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Chiwenga says govt to review education curricular
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga says government will continue to reviewing and improving the education curricular at all levels to ensure it remains relevant to the country's labour market needs....Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 08:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
12 Zanu-PF MPs bite the dust in Mashonaland Central
PRELIMINARY results for the just-ended Zanu-PF primary elections in Mashonaland Central indicate that 12 National House of Assembly candidates fell by the wayside in the primary elections held over th...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 06:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa recycles deadwood
Some forgotten Zanu-PF stalwarts had their political careers resurrected at the ruling party's just ended congress after spending years in the cold following the creation of a council of elders and ap...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 06:57hrs | 2 | by Staff rporter
Zanu-PF stalwarts and ex-ministers troop back
Zanu-PF stalwarts and ex-ministers in the current administration and late former President Robert Mugabe's government are plotting a political comeback after they were cleared by the politburo to cont...Published: 08 Oct 2022 at 21:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Broke Kazembe fails to honour his own pledge
Home Affairs Minister and ZANU PF Mash Central Chairperson Kazembe Kazembe has failed to honour a public pledge towards his party's annual conference which kick-started Wednesday.Kazembe pledg...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 14:21hrs | 10 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu PF youths endorse Musarara
ZANU-PF youth league supporters in Mashonaland Central province have challenged Tafadzwa Musarara to lead them. "Take us to ...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 19:46hrs | | by Shelton Muchena
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
Dokora steps down in Chairmanship race
FORMER cabinet Minister Lazarus Dokora who was eying ZANU PF Mashonaland Central provincial chairman post to ouster the incumbent Kazembe has stepped down...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:50hrs | 2 | by Paul Ndou
Kazembe Kazembe's rigging plot exposed
FIREWORKS are expected at a potentially explosive Zanu-PF Mashonaland Central provincial executive meeting Monday as the provinces top guns lock horns in a do-or-die pre-election encounter.The...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 18:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF factional firestorm worsens
THE Zanu-PF factional firestorm has continued raging, with officials blatantly defying last week's injunction by the politburo - its highest decision-making organ between congresses - as they continue...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 18:53hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF factional fights reach boiling point
Zanu-PF ructions in Mashonaland Central province have reached the boiling point, with two distinct camps brawling for key positions amid reports that two cabinet ministers belonging to one camp are mo...Published: 04 Sep 2021 at 19:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe Kazembe suffers major defeat
ZANU PF Mashonaland Central Provincial Chairman Kazembe Kazembe suffered humiliation after the party's commissariat department reversed his decision to co-opt new members into the Provincial executive...Published: 09 Aug 2021 at 09:25hrs | 17 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF Mashonaland West factions face off
THE fight for the Zanu-PF Mashonaland Central chairmanship has turned nasty, amid reports that the incumbent Kazembe Kazembe's supporters have embarked on a smear campaign against James Makamba who is...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 14:57hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
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
WATCH: Dokora involved in abductions
Former Minister of Reconciliation Moses Mzila Ndlovu claims that Lazarus Dokora was involved in the abduction of ZIPRA and ZAPU officials during Gukurahundi.Watch the video below ...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 12:13hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa silences critics with new Cabinet
A developmental Cabinet I would call it. Brilliant balance between old and trusted hands, technocrats and youthfulness. A well thought out Cabinet that balances the competing demands of the economy an...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 19:23hrs | 12 | by Lloyd Msipa
MDC Alliance govt will launch Chamisa Care, Biti says
MDC Alliance Principal Tendai Biti has told supporters that if they vote for President Nelson Chamisa the alliance will launch a Chamisa care scheme. He said Chamisa care will enable peo...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 07:34hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Parties scale up campaign against frog-marching children to rallies
OPPOSITION political parties and civic groups have scaled up the campaign against frog-marching of schoolchildren to political rallies, thus exposing them to attacks.This follows a suspected g...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 07:10hrs | 2 | 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
38 years of independence: Reflections from Zimbabwe's education sector
This article originally appeared in the Zimbabwe Communist Party quarterly journal 'Vanguard' Vol.2 Issue 5 (1st May 2018) Zimbabwe commemorated 38 years of Independence at a water-shed m...Published: 17 May 2018 at 10:22hrs | 1 | by Obert Masaraure - National President of ARTUZ
4 months since Mugabe's ouster. Has Zimbabwe changed for the better?
