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Naked rapist terrorises Mutare student teachers
Panic has gripped students at Mutare Teachers' College, particularly those living off-campus, after a terrifying incident involving a suspected rapist who reportedly attacks victims while naked and we...Published: 04 Apr 2025 at 08:18hrs | 398 | by Staff reporter
Student teacher's 'murderer' found hanging
A man suspected of murdering his girlfriend, a student teacher at Guinea Fowl High School in Gweru, has been found dead outside the school premises. The discovery came after a manhunt was launched fol...Published: 05 Feb 2025 at 14:07hrs | 713 | by Staff reporter
Student teacher found dead, boyfriend wanted for murder
Police have launched a manhunt for a 27-year-old man following the suspected murder of a student teacher at Guinea Fowl School over the weekend.The victim, identified as Keener Tsanana (21), w...Published: 29 Jan 2025 at 08:40hrs | 351 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe genocide survivors demand justice as hearings commence
It is now close to four decades since the end of Gukurahundi massacres in Matabeleland and Midlands, but survivors and their relatives are still to find closure as the government continues to dither o...Published: 15 Jan 2024 at 05:23hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Parents take Mpopoma High School to task over examinations
PARENTS of Mpopoma High School pupils in Bulawayo are accusing teachers of abandoning their duties resulting in the school recording a low pass rate in local examinations.Parents who spoke to ...Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 23:20hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Jobless Zimbabwe teachers told to 'start your own schools'
GOVERNMENT has told jobless teachers to open their own schools as it cannot employ all of them into the country's education system.This was said by Higher and Tertiary Education deputy ministe...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 06:41hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Student teachers revolt against lecturers
STUDENTS at Madziwa Teachers College in Shamva have accused their lecturers of abusing the institution's resources.According to the students, their lecturers are also in the habit of fleecing ...Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 07:45hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's worst secondary school named
FROM the name, one might think that this school literally brings good news in terms of examination passes that will uphold the reputation or prestige of the school, but no. Its pass rate is nowhere cl...Published: 14 Apr 2023 at 07:46hrs | 34 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers raise nation's flag high
ZIMBABWEANS in the Diaspora continue to fly the nation's flag high through excellence in their professions, a product of the country's education system.In recent months, Zimbabweans, from stud...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fatima High teachers refuse to test for Covid-19
SOME teachers at Fatima High School in Lupane District in Matabeleland North allegedly refused to be tested for Covid-19 following a recent outbreak of the virus at the school.The positive cas...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 05:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Life gets tough for Zimbabwe's tertiary level students
LIFE for tertiary level students is becoming increasingly difficult due to economic hardships, an official has said.Addressing students at Kwekwe Polytechnic, president of the Zimbabwe Congres...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Student teachers join shutdown campaign
THE Council of Student Teachers (Cost)will join today's shutdown that was called for by the Zimbabwe National Students Union (Zinasu).Cost secretary-general Witness Rurumwa said the student te...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:08hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Student teachers want corporal punishment back
THE Council of Student Teachers (COST) has called on Parliament to revisit the corporal punishment ban at school saying it is the major contributor to the rise in child delinquency.Corporal pu...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 17:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Court acquits student teachers accused of staging illegal demo
HARARE magistrate Judith Taruvinga Friday freed 10 students who were facing allegations of staging an unsanctioned demonstration at Belvedere Teachers College.The ten are students Belvedere Te...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe replacing absentee teachers
THE Public Service Commission (PSC) said it was going ahead with plans to replace teachers who defied its ultimatum to report for work yesterday without the option of re-engagement in future.T...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt claims to have addressed teachers' grievances
GOVERNMENT yesterday said it had addressed teachers' salary grievances, adding that civil servants should be grateful to President Emmerson Mnangagwa for improving their welfare in terms of salary adj...Published: 18 Feb 2022 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pupils idle as teachers stage sit-ins
