The Chronicle

Leonard Ncube, leonard.ncube@chronicle.co.zw A DARK cloud has engulfed Hwange District in Matabeleland North following the death of Chief Shana of Jambezi in the early hours of Sunday. Chief Shana breathed his last at Mater Dei Hospital in Bulawayo where he had been admitted since last month. Matabeleland North Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minister Richard Moyo […] …
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The expectation of many supporters before a ball was kicked was to get back in the Champions League after a year away from Europe’s elite competition, though the dynamic soon shifted after an encouraging first few months for the club. Liverpool quickly became involved in a Premier League title race with Arsenal and Manchester City, […] …
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NOTTINGHAM Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis is “confident” the club will avoid relegation this season and says he has “big dreams” for the future. Forest are 17th in the Premier League, three points above the relegation zone with two games left to play. On Tuesday, the club lost their appeal against a four-point punishment for breaching […] …
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Nkosilathi Sibanda, Sports Reporter EVERYTIME there is a boxing competition in Bulawayo, people go out in numbers to watch an exchange of jabs and uppercuts. The last time was in February at Palace Hotel and a record crowd was in attendance. People just love boxing. That love, however, soon turns into a long yearning as […] …
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Kudzai Gaveni, Online Writer POLICE launched a manhunt for a motorist driving an unregistered white Nissan Hard Body motor vehicle after hitting a school pupil (8) while crossing the road. In a statement, the incident occurred on 9 May 2024 along Percy Iborston Road opposite TM turn off, Cowdray Park, Bulawayo. “The driver did not […] …
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Wallace Ruzvidzo, Harare Bureau Rogue and retrogressive elements who are found undermining the country’s broad and people-centred policies will continue to be exposed under the Second Republic, President Mnangagwa has said. In his remarks, at the burial of national hero Cde Ezekiel Chaunoita at the National Heroes Acre yesterday, President Mnangagwa said his administration would not […] …
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Nqobile Tshili, nqobile.tshili@chronicle.co.zw  INJUSTICE weighs heavily on Bulawayo-based legal practitioner Bob Siansole, particularly when it comes to wrongful convictions due to lack of legal knowledge. Witnessing this over his six years of practising criminal law has ignited a fire within him. Inspired by organisations like the Innocence Project, which offers pro bono legal aid to the […] …
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Wallace Ruzvidzo, Harare Bureau THE National Heroes’ Acre was yesterday a convergence of multitudes of Zimbabweans who came not to grieve but rather to celebrate the life of one of the country’s national heroes, Cde Ezekiel Chaunoita, as he was laid to rest. So jovial and energetic was the crowd they turned the funeral into a […] …
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GOVERNMENT efforts to boost water supplies to Bulawayo City are being frustrated by rampant theft and vandalism of boreholes and other infrastructure at Rochester and Epping Forest in Nyamandlovu.  Government has drilled 60 boreholes to boost the city’s water supplies but only 43 boreholes are working as the other 17 have been vandalised.  The city […] …
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Mbulelo Mpofu recently in Ntabazinduna Two years ago, Nomsa Tshuma’s world was irrevocably altered when her husband, Elvis Nyathi, fell victim to a barbaric xenophobic attack in Johannesburg, South Africa. The harrowing incident left her isolated and burdened with the sole responsibility of raising their four young children, as well as an immense emptiness in […] …
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