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Zimta pokes holes into proposed Zimsec Act amendments
The Zimbabwe Teachers Association (Zimta) has criticised the proposed amendments to the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) Act, arguing that they fall short of restoring credibility to ...Published: 25 Jul 2025 at 09:30hrs | 115 | by Staff reporter
Ballot stuffing claims rock elections in Kariba
The just-ended National Association of Secondary School Heads (NASH) elections held during the annual congress in Kariba have been marred by shocking allegations of vote rigging and ballot stuffing....Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 16:08hrs | 253 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt mum on teachers' distress petitions
The government has yet to respond to a petition submitted by teachers demanding a salary increase and improved working conditions following the start of the second school term. Teacher unions presente...Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 15:00hrs | 215 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to recruit 8,000 teachers
The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education is set to recruit 8,000 teachers in the upcoming second term, pending final approval from the Treasury. The recruitment drive, announced yesterday, is a...Published: 08 May 2025 at 09:37hrs | 248 | by Sytaff reporter
Zimbabwe's education sector saddled with billions in debt
The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education in Zimbabwe is grappling with significant financial challenges, with debts running into billions of Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) currency, revealing the deepenin...Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 06:39hrs | 294 | by Staff reporter
Parly moves on teachers' welfare
In a move aimed at revitalizing Zimbabwe's education system, Parliament has emphasized the urgent need to improve teachers' welfare. This call was made during a workshop hosted by the Zimbabwe Teacher...Published: 05 Nov 2024 at 08:24hrs | 250 | by Staff reporter
Backdated pay rise for civil servants
The Government has delivered on its commitment to review upwards the salaries of civil servants, with employees starting to receive their backdated pay yesterday. This move is part of the Government's...Published: 16 Oct 2024 at 11:47hrs | 542 | by Staff reporter
New Bill to professionalise Zimbabwe teaching sector
The government has finalized the Teaching Professional Council Bill, a legislative initiative aimed at creating a regulatory framework to maintain high moral standards, ethical conduct, and profession...Published: 07 Sep 2024 at 15:38hrs | 572 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lifts ban on holiday lessons
The Zimbabwean government has lifted the ban on holiday classes for examination classes, while maintaining the ban for other pupils to ensure they rest during holidays. Holiday lessons for examination...Published: 18 Jul 2024 at 06:34hrs | 502 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec extends registration period
GOVERNMENT has been commended for extending the deadline for Ordinary and Advanced Level examination fees payment to give parents and guardians adequate time to raise the funds.Primary and Sec...Published: 25 Mar 2024 at 05:25hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zim teachers frog-marched to administer iron and folate supplements, Govt evasive
School teachers in Highglen District have raised red flag over alleged compulsory administration of iron and folate supplements amongst learners in schools without the presents of health officials or ...Published: 21 Feb 2024 at 08:18hrs | 13 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
Teacher exodus threatens the future of Zimbabwe's education system
KUDZAI Chideme, 42, stepped into the teaching profession after completing her diploma in marketing and failing to secure a job in the private sector. It was 2008. At the time, finding work in public e...Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 04:17hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
ZIMTA bus driver dies in accident
A Zimbabwe Teachers' Association (ZIMTA) bus was involved in an accident in Macheke on Monday where the driver died after a head-on collision with a haulage truck.ZIMTA Chief Executive Officer...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 13:03hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Teachers vote in new Zimta executive
Veteran educationist Akuneni Maphosa has been elected the new president of the Zimbabwe Teachers Association at the ongoing Zimta 39th Annual Conference in Harare.Maphosa won the post after po...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 17:59hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Divisions rock Zimta
Divisions are threatening the survival of the Zimbabwe Teachers' Association (ZIMTA), with some members coming out openly denouncing the executive, whose tenure in office they claim to have expired a ...Published: 05 Dec 2023 at 05:14hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe civil servants get bonuses
CIVIL servants have started receiving their 2023 annual bonuses and the first group comprising those in the security services received their 13th cheque on Tuesday, as the Second Republic moves to ful...Published: 16 Nov 2023 at 05:03hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dragged to court
CIVIL servants through their respective trade unions have dragged to High Court President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the Public Service Commission and other officials over the manner in which their salaries ...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 19:42hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Scramble for Form 1 places
Government has said there are adequate Form One places to absorb all pupils that wrote the Grade Seven public examinations this year.The announcement comes as parents and guardians have starte...Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 05:07hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Teachers sue Zimbabwe Teachers' Association (Zimta)
THE High Court will tomorrow hear a matter involving two disgruntled teachers who are suing the Zimbabwe Teachers' Association (Zimta) for allegedly failing to initiate a forensic audit of its finance...Published: 19 Oct 2022 at 05:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Government salary deductions rile civil servants
CIVIL servants are up in arms with their employer over 2.5% deductions from their salaries every month towards a loan scheme allegedly meant to benefit them.Attempts to opt out of the "forced"...Published: 21 May 2022 at 18:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt recruits extra 10 000 teachers
More than half of the extra 10 000 teachers needed by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education have now been recruited over the last couple of months. The Public Service Commission has ...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa improves MPs, civil servants perks
Government has fixed up to US$10 000 worth of vehicle that civil servants can import duty free while Members of Parliament will now be allowed to import two vehicles duty free as the Second Republic s...Published: 02 May 2022 at 07:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ZIMTA files urgent chamber application challenging teacher suspensions
Zimbabwe Teachers' Association (ZIMTA) has filed an urgent chamber application with the High Court seeking to render suspension of teachers from duty null and void as the victims were not heard neithe...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 13:22hrs | 4 | by Lloyd Mangoh and Virginia Zifesho
Disciplinary hearings for truant teachers start
GOVERNMENT has started disciplinary hearings for teachers and school heads who did not report for duty or disrupted learning activities when schools opened last month.The Ministry of Primary a...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 05:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Experience, qualifications to determine teachers' pay
