Nqobile Tshili,Chronicle Reporter ALL is set for the Zanu-PF Central Committee elections today with senior members competing to take up positions in the party’s highest decision-making body in between congresses. Zanu-PF President and First Secretary Cde Mnangagwa appoints Politburo members from the Central Committee members who will be elected in today’s internal polls. In an […] …
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Unleash the kids!..PSL coaches reluctant to play prodigies
Innocent Kurira, Sports Reporter AT what point in the life of a footballer could they be said to have matured enough to play in the Premier Soccer League? Our very own greatest of all time, our undoubted G.O.A.T. Peter Ndlovu made more than a splash, broke new ground and etched his name in history through his […] …
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The rapid rise of Bulawayo’s domestic plumber
Canditar Chapanduka, Chronicle Reporter FROM domestic plumber to owner of a big commercial plumbing company. This is the story of 55-year-old Mr Mathias Banda from Bulawayo’s Pumula South suburb. Mr Banda might own a plumbing company called Cork Screw investments that he established in 2005, but it was not always the case. He started as a […] …
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Couple falls in love to the sound of mbira music
Rejoyce Sibanda, Chronicle Reporter The rhythmic sound of the hoshos slowly introduces a musical mood to the artists. It is visibly clear that the music they play captures and fills up the inner depths of their souls. They are strongly and emotionally entranced by it even though they are the ones who are performing. As the […] …
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COMMENT: Kudos to police for quick reaction to How Mine gold heist
POLICE in Bulawayo should be commended for their quick reaction that led to the arrest of three suspected armed robbers linked to a gang that got away with How Mine’s 11,9 kilogrammes of gold worth US$450 000 and four guns on Tuesday. Their colleagues in Beitbridge deserve special mention for being alert as one of […] …
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To the anti-adversities tribe
Stephen Mpofu Perspective YES (yes, you) you guessed right: this message is directed at journalists who must of necessity remain united to discharge their professional responsibilities to our nation because divided they will fall, opening the door to neo-colonialists to rear up their ugly heads back in our liberated motherland. Recent reports about a […] …
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New hands at mbuzini eatery
Raymond Jaravaza, Showbiz Correspondent BACK in the day, if one were to throw a stone in Magwegwe North suburb and shout “Mdala Judea”, chances are high that the stone could hit someone who knew the old man. At the peak of Bulawayo’s industrial dominance, the norm was for a man to search for employment in the […] …
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Waiting for the Chevrons
Brandon Moyo, Sports Reporter REPRESENTING one’s country of birth is every sportsperson’s dream and every athlete measures their success by the number of times they represented their country on the international stage. There is no denying that playing at the international level is everyone’s dream, the highest honour that can be bestowed on any sportsperson. Some […] …
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US$1bn steel project takes off
Prosper Ndlovu in Manhize, Chirumhanzu PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday led the ground-breaking ceremony of the long-anticipated US$1billion integrated Dinson Iron and Steel Industrial Park being established in Manhize, Chirumhanzu District, in Midlands Province. The giant project is expected to create 10 000 jobs directly and many more along the value chain while bolstering Zimbabwe’s import substitution […] …
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‘Shameful sanctions will not ground us’
Prosper Ndlovu in Manhize, Chirumanzu THE growing investment interest in Zimbabwe from non-Western sources of capital exposes the shameful and unilateral imposition of sanctions, which have failed to totally ground the country’s economy, President Mnangagwa has said. In the context of the shift in historic global capital concentration from Western dominance and the emergence of […] …
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