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Zanu PF-affiliated informal traders receives relief funds
Informal traders aligned with Zanu PF’s affiliate group Vendors for ED have begun receiving financial support through the Presidential Revolving Fund, disbursed via the Empowerment Bank.The ...Published: 24 Jul 2025 at 12:57hrs | 188 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe political parties should respect voters
THE election season is upon us once again with Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga promising youth in Bulawayo that government will create more jobs for the constituency.Drumming up support fo...Published: 05 Dec 2023 at 05:20hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt to establish special youth economic zones
President Mnangagwa is set to participate in the commemoration of Africa Youth Day on November 22, according to Youth Empowerment, Development, and Vocational Training Minister Tino Machakaire....Published: 02 Nov 2023 at 05:36hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa expected in Bulawayo for youth dialogue
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is expected in Bulawayo today where he will lead deliberation on the inclusion of youth in economic development, while also tackling the topical issue of drug and substance abuse r...Published: 12 Apr 2023 at 08:05hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF in 4ED nightmare
Zanu-PF has revealed that it is having sleepless nights over dozens of sprouting shadowy for-ED groups being formed to ostensibly buttress President Emmerson Mnangagwa's re-election bid in general ele...Published: 16 Jan 2023 at 16:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF 'threatens' terror attacks
KAZANGARARE villagers in the Hurungwe district of Mashonaland West province are living in fear after being threatened with violence if they voted for the opposition in the 2023 elections or failed to ...Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths chide Empowerment Bank
Zanu-PF youths have accused the country's first "youth-focused" financial institution, Empowerment Bank (EB), of sabotaging President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ambitions to uplift young people.This...Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 06:48hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa opens doors for young women
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday gave young women the carte blanche to seize vast opportunities that have been brought by the Second Republic as he promised to give them loans and open the doors for part...Published: 01 Apr 2022 at 08:58hrs | 14 | by Staff Reporter
No to drugs, indiscipline, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday implored children to be disciplined, hardworking, respectful and also abstain from drugs and wayward behaviour if they are to be competitive in a globalised world....Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 08:07hrs | 11 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa says his govt will not continue crying over sanctions
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says his administration will not continue mourning over sanctions imposed against Zimbabwe by the West some 20 years ago.He said despite the sanctions in place, Go...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 09:11hrs | 8 | by Agencies
Zimbabwe lobbyists court German investors
The sterling work being done by the Second Republic has charmed Zimbabweans based in Germany where lobbyists are courting investors from Europe's biggest economy to come to the southern African nation...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 07:53hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's nephew launches empowerment project
TONGANYIKA Trust, a local organisation founded by Harare South MP Tongai Mnangagwa (Zanu-PF), yesterday launched an empowerment project in the capital aimed at equipping young women with critical skil...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 21:36hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Biti claims that proposed bank mergers illegal
FORMER Finance minister Tendai Biti, who is also a former chairperson of the National Assembly's Public Accounts Committee, said the proposed mergers of financial institutions involving government ent...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Govt mulls merger of six banks into three entities
A PROPOSAL to merge six financial institutions into three big ones is being considered by the Zimbabwean government, in a different consolidation process from the CBZ Holdings, ZB Financial Holdings, ...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 18:53hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa donates 50 000 masks to apostolic sect
President Mnangagwa yesterday donated a consignment of 50 000 face masks to members of the Johane Masowe weChishanu Apostolic sect in Bulawayo as part of the fight against Covid-19.The donatio...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt pumps $1m into VTCs
GOVERNMENT has allocated $1 million to vocational training centres (VTCs) across the country to enable them to produce multi-skilled graduates.This was revealed by Youth, Art, Sport and Recrea...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's health woes linked to Zanu PF's thickening internal assassination plots over Mnangagwa's successor
Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga's perennial health problems are reportedly linked to the ruling Zanu PF's thickening internal assassination and counter-assassination plots among it's ...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 07:07hrs | 2 | by Itai Mushekwe/Nancy Mabaya/Mary-Kate Kahari
Zimbabweans told to be wary of social media
ZIMBABWEANS should not allow social media to shape their opinion of the country since agents of regime change such as MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa and his allies were using it to post subversive...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 07:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa opens up on past
President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday gave a rare personal insight into his early life, during which he was involved in subversive activities after seeing his dreams of becoming a pilot frustrated by...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 15:55hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Empower Bank opened it's doors for youths in Bulawayo and Surrounding Provinces
Empowerment bank is geared to transform the livelihoods of many entrepreneurs in Zimbabwe. On the 11th of March 2018 the bank officially opened its doors in the city of Kings . The occassion was grace...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 14:11hrs | 1 | by Enos Denhere
Women empowerment key to socio-economic and political development
Zimbabwe joins the rest of the world in celebrating International Women's month that falls in March. This year the celebrations are running under the theme, #BalanceforBetter. International Women's Da...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 13:27hrs | 1 | by Anesu Pedzisayi
War vets want bank
WAR veterans are pushing for the establishment of a bank to exclusively fund their projects, classifying themselves as a special interest group.Information obtained by the Zimbabwe Independent...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Youth League compiles national skills data base for jobless youths
THE Zanu-PF Youth League has started compiling a national database for youths containing qualifications or acquired skills to help them get employment. The project is outlined in the league's ...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga urges Chamisa to outgrow student politics
