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Lionel Mazarire elected 33rd Child president of Zimbabwe
Chinhoyi Technical High School's Lower Six pupil, Lionel Mazarire, has been elected as Zimbabwe's 33rd Child President, pledging to champion the rights of children nationwide and ensure child-fo...Published: 17 Jun 2025 at 07:31hrs | 442 | by Staff reporter
D-Day for sex pestering ZANU PF MP
The ZANU-PF Mudzi West lawmaker, Knowledge Kaitano's two-year bid to prove his innocence over an accusation of pestering and caressing a (then) lower sixth student after paying for her fees will be de...Published: 04 Mar 2025 at 15:00hrs | 2601 | by Staff Reporters
Sex pestering ZANU PF MP back in court
Mudzi West lawmaker Knowledge Kaitano who was dragged to magistrates courts for pestering and caressing a lower sixth student after paying for her fees is back at Marondera court tomorrow.Kait...Published: 03 Feb 2025 at 14:25hrs | 2793 | by Staff Reporters
Thekwane High school parents protest fee hike and uniform policy
Parents at Thekwane High School in Plumtree have raised concerns over a sharp increase in Lower Six fees, which have risen from around US$500 to US$900. The fee hike, coupled with a requirement to pur...Published: 02 Feb 2025 at 18:51hrs | 1912 | by Staff reporter
Lower Six classes set to resume on January 27
Lower Sixth classes are scheduled to resume on Monday, January 27, 2025, following the release of both Cambridge and ZIMSEC O-Level results, the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education announced o...Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 19:25hrs | 879 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers pounce on Bulawayo school
In a brazen incident of armed robbery, a gang of four assailants ambushed two security guards at Greengables High School on Thursday, October 31, 2024, stealing over $2,000 in cash and various electro...Published: 03 Nov 2024 at 10:15hrs | 786 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF MP pesters teenager for sex
Mudzi West lawmaker Knowledge Kaitano was dragged to Kotwa magistrates courts on Wednesday after he allegedly caressed a lower sixth student after paying for her fees.Kaitano pleaded not guilt...Published: 18 Sep 2024 at 23:03hrs | 3647 | by Simbarashe Sithole/Gideon Madzikatidze
Chiwenga's family donates US$20 000 towards school project
VICE President Dr Constantino Chiwenga's family has donated US$20 000 towards the development of the repurposed St Augustine Catholic College in Sunnyside, Bulawayo, which complements the Government's...Published: 09 Apr 2024 at 06:18hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Cop jailed 15 years for raping a student
A Rushinga-based police officer Tarisai Madondo was sentenced to 15 years in jail yesterday at Bindura regional magistrates courts after raping a low...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 07:03hrs | 22 | by Simbarashe Sithole
St Faith High School Priest shows off punching skills
TEMPERS flared at St Faith's High School on Wednesday, with a priest from the Anglican Diocese of Manicaland showing his boxing skills as parents who escorted Form Five learners bulldozed their way in...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 08:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Form 1 girl passes Cambridge O Level exams
A Form One learner at Atlantic Academy in Harare, Shalom Zingwe, took the Cambridge O Level exams last year aged only 14 and scored three A grades in Computer Science, Accounting and Economics with Bs...Published: 23 Jan 2024 at 04:37hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Maybe if there had been no social media, Zimbabwe would be free today!
When I started writing these social justice articles way back in 1989, as a form three pupil, the world was a very different place.Those of us who had chosen this path - of speaking for the op...Published: 05 Nov 2023 at 13:23hrs | 17 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
55 Gwanda families homeless after court ordered evictions
A total of 55 families have been rendered homeless following their eviction from their residences in Feber Plot, Gwanda, due to a court-ordered eviction.Among those affected are 25 schoolchild...Published: 27 Oct 2023 at 06:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
NSSA is a vehicle for enriching the powerful whilst exploiting the poor!
I already knew that Zimbabwe was hell and a living nightmare for the vast majority of the ordinary citizenry.I was also fully aware that the powerful were the only ones getting richer and rich...Published: 15 Oct 2023 at 09:49hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Legalizing looting shows Zimbabwe is led by dunderheads!
From the time I was a little boy, there was something that always puzzled me.I could never understand how, those who were in top government positions - with all the opportunities availed to th...Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 07:55hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Cowering to a dictator only makes him more brazen!
