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Bulawayo achieves impressive pass rate in Grade 7 exams
Bulawayo Province has continued its strong performance in the 2024 Grade Seven examinations, with an impressive pass rate of 80.14%. This marks a notable improvement from last year's 79.60% pass rate....Published: 15 Dec 2024 at 09:19hrs | 2208 | by Staff reporter
KwaNtuthu Comedy takes shape
The KwaNtuthu Comedy Festival will take place from October 24 to 26 at the Bulawayo Theatre, featuring a theme of "Engage, Educate, Entertain." The festival's schedule includes a theatre performance o...Published: 21 Aug 2024 at 10:17hrs | 249 | 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 | 176 | by Agencies
Pius Ncube still doing the Lord's work
Archbishop Emeritus Pius Ncube, former head of the Roman Catholic Church in Bulawayo, has broken his silence nearly two decades after a sex scandal involving a married congregant, Rosemary Sibanda, in...Published: 01 Jul 2024 at 03:49hrs | 99 | by Staff reporter
Farewell Chairman VK: Reflections of a dear friend
The late Vimbai Kamoyo (VK) was quite a character.They buried him last week in Chiunye village, Mt Darwin, Mashonaland Central. Between him and I, the title of "Chairman" took tu...Published: 18 Jun 2024 at 14:54hrs | 40 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
UK ranked second-most miserable country in the world
The UK has been named the second-most unhappy country in the world in a survey conducted by Sapien Labs, a neuroscience foundation. According to the survey, Britons' mental health has plunged since th...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 19:18hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Bad parenting fuels juvenile delinquency
WHAT happened to good parenting?Many people are curious about this issue in the wake of incidents where young people are found in violation of the law.Recently, minors, some as young a...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:35hrs | 12 | by Veronica Gwaze
Stop road carnage
More than 20 lives have been lost in road traffic accidents, stealing the cheers from the festive season for the affected families.The major cause of these road traffic accidents has largely been ...Published: 30 Dec 2023 at 08:22hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
KwaNtuthu Comedy Festival returns
After successfully staging the first edition of their festivities last year, KwaNtuthu Comedy Festival is set to return this year for their second edition which will run from 25 to 29 October, officia...Published: 05 May 2023 at 06:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe tops global road carnage
LATEST world statistics on road accidents have ranked Zimbabwe as one of the world's two countries with the most unsafe road networks.According to the World of Statistics, 41 per every 100 000...Published: 02 May 2023 at 08:59hrs | 33 | by Staff reporter
Mzilikazi High wins Bulawayo Public Speaking contest
MZILIKAZI High School is this year's winner of the Bulawayo Public Speaking competition.The event was hosted last Friday at the Zimbabwe Academy of Music by the Rotary Club of Bulawayo South a...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 07:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'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 | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe team crowned European Moot Court champions
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has congratulated the Zimbabwe Moot Court team after it was crowned champions for beating the Netherlands in the final of the European Moot Court Championships held in Romania yest...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 06:55hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Parents should vote against school fees hikes, says Govt
THE Primary and Secondary Education ministry yesterday urged parents to exercise their powers and rights by voting against any proposed increases they felt were unjustified.This was said by th...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 06:14hrs | 136 | by Staff reporter
Court throws out challenge to exchange control ammendments
THE High Court has dismissed an application by human rights lawyer Obert Shava, challenging the constitutionality of Statutory Instrument (SI) 127 of 2021 which imposes civil penalties on those found ...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 05:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Air Force boss' daughter thrown out of school over US$ fees
Air Force of Zimbabwe Air Vice-Marshal Michael Moyo has taken Dominican Convent School to court for withdrawing an offer letter for his daughter after he refused to pay school fees in United States do...Published: 11 Nov 2021 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Air Force commander sues top school after daughter excluded over US dollar fees
A top military commander whose daughter's offer letter for a Form 1 place at top Harare school, Dominican Convent, was withdrawn for refusing to pay fees in United States dollars has gone to court cha...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 19:24hrs | 7 | by Staff writer
UK removes Zimbabwe from Covid-19 red list
The United Kingdom will remove Zimbabwe from the Covid-19 red list on Monday, in a development that will make it easy to travel between the two countries.Crucially, the tourism sector is expec...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:24hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, SA removed from UK Covid travel red list
Zimbabwe has been removed from UK Covid travel red list, the British government has said.According to BBC, South Africa, Zimbabwe and other 45 countries will be removed from the red list, whic...Published: 07 Oct 2021 at 20:33hrs | 7 | by Staff Reporter
Nakamba to miss Bafana showdown
MARVELOUS NAKAMBA is now certainly out of the Warriors' 2022 World Cup qualifier against South Africa, next week. The English Premiership revealed they will not release any players for matches set for...Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mgodoyi' is Jonathan Moyo's predicate he used to express disgust!
