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Embassy tribalism exposed!
The uncivil dance of tribalism is arguably the most wobbly and unentertaining spectacle at our embassies. This primitive practice of ethnicity is a debilitating epidemic currently eating into the inte...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 07:08hrs | 34 | by Nhlanhla Moses
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 | 11 | by Staff reporter
Deployment of Shona teachers in Matabeleland schools is the main cause for low pass rates
"To weaken a Ndebele is to deprive him of an education", said the author of the 1979 Grand Plan, Nathan Shamuyarira. The document itself is the most evil conspiracy theory in Africa, to be produced by...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 11:51hrs | 21 | by Israel Dube
Urgent action needed on Matabeleland schools
IT is a worrying trend that every year when Grade Seven results are released, a significant number of schools in Matabeleland record a 0% or poor pass rate.Even the Ordinary and Advanced Level...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:47hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Red flag over Bulawayo's Grade Seven 0% pass rate
A MATABELELAND-BASED pressure group Ibhetshu LikaZulu has raised concern over the poor ranking of most schools in Matabeleland which have continued to register very poor Grade Seven results.Se...Published: 07 Feb 2021 at 19:56hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
MPs want action on Matabeleland schools
PRIMARY and Secondary Education minister Paul Mavima has said four schools in Matabeleland North registered 0% pass rate in the 2018 Grade Seven examinations, a situation which is worrying Parliament....Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 06:20hrs | 1290 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland schools receive $129K donation
THIRTY schools from Matabeleland North and Matabeleland South provinces have benefited from a donation of furniture and textbooks worth $129 000 from the Bulawayo South Rotary Club, under the Matabele...Published: 14 Apr 2018 at 11:15hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Top performing schools named
A total of 57 pupils from more than 20 schools in the Matabeleland region contributed to the 773 pupils who managed to come out with 15 points and above in last year's Advanced Level November examinat...Published: 28 Jan 2018 at 08:09hrs | 5422 | by Staff reporter
29 Matabeleland schools record 0% pass rate for Grade 7 exams
TWENTY-NINE primary schools in Matabeleland North province recorded zero percent pass rate in the 2017 Grade Seven public examinations.Matabeleland North deputy director responsible for primar...Published: 24 Jan 2018 at 13:13hrs | 3193 | by Staff reporter
MRP conduct Tsholotsho South roadshow, rallies despite police ban
Mthakazi Republic Party has conducted its roadshow and rallies in Tsholotsho despite police ban of the events.The party said it continued to woo and interact with Mthwakazians in Tsholotsho on...Published: 24 Jan 2018 at 07:30hrs | 662 | by Stephen Jakes
MRP leader passionately pushing for human rights upholding - INTERVIEW
Mthwakazi Republic Party leader Mqondisi Moyo has been on several instances in and out of police cells when he was caught up in protests pushing for the labour rights particularly for the people of Ma...Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 07:46hrs | 316 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe govt trembles at Matabeleland revolution
"I remind the people that number 3 stands for oneness; it represents unity of purpose for Mthwakazi people. Our struggle is a holy struggle, our struggle is a just struggle, we have now reached the cr...Published: 20 Jul 2017 at 06:24hrs | 2609 | by Israel Dube
Closure Matabeleland Schools legitimises plans for a separate Mthwakazi state
Mthweakazi Liberation Front has said the government of Zimbabwe's plans to close some of the schools in Matabeleland South legitimises its resolve to push for a separate Mthwakazi state.Primar...Published: 25 May 2017 at 14:47hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Plan to close 40 Matabeleland Schools is Gukurahundi
Matabeleland Human Rights Institution has condemned government proposal to close more than 40 schools in Matabeleland South.The organization was quick to say the ZANU PF government was unleash...Published: 23 May 2017 at 09:32hrs | | by Alice Dube
Voice from Matabeleland reactions to 21st movement celebrations on school shutdown
Concern over children’s right to education‘I find it difficult to understand how Zanu Pf fails to separate party politics from government functionalities. How can they expunge twelve hours...Published: 24 Feb 2017 at 18:30hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Pictures : Schools deserted in Bulawayo
Several schools in and around Bulawayo are deserted as pupils headed earlier calls Wednesday not to report for lessons in preparation for President Robert Mugabe's birthday.Primary and Seconda...Published: 23 Feb 2017 at 07:14hrs | 3542 | by Thobekile Zhou
Schools closing for Mugabe birthday party, Who is to blame for low pass rate in Matabeleland schools?
