Cap at crime scene sells out teen

Sukulwenkosi Dube-Matutu, Gwanda Correspondent AN 18-year-old man from Filabusi has been arrested for allegedly robbing a 44-year-old woman who was with her daughter at her homestead and attempting to rape…

Tele-health keeps doctor on call amid crisis

Healthcare institutions have become risky places for both patients and healthcare workers as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) battle rages on in the country. Steps have been taken by the Government to mobilise resources for frontline healthcare workers to secure tools to combat this deadly pandemic. Since the start of the lockdown in March, a number of measures of lockdowns, social distancing and the uptake of personal protective equipment (PPEs) to limit transmission have been taken up. But these measures are insufficient to stop the overstretching of the country’s healthcare systems that were already overwhelmed before COVID-19. In this report, Sifelani Tsiko (ST), our Agric, Environment and Innovations Editor speaks to Dr Admore Jokwiro (AJ), a Nyanga district medical officer and e-health (informatics) expert about the potential of telemedicine in Zimbabwe.

Major dams water levels continue to decline

Thandeka Moyo-Ndlovu, Chronicle Reporter WATER levels in the country’s major dams continue to decline following the conclusion of the rainy season which left the national dam average at 49 percent…

Cop faces stock theft charges

Mashudu Netsianda, Senior Court Reporter FIVE suspected cattle rustlers, one of them a police officer, operating as a syndicate were arrested for allegedly stealing five head of cattle worth $42…

The gendered politics of death, remarriage and asset ownership

Andile Tshuma I recently spent a week with a rural community in the Midlands Province. Due to its geographic location, there is a cultural variety, I could describe it as…

Diaspora parents make children hate Zimbabwe

Tariro Makamba recalled clearly how the nightmare started when Kudzai her husband sat her in the car and announced he had a surprise.

Tips on saving water in the garden

Plants need water to survive and therefore the resource should not be wasted. The following tips will help plants get the water they need without wasting it.

Banks to manage $18bn Covid-19 stimulus package

Businesses intending to access funds under the Government’s stimulus package to deal with the effects of Covid-19 and the lockdown have to approach their own banks, that will be administering the loan packages under normal banking rules.

The man who opted to dream

Before Ron Mazhindu (27) of Harare finished his undergraduate Accounting degree at University of South Africa (UNISA), he had made up his mind.

New toll fees for commercial vehicles

Commercial vehicles passing through Beitbridge Border Post will soon pay up to US$300 in toll fees to go towards the port’s modernisation.

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