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'Teachers should not use school children to push their demands'
THE Government has warned teachers against abusing pupils to further personal agendas saying there are many lawful channels to air their grievances without involving the learners. This follows...Published: 8 mins ago | 18 | by Staff Reporter
Njube demo teacher still on the run
POLICE say a Njube High School teacher who allegedly incited pupils to demonstrate against an increase in fees and teachers' poor salaries last Monday, is still on the run.Brian Mutsiba, a sci...Published: 27 Jan 2020 at 06:44hrs | 1261 | by Staff reporter
Pamushana High School records best A-level results in Masvingo
SCHOOLS in Masvingo Province recorded 251 candidates who scored 15 points and above in the Zimbabwe School Examination Council A-level public examinations for 2019, records have shown.An...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:16hrs | 406 | by Staff reporter
Teacher flees after students protest
THE Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has thrown its weight behind Njube High School biology teacher, Brian Mutsiba, who has gone into hiding after police in Bulawayo launched a manhunt to...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 07:41hrs | 2833 | by Staff reporter
PTUZ ready to defend Njube High School teacher
The Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has thrown its weight behind Njube High School science teacher Brian Mutsiba for leading pupils in a dem...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 19:25hrs | 3050 | by Staff Reporter
Prophet Angel pays fees for entire school - for whole year
Parents and pupils at a Mashonaland East school were left stunned last week after they were told that a Good Samaritan had paid their schools fees – for the whole year.Tafireyi Phiri, the he...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:58hrs | 1381 | by Staff reporter
Parents force open incomplete school
CONTROVERSY-riddled Glaudina Primary School in Harare yesterday opened its doors to students amid a misunderstanding between the parents and responsible authorities over inadequate infrastructure, wit...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:52hrs | 205 | by Staff rpeorter
Teachers rule out strike
THE Zimbabwe Teachers' Association (Zimta) has ruled out any industrial action saying it is in favour of dialogue with Government to address its members' concerns. In an interview yesterday, Z...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:43hrs | 318 | by Staff reporter
MLF supports Njube High pupils
Mthwakazi Liberation Front has come out in the open that it fully supports the Njube High School pupils for demonstrating against the deteriorating education system.Njube students took to the ...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 15:03hrs | 1269 | by Stephen Jakes
WATCH: Njube high school students demonstrate against school
Reports coming from Njube High School indicate that pupils from the school took to the street on Monday to protest against the increase of school fees from ZWL$92 to ZWL$440. A vid...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 11:00hrs | 7663 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Percy Gwanyanya takes philanthropic work to all corners of Zimbabwe
Harare based business man and philanthropist Percy Gwanyanya (37) has launched a scholarship program which will benefit many across the country.Gwanyanya who is the founder and Managing Direct...Published: 18 Jan 2020 at 08:27hrs | 1092 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Police seek teen girl missing since December
Police in Bulawayo are appealing for information that may lead to the location of a juvenile who went missing in Bradfield in December. Acting Bulawayo police spokesperson Assistant Insp...Published: 16 Jan 2020 at 07:32hrs | 1789 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Zupco facility for boarding schools
The Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) has offered buses to ferry students to boarding schools, as the first term commences this Tuesday.This comes as a relief to most parents and...Published: 13 Jan 2020 at 06:52hrs | 2993 | by Staff Reporter
Schools, parents must meet halfway
Schools open in a few days' time and almost all Zimbabwean parents, to their immense credit and often with great financial sacrifice, have made the required arrangements to send their children to clas...Published: 12 Jan 2020 at 08:04hrs | 818 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Man (25) struck by lightining near police station
A 25-YEAR-OLD man was struck and killed by lightning in Plumtree Town on Wednesday.Matabeleland South police spokesman Chief Inspector Philisani Ndebele confirmed the incident which occurred i...Published: 11 Jan 2020 at 19:12hrs | 1885 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa pledges to look into unjustified school fees hike
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has pledged to look into the unjustified increase in school fees saying his government will not allow school authorities to wantonly increase school fees as the school yea...Published: 03 Jan 2020 at 13:47hrs | 5365 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa lacks Capital appeal to match generational consensus
