorities on our side saying this week that they will leave no stone unturned to root out those officers engaged in the alleged corrupt acts.  Zimbabweans working in South Africa and […] …
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ASSASSINATION, disguise and a foreign embassy sound like the typical ingredients of an underwhelming action film, not tales from the life of Pele.  But that is exactly what they are. During a February trip to Nigeria in 1976, one of football’s greatest players found himself holed up in a hotel alongside tennis legend and reigning […] …
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