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Eligibility rules for ZIFA Presidential candidates questioned
Former Zimbabwe international and Notwane FC legend Fabian Zulu has publicly criticized recent proposals to restrict eligibility for the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) presidency and key positio...Published: 03 Nov 2024 at 10:09hrs | 143 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya meets ZIFA requirements even without O levels
The rumors regarding Prophet Walter Magaya's eligibility to run for the presidency of the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) have been dispelled. Contrary to speculation suggesting that he does not ...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 13:22hrs | 8808 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya does not have O-levels?
A potentially massive scandal is brewing in Zimbabwean football, as Prophet Walter Magaya and Gift Banda, a former Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) vice president, stand accused of attempting to m...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 16:11hrs | 5544 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe football fraternity divided over 5 O' Levels clause
Zimbabwe's football community finds itself divided ahead of the crucial ZIFA elections scheduled for January 2025. With the Lincoln Mutasa-led Normalisation Committee's term expiring at the start of t...Published: 12 Oct 2024 at 17:42hrs | 724 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec announces 2024 exam fees
The Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC) has unveiled the examination fees for the 2024 Ordinary and Advanced Level exams. The government will subsidize 55 percent of the total cost for stude...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 09:36hrs | 42 | by Staff reporter
Exam cheats face imprisonment
STUDENTS, teachers and school heads who engage or facilitate cheating during Zimsec examinations now face arrest and imprisonment.The Government, through Zimsec, announced a raft of penalties ...Published: 17 Sep 2022 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
2021 O-Level pass rate improves
Last year's Ordinary Level results are now out with a subject pass rate of 26,34 percent that is marginally higher than the 24,77 percent recorded in 2020, the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic and ...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:35hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ZRP starts recruitment
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has begun a recruitment exercise as it continues to undergo major transformation in adopting a new structure and re-branding to win back public confidence.However,...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 14:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Both ZANU PF and MDC have betrayed and failed people of Zimbabwe, and it's time for citizens to reclaim their power
There is no better definition of 'fail', as the one provided by my trusted dictionary, which says, "Not to achieve a particular stated goal" - and as such, there is no other more appropriate way to de...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 09:38hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Meet Khami's longest serving inmate
HE was condemned at birth to a life of hardship after being christened Mhlupheki, which is Ndebele for "the one who struggles". True to his name, Mhlupheki Ngwenya (47) has suffered, living a ...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 08:29hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Tour company demands indecent pictures for jobs
A HARARE-BASED tour company has been accused of soliciting for indecent pictures from prospective female employees, claiming that the pictures would secure them employment with the company.Som...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man fined for forging Zimsec certificate
A Harare man was last week fined $100 for forging a Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) O-Level certificate in a bid to get a promotion.Alton Mutsinzwa (40) was seeking promotion fro...Published: 26 Mar 2018 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean maths teacher shines in SA
A Zimbabwean teacher, Mishael Tafadzwa Matonhodze has won South Africa's top teaching prize for excellence in Mathematics and Science, an achievement that vindicates Zimbabwe's long-standing milestone...Published: 10 Mar 2018 at 09:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chief 'tie' teen to a tree for failing to pay damages
Police are investigating a case in which Chief Sikalenge of Binga is alleged to have tied his teenage son-in-law to a tree for three hours as punishment for failing to pay "damages" for impregnating h...Published: 06 Mar 2018 at 05:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
MPs must have 5 O-levels
THE Speaker of Parliament, Advocate Jacob Mudenda, has said it may be necessary to amend the Constitution to make it mandatory for aspiring councillors and Members of Parliament to have a minimum ...Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
US football club to conduct trials in Bulawayo, Hwange
UNITED States-based football development coach David Casper is expected to jet into the country on Thursday for a scouting mission aimed at giving selected youngsters between 16 and 20 years old a...Published: 13 Mar 2017 at 05:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-Kukhulwa Kokuphela actor Ngwenya dies
FORMER Kukhulwa Kokuphela actor Agrippa SiSwati Ngwenya, who played "Khumalo" in the popular drama, has died.He was 71.Ngwenya died in South Africa on Monday after succumbing to hy...Published: 15 Feb 2017 at 06:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
