COMMENT: Zesa must fix the Bulawayo power outage now

A few hours after the Government had relaxed the Covid-19 lockdown on Monday, allowing businesses to operate more freely but upholding health standards, electricity went off in central Bulawayo. Since…

14 months water in Bulawayo dams

Nqobile Tshili, Chronicle Reporter BULAWAYO supply dams have water that can last the city for up to 14 months without council implementing any shedding programme. Since 2019, Bulawayo has been…

Skool Kidz ain’t slowing down

Mthabisi Tshuma, Showbiz Correspondent THIRTEEN pupils at Alan Redfern junior school who teamed up to record their debut single after completing their Grade 7 exams last year are not slowing…

Is Zim vulnerable as mining tips exports? l Mining account for 73 percent of shipments … Sector registered 2,7 percent growth in 2020

WHILE the Zimbabwe economy showed great resilience to pull through a Covid-19 ravaged year, after its exports recorded modest growth, the numbers indicate a worrying dependency on minerals and vulnerability to external price volatility.

Coca-cola Foundation donates boreholes to BCC

Mkhululi Ncube, Chronicle Reporter The Coca-Cola Foundation has invested US$50 000 to help address Bulawayo’s water problems in a development that will see six solar-powered boreholes being sunk at as…

Attempted murder at kitchen party

Mthabisi Tshuma , Gwanda Correspondent A 22-YEAR-OLD man from Patane village at Tuli in Gwanda is battling for life in hospital after he was stabbed several times in the chest…

Portrait artist targets exhibition space

Mthabisi Tshuma, Showbiz Correspondent A BULAWAYO-based portrait artist, Kudakwashe Kuvawoga hopes to start working from the National Arts Gallery in Bulawayo when the arts sector reopens, hopefully soon, so as…

Zimbabwe manufacturing capacity jumps 10,6%

Oliver Kazunga, Senior Business Reporter ZIMBABWE’S manufacturing sector expects above 61 percent capacity utilisation this year after registering 10,6 percent growth to 47 percent last year, as local companies remain…

Williams praises young squad

ZIMBABWE cricket captain Sean Williams hailed his side’s ten-wicket win over Afghanistan in the first Test in Abu Dhabi as a coming-of-age performance from a young group of players, and…

Zimbabwe leads in harnessing solar energy

Zimbabwe has struggled with crippling power outages, some of which (lasted) up to 18 hours a day. The cuts (were) especially hard on the country’s hospitals and clinics, forcing nurses…

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