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Things no longer looking good at NUST
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERNSubject: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYGreetings to you Sir/MadamThings are no longer looking good at NUST. 2020 first year students have i...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 14:18hrs | 12743 | by Tapfuma Muganiwa
Mthuli's 'fantasy' budget: Here's how it will affect you
THE 2021 budget presented by the finance minister Mthuli Ncube to Parliament shows that the minister was living in a ‘fantasy world,' according to academic, Professor Austin Chakaodza."Some ...Published: 28 Nov 2020 at 07:12hrs | 3109 | by Staff reporter
2 Zimbabwe students awarded Rhodes scholarships
THE list of Zimbabwe Rhodes 2021 scholarship beneficiaries has been unveiled with the scholarship targeting to promote outstanding postgraduate students to study at the University of Oxford in the Uni...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:47hrs | 1346 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe PhD: Court sets aside full week for Nyagura trial
CHIEF magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi has set aside a full week for the trial of former University of Zimbabwe (UZ) vicechancellor Levi Nyagura, who is being accused of unprocedurally awarding former Fi...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:45hrs | 3397 | by Staff reporter
Where to buy cheap essay?
It's no secret that students actively use the assistance of custom writing services. Freelance writing is popularized in every corner of the globe. You won't be taken by surprise if you see online req...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 05:56hrs | 458 | by Staff writer
Mnangagwa commissions MSU Industrial Park
AN industrial park established by Midlands State University (MSU) in Gweru was yesterday commissioned by President Mnangagwa, who reiterated the need for all institutions of higher and tertiary educat...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 04:57hrs | 270 | by Staff reporter
MRP fight to end Corruption at Lupane Registry Office pays off
MRP sometime in June last year raised a red flag on the rampant corruption scandal at Lupane Registry office which is the Headquarters of Matebeleland North.The then acting Registrar General o...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 07:09hrs | 2842 | by MRP Office of the Presidency
US elections expose flaws in Western democracy
AMERICANS love to promote the myth that they have the corner on government by and for the people, but the latest brouhaha at the polls suggests otherwise.Despite the cheers ringing around the ...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:39hrs | 254 | by Steven Friedman
Court to decide on Moana's burial date
Socialite and fitness trainer Michelle "Moana" Amuli's burial will not take place anytime soon until the High Court rules on the dispute between her parents over her burial. This comes after t...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:13hrs | 184 | by Staff reporter
How we started MSU: Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa together with the late Vice President and national hero Cde Simon Muzenda, national heroes Cdes Richard Hove and Cephas Msipa, were members of the first committee that resulted in ...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 09:23hrs | 2083 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa caps 3500 at MSU
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday capped 3 507 graduates at Midlands State University (MSU)'s 21st graduation ceremony held at its main campus in Gweru.Due to Covid-19-induced restrictions, 3 397 ...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 08:58hrs | 617 | by Staff Reporter
Senior manager lived large with one O-Level
The former top operations manager at the Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education (Zimche), Mrs Florence Chimbunu, who was exposed recently for using allegedly fake certificates when only a single O-Leve...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 05:22hrs | 1480 | 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 | 591 | by Staff reporter
Outcry over MSU degrees scrapping chaos
LOCAL and media scholars in the diaspora have come out guns blazing, blasting the unilateral decision by authorities to change the Midlands State University Department of Media and Society Studies cur...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 13:47hrs | 8389 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Khupe and Mnangagwa must leave politics; the people shall govern
Failed politicians must pack and go! What a breath of fresh air to read your todays article "No single or individual group can stage a revolution on its own".An Alliance of Democratic ...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:56hrs | 4902 | by Nomazulu Thata
Caught between a hard surface and a rock
This year has been very unfortunate for scholars, it's a year they will never want to remember. Caught between a hard surface and a rock, the students can not answer why it's happening to them. Corona...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 07:26hrs | 226 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Mnangagwa caps 2 528 Nust graduates
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday capped 2 528 graduates at the University of Science and Technology (nust) where he launched the US$2 000 Chancellor's prize to be given to outstanding science, technology...Published: 31 Oct 2020 at 06:07hrs | 539 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe degree trial date set