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga has warned MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa against causing anarchy in the country, saying he should desist from student activism type of politics and focus on...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 07:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga scolds Kasukuwere
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga on Monday fired shots at former Minister and Zanu-PF national commissar Saviour Kasukuwere for allegedly being dishonest and corrupt.While addressing Zanu-P...Published: 24 Jul 2018 at 10:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa warned against violence
Government will not condone or tolerate any acts of violence, intimidation and incitement to commit lawlessness in the country during the election period and has activated all security institutions to...Published: 24 Jul 2018 at 07:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths urged to defend country's revolution
ZANU-PF Secretary for Youth Affairs Pupurai Togarepi yesterday urged youths to defend the country's revolution by voting for the ruling party in the July 30 polls.Addressing hundreds of youths...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga urges deserters to, 'Come back home'
Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga yesterday encouraged Zanu-PF supporters, who might have joined the MDC during the previous administration, to return home and assist in developing the country. H...Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 14:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC has done nothing for the people for the past 18yrs - Chiwenga
Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga yesterday encouraged Zanu-PF supporters, who might have joined the MDC during the previous administration, to return home and assist in developing the country....Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
We deliver on promises, claims Chiwenga
GOVERNMENT under the able leadership of President Mnangagwa is delivering to the people tangible life-changing projects as it is not time to promise fake things like spaghetti roads and rural home air...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 07:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
As a first-time voter, I have been robbed of my choice in the elections
In only a matter of weeks I will go to the polls for the first time. While I am a first-time voter, I join millions of my fellow Zimbabweans in what will be everybody's first real and fair vote....Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 11:09hrs | 1 | by R Mujuru
Mnangagwa to launch youths bank, meet students
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is today set to launch the Youth Empowerment Bank as his administration moves in to empower young people by funding various economic projects for them.The Head of ...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to launch Youth Bank
President Mnangagwa will on Thursday officially open the Youth Empowerment Bank, which is set to fund various projects for young people across the country. Sport, Arts and Recreation Minister ...Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 06:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to resume issuance of grants
President Emmerson Mnangagwa says government will resume issuance of grants to institutions that cater for the disabled once the economy improves.The President was speaking during an interface...Published: 21 Jun 2018 at 15:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa avails $12m youth facility
GOVERNMENT has availed a $12 million loan facility for youths and is now working on the guidelines and conditions for accessing the money.Addressing youths during the launch of the #EDhasMyVot...Published: 30 Mar 2018 at 08:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government avails US$164.5m to strategic entities
The government has since January this year availed resources amounting to US$164.5 million to strategic institutions. Treasury data seen by the ...Published: 24 Dec 2017 at 14:31hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Tremor that dethroned Grace Mugabe
WHEN former first lady Grace Mugabe boasted at a rally in Kadoma in July 2015 that vice-presidents take notes each time they meet her, she demonstrated how much power she had acquired courtesy of bein...Published: 23 Dec 2017 at 09:14hrs | 1 | by Hazel Ndebele
How Mugabe, Chiwenga crossed paths
President Robert Mugabe's refusal to listen to demands by the army to rein in his wife, who openly attacked the security forces, eventually led to his downfall, sources have revealed.Grace acc...Published: 19 Nov 2017 at 09:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Grace Mugabe must not run for VP'
First Lady Grace Mugabe must not stand as vice president at Zanu-PF's extraordinary congress in December, a move veteran political analyst and civil society leader Brian Kagoro described as a potentia...Published: 31 Oct 2017 at 13:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF is a mammoth party'
President Mugabe's address at the Zanu-PF Youth League National Assembly at the ruling party's headquarters in Harare yesterday.Thank you, thanks, thanks for your having invited me and Mai to ...Published: 08 Oct 2017 at 04:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe cheats on Mugabe
EDITOR,Grace is one of the only five African women known for cheating on their husbands.The link has more - ...Published: 06 Oct 2017 at 17:24hrs | 12 | by Sam Wezhira
Zezuru or Gushungo Hegemony making it difficult to remove Zanu PF
A political commentator George Mkhwanazi has said the Zezuru or Gushungo hegemony is making it very difficult for the ruling Zanu PF to be removed from the helm."The day I discovered how intri...Published: 13 Aug 2017 at 07:27hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe nephew taunts Zimbabwe's army bosses
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's nephew, Indigenisation minister Patrick Zhuwao, yesterday dared Zimbabwe Defence Commander Constantino Guvheya Chiwenga and Air Marshall Perrance Shiri to stay clear of Zanu-...Published: 10 Jul 2017 at 07:14hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Cde Patrick Zhuwao is out of order
Recent utterances by Zanu-PF Politburo member and Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Minister Patrick Zhuwao, that "Zanu-PF (is) full of idiots" (The Standard, May 14, 2017); and his lates...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 08:30hrs | 2 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Like father, like mother, like children! Mugabe's entire family has become a painful curse, demon
The humanity in me has often refrained me from dragging Mugabe's children into the business of their parents. Reality has conspired to leave no other choice than to do so from today, onwards. Bona, Ro...Published: 04 Jun 2017 at 12:28hrs | 3 | by Patson Dzamara
Bona Mugabe to sit on Empowerment bank board - based on what experience? - Musewe
A political analyst Vince Musewe has questioned the criteria used by the government in appointing President Robert Mugabe's daughter Bona to be a board member of the Empowerment Bank.He asked ...Published: 01 Jun 2017 at 08:01hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe's nepotism stinks to high heaven
The stampede by ministers last week to give President Robert Mugabe's daughter, Bona Chikore, positions at boards of state institutions removed any doubt that the 93 year-old is behind the nepotism an...Published: 28 May 2017 at 09:36hrs | | by The Standard Editor
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