Let girls be girls, not brides
Katja Iversen and Yemurai Nyoni Correspondents Tecla, a young Zimbabwean girl, was sold for a few cows by her father to help alleviate the family’s poverty. She was raped by her…
$2 billion is no small change
Victoria Ruzvidzo Business Focus A figure of $2 billion is no small change, particularly for an economy that could literally use every cent it can get. Reports this week that investigations have…
Latest: Outrage over Sobukhazi High pupil classroom sex romp
Online Reporter THE Chronicle story of two Form four pupils at Sobukhazi High School in Bulawayo who were suspended from school two weeks ago after they were caught having…
Centenary Park rehabilitation gains momentum
Roberta Katunga Senior Business Reporter A BULAWAYO-BASED trust, Bounce Back, has joined a number of companies keen to resuscitate and rehabilitate Centenary and Central parks, regarded as among the city’s…
`Dr Grace Mugabe Live Blog
10:14 – Dr Grace Mugabe’s rally at the City Sports Centre. Thousands of people have converged for Amai Mugabe’s meet the people tour. The venue is now almost filled to…
Kenyatta to step down during ICC hearing
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said on Monday that he would temporarily step down as president while attending a hearing at the International Criminal Court this week. In a televised address before…
ANC seeking to humiliate EFF: Malema
Cape Town – EFF leader Julius Malema yesterday led his fellow MPs out of a disciplinary hearing against them after saying parliament should instead charge Speaker Baleka Mbete for disrupting…
Winnie behind arms deal expose, inquiry hears
Pretoria – ANC stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was one of the “concerned MPs” who leaked information on the 1999 arms deal, the Seriti Commission of Inquiry heard yesterday. “One of the…
Mozambique ballot papers stolen
Maputo – Twenty-six boxes of ballot papers to be used in local elections in Mozambique this month have been stolen from a truck, the country’s national election authority said on…
Colombian tribe members killed by lightning
Eleven members of a remote indigenous tribe along Colombia’s Caribbean coast have been killed after a lightning bolt struck a thatch-roofed hut where they were gathered. Military officials said that another…









