Context This dataset is meant for people who seek to explore approaches to building sentiment analysis tools for contexts wherein: 1. The texts are compressed and abstract. 2. The English language is used with a lot of rhetoric. The dataset may be useful to those who have an interest in conducting Natural Language Processing (NLP) experiments on "high context" culture datasets. Content News Headlines and Article Previews from "The Standard"; a Zimbabwean weekly independent newspaper: https://www.thestandard.co.zw/news/. The period that the dataset covers: 14 January 2018 to 6 February 2019. The dataset may need additional cleansing if older text mining tools are employed. Acknowledgements The data was extracted from the Zimbabwe Standard's News Archives, available at: https://www.thestandard.co.zw/news/