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Zimbabwe schools in fees hike shocker
THERE are growing concerns that Zimbabwe's worsening economic situation could lead to the collapse of the education system and a spike in school dropouts after most schools exorbitantly hiked fees, wi...Published: 19 hrs ago | 1810 | by Staff reporter
Woman beats hubby for disrupting boyfriend date
A woman from Umzingwane District under Chief Sigola's area and who is also a builder by profession has reversed a common perception that only men beat up women in relationships after she allegedly rai...Published: 19 hrs ago | 734 | by Staff reporter
'Gukurahundi genocide fuelled regional illiteracy'
SURVIVORS of the Gukurahundi massacres in Matabeleland and Midlands have blamed high il-literacy levels in the provinces on a cocktail of setbacks, chief among them the mass killings led by the North ...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 08:08hrs | 729 | by Staff reporter
Mr. President, Hard Talk builds nations and dreams !!!
In 1994, I was doing my primary education at Nyazura Primary school, a boarding primary school in Manicaland Province. It was the norm back then that you would buy an envelope and get a postage ...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 07:35hrs | 3629 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Boy (7) beheaded in suspected ritual murder
POLICE in Mashonaland East province have launched investigations into the suspected ritual murder of a seven-year-old boy, Tapiwa Makore, whose beheaded body was recovered outside the family's vegetab...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 07:07hrs | 2016 | by Staff reporter
Boy, 9, accidentally hangs self
A nine-year-old boy from Lobengula West suburb in Bulawayo accidentally hanged himself with a rope tied to a mango tree which they were using as a swing with his siblings.Bulawayo Police Spoke...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 21:10hrs | 2465 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo cardiac ward in sorry state
THE cardiac ward at Mpilo Hospital in Bulawayo has virtually collapsed, posing a huge threat to the many patients living with heart complications referred to the southern region's biggest referral hos...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:49hrs | 348 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest 14 948 people in Gweru and Mazowe
Details of the Zimbabwe Republic Police have arrested 14 948 people in Mazowe, Shamva, Gweru and other sites around the country since the commencement of the operation chikorokoza ngachipere.A...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 12:11hrs | 3104 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa marks 78th birthday
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa celebrated his 78th birthday today and his loyal are wished him well. This year's birthday wishes are different to 2017 when citizens from across the political divide wished him we...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 07:56hrs | 3412 | by Ndou Paul
Zimbabwe students switch to social media for lessons
Reacting to the coronavirus spread March 30, the Zimbabwean government closed the entire country, shutting down schools indefinitely. But, for many like 13-year-old Adrean Machingura, a grade seven pr...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:13hrs | 361 | by Anadolu Agency
Teachers escalate row with govt
THE row between the government and teachers over the reopening of schools for face-to-face teaching for examination classes is escalating. The teachers have now accused Primary and Secondary E...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 20:05hrs | 2950 | by Staff reporter
Barbara Gonzalez ready to make Simba roar across Africa
In her world, 'I can' certainly sounds better than 'I can't'. In fact, Barbara Gonzalez has no talent for bowing to the inevitable, neither does the word impossible exist in her vocabulary.It ...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 08:12hrs | 1357 | by Mthokozisi Dube
Woza engages Parly over schools opening
WOMEN of Zimbabwe Arise (Woza) will tomorrow engage the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Primary and Secondary Education, stakeholders and parents to gauge the country's readiness for the re-openi...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 06:37hrs | 980 | by Staff reporter
Gono says GNU days were the best
ormer reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono says the days of the government of national unity (GNU) were "one of the best economic episodes of our lives".Gono (GG), who retired in 20...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:24hrs | 1592 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's sons are corrupt: Mliswa
OUTSPOKEN Norton legislator Temba Mliswa (independent) has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's sons Collins and Sean of engaging in criminal activities and associating with suspected con-artist, De...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:52hrs | 6143 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe divorce law spurs women's fight for property
When Smangele Tshuma got divorced after five years of marriage, her in-laws forced her out of the home that she had been living in with her husband in southwestern Zimbabwe and took the three donkeys ...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 17:28hrs | 2053 | by Reuters
Mnangagwa twins have 'corrupt relationship' with Delish Nguwaya'
