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Student killed as school kombi overturns on way to Mnangagwa event
A tragic accident occurred on Thursday when a minibus carrying students from Nyangani High School in Nyanga overturned near Selborne in Makoni District, resulting in the death of one student and injur...Published: 08 Nov 2024 at 07:16hrs | 1238 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youth leaders get motorbikes
Zanu-PF youth leaders from Masvingo's seven administrative districts have received motorbikes from President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a move aimed at strengthening party mobilisation efforts and ensuring t...Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 15:22hrs | 278 | by Staff reporter
'You see skeletons' - the deadly migrant Limpopo crossing
The men who raped Portie Murevesi did not care that she was visibly pregnant. They attacked her with glass bottles too, she told us, pointing to a large and jagged scar on her forearm.Now, her...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Daring cop denied bail
A Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officer from Glendale station is in trouble after he was arrested for abuse of office in a case involving two motorbikes.The officer Stanford Mushanyi appeared...Published: 02 Apr 2024 at 18:49hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
51% of Bulawayo City Council vehicle fleet grounded
AT least 51 percent of Bulawayo City Council's (BCC) 336 vehicles have outlived their lifespan, a development that is affecting service delivery.This is contained in the latest council report ...Published: 10 Oct 2023 at 20:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tobacco smuggling between Zimbabwe - SA now security threat
SOUTH Africa is drowning in illicit cigarette smuggling which has seen the neighbouring country losing at least R50 million (US$2.6 million) daily in potential revenue from well-coordinated syndicates...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 13:49hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa on an unstoppable mission'
TWO weeks before Zimbabwe holds its general elections on August 23, political parties are in full swing campaigning despite increasing cases of political violence dampening spirits.Last week, ...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 06:43hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
US$87,500 exhibits disappear from Zimbabwe police custody
Thirty-Five motorbikes seized as exhibits by the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Criminal Investigations Department (CID) with a selling value of US$87 500 have disappeared from their custody.T...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 14:36hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's 'Lady of Steel' vows to humiliate Ziyambi in Zvimba West poll re-run
THE remaining candidate challenging Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi in the upcoming Zanu-PF Zvimba West primary election re-run has vowed to hand him a humiliating defeat in the second round of votin...Published: 14 Apr 2023 at 07:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Veritas blasts Social Welfare ministry for squandering budget
Legal think tank Veritas has slammed the Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare for squandering its 2021 budget and failure to relay donated equipment to targeted recipients who need st...Published: 11 Dec 2022 at 08:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa goes after ANC's Pule Mabe
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) is probing a company with alleged links to ANC spokesperson Pule Mabe over a waste picking tender it scored in 2017.This comes after President Cyril Ramaph...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 07:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
South Africa ranked the most dangerous country - report
SA roads have been ranked the most dangerous to drive in out of 52 countries, according to a survey conducted by Zutobi, an online driver's education company. The survey considered factors inc...Published: 11 May 2022 at 18:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Council recruits more traffic cops
Harare City Council has certified 166 new municipal police officers to boost traffic management in the CBD and assist in reducing congestion during peak hours.Speaking at the certification of ...Published: 01 Dec 2021 at 05:36hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Veterinary Services Department loses US$80 000 to corruption
A Bindura Veterinary Department employee is alleging that the Chief Director Dr. Josphat Nyika is involved in corrupt activities which made the department lose about US$80 000.The Human Resour...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 07:19hrs | 16 | by Lloyd Rabaya
'No payment, no electricity'
The Government has directed Zesa Holdings to immediately institute measures to recover $15 billion it is owed by its clients in unpaid electricity bills.Under the directive only paying custome...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 05:53hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zesa imports extra 480MW
