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Govt yet to decide on school calendar
THE government is yet to decide on the school calendar despite that primary and secondary schools are reopening this month.This comes as schools were forced to close early in March as the gove...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:30hrs | 956 | by Staff reporter
So much lies and distortions in Zimbabwean history - the true story needs to finally be told
When renowned pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey famously said, "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots", he had a very valid point, as indeed,...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 14:27hrs | 1806 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mixed reactions over re-opening of schools in Zimbabwe
Various stakeholders across the southern African country have expressed mixed feelings over the reopening of schools on the 28th of July this year.Prior to the reopening of schools, the govern...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 22:15hrs | 4049 | by Daniel Itai
Chaos as villagers supervise exams
CHAOS rocked the start of the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) June "O" and "A" Level examinations which started yesterday, with teachers' unions claiming government hired "villagers and ...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:31hrs | 4490 | by Staff reporter
It's too risky for Mnangagwa to let soldiers go hungry
REPORTS that morale has hit rock bottom in the army make for sad and terrifying reading. Zimbabwe's worsening economic situation, coupled with a severe food crisis, hyperinflation and cash shortages p...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:25hrs | 6031 | by Staff reporter
Villagers hired to invigilate exams
SOME headmasters were Tuesday forced to hire local villagers to assist in invigilating ZIMSEC June 'O' and 'A' Level examinations after teachers boycotted the process due to lack of proper Covid-19 sa...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:11hrs | 1963 | by newzimbabwe
Govt launches regularisation programme
Government has launched the national regularisation programme, which is expected to tighten the screws on land barons by bringing sanity to all informal settlements countrywide. Land barons ha...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 16:50hrs | 2481 | by Staff reporter
Online, radio lessons challenged
GOVERNMENT'S efforts to offer on-line and radio lessons to schoolchildren stranded at home due to the COVID-19 lockdown, which forced schools to re-main closed, has been challenged by non-governmental...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:14hrs | 579 | by Staff reporter
Electricity tariff increase looms
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) is assessing an application for an electricity tariff increase that was recently lodged by the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Compan...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:52hrs | 1056 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec exam centres moved
Zimsec has established alternative centres for the June 2020 examinations that begin today to replace a handful of schools that were being used as Covid-19 quarantine centres. In a statement o...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:51hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
Cain Mathema summoned over schools reopening
PARLIAMENT has summoned the minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Cain Mathema, junior MPs and the deaf community to share their views on the reopening of schools amid the coronavirus (Covid-19...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 18:48hrs | 2432 | by Staff reporter
Mat North schools ready for June exams
SCHOOLS in Matabeleland North province are ready for the Zimbabwe Schools Examinations Council (Zimsec) June exams, the Provincial Education Director Mr Jabulani Mpofu has said.Speaking during...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 13:30hrs | 615 | by Agencies
Anxiety as schools open for June exams
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is reportedly ill-equipped to smoothly run the June examinations as the Education ministry has not deployed equipment to combat the spread of COVID-19....Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:48hrs | 1049 | by Staff reporter
Zupco ready to ferry pupils
THE Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) has said it is ready to ferry students across the country back to their various schools in preparation for the June/July examinations, which begin tomorro...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:21hrs | 865 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19: 'The worst still to come'
DR Solwayo Ngwenya, a veteran medical practitioner is a worried man. He believes there seems to be lack of seriousness in flattening the coronavirus curve by the ordinary citizens and officials to an ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:30hrs | 1205 | by Staff reporter
Shot in the arm for Mzingwane High
FORMER Mzingwane High School pupils have donated 148 chairs and desks to the school as part of efforts to enhance learning at the institution.The donation comes at a time the school is facing ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:30hrs | 509 | by Staff reporter
Food aid for Mabuthweni and Emakhandeni residents
THE Minister of State for Bulawayo Provincial Affairs, Judith Ncube, has urged residents in the city to unite and assist each other during the difficult times as the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic b...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:30hrs | 103 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland South running out of quarantine space
AUTHORITIES in Matebeleland South have called on the Government to urgently avail more Covid-19 quarantine and isolation centres and to upgrade existing facilities to enhance their capacity to handle ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:26hrs | 107 | by Staff reporter
Boarding schools open today
