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The way to a man's heart is through his stomach
Zimbabwean cuisine is very diverse and varied just like its cultures and languages. The staple food is sadza, pap, that can also be called differently by minority tribes. Sadza features in most ...Published: 13 Jun 2024 at 22:13hrs | | by Tondo Chinehasha
Mnangagwa's voice quiets down
As I sit here, sipping on my mahewu brew, I can't help but chuckle at the state of our nation's politics. Our beloved President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, is losing his voice! Now, you may think that is a t...Published: 15 Aug 2023 at 13:28hrs | 11 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
10 hospitalised over suspected food poisoning
About 10 people were admitted to Murewa District Hospital on Wednesday for suspected food poisoning.The victims from Wuyuwuyu area started experiencing stomach problems after consuming vegetab...Published: 30 Jun 2023 at 14:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Vendor axed and robbed
A MAN from Bulawayo's Sizinda suburb was rushed to hospital after he was mercilessly axed on the head by armed robbers who robbed him of his wares while he was walking home in the evening.The ...Published: 18 Apr 2023 at 19:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's thriving car breaking industry
When you think of industries that offer opportunities for employment and entrepreneurship, the car breaking industry is probably not the first one that comes to mind.However, in Bulawayo, Zimb...Published: 18 Mar 2023 at 06:34hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe becomes lithium giant
Zimbabwe continues to consolidate its position as a major lithium producer globally, with Bikita Minerals having ramped up petalite production to 60 000 tonnes annually after a Chinese firm, Sinomine,...Published: 14 Feb 2023 at 05:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
This & that with Mal'phosa: Will the real Ndebele please stand up
There has been a lot of talk about the resorgimento of the Ndebele Kingdom and crowning of the King himself. We have had so many pretenders to the throne, all claiming to be the rightful heirs or Prin...Published: 28 Dec 2022 at 18:40hrs | | by Clerk Ndlovu
Production costs, competition strain Ingwebu
BULAWAYO Municipal Commercial Undertaking's beverages producer, Ingwebu Breweries, says rising costs of production coupled with increasing competition strained its earnings, which saw profit dropping ...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Primary School poisoning: Grade 4 pupil dies, two hospitalised
Police said the owner of the food and drink offered them to the three girls during break time and did not consume the food herself.Confirming the tragedy yesterday, acting Bulawayo police spok...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 08:20hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Ingwebu to set up PET, water bottling plants
THE Bulawayo Municipal Commercial Undertaking owned Ingwebu Breweries is working on establishing a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plant at their depot so as to package their beer in takeaway bottles...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 09:01hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Bureaux de change operator opens shop in western suburbs
WHILE many financial service businesses are concentrated in the Central Business District, Swift Global Forex Bureaux de Change has decided to be different.The entity has become the first comp...Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 06:34hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Arenel invests US$3m, expands export footprint
BUOYED by enhanced production capacity following recent capital investments, diversified food producer, Arenel Private Limited, now targets widening export market beyond Africa while creating more job...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
IDs for 'forgotten citizens'
THE Registrar-General (RG's) office yesterday started issuing identity documents to the San community in Tsholotsho, Matabeleland North, creating a sense of belonging among these almost forgotten citi...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ingwebu mulls opaque beer exports
IN an effort to position itself for a wider regional footprint under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), beverages producer, Ingwebu Breweries, is considering packaging of its traditiona...Published: 11 May 2021 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ingwebu Breweries makes a mistake, appoints Tyra Chikocho
COMEDIAN and actor Madam Boss (real name Tyra Chikocho) has been appointed as Ingwebu Breweries brand ambassador with the company saying they want to penetrate other markets, through her.Besid...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 22:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Business escalates rice tax deadlock
ZIMBABWE'S retail and wholesale industries, under pressure from Treasury to pay a controversial tax on rice in retrospect, have approached President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy Vice-President Co...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 chokes Ingwebu