GOVERNMENT has, with immediate effect, started paying teachers' salaries based on their experience and qualifications, and Treasury has since set aside $160 million for the exercise.The latest...Published: 01 Mar 2022 at 05:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Additional $160m set aside for teachers
A policy of paying teachers' salaries based on their experience and qualifications will be implemented with immediate effect and Treasury has since set aside $160 million for the exercise.In a...Published: 01 Mar 2022 at 05:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Teachers defiant as government ratchets up threats over work boycott
The government on Tuesday ratcheted up threats against teachers as their work boycott intensified, with most government schools remaining closed countrywide.Primary and secondary education sec...Published: 09 Feb 2022 at 06:59hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
War of words erupts between govt and teachers over strike
GOVERNMENT has threatened to fire teachers who failed to report for duty on Monday and Tuesday, triggering an angry backlash from union leaders.Teachers unions declared their members were inca...Published: 09 Feb 2022 at 05:17hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Hiring of 10 000 teachers starts
The recruitment 10 000 teachers ahead of schools opening next Monday has been initiated by Government as it seeks to revise the teacher-pupil ratio from Grade One to Grade Seven, as well as fill vacan...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe civil servants hopeful their salaries will be paid in forex
CIVIL servants are hoping that Government will accede to their request for salaries to be paid in foreign currency as the country starts a New Year saying this will improve their standards of living....Published: 01 Jan 2022 at 13:56hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Omicron Schools to remain open
SCHOOLS will remain open until the end of the term on 17 December despite a resurgence of Covid-19 that has seen numbers of new cases rising.Some universities have, however, reportedly stopped...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:13hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants get forex bonuses, decry high bank charges
Civil servants' representatives are generally excited that their members have started withdrawing their US dollar bonuses, but are upset that some banks are deducting significant bank charges despite ...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 05:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Outcry over Zimbabwe's proposed US$50 cellphone tax
GOVERNMENT has been urged to withdraw the proposed US$50 cellphone levy as it could create a digital divide, as handset dealers will simply pass on the expense to already constrained consumers....Published: 30 Nov 2021 at 05:33hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Teachers, govt face off today
TEACHERS and Primary and Secondary Education minister Evelyn Ndlovu will today meet in Harare under the cloud of threats to boycott public school examinations that are scheduled to begin today....Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:38hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Teachers say to strike over poor pay
THE Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) says its members will go on strike beginning today, a week before "O" and "A" Level students are due to sit for the November Zimbabwe Schools E...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
US$ bonus: Civil servants demand more
CIVIL servants yesterday attacked the United Stated dollar-denominated bonus as not enough, with teacher unions warning that it would not stop them from going on strike beginning Monday.Civil ...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:57hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
ZIMTA bosses in massive corruption storm
THE Zimbabwe Teachers Association (Zimta) top leadership has been dragged to court after failing to furnish members with audited financial records amid suspicions that subscription fees running into m...Published: 12 Nov 2021 at 05:30hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimta members threaten industrial action
ZIMBABWE Teachers Association (Zimta) members in Bulawayo have urged its leadership to call for strike action over poor salaries.In a position paper dated October 14, 2021, addressed to the Zi...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:31hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean teachers embrace Rwanda jobs offer
LOCAL educators yesterday said there was nothing to celebrate during this year's World Teachers' Day commemorations, but applauded plans by the Rwandan government to recruit qualified teachers from Zi...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:49hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Public examinations timetable released
PUBLIC examinations will start at the end of November for Grade Seven candidates, while Ordinary and Advanced Level pupils will start writing in mid-December overlapping into 2022. Government has prev...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt, civil servants showdown looms
A SHOWDOWN is looming between the government and its restive workers after the Public Service Commission (PSC) yesterday announced that all civil servants who have not been vaccinated shall not be all...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 05:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
No jab, no job takes effect
AT least 10 percent of civil servants could be affected by the Government's decision to bar unvaccinated employees from reporting for work. Cabinet on Tuesday resolved that unvaccinated civil servants...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 05:55hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
24% of pupils fail to return to school
TWENTY-FOUR percent of pupils have not returned to school following the reopening of learning institutions due to early pregnancies, school boys venturing into artisanal mining and failure to pay fees...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Disciplinary action for absconding teachers
GOVERNMENT has said teachers who have not reported for duty will face disciplinary action following revelations that by Friday last week, slightly over 32 percent of teachers were not at work. ...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 06:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nightmare for teachers as transporters demand forex
TEACHERS and other school support staff are facing a nightmare to get to their respective stations ahead of full schools opening tomorrow after it emerged that inter-city buses are still banned except...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Inter-city travel ban: Buses get waiver
BUSES ferrying schoolchildren will be allowed to travel between cities and towns in Zimbabwe to allow for pupils' smooth return to schools ahead of tomorrow's second phase re-opening.Police ha...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
10 protesting teachers arrested
TEN teachers were arrested yesterday in Wedza, Mashonaland East province, for protesting against non-payment of salaries by government.Their lawyer Gift Mtisi of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 06:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chaos as schools reopen
CHAOS characterised yesterday's schools reopening as dozens of teachers failed to travel to their workstations citing incapacitation.Teachers' unions attributed the chaos to poor planning by g...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
'No to public examinations this year'
TEACHERS' unions have called on the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) to defer its June and November 2021 public examinations following the COVID-19-induced disruption of the school calend...Published: 17 Aug 2021 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Civil servants get 50% salary increment
THE GOVERNMENT has increased civil servants' salaries by between 45 percent to 50 percent as it fulfils a promise to stagger the wage increment for employees. In April, Government increased civil serv...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 07:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
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