BOARDING schools will open today to receive pupils who will be writing June/ July examinations that start on Tuesday.As part of ensuring the smooth running of examinations, the Government has ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:19hrs | 580 | 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 | 1890 | by Stephen Jakes
If only RBZ could listen
Reserve bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), On the 30th of December 2019 I wrote to the governor of (Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe) RBZ, the Ministry of Finance and the government that the growth of a dominating mobil...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 09:33hrs | 3021 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Police urged to be ruthless with rapists
A TOP government official has urged police to be ruthless when dealing with perpetrators of gender based violence, mainly rapists.Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister Ellen Gwaradzimba made ...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:37hrs | 335 | by Staff reporter
Young people, your country needs you
Talking success to a cross section of young Zimbabwean teens from across the economic spectrum, one theme was common.They all want to leave the country when they finish school. They do not see...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:34hrs | 190 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Shops ignore official exchange rate
RETAIL shops in Bulawayo yesterday continued trading using the parallel market exchange rate of US$1:$90, ignoring the new US$1:$57 rate announced by the central bank on Tuesday after the first day of...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:33hrs | 1537 | by Staff reporter
PTUZ mobilises for boycott of exams invigilation
A COMBATIVE teachers' union has psyched up the educators to boycott invigilating the June examinations until government complies with a High Court ruling ordering it to equip schools with facilities t...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:32hrs | 585 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe quarantine centres new COVID-19 hotspots
I AM in quarantine and it's a mess." Many Zimbabweans woke up to this distressful text from humanitarian worker Munyaradzi Madziwa who had been quarantined at Mosi Oa Tunya Secondary School in Victori...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:31hrs | 805 | by Staff reporter
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 | 800 | by Staff reporter
Biti and Job Sikhala to be struck off the roll?
Zimbabwean politics has always been full of mystery. Politicians are normally identified by their getting into public office. There are a lot of politicians fine politicians who had never ran for an o...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 23:05hrs | 15496 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe Driving School Owners urges government to re-open VID depots
The Vice President of Zimbabwe Driving School Owners Association ( ZDSOA) Edwin Ndlovu has called for the government of Zimbabwe to direct VID depots across the country to commence testing aspir...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 11:43hrs | 1426 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Racism storm rocks elite Bulawayo school
Petra College Senior in Bulawayo has been rocked by a racism storm after current and former learners at the privately run institution took to social media to share the racist incidents they encountere...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 20:54hrs | 5115 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU President Isaac Mabuka speaks
Q1: Thank you Mr. Mabuka for your time. Please introduce yourself to the people. Who is Mabuka?A: I am Isaac Mabuka. I was born in 1953 on 26 April in Gwanda South. I did my primary education ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 13:15hrs | 3158 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF schools inspector terrorising teachers
A ZAKA schools inspector, Lylletty Aleta Makomeke, who is also Zanu-PF councillor for Masvingo Rural District Council (RDC) ward 5, has been accused of terrorising teachers for the past two years....Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:29hrs | 2632 | by Staff reporter
Luveve deaths caused by water shedding
GOVERNMENT has attributed Bulawayo's diarrhoea outbreak in Luveve and surrounding suburbs that has killed nine people to water shedding and vandalism of pipes, and released an additional $7.4 million ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:09hrs | 415 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to launch tractor facility
President Mnangagwa is tomorrow expected to launch the John Deere agricultural equipment supply facility that is part of Government's mechanisation development programme, said Information, Publicity a...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:04hrs | 627 | 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 | 2266 | by Wilbert Mukori
1 111 cops resist transfer
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga (pictured) was on Friday left with egg on the face after more than 1 111 junior officers successfully challenged their "intermittent transfers" at their own...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 08:17hrs | 5941 | by Staff reporter
Schools re-opening guidelines revealed... learners prohibited from sharing textbooks
ALL schools' out and indoor sporting activities have been suspended ahead of next month's opening of learning institutions as Government implements measures to curb the spread of coronavirus.T...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 09:26hrs | 1649 | by Staff Reporter
Lodges, guest houses cash in on Covid-19 quarantine escapees
SOME lodges and guest houses have been cashing in on Covid-19 quarantine escapees who are desperately trying to evade the long arm of the law, The Sunday Mail Society can reveal.The growing pr...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 08:36hrs | 902 | by Staff Reporter
Is the black American fight ours?