BULAWAYO Municipal Commercial Undertaking (BMCU)'s beverages manufacturing unit, Ingwebu Breweries has laid off more than 100 workers, citing depressed volumes in product sales.The prevailing ...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ingwebu Breweries re-introduces mahewu
REBOUNDING Bulawayo Municipal Commercial Undertaking (BMCU)'s beverages manufacturing unit, Ingwebu Breweries will re-introduce its non-alcoholic sorghum drink, Royal Mahewu next month as it seeks to ...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 07:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ingwebu's remarkable turnaround
BULAWAYO Municipal Commercial Undertaking (BMCU)'s beverages manufacturing unit, Ingwebu Breweries, which has close to a decade been reeling under massive losses, has had a remarkable turnaround....Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 09:38hrs | 1 | by Sytaff reporter
Mliswa takes dig at Wadyajena's Lamborghini acquisition
Outspoken Norton independent legislator Temba Mliswa has taken a dig at Zanu-PF Gokwe-Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena who recently imported a US$210 000 Lamborghini Urus in a show ...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 17:46hrs | | by Gibson Nyathi
Velaphi Ncube's unheralded journey
ON Thursday, Misheck Ntunduzakovelaphi Velaphi Ncube was laid to rest at the National Heroes Acre in Harare following his declaration as a national hero.Born on 25 July 1937 in Matobo District...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:36hrs | 8 | by Pathisa Nyathi
Nurses sell repacked water in hospital wards
THE country's continued economic meltdown has forced nurses and staff at Chiredzi General Hospital to device bizarre methods of supplementing their meagre salaries.It is alleged that they have...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 07:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Guaranteed erections steal the show at ZITF
Sexual performance boosters are flying off the shelves at the Malawi stand at the ongoing Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) in Bulawayo.The stand is stealing the show at one of the bigg...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 21:34hrs | 1 | by Methusi Ncube
Velaphi: Daring by bringing first batch of weapons into Rhodesia
IN the past few weeks we have been focusing the spotlight on what may be considered the pioneers of Zimbabwe's armed liberation struggle. This was done as part of a build up towards independen...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:24hrs | 1 | by Pathisa Nyathi
If its about us let us know
ZETDC, kkkkkk, when it rains, forget the rain season, I mean just a momentary or transient rainfall, do you switch us off or its the rain that switches us off? As someone not privy to the matr...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 08:14hrs | | by Thomas Murisa
What I learnt from a dog which stole an egg
(Warning 🚫 The following message may change your life) During the holiday while visiting my relatives in the village, I passed a certain old man's h...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 14:17hrs | 1 | by Mthokozisi Gwizi
Ingwebu seeks $20million for recapitalisation
Bulawayo Municipal Commercial Undertaking (BMCU)'s beverages manufacturing unit Ingwebu Breweries is seeking about $20 million to recapitalise its business operations.Speaking after a tour of ...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Business leaders conflicted over imports ban
ZIMBABWE'S business leaders want government to suspend the Statutory Instrument (SI)22, which is meant to protect local industry from cheap and non-essential imports, to counter the growing shortages ...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube fails to douse the fire
Jittery Zimbabweans say Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's humiliating back pedalling on Friday - on his much-criticised two cents per transacted dollar tax - was "too little, too late" because the count...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 12:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zipra's plan after downing Rhodesian Viscounts
Last week, Comrade Agrippah Gava (born 1956) narrated how he left Tekwane High School with a group of 34 other students to join the liberation struggle in 1976. He narrated how he went for military tr...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 10:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, my insanity, Gukurahundi and celebrating his dishonarable demise
If someone treats you disproportionately unlawful and you can't report to any Government on planet Earth, it means the word "Civilisation" is absent in your country. I openly raise my right hand today...Published: 07 Nov 2017 at 21:26hrs | | by Ryton Dzimiri
How Zipra commander Ndlovu lost his eyesight
THIS week we round-up our interview with former Zipra adjutant-general and later on chief of technical engineering Jeffery Ndlovu pseudonym Kenny Murwiri. In the past three weeks Ndlovu has spoken abo...Published: 03 Sep 2017 at 10:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
When a child accepts food from strangers - kukwata
Bridgette Malenga is an actress by night and teacher by day - naturally she has a new word to teach everyone: kukwata."Kukwata: verb. In Shona culture, whe...Published: 24 Apr 2017 at 09:44hrs | | by Bridgette Malenga
