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Adventists challenge UZ's Saturday exams
UNIVERSITY of Zimbabwe Seventh Day Adventist Students Association has approached the High Court challenging the holding of examinations on Saturday 11 and 18 July.The association said if they ...Published: 17 hrs ago | 686 | by Staff reporter
Fresh wave of farm grabs sparks outrage
A FRESH wave of farm takeovers facilitated by government has intensified under the guise of trimming farm sizes, sparking fears of a renewed assault on white farmers, who feel besieged and are now rus...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:20hrs | 4179 | by Staff reporter
Over 1,000 Zimbabwean students face return from US
Many of the more than 1000 Zimbabwean students at American universities may have to return home following a US Government decision that foreign students at universities that now teach online with no f...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 19:43hrs | 2446 | by Staff reporter
5 ways to make money with just your phone
It is amazing to think about all of the different ways that you can make money today. There used to be a day not too long ago when traveling meant that you could not add to your bankroll while you wer...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 06:59hrs | 947 | by Staff writer
Nehanda's bones not yet risen - as she didn't die for White Rhodesia to be replaced by Black Rhodesia!
Yesterday, the 7th July 2020, I took time to watch the usual post-Cabinet media briefing, beamed live on state television - whereby, several government ministers update the nation on their deliberatio...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 15:51hrs | 762 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Kenyan schools stay closed until next year
KENYAN ministry of education has stated that all primary and secondary schools will reopen in 2021. The ministry said all students would resume studies in their current classes.Educati...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 14:50hrs | 1881 | by BBC
The greatest threat to Zimbabwe's peace and security are not foreign entities, or their 'stooges', but it's ZANU PF itself!
Reading the media in Zimbabwe, even since the November 2017 military coup d'etat - which toppled long-time tyrant Robert Gabriel Mugabe, replacing him with his decades-long right-hand man and protĂ©gĂ...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 14:46hrs | 2039 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Deadline set for 2021 Commonwealth education awards
The Commonwealth has set a deadline for entries into the 2021 Commonwealth education awards for good practice for 31 August 2020.The bloc said the awards are open to exceptional education inst...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 09:06hrs | 253 | by Stephen Jakes
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 | 4126 | by Daniel Itai
A new oppostion front stronger than MDC threatens ZANU PF
Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba has revealed that the government is aware of a new opposition front led by market manipulators which seeks to overthrow the government. In an intervie...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 11:02hrs | 22389 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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 | 2050 | by newzimbabwe
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 | 617 | 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 | 1069 | 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 | 919 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa has been hijacked, says Mashakada
Founding MDC member and Economic Planning former minister Tapiwa Mashakada recently left the MDC-Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa claiming the party had stopped being a workers' movement and that it had...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:44hrs | 8951 | 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 | 514 | by Staff reporter
Foreign students to produce Covid-19 free certificates
FOREIGN students who are doing final year studies at country's universities are expected to produce Covid-19 free certificates and subjected to the mandatory 21-day quarantine while undergoing testing...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:23hrs | 248 | 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 | 586 | by Staff reporter
'COVID-19 delays Zimbabwe wagons delivery from Russia'
TRANSPORT minister Joel Biggie Matiza has claimed that the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) was supposed to take delivery of 100 wagons from Russia in January, but the consignment has been delayed ...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:38hrs | 442 | 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 | 191 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Health sector showdown looms
GOVERNMENT and striking health professionals are headed for a showdown after the Health Service Board indicated that it will not be able to pay salaries in United States dollars as demanded by the wor...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:38hrs | 1569 | by Staff reporter
Stampede as office burns at NRZ 24-storey building
A WOMAN was yesterday rushed to hospital after inhaling smoke while scores were evacuated from the 24-storey National Railways of Zimbabwe's Parkade Centre in Bulawayo's city centre following a fire i...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 06:56hrs | 890 | by Staff reporter
Students, unionist set free for protesting against detention of abductees and demanding US$ salaries
CHINHOYI Magistrate Felix Mawadze on Tuesday released eight Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT) students, who had been arrested for allegedly protesting against the clampdown on human rights defen...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 14:08hrs | 1295 | by Stephen Jakes
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 | 5140 | 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 | 2273 | by Wilbert Mukori
Is he really a listening President?
