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Senior citizen rapes Grade 2 kid
A 72-year-old Bindura man who allegedly raped a grade two pupil has been denied bail.Lazarus Chiku of Chiweshe village was advised to apply for bail at the High Court by magistrate Amos Mbobo....Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 14:24hrs | 65 | by Staff reporter
Abafundi balala endleleni yesikolo ngokudinwa ngoba befunda khatshana
Izakhamizi ze Bafazi village eMzingwane zicela ukuphathiswa ukuqedisa ukwakhiwa kwesikolo se Thokozani Primary esasungulwa ngomnyaka ophelileyo.Okwamanje isikolo lesi silendlu yokufundela eyod...Published: 16 Dec 2024 at 15:22hrs | 500 | by Staff reporter
Pastor Mboro arrested following panga attack at a school
Four suspects have been arrested after a group of panga-wielding men intimidated teachers at a Katlehong school on Monday.According to the Gauteng education department, in a series of shocking...Published: 06 Aug 2024 at 13:56hrs | 1895 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt scraps Cala, introduces school based projects
THE Continuous Assessment Learning Activities (CALA) have, with immediate effect, been replaced with the new school-based projects of practical applications with the number of areas covered by the non...Published: 28 Feb 2024 at 06:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi threatens blitz on 'foreign' teachers
The secessionist political party, Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP), has issued a threat to escalate its campaign against teachers from outside the Matebeleland region. MRP President Mqondisi Moyo, marki...Published: 17 Jan 2024 at 04:59hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Could this be the next great African golfer? Meet Zuwa Luwo
In the world of golf, where seasoned professionals spend years honing their skills, one young prodigy has taken the sport by storm almost straight out the womb! Meet Zuwa Luwo, a 8-year-old golf sensa...Published: 23 Jun 2023 at 06:06hrs | 28 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Dad christens kids Jesus, Mbuya Nehanda and Mugabe
Jesus, Mbuya Nehanda and Mugabe are siblings! This is not blasphemy or a script for a movie and believe it or not, there is a Harare family where they incarnate.Even if we are to invite the DN...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 24 500km road network to be revamped by 2025
THIS week Zimbabwe Independent (ZI) business reporter, Freeman Makopa caught up with Transport and Infrastructural Development minister Felix Mhona (FM) to discuss updates in the progress of crucial i...Published: 09 Dec 2022 at 17:55hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Why a Formula One racetrack in Zimbabwe is a pipe dream
It was all a dream for Zimbabwe to have a Formula One racetrack.A dream sold by politicians who argued it could be a major tourist attraction, especially if it was built near the country's pri...Published: 12 Oct 2022 at 19:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
1 500 teachers recruited
The Government has recruited 1 500 teachers since the beginning of the year to address the teacher-learner ratio and ensure strict compliance to Covid-19 protocols.The latest recruitments are ...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
School heads get salary boost
HEADMASTERS will get a salary boost that will see some pocketing 25 percent more in addition to their salary depending on the number of pupils at the school, an official has said.Speaking on t...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:11hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Textbook shortages hit Bulilima schools
Benson Dube, a retired primary school teacher, remembers with nostalgia the "good old days" when the student-textbook ratio was 1:1."For me, that is what made teaching exciting," Dube said....Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Outcry over teacher deployments
OPPOSITION legislator Anele Ndebele has blamed poor teacher deployments for the low pass rate registered by Matabeleland schools as government fails to provide a convincing answer over last year's dis...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:19hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean boy comes tops in international contest
NINE_YEAR-OLD Zimbabwean boy Jayden Wang, based in Bulawayo has come out tops in an international competition known as the IXL Study in the Sun.The contest, which ran for three months from Jun...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean whizkid (14) enrols at Malawi medical school
TAIDA Mapara, a 14-year-old student from a Harare-based private college, Hilbright Science College, has enrolled for medical studies at the Malawi Medical School after scoring 15 points in the June 20...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 06:18hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Evangelist' hit with sodomy rap over alleged assault on 6-year-old boy
A self-proclaimed evangelist was charged with indecent assault on Monday, accused of sickening sodomy attack on a six-year-old boy.Prosper Kamuchira, of Budiriro, pleaded not guilty when he ap...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 08:02hrs | 1 | by ZimLive
Matabeleland roads get facelift
The District Development Fund (DDF) has embarked on a massive rehabilitation of roads and bridges in Matabeleland to improve infrastructure in the region.The government department, which falls...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Parly in heated debate over pregnant school girls
THE Education Amendment Bill, which is currently in its second reading stage in the National Assembly, has attracted heated debate on whether pregnant girls should be allowed to continue with class....Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
East coast dark horse entries to lead the 2019 Kentucky Derby
