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Time for Progressive People to Unite
The struggle is real, and there has been a lot of political polarisation and disintegration of the opposition in the country.There is now a need for a collective effort to unshackle the bondag...Published: 29 Aug 2024 at 16:17hrs | 505 | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwe gets 2 000 tractors from Belarus
ZIMBABWE has received at least 2 000 high-tech tractors, 80 combine harvesters and other agricultural equipment from Belarus over the past three years to modernise the sector and boost productivity....Published: 04 Feb 2024 at 17:36hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Tips on rearing broilers
When you intend to start a poultry project, sometimes budget constraints may be very discouraging . That is not an excuse to shelve the project though. To cut on production costs, you can substitute a...Published: 19 Nov 2022 at 06:25hrs | 3 | by @Jamwanda2
'Zimbabwean International Migration story has been criminalised'
THE Zimbabwean international migration story has been misconstrued and criminalised, a United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (Uneca) official in Addis Ababa has said.Commenting on the ...Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 07:45hrs | 2 | by Associated Press
Air Botswana resumes flights to Harare
Air Botswana has resumed the Harare- Gaborone route in a development that is expected to boost business interactions and tourism sector in Southern Africa. This comes at the back of post COVID-1...Published: 21 May 2022 at 16:01hrs | 8 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Govt says COVID-19 in schools contained
GOVERNMENT has claimed that it has managed to contain COVID-19 in schools as the first term comes to an end today, but teacher unions scoffed at the claims.Primary and Secondary Education spok...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 06:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Worrying developments in COVID-19 containment in schools
WE note with concern the increase in COVID-19 infections in schools, particularly 13 cases from Masvingo province, two from Matabeleland North, and one from Manicaland.We note that these worry...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:13hrs | | by Women's Coalition of Zimbabwe
Nust receives $125m for construction works
GOVERNMENT has released $125 million to the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) for construction works, a development that will positively impact on the construction industry in Bulaw...Published: 15 Feb 2022 at 05:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Courts closed as Covid-19 cases surge
THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has temporarily closed lower and superior courts across the country to allow fumigation and contact tracing, as cases of Covid-19 infections continue to surge amo...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:58hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Grade 7 examinations start today
All primary schools are ready to hold in a safe environment the Zimsec Grade 7 examinations that start today.Special efforts were made by the schools and Government to put in place acceptable ...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:29hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 hits 11 schools
ELEVEN schools across the country were forced to shut down yesterday after a significant number of students tested positive for COVID-19, it has emerged.This comes as teacher unions claimed th...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police to keep eye on churches
As churches open for sit-in services today, police have said they will keep a close eye to ensure worshippers heed regulations that all congregants must be fully vaccinated.This comes after th...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Schools up reopening preps
SCHOOLS have heightened preparations for reopening for the second term with fumigation of buildings and grounds currently in progress.This comes a week after President Emmerson Mnangagwa said ...Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt reduces workforce to 10%
GOVERNMENT has further decongested its workforce to 10 percent from 40 percent and temporarily closed some of its district offices in Hwange after staffers tested Covid-19 positive. In a circu...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 07:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe top courts closed amid Covid-19 cases
THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has closed the Constitutional Court, Supreme Court and the Labour Court in Harare after some members of staff tested Covid-19 positive.In a statement on T...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 19:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Covid-19: Judicial Service Commission closes five more courthouses
The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) closed five more courthouses in Gweru on Friday after some members of staff tested Covid-19 positive.Some officials at the Labour Court and another employ...Published: 27 Jun 2021 at 21:45hrs | | by Staff Writer
ZRP cracks whip on lockdown violators, intercity buses impounded
Authorities yesterday intensified the enforcement of Covid-19 control measures with police impounding buses that were operating illegally, while the Judicial Service Commission announced the closure o...Published: 24 Jun 2021 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Scores fall prey to fumigant scammers
SCORES of unsuspecting people are said to be falling prey to scammers who advertise that they can fumigate homes and businesses to prevent COVID-19, yet their products have not been tested by regulato...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 09:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo at risk of malaria outbreak
BULAWAYO residents fear a malaria outbreak could hit the second city after the council failed to roll out its anti-mosquito programme this year.The city has a number of streams that have been ...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 15:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutare council closes offices for fumigation
MUTARE City Council yesterday shut down its main offices for disinfection against possible COVID-19 infection following the death of town clerk Joshua Maligwa on Tuesday.Mayor Blessing Tandi s...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 hits Zimbabwe tollgates
PANIC has gripped the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) staff after one of them reportedly succumbed to COVID-19-related complications last week while five others, including a police offi...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 22:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwanda RDC workers test Covid-19 positive
GWANDA Rural District Council has closed down its premises after three workers tested positive for Covid-19 while the Municipality of Gwanda has closed all departments except critical ones after also ...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mbare tender scandal rocks council
Harare City Council has awarded a tender for palisade fencing and refurbishment of Mbare Bus Terminus to a local company when the same work had already been done for free by transport operators recent...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:06hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Colleges suspend lectures over Covid-19
