The Chronicle

Midlands Bureau MIDLANDS businesswoman and philanthropist, Dr Smelly Dube over the weekend hosted over 70 orphans who she gave gifts and clothes as part of her birthday celebrations. She turned 53. Enjoying the treat were also five children whose mothers are serving various prison terms at Shurugwi female prison. The celebrations were held at Selukwe […] …
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Ricky Zililo, Senior Sports Reporter SPRINTERS Panashe Nhenga and Denzel Siamulela will represent Zimbabwe at the World Athletics Under-20 Championships that starts on Monday in Cali, Colombia. The duo arrived in Cali for the championships that run from August 1-6 on Saturday and spent Sunday acclimatising. Nhenga will be the first to take to the track […] …
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Business Reporter THE Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) has embarked on a  12-day  national Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) for the third quarter of the year to capture key labour market indicators that include levels of formal and informal employment and job losses. The survey data also feeds into the compilation of quarterly Gross Domestic […] …
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Mbulelo Mpofu, Showbiz Reporter THE evolution of hip-hop music has seen a lot of artistes with potential rising to the occasion. One of the nascent talents to emerge in Bulawayo is Sparks 45 who is readying the launch of his album next month. Sparks 45 (real name Tanaka Leeroy Moyo) has vowed to change the […] …
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Nqobile Bhebhe, Senior Business Reporter THE continued reduction in fuel price by the Government is positive move that is expected to slow down the rate of increase in pricing of goods and services, which will give significant relief to consumers relief, economic analysts have said. Last Wednesday the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) reduced the […] …
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Flora Fadzai Sibanda, Chronicle Reporter INSPIRED by her grandfather who was a mechanical engineer, 19-year-old Mellisa Peters knew an office job was not for her and she chose to be a mechanic, plunging into a male dominated profession. Miss Peters developed a love for fixing cars when she was in Form Three at Mzilikazi High […] …
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Mashudu Netsianda, Senior Reporter A TINY frog called the cave squeaker had not been seen for more than half a century and it had been placed on the international red list of threatened species. Dr Robert Hopkins (80) of Parklands suburb who is an associate researcher at the Natural History Museum in Bulawayo and an […] …
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ECOCASH Holdings Zimbabwe Limited’s short-term insurance business, Moovah, is reinvigorating the country’s home insurance market with its innovative products and services. Moovah’s said its home insurance policy not only protects houses from physical damage, but also provides coverage for items inside the house.  Mr Gift Noko, Moovah’s Chief Insurance Officer, said the leading insurance firm […] …
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Yvonne Ncube, Showbiz Correspondent IT is not surprising that children have imaginary friends, an imaginary world and an imaginary self in which they can be whoever they want. It’s a trait they will quickly abandon as they get older, realising its puerile. However, for Natasha Dlamini, born in Bulawayo’s Emakhandeni suburb, it’s a trait that foreshadowed […] …
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PRESIDENT Mnangagwa on Thursday commissioned a US$7 million detonators plant at Intrachem Explosives Company in Kwekwe. The new plant which has an import substitution value of up to US$20 million per year, is set to boost production of mining explosives at the company. The company which was established by young Zimbabwean engineers who returned home […] …
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