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Kazembe hijacks Dokora's function
Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe's efforts to keep ZANU PF Mashonaland Central Province under his belt are under threat amid fierce competition from former Minister of Education, Lazarus Dokora....Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 08:43hrs | | by Shelton Muchena In Bindura
ZANU PF youth insults Dokora fingers Kazembe
Former Education Minister Lazarus Dokora has become a subject of insults from ZANU PF provincial youth member Nickross Kajengo who is alleging that he was promised a seat in Rushinga by party chairper...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 19:47hrs | 10 | by Paul Ndou
Age of consent stirs debate in Zimbabwe
LEGISLATORS have dismissed reports that they are pushing for the downward review of the age of consent to 12 years, explaining that they were calling for minors who are sexually active to access treat...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 06:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Why digital money makes sense
William Arthur Ward was an American who contributed a lot to the Reader's Digest. His main genres were inspirational maxims and meditations and poems. One of the things he said was: "A pessimist compl...Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 06:56hrs | | by Nick Mangwana
Great mistake and mischief in rush to implement new curriculum
Sometime in the late 1997, the government of Zimbabwe, through its two ministries of Education resolved to conduct an inquiry into the then Education and Training System. A commission of inquiry lead ...Published: 26 Feb 2018 at 20:09hrs | 32 | by Luke Mbune Chakaza correspondent
Prof Mavima consults on new curriculum
NEWLY Appointed Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Professor Paul Mavima, has hit the ground running as he is setting up a taskforce to outline challenges facing the implementation of the ne...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 04:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa 'can't speak about bonuses right now'
CIVIL servants will know about their bonuses tomorrow, a Cabinet Minister said yesterday.Finance and Economic Planning Minister, Patrick Chinamasa said all will be revealed when he prese...Published: 06 Dec 2017 at 05:26hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Dokora's education curriculum won't be reversed
THE dropping of Dr Lazarus Dokora from Cabinet does not mean that Government will reverse the new education curriculum introduced early this year, a Cabinet minister said yesterday.President M...Published: 06 Dec 2017 at 05:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Open letter to the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education
REF: Dokora axing-a close look While the official version is saying Dokora's sacking as Minister of Primary and Secondary Education has to d...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 11:54hrs | 1 | by Ashirai Mtirikwi Mawere
Teachers' unions welcome Dokora sacking
TEACHERS' unions have welcomed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's decision to drop controversial Primary and Secondary Education Minister, Dr Lazarus Dokora from the new Cabinet.Dr Dokora was drop...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dokora appoints new Zimsec board made up of academics, technocrats
PRIMARY and Secondary Education Minister Dr Lazarus Dokora yesterday appointed a new Zimbabwe Examinations Council (Zimsec) board made up of renowned academics and technocrats. Bindura Univers...Published: 21 Oct 2017 at 11:56hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Dokora accuses Ndebeles of inciting tribalism in Zimbabwe
PRIMARY and Secondary Education Minister Dr Lazarus Dokora has castigated social media users for distorting information on wrong IsiNdebele spellings and accused them of inciting tribalism in the co...Published: 14 Oct 2017 at 16:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Exam leak claim a farce, says govt
The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has described a social media examination leak report which sparked furore among candidates as a farce.Minister Lazarus Dokora said Zimbabweans s...Published: 04 Oct 2017 at 15:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
POS machines for schools
Government is making frantic efforts to ensure schools have Point of Sale machines to enable parents pay fees without challenges, Primary and Secondary Education Minister Dr Lazarus Dokora has said. ...Published: 17 Aug 2017 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
More schools to be built in Bulawayo
GOVERNMENT is set to launch a project to construct more schools in Bulawayo next week in a programme that is set to alleviate the shortage of schools and decongest the existing ones.The Minist...Published: 31 Jul 2017 at 06:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Schools management software system launched
THE Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Dr Lazarus Dokora, has launched a schools management software system to improve the administration of schools, with more than 6 000 institutions expect...Published: 31 Jul 2017 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dokora faces contempt of Parly
