Sikhulekelani Moyo – mskhulekelani16@gmail.com THE Ministry of Finance and Economic Development has suspended trading licences for 17 pharmacies for violation of the Exchange Control directives and Government policy where they were using speculative exchange rates, which are beyond the set margins. The Government continues to urge businesses to use the official exchange rates with a […] …
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Mahatshula East suburb takes shape
Peter Matika – peter.matika@chronicle.co.zw DRIVING along the bustling Bulawayo-Harare Highway, one cannot help but notice the reddish-brown dust emanating a few metres away from the road just after Mahatshula suburb. So heavy is the natural smog that one might mistake it for a cloud of dust arising from a blast emanating from a mining operation. […] …
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Bulawayo freezes as temperatures drop
Peter Matika – peter.matika@chronicle.co.zw AS Zimbabwe experienced freezing weather that brought with it drizzles in some areas yesterday, Bulawayo city centre was adorned with images of people clad in an assortment of thick winter garb. Some in the city gathered around miniature bonfires and braziers (imbawula) which illuminated the city with red-hot charcoal stones. The […] …
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COMMENT: Survey reveals majority favour ruling party Zanu-PF
JUST 42 days away from the harmonised elections, the electorate has indicated it will retain President Mnangagwa and his party, Zanu-PF in office. That is according to an often-reliable research organisation, the Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI) which released results of its survey on Monday. The agency contacted 3 110 registered voters spread across the […] …
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CCC presses ZEC for clarity over postal voting by uniformed forces
President Emmerson Mnangagwa recently expressed displeasure with some sections of the security service he said “did not vote nice”, an apparent reference to voting for the opposition. …
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17 pharmaceutical firms face closure over black market pricing
‘Ongoing investigations by the Financial Intelligence Unit have revealed that some pharmacies are using parallel market exchange rates ranging from between ZWL8,500 to ZWL11,000 against the USD’ …
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Freda Rebecca Mine’s gold output drops by 30k ounces due to powers cuts
‘In the year to March 2023, as Freda Rebecca Gold Mine, we produced 73,000 ounces of gold’ …
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Police report made against Energy Mutodi over rally gunfire
‘We tried to reason with him and he said ‘hamuite meeting pano’, in vernacular, meaning, ‘you are not going to have a meeting here’’ …
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Court says Semenya can appeal testosterone limit for female athletes
Semenya may now be free to challenge, once again, rules that have left her career on hold, but there is still some way to go in that regard. …
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Zimbabwe presidential election candidates receive copies of voters roll
The release of the voters roll has been a sticky issue as the country gears for the crunch poll next month. …
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