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New Zimsec Bill proposes stiff penalties for exam cheats
Examination candidates caught cheating or engaging in other malpractices could face up to five years' imprisonment under the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) Amendment Bill recently gazet...Published: 17 Jun 2025 at 07:34hrs | 166 | by Staff reporter
Exam cheats to be jailed 9 years
Individuals caught leaking public examination question papers could now face up to nine years in prison, while schools involved in the offence risk deregistration and permanent closure, under tough ne...Published: 10 Apr 2025 at 08:57hrs | 71 | by Staff reporter
8 exam cheats arrested in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) has reported that among the eight suspects apprehended for various fraudulent activities, including an attempt to take an exam on behalf of another candid...Published: 26 Oct 2023 at 06:28hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Exam cheats face nine years in prison
Individuals convicted of leaking public examination question papers in Zimbabwe now face more severe penalties, including up to nine years in prison, while students found guilty of the same offense wi...Published: 24 Sep 2023 at 08:54hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec in shocking U-turn over 'exam cheats'
The Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) pulled a shocker yesterday after it released the 2022 Ordinary Level results for Mukaro and Silveira high schools in Masvingo, a few days after withho...Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 05:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'O' Level exam cheat ordered to perform 140 hours unpaid work
A CHINHOYI 2 High School Form Four learner, who was busted with an answer template to a Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC) Combined Science paper last year, has been sentenced to community ...Published: 19 Jan 2023 at 13:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
590 exam cheats nabbed: Zimsec
NEARLY 590 suspects were caught cheating while sitting for November 2022 Ordinary and Advanced Level final examinations, the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) has said.This was aft...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
109 exam cheats arrested
Police have arrested over 100 learners accused of sharing a leaked Ordinary Level Mathematics Paper One, which they sat a fortnight ago, with the authorities now considering amendment of the Zimbabwe ...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 06:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Exam cheats face imprisonment
STUDENTS, teachers and school heads who engage or facilitate cheating during Zimsec examinations now face arrest and imprisonment.The Government, through Zimsec, announced a raft of penalties ...Published: 17 Sep 2022 at 06:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Exam cheats' take Zimsec to court
TWO Ordinary Level students, who were denied their results over alleged cheating have sued the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) demanding their release.The students, Ashley Mutand...Published: 26 Aug 2021 at 06:37hrs | 2 | 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
Exam fees hiked from $20 to $220
A Bulawayo school has given June 2019 private examination students four days to pay an examination fee which has been hiked with more than ten percent from the initial advertised fee. A ...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 19:46hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
End of road for exam cheaters
Learners who sought to cheat their way through the November 2017 Ordinary Level examinations have been dealt a heavy blow after the Constitutional Court dismissed an application by their parents and g...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 10:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec refuses to release results of 'exam cheats'
The Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) has defended its decision to cancel the results of at least 16 "O" Level pupils from Nagle House School in Marondera, arguing that their answer script...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 11:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Exam cheat' teacher speaks out
A TEACHER from Camelot High School in Kwekwe, who was allegedly caught red handed trying to write a Mathematics examination paper for a pupil, has vehemently denied the allegations saying although he ...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 09:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'O' Level exam cheats in court
TWO Chibuwe High School 'O' Level students in Chipinge district were on Monday dragged to court for allegedly leaking two Zimbabwe School Examination Council papers.The duo, who cannot be named be...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Exam cheats lose court challenge
THE High Court yesterday dismissed an application by 15 Gweru-based Regina Mundi High School pupils who were blacklisted by the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) for alleged cheating....Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 06:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Exam 'cheats' sue Zimsec
FIFTEEN Regina Mundi High School pupils who were blacklisted for alleged examination cheating have taken the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) and the Minister of Primary and Secondary Edu...Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 05:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
High Court to sit over exam resit
TWO parents in Harare have approached the High Court to cancel the scheduled resitting of the November 2017 Ordinary Level English Language Paper 2 public examination.In their urgent chamber a...Published: 11 Feb 2018 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nullified English Paper to be re-written next week
