The Chronicle

SADC today sends yet another resounding message to the US, Britain and the European Union, denouncing the illegal sanctions the Western nations imposed on Zimbabwe and calling for their immediate, unconditional removal. Leaders in the region and their people will deliver speeches, march, perform plays, poems and stage musical shows whose import will be around […] …
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Simba Jemwa, Showbiz Reporter KICKS were sold, dopes were had and good music kept people on their feet. At least 500 people were identified as sneakerheads when they turned up for the second edition of the Bulawayo Sneaker Expo that was held at The Barn on Saturday. These were people who talk or think about […] …
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Brandon Moyo, Sports Reporter RAIN saved Zimbabwe from a thorough hiding at the hands of neighbours South Africa after their 2022 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Group 2 encounter produced a no result at the Bellerive Oval in Hobart, Australia yesterday which saw the teams share points. In a match that was reduced to nine […] …
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Business Reporter ZIMBABWE expects to end load shedding soon as it prepares to officially commission the 300 megawatts Hwange Power Station’s Unit 7 extension next month. Energy and Power Development Minister, Soda Zhemu, told Parliamentarians on Thursday that the prevailing supply deficit of between 250 and 300 megawatts would be filled by Unit 7. “Presently, […] …
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Ricky Zililo, Senior Sports Reporter Highlanders 1-0 Bulawayo Chiefs SHEER individual brilliance by man-of-the-match, Highlanders midfielder Divine Mhindirira who scored in the 37th minute against Bulawayo Chiefs, earned Bosso maximum points and moved them up the table to position four from five. Mhindirira made a quick turn to deceive a Chiefs player, charged towards the […] …
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Mbulelo Mpofu,Showbiz Reporter RHUMBA artiste Madlela Skhobokhobo is looking forward to performing at the United Against Illegal Sanctions musical show taking place at the Aquatic Complex in Chitungwiza on Tuesday. The concert that has been organised by the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services seeks to shine the spotlight on the ill-effects of the […] …
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Midlands Bureau Chief A 17-YEAR-OLD Zvishavane-based pupil, Patrice Machaya, who is doing A-level at Errymaple International School has designed an efficient and affordable passive infrared sensor. Putting theory into practice, the teenager combined basic electronics and the coding from computer science to come out with the programmed security system. A passive infrared sensor is an […] …
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Stanford Chiwanga, Saturday Chronicle News Editor OF all the mass murders to have scarred the Zimbabwean consciousness after independence, the 1995-96 serial killings of patients at Mnene Mission Hospital in Mberengwa stand out with villagers still haunted by the ghost of Michael Joseph Swango, an American doctor who is estimated to have fatally poisoned as […] …
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Nqobile Bhebhe, Senior Business Reporter IMAGINE civil servants turning up to work decked out in amabhetshu, multi-coloured bracelets, barefoot, clutching a leather shield and carrying a leopard skin backpack. Onlookers would, with no doubt, question the mental state of the people wearing imvunulo. Imvunulo is the traditional way of dressing of the Zulu and Ndebele […] …
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