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The culture of reading is dying a little each day
The standard of both spoken and written English in most rural high schools is very disappointing if not atrocious. Remember its the business language in Zimbabwe. Its not that English teachers are not...Published: 20 hrs ago | 198 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
'Zimbabwe has reached deepest depth of a crisis'
Zimbabwe has reached the deepest depth of a crisis, which is a culmination of unresolved political and economic problems, Briggs Bomba, the convenor of the Zimbabwe Citizens Manifesto has said....Published: 23 hrs ago | 1011 | by Staff reporter
Potraz boss warns against abuse
Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) director-general Gift Machengete yesterday issued a stern warning against abuse of mobile phones.He said while they were...Published: 23 hrs ago | 156 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions on Zimbabwe condemned
Sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by Western countries have not only impacted negatively on the country's economic performance, but also on the military's ability to access resources such as armoured vehi...Published: 07 Dec 2019 at 12:11hrs | 251 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean student among UK top 10 Rare Rising Stars
Zimbabwean - born economics and finance student, Hlanganiso Matangaidze has been named one of the UK's top 10 Rare Rising Stars for his start-up innovation that has dedicated time to building low-cost...Published: 07 Dec 2019 at 12:11hrs | 428 | by Staff reporter
Zimpapers partners Nust in repositioning uMthunywa
Zimpapers, in partnership with the National University of Science and Technology (Nust), recently held a media innovation challenge in Bulawayo to come up with a strategy for repositioning uMthunywa n...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 06:32hrs | 473 | by Staff reporter
'CIO' denied bail
THE High Court has dismissed an application for bail pending trial by a serial Bulawayo fraudster who allegedly masqueraded as a top Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) officer and President Mnang...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 09:08hrs | 1100 | by Staff reporter
Not time for sloganeering, says Zanu-PF MP
A ZANU-PF legislator has urged people in his constituency to put aside sloganeering and focus on national development.Beitbridge East MP Albert Nguluvhe on Saturday said national development k...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:26hrs | 816 | by Staff reporter
4 Bulawayo schools under probe for bullying, drug abuse
THE Primary and Secondary Education ministry last week called for a meeting with parents and stakeholders to root out bullying which has gone out of hand at Bulawayo schools.Ministry officials...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:21hrs | 464 | by Staff rpeorter
Huawei launches ICT competition for Zimbabwe
Information Communication Technology (ICT) giant, Huawei Technologies Zimbabwe, yesterday launched the National ICT Competition 2019-2020 which will provide a platform for tertiary students to compete...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:16hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
SA team tracks Bosso right-back
SOUTH African Premiership side Bidvest Wits are reportedly tracking Highlanders' right-back McClive Phiri and dispatched scouts to watch the player in the Chibuku Super Cup final against Ngezi Platinu...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 06:25hrs | 1098 | by Staff Reporter
Let's avoid elections for the next ten years and build Zimbabwe
Dr Walter Mzembi's quotes Our eyes must be focused on creating a progressive generation, rather than focusing on elections. Our worry must be the future, g...Published: 02 Dec 2019 at 17:55hrs | 3357 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Mugabe's riches to be made public
Former President Robert Mugabe's wealth will be revealed in a few days, putting to rest much speculation and conjecture.This week the Master of the High Court is expected to give the full list...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 05:57hrs | 2158 | by Staff reporter
If amnesia is a disease, we are all sick!
Fate and fortune, just as life itself, have a weird sense of humour.Just as Bishop Lazarus was busy narrating the age-old anecdotal tale of the "Arab and The Camel" last week, well, our very o...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 05:47hrs | 74 | by Bishop Lazarus
Chaplin High School boys nabbed for rape
Police in Gweru, Midlands province have arrested two A'level students at Chaplin High School on allegations of raping a form three student from the same school. Police sources in the province ...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 20:26hrs | 3220 | by Staff Reporter
Zim company in SA fundrasie to bail out Zim Cyclone Idai victims
A Zimbabwean firm, Zororo-Phumulani based in South Africa has managed to raise 150 000 Rands through fundraising event held in South Africa recently with the aim to assist Zimbabwean schools seriously...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:11hrs | 142 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa presides over ZNA graduation
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday presided over the graduation ceremony of the Joint Command and Staff Course No.32 at the Zimbabwe Staff College in the capital.Speaking during the grad...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 16:32hrs | 2435 | by Staff reporter
Is Zimbabwe's e-nurse recruiting scandalous?
