Borehole drilling empowering villagers
Midlands Bureau OVER 600 villages across the country’s eight rural provinces have benefitted from the ongoing Presidential Rural Development Programme (PRDP) being implemented through the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa)…
Relocated Binga families’ homes near completion
Leonard Ncube recently in Binga THE construction of homes for families displaced by the setting up of a coking coal production plant at Muchesu area in Binga has started with…
ARDA fulfilling rural development mantra
THE restructured Agricultural and Rural Development Authority (ARDA) is fast operationalising its new mandate of spearheading rural development and industrialisation (RDI) with agriculture as the primary tool.
Toriro resigns as NSSA board chairperson?
Business Writer National Social Security Authority (NSSA) chairman, Dr Percy Toriro, is reportedly considering stepping down, according to people familiar with the latest development in the authority. “He has been…
COMMENT: It’s everyone’s responsibility to fight drug abuse
THE involvement of more churches in the anti-drug campaign in the country is a welcome development towards effectively dealing with the drug scourge affecting mostly the youth. It is only…
Gwanda’s history-making Vice-Chancellor
Sukulwenkosi Dube-Matutu, Matabeleland South Bureau Chief HER mother was a teacher and her father was a headmaster so it does not come as a surprise that she ended up a university…
Lobengula City Queens go rural, partners with Somvubu
Innocent Kurira, Sports Reporter WOMEN’S football side Lobengula City Queens is on an expansion drive which has seen them approach Somvubu High School in Bubi district for an arrangement that…
Bulawayo cobbler works with one hand
Flora Fadzai Sibanda, Chronicle Reporter The streets are bustling with life as different voices battle to be heard all at once. Vendors scout for customers while kombi drivers tout different destinations.…
Machazane on Barça Innovation Hub attachment
Fungai Muderere, Senior Sports Reporter FORMER Highlanders, Dynamos and Caps United defender, Marshall Machazane says his four month long attachment at Spain based Barça Innovation Hub has greatly helped him…
Industry raises concern over blended inflation model
Nqobile Bhebhe, Senior Business Reporter CAPTAINS of industry have expressed reservations over the switch to the blended inflation rate for all official purposes saying the new thrust poses several transactional…