Zesa Holdings is set to add 480 megawatts to its supply over the next two months to bridge the power deficit that has resulted in increased load-shedding at a time it is battling annual losses of $1,5...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 05:51hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
$8 billion target for Intwasa programme
HEAVY rains that fell in Gokwe North District from Wednesday night till yesterday morning brought relief to villagers after days of high temperatures.And that relief turned into celebration wh...Published: 12 Nov 2021 at 05:33hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Vehicles boost for Education Ministry
The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education on Monday received 13 off-road vehicles and 34 motorbikes from the United Kingdom's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) in partnership w...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Shot in the arm for girl child
THE Primary and Secondary Education ministry yesterday received 13 all-terrain vehicles and 34 motorcycles donated by the British government's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) towar...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Trade Fair without ontethe
TRADE Fair without ontethe (children) is not the same. Covid-19, the global pandemic, resulted in children below the age of 18 miss the biggest and busiest day of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair...Published: 25 Sep 2021 at 06:03hrs | | by Bongani Ndlovu
ARDA gets motorbikes
Government continues with its drive to capacitate the Agriculture Rural Development Authority (ARDA), after it handed over a first batch of motorcycles to them in a bid to revive at least 450 small sc...Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 15:37hrs | | by Panashe Marasha
Zanu PF youths on motorbikes invade Freddy Mutanda's farm
Scores of Zanu PF youths on motorbikes have invaded a farm owned by war veteran and businessman Frederick Mutanda as punishment for his court application challenging the purported extension of Luke Ma...Published: 27 May 2021 at 08:13hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
8 robbers pounce on ex-minister Made
THE eight suspected robbers who pounced on former Agriculture minister Joseph Made's farm before stealing an assortment of goods worth thousands of dollars appeared before Marondera magistrate Patienc...Published: 28 Apr 2021 at 06:19hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Another Zimbabwean survivor tells of horrific scenes in Cabo Delgado
A brief background of PalmaPalma is a coastal town located far north of Cabo Delgado province in Mozambique. It is very close to the Tanzanian boarder, 20 kilometres away.Since the dis...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 18:30hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwean agriculture recovery in motion
ZIMBABWE is an agrarian economy and has huge potential to produce enough for its people and surplus that can be exported to generate foreign currency. However, there is a puzzling divergence between i...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 10:43hrs | | by Dr John Basera
Council exchanges 150ha for grader, fuel pumps
MARONDERA Municipality has reportedly surrendered a 150 hectare piece of land to a local company in exchange for a grader and a fuel pump to be constructed at the local authority's workshop, among oth...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 07:08hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mozambican community's promising hunting revenue powered development
Wildlife hunting is increasingly becoming the main 'driver' for not only socio-economic development but also for wildlife and wildlife habitat conservation, in southern African communities that co...Published: 27 Jan 2021 at 17:03hrs | 3 | by Emmanuel Koro
3 men refuse to make way for Mnangagwa motorcade
Three men have appeared in court accused of failing to make way for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's motorcade.Tadzoka Nago, 42, Stanley Zibako, 37, and Honest Diura, 47, had parked their ...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 19:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
3 arrested for speeding unregistered car towards Mnangagwa motorcade
THREE men from Kwekwe have been arrested after they refused to remove their car from the road to pave way for President Mnangagwa's motorcade before speeding off in the direction the convoy was coming...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt gets tough over face masks
GOVERNMENT yesterday said soldiers and police would remain at strategic points to enforce COVID-19 containment measures such as physical distancing and proper wearing of face masks despite relaxation ...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt officials loot US$20m farm mechanisation grant
SENIOR government officials, including those from the Ministry of Agriculture, feasted on a US$20 million farm mechanisation grant from China after diverting to personal use some of the farm equipment...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 15:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF has our Money!
We were pleased to host President John Magufuli of Tanzania these past two days and he was kind enough to Cde Crocodile to speak the Zanu-PF party line and call for an end to sanctions on Zimbabwe, sa...Published: 31 May 2019 at 09:01hrs | | by GoodNess Nwachukwu
The Zanu-PF has our Money!