THE Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Polytechnic in Gwanda and Kwekwe Polytechnic colleges have indefinitely suspended face-to-face lectures after students tested positive for Covid-19 at the institutions. ...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 05:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo reels under mosquito menace
THE hot weather, Bulawayo's water crisis and the city's failure to spray breeding spaces has resulted in what residents say is the worst mosquito crisis in recent years. As soon as the sun set...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kombis may not return to the road again, says Mangwana
PRIVATE commuter omnibus operators in urban areas may not return to business again as government has no intentions of lifting the ban.Permanent Secretary in the information ministry Nick Mangw...Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 08:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prison boss 'threatens to kill' Sikhala
A HARARE magistrate yesterday heard that the officer-in charge at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison, George Mutimbanyoka, threatened MDC Alliance vicechairperson Job Sikhala with death.Mutimba...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 10:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nigerian lawmakers flee chamber after snake falls from roof
Lawmakers in the south-western Nigerian state of Ondo abandoned their session on Thursday as a snake dropped from the roof, local media are reporting.Members were about to begin the business o...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 09:11hrs | | by BBC
Pastor humbled by Zanu-PF readmission
A Hurungwe-based pastor, Chenjerai Kangausaru, has returned to full-time politics following the Zanu-PF politburo's decision to readmit him back into the ruling party.The Family of God Church ...Published: 16 Oct 2018 at 14:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa stop lying there is no democracy in Zimbabwe
Revolutionary greetings comrades. The elections are around the corner, yet the atmospere is as quiet as if the elections are not anywhere close. Does this mean that the electorate now cares less about...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 16:31hrs | | by Khulani David Ndhlovu
Mugabe's ex-health minister sued over rent arrears
FORMER Health deputy minister Edwin Muguti has been taken to court by his former landlady, Joyce Mako-Mushaninga, over rental arrears amounting to more than $13 600 and failing to properly look after ...Published: 16 May 2018 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa vs Mafa Sibanda
"The similarities of Felix Magalela Mafa Sibanda to advocate Nelson Chamisa :an unbiased analysis"Chamisa did not rise to power through kissing some people's asses. He never asked for handouts...Published: 15 May 2018 at 17:07hrs | | by Henry Madiro
Mnangagwa's short-lived glory!
President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa (EDM) remains as a most accomplished game-changer history-maker who cheated the local witches in his mother's womb and beyond! The colonial gallows at youth for h...Published: 05 Apr 2018 at 07:01hrs | 1 | by Evangelist Reginald Thabani Gola
#EDhasMyVote campaign launched in Midlands
THE Zanu-PF Youth League yesterday launched the #EDhasMyVote campaign in the Midlands Province as it moves ahead with its quest to reinvigorate the party ahead of the harmonised elections in July....Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 09:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
REWIND: Jonathan Moyo savages General Chiwenga
On July 2, 2017, five months before the coup that dethroned Robert Mugabe, The Standard published the interview below.Zanu-PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo was last week described as an "enem...Published: 30 Jan 2018 at 17:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
A fair reconciliation panel must be made up of individuals independent of the government - NPP
Revolutionary greetings comrade. Gukurahundi is a sensitive issue because it involved the butchering of thousands of innocent people. Since then, the regime has tried to conceal it and silence the his...Published: 25 Jan 2018 at 19:40hrs | | by Khulani David Ndhlovu
Zimbabwe is ready for a female president
Revolutional greetings dear comrades. Women in African patriarchal societies were trapped in domesticity. They were viewed as objects of production and reproduction only fit to occupy the domestic sph...Published: 27 Dec 2017 at 07:40hrs | | by Khulani David Ndhlovu
Mugabe squeezes Mnangagwa
President Robert Mugabe railroaded Zanu-PF to convert its December conference into a congress in order to force out his deputy Emmerson Mnangagwa, insiders have revealed.In what appears to be ...Published: 22 Oct 2017 at 13:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF heads for special December Extraordinary Congress
ZANU-PF is one vote shy of an Extraordinary National People's Congress in December after four provinces yesterday said they wanted the special indaba.The other six provinces will hold their ex...Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 12:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council splashes $1,2m on overtime
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) splashed more than $1,2 million in overtime allowances in the first eight months of the year and is set to exceed its yearly overtime budget by over 100 percent....Published: 07 Oct 2017 at 11:05hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mzembi, police to hold indaba on roadblocks
After weeks of tensions over roadblocks, the Tourism and Hospitality Industry Ministry and police will soon meet to find common ground on the matter.The "All-Stakeholder Tourism Enabler Worksh...Published: 30 Jul 2017 at 11:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo savages General Chiwenga, takes aim at Mnangagwa - full interview
Zanu-PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo was last week described as an "enemy of the state" by Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander General Constantino Chiwenga for criticising the implementation of the co...Published: 02 Jul 2017 at 10:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's 'fumigation' rant draws fire
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa's claim that the ruling party is "fumigating" elements bent on weakening it ahead of the 2018 harmonised elections has angered some people who claim that the statemen...Published: 25 Apr 2017 at 12:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
3 out of 12 GMB storage silo depots functional
THE Grain Marketing Board has only three functional silo depots out of the 12 storage facilities countrywide, as preparations for the intake of the summer crops have started.The GMB is res...Published: 08 Feb 2017 at 05:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt audit establish GMB is failing to maintain stipulated grain levels of 500 000 metric tonnes
A government audit report has exposed that the grain Marketing Board is failing to maintain the stipulated 500 000 metric tonnes which was set up in 1996.According to the report read in parlia...Published: 23 Nov 2015 at 05:34hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
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