American race relations have once again been the focus of the world's attention after violent riots in the aftermath of yet another killing of a black man by a white policeman. The majority of...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:33hrs | 470 | by Miriam Tose Majome
EFF threatens to destroy Zimbabwe's lucerne grass project
ECONOMIC Freedom Fighters (EFF) Zimbabwe president Innocent Gagu Lutshutsha Ndibali has threatened to destroy the lucerne grass project if government goes ahead with its plans to displace over 2 500 v...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:31hrs | 1908 | by Staff reporter
Radio lessons start
The first phase of the schools radio lessons conducted by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education (MOPSE) began on Monday and ran until yesterday. The second week commences on Monday, ...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:09hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
Private bus operators seek return
Private bus and commuter omnibus operators whose vehicles have been suspended since the beginning of the lockdown have sent a distress call to Government seeking to return to business to alleviate the...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:07hrs | 570 | by Staff reporter
The land isn't ours
A few years ago while visiting the city of Jos, which is located in north-east Nigeria, a person pointed to a vast neatly kept area behind a fence. "This ranch belongs to the Queen of England," he rem...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 17:10hrs | 1641 | by Hadebe Hadebe
Zimbabweans in US, China to return home
THOUSANDS of Zimbabweans, stranded in China, the United States, South Africa and other countries after Covid-19 induced lockdowns have registered with Government to be repatriated as quickly as possib...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 07:32hrs | 1195 | by Staff reporter
Phased reopening of polytechnics 'imminent'
Polytechnic colleges are set to reopen in a few weeks, as Government is almost done with the clearing out of returnees that were being quarantined at such institutions across the country. Hara...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 07:31hrs | 460 | by Staff reporter
When govt steals your car and gives you back only one wheel - the charade of civil servants' 'salary increments'
Whenever I hear the Zimbabwe government announce a civil servants' salary increment, I can not help being thoroughly perplexed, if not downright bewildered, by the proud and self-congratulatory manner...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 16:37hrs | 1587 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
What has happened to the 16 June 1976 Soweto Uprising revolutionary spirit in today's Zimbabwe youths?
For a very long time, whenever I see the world-famous picture of the lifeless Hector Pieterson, being carried by a crying fellow female schoolmate - fleeing from a volley of fatal bullets being fired ...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 09:50hrs | 953 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Parliament breached lockdown rules to expel Chamisa's MPs
THE Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda and Senate President Mabel Chinomona breached Covid-19 restrictions when they convened sitting and expelled four MDC Alliance MPs.This was admitted by M...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 07:08hrs | 3123 | by newzimbabwe
Social grants beneficiaries unreachable, claims govt
PUBLIC Service, Labour and Social Welfare secretary Clemence Masanga yesterday said his ministry was facing difficulties in identifying vulnerable people to benefit from government social grants....Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 07:06hrs | 438 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge appeals for development funding
BEITBRIDGE district is endowed with many investment opportunities whose potential can be fully unlocked if Treasury avails more funding for devolution. It is understood that so far, Beitbridge has rec...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 06:36hrs | 103 | by Staff reporter
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