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UZ Vice Chancellor frog marches lecturers to SADC Summit clean-up campaigns
Despite having employed a legion of general hand cleaners as part of its neatening labourforce, the University of Zimbabwe's Vice Chancellor, Professor Paul Mapfumo has this Friday summoned and frog m...Published: 09 Aug 2024 at 12:22hrs | 2408 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Man kicked to death
A Gokwe man has been arrested after he fatally kicked another man in the abdomen during a brawl where he accused him of preparing charcoal on his side of the field.Police have since arrested D...Published: 09 May 2023 at 19:18hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa donates farming equipment, bus to Solusi
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday donated an assortment of equipment that will help transform the Seventh Day Adventist-run Solusi University in Figtree, with the consignment including tractors with ploug...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 05:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
MSU staff morale hits rock bottom
STAFF at the Midlands State University (MSU) is reported to have hit rock bottom with lecturers accusing the management of meddling in workers' union affairs in a bid to destabilise it.A sourc...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
'UZ defies lockdown'
LECTURERS and staff at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) have accused authorities of defying lockdown measures by ordering them to report for duty or sign up official leave days. Lectures who sp...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 20:30hrs | | 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 | 1 | by Ken Mufuka
Varsity employees get salary hike
GOVERNMENT has hiked salaries for State university workers in a move that will see cleaners at institutions of higher learning earning more than teachers and college lecturers.Acting Higher an...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 08:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lupane lecturers go on strike
LUPANE State University (LSU) lecturers have gone on strike following the institution's failure to review their salaries. LSU Academic Staff Association members held a meeting on Wednesday and...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
LSU students demand immediate commencement of non-discriminatory block classes
To: The Vice ChancellorCc: The Pro-Vice Chancellor : The Deputy Registrar : The BursarLupane State University3rd Floor CBZ B...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 20:41hrs | | by LSU
Haddon and Sly suspends workers
ONE of Bulawayo's oldest supermarkets, Haddon and Sly Supermarket has suspended 52 workers with immediate effect for participating in what it called an illegal job action last year, it has been establ...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
UZ appoints new deans
The Chairman of the University of Zimbabwe Council, Dr Anxious Jongwe Masuka is pleased to announce the re-appointment of Professor Charity Manyeruke and Dr Hodson Makurira as Executive Deans of the F...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 20:36hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Madhuku takes UZ deanship fight to court
University of Zimbabwe (UZ) law lecturer Professor Lovemore Madhuku yesterday approached the High Court to set aside the recent appointment of Dr Innocent Maja as the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nyagura stirs fresh controversy
University of Zimbabwe vice chancellor Levi Nyagura has stirred fresh controversy after hiring a junior lecturer who recently obtained a doctor of philosophy (PhD) as the dean of the Law Faculty after...Published: 12 Mar 2018 at 11:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe PhD: Govt urges dialogue
GOVERNMENT yesterday spoke for the first about Mrs Grace Mugabe's PhD with Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Minister Professor Amon Murwira urging dialogue between the...Published: 10 Feb 2018 at 09:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Open Letter to Professor Amon Murwira on BUSE block release programmes
Professor Amon Murwira, I am a Bindura University of Science Education Undergraduate Block Release student who is so angry at the way we are being treated at the University. The University informed us...Published: 24 Jan 2018 at 09:23hrs | | by BUSE Student
Mnangagwa meets college bosses
President Emmerson Mnangagwa will tomorrow meet vice chancellors, deans, directors of institutes and heads of departments to determine the contribution of tertiary institutions in economic development...Published: 08 Jan 2018 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe to meet students
DEANS of students and student leaders from the country's institutions of higher learning are set to meet the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development principal dir...Published: 03 Nov 2017 at 04:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unpacking the nefarious/ corrupt activities at Bindura University
Thank you for publishing that letter that exposed the corrupt activities at Bindura University of Science Education. Please find, below, parts of what is found in the Forensic Report that I believe th...Published: 25 May 2017 at 21:19hrs | 1 | by Kudakwashe Ncube
Mthwakazi, lets apply for World Movement for Democracy opportunities
Fellowships and OpportunitiesFellowshipsThe Hurford Youth Fellowship Program, facilitated by the World Movement for...Published: 10 Apr 2017 at 15:19hrs | | by World Movement for Democracy
Jonathan Moyo funded graduation protests?