Following an outcry over the selection process of student nurses at Mpilo and UBH Central hospitals that were published by this paper, the Ministry of Health and Child and Care (MOHCC) claimed tha...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 07:43hrs | 3175 | by Robert Ndlovu
Why Zimbabwe's fired junior doctors remain key
In politics, the youths are said to be the vanguard of political parties while in medicine I would put it that the junior doctors are the hummingbirds that bring life to central hospitals.The ...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 06:44hrs | 1002 | by Dr Johannes Marisa
Saviour Kasukuwere to lead Mnangagwa ouster?
Saviour Kasukuwere the exiled dark horse of Zimbabwean politics has remained deafening silently amid a rapid rise and popularity of a pro Kasukuwere movement dubbed the Tyson Wabantu movement. T...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 15:47hrs | 10201 | by Dr S J Utete
Govt closes 4 schools over water crisis
Government has temporarily shut down four top schools in Wedza District for health reasons after they failed to supply water to students following power supply problems.Students at Catholic-ru...Published: 26 Nov 2019 at 07:31hrs | 820 | by Staff reporter
Why Joice Mujuru failed to succeed Mugabe
FELLOW compatriots, where is madam Joice Mujuru? Is it game over for madam Mujuru? I posit that if she is to do her homework she can still maintain her political relevance. At a fireside conversation ...Published: 26 Nov 2019 at 07:30hrs | 2860 | by Nyasha Machimbira
MDC protests closure of democratic space
MDC youths yesterday took to the Harare Magistrates Court to protest what they called State-assisted closure of democratic space, with the police denying them the right to hold public gatherings or de...Published: 26 Nov 2019 at 07:25hrs | 176 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt recruits personnel for cyber monitoring
The government has put in motion plans to begin surveillance and monitoring of cyber space after its advertised posts for key personnel to spearhead the project. This comes as the High Court h...Published: 25 Nov 2019 at 07:10hrs | 3669 | by Staff reporter
ZDF to set up innovation hub
THE Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) seeks to set up an Innovation Hub at the Zimbabwe School of Infantry at Imbizo Barracks to promote sustainable science and technology education. Speaking at t...Published: 25 Nov 2019 at 06:42hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
What is sphere of our influence in the global village?
IT is the ability and willingness to stay in your club. What is one's club? It is the body of those who share common beliefs and values. When Robert Mugabe stormed out of the British Commonwealth of N...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:40hrs | 48 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Zimbabwe government scared of Mthwakazi independence agenda while its ministers 'support' the agenda - MIOR
Mthwakazi Institute Of Research has established UNTHINKABLE fears in the government of Zimbabwe and some intelligence networks to divert and confuse the Road to Mthwakazi Independence, which seems to ...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 09:05hrs | 1453 | by Mthwakazi Institute of Research
Mnangagwa caps 3149 MSU graduates
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa today capped 3149 graduands at the 20th congregation of the Midlands State University (MSU) graduation ceremony in Senga, Gweru.Of the 3149 graduands, 771 were post-graduate studen...Published: 22 Nov 2019 at 18:02hrs | 157 | by Staff reporter
Grade 7 results are out
The Zimbabwe School Examinations Council has announced that 2019 Grade Seven results are out. Indigenous languages recorded highest pass rates with Shona and Ndebele recording above 80 percent...Published: 22 Nov 2019 at 18:02hrs | 1867 | by Staff reporter
UZ cancels medical examinations
The Department of Surgery in the College of Health Sciences at the University of Zimbabwe said no medical examinations will be held this November. In an internal memo addressed to medical stud...Published: 22 Nov 2019 at 18:01hrs | 231 | by Staff reporter
JETGATE: 'Mnangagwa uses luxury jet to loot diamonds and foreign currency'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa seemingly sensing his imminent boot from power, is allegedly involved in grand looting of the country's scarce foreign currency coffers and resources using his chain of hi...Published: 22 Nov 2019 at 07:37hrs | 13190 | by Mary-Kate Kahari
Bulawayo Council bills govt for stadium use on anti-sanctions day
THE defiant Bulawayo City Council has gone ahead to slap government with a $2053,68 for using the iconic White City Stadium during an anti-sanctions rally last month.This is after the city fat...Published: 21 Nov 2019 at 21:07hrs | 479 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe no safe haven for Homosexuals
Ten percent of Zimbabwe's population are estimated to be gay or lesbian – they are simply born like this. However, only few dare to disclose their sexual orientation as homosexuality is largely reje...Published: 21 Nov 2019 at 21:04hrs | 545 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo 'shona' nurses graduate under police guard
Mpilo Central Hospital held its nurses graduation and prize giving day under the protection of police at the Bulawayo Large City Hall Wednesday to thwart off any interference from members of the publi...Published: 20 Nov 2019 at 19:53hrs | 5440 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU leadership arrested for demanding jobs for locals
ZAPU leadership were Tuesday summoned by Plumtree police for shutting down St Anne's Nursing School in Brunapeg, Mangwe following the recruitment of non-locals at the hospital.Last week, a gro...Published: 20 Nov 2019 at 04:10hrs | 2461 | by Lulu Brenda Harris
Mnangagwa explains scarf
THE scarf with national flag colours that President Mnangagwa wears all the time is a symbol of being proud to be a Zimbabwean despite the challenges that the country is facing. President Mnan...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 05:51hrs | 6700 | by Staff reporter
Umzingwane pupil drowns in heavy rain
Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe has reported that a school child of Swazi Primary in Umzingwane district in Matabeleland South was drowned by heavy rains recently.The recently hea...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 14:21hrs | 2451 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Behold the 4th Chimurenga!
