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No fees hike at UZ
THE University of Zimbabwe (UZ) has announced that their tuition and accommodation fees remain unchanged from the August-December 2018 semester. In a statement yesterday, the institution said ...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 09:50hrs | 403 | by Staff reporter
Khupe wanted to be a soldier
Tendayi Madhomu sits down for a wide-ranging interview with MDC-T president Thokozani Khupe. Find below excerpts of the interview.Q: Who is Thokozani Khupe; where and when was she born?A: ...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 22:34hrs | 2124 | by Staff reporter
NUST introduces March intake
The National University of Science and Technology (Nust) has introduced a March intake starting this year, a development that has received mixed reactions.Despite sentiments that the increase ...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 12:24hrs | 2235 | by Staff reporter
Who is a voter?
We have a problem with who the voter is in Zimbabwe. Only at election time do our politicians start thinking about who will vote for them. Who is expected to vote at election time anywhere? Ho...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 10:24hrs | 314 | by Clement Moyo
Doctors reject Chiwenga deal
Negotiations between government and striking doctors collapsed yesterday after the medical practitioners rejected a deal struck by negotiators, prolonging the month-long strike.Doctors in publ...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 11:10hrs | 1435 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga, doctors in crunch meeting
FEAR gripped government yesterday forcing discussions with striking junior doctors as well as consultants and senior health practitioners, who on Friday issued a 48-hour-ultimatum, NewsDay can reveal....Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 18:08hrs | 2517 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo forex discount deal not attractive
BULAWAYO residents have expressed mixed feelings over council's 50 percent discount policy for those settling their bills in foreign currency only as well as the municipality's plans to sell some resi...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 20:36hrs | 462 | by Staff reporter
Gabriel ditches Bosso
HIGHLANDERS have officially parted ways with one of their senior players, Gabriel Nyoni who is said to be headed for Caps United.Makepekepe have reportedly offered Nyoni a stand in the affluen...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 08:51hrs | 1067 | by Staff reporter
NUST: Foreign students to pay fees in forex
NATIONAL University of Science and Technology (Nust) is now demanding fees in foreign currency from foreign students studying at the institution of higher learning. Nust's acting communication...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 08:38hrs | 1355 | by Staff Reporter
Nust lecturer's estranged wife weeps after losing maintenance case
THE estranged wife of a National University of Science and Technology lecturer yesterday burst into tears when a Bulawayo magistrate dismissed her $1 304 claim for spousal maintenance and children's u...Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 06:56hrs | 2063 | by Staff reporter
Underestimated Way to Success
Aldreen T. Munyoro belongs to the generation of 'purpose driven' young people in Zimbabwe, who, despite awkward circumstances in life are full of optimism. The twenty-one year old National University ...Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 09:47hrs | 392 | by Brian Maregedze
Prof Makhurane hero declaration 'another first'
THE awarding of a national hero status to Professor Phinias Mogorosi Makhurane by the ruling party, the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) on 5 November, 2018 was a very apt and...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 07:03hrs | 754 | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Zimbabwe outlines university innovation hub strategy
THE Government has set aside hundreds of millions of dollars that will see the construction of innovation hubs in six universities as well as infrastructural overhaul in the higher and tertiary educat...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 06:57hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
Phinias Mogorosi Makhurane: A hero of many talents
Phinias Mogorosi Makhurane was a giant in terms of his contributions to society, and is very difficult to encapsulate in a mere obituary.He was simple and highly approachable while at the same...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 06:51hrs | 310 | by Emeritus Professor Ngwabi M Bhebhe
Makhurane buried
The founding Vice Chancellor of the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) Professor Phineas Makhurane has been laid to rest at his rural home in Gungwe, Gwanda South.Professor M...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 15:10hrs | 1580 | by Staff reporter
Makhurane's body flown to Gungwe
The body of the late national hero Professor Phineas Makhurane has now been flown to his homestead in Gungwe, Gwanda South.Earlier on, the National University of Science and Technology (NUST),...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 15:03hrs | 3536 | by Staff reporter
Makhurane will not be buried with crooks at Heores acre
The family of national hero Professor Phinias Makhurane has snubbed a National Heroes Acre burial, insisting instead on interring him at his rural home in the Gungwe area of Gwanda.Family spok...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 13:20hrs | 4798 | by Staff reporter