The Zimbabwe Congress of Students Union claims that Higher Education, Science and Technology Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo and his deputy Godfrey Gandawa used part of the money allegedly siphon...Published: 10 Oct 2016 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Probe into Jonathan Moyo - details
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission wants to interview Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo; his deputy Dr Godfrey Gandawa; and three other pu...Published: 09 Oct 2016 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nust lecturers spit fire
LECTURERS at the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) in Bulawayo have rejected a proposal to cut their salaries for servicing part-time and parallel programmes as a cost cutting measu...Published: 08 May 2016 at 10:51hrs | | by Dumisani Sibanda
Prophet Magaya is no different from the apostolic sects he attacks
Walter Magaya of PHD Ministries wrote a 4 000-word-long thesis attacking the white garment apostolic churches. Despite the length of the thesis, he raised two points against the white garment apostoli...Published: 22 Feb 2015 at 09:05hrs | | by Tinashe Shamuyashe
'It seems procedures were not followed' UZ lecturer says of Grace's PhD
The First Lady Grace Mugabe's PhD has stirred controversy amid reports that UZ authorities could have upgraded her Master's degree to a PhD, with some sources saying she did not even study for the deg...Published: 28 Oct 2014 at 20:20hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Dr Grace Mugabe PhD scandal deepens
THE Zimbabwe National Students Union (Zinasu) has called for a thorough investigation into how First Lady Grace Mugabe acquired her controversial PhD degree and demanded resignations of all those invo...Published: 26 Sep 2014 at 08:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Grace Mugabe PhD trashes UZ credibility,' says Makoni
GRACE Mugabe's "doctorate" remains a hot joke in Harare since her husband, President Robert Mugabe, chancellor of the University of Zimbabwe (UZ), awarded her a PhD recently.Former finance mi...Published: 23 Sep 2014 at 07:12hrs | | by Independent Foreign Service.
Lectures to protest Grace Mugabe PhD Award
A STORM is brewing at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) as senior lecturers, including deans and professors, plan to write a letter of protest to the university council, the institution's highest decis...Published: 22 Sep 2014 at 08:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe's PhD scandal torches storm
A STORM is brewing at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) as senior lecturers, including deans and professors, plan to write a letter of protest to the university council, the institution's highest deci...Published: 19 Sep 2014 at 10:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean sensational movie 'TRAPPED' premieres in Manchester
The glitz of Manchester City will witness the premiere of a Zimbabwean life in diaspora movie Trapped in which the storyline opens up chillingly the fears and unspoken horrors of day to day dome...Published: 02 Sep 2014 at 08:04hrs | 1 | by Simba Media Consultants
The Kalanga Origins of the Thembu and Nelson Mandela Revealed
Stories of our Great Achievements Must be Told Alan Dershowitz notes his feelings about his Jewish identity when he was a Yale law student: "When I ...Published: 06 Jan 2014 at 11:26hrs | 42 | by Ndzimu-unami Emmanuel Moyo
East, Central and Southern African health experts meet in Tanzania
A HIGH level technical body in the East, Central and Southern Africa-Health Community is meeting in Arusha, Tanzania, to deliberate and recommend solutions to emerging health chall...Published: 15 Aug 2012 at 02:49hrs | | by Staffe reporter
Lupane State University ordered to reinstate dean
SENIOR Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Nicholas Ndou has ordered Lupane State University (LSU) to reinstate the suspended Dean of Studies, Ms Karren Dube, to her post with all the benefits accruing ...Published: 23 May 2012 at 07:05hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
GREAT Zimbabwe University suspends learning programmes due to shortage of lecturers
GREAT Zimbabwe University (GZU) in Masvingo has reportedly suspended some of its learning programmes due to a shortage of lecturers.Although authorities at the university could not be drawn i...Published: 18 May 2012 at 04:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mobile phones are getting smarter in rural Africa
Imagine you are in Yokadouma, a rural community in eastern Cameroon with little electricity and inaccessible roads. You have an old, inexpensive mobile phone with which you can only make and receive ...Published: 03 Apr 2012 at 21:35hrs | | by Kingsley Ighobor I Africa Renewal
Zimbabwe Sables on a roll, dismiss Kenya in Kenya
Zimbabwe claimed revenge over hosts Kenya when they beat them 26-21 to complete their home and away sweep of the Victoria Cup at the the Nyayo National Stadium Saturday.The Sables didn't displ...Published: 24 Jul 2011 at 07:41hrs | 1 | by Ndou Paul
Is Tribalism the Future?
"This is a far, far away country about which we know very little," said Neville Chamberlain in 1938 as he declined to take his country to war over Adolf Hitler's claim to the Sudetenland....Published: 08 Apr 2011 at 12:08hrs | | by Patrick Buchanan
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