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Anglican bishop acquitted
BISHOP Eric Ruwona of the Anglican Diocese of Manicaland, and his standing committee members were yesterday acquitted on charges of violating the Education Act.Ruwona, Walter Majoni, Daphine M...Published: 25 Jul 2024 at 12:59hrs | 502 | by Staff reporter
'You see skeletons' - the deadly migrant Limpopo crossing
The men who raped Portie Murevesi did not care that she was visibly pregnant. They attacked her with glass bottles too, she told us, pointing to a large and jagged scar on her forearm.Now, her...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police unleash dogs on protesting school pupils
POLICE in Rusape allegedly set dogs on protesting students at St Faith's Mission yesterday.A short video clip of the incident, that has gone viral on social media platforms, shows police offic...Published: 15 Feb 2024 at 10:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
School head hires thugs, cause chaos
THERE were chaotic scenes at St Faith's High School outside Rusape, Manicaland province, this week after suspected "hired thugs" disturbed lessons at the Anglican Church-run school.The thugs w...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Form 1 girl passes Cambridge O Level exams
A Form One learner at Atlantic Academy in Harare, Shalom Zingwe, took the Cambridge O Level exams last year aged only 14 and scored three A grades in Computer Science, Accounting and Economics with Bs...Published: 23 Jan 2024 at 04:37hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mater Dei Hospital sues Zimra
MATER Dei Hospital in Bulawayo has taken the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) to court for rejecting its application for a rebate of duty on imported medical equipment and consumables that were oste...Published: 12 Jul 2023 at 08:15hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Indeed life was hard under colonialism but there were plenty of opportunities
Over the weekend I drove my mother to her rural home in Rusape for an important family gathering.To be expected, as soon as we hit familiar territory, which held significant memories for her -...Published: 23 May 2023 at 14:01hrs | 8 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Schools concealing drug and substance abuse by students'
SCHOOLS in the country are reportedly concealing rampant drug and substance abuse by students to protect their reputation, NewsDay Weekender can reveal.This comes as the country has been exper...Published: 28 Jan 2023 at 19:10hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
Scramble for Form 1 places
Government has said there are adequate Form One places to absorb all pupils that wrote the Grade Seven public examinations this year.The announcement comes as parents and guardians have starte...Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 05:07hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Gold panners dig up school premises
Kwekwe Central MP Judith Tobaiwa (Citizens Coalition for Change) has called on authorities to take action against gold panners causing environmental degradation at a primary school in the gold m...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gold panners dig under Kwekwe school
AUTHORITIES at Globe and Phoenix Primary School in Kwekwe have expressed concern that its classroom blocks face collapse as gold panners were digging under the school.Globe and Phoenix school ...Published: 31 May 2022 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Massive expansion for Mater Dei
THE Catholic Church-run Mater Dei Hospital in Bulawayo has embarked on a massive expansion drive that will transform the institution from an old elitist hospital into a walk-in primary healthcare cent...Published: 04 May 2022 at 06:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'World's best' uplifts Matabeleland South farmers
When farmers in Matabeleland South province received help on improving yields from a Zimbabwean plant scientist, little did they know that they were in the company of someone who would be recognised a...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 08:58hrs | 16 | by Simbarashe Sithole | Alice Mangwara in Harare
Is St Luke's Hospital running without an ambulance?