US hypocrisy on Zimbabwe exposed
When President Emmerson Mnangagwa took over the reins of power on 24 November 2017, he announced a paradigm shift in the manner in which things would be done politically and economically by the new ad...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 13:12hrs | 1487 | by Elijah Chihota
Prof Phineas Makhurane declared National hero
ZANU PF Politiburo has declared the late academic Professor Phineas Makhurane a National Hero. This was announced by the Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services on Thursday....Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 10:02hrs | 2917 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bulawayo holds funeral service for Prof Makhurane
BULAWAYO will today hold a funeral service for the founding Vice Chancellor of the National University of Science and Technology (Nust), Professor Phineas Makhurane, an academic giant who pushed for t...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 05:44hrs | 1134 | by Staff reporter
National hero status requested for Makhurane
ZANU PF Matabeleland South province has requested national hero status for the late distinguished educationist and former National University of Science and Technology (Nust) vice-chancellor Phineas M...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 05:43hrs | 882 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa knew that Prof Makhurane had been unwell for quite some time
President Emmerson Mnangagwa says the nation has been robbed of an outstanding scholar and educationist in Professor Phineas Makhurane, who died at Mater Dei Hospital in Bulawayo yesterday.Mna...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 18:59hrs | 5236 | by Staf reporter
Zanu-PF mourns Professor Makhurane
Following the passing on of NUST founding Vice Chancellor, Professor Phinias Magorosi Makhurane yesterday, the Zanu-PF party in Bulawayo has sent a message of condolence to the family and the nation f...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 12:25hrs | 1085 | by Staff reporter
Govt increases midwives training period
The government has increased the training period for midwives from 12 months to 18 months beginning 2019 in order to cater for curriculum changes which are meant to improve service delivery.Th...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 12:24hrs | 744 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Black November
In Zimbabwe, the month of November is revered by most cultures and in traditionally considered as a sacred month.So scared is the month that traditional rituals and rain making ceremonies are ...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 10:49hrs | 1248 | by staff reporter
Founding NUST Vice-Chancellor Prof Makhurane dies
FOUNDING National University of Science and Technology (Nust) Vice-Chancellor and distinguished academic Professor Phineas Mogorosi Makhurane has died.Prof Makhurane, one of the first Africans...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 07:55hrs | 3250 | by Staff Reporter
Mourners fight over deceased loan sharks' loot
THE FUNERAL gathering for a Gwanda couple suspected to have been among the 30 people that perished at the West Nicholson bus accident has been turned into a war zone as two families fight over a trunk...Published: 01 Dec 2018 at 14:26hrs | 1458 | by Staf reporter
Woman demands $1 300 maintenance
A 46-YEAR-OLD woman is demanding more than $1 300 maintenance a month from her husband of over 16 years. Mrs Faith Sundirayi Mtisi of Bulawayo's Montrose suburb dragged her husband, Mr Samson ...Published: 01 Dec 2018 at 08:06hrs | 387 | by Staff reporter
West Nicholson bus inferno victims named
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has identified the names of people who died in the West Nicholson bus disaster two weeks ago.In a statement, ZRP spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner C...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 21:58hrs | 2767 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe moves to address mass production of graduates
GOVERNMENT has said the national skills framework will address the unchecked mass production of graduates which is blamed for producing half-baked professionals. Industry players have raised c...Published: 29 Nov 2018 at 11:32hrs | 1004 | by Staff reporter
22 West Nicholson bus accident victims positively identified
There is progress in the process of identifying victims of the West Nicholson bus accident as the Department of Applied Genetic Testing Centre at the National University of Science and Technology (NUS...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 15:10hrs | 3964 | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa badly wants a deal with Mnangagwa
FROM the time Nelson Chamisa entered mainstream politics as the youth chairman for the then newly formed MDC in 1999, his ambitions were quite evident. At the time all he was armed with was political ...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 06:19hrs | 14043 | by Reason Wafawarova
Suicide cases spike in colleges
There is serious concern over the increasing number of suicide cases at the country's institutions of higher learning with experts calling for strong counselling programmes to assist troubled students...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 16:09hrs | 1402 | by Staff reporter
Gold panner dies in Bulawayo gravel site shaft collapse
