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'Shut down schools,' MPs tell govt
PARLIAMENT has recommended that the government immediately shuts down schools, blaming the rising COVID-19 cases on its failure to adequately prepare for the reopening of learning institutions after 5...Published: 11 hrs ago | 1583 | by Staff reporter
MSU degrees chaos divide government
THE discontinuation of the Midlands State University (MSU) media programme has reportedly divided government with stakeholders alleging that the move was political, ill-advised and meant to weaken the...Published: 11 hrs ago | 1700 | by Staff reporter
Calls for schools to close escalate
Authorities are seriously worried about the rising cases of Covid-19 cases in the education sector, amid growing calls for temporary closure of schools and colleges to curb the spread of the lethal di...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 05:59hrs | 2298 | by Staff reporter
2 Zimbabwe students awarded Rhodes scholarships
THE list of Zimbabwe Rhodes 2021 scholarship beneficiaries has been unveiled with the scholarship targeting to promote outstanding postgraduate students to study at the University of Oxford in the Uni...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:47hrs | 1302 | by Staff reporter
Solving youth unemployment problem in Zimbabwe by leveraging digital economy
Zimbabwe is renowned the world over as a top tourist destination in southern Africa and one of the African countries with a vast natural resource endowment. Tourism and agriculture have been the count...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:24hrs | 161 | by Staff writer
Guvamombe seeks acquittal
FORMER chief magistrate Mishrod Guvamombe has applied for acquittal after the state closed its case in a case in which he is facing criminal abuse of office and defeating the course of justice charges...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:55hrs | 1115 | by Staff reporter
Where to buy cheap essay?
It's no secret that students actively use the assistance of custom writing services. Freelance writing is popularized in every corner of the globe. You won't be taken by surprise if you see online req...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 05:56hrs | 450 | by Staff writer
Defiant teachers receive threats
TEACHERS yesterday claimed that were being threatened a Zanu-PF-sponsored group led by Martin Mazivisa.Mazivisa fronts a shadowy parents union called Zimbabwe Parents Union (ZPU), which has be...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 05:11hrs | 2372 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa commissions MSU Industrial Park
AN industrial park established by Midlands State University (MSU) in Gweru was yesterday commissioned by President Mnangagwa, who reiterated the need for all institutions of higher and tertiary educat...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 04:57hrs | 269 | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe's business empire crumbles
THE blistering sun scorches vast swathes of lush green land in the picturesque Mazowe Valley, 40 kilometres north of Harare, as the November heat takes a toll on the baked surface below.It is ...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 05:25hrs | 17253 | by Staff reporter
More schools, colleges hit by Covid-19
COVID-19 is ripping through educational institutions in the country with latest statistics showing that more than 150 learners and teachers at schools and colleges have tested positive.Sunday ...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:40hrs | 595 | by Staff reporter
John Tallach Sch death rumours untrue
GOVERNMENT has dispelled rumours that one student from John Tallach, a mission school in Matabeleland North, 40km outside Bulawayo, had died of COVID-19.Matabeleland North acting provincial me...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 09:49hrs | 1279 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa caps 3500 at MSU
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday capped 3 507 graduates at Midlands State University (MSU)'s 21st graduation ceremony held at its main campus in Gweru.Due to Covid-19-induced restrictions, 3 397 ...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 08:58hrs | 613 | by Staff Reporter
Govt defers Ekusileni Hospital opening
GOVERNMENT has once again deferred the reopening of Ekusileni Medical Centre, with Bulawayo Metropolitan Affairs minister Judith Ncube admitting yesterday that the November 30 deadline for reopening o...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:25hrs | 573 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 cases at Matabeleland North school rise to 122
The number of students and teachers at John Tallach Secondary School who are infected with Covid-19 has risen to 122, officials said.Testing is still ongoing and the figure could rise, primary...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:18hrs | 370 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe MPs demand schools closure
PARLIAMENTARIANS yesterday accused government of rashly reopening schools when it was ill-prepared to deal with COVID-19 outbreaks at institutions of learning after a number of students tested positiv...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 05:29hrs | 1621 | by Staff reporter
Govt has failed to resolve strike by teachers, and all civil servants
The major reason why the Zimbabwe government is failing is in whole part for its reason to resist the tide. For a start, the government has over the decades tried and failed dismally to control th...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 12:29hrs | 3784 | by Zanda Shumba