Former University of Zimbabwe Vice Chancellor Levi Nyagura will stand trial on November 24 for alleged criminal abuse of office in which he is said to have illegally awarded former First Lady Mrs Grac...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 07:07hrs | 1234 | by Staff reporter
Andy Rinomhota snubs Warriors
English football Championship outfit Reading midfielder Andy Rinomhota has turned down the chance to play for the Warriors in the hope of securing a senior call-up for England in the future, Standards...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 07:59hrs | 711 | by Staff reporter
Bright future awaits those who dare to dream
Although with the Covid-19 pandemic and two decades of economic downturn the situation in Zimbabwe looks dire, a bright future awaits those who dare to dream, graduates of the Institute of Chartered S...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 10:32hrs | 2071 | by Agencies
ZAA SA Nominees announces as Dates are set for SA and Botswana dates
The Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA) has announced the nominee and voting dates for the ZAA SA and Botswana editions which are set to be held on 5 and 11 December 2020, respectively.ZAA SA will...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 18:33hrs | 798 | by Agencies
Unpacking Professor Stephen Chan's interview with Bernard
There are no imaginative skills on how to move the country forward internally and externally, be it economic and political in both the ruling party and the opposition of Nelson Chamisa. In 2018,...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 11:58hrs | 1762 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe sanctions mantra divides public opinion
FOR me, the issue of targeted sanctions imposed by the US and her Western allies goes beyond mere allegations, unsubstantiated claims, and circumstantial evidence.This, however, has been the m...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 07:01hrs | 554 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabweans divided over effects of targeted sanctions, as govt can't prove they're responsible for economic crisis
For me, the issue of targeted sanctions imposed by the US and her Western allies goes beyond mere allegations, unsubstantiated claims, and circumstantial evidence - which has been the hallmark of the ...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 11:40hrs | 1736 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa seems to have run out of strategic ideas, says Dr Chan
Academic and former International Civil Servant with the Commonwealth Professor Stephen Chan speaks on the impact of the Mozambican conflict on Zimbabwe; opposition politics and the socio-economic sit...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 21:08hrs | 3042 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube; just like Gideon Gono will be unemployable when he absconds
Former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Dr Gono told Trevor Ncube that he has a gym in his home hence he has lost so much weight. But it appears he is melting away before our eyes, we still have to stick to h...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 07:16hrs | 6656 | by Nomazulu Thata
How the Khupe coup resonates with the import of Excelgate
Thi's time last year, Excelgate was about to be published, in the ex-pectation, inter alia, that the MDC Alliance, in particular, would capitalise on the revelations therein, to both fuel their legal ...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 11:11hrs | 4098 | by Ibbo Mandaza
Fees for non-exam classes slashed
THE Government has given the green light to schools and parents to work out a pro-rata system for the third term's school fees for non-examination classes, as some pupils will only have face-to-face l...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:25hrs | 424 | by Staff reporter
Dr. Masimba Mavaza, please do not excite!
I have hardly recovered from the last article you wrote on Bulawayo24: an article that sees female gender as unreasonable and out of sic with African traditions and culture. Here we go again today: "M...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 20:57hrs | 512 | by Nomazulu Thata
Idle pupils turn to sex orgies, drugs
Some of the pictures making rounds on social media of students kissing or standing next to each other in sexually suggestive positions at school. The authenticity of the images could not be immediatel...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 10:01hrs | 3372 | by Staff reporter
4 reasons why General Solomon Mujuru didn't want Mnangagwa to be President
Academic and Biographer Miles Tendi has written four reasons why the late General Solomon Mujuru did not want President Emmerson Mnangagwa to assume the post of Presidency. Tendi was respondin...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 12:16hrs | 9416 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Teachers' industrial action is apolitical'
THE Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union in Zimbabwe (Artuz) has said the ongoing strike by educators is a genuine labour dispute and apolitical.But President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson, G...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 06:53hrs | 1100 | by Staff reporter
MDC circus continues as 2023 beckons
So sad to note that the President of the world's superpower is down with coronavirus after having tested positive last week. There is something intrinsic about Africans. We are generally a kin...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 06:40hrs | 357 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions were fashioned to kill Zimbabwe - Academic
