The Chronicle

Sukulwenkosi Dube-Matutu, sukulwenkosi.dube@chronicle.co.zw  A TOTAL of 300 workers mainly locals have been employed at the newly-established Gwanda Lithium Mine Zimbabwe at Mandihongola area in Matabeleland South province, in yet another milestone investment under the Second Republic led by President Mnangagwa. More job prospects are expected as the project expands with higher value earnings through downstream value […] …
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Harare Bureau PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has welcomed the ruling handed by the International Court of Justice directing Israel to do all it can to prevent the deaths of Palestinian civilians, punish incitement to genocide and provide the much-needed humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip. The ruling by the ICJ followed an appeal by South Africa, imploring […] …
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Peter Matika, peter.matika@chronicle.co.zw The National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe (NMMZ) has allayed public anxiety over the discovery of remains of 21 people in Bulawayo’s Killarney suburb, which were exposed during excavations by a contractor while working on a new housing development project. The Bulawayo City Council announced the development on Monday and advised that the […] …
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A good number of youngsters in our country is getting lost.  They are drinking too much.  They are hooked on dangerous drugs which threaten not only their futures, but also their lives.  They are also hooked on bad stuff online, which threatens their sanity and breeds delinquency. More broadly, the crisis among our youth is […] …
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Patrick Chitumba, patrick.chitumba@chronicle.co.zw GOVERNMENT has pledged to expedite the reconstruction of part of St Theresa School of Nursing in Chirumhanzu District in the Midlands province, which was recently gutted by fire that left property worth thousands of dollars destroyed, leaving students and tutors stranded. Part of the school was destroyed by the fire that started in […] …
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Farirai Machivenyika, Harare Bureau ZIMBABWE’s abundant natural resources, youthful population and strategic location as a logistical route make it an ideal and profitable investment destination, President Mnangagwa said yesterday. In a speech read on his behalf by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga during the official opening of the third Zimbabwe-Belarus Business Forum that was held in Harare, […] …
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Thandeka Moyo-Ndlovu, thandeka.moyo@chronicle.co.zw  THE Mass Polio Vaccination Campaign kicks off across the country today targeting children aged 10 years and below, with Bulawayo Province expected to vaccinate at least 214 000 minors. Polio is a highly infectious disease that largely affects children under five years of age, causing permanent paralysis (approximately 1 in 200 infections) or […] …
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Innocent Kurira, innocent.kurira@chronicle.co.zw HIGHLANDERS face Dynamos in a rare league opening encounter in the first week of March and assistant coach Try Ncube is confident his charges will be ready for the big game. Ncube and former Warriors striker Agent Sawu were recently appointed as assistant coaches to Zambian Kelvin Kaindu who only received his […] …
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PARENTS must take their children to the designated facilities for the ongoing countrywide Mass Polio Vaccination Campaign to prevent the highly infectious disease. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said there is no cure for polio and that it can only be prevented by immunisation. The polio vaccine, WHO said, given multiple times, can protect […] …
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Sikhulekelani Moyo, mskhulekelani16@gmail.com THE Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency, ZimStat has said Bulawayo is leading in labour force participation rate (LFPR) with 66,4 percent followed by Harare with 61,8 percent. In an update on its 2023 fourth quarter labour force survey, ZimStat said labour force participation rate for persons in urban areas was 62,7 percent while for […] …
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