Pastor Evan Mawarire freedom bid hits snag
A Harare magistrate yesterday dismissed an application for refusal of further remand by self-proclaimed pastor Evan Mawarire of the shadowy #ThisFlag campaign. Mawarire’s bid for freedom hit a brick...
View ArticlePresident Mugabe commissions $82 million mega cement plant
President Mugabe is briefed by PPC Zimbabwe managing director Kelibone Masiyane, while Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko, Industry and Commerce Minister Dr Mike Bimha (far right) and other dignitaries...
View ArticleAffirmative Action Group slams minister Jorum Gumbo for ‘burying’ NRZ
BLACK empowerment lobby group, the Affirmative Action Group (AAG), has castigated Transport minister Dr Jorum Gumbo accusing him of declaring the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) a “dead” company....
View ArticleZimbabwean activist clergyman Patrick Mugadza calls for jail ‘sex cubicles’
Activist clergyman Patrick Phillip Mugadza has challenged the government to build special “conjugal rights cottages” in jails to allow prisoners to enjoy intimacy with their partners. The unorthodox...
View ArticleZimbabwe: #ThisFlag Movement Campaigner Mawarire's Freedom Bid Hits Snag
A Harare magistrate yesterday dismissed an application for refusal of further remand by self-proclaimed pastor Evan Mawarire of the shadowy #ThisFlag campaign. Mawarire's bid for freedom hit a brick...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Arrested Diamond Workers 'Had to Search Their Own Faeces' - Report
Three diamond workers arrested in eastern Zimbabwe for allegedly swallowing gems had to pick through their excrement to find them, it was reported on Friday. The three, all employed by the Zimbabwe...
View ArticleZimbabwe: 'Biometric Voting No Silver Bullet'
[The Herald] The Biometric Voter Registration system was used in the 2013 Kenyan elections where Uhuru Kenyatta became president. Ambassador Simbi Mubako headed a joint election observer mission of...
View ArticleFor Zimbabwe's Mugabes, marriage is political and personal
MATOPO HILLS, Zimbabwe (AP) -- Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe plucked her from the secretarial pool decades ago to become his wife. Now Grace Mugabe is stirring speculation that she wants to...
View ArticlePresident Robert Mugabe Suffering From Hayatousis
IN a shock development across the African football landscape, Madagascar’s unheralded football chief Ahmad Ahmad — whose campaign manager was Zifa president Philip Chiyangwa — defeated the Godfather of...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Hopes High As Tobacco Selling Starts
The selling of this year's tobacco harvest in Zimbabwe started this week. Farmers and government officials alike are hoping for a banner year but obstacles remain. ......
View ArticleFirst Lady Grace Mugabe in fresh land grab
First Lady Grace Mugabe has reportedly renewed her bid to evict villagers at Arnold Farm in Mazowe to expand her business empire following disclosures that the Lands ministry officials this week...
View Article‘Just let me hang’: Convicted robber, rapist slapped with additional 50yrs
A vile robber and rapist serving 20 years at Khami prison on the outskirts of Bulawayo, yesterday demanded to be sentenced to death after he was slapped with an additional 50 years in prison. Xolisani...
View ArticleMarijuana addict confesses before Zimbabwe magistrate
A man from Bulawayo who was found growing 100 plants of dagga, some measuring three metres in his backyard, has been ordered to perform 315 hours of community service. Callin Jaison Bent (32), a tenant...
View ArticleThe day Beyonc� and Ed Sheeran Sang About Zimbabwe: Watch Video
Its not often you get to hear Bey say the word Zimbabwe but well she did.skip to 4:09 for the Zimbabwe part. The perfomance by Beyonc�, Ed Sheeran & Gary Clark Jr. was part of a tribute to Stevie...
View ArticleZimbabwe to Turn Into Islamic State As OPEC Funds Education Minister Lazarus...
Primary and Secondary Education Minister Lazarus Dokora who says Islam was the nation’s number one religion at independence in 1980, has secured a large $20 million loan from Islamic organisations to...
View ArticleFormer vice-president Joice Mujuru’s Gukurahundi nightmare
Former vice-president Joice Mujuru looked like a shoo-in successor to President Robert Mugabe until her dramatic expulsion from Zanu PF in 2014, amidst claims that she was intent on staging a palace...
View ArticleBroke Zimbabwe Government Offers MPs Residential Stands
Government has offered MPs and senators residential stands in lieu of their outstanding allowances. Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere (pictured) confirmed the deal in Senate on Thursday,...
View ArticleHow Zimbabwe National Roads Administration bosses were let off the hook
The first part of this investigative piece done by The Standard in partnership with the Information for Development Trust (IDT) published last Sunday revisited the alleged Zimbabwe National Roads...
View ArticleI’m joining politics: Anti-Mugabe pastor Phillip Mugadza
Following a six-week stint behind bars after being denied bail by the Harare Magistrates’ Courts, Remnant Church pastor Phillip Mugadza (PM) became a talking point. He was subsequently granted bail by...
View ArticleVice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s $500 million command agriculture scheme...
Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s much trumpeted $500 million command agriculture scheme is a monumental failure and could leave the government saddled with debts running into millions, data made...
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