PRIMARY and Secondary Education Minister Dr Lazarus Dokora faces contempt of parliament charges for allegedly misrepresenting to the Senate issues to do with his directive for schools to transfer all ...Published: 14 Jul 2017 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Schools are not churches, says Dokora
PRIMARY and Secondary Education Minister, Dr Lazarus Dokora has said schools are not churches and so all religious beliefs should be given the same respect at all learning institutions.In an i...Published: 02 Jul 2017 at 10:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dokora pushes for recruitment of 7 000 teachers
THE Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Dr Lazarus Dokora, is pushing for the recruitment of 7 000 teachers but Government has approved the employment of 2 300 which the Public Service Commis...Published: 16 Jun 2017 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Government will not hesitate to fire lazy teachers'
Government will not hesitate to fire lazy teachers and replace them with 16 000 trained teachers on its waiting list as it moves to improve quality service under the new curriculum. This was s...Published: 13 Jun 2017 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teacher fired for demanding kickbacks from parents to secure places
A TEACHER at Coghlan Primary School in Bulawayo has been fired by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education for demanding kickbacks from parents to secure places for their children.The t...Published: 05 Jun 2017 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dokora backs down on Matabeleland South schools closure
THE Minister of Primary and Secondary Education Dr Lazarus Dokora has said no school will be closed in Matabeleland South province for low enrolment as earlier reported.Dr Dokora said Governme...Published: 29 May 2017 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mberengwa to get boarding school
THE Government has accepted a request by villagers in Mberengwa East constituency in the Midlands Province to upgrade Mbuya Nehanda High School into a boarding school.The school, the only Gove...Published: 21 May 2017 at 16:20hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
The Boer, donkeys and Zimbabweans
Over the Easter holiday, while most good Christians were looking up in the sky, I went home in Mberengwa.That journey would take me as far as Bulawayo, along the Beitbridge Highway, from the s...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 06:59hrs | 4 | by Joram Nyathi
Dokora cracks whip over new curriculum
THE Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Dr Lazarus Dokora, yesterday threatened teachers with early retirement for failing to understand and appreciate the new education curriculum....Published: 02 Apr 2017 at 12:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tonga to be examined at A Level
TONGA will be written as a public examination at Advanced Level for the first time in Zimbabwe this year, the Zimbabwe Schools Examinations Council (Zimsec) has said.Zimsec public relations ma...Published: 29 Mar 2017 at 13:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Free holiday lessons for flood-hit pupils
SCHOOL children affected by floods in Tsholotsho District will have a chance to catch up on their studies as the provincial education department is organising free holiday lessons for them....Published: 08 Mar 2017 at 05:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dokora slapped with $3,5 million lawsuit for piracy
Two software companies - Zim Assist Private Limited and Purple Divine Technology - have slapped the Minister of Primary and Secondary Education Dr Lazarus Dokora with a $3,5 million lawsuit for al...Published: 02 Mar 2017 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dokora not introducing Islam, says Mugabe
PRESIDENT Mugabe has revealed that the Minister of Primary and Secondary Education is not introducing Islam in the country's education system through the new curriculumResponding to a ques...Published: 26 Feb 2017 at 09:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo schools open today, says Dokora
THE Minister of Primary and Secondary Education Dr Lazarus Dokora has said all pupils in Bulawayo should report for school today.In a brief response to questions sent to him by The Chronic...Published: 24 Feb 2017 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe urges nation to embrace new curriculum
President Mugabe has expressed reservations on one aspect of the new curriculum being spear-headed by Primary and Education Minister Dr Lazarus Dokora, but said on the whole the syllabus needed to be ...Published: 23 Feb 2017 at 07:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Everything's under control, claim Dokora
Part of the US$1,2 billion paid annually by parents as school levies is being used to implement Phase 2 of the updated curriculum, Primary and Secondary Education Minister Dr Lazarus Dokora has sa...Published: 19 Feb 2017 at 09:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimsec to introduce minority languages examinations
The Zimbabwe School Examinations Council is this year expected to introduce examinations in minority languages, a move that is in tandem with the provisions of the new curriculum that the Ministry of ...Published: 17 Feb 2017 at 09:51hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Anti-Dokora lawsuit dismissed
