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Abuse of power in scholarship scandal condemned
Maud Chifamba, Zimbabwe's youngest university student when she enrolled at the University of Zimbabwe at just 14 years old, has come forward with a passionate statement condemning the alleged abuse of...Published: 09 Dec 2024 at 07:10hrs | 850 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe launches second space satellite
Zimbabwe is set to launch its second earth observation satellite, ZimSat-2, on Tuesday, marking a significant milestone in the nation's growing space program. The satellite will be launched from Vosto...Published: 03 Nov 2024 at 10:02hrs | 398 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa golf tourney tees off
President Emmerson Mnangagwa made history yesterday by inaugurating the first-ever Presidential Golf Day at Royal Harare Golf Club, marking the first time a Head of State has visited the club in its 1...Published: 14 Sep 2024 at 12:08hrs | 83 | by Staff reporter
500 benefits from Zimbabwe's Presidential scholarships
The government has sent off over 500 students benefiting from the Presidential Scholarship Programme to study at universities in Cuba, Serbia, Russia, India, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia. The pro...Published: 03 Aug 2024 at 12:22hrs | 686 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's office sues website over presidential scholarships
Vacancy Mail Media (Pvt) Limited, represented by Etinos Mudzamba and Julius Mudzamba, has been taken to court by the Office of the President and Cabinet on charges of fraud. The accusation stems from ...Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 08:14hrs | 190 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt invites applications for Presidential Scholarships
GOVERNMENT has invited disadvantaged but academically gifted university students to apply for the Presidential scholarships for undergraduate and post-graduate programmes amid calls for learners from ...Published: 23 Jan 2024 at 04:38hrs | 384 | by Staff reporter
Tsholotsho woman seeks assistance to fulfil dream
A 25-year-old woman from Tsholotsho District, Matabeleland North Province is appealing for financial assistance to commence university studies to fulfil her dream of becoming a social worker.M...Published: 09 May 2023 at 06:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa backtracks on free education
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday appeared to be backtracking on his government's pledge to roll out free education, saying only the vulnerable and people with disabilities would be catered for....Published: 18 Apr 2023 at 19:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF heavies battle for Bulilima seat
The merging of Bulilima East and Bulilima West constituencies following the delimitation process has pitted two Zanu-PF heavyweights in Matabeleland South against each other as they will battle it out...Published: 15 Mar 2023 at 09:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cde Chiukira drops Mnangagwa's name to swindle Zimfep schools
Open letterTo whom it may concern Challenges faced by Zimfep Schools because of Gideon Chiukira (Director of Coordination)Zimfep stands for Zimbabwe Foundation for Education with Produ...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 09:32hrs | 84 | by Concerned parents
Mushohwe declared national hero
Former Cabinet Minister Dr Christopher Mushohwe, who died yesterday after a long illness, has been declared a national hero.In a condolence message to the Mushowe family last night, President ...Published: 14 Feb 2023 at 05:20hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Next, university graduates will be 'hailing' Mnangagwa for capping them!
