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Student to perform community service for academic fraud
In a decisive move against educational corruption, 22-year-old Carlos Tadiwa Mafuwe, a student at Kwekwe Polytechnic, has been convicted of academic fraud and sentenced to perform unpaid community ser...Published: 26 May 2025 at 08:19hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter
Kwekwe doctors' residence project stalls
The reconstruction of the doctor's residence at Kwekwe General Hospital remains stalled due to lack of funding, leaving hospital staff struggling for accommodation nearly four years after a devastatin...Published: 01 Nov 2024 at 06:31hrs | 67 | by Staff reporter
Mashonaland youths get farms
Twenty-one youths from Mashonaland West Province received A2 Permits under the Presidential 10ha Scheme that seeks to mainstream the participation of youths in agriculture and form a key pillar in the...Published: 06 May 2023 at 06:40hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Life gets tough for Zimbabwe's tertiary level students
LIFE for tertiary level students is becoming increasingly difficult due to economic hardships, an official has said.Addressing students at Kwekwe Polytechnic, president of the Zimbabwe Congres...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF vows Chamisa 'humiliation'
Zanu-PF has vowed to deliver a landslide victory in the 2023 general elections with a margin so comprehensive the opposition won't even think of a court challenge.This was said by the ruling p...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 19:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Multi-million-dollar road rehabilitation storm erupts in Zimbabwe
KWEKWE City Council in the Midlands has failed to account for millions of dollars poured into the local authority for the rehabilitation of roads amid revelations that politically connected comp...Published: 23 May 2022 at 13:18hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Cyberbullies are Cowards
Am I the only one receiving cyber attacks on social media? What can you do if you are a target of cyberattacks? In this paper, the author would define what cyberbullying is and what cyberbullies a...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 13:51hrs | 8 | by Etiwel Mutero
Another Kwekwe Poly Lecturer succumbs to covid-19
A LECTURER at Kwekwe Polytechnic's automotive department has succumbed to covid-19 complications, bringing the number of lecturers who have died from the virus at the institution within a month to two...Published: 02 Jul 2021 at 13:35hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
ZRP cracks whip on lockdown violators, intercity buses impounded
Authorities yesterday intensified the enforcement of Covid-19 control measures with police impounding buses that were operating illegally, while the Judicial Service Commission announced the closure o...Published: 24 Jun 2021 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff Reporter
More schools, colleges hit by Covid-19
COVID-19 is ripping through educational institutions in the country with latest statistics showing that more than 150 learners and teachers at schools and colleges have tested positive.Sunday ...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:40hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt ups stakes in Covid-19 fight
GOVERNMENT will today roll out a nationwide community-based Covid-19 testing study, expected to pinpoint coronavirus hotspots, in order to inform the deployment of tailor-made response strategies for ...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Colleges suspend lectures over Covid-19
THE Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Polytechnic in Gwanda and Kwekwe Polytechnic colleges have indefinitely suspended face-to-face lectures after students tested positive for Covid-19 at the institutions. ...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 05:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Students resist Hexco exam rewrite
Scores of disgruntled former Kwekwe Polytechnic students yesterday refused to resit for an examination in which some of the candidates were caught cheating, leading to the nullification of the results...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 08:02hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Teaching University or Research University: More than a case of to be or not to be
That our State Universities have modelled themselves mostly as teaching-focused universities where, the main activities are teaching and scholarship of learning and teaching, is a public secret. With ...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 11:33hrs | 4 | by Enock JONATHAN
Teaching University or Research University: More than a case of to be or not to be
That our State Universities have modeled themselves mostly as teaching-focused universities where, the main activities are teaching and scholarship of learning and teaching, is a public secret. With a...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 22:30hrs | 2 | by Enock Jonathan
Machete attackers target students
Kwekwe Polytechnic College students have become the latest target of machete attacks that have become synonymous with the mining town.Two students were reportedly seriously injured after mache...Published: 24 May 2018 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Embrace new political dispensation, youths urged
Minister of State for Midlands Provincial Affairs Owen Ncube has urged youths to embrace the new political dispensation led by President Mnangagwa.He also urged them to shun drug abuse and cor...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Multi-million dollar airport for Kwekwe