AN illegal gold panner died after a shaft collapsed on him at the Municipal Gravel site located along Cecil Road in Bulawayo on Friday, police confirmed. "I can confirm that a man was found de...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 06:01hrs | 417 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa finally declares West Nicholson accident a national disaster
Local Government minister July Moyo told journalists yesterday in Bulawayo that another person had died later on admission at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo, bringing the death toll to 33. ...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 07:47hrs | 365 | by Staff reporter
Accident victims to be buried after two weeks
THE identification of the Brooklyn bus accident victims will take two weeks with the Government calling on families of the victims to be patient as authorities go about the meticulous process of ident...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 07:39hrs | 203 | by Staff reporter
DNA profiling to identify burnt accident victims
GOVERNMENT will undertake DNA testing to identify victims of the accident that occurred near West Nicholson who were burnt beyond recognition on Thursday night. The National University of Scie...Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 06:35hrs | 530 | by Staff reporter
NUST student run over by train
A National University of Science and Technology (NUST) student has committed suicide by throwing herself in front of a train.Police were called to railway tracks in the New Stands area of Cowd...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 19:08hrs | 5652 | by ZimLive
Mnangagwa urges NUST to expand
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has challenged institutions of higher learning to take advantage of Zimbabwe's abundant mineral resources such as the recently announced oil and gas deposits in Muzarabani...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 05:34hrs | 571 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa installed NUST Chancellor
2 513 graduates were capped at the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) at a ceremony held at the institution's campus in Bulawayo today.At the graduation ceremony, President E...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 11:33hrs | 1204 | by Staf reporter
Zimbabwean engineer in revolutionary e-hailing cab App
EVERY great idea starts as a dream and as Gloria Steinem, an American journalist and social political activist - reckoned 'Dreaming after all is a form of planning'. But what separates an achiever fro...Published: 03 Nov 2018 at 08:43hrs | 476 | by STaff reporter
Zimbabweans, we are our own worst enemy
Dear EditorI'm sure somewhere someone is calling Zimbabwe a big joke as we are a country with misplaced priorities. For starters, we have good farming land, good climate, plenty natural resour...Published: 28 Oct 2018 at 14:08hrs | 2815 | by Munya Shumba
Bulawayo vendors lash out at council's archaic by-laws, wants city to be like Harare
Bulawayo vendors and informal traders here have taken aim at Bulawayo city fathers for simply trying to put cosmetic amendments to the existing archaic by-laws.The Bulawayo Vendors and Traders...Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 14:11hrs | 1055 | by Staff reporter
Nust student 'killer' arrested
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested a man suspected to have attacked and killed a National University of Science and Technology (Nust) student in the city last week. Sources yesterday said Munyar...Published: 08 Oct 2018 at 06:22hrs | 6812 | by Staff reporter
Nust student kills self
A SECOND-YEAR finance student at the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) Atumisoe Makhurane, who was found hanging in his hostel room at the institution on Saturday was buried on Tues...Published: 04 Oct 2018 at 05:58hrs | 3986 | by Staff reporter
Nust student killed at beer drink
A FIRST year Industrial Engineering student from the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) in Bulawayo died after he was attacked by unknown assailants in Magwegwe suburb, police confir...Published: 04 Oct 2018 at 05:42hrs | 1136 | by Staff reporter
Nust student commits suicide
A SECOND-YEAR Finance student at the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) in Bulawayo was found hanging in his hostel at the institution yesterday in a suspected case of suicide....Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 19:15hrs | 6126 | by Staff reporter
MRP Applauds MTHWASA Formation
It has become the norm that everything that comes from Matabeleland is regarded as tribal. We are now used to this line of thinking and we are not concerned at all about this type of propaganda....Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 10:24hrs | 1069 | by Mbonisi Gumbo MRP Secretary for Information and Publicity
Nust students stage demo over buses
TEN National University of Science and Technology (Nust) students in Bulawayo were arrested after their protest over buses threatened to turn ugly. Students have, for a long time, been at logg...Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 07:03hrs | 1105 | by Staff reporter
Nust shut down
STUDENTS and staff at the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) were yesterday ordered to return home after the institution ran dry following a water pipe burst. Nust Communicat...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 06:51hrs | 1905 | by Staff reporter
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