In a bombshell voice note sent to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's twin sons Shaun and Collins, Norton MP Temba Mliswa - who enjoys close ties with the Zanu-PF leader - hits the roof accusing the duo of...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 17:12hrs | 2925 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance trio turns to prophets
MDC-Alliance activists who faked abduction in May this year have now turned to apostolic prophets in what appears to be a desperate bid, wrapped in superstition and mythology, to have the State's case...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:07hrs | 2544 | by Staff reporter
New normal in schools
TEACHERS and learners should brace for a new normal ahead of schools reopening and forget customs such as hugs, handshakes and sharing of desks as they used to. Break and lunch time will be st...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:28hrs | 1324 | by Staff reporter
Striking doctors, nurses receive threatening calls
Striking doctors and nurses have allegedly been receiving threats from anonymous people, trying to force them to return to work.Health workers, including nurses, downed tools three months ago ...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 09:06hrs | 3802 | by Staff reporter
Grade 7 exams to begin on December 1
GRADE SEVEN candidates will be the first to sit for the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) public exams in December, with results set to be published in the same month to allow them ample t...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:12hrs | 760 | by Staff Reporter
Goblins run riot
A worried man in Gokwe reported his mother to Chief Mkoka accusing her of owning goblins that caused his wife to produce milk for four years after she weaned her child and also led to the death of two...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 08:11hrs | 6092 | by Staff reporter
Schools declare readiness to resume classes
ADEQUATE measures informed by World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines have been put in place to ensure schools and colleges reopen safely in the proposed phases without risking a spike in Covid-19 ...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:06hrs | 1086 | by Staff reporter
Stanbic IBTC Institutes Scholarship Awards For Nigerian Undergraduates
Stanbic IBTC Holdings PLC, a member of the Standard Bank Group, has called for applications for the maiden edition of its 2020 Scholarship Programme.The Stanbic IBTC 2020 Scholarship Programme...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 13:48hrs | 439 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwean whizkid (14) enrols at Malawi medical school
TAIDA Mapara, a 14-year-old student from a Harare-based private college, Hilbright Science College, has enrolled for medical studies at the Malawi Medical School after scoring 15 points in the June 20...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 06:18hrs | 2934 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt to provide PPE to all learners
GOVERNMENT will provide Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to all learners when schools reopen, with Treasury releasing $350 million to prepare learning institutions for safe reopening. Cabin...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 06:11hrs | 1340 | by Staff reporter
Elderly couple murdered in beautiful village home
A PROMINENT elderly couple from Mangwe District in Matabeleland South was gruesomely murdered by suspected robbers who raided their homestead on Tuesday night before burning their bodies in the house ...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 06:11hrs | 2392 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa thinks white people are stupid!
The former Vauxhall Labour MP Hon. Kate Hoey said: Mnangagwa is Mugabe mark two. This week has been spectacular by proving this statement as more or less correct but in reverse. In a feat of rage, Mug...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 13:48hrs | 8455 | by Nomazulu Thata
'It's dangerous to open schools now'
TEACHERS yesterday told Parliament that they would only resume their duties during the COVID-19 period after government has met their demands for better working conditions and guaranteed their safety....Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:38hrs | 1768 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo Hospital nurse dies of Covid-19
MPILO Central Hospital has lost a nurse to Covid-19 who died at the institution last week. Sister Pretty Mpala (36) from Emakhandeni suburb in Bulawayo tested positive posthumously and was buried on F...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:24hrs | 843 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe babies born after 30 March will not get birth certificates
State media has reported that Zimbabwean babies born after the 30th of March 2020 are not being issued with birth certificates due to the Covid-19 restrictions. Acting Registrar General Mr Hen...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 07:01hrs | 14810 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Covid-19 creates birth certificate backlog
No children born after March 30 this year have birth certificates, one of the biggest groups missing critical documents since the Registrar General's office decided only burial orders would be issued ...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 05:58hrs | 183 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown brews teen pregnancies
The prolonged period of inactivity spawned by the Covid-19-induced lockdown, which began on March 30, is brewing cases of juvenile delinquency, with a local organisation reporting a 60 percent rise in...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:29hrs | 534 | by Tendai Chara and Veronica Gwaze