It is one of Professor Moyo's terms to express anything disgusting him.Umgodoyi is an overly thin malnourished dog whose mouth unendingly oozies slummy saliva, a sign of obvious illness relate...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 06:39hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Private schools reopen
PRIVATE schools reopened yesterday for the Cambridge examination classes with the generality of them adhering to the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education's mandatory Standard Operating Procedur...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
$600m availed for schools reopening
A TOTAL of $600 million has been set aside by the Government for disbursement to needy schools to improve sanitation and enable them to reopen safely without risking a spike in Covid-19 infections. ...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's son in-law fights for Chiyangwa
THE Sport and Recreation Commission (SRC) have requested FIFA to use its powers, as enshrined it its statutes, to remove the entire ZIFA leadership from office and replace it with a normalisation comm...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 00:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mastering the art of public speaking with Felix Zinhara
Standing in front of people and delivering a speech, keynote address be it at a social gathering or professional setting remains equally "life-threatening" even to those folks who claim some audacity ...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 21:08hrs | | by Brian Maregedze
DD: The man, soldier, pacifier
The light of the armed liberation struggle icon has been extinguished. Dr Dumiso Dabengwa, affectionately known as DD, passed on 23 May 2019.There was grief and anguish when news about his dea...Published: 26 May 2019 at 13:44hrs | | by Phathisa Nyathi
Zimbabweans ranked happier than Rwandans, Batswana and Malawians
The World Happiness Report has been released and Zimbabwe ranks close to the bottom ten, lower than neighbours Mozambique and Zambia. However, Zimbabweans have been ranked happier than Rwandans, Batsw...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 11:14hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
How TB Joshua prophesied about the Venezuela coup in 2016
International media has been agog with the news of the ‘coup attempt' and intense political volatility that has engulfed the South American nation of Venezuela in recent days. On Wednes...Published: 26 Jan 2019 at 09:15hrs | | by Ihechukwu Njoku
Mnangagwa backs push for permanent Zimbabwe UN Security Council seat
Zimbabwe can win one of five UN Security Council seats up for election in the next two years, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesman has said, although analysts doubted the southern African country ...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 14:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga wants Zimbabwe in United Nations Security Council
BUSINESSMAN Frank Buyanga has written to United Nations Secretary-General Mr Antonio Guterres asking him to consider Zimbabwe for a seat in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) as a non-permanen...Published: 14 Dec 2018 at 05:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean woman was strangled in UK
A POST-mortem report has revealed that a Zimbabwean woman based in the United Kingdom who was found dead last month was strangled and her husband was found hanging at their Leicester home.This...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Inquest into death of UK based Zim woman and her husband Jesus opened
Inquests have heard how a young couple whose bodies were found in their Braunstone Frith home died.The bodies of Lorraine Gugu Mbulawa-Sanchez and her husband Jesus were found by a family frie...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 13:42hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Chiyangwa holding nation at ransom
ON November 12 this year, the world football governing body, Fifa disbanded executive committees running the football associations of Madagascar and the Dominican Republic. In their stead, Fifa appoin...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 06:12hrs | | by Editorial - newsday
Daily Academic Sociology Questions and Answers
Question Assess the extent to which home based, rather than school based factors account for social class based differences in educational achievement (...Published: 08 May 2018 at 23:22hrs | 2 | by Mwiinde Laison (Author, Sociologist and Mentor)
Crocodile attack couple speaks
A WOMAN who lost an arm in a crocodile attack in the Zambezi River in Victoria Falls five days before her wedding has revealed how, before the horrific incident, her only worry was decorating the wedd...Published: 08 May 2018 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Whizzkid scores 20 points at A-Level
A PUPIL (19) at Dominican Convent High School in Bulawayo scored 20 points in the Cambridge November 2017 Advanced Level examinations.Sibonakaliso Mkandla who wrote four subjects – Mathemati...Published: 16 Jan 2018 at 05:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nigerian slavery victim interviewed by CNN in Libya spotted in TB Joshua's church
Victory Imasuen, the slavery victim whose story on CNN sparked a global outcry about human trafficking in Libya, has finally returned to Nigeria.The Edo State indigene, whose emotion-laden int...Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 17:33hrs | | by Ihechukwu Njoku
Daily Academic Sociology Questions and Answers with Mwiinde Laison
QuestionAssess the extent to which home based, rather than school based factors account for social class based differences in educational achievement (25)...Published: 21 Oct 2017 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Mwiinde Laison (Author, Sociologist and Mentor)
They called me Tafiranyika. Now, they call this Zimbabwe?
