Masvingo earmarks 60,000ha for indigenous cattle ranchers
Masvingo bureau The Masvingo provincial leadership has earmarked nearly 60,000 hectares for cattle ranching by indigenous farmers in the Lowveld, in a bid to resuscitate the Cold Storage Company (CSC)…
‘Blood hunter’ stabs granny twice
Thubelihle Mabhena Chronicle Reporter A BULAWAYO woman is battling for life at Mpilo Central Hospital after a 33-year-old neighbour broke into her shack while she was asleep and stabbed her on…
Tsvangirai aims to evict resettled farmers
Walter Mswazie Masvingo Correspondent MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, has threatened to repossess a farm given to people under the popular land reform programme for resettlement and give it to the MDC-T…
Liberation war heroine Kesiwe Ndebele buried
Thubelihle Mabhena Chronicle Reporter LIBERATION war heroine, Cde Kesiwe Ndebele, 64, who died in Bulawayo, was laid to rest at the Provincial Heroes Acre in Nkulumane yesterday. Ndebele was the Zanu-PF Women’s…
Witchcraft allegations over stolen panties
Lethokuhle Moyo Court Reporter A BULAWAYO woman’s hand allegedly swelled up after her husband’s lover “bewitched” her for stealing her panties, a court heard yesterday. Nyengeterai Mashungu a money changer operating near…
Bulawayo water safest in Zim: Survey
Loveness Bepete Chronicle Reporter BULAWAYO Metropolitan province has the safest drinking water in the country with 98, 9 percent of the population using improved sources of drinking water. The province is followed…
‘Electrical fault’ sparks house fire
Nokusa Masuku Chronicle Reporter PROPERTY worth about $10,000 was destroyed after a room in a house in Bulawayo’s Entumbane suburb was gutted by fire on Saturday night. The fire is suspected…
EDITORIAL COMMENT: Approve genuine retrenchment applications only
Many companies are facing a myriad of challenges but the most common is lack of working capital which has forced some companies to scale down production while others have closed.…
Addressing inequalities key to fighting xenophobia
Ian Scoones I am currently in South Africa where liberal opinion is reeling from the latest wave of xenophobic attacks in Durban and other cities. Flamed by comments from Zulu King…
Grey Chitiga: A misunderstood man
Obituary Arnold Mutemi Grey Chitiga, the late former Chronicle senior photographer who died last week on Monday, was a greatly misunderstood man. In interactions with him, there were usually only two outcomes;…




