Churches urged to lead Covid vaccination

Patrick Chitumba, Midlands Bureau Chief MIDLANDS Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minister Larry Mavima has raised concerns about the decreasing number of people being vaccinated, saying this could put many people…

BAB close entries for track and field champs

Innocent Kurira, Sports Reporter THE Bulawayo Athletics Board (Bab) has closed entries for this year’s last track and field championship to be held at White City Stadium on Saturday. Bab…

French bishops agree to compensate thousands of sex abuse victims

France’s Catholic Church has agreed to financially compensate thousands of people who were sexually abused by  priests in what the president of the country’s Bishops’ Conference hailed as a “decisive…

‘Prostitute’ steals client’s car & crashes

Bongani Ndlovu, Chronicle Reporter A Bulawayo man rues the day he spent a night at a local lodge with a lady of the night after the woman stole and crashed…

1 million women trained as Pfumvudza rolls out

More than 1 million women farmers have been trained under the Government Climate Proofed Presidential Inputs programme, Pfumvudza/Intwasa, and this massive response with more than half of those benefiting being women will ensure that all are included in the pursuit of Vision 2030 and NDSI, as well as boosting family income. 

Churches in major sanctions breakthrough

Local church leaders have scored a major diplomatic breakthrough after engaging the head of the Anglican Church,  the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, in England yesterday to whom they handed over a letter seeking support in the removal of illegal economic sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the West.

MSD warns of heat wave, thunderstorms

THE Meteorological Services Department has issued a heatwave warning, saying temperatures are set to further soar today before the country gets rains, starting with isolated thunderstoms in the southern districts from tomorrow.

More Zupco buses coming in time for festive season

Another batch of 100 new buses is being offloaded in Durban and will soon arrive to boost the Zupco fleet in time for the festive season while the company works on its next step in rail services — the train between Harare and Norton.

First Lady calls on parents to be responsible

PARENTS and guardians in Matabeleland North Province yesterday drew a list of qualities they expect from daughters and sons-in-law, which, however, may be unattainable because they no longer have time to play their roles diligently and train children to have the expected qualities.

UK hails Zim’s vaccination roll-out

Britain has praised Zimbabwe’s Covid-19 vaccination programme as one of the best in the region and has pledged to assist the country in improving access to information on the vaccines to counter vaccine hesitancy, a worldwide problem that has slowed vaccination uptake even when vaccines are readily available.

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