John Tallach School closes as 100 students test positive to Covid-19
John Tallach Secondary School in Matabeleland North has been closed after 100 pupils and an undisclosed number of teachers tested positive to Covid-19, with the school now a quarantine centre with all...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 05:18hrs | 685 | by Staff reporter
Trainee nurses recruitment 'controversy' resurfaces
Activists in Matabeleland have once again lambasted the trainee nurses recruitment system following revelations that only two out of the 45 successful applicants for the Mpilo Central Hospital School ...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 06:33hrs | 1865 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo slides back into lockdown
BULAWAYO will go back to either complete lockdown or suburb specific lockdown as officials try to quickly combat the continued increase in the number of Covid-19 cases in the city, Sunday News reporte...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 06:16hrs | 6862 | by Staff reporter
Colleges suspend lectures over Covid-19
THE Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Polytechnic in Gwanda and Kwekwe Polytechnic colleges have indefinitely suspended face-to-face lectures after students tested positive for Covid-19 at the institutions. ...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 05:39hrs | 591 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 scare at Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Poly
A JOSHUA Mqabuko Nkomo Polytechnic (JMNP) lecturer recently tested positive for COVID-19 while over 50 learners and educators at the institution were put on isolation after they were identified as pri...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 06:30hrs | 1119 | by Staff reporter
Clergy tells teachers, govt to find common ground
THE clergy has implored government to find common ground with teachers to arrest the crisis in the education sector as schools continued to turn students back because the educators, who declared incap...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 13:55hrs | 956 | by Staff reporter
Outcry over MSU degrees scrapping chaos
LOCAL and media scholars in the diaspora have come out guns blazing, blasting the unilateral decision by authorities to change the Midlands State University Department of Media and Society Studies cur...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 13:47hrs | 8379 | by Staff reporter
MSU lecturers threaten to resign en masse
MEDIA lecturers at the Midlands State University have threatened to resign en masse in protest over curriculum changes they say were unilateral and without their input.NewsDay gathered that mo...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:47hrs | 7874 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt sweats over Covid-19 resurgence threat
THE government is having a hard time over citizens' resistance to adhere to preventive measures against the lethal coronavirus, including putting on face masks, amid reports the country is set to be h...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 18:39hrs | 3060 | by Staff reporter
Shaya is the Godfather of football, says Peter Ndlovu
LEGENDARY former Zimbabwe Warriors captain cum Mamelodi Sundowns team manager Peter Ndlovu has said former Dynamos star George "Mastermind" Shaya's contribution to football must not be underesti...Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 17:32hrs | 3969 | by Sports Reporter
Zimbabwean man jailed for rape in Botswana
PROSECUTORS in Botswana were left stunned recently when a young woman who was raped by a Zimbabwe man in that country refused to testify against him, but instead asked the police to supply her with th...Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 05:49hrs | 681 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
All systems go for schools ahead of reopening
When the last classes go back to school next week they will find that adequate measures informed by World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines have been put in place to ensure safety of pupils. ...Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 05:47hrs | 186 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa graduation ceremony attendee dies from Covid-19
A woman who attended a graduation ceremony at which President Emmerson Mnangagwa was the guest of honour on October 30 has succumbed to Covid-19.The 47-year-old resident of Cowdray Park in Bul...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 19:10hrs | 2805 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt will not bow to civil servants' salary demands'
THE government will not bow down to civil servants' salary demands as doing so has the potential to upset the current price stability being experienced in the economy, a Cabinet minister has said....Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 19:09hrs | 3603 | by Staff reporter
Chaos looms at schools, says Minister
THE reopening of schools for the last batch of pupils next week might be chaotic, with Primary and Secondary Education deputy minister Edgar Moyo yesterday admitting that they don't have enough teache...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:37hrs | 957 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt should stop abductions, torture or face music, says ex-UN boss
FORMER United Nations Human Rights Commissioner (UNHRC) on Wednesday said the Zimbabwe government should stop abductions and torture of activists or face international isolation.The former UNH...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:36hrs | 1746 | by Staff reporter
'Postponing exams will cripple higher education'