St Luke's Hospital in Lupane, Matabeleland North province is purportedly running without an ambulance after its fleet of five vehicles broke down.According to sources, the absence of a service...Published: 29 Oct 2021 at 07:51hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
264 Covid cases in schools
Schools have recorded about 264 Covid-19 infections since the resumption of lessons, with the affected pupils being isolated in sick bays or in special dormitories. In Mberengwa, Lutheran Chur...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parents report 'errant' school to govt
PARENTS of pupils at the Roman Catholic Church-run St Martins Convent Primary School in Harare have approached the Primary and Secondary Education ministry to seek its intervention on alleged unsancti...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt locks down Bondolfi over COVID-19 outbreak
LESSONS have been suspended at the Roman-Catholic Church-run Bondolfi Teachers College in Masvingo following a spike in COVID-19 cases at the institution.On Wednesday, 94 cases were recorded a...Published: 28 May 2021 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Former students move to lift Nkayi school
IN the winter of 2019, about 20 pupils from Sagonda Primary School in Matabeleland North's Nkayi district set out on a 53-kilometre walk aimed at raising funds to purchase building and educational mat...Published: 09 May 2021 at 08:14hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Parents accuse Sizane High of unilaterally raising fees
DISGRUNTLED parents of pupils at Sizane High School in Bulawayo have accused authorities of increasing fees without consulting them.School authorities are not allowed to hike fees without cons...Published: 09 Mar 2021 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nurses are essential workers, the police must respect all essential workers
At around ten thousand strong, nurses are the backbone of the Zimbabwe healthcare industry, as well as its largest profession. Consistently ranked the most trusted profession in The world year after y...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 09:16hrs | 6 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Catholic priest up for indecent assault
A RUSAPE-BASED Roman Catholic priest was last week arraigned before the magistrates' courts on indecent assault charges after he allegedly sexually harassed a female chef at a church-run mission schoo...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:28hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe MPs demand schools closure
PARLIAMENTARIANS yesterday accused government of rashly reopening schools when it was ill-prepared to deal with COVID-19 outbreaks at institutions of learning after a number of students tested positiv...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 05:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Claim freedom granted by Constitution in peace
IF the citizens do not feel any longer represented by the men and women they have cast their ballots for, and Parliament is no longer effective in serving the common good, can no longer defend human r...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 15:19hrs | | by Fr Oskar Wermter SJ
Teacher knocks pupil's tooth out for failing to solve Maths problem
THIS is probably one of the reasons why pupils hate Maths.In a shocking instance of corporal punishment, a teacher at a Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) church-run primary school in Bulawayo is fac...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 11:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe comes to terms with grim scale of damage
ZIMBABWEANS are slowly coming to full terms with the horrific scale of devastation that Cyclone Idai wreaked in the country — amid confirmation late yesterday that torrential rains and landfalls had...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 18:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
School demands rentals from teachers
A STORM is brewing at the Anglican Church-run St Anne's Goto Mission in Wedza after schoool authorities demanded rentals from the teachers and threatened to evict them if they fail to pay.It is re...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 05:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fire razes another house
A THREE- roomed house was gutted by fire in Bulawayo's Lobengula West suburb after a 16 year old boy doing homework using a candle for light dozed off. Ndaitai Muchimba fell asleep at around 10PM on T...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Power fault fire razes $50 000 property
PROPERTY worth more than $50 000 was reduced to ashes when a four-roomed thatched cottage caught fire after sparks from Zesa overhead cables ignited its roof in Bulawayo's Harrisvale suburb. B...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chamisa talks collapse
Frantic efforts to get President Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, to iron out their differences through face-to-face discussions have collapsed with the 75-year old Zanu-PF l...Published: 22 Jul 2018 at 10:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mnangagwa snub crucial peace meeting
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa snubbed an interface meeting of all presidential candidates convened by the civil society in Harare yesterday to foster peace ahe...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dodges Chamisa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday reportedly chickened out of a church-organised presidential candidates' indaba, which could have brought him within spitting distance of his closest challenger M...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Nurse on the run for sex with pupil