The Churchill Downs race track in 700 Central Avenue is now set and ready to show-off the 145th edition of the Kentucky Derby. This is the first jewel of the Triple Crown Series followed by the two ma...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 10:56hrs | 2 | by Staff Writer
Council retrenchment nullified
SIX Harare City Council senior managers who were 'retired' in 2014 although they were below the age of 65 years are set to bounce back at Town House and pocket huge sums of money after the Supreme Cou...Published: 05 Nov 2018 at 05:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The numbers make sense unless my mathematics is wrong
Dear MDC Alliance I'm neither a mathematician nor a rocket scientist but surely these numbers make sense thanks to my grade 2 maths lessons. Listening to the biased VOA on Wednesday evening N....Published: 08 Aug 2018 at 10:59hrs | | by Munya Shumba
Zimbabwe's answer doesn't lie in the box
And so it is with my Grade 2 granddaughter. Only yesterday, she sought my help with what seemed to me a very simple multi-choice Math problem. My wife and I have always admired the rare professional a...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 14:32hrs | | by Zifiso Masiye
'Blackman' turns bodyguard into a podium
HIS bodyguard-turned-podium is now sweating profusely as the Kwekwe Central MP and former Zanu PF member, Masango "Blackman" Matambanadzo, keeps extending his speech during a National Patriotic Front ...Published: 11 Jun 2018 at 09:01hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'Shebeen queen stabs' hubby to death
A 30-YEAR-OLD man from Pumula suburb in Bulawayo died after he was allegedly stabbed by his wife who is said to be a shebeen queen following a misunderstanding.Neighbours claim Martin Ncube wa...Published: 06 Mar 2018 at 05:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pirate taxi hits, kills Grade 2 pupil
A pirate taxi knocked down and killed a seven-year-old child in Nkulumane suburb courting the anger of residents who immediately erected huge speed humps in protest.Njabulo Sibanda, a Grade Tw...Published: 23 Feb 2018 at 05:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
A thought on Morgan Tsvangirai
A few years ago I came across a quote by VS Naipaul which said that, "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."I thought that ...Published: 20 Feb 2018 at 11:10hrs | 1 | by Gwinyai Taruvinga
MRP delegation visits Ntshamathe Primary School on fact finding mission
An Mthwakazi Republic Party delegation led by its foreign affairs Secretary Njabulo Ngwenya and National youth chairman Xolani Ncube, has visited Ntshamathe Primary school on a fact finding mission, f...Published: 24 Jan 2018 at 16:09hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Grade two pupil hangs self on scotch cart
A nine-year-old boy from Pelele Village in Gwanda District, Matabeleland South died in a suspected suicide after he hanged himself with a belt on a scotch-cart support bar in what has left the communi...Published: 12 Nov 2017 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Nkosana Moyo misguided
A political commentator Vince Musewe has said the 2018 presidential aspirant Nkosana Moyo is misguided by thinking that he can just wrestle power from President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF as easy as he...Published: 27 Aug 2017 at 06:31hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Tsholotsho's San community takes up education
Members of the marginalised San community in Tsholotsho are slowly coming out of their shell and embracing modern lifestyles, as they are now enrolling their children in schools.According to l...Published: 05 Jul 2017 at 16:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
New salary model for Zimbabwean civil servants
THE Government has introduced a new civil servants remuneration system that will see teachers, nurses and other health workers being paid or allocated resources through their specific programmes and s...Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 10:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man at odds with in-laws, 25 years no lobola
Former Barura and Orchestra Mberikwazvo rhythm guitarist Innocent Mjintu is at odds with his in-laws for not paying lobola for the past 25 years.This emerged during a spat between him and ...Published: 31 Mar 2017 at 17:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
5-year old whiz kid now in Grade 2
Zimbabwe may have another academic record breaker in the making as 5-year old whiz kid at Widdcombe Primary in Hatfield, Harare is exhibiting a rare intellectual capacity with an above average int...Published: 23 Feb 2017 at 11:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'I am now in Grade 3', Zanu-PF MP tells Parliament
KWEKWE Central MP Masango Matambanadzo, popularly known as "Blackman" has told the nation through Parliament that he is no longer a Grade 2 dropout but now in Grade 3 and 'progressing in my education ...Published: 15 Feb 2017 at 09:35hrs | 1 | by Thobekile Zhou
Two kids drown in flooded river
Two children one doing grade 2 and the other who is not yet a school going age drowned along Shake River in Gwanda following the heavy down pour that fell in the area.The children reportedly d...Published: 04 Jan 2017 at 05:41hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
We have a bloated parliament sleeping on duty- Muzambindo
A political analyst Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo has while Zimbabwe is faced with serious economic challenges it was sad that it has a bloated parliament of 210 legislators. He said first and forem...Published: 30 Dec 2016 at 05:25hrs | 8 | by Stephen Jakes
We have a bloated parliament sleeping on duty
First and foremost I would like to highlight some major roles which parliament plays toward enhancing development. It is the duty and obligation of the public to have an oversight view on the roles of...Published: 29 Dec 2016 at 10:29hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Pupil turns into snake?
