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Pumula South to get new secondary school

A GOVERNMENT-RUN secondary school is set to be constructed in Pumula South high density suburb in Bulawayo as part of moves to decongest public schools in the city.Presently, Pumula South does not have a public secondary school.According to the latest council minutes, the local authority has accente...

Headmaster, SDC chairman jailed for milking school

A RUSAPE school headmaster and a School Development Committee chairperson who stole school funds amounting to $2 173 were last week sentenced to eight months imprisonment.Chimuduro Primary School headmaster, Stewart Taonezvi (49) and SDC chairperson, Itayi Huche (42) who were charged together with t...

Traditional chiefs bemoans shortage of schools

CHIEFS from Binga have expressed concern at the shortage of schools in the district and complained that the few that are there were in a dilapidated state.In an interview on Wednesday, Chief Siansali said children in Binga were learning under difficult conditions and implored the Government to take ...

High School closes over hysteria

Mazungunye High School in Bikita this week sent nearly 1 000 pupils home after authorities closed its doors following a wave of suspected hysteria that affected four children and a teacher.Government officials from the district rushed to the school and ordered its closure on Tuesday.Teachers from th...

Prophets impregnate schoolgirls using money and the name of God

A GROUP of self-styled prophets reportedly impregnated about nine underage schoolgirls in the Nhwali area of Gwanda using money and the name of God, a situation that has left the community both shocked and bitter with the men of the cloth.The juveniles are allegedly lured to the Apostolic sect's ni...

Acting headmasters manning 80% of Zimbabwe schools

Close to 80% of school headmasters countrywide are in an acting capacity because the educators aspiring to fill the posts do not have the requisite qualifications, Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart said yesterday. Most education officials at district and provincial offices ar...

School demands livestock from parents in school fees arrears

SOME debt collectors engaged by a school in Gokwe South to recover money that it is owed by parents in school fees arrears are allegedly demanding livestock as payment.Sources said the school - Managwa Primary School - and the parents were now headed for a clash with the latter having openly express...

Doves Morgan donates school fees

"ALL children in Zimbabwe have the right to education," the managing director of Doves Morgan, Mr Talent Maziwisa, said. "Parents are currently reeling from school fees challenges, but that must not stopour little ones from going to school," he said when he handed over school fees for 34 Grade 7 pup...

Grace Mugabe school elbows out the poor

The Amai Grace Mugabe Junior School which was officially opened by the First Family on Thursday costs a whopping $2 300 per pupil per term for boarders, a figure that has raised fears that the institution is set to serve the rich and famous, to the exclusion of the impoverished local community. Most...

Grace Mugabe Junior School officially handed over to its founder

President Robert Mugabe has embraced the establishment of the Grace Mugabe Junior School as a welcome intervention which complements government's objective to let all children access education.The junior school, which was built by a Chinese construction company with help from its parent government,...

Suspected satanists assaulted for scattering sweets at school gate

THERE was pandemonium in Cowdray Park suburb, Bulawayo, on Friday when residents assaulted two men suspected to be satanists after catching them scattering sweets at Tategulu Primary School.The men are suspected to be the same people who dumped sweets at the school gate last year, resulting in pupil...

Rastafarian family drags school to court

A Rastafarian family in Bulawayo has dragged a school to court after authorities sent away its child for being a Rastafarian and wearing dreadlocks.The girl, who is aged 13, and has been wearing dreadlocks since she was three years old, finished Grade Seven last year at Hillside Primary School and a...

Back to school as new school term begins

Parents and pupils filled the streets yesterday as they frantically made their way to their various pick-up points en-route to boarding schools.Others were struggling to get places for their children and were forced to secure places at rundown city private colleges.The Rotten Row bus-stop was bustli...