Ingwebu suspends aMahewu production
THE Bulawayo Municipal Commercial Undertaking (BMCU)-run Ingwebu Breweries has suspended its non-alcoholic sorghum mahewu production after raising a paltry $6 143 in the fourth quarter to Dece...Published: 16 Apr 2017 at 17:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mohadi's killer game ranger acquitted of murder
A GAME ranger employed at State Security Minister Kembo Mohadi's farm in Beitbridge who fatally shot a suspected poacher, has been acquitted of murder.Onias Mahewu (56) of Tongwe Village i...Published: 24 Mar 2017 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
VAT on meat threatens pig industry viability
The introduction of the 15% value added tax (VAT) on meat is threatening the pig industry, which saw output increasing by 20,1% last year, an industry executive has warned. Pig industry board dire...Published: 08 Feb 2017 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa backsdown on offals tax
A planned controversial 15% VAT on rice, meat, potatoes, margarine, cereals and mahewu has been shelved by Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa.Chinamasa said he want to furthe...Published: 08 Feb 2017 at 04:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Retailers request more POS machines
RETAILERS have implored the Government to double its 2017 target of Point of Sale (POS) machines as the country moves closer towards fulfilling the financial inclusion strategy.The Reserve...Published: 05 Feb 2017 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Truck driver in freak accident
A haulage truck carrying Delta Beverage's mahewu products, overturned at Kelvin and Cripps road in Graniteside, Harare early Friday morning.The truck was reportedly coming from Sunnningdale di...Published: 03 Sep 2016 at 10:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
More foreign goods face censor
A NUMBER of companies in Zimbabwe are pushing for the Government to include more goods under import restrictions among them small farm implements such as undrawn ploughs, consumptive goods such as spi...Published: 28 Aug 2016 at 10:39hrs | | by Dumisani Nsingo
More goods to be added to imports restriction list
THE Government is waiting for the industry to bring a list of more goods and products to be placed under imports restriction, a Cabinet Minister has said.Industry and Commerce Minister Mike Bi...Published: 31 Jul 2016 at 10:14hrs | | by Dumisani Nsingo
Tanga wekwaSando returns
Jazz crooner Tanga wekwaSando is paying up for his hiatus from the music scene with two albums that are set to be released this year.The veteran musician told The Standard Style on Wednesday t...Published: 10 Jul 2016 at 10:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government urged to include more goods under import restrictions
CAPTAINS of industry are pushing the Government to include more goods under import restrictions arguing that most local companies were now able to meet national demand. Confederation of Zimbab...Published: 10 Jul 2016 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa urges import substitution
BUYING locally produced products is the panacea to the country's economic challenges as more companies and jobs will be created, Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.Speaking at the just...Published: 04 Jul 2016 at 07:00hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
CZI, ZNCC back imports ban
THE Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) and Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) have backed the government's decision to restrict importation of products that are available locally, sa...Published: 30 Jun 2016 at 08:50hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Amnesty beneficiary duo back in prison
TWO unrepentant beneficiaries of last month's Presidential Amnesty, one of them a 16-year-old boy, are back in prison after they were separately convicted of unlawful entry and theft by a Zvishava...Published: 26 Jun 2016 at 18:11hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Arenel begins snack plant commissioning
DIVERSIFIED Bulawayo-based manufacturer, Arenel, has begun commissioning its snack plant under a $2 million investment that is expected to create about 300 jobs.Chief Secretary to the Offi...Published: 05 May 2016 at 11:50hrs | | by Business Reporter
Schools told to build huge storage facilities
THE government has instructed all schools in the country to construct huge storage facilities and prepare feeding points ahead of the roll out of a $200 million national schools feeding scheme next te...Published: 06 Apr 2016 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Nyemudzai Kakore
Two women found dead
VILLAGERS stumbled on two dead women in separate incidents in Nyamandlovu last Tuesday. Sibangilizwe Ncube, 39, of Hildah's Kraal, under Chief Deli, left home last Saturday to an unknown destination a...Published: 15 Feb 2016 at 05:31hrs | | by Whinsley Masara
Government is prepared for the natural disaster
Watching Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa speaking about the El-Nino -induced national disaster on Tuesday, one can draw confidence that Government is very much prepared for this disaster. For that r...Published: 11 Feb 2016 at 10:37hrs | | by Rufaro Mufundirwa
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