It is now a well-established fact that the state-controlled broadcaster, ZBC - as well as the rest of the state media in Zimbabwe - is an embarrassment not only to the journalism profession, but also ...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 19:15hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa's govt to build new prisons
The GOVERNMENT is committed to upgrading prison facilities and building new prisons to improve living standards of inmates in line with global best practices in jails and correctional systems, Preside...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:35hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa recalls Green Bombers ahead of 2023 elections
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has re-introduced the dreaded Border Gezi national youth service programme, now known as Youth Service in Zimbabwe, ahead of general elections next year.Derisively...Published: 13 Jul 2022 at 20:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chinese business not deterred by negative media
CHINESE business people operating in Zimbabwe will persist with projects in the country despite a deliberate media onslaught to besmirch their operations, the Chamber of Chinese Enterprises in Zimbabw...Published: 27 Feb 2022 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Presidential scholarship now open
Government is inviting applications from students intending to pursue undergraduate and post-graduate studies at Russian universities in 2022/2023 under the Presidential Scholarship Fund.The s...Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-A imploding
The occurrences within the MDC-A have left people wondering if Nelson Chamisa has finally met up with Karma and is being beaten up with what he dug up. In Shona we have a proverb that says "akarumwa n...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 08:21hrs | 1 | by Prosperity Mzila
MDC-Alliance: Chickens coming home to roost
The occurrences within the MDC-Alliance have left people wondering if Nelson Chamisa has finally met up with karma and is being beaten up with what he dug up. In Shona, we have a proverb that says "ak...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Prosperity Mzila
Mnangagwa's office disowns scholarships advert
THE Zimbabwe Presidential and National Scholarship Office has disowned an advertisement for educational scholarships circulating on social media.Last week, a fake advert was circulated on soci...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 13:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ingwebu Breweries re-introduces mahewu
REBOUNDING Bulawayo Municipal Commercial Undertaking (BMCU)'s beverages manufacturing unit, Ingwebu Breweries will re-introduce its non-alcoholic sorghum drink, Royal Mahewu next month as it seeks to ...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 07:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to establish University of Zambia scholarship programme
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has pledged to establish a new scholarship programme to support deserving Zimbabwean candidates to further their studies at the University of Zambia (UNZA). Speaki...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 07:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Presidential scholarships for 2019 - 2020 academic year
PRESIDENTIAL AND NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS FOR 2019/2020 ACADEMIC YEAR The Presidential and National Scholarships De...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 08:49hrs | 15 | by Presidential scholarships
Zimbabwe students starving in foreign lands
Zimbabwean students who are on the presidential scholarship scheme are finding it difficult to get by because government is struggling to fund their needs.Thousands of students are on the pres...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 10:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Scholarships Department warns of fraudsters
THE Presidential Scholarships and National Scholarships Department has warned prospective applicants for 2019/ 2020 scholarships that it has not hired any agents to collect and facilitate submission o...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 09:51hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's preferred Zanu-PF president left in the cold
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has left former Defence minister Sydney Sekeramayi in the "cold" after snubbing him when he named a list of Zanu PF stalwarts assigned to fulltime positions at the party's...Published: 27 Oct 2018 at 08:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Makamba Busha hits campaign trail
South African-based businessman Joseph Makamba Busha has hit the campaign trail, expressing confidence that his FreeZim Congress will give mainstream parties a good run for their money in the forthcom...Published: 13 May 2018 at 11:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zim students in Algeria wallow in penury
OVER 400 Zimbabwean students studying in Algeria on government scholarships are reportedly struggling to make ends meet following their alleged neglect by the State, forcing some to turn to nefarious ...Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 08:49hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean govt abandoned students to die in foreign lands
Letter to the Zimbabwean Government and the Algerian Government from Zimbabwean students on the Bi Lateral Presidential scholarship studying in AlgeriaF...Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 07:10hrs | 3 | by Zimbabwean students in Algeria
Zanu PF vote rigging juggernaut well-oiled with $4b to MDC's $2m - will bullet train run out of gas before race is done
In 2013 SADC leaders wanted Zimbabwe's elections to be postponed to allow the implementation of the democratic reforms designed end Zanu PF's carte blanche powers to rig the elections. "If you...Published: 15 Apr 2018 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
Hotels accused of exploiting locals
VICTORIA Falls residents have accused hotels and tour operators in the country's prime resort town of exploiting locals by employing them as cheap labour, sometimes "without" pay.The town runs...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 07:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe youths use wisdom during harmoniesed elections