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 | 682 | by Staff reporter
Cops, villagers flee businessman's 'goblins'
VILLAGERS and two police officers scurried for cover after they allegedly stumbled on goblins in a businessman's suitcase while searching for poison that allegedly led to the death of several communit...Published: 29 Aug 2020 at 16:44hrs | 4742 | by Staff reporter
Man stabs estranged wife seven times
A BULAWAYO soldier followed his estranged wife to her family home where he allegedly fatally stabbed her seven times and in the process ripping open her stomach using a kitchen knife after she refused...Published: 29 Aug 2020 at 16:33hrs | 2217 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: Tawanda Muchehiwa's gory story on how he was abducted by Ferret team
I often wake up in the middle of the night sweating profusely with a pulsating headache. At that moment, I can feel intense pain on the right side of my jaw. I never get back to sleep.I have t...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 09:49hrs | 12468 | by Tawanda Muchehiwa
Gukurahundi can only be resolved with the victims
The Gukurahundi sanitisation project fronted by Jenni Williams and her cabal is a dismal failure except for its obscenity and vulgarity of holding vile celebrations in Bhalagwe - a scene of heinous cr...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 23:04hrs | 1050 | by Lizwelethu Dube
Mnangagwa pledges IDs for Gukurahundi genocide victims
GOVERNMENT has committed itself to immediately roll out a process of issuing identity documents to victims of Gukurahundi who were rendered stateless by government-sanctioned mass killings.Pre...Published: 24 Aug 2020 at 07:16hrs | 661 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Minister recovers after testing Covid-19 positive
LANDS, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement Deputy Minister Vangelis Peter Haritatos who was recently on self-isolation after testing positive to Covid-19, has returned to work after rec...Published: 24 Aug 2020 at 07:09hrs | 3167 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa confirms Gukurahundi killings
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa Saturday met a faction of civil society groups based in Matabeleland and pledged to expedite the issuance of death certificates on those killed by his government during th...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 15:49hrs | 1439 | by newzimbabwe
Pregnant pupils to attend classes
State schools can no longer exclude girls who fall pregnant from attending lessons, while teachers will not be allowed to cane pupils, under amendments to the Education Act that became law yesterday, ...Published: 22 Aug 2020 at 08:26hrs | 527 | by Staff reporter
Schools not yet ready for re-opening
THE Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) once again announced an exclusionary examinations' calendar. Grade 7, Ordinary Level and Advanced Level examinations are to be conducted this November...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 07:45hrs | 1291 | by ARTUZ Information dept
'I'm a Zim doctor, the COVID-19 crisis is worse than you imagine'
YOU may have heard about the seven babies stillborn at Harare Hospital in one day at the end of July. From the maternity register that night, you can see that the infants were on average a healthy wei...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 07:42hrs | 1277 | by African Arguments
Sidojiwe Hostels: A Covid-19 time bomb
Built for bachelors who worked in Bulawayo's Belmont industrial area in the 1950s, the now-derelict and crowded Sidojiwe Hostels are a ticking time bomb for disease outbreaks in the city including the...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 07:32hrs | 308 | by Staff reporter
Why should Zimbabweans not open ZANU PF inflicted wounds, but freely open Rhodesian caused wounds?
As much as the highly emotive Gukurahundi genocide has never ceased to be one of the most central issues to grip Zimbabwe for the past four decades - being indisputably the darkest blot on this countr...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 18:58hrs | 2049 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimsec's apartheid examinations must fail!
The Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council, ZIMSEC once again announced an exclusionary examinations' calendar. Grade 7, Ordinary level and Advanced level examinations are to be conducted this November ...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 07:14hrs | 1040 | by Artuz
If you have two cloaks give one to the brother without
Peanut butter has been used since forever. In these times of high expenditure and little income, prodigality is a no no. Every cent counts and does so every acquisition, that what may wait let's go to...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 07:12hrs | 220 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
'Grade 7, Form 4 and Upper Sixth ZIMSEC exams this year'
Final year students will sit their ZIMSEC examinations this year, the government announced on Tuesday risking confrontation with teachers, learners and parents.Schools closed prematurely in Ma...Published: 19 Aug 2020 at 19:52hrs | 4708 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe continue to rescue people from China
THE Air Zimbabwe flight that left Guangzhou, China on Saturday night on another repatriation mission is expected to touch down at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport this morning with 132 ...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 07:20hrs | 647 | by Staff reporter
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