PUPILS at public schools across Bulawayo are idle as some teachers are going to class but not teaching in defiance of a Government directive for them to resume duty.Since schools opened last w...Published: 17 Feb 2022 at 05:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ndumiso Gumede laid to rest
HUNDREDS of people converged at Ndumiso Gumede's rural home in Inyathi Village, Bubi District in Matabeleland North, to pay their last respects to the late decorated football administrator.The...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 05:52hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
'Divisions stifling Bosso's growth'
BULAWAYO Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minister Judith Ncube yesterday challenged Highlanders to unite and work for the good of the club to save the institution from collapsing.Speaking at...Published: 04 Jan 2022 at 05:57hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe authorities arrest students in renewed onslaught against dissent
ZIMBABWEAN police on Monday detained 10 student teachers after arresting them for allegedly staging protests in the capital city against a steep hike in tuition fees.Zimbabwe Republic Police (...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 11:44hrs | 3 | by Stephen Jakes
Protesting Belvedere Teachers College students arrested
POLICE in Harare have arrested and seriously injured 11 student teachers at Belvedere Teachers College who were protesting over the decision to block them from accessing the campus before paying their...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mkoba student teachers locked out over unpaid fees
Emmanuel Masuku (not his real name), a student at Mkoba Teachers' College (MTC) in Gweru, was supposed to start his final year of training as a primary school teacher this month.He underwent w...Published: 07 Jun 2021 at 06:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Student teacher allowances raised to US$90 per month
Zimbabwe's government has raised student teacher allowances from US$1.50 per month to US$90 with effect from April after pressure from unions.Student teachers on attachment from colleges and u...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 19:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government clears air on tertiary students
TERTIARY students, who were supposed to commence on the job education and training or teaching practice (TP) in January 2020, will now commence their attachments this month.There was confusio...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 14:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Half-baked student teachers recalled
THE Higher and Tertiary Education ministry has recalled student teachers, who had already been deployed for teaching practice, to continue face-to-face tutorials at their respective campuses. ...Published: 23 Dec 2020 at 18:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
9 Zintec student teachers arrested
NINE trainee teachers students at Morgan Zintec College appeared in court today for staging an illegal demonstration against the extension of the teaching practising period next year.The stude...Published: 09 Dec 2020 at 16:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Minister grilled over recruitment of new teachers
Members of Parliament on Wednesday grilled Primary and Secondary education deputy minister Edgar Moyo over government's plans to recruit 10 000 new teachers before resolving the salary stalemate with ...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Student teachers petition Parly over allowances
STUDENT teachers have petitioned Parliament to push the President Emmerson Mnangagwa-led government to raise their monthly allowances currently pegged at $150, which translates to less than US$2 using...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
US condemns London attack on Mugabe coup announcer
US ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols has condemned attack on Foreign Affairs Minister Sibusiso Moyo by a group of angry Zimbabweans in London last week.Nichols, in an interview with journal...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 08:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Machete wielding gangs terrorize villagers in Zvishavane
The 2008 violence that saw most rural Zimbabweans decapitated and maimed by Zanu-PF militia is being relieved in rural and urbanZvishavane and Shurugwi in the Midlands Province following a new wave of...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 18:36hrs | 3 | by MakhoPrecious Moyo
Rural teachers thrown to the deep end
With learners at heart, pregnant with a passion of serving the nation and refining young brains into doctors, engineers, lawyers and accountants among other professions, *Mrs Bongiwe Nyoni welcomed he...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
PTUZ moves to break away from Apex Council
THE Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has renewed its lobby on other unions to form an umbrella body of the educators that can directly negotiate with government on working conditions ins...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is for us all
I find it unfair for people like Ezra Tshisa Sibanda to say that the government is trying to get rid of Ndebele by employing teachers with Shona surnames to teach in Matebeleland and other Ndebele dom...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 18:29hrs | 7 | by Shumba Happison
