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Zimsec exams resume
GOVERNMENT will continue to assess the safety of school children from Covid-19,before announcing the dates for reopening of schools as Advanced and Ordinary Level examination classes resume on Tuesday...Published: 03 Jan 2021 at 07:33hrs | 659 | by Staff reporter
Decision on schools out today
A DECISION on the reopening of schools and final dates on the resumption of classes following a surge in Covid-19 infections and the threat posed by new and more contagious variants of the disease wil...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:15hrs | 326 | by Staff reporter
Government releases 2021 schools calendar
SCHOOLS will once again open in a phased approach next year with only those in Form Four this year returning on 4 January to finish writing their remaining papers.Other pupils will only return...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:55hrs | 950 | by Staff reporter
Biti's sensational take on state of the Zimbabwe economy
MDC-ALLIANCE vice president Tendai Biti painted a bleak picture of the state of the economy this week in what he called the "State of the Economy Address". Many in Zimbabwe and abroad would find his t...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:14hrs | 596 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe MPs demand schools closure
PARLIAMENTARIANS yesterday accused government of rashly reopening schools when it was ill-prepared to deal with COVID-19 outbreaks at institutions of learning after a number of students tested positiv...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 05:29hrs | 1637 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 menace grips Matabeleland
Covid-19 is making a comeback in Matabeleland region, a disturbing development given that the country had in the past few months witnessed a decline in new cases prompting Government to relax lockdown...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 05:24hrs | 748 | by Staff reporter
Teachers strike continuing, school heads overwhelmed
THE final phase of the re-opening of public schools countrywide got off to a rocky start yesterday, with many teachers failing to turn up for work — forcing some overwhelmed school heads to send lea...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 19:41hrs | 2441 | by Staff reporter
More chaos awaits schools
THE second phase of schools reopening today is set to increase the chaos in schools with teachers escalating their labour dispute with government over poor remuneration.Zimbabwe's school calen...Published: 26 Oct 2020 at 06:45hrs | 7187 | by Staff reporter
Govt salary talks collapse
GOVERNMENT salary talks broke down last week, with teachers saying they will boycott classes when schools reopen for examination classes next week as a result.The Apex Council, an umbrella bod...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:38hrs | 4924 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe schools appeal for PPE donations
THE Primary and Secondary Education ministry has appealed to the corporate sector to assist in the provision of COVID-19 equipment as schools open for examination classes later this month.Spea...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:46hrs | 489 | by Staff reporter
'No salary review, no schools opening'
TEACHERS yesterday said they would not report back to work if government reopened schools before reviewing their salaries.Primary and Secondary Education minister Cain Matema will this week an...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:41hrs | 3133 | by Staff reporter
Exams likely to spill into January
GOVERNMENT will this week announce the date when schools will reopen following an assessment done by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education on their preparedness to reopen under new condition...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:25hrs | 687 | by Staff reporter
Schools to reopen when safe minister
THE reopening of schools this year hangs in the balance as officials continue to monitor the rising Covid-19 caseload.Last month, the Government deferred reopening schools to a later date from...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:42hrs | 468 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec proposes January exam dates
FINAL public examinations for Grade Seven, Ordinary and Advanced Level students, which are normally taken in October and November each year, might be deferred to next year as the Zimbabwe School Exami...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 16:35hrs | 2577 | by Staff reporter
Uncertainty over Zimsec November exams
FINAL public examinations for Grade Seven, Ordinary and Advanced Level students, which are normally taken in October and November each year, might be deferred to next year as the Zimbabwe School Exami...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 07:40hrs | 1749 | by Staff Reporter
Education ministry, parents at cross roads over opening of schools
Matabeleland North stakeholders have called for the further suspension of the opening of schools and postponement of June examinations until it is safe to open.They threatened to withhold thei...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 10:41hrs | 1910 | by Stephen Jakes
Teachers, parents resist schools reopening
TEACHERS and parents in Marondera have said there was no need for the reopening of schools in the wake of COVID-19 infections.Speaking during a Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ)-or...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:25hrs | 811 | by Staff reporter
Black lives matter-not at all, not in Zanu PF's Zimbabwe - 1 000 lost lives count 1 official death
Government has confirmed that schools will reopen on Tuesday July 28. In May government announced that schools will reopen 29 June but was forced to postpone to allow the relevant authorities "to mobi...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 12:39hrs | 2296 | by Wilbert Mukori
Minister Matema's Call for Payment of School Fees for Second Term is an Act of Provocation
Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe President Takavafira Zhou has said schools have remained closed for second term because of covid 19, and prospects for opening schools on 28 July 2020 as envisag...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 13:30hrs | 1514 | by Stephen Jakes
Mathema blasted over second term fees rant
THE Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) yesterday described the call by Primary and Secondary Education minister Cain Mathema on parents to pay second term school fees as "an act of provocat...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 09:34hrs | 1062 | by Staff reporter
I'm scarred, but not scared, says Artuz leader
OUTSPOKEN Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) president Obert Masaraure believes President Emmerson Mnangagwa has failed to bring socio-economic and political stability to the nation ...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 07:49hrs | 690 | by Staff reporter
Teachers plot interdict against schools opening
A TEACHERS' union said it would approach the courts to block the government's "ill-informed and premature opening of schools" in light of the increase in COVID-19 infections in the country.The...Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 07:55hrs | 1672 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe government schools urged to commercial