THE High Court has dismissed an urgent chamber application filed by the Dadaya High School School Development Committee challenging the newly introduced school curriculum.Parents whose chi...Published: 15 Feb 2017 at 06:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Parents challenge new education curriculum in court
PARENTS whose children learn at Dadaya High School in Zvishavane have taken Primary and Secondary Education Minister Dr Lazarus Dokora to court challenging the newly introduced education curriculu...Published: 11 Feb 2017 at 09:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Early Childhood Development Maths, Science in local languages
Early Childhood Development centres countrywide are teaching learners all subjects using local languages common to their areas to "enable (children) to fully grasp key concepts".This began...Published: 05 Feb 2017 at 07:05hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Parent sues Whitestone Pr School over SDC
A BULAWAYO man has approached the High Court seeking an order to compel a privately-owned school in the city, Whitestone Primary, to set up a School Development Committee in line with the country'...Published: 29 Jan 2017 at 09:39hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Ministry sets maximum subjects at O-level
THE Government has set the maximum subjects to be studied at Ordinary Level at 10, with seven of these being compulsory, the Minister of Primary and Seconday Education, Dr Lazarus Dokora has said....Published: 22 Jan 2017 at 12:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dokora has promises to bring normalcy at Chipadze High School
The Minister of Primary and Secondary Education Dr Lazarus Dokora has promised to do everything in his power to bring normalcy at the troubled Chipadze High School which had its property auctioned....Published: 25 Dec 2016 at 08:38hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Confusion over Form One enrolment
FORM One boarding enrolment for 2017 is in chaos following Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Dr Lazarus Dokora's directive for parents to apply for places online only.Parents an...Published: 11 Dec 2016 at 08:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
4 500 Grade 7 pupils impregnated
At least 4 500 Grade Seven pupils countrywide, the majority of them girls, dropped out of school this year after falling pregnant or getting married, Parliament heard on Thursday. Primary and Seco...Published: 10 Dec 2016 at 16:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
4,500 pupils in early marriage, drop out
OVER 4 500 minors dropped out of school countrywide this year because of early marriage and Government is weighing the possibility of strengthening law enforcement to contain the challenge. In an ...Published: 22 Nov 2016 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
O-Level exam candidate sues school
AN Ordinary-Level pupil sitting for public examinations has taken Primary and Secondary Education Minister Lazarus Dokora and the Roman Catholic-run Embakwe High School authorities to court follow...Published: 14 Nov 2016 at 05:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cash shortages hit school opening preps
WITH schools opening on Tuesday a majority of parents are feeling the heat of cash shortages that has disrupted their preparations for the new school term as yesterday hundreds of them were stuck ...Published: 04 Sep 2016 at 09:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Holiday lessons never banned'
Archibald Sanyanga, a middle-aged father of three from Harare's Glen View suburb, lowers his huge figure to get a clear reading of numbers inscribed on a shelf in one of the leading shoe shops in ...Published: 04 Sep 2016 at 08:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
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Government reveals plans to recruit more teachers
THE Public Service Commission will soon recruit teachers as the Government moves to address the shortage of educators in schools.The PSC has since written to the Ministry of Primary and Second...Published: 02 Sep 2016 at 06:40hrs | | by Whinsley Masara
June A and O level results out
June 2016 Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) Advanced and Ordinary Level results are out and have been dispatched to regional offices for collection, Primary and Secondary Education Ministe...Published: 01 Sep 2016 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dokora reveals religious leaning
PRIMARY and Secondary Education Minister Dr Lazarus Dokora has said he is a Catholic, putting to rest speculation on social media that he was Muslim.Social media was rife with messages claimin...Published: 19 Jul 2016 at 06:20hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
Business as usual, Govt tells workers
Government says civil servants and other workers should report for duty today as usual and refuse to be used by malcontents seeking to destabilise the country.Agents of illegal regime chan...Published: 06 Jul 2016 at 06:33hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Schools to employ full time accountants
THE Government will soon employ full time accountants at public schools countrywide to curb mismanagement of funds. This comes at a time when school heads have complained about alleged victimisation b...Published: 28 Jun 2016 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Leonard Ncube
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