I was bullied when I was a little child - from my crèche days to early primary school.That was the period my life changed forever - becoming the person I am today. There were two thin...Published: 16 Sep 2023 at 19:27hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe govt ducking responsibility by urging new graduates to start companies!
I remember soon after graduating from journalism school in 1998, I was so eager to be my own boss, such that I implored my parents to help establish a newspaper for me. I had always been passi...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 20:14hrs | 15 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Ex - Dynamos and CAPS United player dumps newly born baby , wife and kids
IT was an emotional scene at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport yesterday when the players from the Archford Gutu Boys Academy, who have been stranded in the United Arab Emirates after a ...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 13:04hrs | 2 | by Erick Matotoba
Hoping to build economy by 'creating' entrepreneurs and innovators is delusional and misguided!
There is a popular saying - leaders are born and not created or made. That is very true.It is a futile exercise trying to make a leader out of someone who never had leadership qualitie...Published: 04 Apr 2023 at 09:59hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Lower 6 classes begin today
Lower Sixth classes start today, with boarders having travelled yesterday to their respective schools, following the release of O'Level results last week.Zimbabwe National Union of School Head...Published: 13 Feb 2023 at 05:15hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Surely, why study 10 subjects at school as if unsure of one's goals in life?
The ZIMSEC Ordinary Level results are out - and, already we are hearing of those outrageous numbers of subjects passed by single candidates. This inevitably leads to the usual debate - is it r...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 16:39hrs | 4 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Why should only ordinary Zimbabweans 'pay the price' whilst ruling elite enjoy lavishness?
For as long as I can remember - and, that goes back three to four decades - the ruling establishment in Zimbabwe has repeatedly alleged that economic hardships being faced by ordinary citizens were ju...Published: 31 Dec 2022 at 19:44hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Why I boycotted Queen Elizabeth II
I WAS a Lower Sixth student at Prince Edward School in Harare, Zimbabwe, when Queen Elizabeth II visited our school in October 1991. Zimbabwe was hosting that year's Commonwealth Heads of Government M...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:07hrs | 4 | by Tafi Mhaka
ZANU PF should cease tarnishing good name of our country's liberation war veterans
If I were to declare that teachers had resolved to support and campaign for President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, for the 2023 elections - who exactly would these 'teachers' be?Is there any w...Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 11:19hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Councilor caught pants down with school pupil in own lodge
Masvingo Provincial Councilors for Ensuring Development (Councilors 4ED) chairperson who is Chiredzi Urban's ward 2 councillor Obert Ngwenya was allegedly caught pants down with a lower six Hippo Vall...Published: 30 Jul 2022 at 19:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe schools back to five-day learning week
THE Government has announced that as schools open for the second term on Tuesday, all pupils are now supposed to attend classes every weekday, finally bringing normalcy to one of the sectors that had ...Published: 01 May 2022 at 11:14hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
No date for O and A-level results release, says Zimsec
LOWER Sixth pupils are now expected to start lessons in the second term after the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) failed to release O-level results in time.In the past years, Zim...Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Targeted sanctions greatest single factor that has kept ZANU PF in power
Yesterday, I travelled to Matebeleland South province - and what I witnessed was a disheartening and heartrending trail of economic disaster and devastation, which has been foistered, and allowed to f...Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 11:19hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Deadline set for Zimsec O, A Level exams marking
THE Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) says it is targeting to finish marking of O and A- Level examinations this week with results expected to be released shortly after.This comes ...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:26hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec exams marking almost complete
THE Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) says it is targeting to finish marking of O and A- Level examinations this week, with results expected to be released shortly after.This comes...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
So, Zimbabwe govt promises, again, to reopen ZISCOSTEEL hahahaha!