The wider gap between the Government and citizens is detrimental. Objectivity becomes subjectivity if validated into a balanced message. Leaders must accept constructive criticism if they are to buy i...Published: 02 Jan 2020 at 15:36hrs | 3372 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Children learning in animal shelter
CHILDREN in resettlement areas are still learning under deplorable conditions, including tobacco barns and animal shelters, Primary and Secondary Education minister Cain Mathema confirmed to Parliamen...Published: 01 Jan 2020 at 09:06hrs | 1131 | by Staff Reporter
Govt employs 5 000 teachers
THE Civil Service Commission has given the nod to the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education to employ 5 000 teachers to ease pressure in the country's schools while further proposing that teache...Published: 29 Dec 2019 at 08:18hrs | 2366 | by Staff Reporter
Security guard rapes girl school
A security guard is in trouble after he allegedly abused a school pupil.Benjamin Munozogara (48) was not asked to plead to rape before Bulawayo magistrate Gladmore Mushowe....Published: 18 Dec 2019 at 06:50hrs | 2551 | by Stephen Jakes
Undocumented children allowed to get education in SA
South Africa's Eastern Cape judge president Selby Mbenenge has set aside sections of the schools’ admission policy which in any way hindered undocumented children’s access to school.His ru...Published: 15 Dec 2019 at 11:12hrs | 2354 | by Stephen Jakes
Cyrene pupils arrested for selling dagga and 'roofie' pills at school
While other pupils raise money through selling snacks and sweets to supplement their school allowances, some Cyrene Mission boys have allegedly crossed the thin line that separates law abiding citizen...Published: 14 Dec 2019 at 08:18hrs | 851 | by Staff reporter
Mberengwa East MP torches storm
MBERENGWA East legislator Marko Raidza (Zanu-PF) reportedly teamed up with party activists and disrupted a prize-giving ceremony at a local primary school on December 4, where businessman Comings Hove...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 08:04hrs | 1550 | by Staff reporter
Helicopter rescues for storm-ravaged communities
The Department of Civil Protection is organising helicopter rescues and helping with money to repair infrastructure damaged by the heavy rains and violent storms that have seen 19 people killed by lig...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 07:22hrs | 276 | by Staff reporter
Form 1 boarding places run out
OVER 70 000 pupils seeking boarding places for Form One next year are unlikely to secure them as the schools can accommodate only 24 000 children. In a statement, Primary and Secondary Educati...Published: 12 Dec 2019 at 19:57hrs | 241 | by Staff reporter
Form 1 places headache for pupils
OVER 70 000 prospective Form One pupils are likely to be left stranded after 100 000 applied for boarding places, yet only 24 000 places are available. In a statement, Primary and Secondary Ed...Published: 11 Dec 2019 at 06:29hrs | 575 | by Staff reporter
Boy (7) dies in Bulawayo race car accident
A GRADE 2 pupil at a Bulawayo school has died after he was hit and dragged by a race car at the three-hour Bulawayo Endurance Race held on Saturday at the Bulawayo Motorsport Park along Victoria Falls...Published: 10 Dec 2019 at 07:16hrs | 1785 | by Staff reporter
School in shock $60 000 fees per term
PARENTS with children going to boarding schools and private schools in and around Bulawayo are likely to have a bleak Christmas as they will be agonising over school fees for next year, with some scho...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 11:46hrs | 1105 | by Staff reporter
Fees hike sparks exodus to government schools
Schools might have closed last week, but parents and guardians are already agonising over the fate of their children next year, and it is now widely believed there will be an exodus from private...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 11:28hrs | 431 | by Staff Reporter
Man in trouble for raping form 3 pupil
A Man from Kensington in Bulawayo is in trouble after he allegedly raped a form three pupil during her guardian's absence.Hardlife Mugarisi (26) was not asked to plead to rape when he appeared...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 11:15hrs | 455 | by Stephen Jakes
Boy crushed to death by falling tree
A 16-YEAR-OLD schoolboy was crushed to death when a teak tree fell on him as he was walking past a vegetable market in Victoria Falls, police confirmed yesterday. The incident occurred at 12 midday on...Published: 07 Dec 2019 at 12:14hrs | 441 | by Staff reporter
Rains damage 35 Matebeleland South schools
INFRASTRUCTURE in 35 schools in Matebeleland South Province has been damaged by rains. Presenting a report during a Matebeleland South Provincial Drought Relief Committee meeting on Wednesday,...Published: 07 Dec 2019 at 12:13hrs | 633 | by Staff reporter
Impact of shona teacher deployment to Matebeleland schools, 0% pass rate
At the beginning of 2019, the government has apologised after teachers who cannot speak Ndebele were recruited to take infant classes in Bulawayo....Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 08:28hrs | 4398 | by Staff reporter
School demands 200 bricks and maize for Form 1 intake
A Rio Zim Mhondoro High School flyer for 2020 Form 1 intake has shown that the school demands each prospective pupil to bring the following materials before they are registered:RTGS 293.00...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 08:10hrs | 3462 | by Mandla Ndlovu
