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Shock as judges from Matebeleland continue to be overlooked
Chief Justice Luke Malaba has named Justice Munamato Mutevedzi - appointed to the bench only in 2021 - as the most senior judge in Bulawayo, astounding many lawyers.Mutevedzi is replacing Just...Published: 12 Sep 2024 at 10:28hrs | 2436 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe wants to send English teachers to South Korea
Zimbabwe has initiated negotiations with South Korea to be recognized as an English-speaking country, aiming to create job opportunities for local English teachers in the affluent Asian nation, accord...Published: 03 Jun 2024 at 13:39hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Teacher exodus threatens the future of Zimbabwe's education system
KUDZAI Chideme, 42, stepped into the teaching profession after completing her diploma in marketing and failing to secure a job in the private sector. It was 2008. At the time, finding work in public e...Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 04:17hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Economic gloom feeds Christmas rush to get passports to leave Zimbabwe
Atop many Christmas wish lists in economically troubled Zimbabwe is a travel document, and people are flooding the passport office this holiday season ahead of a price hike planned in the New Year....Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 08:44hrs | 11 | by Associated Press
ZIMSEC battles to plug question paper leakages
Zimbabwe's school examinations system is under siege from cheats who are getting access to question papers prior to the date of writing, prompting authorities to rope in the police to fight the scourg...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 04:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Qatar, Angola wants Zimbabwe teachers
THE demand for Zimbabwean professionals around the world continues to increase with Angola and Qatar the latest countries that have requested for teachers and other professions to work in the public s...Published: 15 Sep 2022 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean teachers embrace Rwanda jobs offer
LOCAL educators yesterday said there was nothing to celebrate during this year's World Teachers' Day commemorations, but applauded plans by the Rwandan government to recruit qualified teachers from Zi...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:49hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
School head, deputy demoted, transferred over exam cheating
THE headmaster of Chingele Secondary School in Chiredzi South and his deputy have been demoted and transferred after they were allegedly involved in a Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) sca...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 07:11hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
English Learning: How to study language online effectively
Learning English now is easier than ever before. Many online platforms, applications, courses, and entertaining platforms for English learning, engage learners and improve their skills. Especi...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 17:26hrs | 1 | by Staff Writer
Where wildlife produces medical doctors
In Africa, some communities still don't have a single person who has graduated as a medical doctor. The reasons are many. It could be a lack of funds for brilliant children to further their ed...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 07:32hrs | 13 | by Emmanuel Koro
Mr. President, Hard Talk builds nations and dreams !!!
In 1994, I was doing my primary education at Nyazura Primary school, a boarding primary school in Manicaland Province. It was the norm back then that you would buy an envelope and get a postage ...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 07:35hrs | 3 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Hillside Teacher's College 2020 intake
HILLSIDE TEACHERS' COLLEGE VACANCIES FOR: SECONDARY TEACHER EDUCATION 2020 INTAKE a) 2 Year Post 'A' Level Course b) 3 Year Post '0' Level Course in: Physic...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 17:29hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
'I will make Zimbabwe efficient, we will fly!' boasted Minister Ncube - yes, Mr Know-It-All
I was once in the recruiting of technicians. In walked one of the interviewee, Max, smartly dressed from head to toe. He spoke with an American accent and pronounced every word perfectly; my High Scho...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 21:35hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Masiyiwa Saga: A different perspective
In your response to Human Rights Watch's Ken Roth in the context of the unedifying Dewa-Masiyiwa episode that opened our new year, you say:"Consider, Mr Roth, that it is possible that we Z...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 12:15hrs | 2 | by Tawandah Mutasa
Ginimbi sparks fresh social media nuclear genocide
Socialite ''nouveau riche'' Genius ''Ginimbi'' Kadungure is really not an interesting character, at face value at least. His face is just about as interesting as sitting down and watching paint dry. O...Published: 29 Sep 2018 at 12:42hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Jacob Mudenda tainted by Gukurahundi atrocities?