THE sanctions imposed by the West on Zimbabwe, are no longer about inculcating good governance and freedoms but a tactless, miscalculated economic warfare, fashioned to ‘kill' Zimbabwe.Curio...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 06:39hrs | 248 | by David Matsanga in London United Kingdom
Mnangagwa moving towards establishing a one-party State
After casting his vote two years ago for Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change Alliance (MDC), now Benard Mhere has grown bitter, accusing the ruling party of trying to destroy the MDC.Mhe...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 18:02hrs | 5934 | by Anadolu Agency
Why I am teaching Shona philosophy in the UK
Philosophy deals with the "big questions" that concern us all, such as: what can I know, how should we live, and how should society be organized? But arguably the greatest of the big questions are to ...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 14:16hrs | 4489 | by Professor Lloyd Strickland
'Corruption worse than Covid-19'
OUTGOING Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) Commissioner-General Retired Major-General Paradzai Zimondi has urged prison officers to shun corruption, saying the scourge was worse than c...Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 07:35hrs | 651 | by Staff reporter
MDC is not only falling apart, it has actually fallen apart
THE Daily News has been a lone voice over the past few months in highlighting the folly of the country's opposition engaging in self-immolation, and taking counsel from dubious characters.For ...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 17:16hrs | 1335 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF bigwigs endorse Obert Mpofu's book
ZANU PF Secretary for Administration's Obert Mpofu's book has received endorsements from senior Seniior ZANU PF and government officials. The biography titled On the Shoulders of the struggle ...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 16:56hrs | 3055 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe's intellectual prostitutes and the national question
My Ghanaian broth er, Dr George Ayiteyi, was the first to connect fraudulent claims to the title of professor to Professor Jonathan Moyo as the quintessential intellectual prostitute. I scolded Ayitey...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:41hrs | 845 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Varsity workers declare incapacitation
WORKERS at State universities have declared incapacitation and threatened to return to work only after government reviews their salaries.Institutions of higher learning were set to reopen on O...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 08:00hrs | 887 | by Staff reporter
Colleges to open for face-to-face learning
POLYTECHNICS, teachers' colleges and industrial training colleges will reopen on October 5 for face to-face learning. Authorities will be required to strictly adhere to the health guidelines a...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 07:54hrs | 757 | by Staff Reporter
Mr. President, Hard Talk builds nations and dreams !!!
In 1994, I was doing my primary education at Nyazura Primary school, a boarding primary school in Manicaland Province. It was the norm back then that you would buy an envelope and get a postage ...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 07:35hrs | 3671 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Mnangagwa thunders, Zanu-PF's attitude hardens
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa said yesterday that he would not seek outside intervention to hold dialogue with the opposition and other interest groups in the country. At the same time, a ...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 17:26hrs | 4781 | by Staff reporter
Thambolenyoka was hurt to leave military life
WE continue our interview with Tennyson Mlobi Khutshwekhaya Ndlovu who during the post-independence conflict operated as a dissident and was known as Thambolenyoka. However, during the war of liberati...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:34hrs | 4984 | by Staff reporter
Ian Khama ratchets pressure on Mnangagwa
FORMER Botswana president Ian Khama says the region must step in to resolve the Zimbabwe crisis as pressure mounts on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to hold talks with his rivals.Khama, who was ...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:25hrs | 4161 | by Staff reporter
Professorships must be earned
Professor Jonathan Jansen thinks that South Africa is suffering from some kind of professor fraud. It is about the way in which people are running about in South Africa calling themselves "professors"...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:02hrs | 649 | by Ken Mufuka
10 Zimbabwean students win Chevening Scholarships
TEN bright students from Zimbabwe will be travelling to the United Kingdom (UK) next month (October) to further their studies. Probably the last time such a large contingent of students from o...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:13hrs | 889 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe students switch to social media for lessons
Reacting to the coronavirus spread March 30, the Zimbabwean government closed the entire country, shutting down schools indefinitely. But, for many like 13-year-old Adrean Machingura, a grade seven pr...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:13hrs | 380 | by Anadolu Agency
If I had married that man, I would be dead by now!
The level of violence in Zimbabwe is alarming: domestic violence accompanies the life of a married woman daily. Daily we read depressing news about the growing number of cases of femicide. Today again...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 17:58hrs | 1849 | by Nomazulu Thata
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