PRIMARY and Secondary Education secretary Tumisang Thabela has said postponing public examinations because of COVID-19 disruptions would cripple next year's intake at higher and tertiary institutions....Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:32hrs | 465 | by Staff reporter
Improved salary offer tabled for teachers
There is no possibility that teachers can be paid the US$520 they are demanding, since doing so would reverse the economic gains seen so far, but the Government could afford a minimum teacher's salary...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:29hrs | 2113 | by Staff reporter
No going back on public exams, says Murwira
HIGHER and Tertiary Education minister Amon Murwira yesterday told Parliament that there was no going back on public examinations set to start next week despite fears that students had lost the bulk o...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:25hrs | 1048 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants reject 20% salary hike
CIVIL servants yesterday rejected government's additional 20% salary offer that would have seen the highest paid worker getting $16 430 per month.The disgruntled civil servants have been deman...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 06:03hrs | 3958 | by Staff reporter
Guvamombe trial resumes
FORMER chief magistrate Mishrod Guvamombe's trial on charges of criminal abuse of office and defeating the course of justice resumed at the High Court yesterday with his ex-deputy Elijah Makomo taking...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 06:00hrs | 508 | by Staff reporter
Student sues Zimsec over his Mathematics results
THE Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) has been taken to court by an Ordinary Level candidate who failed to obtain his Mathematics results after the college he had registered with was disqu...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 19:50hrs | 4369 | by Staff reporter
Caught between a hard surface and a rock
This year has been very unfortunate for scholars, it's a year they will never want to remember. Caught between a hard surface and a rock, the students can not answer why it's happening to them. Corona...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 07:26hrs | 223 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Mliswa blasts govt for neglecting PWDs
NORTON MP Temba Mliswa (Independent) has blasted government for failing to take care of people with disabilities (PWDs) as stipulated in section 83 of the Constitution.Section 83 of the Consti...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 05:43hrs | 521 | by Staff reporter
ZANU-PF MDC dominance must die
There is a strong belief among many political analysts that a two-party system in parliament is a good indicator of democracy maturity. In USA this is symbolised by the Republicans vs Democrats and in...Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 17:29hrs | 805 | by Lubani Nondo
Mnangagwa's govt admits crisis in education sector
GOVERNMENT yesterday admitted there was a crisis in the education sector and was working towards addressing grievances raised by teachers who downed tools last month demanding a living wage.Te...Published: 31 Oct 2020 at 06:14hrs | 1679 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa caps 2 528 Nust graduates
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday capped 2 528 graduates at the University of Science and Technology (nust) where he launched the US$2 000 Chancellor's prize to be given to outstanding science, technology...Published: 31 Oct 2020 at 06:07hrs | 535 | by Staff reporter
Chinotimba told to concentrate on his marital issues
TEACHERS' unions have dismissed Buhera West MP Joseph Chinotimba's claims that they were on the opposition MDC Alliance payroll and involved in plotting government's downfall. The educators ad...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 06:05hrs | 10334 | by Staff reporter
Govt plots parents union to counter striking teachers
TEACHERS unions have rapped Labour and Social Welfare minister Paul Mavima for meddling in their affairs by supporting a group of parents that are trying to form a shadowy union to silence striking te...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 06:02hrs | 1756 | by Staff reporter
Mathema chides journalists on schools crisis
PRIMARY and Secondary Education minister Cain Mathema yesterday chided journalists, accusing them of rushing to engage him before verifying reports that teachers were on strike.In an interview...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 06:01hrs | 1377 | by Staff reporter
Zifa grapples with Afcon bill
ZIFA is exploring ways to reduce the ballooning costs related to Warriors' Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) back-to-back qualifying matches against Algeria which could gobble well over US$200 000....Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 05:57hrs | 236 | by Staff reporter
Teachers on MDC Alliance payroll, claims Chinotimba
BUHERA West MP Joseph Chinotimba (Zanu-PF) yesterday accused teachers of fronting for the opposition MDC Alliance through their endless industrial action, which he said had destroyed the education sec...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 06:29hrs | 2295 | by Staff reporter
Chaos as schools re-open
There was chaos at most schools yesterday and headmasters had a torrid time as they welcomed back three more grades, grade six, form three and form five students in the absence of striking teachers. &...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 07:24hrs | 4682 | by Staff reporter
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