We were pleased to host President John Magufuli of Tanzania these past two days and he was kind enough to Cde Crocodile to speak the Zanu-PF party line and call for an end to sanctions on Zimbabwe, sa...Published: 31 May 2019 at 08:09hrs | | by GoodNess Nwachukwu
Chasi's solution to fuel shortage: free ultra-modern limo for No. 1 and povo must to buy bicycles
"The Minister of Energy and Power Development Advocate Fortune Chasi has urged Zimbabweans to consider using bicycles and motorbikes given the dire fuel shortages hitting the country," reported Bulawa...Published: 30 May 2019 at 15:31hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
'Dump cars and buy bicycles' Minister tells Zimbabweans
The Minister of Energy and Power Development Advocate Fortune Chasi has urged Zimbabweans to consider using bicycles and motorbikes given the dire fuel shortages hitting the country.Chas...Published: 30 May 2019 at 09:35hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bulawayo to host motor racing
BULAWAYO's Motoring Club (BMC) will tomorrow host the first leg of the national series motor racing, with the staging of the John Love Trophy at the Bulawayo Motorsport Park, Highmount.The com...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 07:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
NetOne donates to ZRP
Zimbabwe's second largest mobile network provider NetOne has signed a donation agreement with the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) traffic department in a bid to decongest the capital city. The ...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 10:58hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Ox-drawn plough looter arrested as police pursue looters countrywide
Police have set up security checkpoints across the country to account for all hooligans who looted groceries and destroyed property during three-day violent protests orchestrated by the opposition MDC...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
How Facebook and Whatsapp fuelled chaos and confusion in Zimbabwe
The riots wouldn't have happened without Facebook and Whatsapp. On the morning of January 14th 2019 a swelling mob of hundreds of angry residents flocked the towns filling the streets in the commercia...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 15:59hrs | 6 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwean engineer in revolutionary e-hailing cab App
EVERY great idea starts as a dream and as Gloria Steinem, an American journalist and social political activist - reckoned 'Dreaming after all is a form of planning'. But what separates an achiever fro...Published: 03 Nov 2018 at 08:43hrs | 1 | by STaff reporter
Mugabe party blames Zanu-PF for violence
Violence reportedly reared its ugly head in Mashonaland West and the National Patriotic Front (NPF) spokesperson Jealous Mawarire has scoffed at President Emmesorn Mnangagwa labeling him a perpe...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 08:58hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mugabe releases $24 million war chest
FORMER president Robert Mugabe has surrendered $24 million held in a private Zanu-PF bank account with a local commercial bank which does business with government and the ruling party after his ouster...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 11:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa faces funding crisis
MDC-T, the biggest opposition party in the MDC Alliance, has been hampered in its election campaign by lack of funding, in sharp contrast to the ruling Zanu PF which is riding on a massive war chest t...Published: 08 Jun 2018 at 16:17hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa arm-twists Zimra on duty
ZANU-PF campaign material worth millions of dollars is being imported into Zimbabwe without paying duty at a time the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is struggling to meet its collection targets an...Published: 07 Jun 2018 at 15:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa targets 50 dams
Zimbabwe is inviting investors to construct 50 dams for the generation of hydroelectricity under the Build Operate and Transfer arrangement, a senior Government official has said. Commissionin...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 07:01hrs | | by Staffr eporter
PHOTOS: Mnangagwa campaign motorbikes delivered
ZimMediaReview reported that a Zanu-PF Mash East official claimed today that these campaign bikes will be donated to agric extension officials after election....Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Scooters and rickshaws to ease transport blues
Rickshaws and scooters for urban commuting, what's holding us moving over to those modes of transport? Many developing nations have embraced use of tricycle taxis and motorbikes to beat congestion and...Published: 21 Apr 2018 at 21:11hrs | 1 | by Thomas Murisa, Harare
Diaspora outraged by police shootings in Harare
Police killings in Harare has attracted criticism from many human rights groups including the U.K. based Zimbabwe Human Rights Organisation and Restoration of Human Rights Zimbabwe who jointly organis...Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 16:20hrs | | by Kingstone Jambawo
Takwirira High Chisumbanje students staged a powerful demonstration
The events of March 2 2018 will be remembered in the history of Takwirira Government High School. The School is located about seven Kilometres from Checheche growth point, 80 Km from Chiredzi....Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 07:37hrs | 8 | by Agencies
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
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