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Raymond Jaravaza, raymondjaravaza@gmail.com “BEKEZELA” is an IsiNdebele word for patience. For residents of a suburb that bears that name in Filabusi in Insiza District, Matabeleland South, development has been a long way coming for the now bustling mining and farming community. The Filabusi economy is buoyed by the rich pickings of gold that artisanal miners and […] …
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Nqobile Bhebhe, nqobile.bhebhe@chronicle.co.zw FORMER South Africa President, Cde Jacob Zuma, has said Zimbabwe must be allowed to conduct its forthcoming harmonised elections without external interference. Other countries, he said, should also not “try to rule from a distance” by dictating how the polls should be conducted. Cde Zuma, who was in the country last week to […] …
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THE Government has been exceedingly patient with misbehaving local businesses for a very long time.   Wherever and whenever it sees them getting astray, it cajoles them back in line when the stick would have been appropriate. That approach is very good, we must say, but the problem is that the businesses obey the rules […] …
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Patrick Chitumba, patrick.chitumba@chronicle.co.zw UNTIL recently, Mr Martin Mutava would wake up at 9PM, drive to his shop at Mkoba 6 shopping centre in Gweru to push the urgent orders for his clients until 5AM. Mr Mutava is one of the thousands of small to medium enterprises (SMEs) in Gweru and across the country who had turned […] …
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Harare Bureau DEVELOPING countries can accelerate their growth through increased co-operation with willing partners such as China, President Mnangagwa has said. In a virtual address to the High-Level Meeting of the Forum on Global Action for Shared Development hosted by his Chinese Counterpart, President Xi Jinping, President Mnangagwa said Global Development Initiative (GDI) was critical […] …
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