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Rampant corruption, nepotism hit Catholic school...headmistress embezzle funds
Parents are up in arms with Ekusileni Secondary School headmistress in Filabusi, with some threatening to withdraw and transfer learners from the Catholic-run mixed (boarders and day learners) institu...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 10:36hrs | 3802 | by Gideon Madzikatidze recently in Filabusi
Sodomy, sexual abuse allegations rock Catholic school
In a scandal that has shaken Zimbabwe's Catholic community, St Ignatius College in Chishawasha is at the heart of serious allegations of sexual abuse and sodomy involving the late Father Brian Porter,...Published: 16 Nov 2024 at 14:34hrs | 1089 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean musicians gear up for 2024 Education Africa International Marimba & Steelpan Festival
Nine Marimba bands from Zimbabwe are set to participate in the 2024 Education Africa International Marimba & Steelpan Festival which is taking place at St Dominic's Catholic School for Girls in Bo...Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 18:04hrs | 193 | by Agencies
Hwahwa Prison roof blown off
A thunderstorm accompanied by strong winds blew off the roofing of a section of Hwahwa Prison in Gweru last Friday, prison authorities said.Prisoners were moved to buildings that remained inta...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 09:29hrs | 42 | by Staff reporter
Rains leave trail of destruction
TORRENTIAL rains accompanied by strong winds left a trail of destruction in Dete, Hwange District in Matebeleland North and Masvingo where several homes had their roofs blown off and other property da...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 05:53hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Catholic music competitions
TWENTY-SIX Roman Catholic Church choirs drawn from parishes in Hwange Diocese competed in the Saint Cecilia annual music competitions at Marist Brothers Secondary School in Dete on Saturday.St...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 05:16hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Satanism scare at Holy Rosary High School
Parents besieged Holy Rosary High School in Mvurwi yesterday after twenty school girl were possessed by evil spirits in a suspected case of satanism....Published: 17 Sep 2022 at 22:56hrs | 5 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa remembers Muzenda
On the 18th anniversary of the death of Vice President Simon Vengesai Muzenda yesterday, President Mnangagwa said the best that the country can do to honour him is to always remember the sacrifices th...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean engineer runs Afghanistan's gemology plant
A ZIMBABWEAN engineer, Clever Sithole (CS), last year made history when he was appointed head gemologist at a United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded gemstone processing proj...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 18:31hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Kenneth Kaunda: His dream for southern Africa came true: hailed & sung with praises in heaven!
He left his mark: he left a void in southern Africa just like Mandela, we are struggling to get the calibre of leaders to take over from where they left. KK was an indisputable great son of the soil. ...Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 15:20hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zim starlet named among best
NEWCASTLE starlet Michael Ndiweni, who is eligible to play for Zimbabwe, has been named among the best emerging talents in Premier League Clubs by top British publication.Ndiweni (17) is a mid...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe goes into hibernation
Former president Robert Mugabe has retreated from his grand public life often characterised by first-class privileges of armed security escorts and helicopter jaunts across the country.Since h...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 12:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe was the real life Wakanda, recalls Danai Gurira
DANAI Gurira is taking a break from promoting her blockbuster film Black Panther to talk to a group that does not include any Hollywood reporters. But the playwright turned movie megastar is not actua...Published: 30 Jun 2018 at 08:13hrs | 1 | by Sean Braswell
'Black figure' 'haunts' catholic school
A wave of mass hysteria has hit a Roman Catholic Church-run, Kana Primary School in Gokwe South under Chief Mkoka following reports that a dozen of pupils and a nun collapsed while screaming in unexpl...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 05:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Obituary : Rest in peace our eminent revolutionaries