Mugabe turns 95, 9 things you didn't know about him
Robert Mugabe is turning 95 and his birthday has been declared a holiday in Zimbabwe. The holiday was mooted by the ruling ZANU-PF youth league to honor their then icon, whose birthday had since the 1...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 23:19hrs | | by BBC
Govt begins receiving applications for voluntary retirement
Government has begun accepting applications for voluntary retirement from civil servants as authorities move to trim its workforce and reduce costs.Voluntary retirement was identified as one o...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pair jailed for robbing teachers
TWO armed robbers who terrorised three student teachers in Goromonzi, robbing them of various goods including laptops, were on Friday sentenced to 18 months in prison by Marondera magistrate Tendai Mu...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Robbers pounce on teachers, loot gadgets
TWO suspected armed robbers appeared at the Marondera Magistrates' Court yesterday on allegations of terrorising three student teachers in Goromonzi and robbing them of various goods, including laptop...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Schoolgirl's sex video goes viral
A PRIVATE college in Mutare has been rocked by a disturbing sex scandal that was recently laid bare following the leakage of a sex tap laden with wicked clips showing a pupil and a student teacher get...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 06:55hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to launch national geo space agency
GOVERNMENT will soon launch the country's first National Geo Spatial and Space Agency aimed at harnessing satellite technology to solve problems.The agency is being pioneered by the Ministry o...Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 07:09hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
'I have found the father of my baby'
WHOSE baby is this?An injiva got the shock of his life when his wife opened a Pandora box telling him that he was not the one responsible for her pregnancy and she dumped him before moving to ...Published: 25 May 2018 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
Give Matebelenand South student teachers priority, says Chiefs
AT least 32 traditional leaders from Matabeleland South province recently petitioned government to prioritise students from the region during enrolment at teachers' training colleges in Bulawayo and G...Published: 04 May 2018 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Beating pupil lands teacher in trouble
A STUDENT teacher from Hugh Beadle Primary School in Northend suburb, Bulawayo has been arraigned for allegedly beating up a Grade Five learner with a plastic rod for poor handwriting.Zibusiso...Published: 11 Apr 2018 at 07:10hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Student teacher in court for 'raping' girl (12)
A STUDENT teacher at Luveve High School in Bulawayo has been taken to court for allegedly raping a 12-year -old girl he met along a footpath.Mxolisi Mbambo (23) from Emakhandeni suburb appeare...Published: 26 Feb 2018 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sex scandal rocks adventist school
BULAWAYO Adventist High School has come under the spotlight after a sizzling sex scandal emerged with eight pupils alleged to have been caught in the act in one of the classrooms.The Form Thre...Published: 08 Dec 2017 at 06:09hrs | 2 | by Staffr eporter
'Dokora was Mugabe's blue eyed boy in Cuba'
ZimFirst leader Maxwell Shumba has described former Primary and secondary education minister Lazarus Dokora as having been former President Robert Mugabe's blue-eyed boy s assigned as an English teach...Published: 05 Dec 2017 at 08:59hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Murowa Primary School head goes berserk after the expose'
Dear Editor While most Zimbabweans were busy trying to make sure that our country becomes a better place to live in, one demon possessed Murowa Primary School was firing at full throttle makin...Published: 27 Nov 2017 at 18:37hrs | | by Concerned Parents
Zanu-PF planning for Mugabe rallies for University students
Zimbabwe National Students Union (Zinasu) says it is ready to meet President Robert Mugabe as announced by the Zanu PF youth league that they are planning for students interface rallies at universitie...Published: 22 Oct 2017 at 14:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Rape accused cop hangs self
A POLICE officer who was facing rape charges in Gwanda allegedly hanged himself on Wednesday morning at a police post where he was deployed.The cop was set to appear in court on October 26....Published: 06 Oct 2017 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
What I Learnt From A Teacher Who Jumped Out Through The Window
(WARNING; the following article may change your life) Some time ago during our teaching practice (attachment) while doing our teaching course, lecturer...Published: 14 Sep 2017 at 16:57hrs | 4 | by Mthokozisi Gwizi
Female student teachers accused of prostitution, sacked
TWO female student teachers from Seke Teachers' College, who were on teaching practice at Murombedzi Primary School in Zvimba, have been recalled on allegations of wayward behaviour and prostitution....Published: 15 Aug 2017 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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