THE Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has nullified the November 2017 Ordinary Level English Language Paper 2 examination, with candidates expected to write a new test on Friday next week....Published: 09 Feb 2018 at 06:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Exam cheats withdraw case against Zimsec
At least 19 pupils from Nagle House School in Marondera have withdrawn their case challenging the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) decision to cancel 2017 Ordinary Level results for an en...Published: 06 Feb 2018 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Crafty maths exam cheat spared jail
A Bulawayo woman who had become a "specialist" in writing mathematics exams for other candidates has been spared jail by the courts.Portia Nyamukondiwa, 22, from Nkulumane appeared before Esig...Published: 01 Nov 2017 at 13:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Exam cheat blames stranger
I AIN'T a snitch!A woman caught cheating during an Ordinary Level Science paper three examination has decided to take the fall and not give names.Sithulisiwe Ngwenya sat for the paper ...Published: 27 Oct 2017 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Serial exam cheat caught red-handed
A 22-YEAR-OLD woman was caught writing a Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) Ordinary Level Mathematics examination for another candidate at Irisvale Secondary School in Matabeleland South's...Published: 19 Oct 2017 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T university exam cheat MP worry Chinatomba
Zanu-PF legislator Joseph Chinotimba raised concern in parliament Wednesday on alleged double standards employed at universities when students and legislators are caught cheating during exam...Published: 01 Dec 2016 at 13:13hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
MDC-T MP caught cheating in exam
"WHEN the going gets tough the tough gets going" so goes an old adage.However, for MDC-T National Assembly member for Tsholotsho, Ms Lwazi Sibanda (proportional representation) when the examin...Published: 27 Nov 2016 at 09:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
High Court judge dismisses application by exam cheat
THE High Court has dismissed an application by a Midlands State University (MSU) student challenging his expulsion and nullification of results after he was caught while allegedly cheating d...Published: 04 Nov 2016 at 05:36hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Exam cheaters get 140 hrs community service
Two women who were convicted for cheating during the Zimsec mathematics examinations of June this year have been sentenced to 140 hours of community service.Jentah Chikudza, 33, and Tsitsi Pla...Published: 17 Jun 2016 at 09:49hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Labour Court order reinstatement of Zimra employee
Bulawayo Labour Court judge Justice Moya-Matshanga has reinstated an employee who was two years ago dismissed by his employer, the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) for taking annotated statutes into...Published: 13 Apr 2016 at 06:29hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Nust exam cheat loses case at High Court
THE High Court has dismissed an application by a National University of Science and Technology (Nust) student challenging the nullification of his results after he was caught cheating during an examin...Published: 14 Mar 2016 at 05:38hrs | | by Mashudu Netsianda
18 exam cheats convicted
Eighteen cheating students from different high schools in Chitungwiza who illegally got this year's Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) Ordinary level Mathematics Paper 2 and took the answer...Published: 06 Nov 2015 at 05:33hrs | | by Lovemore Meya
WhatsApp exposes O-Level exam cheats
WhatsApp messages exposed four cheating Ordinary Level Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC) Integrated Science paper 2 candidates half-way through the exam at Mabvuku High School.The ...Published: 15 Aug 2015 at 09:41hrs | 18 | by Fungai Lupande
2 students sue Zimsec
Two former students of Mbizo High School in Kwekwe, who were accused of exam cheating during the November 2013 Ordinary Level examinations, have taken the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec)...Published: 09 Mar 2015 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Court jails Zimbabwean exam cheat
A Zimbabwean court has jailed for nine months a man who bought a leaked school-leavers' exam paper for his brother, in the wake of a major paper leak scandal that will see hundreds of thousands o...Published: 13 Nov 2014 at 09:00hrs | | by SAPA
Exam cheat to get 2 strokes
A PUPIL at Msiteli High School in Bulawayo who was caught with a leaked Ordinary Level Mathematics examination paper will receive two strokes while his 21-year-old brother who supplied him with the p...Published: 13 Nov 2014 at 06:20hrs | | by Nokusa Masuku
Exam cheats in court
A 17-YEAR-OLD boy from Msiteli High School in Bulawayo, who was alleged to have leaked a Zimbabwe School Examination Council (Zimsec) mathematics paper two, yesterday appeared in court.The boy...Published: 12 Nov 2014 at 07:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
No leniency on exam cheats
Government will not be lenient on the 680 candidates from nine schools in the Midlands who were linked to the leaking of two Ordinary Level examination question papers last year, a Cabinet Minister sa...Published: 18 Mar 2014 at 07:50hrs | | by Patrick Chitumba
Zimsec withholds results for suspected exam cheats
THE Zimbabwe School Examinations Council has withheld some results for 2012 Ordinary and Advanced Level examinations for several schools amid suspicion that candidates cheated, especially during pract...Published: 07 Feb 2013 at 04:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Age sold out exam cheating teacher
THE Bulawayo Accounts and Mathematics private teacher who was allegedly caught writing an examination on behalf of an Ordinary Level candidate at the Methodist College in Makokoba was sold out by his ...Published: 01 Nov 2012 at 04:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
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