We do no not seek to dispense ourselves from the past. We are a product of our past. We do not seek to despise our fore bearers because we are where we are because of them. We are part of the revoluti...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 13:15hrs | 5247 | by Ntokozo Msipha
Why Mthuli Ncube will fail
While I wish Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube to succeed, the path he has followed is doomed to fail. I will detail the reasons why below. The situation in which he has placed Zimbabwe's finances is not ...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:04hrs | 2724 | by Ken Mufuka
Zapu condemns police clampdown
Zapu has condemned an alleged police clampdown against villagers in Mangwe after the community staged a protest against the alleged unfair recruitment of student nurses at Brunapeg Hospitals.T...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:59hrs | 522 | by Staff reporter
Minister ordered to pay transgender activist $400k
THE High Court has ordered the Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage and police bosses to pay Bulawayo transgender activist Ricky Eugene Nathanson $400 000 as compensation following her unlaw...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 19:02hrs | 340 | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls teachers boycott ZimSec exam
TEACHERS at Mosi-oa-Tunya High School in Victoria Falls on Wednesday stayed at home citing incapacitation at a time they were expected to supervise a Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) Ordi...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:31hrs | 1214 | by Staff reporter
Council to unleash JOC on space barons
HARARE City Council has engaged the Joint Operations Command (JOC) to depoliticise Mupedzanhamo market in Mbare and deal with interference mainly from politicians.The local authority said it w...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:30hrs | 724 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU shuts down St Anne's hospital nursing school
Opposition political party, ZAPU, Tuesday forced the temporary shutdown of the St Anne`s Mission Hospital nursing school in Matabeleland South following an outcry from villagers that locals were being...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 19:43hrs | 3166 | by Staff reporter
'Soft genocide underway in Zimbabwe'
A ZIMBABWEAN living in the diaspora has castigated government's move to fire nearly 300 medical doctors from their jobs.Netsai Makarichi, a Zimbabwean based in the United Kingdom, said the mov...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:44hrs | 1768 | by Staff reporter
Violence rocks University of Zimbabwe
The ZANU PF Secretary for Administration Tendai Chirau has claimed that some MDC members caused violence during an SRC election that took place on Tuesday. Writing on social media Chirau ...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 19:30hrs | 6283 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Cowdray Park gets another school
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has constructed another primary school in Cowdray Park to decongest the four schools in the sprawling suburb.The suburb has four primary schools which are Tategulu,...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 13:25hrs | 915 | by Staff reporter
University of Zimbabwe under fire over junior doctors
The government of Zimbabwe has forced the junior doctors to sit for exams after they signified that they want them to be postponed because they did not learn enough to sit for them. The Zimbab...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 08:37hrs | 4629 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa releases $20m for innovation hubs
THE Mnangagwa led government has so far released $20 million towards operationalising innovation hubs which are being constructed across the country, Higher and Tertiary Education minister Amon Murwir...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 08:34hrs | 1307 | by Staff reporter
Denny Mashengele left a 'trail of friendship'
Master of ceremonies Church leaders Family members and all present I am honoured to be one of the people chosen to speak for the friends of Denny Mashengele. Harold Ndl...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:17hrs | 378 | by Strike Mkandla
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