24 November 2017 was an electrifying day for Zimbabweans. For the first time in 30 years, they would have a new president. Robert Mugabe, who for so long had dominated and controlled Zimbabwe's politi...Published: 03 Apr 2018 at 17:03hrs | 1 | by Mako Muzenda
Chamisa to roll out truth & reconciliation NOT for gukurahundi
MDC-T and MDC Alliance presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa yesterday pledged to roll out a holistic national truth and reconciliation programme to heal the wounds of the 2002 and 2008 violent elect...Published: 26 Mar 2018 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Dokora thanks God for O'level exam paper leak'
The outspoken Norton house of assembly member Temba Mliswa has said that the sacked Minister of Education, Sport and Culture Lazarus Dokora is thanking God for the recent Zimbabwe School Examinations ...Published: 12 Feb 2018 at 14:39hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Teachers up in arms with ministry over errors in cultural books
VICTORIA Falls teachers are up in arms with the Primary and Secondary Education ministry over new religious and cultural books that they claim and carried "wrong and malicious" statements that do not ...Published: 05 Feb 2018 at 13:26hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Teachers renew vacation leave demand
Teachers have demanded from the new Primary and Education minister Paul Mavima reinstatement of vacation leave.Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) secretary-general Robson Che...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 15:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe searching for totem-less politics
Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa returns from exile after fleeing Zimbabwe following his sacking from the Vice Presidency the previous fortnight by the then President of Zimbabwe and the ruling party, Robe...Published: 09 Dec 2017 at 05:56hrs | | 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
Chaos in the health sector - PDP
Yesterday an old look cabinet was restored into office by President Mnangagwa who blew an opportunity to restart, bring in new ideas and buy confidence from the Zimbabwean people.The citizen h...Published: 05 Dec 2017 at 15:46hrs | | by PDP
Dokora was 'hugely misunderstood'
Former Primary and Education minister Lazarus Dokora has said he gave it his best despite public distrust while his predecessor Paul Mavima believes Dokora was "hugely misunderstood."Dokora al...Published: 05 Dec 2017 at 10:10hrs | 1 | 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
Mnangagwa's administration showing signs of hope to citizens - Ezra Sibanda
Former ZBC presenter Ezra Tshisa Sibanda has been encouraged by President Emmerson Mnangagwa following the dismissal of Lazarus Dokora as Minister of Primary and secondary education due to the concern...Published: 05 Dec 2017 at 08:53hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Dokora breaks the record of Zim's short-lived govt ministers
If there was someone queer enough to apply to Guinness Book of World Records to have the title "shortest lived government ministers" added to their database, the category will certainly not be short o...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 13:39hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
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
Confusion hits Mnangagwa's new govt
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has made a sudden U-turn on some of his Cabinet appointments to avoid falling afoul of the supreme law of the land.In terms of section 104(3) of the national chart...Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 12:31hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wanted Tsvangirai's ministers, says Mutsvangwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa picked War Veterans leader Christopher Mutsvangwa as Information minister before hastily dropping his name after realising that the law only allowed him to appoint five no...Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa Cabinet saga deepens
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been forced to drop some members of his new Cabinet before they could be sworn in after he appointed more than the stipulated five ministers from outside Parliament....Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 18:38hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must not squander goodwill
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is riding the wave of popularity after replacing the reviled Robert Mugabe after a military takeover last month.The euphoria is understandable because Zimbabweans ...Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dokora kicked out of Mnangagwa's cabinet
The Minister of Primary and Secondary education Lazarus Dokora has been replaced by Prof Paul Mavima.Following an earlier announcement made by the Chief Secretary to the President and ...Published: 02 Dec 2017 at 10:38hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's cabinet closes debate on multiparty govt - MDC official
An MDC official Discent C Bajila has said the announcement of cabinet ministers by President Emmerson Mnangagwa closes the chapter of debate as to whether there would be a multiparty government in Zim...Published: 02 Dec 2017 at 07:29hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Most cabinet ministers are Mugabe loyalists
Wilf Mbanga, a Zimbabwean journalist who lives in exile in South Africa, says the majority of the news cabinet are loyalists to former leader Robert Mugabe.But he told the BBC's Newsday progra...Published: 01 Dec 2017 at 12:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Command cabinet - 22 ministers, 6 deputies
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday appointed a 22-member Cabinet in a move that saw some line ministries with functional duplications being merged.He also brought in some new faces into Go...Published: 01 Dec 2017 at 05:07hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu to be pushed out?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday dissolved former President Robert Mugabe's Cabinet and unveiled a two-member interim Cabinet "to allow for uninterrupted services in critical ministries of gover...Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 05:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warned
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to avoid appointing people with corruption records into his Cabinet as part of measures to curb the vice.ZCT...Published: 27 Nov 2017 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs jostle for Cabinet posts
TOP Zanu-PF officials, among them politburo members, from the former President Robert Mugabe-led regime have reportedly circled President Emmerson Mnangagwa , jostling for Cabinet posts ahead of the a...Published: 27 Nov 2017 at 05:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Teachers demo against Dokora on today
THE Amalgamated Rural Teachers's Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) has organised a protest march today to force Primary and Secondary Education minister Lazarus Dokora to step down for allegedly failing to pr...Published: 23 Nov 2017 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dokora dragged to court over debt
A KADOMA businessman has dragged the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education to the Bulawayo High Court over a debt of more than $56 000 in unpaid rentals at his building.Mr Aleck Mapfumo,...Published: 18 Nov 2017 at 04:43hrs | | 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 will not withdraw condemned Ndebele book from schools
Government will not withdraw from schools, a Grade One Ndebele textbook which has caused social media upheaval over alleged wrongly spelt words, a Cabinet Minister has said. Primary and Secondary Educ...Published: 16 Oct 2017 at 06:16hrs | | 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
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