Despite being tainted by Gukurahundi atrocities and the Willowgate scandal, Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) chairperson Jacob Mudenda's star continues to rise. He has now opened a new ...Published: 12 Apr 2018 at 15:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
New problem for Zimsec
While the decision by the High Court to stop a resit of the November 2017 Ordinary Level English Paper 2 examination was generally hailed as fairer than the original decision to order a re-write, stak...Published: 15 Feb 2018 at 14:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Dokora was Mugabe's blue eyed boy in Cuba'
ZimFirst leader Maxwell Shumba has described former Primary and secondary education minister Lazarus Dokora as having been former President Robert Mugabe's blue-eyed boy s assigned as an English teach...Published: 05 Dec 2017 at 08:59hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Of names and texts: The lighter side of Zimbabwean Literature
Having grown up in that part of Zimbabwe where goats do not need names, my encounter with Memory Chirere's "Tadamuhwa" in the short story anthology, "No More Plastic Balls and other Stories", (2000) e...Published: 29 Oct 2017 at 22:49hrs | | by Tanaka Chidora
Guinea Fowl teacher jailed 2 months for harassing pupil
A Guinea Fowl High School English teacher who harassed a form two pupil by giving her too high marks or low marks, verbally abused her and excluded her from lessons has been given a two-month jail ter...Published: 20 Mar 2017 at 06:01hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Dokora has failed, says Coltart
THE Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education continues to raise the ire of parents and guardians chiefly because of the controversial policies being introduced by its head, Lazarus Dokora. ...Published: 26 Jan 2017 at 06:18hrs | | by Njabulo Ncube
Untold story of Zipra Women's Brigade
Starting this week, The Sunday Mail will be publishing excerpts of the biography of Group Captain Sithabile Sibanda aka Ntombiyezizweni Mhlanga. Under the working title "A Woman's Choice, The untold s...Published: 30 Oct 2016 at 10:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teacher up for pupil abuse, threats
AN English teacher at Guinea Fowl High School in Gweru has been arraigned for ill treating a form two pupil.Thandiwe Ncube (48) who resides at Guinea Fowl teacher's cottages was not asked to p...Published: 06 Sep 2016 at 07:00hrs | | by Patience Mutsiwi
Lazarus Dokora from close quarters.
For 4 years I was a student of Lazarus Dokora, the loony Zimbabwean Minister of Education. Dokora was assigned as an English Teacher on the Cuba Teachers Training Program ,a role which was meant to ke...Published: 12 May 2016 at 06:42hrs | | by Maxwell Shumba
Zimbabwe in critical shortage of psychiatrists
ZIMBABWE has a critical shortage of psychiatrists with only 12 specialists qualified to provide service to the whole country.This came out when health advisor in the Office of the President an...Published: 07 May 2016 at 20:15hrs | | by Leonard Ncube
Teacher 'rapes' Form 4 pupil
A TEACHER at St Sebastian Secondary School in Matobo District allegedly lured his Form 4 pupil with a cellphone to his cottage before raping her.Honest Runzirayi Dhliwayo, 29, of Tsholotsho un...Published: 27 Nov 2015 at 10:07hrs | 2 | by Marvelous Moyo
Hillside College opens secondary teacher education 2016 intake application
Hillside College opens secondary teacher education 2016 intakeHILLSIDE TEACHERS' COLLEGEVACANCIES FOR SECONDARY TEACHER EDUCATION 2016 INTAKEa) 2-Year Post 'A' Level Course...Published: 19 Jul 2015 at 11:19hrs | 2 | by Ndou Paul
'Zimbabwe liberation war history will be rewritten,' says Dokora
Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Dr Lazarus Dokora, has intimated that the country's disputed liberation history would be rewritten accordingly while people and institutions would be consu...Published: 15 Dec 2014 at 16:07hrs | | by Lulu Brenda Harris
Zimbabwe - from Animal Farm to Chicken Farm
Some of us were first introduced to George Orwell's Animal Farm as junior students when most English teachers then thought if you didn't read the book, then you had not read anything yet. ...Published: 02 Apr 2014 at 22:29hrs | | by Moses Chamboko
Teacher runs amok, attacks workmates and students
A MALE teacher - suspected to be high on drugs - has paralysed the learning process at Sherukuru High School in Mutasa District by violently chasing away fellow workmates and students with dangerous w...Published: 22 Mar 2014 at 07:49hrs | | by Samuel Kadungure
Actor Peter O'Toole dies, aged 81
Actor Peter O'Toole, who shot to international fame in the film classic "Lawrence of Arabia", has died aged 81 in London after a long illness, his agent said on Sunday.O'Toole, who survived a ...Published: 16 Dec 2013 at 04:43hrs | | by Reuters
Jacob Mudenda's political rise-fall-and-rise tale
Despite being tainted by Gukurahundi atrocities and the Willowgate scandal, Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) chairperson Jacob Mudenda's star continues to rise. He has now opened a new...Published: 06 Sep 2013 at 06:17hrs | 66 | by Staff reporter
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