IN a bizarre incident, a Makomo Primary School pupil in Epworth is believed to have turned into a snake-like creature after he was provoked by his classmates.The alleged incident happened ...Published: 01 Dec 2016 at 16:21hrs | 3 | by Staf reporter
Implications of the New Curriculum with Padington Chakabva
I am grateful to all stakeholders for the constructive contributions made on the column so far. Today we explore the curriculum framework. The New curriculum organizes the learning into three levels w...Published: 15 Nov 2016 at 07:03hrs | 3 | by Paddy Chakabva
Two pupils who were run over by kombi, laid to rest
CHIWESHE - Two minor siblings from Jaji primary school who were run over by a kombi driver and perished on the spot on Monday the 24th of October were laid to rest yesterday (Wednesday).Circum...Published: 27 Oct 2016 at 10:44hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
HIV+ boy rapes 7 pupils
A fourteen-year-old HIV positive schoolboy from Makonde District enrolled into Grade 2, sexually abused at least seven girls aged between four and seven years while on their way from school, raisi...Published: 20 Sep 2016 at 06:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kombi runs over Grade 2 boy, playmates conceal accident
A GRADE Two pupil from Mbizo Primary School in Bulawayo's Luveve suburb died after being hit by a kombi in Cowdray Park. The driver of the kombi, who is yet to be identified, rushed Tadiwa Hil...Published: 26 Jul 2016 at 06:39hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
Matabeleland South rural pupils face starvation
PUPILS at 450 rural schools in Matabeleland South are facing starvation after it has emerged that the institutions have not yet implemented the Rural Schools Feeding programme although some have recei...Published: 10 Jul 2016 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Richard Muponde
Gun-totting grandpa jailed for rape
A gun totting 70-year-old Buhera man will spend the next 15 years behind bars after he was convicted of raping his seven-year-old granddaughter on two occasions.Manica Post reported that Rubio...Published: 28 May 2016 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff Reporter
School poison terror
THIRTY-SEVEN Grade 2 pupils were yesterday rushed to Mpilo Central Hospital after some of them started vomiting, apparently from food poisoning after eating poisonous Jatropha fruits. Sources ...Published: 12 May 2016 at 06:40hrs | 2 | by Bongani Ndlovu
Boy (8) suffering from Osteromalitis seeks help
Parents of an 8-year-old boy suffering from Osteromalitis (a bone infection) are appealing for financial assistance to have him treated.The illness has stopped Loyiso Ndlovu for attending scho...Published: 14 Apr 2016 at 14:58hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mangwe villagers build primary school
NXELE villagers in Mangwe District have pooled resources to build a primary school. The school started operating this month. Children from the area had to walk about 15 kilometres throug...Published: 12 Feb 2016 at 07:24hrs | | by Sukulwenkosi Dube
70-year-old arrested for raping daughters 9 and 12
THE 70-year-old dad was arrested for allegedly repeatedly raping his daughters aged nine and 12, and the girls were taken to a place of safety.Much to the surprise of many the man was soon rel...Published: 19 Jan 2016 at 14:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Gwanda man tries to grab and rape school girl on her way from school
A man from Matshetsheni in Gwanda tried to grab a grade 2 pupil at Emabilini Mine Amazon Filabusi intending to rape her but she managed to escape and informed her mother.This was heard by Fila...Published: 07 Nov 2015 at 08:01hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Teach Mathematics in Ndebele and Shona - Chinotimba
Zanu-PF MP Joseph Chinotimba has demanded that Ndebele and Shona be used to teach mathematics, saying students are failing because of English language which they don't understand.Chinotimba ra...Published: 22 Oct 2015 at 09:56hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
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