KWEKWE is set to construct a multi-million dollar state-of-the-art airport to replace the aerodrome that has been decommissioned, as it was built between a college and a residential area.Mayor...Published: 04 May 2017 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
MPs duck Tsholotsho on Zimdef fact-finding mission
Legislators on a fact-finding mission of Zimbabwe Manpower Development Fund projects have said they will not tour Tsholotsho North where Government Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo is alleged to h...Published: 25 Feb 2017 at 08:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kwekwe polytechnic restructures management to accommodate acting vice principal
Kwekwe polytechnic is reportedly restructuring management to accommodate acting vice principal who allegedly failed to secure post as substantive vice principalSources from the institution ind...Published: 20 Oct 2016 at 18:30hrs | 22 | by Stephen Jakes
Polytechnics told review staff qualifications
POLYTECHNICS must review staff qualifications and competencies before they transform into degree awarding institutions for identified science, technology, engineering and mathematics (Stem) courses....Published: 13 Aug 2016 at 09:05hrs | | by Patrick Chitumba
Smelly Dube scoops businesswoman award
PROMINENT Gweru businesswoman and reigning Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) national businesswoman of the year Mrs Smelly Dube has scooped the Midlands most outstanding businesswoman for 2...Published: 22 Jun 2016 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Colleges urged to be self reliant
Higher and Tertiary Education deputy minister Godfrey Gandawa has urged public colleges to stop relying solely on funding from Treasury but seek alternative ways of generating their own cash as go...Published: 12 Aug 2015 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Namibia drags feet on Zimbabwe qualifications
TWENTY-EIGHT Namibian graduates who studied at institutions in Zimbabwe are having trouble convincing the Namibia Qualifications Authority (NQA) that their qualifications are legitimate.This follo...Published: 30 Jan 2015 at 14:48hrs | | by Theresia Tjihenuna
Mutsvangwa stokes Zanu-PF firestorm
Zanu-PF structures in the country's 10 provinces are divided on how to deal with Foreign Affairs deputy minister Chris Mutsvangwa who has of late been attacking senior party officials as factionalism ...Published: 24 Aug 2014 at 11:42hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Catholic run hospital blocks distribution of condoms
THE Roman Catholic-run Zhombe Mission Hospital in Kwekwe rural and Kwekwe Polytechnic are allegedly blocking the distribution of condoms at the two institutions, setting themselves on a collision cour...Published: 18 Jun 2014 at 06:04hrs | | by Kamangeni Phiri
More damning corruption by Kwekwe Polytechnic Principal revealed
Sources very close to the happenings at Kwekwe Polytechnic have revealed further damning corruption reports about college principal Mr Joyce Cephas Mbudzi, who doubles as acting director for stand...Published: 11 Apr 2014 at 16:44hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Corruption at Kwekwe Polytechnic Principal - WhatsApp update
Please note that Bulawayo24 does not edit WhatsApp updates. We publish them as sent by our readers and we do not disclose the sender...Published: 24 Mar 2014 at 13:52hrs | 4 | by Concerned Citizen
Perm sec sucked into Hexco scandal
The credibility of the Higher Education Examinations Council is under threat after a top civil servant engaged an automotive precision mechanist to design, install, operationalise and manage the d...Published: 24 Feb 2014 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Accident victims named
Death is a thief, but rarely does it wipe out a whole family as it did the Usaiwataka family in a road accident along the Harare-Chirundu Road on Sunday afternoon. Lost dreams, lost potential ...Published: 11 Feb 2014 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lovemore Majaivana's son dreams big
Randal Majaivana, son to self-exiled Zimbabwe music legend Lovemore Majaivana, believes it is now time to revive his father's music legacy.The Kwekwe-based Randal, 26, who has recorded two alb...Published: 31 Jan 2014 at 10:27hrs | 1 | by arts reporter
College students cry foul over ministry's directive
BULAWAYO Polytechnic College students have cried foul over the Tertiary Education ministry's directive for them to submit additional assignments on top of those they have already done a few days befor...Published: 23 Oct 2013 at 02:31hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimdef records more than $12.6 million surplus
THE Zimbabwe Manpower Development Fund (Zimdef) recorded a surplus of more than $12.6 million in the year ending 31 December 2012, up from $11,7 million the same period the previous year. In a...Published: 11 Jul 2013 at 21:17hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Headmistress jailed embezzling school funds
FIRED Ruvimbo Government Primary school headmistress Flora Magidha (58) has been jailed for an effective 10 months for allegedly embezzling school funds.Magidha and co accused Elton Mudiwa (22...Published: 27 Feb 2013 at 12:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe soccer player dies in action
NQOBIZITHA NDLOVU, a former Dynamos youth player who was playing for Division One side Silo United, collapsed during a match at the weekend and died a few hours later in hospital.Ndlovu (21) c...Published: 06 Jun 2011 at 08:21hrs | 1 | by Nare Msupa
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