MY family is failing to raise $7 000 needed for my brother to go to college because we are all unemployed. Does President Emmerson Mnangagwa really think he will get my family's votes?Mnangagw...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 08:02hrs | 3422 | by Collet Ndoro
Higher learning institutions ready for reopening: Murwira
HIGHER and Tertiary Education minister Amon Murwira yesterday revealed in Parliament that his ministry had initiated the process to reopen all public and private institutions of higher learning during...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 1225 | by Staff reporter
Doctors joining nurses' strike
JUNIOR doctors have threatened to go on strike, joining the industrial action by nurses that started last week citing deteriorating working conditions, which will negatively affect the country's battl...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 1057 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Covid-19 confirmed cases top 500
The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Zimbabwe reached 512 yesterday, although 438 of these are among returning residents in quarantine with only 74 people being infected within Zimbabwe, includin...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:48hrs | 531 | by Staff reporter
Nurses' strike rages on
THE countrywide strike by nurses at public hospitals which started on Friday continued into the weekend with the health professionals saying they would only resume duty after receiving United States-d...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 08:17hrs | 2569 | 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 | 1650 | 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 | 475 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Hexco results out
Higher Education Examination Council (HEXCO) results for March/April 2020 are out and examination centres should start collecting them from their regions next week. In a statement yesterday, H...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:06hrs | 246 | by Staff reporter
Sexual harassment cases in govt on increase: PSC
PUBLIC Service Commission (PSL) secretary Jonathan Wutawunashe yesterday told Parliament that 19 cases of sexual harassment in government ministries were recorded since last year and 10 of them emanat...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:09hrs | 715 | 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 | 469 | by Staff reporter
Oxford college wants to remove Cecil John Rhodes statue
Oriel College in Oxford has announced that it wants the controversial statue of Cecil Rhodes to be taken down.The governors of the Oxford University college voted on Wednesday to remove the st...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 21:34hrs | 1811 | by Staff reporter
Harare, Bulawayo and Kwekwe shutdowns a response to 'threats' says Charamba
Security forces shut down Harare, Bulawayo and Kwekwe in recent days in response to "planned mischief" by anti-government activists and the opposition, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesman said We...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 19:19hrs | 8019 | by Staff reporter
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
ZLHR celebrates African Child, call for justice in the continent
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has joined the rest of the continent in commemorating Day of the African Child at the same time calling for justice for the children.Commemorated annua...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 09:37hrs | 144 | by Stephen Jakes
Khupe must stop rewriting history
A DANGEROUS narrative being pushed by the Thokozani Khupe-led group that they are the legitimate founding members of the MDC should be challenged strongly, because it is incomplete and, therefore, mis...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 07:03hrs | 1438 | by Chofamba Sithole
MSU to open before end of June
PLANS to reopen Midlands State University (MSU) are at an advanced stage with the first batch of students expected on campus on June 22. While other universities such as University of Zimbabwe...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 06:41hrs | 671 | by Staff reporter
Chamber of Mines of Zimbabwe prioritizing use of ICTs
CHAMBER of Mines of Zimbabwe (CoMZ) president Ms Elizabeth Nerwande is prioritizing the upgrade of the Chamber's resource centre so that information becomes available to its membership in real-time, r...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 18:48hrs | 420 | by Staff reporter
The four canines lost race of the titans
The two boys could be high school students on this Covid-19 spawned 'holiday'. With four of 'man's best friends' for company, the duo passed through near my base as they scanned the tall savanna grass...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 15:20hrs | 420 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa.
Mathema blasted over second term fees rant
THE Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) yesterday described the call by Primary and Secondary Education minister Cain Mathema on parents to pay second term school fees as "an act of provocat...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 09:34hrs | 1056 | by Staff reporter
Nust resumes lectures
THE National University of Science and Technology (Nust) yesterday resumed lectures for final year students in four faculties as it implemented staggered re-opening to contain Covid-19. Studen...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 09:13hrs | 806 | by Staff reporter
I'm scarred, but not scared, says Artuz leader
OUTSPOKEN Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) president Obert Masaraure believes President Emmerson Mnangagwa has failed to bring socio-economic and political stability to the nation ...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 07:49hrs | 684 | by Staff reporter
Managing English Language Examinations
During this time when many students are marooned at home due to covid-19 restrictive measures, it behoves on us who can help our children to progress with their education until the new normal is clear...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 19:25hrs | 316 | by Mr Bigboy Mthombeni (MA)
Lupane varsity rocked by nepotism, tribalism storm
Lupane State University (LSU) vice-chancellor Pardon Kuipa is in an eye of a storm after it emerged that his daughter, who only has a Master's degree was appointed a lecturer ahead of PhD holders with...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:05hrs | 1139 | by Staff reporter
No exemption for Term 2 school fees
THE Government will not exempt pupils from paying school fees for Term Two although some pupils will only resume classes in September.However, parents and guardians might not pay the full fees...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 09:43hrs | 1099 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa launches more public transport buses
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says the government to availing ZUPCO buses to all areas, amid revelations that suppliers from Belarus have been engaged to supply buses suitable for rural terrains. Presi...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 19:49hrs | 4898 | by Staff reporter
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