YOUNG love a hot potato!Simbarashe Ndemera (32) a nurse at Lutheran Church-run Mnene District Hospital in Mberengwa has disappeared from the face of the earth after the community bayed for blo...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chamisa to face off
THE Catholic Church-run Silveira House in partnership with other churches yesterday said they were organising a multi-party gathering for all the 23 presidential candidates to inculcate a sense of pol...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
John Tallach High sex party, Ministry sends team to probe
THE Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has sent a team to John Tallach High school to investigate an incident in which 10 pupils are alleged to have held a sex party at the headmaster's resid...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 07:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
10 pupils face expulsion after John Tallach sex party
TEN pupils from the Presbyterian Church-run John Tallach Secondary School on the outskirts of Bulawayo have been sent home after they were allegedly caught having a sex party at the headmaster's house...Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Solusi High 'fires' 12 teachers
The Seventh Day Adventist Church-run Solusi High School has allegedly "fired" 12 teachers directly employed by the school before re-advertising vacancies for the same posts.The teachers' contr...Published: 19 Apr 2018 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'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 | | by Staff reporter
Marist Brothers bullies 'expelled' from school
MARIST Brothers Secondary School in Dete, Hwange District, has excluded from the institution 16 Form Four pupils who last month ganged up to torture some Form Two boys at the school.In the edu...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mater Dei sues Chiyangwa's guarantor over unpaid bill
MATER DEI Hospital is suing a man who acted as a guarantor for medical expenses amounting to more than $9 000 incurred by a Bulawayo businessman before his death.The debt emanates from medical...Published: 01 Feb 2018 at 05:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sex scandal rocks adventist school
BULAWAYO Adventist High School has come under the spotlight after a sizzling sex scandal emerged with eight pupils alleged to have been caught in the act in one of the classrooms.The Form Thre...Published: 08 Dec 2017 at 06:09hrs | 1 | by Staffr eporter
Dokora breaks the record of Zim's short-lived govt ministers
If there was someone queer enough to apply to Guinness Book of World Records to have the title "shortest lived government ministers" added to their database, the category will certainly not be short o...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 13:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
With Zanu-PF Almighty in power: does God still remember Zimbabwe exists?
I prayed for my mother all night long after she had been involved in an accident but I never saw her alive ever again. She was on the way back from a funeral in Watsomba when the bus she had boarded v...Published: 05 Sep 2017 at 07:33hrs | | by Tafi Mhaka
Killer flu breaks out!
MEDICAL doctors yesterday warned that a flu bug, which may cause complications if not treated early, has hit the country.They said the bug has malaria-like symptoms and severely weakens its vi...Published: 11 Aug 2017 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
More schools install CCTVs
MOST Bulawayo schools have installed closed circuit televisions (CCTV) for security reasons.The installation of CCTVs follows a spate of robberies at schools in and around Bulawayo that result...Published: 15 Jul 2017 at 15:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Church murder suspects remanded in custody
FOUR armed robbers who allegedly killed a security guard at a Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) church-run primary school in Bulawayo's Pelandaba suburb appeared in court yesterday.Tomson Phuthi...Published: 26 Jan 2017 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Robbery gangs arrested
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested two gangs of armed robbers, one of whom is suspected to have killed a security guard at a Seventh Day Adventist church-run primary school in Pelandaba suburb....Published: 25 Jan 2017 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Butchery robbers caught on camera
TWO burglars pounced on Heads and Hooves Wholesale in Bulawayo and got away with cash amounting to about $1 000, R1 800, and P550 in an intrusion that was caught on camera.A manager at the...Published: 19 Jan 2017 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Murder in SDA church robbery
A SECURITY guard at the Seventh Day Adventist church-run Pelandaba Primary School in Bulawayo died after he was savagely attacked by four armed robbers during a raid in which two laptops and cash ...Published: 18 Jan 2017 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
High Court reverses schoolboy expulsion for praying
THE High Court has ordered Roman Catholic Church-run Embakwe High School to re-admit an Ordinary-Level pupil who was expelled from the school for praying in an "unacceptable" Pentecostal way.T...Published: 22 Nov 2016 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lesbianism scandal rocks Adventist high school
HANKE Adventist High School in Shurugwi has been rocked by a lesbianism scandal after two female pupils suspected to be in an illicit love affair were caught in a compromising position in one of t...Published: 13 Nov 2016 at 09:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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