24-hour testing for Covid-19

Nqobile Tshili, Chronicle Reporter GOVERNMENT will soon conduct 24-hour Covid-19 testing and is recruiting laboratory technicians to do the job as novel coronavirus cases surge in the country. As of…

Edgars shuts down branch over Covid-19

Patrick Chitumba, Midlands Bureau Chief EDGARS Gweru branch has become the first business in the city to shut its doors after an employee tested positive for Covid-19. All the other…

COMMENT: Now is not the time for parties, shebeens

A common excuse cited by some people who are violating lockdown measures is fatigue. Lockdown fatigue, they call it. Men-about-town and ladies-about-town who tell themselves that they are used to…

System glitch leaves scores of Zesa clients stranded

Andile Tshuma, Chronicle Correspondent SCORES of consumers were left stranded in Bulawayo yesterday, failing to buy prepaid power tokens as the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) online system…

Umalayitsha causes blackout with 600kg copper cables ‘theft’

Mashudu Netsianda, Senior Court Reporter AN umalayitsha allegedly ganged up with two accomplices and pulled down 640kgs of overhead copper conductors worth more than $200 000 from a Zesa line…

Felix Moyo leaves Nust

Chronicle Reporter National University of Science and Technology (Nust) director of communications and marketing Mr Felix Moyo has retired after serving the institution for 23 years. Mr Moyo bade farewell…

Local transmissions constitute 95% of Bulawayo Covid-19 cases

Andile Tshuma, Chronicle Correspondent LOCAL Covid-19 transmissions have risen alarmingly in the country, constituting more than 70 percent of all cases, while they make up 94,5 percent of Bulawayo’s infections.…

Delta lauds improved access to forex

Business Editor LEADING beverages producer, Delta Corporation, says access to forex has improved under the new forex auction trading system and that domestic sales in hard currency would bolster volume…

Run-down Gokwe District needs upgrading

Patrick Chitumba, Midlands Bureau Chief It is a Saturday, around 2PM and there are about 10 pregnant women at a maternity wing at Gokwe South District Hospital. The facility caters…

Panic as Covid-19 suspect dies

Thupeyo Muleya, Beitbridge Bureau Villagers in Makakhavhule in Beitbridge’s Ward 6 are in panic mode after a 51-year-old man who illegally returned from South Africa reportedly died of suspected Covid-19.…

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