The Chronicle

Prosper Ndlovu in Dubai, UAE INTERNATIONAL tourists have expressed readiness to visit Zimbabwe again following the lifting of the Covid-19 induced travel bans, which resulted in loss of business for the local leisure and travel industry. The tourism sector has been the hardest hit since the outbreak of the pandemic in December 2019. Zimbabwe has […] …
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Mashudu Netsianda and Thandeka Moyo-Ndlovu, Chronicle Reporters BULAWAYO recorded 6 000 new voters during the just ended first phase of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) mobile biometric voter registration blitz which ended on Monday. The mobile voter registration is being rolled out in two phases, with the second phase running from April 11 to 30. The […] …
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Thandeka Moyo- Ndlovu, Senior Health Reporter HE first set his foot at Ingutsheni Central Hospital on July 13, 1952, after his employees at St Francis Home in Famona suburb complained that he had been displaying aggressive behaviour. The workers only knew him as a farmer who stayed nearby, selling vegetables on a daily basis. On […] …
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Mashudu Netsianda, Senior Reporter GOVERNMENT has started taking the necessary steps to evacuate Zimbabweans in Ukraine following a special military operation by Russia last Thursday with 118 students having so far been relocated to Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland. Zimbabwe, which has 256 registered citizens in Ukraine, has already made representations to different countries neighbouring […] …
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Thandeka Moyo-Ndlovu, Senior Reporter WHEN Retired Justice Maphios Cheda failed his Arithmetic in the late 1960s disqualifying him from proceeding to secondary school, it never dawned on him that one day he, together with brother would be among Zimbabwe’s celebrated judges. He recalls sitting on the floor while doing his studies at the ‘furniture-less’ Garanyemba […] …
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Mbulelo Mpofu, Showbiz Reporter Winners of the inaugural Mr and Miss Rural Matabeleland North pageant have thanked event organisers and sponsors for changing their lives by affording them a rare opportunity. Mr Rural Matabeleland North Thakazela Thabisa “Chief” Mayisa said the pageant amplified his voice within the community. “Since I was crowned as Mr Mat […] …
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Michael Magoronga, Midlands Correspondent WHEN he got a 50 hectare farm in 2016, Mr Charles Knight had to hire donkeys in order to plant his first crop. He recalls how it would take close to a month to plough using donkeys. An engineer who worked for a multinational company, Mr Knight was motivated to invest […] …
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The signing of a US$50 million contract for the supply of glass fibre reinforced pipes needed for Gwayi-Shangani Dam pipeline on Monday is music to the ears of Bulawayo residents who will now have to endure 20-hour daily water shedding ahead of the imminent decommissioning of Umzingwane Dam. After having missed last year’s deadline, the […] …
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Nqobile Tshili, Chronicle Reporter BULAWAYO has introduced a 20-hour daily water shedding exercise for some western suburbs and is expected to decommission Umzingwane Dam this month, necessitating reintroduction of citywide water rationing. This comes as water levels in the city’s supply dams remain low at a time they should be at their peak. The city […] …
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Mashudu Netsianda, Senior Reporter AFTER spending about 20 years working at farms in Johannesburg, South Africa, Mr Nkosibona Satenga-Dube (39) decided to return home and put into practice the skills acquired in the neighbouring country through investing in greenhouse farming in Bulawayo. He bought a piece of land in Ilanda suburb measuring 1,5 hectares from […] …
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