They called me Tafiranyika. My grandfather died the day I was born. They called me Tafiranyika. Sekuru Moses was on the liberation war front when I was born. They called me Tafiranyika. Big and menaci...Published: 02 Sep 2017 at 07:40hrs | 1 | by Tafi Mhaka
Amagugu holds Heritage festival
Amagugu International Heritage Center held a Matobo Heritage Festival in Matobo district over the weekend, which attracted more than 150 participants from various backgrounds and age groups.A ...Published: 27 Aug 2017 at 06:28hrs | 7 | by Stephen Jakes
Nobuntu lightens Amagugu festival
OBABES Bembube, better known as Nobuntu, rocked the stage at this year's Amagugu festival that was held at the Amagugu International heritage Centre in Matopo last week.The Amagugu organised M...Published: 13 Aug 2017 at 12:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Jonathan Moyo reverses closure of private colleges
THE Government has described as null and void the immediate closure of 251 private and independent training institutions over non-compliance with operational and registration statutes, conceding that ...Published: 08 Aug 2017 at 08:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Arrupe College breaks new ground
THE transformation of Arrupe College into a fully fledged university is expected to open avenues for internationally acclaimed Jesuit professors to be attached to the Jesuits Institution.Arupp...Published: 04 Jun 2017 at 20:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Convent student on 3 US scholarships
DUMISILE MPHAMBA (19) says the United States has an education system to match her ambitionafter three top American universities said they are prepared to admit her on full scholarship....Published: 16 Apr 2017 at 17:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Seligonjolozelwe / Makomberedzwa!
This was a vicious, indeed a venomous shout above the city of Bulawayo from a former Rhodesian army war plane during the Gukurahundi operations. It signaled the beginning of the genocide and the subse...Published: 23 Feb 2017 at 07:48hrs | 4 | by Mkhululi Zulu
Search for Miss Zim-USA begins
Miss Zimbabwe-USA 2016 organisers have called for entries for the pageant's next edition, which has been slated for May 28, in California, Los Angeles.Organisers said Miss Zimbabwe-USA 2016 se...Published: 02 Mar 2016 at 07:52hrs | | by Arts Correspondent
Legal age of marriage around the world
Country Boys Girls Afghanistan 18 16 Albania 18 18 Algeria 19 19 Andorra** 14 14 Angola 16 15 Antigua and Barbuda 15 15 Argentina 18...Published: 26 Feb 2016 at 19:35hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Whizkids score As
TWO whizkids from Bulawayo scored 30 points and 15 points in the November 2015 Cambridge A-Level examinations.Emmanuel Zhou of Killarney suburb who did his A-Level at Riverton Academy in Masvi...Published: 27 Jan 2016 at 05:40hrs | | by Whinsley Masara
Kirsty Coventry gets international recognition
ZIMBABWEAN swimming icon Kirsty Coventry has now turned herself into a fully-fledged international sporting brand. Coventry (32), a seven-time Olympic Games medallist, recently went into a partnership...Published: 07 Jan 2016 at 05:07hrs | | by Collin Matiza
Girls grow 'penis at 12'
In the small village of Salinas in the Barahona Province of the southwestern part of the Dominican Republic, at puberty one in 90 children born there makes a natural transformation from girl to boy....Published: 23 Sep 2015 at 21:29hrs | 5 | by Srtaff Reporter
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