The Chronicle

Brandon Moyo, Sports Reporter The tag “teenage sensation” is carelessly thrown around when a teenager does well in a certain sporting discipline, but at just 16 years old, a young all-rounder has become a vital cog of the Zimbabwe women’s cricket national team and is on course to writing her name in stone as one […] …
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Stephen Mpofu ,Perspective ‘’WHETHER the weather — any weather — be good or bad Zimbabwe CAN — and WILL weather the weather’’, like it or not. The prudent philosophy above must be the driving force behind the third Republic’s engagement and re-engagement exercise globally; otherwise it would be nonsensical of any Zimbabwean, let alone our […] …
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Bongani Ndlovu, Chronicle Reporter WHEN Tategulu was installed as Chief at the age of 21, it soon dawned on him that wearing shorts and vests and courting women in public was something taboo. He was now the father of the area and everything that his peers could do without a thought, he had to think […] …
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Nqobile Tshili, Chronicle Reporter  Bulilima Rural District Council has offered a 100-hectare farm for the development of Figtree into a smart city whose transformation will be anchored on digitisation and adoption of green energy. Cabinet last year resolved that Figtree in Bulilima District in Matabeleland South be transformed into a smart city.  While there has been […] …
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Thandeka Moyo-Ndlovu, Senior Health Reporter  ZIMBABWEANS are a resilient lot as witnessed by the fact that the country continues to record milestones in the health sector despite illegal and crippling sanctions that were imposed on the country in 2002.  These are the words by former Health and Child Care Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa who served Government […] …
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As the Government moves ahead with Vision 2030 which seeks to transform the country into upper middle-income status by that year, it is prioritising green development in that agenda. It is building smart cities that will be oases of responsible development. As the name indicates, the cities would be smart, ambient, spacious, highly digitalised and […] …
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Business Reporter EXPORTING companies have lobbied the Government to increase the mandatory 40 percent surrender requirement saying it diminishes the incentive to export and is not viable for sound business operations. Those in the clothing sector claim the 40 percent surrender requirement constrains ability to export noting that the sector, in particular, is raw material […] …
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Fungai Muderere, Senior Sports Reporter  AFTER yet another five-star performance in Whawha colours when his side took on Chicken Inn at Luveve Stadium, Calum English-Brown dribbled into the hearts of many local football enthusiasts, a development that compelled Gamecocks head coach, Joey Antipas to reveal he wants the artistic footballer’s signature. English-Brown (19) made his long-awaited […] …
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Leonard Ncube, Victoria Falls Reporter ENGINEERS have started synchronising various sub-systems at the Hwange Thermal Power Station Unit 7 plant which is 97 percent complete and ready for commissioning in November, paving way for its connection to the national grid. The plant will start generating power on a trial run for some time until engineers […] …
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Flora Fadzai Sibanda, Chronicle Reporter HEART DIASEASES are hereditary in Mr Ntandoyenkosi Banda’s family as both his grandparents and an aunt succumbed to heart conditions and the medical student has been suffering from a heart ailment for the past 12 years. After it was discovered at a late stage that his grandparents had an underlying […] …
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