Who is to blame for low pass rate in Matabeleland schools when pupils lose learning time for President's birthday party?If you want to share your opinion on the matter please send your messa...Published: 22 Feb 2017 at 18:41hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Dokora backs down on Matabeleland schools closure
Government has reversed its controversial directive to shut down all Matabeleland schools on Thursday and Friday in preparation for President Robert Mugabe's lavish birthday bash on Saturday in ...Published: 22 Feb 2017 at 18:40hrs | | by Alice Dube
Matabeleland schools closure is 'fake nonsense' Jonathan Moyo says
Zanu PF chief propagandist, Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo has made astonishing claims that a two day closure of Matabeleland schools to facilitate smooth preparations for President Robert Mu...Published: 22 Feb 2017 at 15:20hrs | | by Alice Dube
Matabeleland schools to close two days for Mugabe bash
The Ministry of Education has ordered all schools in Matabeleland to shut down on Thursday and Friday to provide accommodation to thousands of Zanu PF the youth league members attending 21st Mov...Published: 22 Feb 2017 at 13:10hrs | | by Alice Dube
'Bantu Education' Imposed In Matabeleland schools
Explaining his evil and controversial Buntu Education Policy, architect of apartheid, Hendrik Verwoed said, "there is no place for Bantu in the European community above the level of certain forms of l...Published: 16 Nov 2016 at 06:26hrs | 1221 | by Israel Dube
They Don't Deserve To Be Called Dogs, They Are Worse Than Dogs
Leaders of the so called placard gate can be likened to a foolish man who soils the well that he also drinks from and later cries foul when the whole well smells of his sh***t.The same state n...Published: 22 Sep 2016 at 06:58hrs | | by Israel Dube
Mthwakazi party wants all Zimbabweans to leave 'Matabeleland with immediate effect'
The MLO has said all Zimbabweans who have been deployed by Zanu-PF government "to oversee or facilitate The Grand Plan must leave Matabeleland before it is too late."MLO Secretary for Informat...Published: 01 Jul 2016 at 09:30hrs | 6839 | by Staff Reporter
Catholics mum over the national pledge
THE noise surrounding the controversial national pledge has reached boiling point with some traditional churches that run mission schools ordering their institutions to disassociate themselves from th...Published: 03 May 2016 at 16:00hrs | 4280 | by Staff Reporter
Paul Siwela poses a serious national security threat
I was relieved at the news that one of the secessionist group leaders, Fidelis Ncube, better known by his pseudonym and bogus title "General Nandinandi" unceremoniously resigned after the Mthwakazi ca...Published: 25 Apr 2016 at 13:45hrs | | by Tendai Chinembiri
Matabeleland schools defy ministry's directive on language policy
SCHOOLS are allegedly defying the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education's language policy which stipulates that infants should be taught in their mother tongue at Early Childhood Development lev...Published: 13 Apr 2016 at 06:38hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Zimbabwe Political Ground Ready for A Split By 2018
Unrelenting succession battles that have turned into a tribal conflict within Zanu-pf is the short circuit needed to cause an explosion that will split Zimbabwe into two and deliver the birth of The R...Published: 16 Mar 2016 at 15:43hrs | | by Israel Dube
Mthwakazi mock Dokora for defending the deployment of Shona teachers to Matabeleland Schools
Mthwakazi Republic Party has attacked Primary and Secondary School Minister Lazarus Dokora for trying to defend the government's deployment of Shona teachers to Matabaleleand Schools which is being pr...Published: 05 Feb 2016 at 10:36hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Non-Ndebele teachers concerns persist
THE issue of the increasing number of non-Ndebele teachers in Matabeleland schools was back in Parliament this week as concerns over the matter persist. The Deputy Minister of Primary and Secondary Ed...Published: 25 Sep 2015 at 15:49hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe
Matabeleland schools record awful results
MATABELELAND provinces schools once again failed to impress in last year's Advanced Level examinations, with no school making it into the top 10, while only six made it to the top 100.Accordin...Published: 27 Jan 2015 at 07:59hrs | 4085 | by Staff reporter
Non-Ndebele speaking teachers probe dropped
THE Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has dropped investigations over the deployment of non-Ndebele speaking teachers in Matabeleland, saying it is not its mandate to do so.Deputy Mi...Published: 28 Sep 2014 at 09:39hrs | | by Lungile Tshuma
Free sanitary pads for Nkayi girls
The Matabeleland Ex Students Association this week kicked off a programme of donating sanitary pads to grade seven pupils in the region.The programme piloted at five primary schools in the...Published: 14 Jul 2014 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Timely boost for Roodeport disaster community
The little communities of the otherwise quiet Jabulisa and Setshankwe villages of Nkayi North at the boundary with Gokwe South will never forget the 8th of March 2014. This is the day when 18 bodies ...Published: 12 Jul 2014 at 09:29hrs | 3662 | by Bhebhe Mandla
Shona teachers in Matebeleland Primary and Secondary Schools
People with a defeatist mental say that it is too late to address the issue of domination of the Shona-speaking teachers in Matabeleland schools. They state it is the proverbial locking of stable...Published: 03 Jul 2014 at 10:25hrs | 6188 | by Bokane Vundla
Matabeleland schools abandon Ndebele, offer Shona
AT least five primary schools in Matabeleland South have reportedly been forced to teach Shona as the indigenous language due to a shortage of Ndebele-speaking teachers as the issue of deployment of ...Published: 30 Jun 2014 at 07:26hrs | | by Vusumuzi Dube and Lungile Tshuma
Nust in mathematics teaching drive in Matabeleland
THE National University of Science and Technology (Nust) has embarked on an extensive exercise to teach pupils in the Matabeleland region mathematics in order for them to qualify for enrollment at the...Published: 24 Jun 2012 at 10:43hrs | 1802 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland schools to lose donated computers
ABOUT 60 computers that have been lying idle at six secondary schools in Matabeleland North province due to lack of electricity at the institutions will be repossessed and given to schools that are c...Published: 04 Jun 2012 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fluent local language speakers for Matabeleland schools: Coltart
The Ministry of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture says there is need to have only those teachers fluent in local languages assigned to primary schools in Matabeleland regions. Educat...Published: 01 Feb 2011 at 11:05hrs | | by Byo24News
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