GOVERNMENT has urged schools to come up with commercial programmes to help address some of their financial needs and prepare pupils to become entrepreneurs. Some schools in the country are making pers...Published: 06 Jun 2020 at 07:42hrs | 318 | by Staff reporter
ZIMTA Dismisses ZIMSEC announcement as meaningless
Zimbabwe Teachers Association (ZIMTA) Chief Executive Officer, Dr Sifiso Ndlovu, has dismissed the recent June examination dates announcement by Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC) as meanin...Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 13:56hrs | 1843 | by Staff Reporter
COVID-19 more deadly than the liberation war: Teachers
TEACHERS unions on Friday told Parliament that the re-opening of schools should be postponed as it "will be genocidal", and vowed that "they will not be frog-marched" to teach if government did not me...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 08:56hrs | 536 | by Staff reporter
Teachers against schools opening
TEACHER unions have threatened to sue the government if it decides to impose e-learning.The educators have also vowed not to report for duty at their stations arguing that schools are not read...Published: 31 May 2020 at 23:45hrs | 728 | by Staff reporter
Teachers against school re-opening
Teachers unions have called on Government not to reopen schools after the country recorded a spike in coronavirus cases. ZIMTA secretary general Tapson Sibanda said that reopening schools coul...Published: 29 May 2020 at 08:45hrs | 1650 | by Staff reporter
Teachers petition govt over schools re-opening
SEVEN teachers' unions yesterday petitioned Primary and Secondary Education minister Cain Mathema to stop the re-opening of schools until COVID-19 is effectively contained.In the event that th...Published: 27 May 2020 at 07:46hrs | 1623 | by Staff reporter
Teachers unions oppose June exams, schools reopening
While the Government continues working out how to reopen schools in phases, starting with public examination classes, as Zimsec finalises plans for the late June examinations, some teachers unions are...Published: 22 May 2020 at 06:23hrs | 434 | by Staff reporter
Teachers threaten legal action over reopening of schools
TEACHERS have threatened legal action against government over the reopening of schools amid the coronavirus (Covid-19) scourge, saying they were not consulted, the Daily News reports.Primary a...Published: 20 May 2020 at 17:33hrs | 2436 | by Staff reporter
Govt, teachers square off over schools opening
THE Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has threatened legal action against government over the alleged lack of consultation by the Primary and Secondary Education ministry on modalities for...Published: 20 May 2020 at 07:34hrs | 1828 | by Staff reporter
Opening of schools premature
THE recent announcement by President Emmerson Mnangagwa regarding the re-opening of schools to examination classes has left most forward-thinking educationists shell shocked.Re-opening of scho...Published: 20 May 2020 at 07:24hrs | 537 | by Zimta information
Opening of schools premature, Period!
Dear Editor,The recent announcement by the Head of State, President Emmerson Mnangagwa regarding the reopening of schools to examination classes has left most forward thinking educationists sh...Published: 19 May 2020 at 10:05hrs | 2425 | by ZIMTA
Teacher union resists push to reopen schools under indefinite lockdown
The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe has insisted that no schools should open during country's Covid-19 indefinite lockdown without the government committing to ring fence safety of learne...Published: 17 May 2020 at 15:19hrs | 1924 | by Taruberekera Masara
Zimbabwe delays opening of schools due to COVID-19
Schools and colleges in Zimbabwe will remain closed as many institutions of learning are being used as quarantine facilities for visitors and returning residents.Chief coordinator for National...Published: 16 May 2020 at 08:59hrs | 2934 | by Xinhua
Mnangagwa to proclaim schools opening date
THE President will announce dates for the reopening of schools, but will do so when the conditions are safe for learners and teachers to prevent exposure to coronavirus, Primary and Secondary Educatio...Published: 30 Apr 2020 at 07:06hrs | 1580 | by Staff reporter
South Africa opens schools...as Coronavirus cases reach 5 000
South Africa has announced that pupils might be going back to school in May. The neighboring country's Basic Education Department Director-General, Mathanzima Mweli told journalists at a media briefin...Published: 29 Apr 2020 at 14:21hrs | 4029 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Premature to reopen schools, says Parly
Schools should reopen when it is safe for pupils and teachers and in the meantime e-learning needs to be tailored so that children can benefit, chairperson of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on ...Published: 29 Apr 2020 at 07:41hrs | 639 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe pupils to receive lessons through radio
THE Government is finalising modalities that will see primary and secondary school learners receiving lessons through radio in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic that has disrupted the school calendar ...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 12:07hrs | 448 | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus: Schools opening put on hold
PREPARATIONS for the second school term have begun but opening will now be delayed as authorities roll out changes to how the academic institutions will operate in view of the Covid-19 scourge....Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 08:45hrs | 2908 | by Staff Reporter
Zim parents turn to South African schools
Unlike the 1970s when children came from South Africa, Zambia and Malawi for better education, more and more Zimbabwean parents now look across the Limpopo for schools which seem to promise a brighter...Published: 08 Jan 2020 at 12:26hrs | 3174 | by Mpongo Simwambi
'Education ministry given permission to recruit when there is concurrence of treasury'
Primary and Secondary Education Minister Lazarus Dokora has said his ministry is permitted to recruit teachers when there is concurrence of the Treasury and the Ministry of Public Service, Labour and ...Published: 17 Jun 2016 at 16:15hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Govt addressing liquidity crunch, says Mnangagwa
GOVERNMENT is working to address the liquidity crunch that has seen most banks reducing maximum withdrawals to about $200 per day while others have stopped loading money into Automated Teller Machines...Published: 03 May 2016 at 09:22hrs | 2205 | by Lloyd Gumbo and Brenda Ziga
Tsvangirai calls for demos
MDC-T president Morgan Tsvangirai has urged Zimbabweans to come out of their cocoons and engage in street protests against President Robert Mugabe's 34-year-rule which has been characterised by suffe...Published: 15 Sep 2014 at 15:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's speech on the occasion of the MDC-T's 15th anniversary celebrations
IntroductionWe gather here today to celebrate the 15th birthday of our great people's party, the MDC.The irony of the MDC is that while the part...Published: 13 Sep 2014 at 14:59hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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