The purpose of the elections is to elect the few elite people who can represent us in the places of authority. The money in the world can make you rich and all the power in the world can make you stro...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 14:45hrs | 1 | by Enos Denhere
SA ready to assist Zimbabwe students
The South African Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mr Mphakama Mbete has paid a courtesy call on the Minister of State for Government Scholarships in the office of the President to discuss issues on the welfar...Published: 23 Feb 2018 at 21:12hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe presidential scholarship students turn to prostitution
Desperate Zimbabwean students on the presidential scholarship programme, faced with rising costs, are turning to prostitution, gambling and other dangerous pursuits to fund their studies, Parliament h...Published: 19 Feb 2018 at 10:11hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Government solves foreign-based students' challenges
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday urged South Africa-bound students on the Presidential scholarship to go and acquire knowledge and skills that would assist in the country's development.The Presid...Published: 17 Feb 2018 at 08:03hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
There is likely to be a presidential run off
Research is the systematic investigation and study of materials and source in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions. It comprises of creative work undertaken to increase the stock of know...Published: 05 Feb 2018 at 16:05hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Scholarship programmes not transparent - ZCGG
The Zimbabwe Campaign For Good Governance (ZCGG) is concerned by lack of transparency in the management and administration of government and Presidential Scholarship programmes. For many years we beli...Published: 29 Jan 2018 at 20:18hrs | 3 | by M M Changamire
50 students get Mnangagwa scholarships
The Minister of State for Government Scholarships in the President's Office Dr Christopher Mushohwe has sent off 50 students to the University of Johannesburg this Monday morning.The group is ...Published: 29 Jan 2018 at 12:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Scholarships Ministry seeks $10 million
The newly-created Ministry of Government Scholarships requires $10 million to enable it to run various programmes meant to equip selected Zimbabwean learners through provision of further education abr...Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 10:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt invites 2018-19 scholarship applications
GOVERNMENT is inviting applications from students willing to pursue Graduate, Post Graduate and PhD courses under the Presidential Scholarships Programme for the 2018/19 academic year. The Minister of...Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 04:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
A real revolution is brewing, Cdes!
MY former comrades, when you and the rogue elements in the army forced the people to make a show of protesting against me and later another show of celebrating my departure, one thing you never realis...Published: 14 Dec 2017 at 15:38hrs | 1 | by CZ
Mnangagwa's Command cabinet - 22 ministers, 6 deputies
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday appointed a 22-member Cabinet in a move that saw some line ministries with functional duplications being merged.He also brought in some new faces into Go...Published: 01 Dec 2017 at 05:07hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF: A postmorteum after the military assistance of November 2017
Lest we forget the big march of the generation aged between 1980 and to 2017 on the 17 November 2017 was not to say we support Zanu rather to voice all the shortcomings Zanu caused through its greater...Published: 24 Nov 2017 at 07:04hrs | | by Andrew M Manyevere
Mnangagwa allies jump ship
FORMER Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa's allies, both in the ruling Zanu-PF party and government, reportedly dumped his camp to save their political skin after President Robert Mugabe last week gave...Published: 13 Nov 2017 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa one of the richest leaders who got wealth through corruption
The Zimbabwe Communist Party Secretary General Ngqabutho Mabhena has said the fired former Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa is one of the politicians in the country who got wealth through corrupt mea...Published: 11 Nov 2017 at 07:52hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe scholarship students starving in foreign land
Students sent out of the country on Presidential scholarship have complained that they are starving and efforts to alert the Minister of Scholarship Christopher Mushohwe have yielded nothing.I...Published: 17 Oct 2017 at 18:42hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabweans urged to use social media constructively
Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Minister Dr Chris Mushohwe has urged Zimbabweans to constructively use social media in furtherance of national development.He said negative portray...Published: 07 Oct 2017 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Is Zimbabwe opposition ready to remove Mugabe regime?
For 37 years Zimbabweans have endured ZANU rule. Are things about to change? For any political party that is serious about dislodging ZANU PF from power the first step should be to gain an indepth...Published: 23 Sep 2017 at 20:03hrs | | by Sakhile Sibanda
New department to handle Mugabe scholarships
ALL scholarships will now be handled by the President's Office under the Presidential and National Scholarships Department. Previously, the scholarships were handled by the Presidential Scholarships D...Published: 15 Sep 2017 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe sends off 50 students to China
President Robert Mugabe has sent off 50 students who have been offered scholarships to go and study at Ocean University in China.The group of students is being sponsored by a Chinese group of ...Published: 14 Sep 2017 at 15:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T bemoans lack of transparency in the Presidential scholarship
MDC-T Bulawayo spokesperson Felix Mafa Sibanda has bemoaned the lack of transparency in the selection of students for the Presidential Scholarship.He said National scholarship has impossible d...Published: 10 Sep 2017 at 08:41hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
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