Most times, it is extremely difficult to tell whether the Zimbabwe government sees us as pure idiots - or, it is they who are the fools!Surely, how can anyone explain the elusive logic behind ...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 19:29hrs | 10 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Schools opening today
The first term opens today for all classes except Form One and Lower Six, who will be opening separately soon.Learners said they were happy to be going back to school and hoped that they will ...Published: 07 Feb 2022 at 05:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Girls outshine boys in Grade 7 results
Grade Seven results are out and were opened for online viewing yesterday, with Form One selection being done next week and classes starting on Monday, February 14.This is just a week after alm...Published: 05 Feb 2022 at 19:43hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
5 pupils expelled over bullying
GREEN Gables High School, a private school on the outskirts of Bulawayo has reportedly expelled five pupils who were involved in fights and bullying in the past few weeks.The school head, a Mr...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:07hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Rights-pampered pupils turning classrooms into sex nests
NOW immune to corporal punishment and pampered with an array of rights, school children are turning classrooms into sex nests, developments that have left teachers bemused.Some are even practi...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 06:35hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Harare City pass Dembare test
Harare City 0 - 0 DynamosHARARE City overcame the absence of three key players to book their place in the quarterfinals of the Chibuku Super Cup after holding Dynamos in a Group 1 match at Baobab ...Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Abusive teacher pleads guilty, blames toothache
A HARARE school teacher who last week caused a social media stir after he was filmed brutally bashing a Lower Sixth student pleaded guilty to assault charges when he appeared in court on Saturday....Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Violent teacher found guilty
TALENT Chingwaru, the Mathematics teacher who was last week filmed assaulting a Lower Six student at a school in Harare, was yesterday convicted on his own plea of guilt and immediately appealed for a...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Teacher arrested for brutal student assault
A PRIVATE college teacher in Harare was yesterday arrested after a video of him brutally assaulting an 18-year-old student went viral.Police confirmed the arrest of the Harare Einstein Tuition...Published: 16 Oct 2021 at 06:29hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Chinese worse colonizers than the British, as savagely exploiting our country out of existence
I am a ZISCOSTEEL product. Born and bred in the iron and steel making small town of Redcliff.As with most towns and cities in Zimbabwe - Redcliff was built entirely by companies that opened th...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 19:38hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF goes digital
Zanu-PF Harare province yesterday launched its computer data capturing centre as part of the Revolutionary Party's goal of having a national database to account for its members as well as programmes. ...Published: 18 Jun 2021 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parents need to raise up community-building driven children, as purposeless and idle kids likely to fall into crime and drugs
It is not everyday that a Zimbabwean wakes up to some uplifting and inspiring news - what with the continual eerie presence of a very dark cloud hanging over the nation, brought about by a government ...Published: 30 May 2021 at 14:26hrs | 3 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa's govt rapped over rushing opening of Form 5 classes
PARENTS in Bulawayo have blasted government's rushed decision to commence Form 5 classes without taking into cognisance the short period that students were given to look for places.Last week, ...Published: 11 May 2021 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
3 Girls College pupils test COVID-19 positive
THREE Lower Six pupils at Girls College in Bulawayo contracted Covid-19, forcing the school to conduct mass testing on learners in selected classes and staff members on Tuesday. The pupils who...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:14hrs | 2 | by Staff repporter
St George's enrols girls as school celebrates 125th anniversary
One of the country's oldest boys high schools, St George's College this year celebrates its 125thanniversary in the provision of faith-based education that has seen the institution evolve to also ...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 11:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe regime getting taste of own medicine, and shouldn't mourn about US 'hypocritical' bullying
If ever there were profound lessons life has taught me, these are that, 'we reap what we sow', 'what goes around, eventually comes around', and that 'poetic justice' is never far away from those who b...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 08:03hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Failed Zimbabwe govt economic policy met with excuses
I AM not an economist or financial fundi neither was I good nor enjoyed such subjects as economics and accounting, in high school but, to use a cliche, it does not take a rocket scientist to lose conf...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:35hrs | 4 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimdancehall chanter wins US$10,000
RISING Zimdancehall artiste and Lower Six student at Washington Hills High, Keith "Spucky B" Antonio (19), has emerged the ultimate winner of the US$10K grand prize for the Sasai African and Talented ...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 07:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Phased opening for schools in January
SCHOOLS will open in two phases for the 2021 first term, with the first classes resuming lessons first week of January after Government declared that recent sporadic outbreaks of Covid-19 in schools h...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
John Tallach School closes as 100 students test positive to Covid-19
John Tallach Secondary School in Matabeleland North has been closed after 100 pupils and an undisclosed number of teachers tested positive to Covid-19, with the school now a quarantine centre with all...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 05:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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