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Jonathan Moyo distances himself from Grace Mugabe's PhD
Former Cabinet Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has distanced himself from allegations that he was involved in the conferring of a Doctoral Degree to former First Lady Grace Mugabe. Zimbabwe o...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 10:05hrs | 8135 | by Mandla Ndlovu
No to Doctorate Factories
The recent clarification by our Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Professor Amon Murwira, that an earned doctorate (PhD or DPhil) is the minimum qualificati...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 19:27hrs | 1479 | by Enock JONATHAN
Nyagura's term at UZ will not be renewed
SUSPENDED University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Vice Chancellor, Professor Levi Nyagura, is set to leave the institution at the end of this year and the institution of higher learning has since started hunting ...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 06:33hrs | 593 | by Staff reporter
Probe lectureship quality in universities
Government has adopted a stance of lenience towards university lecturers who do not hold doctorates. There has been growing calls in the academic spheres that lecturers with Masters degrees should be ...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 06:38hrs | 871 | by Leroy Dzenga
When seers failed to see the Ides of March
Bishop Lazi always tells his followers that as a people, we have been involved in a brutal rat race for the past two decades as we struggled for survival in choppy economic conditions.But the ...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 22:24hrs | 348 | by Bishop Lazi
Universities should offer criminology degrees, says Judge
BULAWAYO High court judge, Justice Maxwell Takuva has appealed to tertiary institutions to consider offering criminology degrees in order to find ways of preventing crime and appropriate ways of punis...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 05:52hrs | 469 | by Staff reporter
Cont Mhlanga against 'tribal' doctorate
WHILE there has been a renewed push by fans to see him rewarded with an honorary doctorate for his contributions to the arts, Amakhosi founder Cont Mhlanga has spoken out against some that claim to be...Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 06:41hrs | 835 | by Staff reporter
Unpacking floating of exchange rate by Zimbabwe
The Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Dr Mangudya in his monetary policy statement liberalised the exchange rate that is, departing from the 1:1 position of the bond notes or real time gr...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 10:28hrs | 1101 | by Dr Mugano
Call to declare Mungoshi national hero
The Zimbabwe Writers Association (ZWA), through the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (NACZ), has petitioned government to declare the late prolific and multi-award-winning writer Charles Mungoshi a n...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:16hrs | 555 | by Staff reporter
Call to honour Cont Mhlanga
Many showbiz followers are calling for the recognition of arts doyen Cont Mhlanga, who is widely touted as the "King of Zimbabwean Theatre" with an honorary doctorate for his contribution to the arts ...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 07:39hrs | 1738 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo, Chiwenga court battle in new twist
Former Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo has appealed against a High Court judgement that paved the way for Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga to sue him for alleged defamation....Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 19:18hrs | 9764 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo cornered
Former Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo - who was slapped with a $5 million defamation suit by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga - h...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 08:26hrs | 4109 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo gets ultimatum to defend Chiwenga’s $5 million lawsuit
SELF-EXILED former Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo has been given a 10-day ultimatum by the High Court to defend a $5 million defamation lawsuit filed by Vice-President Constantin...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 08:18hrs | 1852 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo vs Chiwenga: High Court rules
FUGITIVE politician Professor Jonathan Moyo, who was slapped with a $5 million defamation suit by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, has a case to answer and must face civil trial, the High Court ha...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 07:16hrs | 2038 | by Staff reporter
Another Grace Mugabe in the making!