Zimbabwe lost two prominent women in September alone, their deaths occurring hard on the heels of that of Mrs Maud Muzenda, another eminent Zimbabwean revolutionary mother.Mrs Angeline Kamba's...Published: 10 Oct 2017 at 01:56hrs | 3 | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
LIVE: Gogo Msika burial live updates
Thousands of people are expected to converge at the National Heroes Acre today to bid farewell to the gallant daughter of the soil, Mai Maria Msika, who contributed immensely to the liberation struggl...Published: 28 Sep 2017 at 10:33hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Goblin terror at church boarding school
SUSPECTED goblins have struck at Minda High School in Maphisa, Kezi with teachers and pupils living in fear of midnight attacks from invisible creatures.Minda pupils who spoke to B-Metro said ...Published: 15 Sep 2017 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt official orders Catholic School to do pledge ahead of Holy Mass
Roman Catholic head for Masvingo Diocese, Bishop Michael Dickson Bhasera has expressed shock at the way a Government official he did not mention by name trashed the holding of Holy Mass at one of the ...Published: 20 Jul 2016 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff Reporter
School shutdown over 'protest incitement' teachers
THE Roman Catholic Diocese of Masvingo has closed Mukaro High School in Gutu with immediate effect in protest against the continued presence of two teachers accused of having masterminded pupils' prot...Published: 25 May 2016 at 07:13hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
She defied convention and broke the glass ceiling - Part 1
My name is Sister Bernadette. My actual birth name is Siboniso. I was born in 1957 in Bulawayo at Mpilo Hospital. My father worked in the industries and my mother was a fulltime housewife. My family l...Published: 25 May 2015 at 14:14hrs | 15 | by Nomazulu Thata - taken from eBook: 'Sweetmother'
Married teachers in pupil-sex probe
TWO married teachers at Roman Catholic schools in Mangwe district, Empandeni and Embakwe, are set to appear before a disciplinary committee tomorrow for allegedly having sexual relations with pupils. ...Published: 07 Oct 2014 at 06:27hrs | 1 | by Sukulwenkosi Dube
'Teachers' incentives are history,' says Dokora
THE Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Dr Lazarus Dokora, has poured cold water on teachers' hopes for the re-introduction of pay incentives, describing the facility as history.Speak...Published: 05 Oct 2014 at 08:10hrs | 2 | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Teachers demand incentives
TEACHERS unions are demanding that the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education should allow parents to pay teachers' incentives as a way of cushioning their salaries amid reports that school devel...Published: 21 Sep 2014 at 11:12hrs | | by Lungile Tshuma and Tinomuda Chakanyuka
A-level top 100 schools - list
Marist Brothers Nyanga High School in Manicaland Province is the best Advanced Level school in Zimbabwe, having attained a 100 percent pass rate in the 2013 Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council Zimse...Published: 21 Feb 2014 at 07:14hrs | 710 | by Staff reporter
'Mandela has gone too far in doing good to non-black communities,' says Mugabe
SABC talk show host Dali Tambo has lashed at accusations that he was sprucing up Robert Mugabe's image in a rare interview with the Zimbabwean leader who took a swipe at Nelson Mandela's reconciliatio...Published: 26 May 2013 at 08:50hrs | 4 | by Sunday Independent
Obama compared to Adolf Hitler
Peoria - An Illinois Roman Catholic diocese whose bishop compared President Barack Obama's health care policies to actions taken by Adolf Hitler said on Thursday that the comments, which prompted out...Published: 20 Apr 2012 at 05:59hrs | | by AFP
Male witness says priest stalked and undressed him
A witness in a US priest abuse trial in Philadelphia says a priest stalked and undressed him at his Catholic school, before a knock on the door saved him.The 36-year-old is the first accuser c...Published: 28 Mar 2012 at 15:29hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Gay activist wins Kennedy award
Washington - A gay rights activist in Uganda, where a bill that would punish gays with prison or death has stirred worldwide outrage, received the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Award in Washington on...Published: 11 Nov 2011 at 05:22hrs | | by -
Lady Gaga's life is to be turned into a movie
Los Angeles: US TV channel Lifetime is working on Fame Monster: The Lady Gaga Story written by Norman Snider and based on Maureen Callahan's 2010 book Poker Face: The Rise And Rise Of Lady Gaga altho...Published: 05 Oct 2011 at 15:45hrs | | by -
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