4 Bulawayo schools under probe for bullying, drug abuse
THE Primary and Secondary Education ministry last week called for a meeting with parents and stakeholders to root out bullying which has gone out of hand at Bulawayo schools.Ministry officials...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:21hrs | 499 | by Staff rpeorter
Outcry as boarding school fees soar
Some parents are in shock after a number of schools hiked fees for next year's first term to as high as $12 000, although Government yesterday said it had not approved any increases. Form Ones...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:06hrs | 1551 | by Staff reporter
A-level pupils 'gang rape' Form 3 pupil
TWO Chaplin High School pupils in Gweru who were doing Advanced Level allegedly raped a Form Three girl from the same school in a school office after hoodwinking her that she had been summoned by the ...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:24hrs | 2920 | by Staff reporter
Two schoolboys 'rape' pupil in classroom
TWO pupils at Chaplin High School in Gweru have been arrested for allegedly raping a girl after luring her to an empty classroom at the school. The boys (18 and 19), who are doing A-level, all...Published: 30 Nov 2019 at 10:47hrs | 809 | by Staff reporter
Government to avail buses for school children
GOVERNMENT is working on availing special buses to transport children to school and back in response to a request by junior Parliamentarians. Bulawayo Provincial Affairs Minister, ...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:37hrs | 286 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors to get 'mushikashika' cars from govt - can this absurdity ever get any worse?
As the Zimbabwe government ups the ante in its concerted efforts in dehumanizing and degrading the people of this country - through its brazenly heartless and cold-hearted economic policies that have ...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 18:37hrs | 1505 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Deputy head forces pupil to undress
Lukosi Secondary School deputy head Possenta Kwidini (50) has been arraigned before the Hwange court for allegedly forcing a pupil to undress in front of other teachers.Kwidini denied the char...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 06:46hrs | 1685 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo schools post best results for Grade 7 exams
BULAWAYO Province was the best performing nationally once again in the 2019 Grade Seven public examinations and the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has hailed the province for hard work. ...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 06:20hrs | 4466 | by Staff reporter
Hailstorm ravages Bulilima West
A HAILSTORM, which ploughed through Bulilima West over the weekend, destroyed entire classrooms at Ndolwane Primary School, leaving only one, with reports that yesterday pupils were turned away becaus...Published: 26 Nov 2019 at 07:28hrs | 558 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe army on high alert'
The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) will remain committed to undertaking training needed to meet threats from hostile elements using violence to disturb peace in the nation, ZNA Commander Lieutenant-Gene...Published: 25 Nov 2019 at 06:27hrs | 1075 | by Staff reporter
Govt nullifies school fees hike
THE Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has ordered that all school fees increases by private schools for next year are null and void, as they have not been approved by the ministry.Th...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 10:53hrs | 2839 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean receives prestigious scholarship in SA
Prospective University of Cape Town (UCT) student Terrell Demorgan is the inaugural recipient of the Daniel Samuel Maseko Memorial Scholarship and will enrol for his Bachelor of Business Science (BBus...Published: 23 Nov 2019 at 17:55hrs | 1366 | by Staff reporter
Form 6 pupil gives birth during examination
A Form 6 pupil at Danhamombe High School had to be rushed to Chivi Rural Hospital after she allegedly gave birth during a Shona examination.School head Emmanuel Muvengi confirmed the incident ...Published: 23 Nov 2019 at 06:51hrs | 1194 | by Staff reporter
Dominican Convent raises school fees to $15 000 per term
The Dominican Convent High School in Bulawayo have made a shocking announcement of the 2020 fees structure for pupils learning there or intending to enrol for next year. In a letter to the par...Published: 21 Nov 2019 at 07:49hrs | 4666 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Lightning strikes six pupils in Chimanimani
Six pupils at Nedziwa Secondary School in Chimanimani were hit by a bolt of lightning this afternoon.They were rushed to Mutambara Mission Hospital. Chimanimani district medical officer Dr God...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 20:30hrs | 949 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, MDC renew rivalry in Shurugwi by-election
MAIN opposition MDC Alliance party and the ruling Zanu-PF have rekindled their rivalry ahead of the Shurugwi South ward six by-election set for December 14.The council seat fell vacant followi...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 06:00hrs | 1030 | by Staff reporter
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