So you are telling me that the whole acting president of the Republic of Zimbabwe failed to bring to an end the strike by the skilled labourers - I mean the junior doctors? But it took Auxilia a few h...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 16:08hrs | 23443 | by Mapombi Adonha
Ndebeles will never rule Zimbabwe
The closest a Ndebele will get to political power and smell it, would be when they are appointed 2nd Vice President, an insignificant position that reduces one to a mere servant in the President's off...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 06:18hrs | 2402 | by Israel Dube
Zimbabwe highlights for 2018
January ED visits sick TsvangiraiApart from President Emmerson Mnangagwa's visit to the home of the late Morgan Tsvangirai, another highlight for January 2018 was the arrest of se...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 09:09hrs | 1052 | by Staff reporter
Mutamiri new Anglican bishop
Dr Farai Mutamiri was yesterday consecrated as the new bishop of the Anglican Church's Diocese of Harare, Church of the Province of Central Africa at the City Sports Centre. The consecration w...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 08:29hrs | 166 | by Staff rpeorter
Luxury boutique hotel opens in Victoria Falls
A brand new luxury boutique hotel will open its doors to the discerning international traveller in the resort town of Victoria Falls next year.Mbano Manor Hotel will bring a unique bespoke exp...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 17:35hrs | 1547 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe launches crackdown on academic fraud
The country's education system is battling to preserve its integrity in the wake of an upsurge in academic fraudsters who are forging qualifications to secure jobs and gain admission into institutions...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 14:18hrs | 6320 | by Staff reporter
SA professor killed after uncovering PhD fraud at KZN university
The killing of a university professor has shined a new light on long-whispered allegations that some South African universities have been dishing out fraudulent PhDs.South African police say t...Published: 04 Dec 2018 at 16:17hrs | 5875 | by ZimLive
Raizcorp forms a partnership with Dr Shingi Munyeza
As the Zimbabwean economy enters a new period of revival and renewal, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has gone on record to say that, if the country is to succeed in the global economy, empowering local ...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 20:06hrs | 1732 | by Agencies
Zimbabwe is 'open for business' - Raizcorp leads the call
As the Zimbabwean economy enters a new period of revival and renewal, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has gone on record to say that, if the country is to succeed in the global economy, empowering local ...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 13:29hrs | 1303 | by Agencies
Best advice on how to deal with current Zimbabwe economic crisis
Patience pays for our situation. What has contributed much to our current situation is that Zimbabwe pressed the panic button after contested elections. We need to move on and deal with what is curren...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 07:15hrs | 1808 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Mnangagwa PhDs slammed
Teachers' unions have castigated tertiary institutions' conferment of honorary degrees to politicians.This comes after the conferment of three honorary doctorates to President Emmerson Mnangag...Published: 15 Oct 2018 at 12:40hrs | 2875 | by Staff reporter
Varsities PhDs - a farce - Gukurahundi PhDs
IF the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) was a human being, it could be wrinkled and grey haired by now. All things being equal, it could be a seasoned citizen, mellowed by maturity; an individual who no lo...Published: 15 Oct 2018 at 06:40hrs | 865 | by Cyprian Ndawana
Moyo is Mnangagwa's new acid test
Back in the days, every old, frail and ugly country woman was believed to be a witch. It didn't matter if, indeed, she was. Her looks and age naturally turned her into that ogre that drank our blood a...Published: 14 Oct 2018 at 10:02hrs | 10925 | by Tawanda Majoni
Another 'useless' doctorate for Mnangagwa
GREAT Zimbabwe University yesterday awarded President Mnangagwa an Honorary Doctorate of Politics and International Relations (Honoris Causa) during its 12th graduation ceremony. The President...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 07:09hrs | 722 | by Staff reporter
Kriegsverbrecher is given Honorary Doctor of Law
Here is someone who is supposed to be at the Haig: criminal court of law, answering crimes against humanity he committed in the early independence of Zimbabwe. The name Gugurahundi spells the name of ...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 16:44hrs | 945 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa takes over Mugabe duties, caps 1,583 graduands at CUT
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has conferred degrees and diplomas to 1 583 Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT) graduands at the institution's 14th graduation ceremony.CUT, which last year ma...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 16:14hrs | 1396 | by Staff reporter
Aiden Mhere declared Chartered Secretary of the Year
Hippo Valley Estates acting chief executive officer, Aiden Mhere, has been declared the 2017 Chartered Secretary of the Year. The runner-up is Posts and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimb...Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 19:57hrs | 1013 | by Agencies
Aiden Mhere declared Chartered Secretary of the Year
Hippo Valley Estates acting chief executive officer, Aiden Mhere, has been declared the 2017 Chartered Secretary of the Year. The runner-up is Posts and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimb...Published: 29 Sep 2018 at 12:23hrs | 444 | by Agencies
Richard Kamhoti confirmed by Kariba