My boss and I dating the same man
I am a 24-year-old maid and I had my baby boy when I was 20.Things did not go well with the father of the child so we broke up. I have two O-Levels, I am working in order to supplement the oth...Published: 11 Feb 2017 at 22:50hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Affair with married fellow congregant
HELLO Mai Chisamba, I am 19 years old and I come from a broken home.My parents divorced when I was seven and this affected me so much. For me it was like the end of the world. I am grateful to...Published: 11 Feb 2017 at 22:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
'I have no regrets,' says Gono
DR Kereke alleged, soon after I terminated his contract, that I had in 2008 stolen US$37 535 300 plus R1 410 000 and GBP21 511.Of course, nothing could be further from the truth and in any...Published: 11 Feb 2017 at 22:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Sandra Ndebele is back, gets into collabo
After spending the better part of last year preparing to sit for her O-Levels and looking after her one-year-old baby, Sandra Ndebele says she is back in the game.This time she returns thr...Published: 28 Jan 2017 at 08:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo bristles at Mavhima attacks
THE Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Professor Jonathan Moyo has launched a passionate defence of his ministry's new technology and engineering thrust foll...Published: 30 Apr 2016 at 20:29hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
Senior magistrate fired over O-level qualifications
A SENIOR magistrate in Zvishavane, Joe Kabiti, who worked for 33 years without the basic five Ordinary Level subjects, has had his contract with the Judiciary Service Commission (JSC) terminated on th...Published: 18 Apr 2016 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Patrick Chitumba
Deaf students train as teachers for first time in Zimbabwe
For the first time in Zimbabwe, deaf people are to train as teachers. The first deaf trainee teachers will be admitted to Morgan Zintec College in Harare this September.NMB Bank is sponsoring ...Published: 14 Mar 2016 at 12:35hrs | 2 | by Agencies
Success story from Zimbabwe: Morris 'Lordmore Karanda' Kakunguwo supports youth football
Morris "Lordmore Karanda" Kakunguwo was born in 1972 in Mt. Darwin, around 200 kilometers (124 miles) north of Zimbabwe's capital city of Harare. He was the youngest of seven children. Morris' father,...Published: 09 Jan 2016 at 08:36hrs | | by Heidi G. Frontani
Mujuru fluffing chances through prevarication, by being slow, cautious and unsure
THE OTHER SIDE Of course David Cameron has won, confounding and consigning the overweening Milliband, and worse, condemning those damn God's deputies, those notorious pollsters! I never knew that thes...Published: 09 May 2015 at 18:14hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
School heads ban June exams
SOME school heads have banned pupils from writing the Zimbabwe School Examination Council (Zimsec) June O-level examinations while A-level candidates are being given stringent conditions to sit for th...Published: 19 Apr 2015 at 09:28hrs | | by Lungile Tshuma
Not obtaining 5 O-Levels does not mean failure, Minister says
PRIMARY and Secondary Education deputy minister Professor Paul Mavima has said the country should move away for labelling O-Level students who fail to obtain five subjects or more as having failed stu...Published: 05 Mar 2015 at 12:15hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
The more Grace Mugabe rises, the more Zimbabwe falls
Opra Michinguri, the powerful chairwoman of Zanu-PF's Women's League, stood down to allow Grace Mugabe to succeed her at the party's annual congress in December.Her husband then lent Grace th...Published: 14 Oct 2014 at 14:08hrs | | by Peter Fabricius
Grace Mugabe has no chance in hell
TweetAccording to a government official, South Africa be...Published: 10 Oct 2014 at 05:54hrs | | by Peter Fabricius
Fake O-Levels lands Pick n Pay manager in trouble
Pick n Pay Kamfinsa customer service manager Tendai Muyambo, who worked for nine years after landing the post using a fake O-Level certificate, was last Friday fined $100 for the offence. ...Published: 25 Aug 2014 at 08:15hrs | 1 | by Fungai Lupande
'Prophet' flees angry mob after a stage-managed healing event
A BOGUS Pentecostal pastor, fled an angry mob recently at the popular Egodini rank in Bulawayo after his fake miracles were exposed when one of the "healed cripples" who was used to stage-manage the e...Published: 15 Jun 2014 at 09:00hrs | 8 | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Female pilot struggles to get aviation job
GROWING up in the dusty streets of Bulawayo's Nkulumane suburb, Elizabeth Vavashe never dreamt of boarding a helicopter, let alone flying one. Despite all the challenges and the stereotypes, V...Published: 02 Nov 2013 at 07:12hrs | | by Leisure Correspondent
Charles Mungoshi seriously ill, unable to talk
Veteran author Charles Mungoshi is ill and unable to talk.His wife Jesesi Mungoshi, in a wide-ranging interview with a local publication, Jewel Magazine, in December told the magazine:...Published: 11 Feb 2013 at 07:10hrs | | by Arts Correspondent
Girl child still marginalised: Research
A local non-governmental organisation says early marriages and lack of information is affecting Zimbabwean girls in marginalised areas where cultural, religious and social beliefs take centre stage....Published: 24 Oct 2011 at 08:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
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