Kariba former Chamber Secretary Mr Richard Kamhoti has been confirmed as the Town Clerk of Kariba taking up the vacant post left following the retirement of Mr Webster Tembo. Richard, born on the 28th...Published: 25 Sep 2018 at 07:15hrs | 332 | by John Tafadzwa Chirinda
Zimbabwe economy on the mend
Zimbabweans have entered the most anxious week. The new cabinet flew into a cholera crisis and from nowhere prices sky rocketed and rates came to obnoxious stinking levels. Mthuli Ncube's first week i...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:32hrs | 2931 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Dirty City Mayor lifts lid on cholera
NEW Harare mayor, Herbert Gomba says the central government and Zanu PF should take responsibility for the cholera outbreak which has so far claimed the lives of 21 people, alleging that a caretaker c...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:26hrs | 597 | by Staff reporter
How heroes became victims of politicians
LAST week, Comrade Agrippah Gava (born 1956) whose Chimurenga name was Conary Mabuto narrated how the Rhodesian forces massacred over 100 refugees at Chikumbi Camp in Zambia and how one could be ZIPRA...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 09:49hrs | 263 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec searches for new director
The Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) is searching for a director.This follows the decision by its board last year to dismiss some of its directors, including Isau Nhandara, its ch...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 13:20hrs | 1230 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's statement made him sound like that false Pentecostal prophet
Last Friday, Nelson Chamisa declared that he would be challenging his electoral loss to Emmerson Mnangagwa, and even promised his supporters that change was still coming. His latter statement is unbel...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 10:00hrs | 1372 | by Tawanda Majoni
Harurwa consumed as delicacy in Masvingo but Claude Maredza says, 'there is more that people should know'
Harurwa is an insect, consumed as a delicacy mostly in the Masvingo province of Zimbabwe. The insect is naturally light green in colour. It's usualy prepared by roasting and salting it. In Masvingo Ha...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 14:24hrs | 3903 | by Enos Denhere
Delusions of Zimbabwe intellectuals
JUST like the media, intellectualism is often overrated as both a source of truth and of accurate information - more so in the field of socio-political commentary.Blatantly partial academic po...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 07:52hrs | 306 | by Reason Wafawarova
Command this and that and Zim Airways: A lighter look
AFTER much brainstorming and scratching of heads on how to turn around Air Zimbabwe's failing fortunes, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Cabinet had acquired a few bald heads.The airline was sad...Published: 21 Jun 2018 at 07:11hrs | 512 | by Tapiwa Nyandoro
Massive vote-rigging rocks Zanu PF
ZANU PF primary elections ended farcically yesterday amid reports of massive vote-rigging, bloody clashes and the defeat of party bigwigs, while some losing candidates seized and burnt the ballot pape...Published: 01 May 2018 at 14:11hrs | 3435 | by Staff Reporter
TelOne sets up research lab at Nust
STATE-OWNED telecommunications operator, TelOne, yesterday launched a new research laboratory at the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) in Bulawayo as part of efforts to assist devel...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 07:06hrs | 145 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe minister of foreign affairs 'daft, inarticulate', says Jonathan Moyo
EXILED former Higher Education minister Prof Jonathan Moyo has said it is a disgrace that Zimbabwe has a foreign affairs minister who is "as daft and as inarticulate" as Dr Sibusiso Moyo.P...Published: 19 Apr 2018 at 22:35hrs | 6404 | by Staff Reporter
Students protest over DStv, food
Harare Institute of Technology (HIT) students yesterday staged a demonstration against poor living conditions and lack of entertainment — DStv.Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the HIT's...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 12:09hrs | 2167 | by Staff reporter
The dictator's dilemma: How to succeed at succession
Have dictators finally had their day? From retirements to coups d'etat, presidential term limits and opposition candidates winning elections, democracy appears to be making progress across Africa. But...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 07:21hrs | 493 | by Joe Devanny, Marco Jowell
We vote using our brains dear Misihairabwi-Mushonga and never pantie politics again!
This is just gutter politics of the highest order! Gutter politics that is below the belt in the sense of the word. We cannot be told to vote for women just because they are women. We vote for people ...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 18:45hrs | 3393 | by Nomazulu Thata
Grace Mugabe PhD: Nyagura still under investigation
University of Zimbabwe Vice Chancellor Professor Levi Nyagura who is facing charges of fraudulently awarding a doctorate degree to former first lady Grace Mugabe has been placed under further investig...Published: 05 Apr 2018 at 16:53hrs | 1313 | by Staff reporter
Macheso PhD drive heightens
AFFABLE entrepreneur and Nash Paints boss, Tinashe Mutarisi, will today approach education chiefs at the University of Zimbabwe with their proposal for musician Alick Macheso to be awarded a doctorate...Published: 03 Apr 2018 at 17:32hrs | 1943 | by Staff reporter
UZ drops in African rankings
Zimbabwe's oldest institute of higher learning, the University of Zimbabwe (UZ), which is hogging the limelight for the wrong reasons, particularly the manner in which former first lady Grace Mugabe w...Published: 01 Apr 2018 at 15:38hrs | 4734 | by Staff reporter
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