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Omicron variant detected at Lupane state university
Lupane State University and Inyathi High School in Matabeleland North province have recorded six and 13 COVID-19 cases, respectively, prompting authorities to be on high alert as the country braces fo...Published: 10 hrs ago | 1159 | by Desmond Nleya
Address current challenges before adding more teachers
GOVERNMENT last week said it would recruit 10 000 more teachers to fill the skills gap in the education sector.But teachers' unions have argued that this figure is a drop in the ocean, given t...Published: 17 hrs ago | 112 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 strikes at LSU, Inyathi High
LUPANE State University (LSU) and Inyathi High School in Matabeleland North province have recorded six and 13 COVID-19 cases, respectively, prompting authorities to be on high alert as the country bra...Published: 17 hrs ago | 478 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to launch another expo
Chancellor of all State universities, President Mnangagwa is expected to officially launch the Varsity Film Expo taking place at the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) on Monday....Published: 17 hrs ago | 177 | by Staff reporter
Burglar blames mum for his life of crime
TWENTY-YEAR-OLD Terrence Dube is an unrepentant convicted burglar who believes that his mother pushed him to be a criminal by abandoning him when he was five years old.Dube, who was sentenced ...Published: 17 hrs ago | 352 | by Staff reporter
Corruption allegations rock ZOU
THE Zimbabwe Open University (Zou)'s Department of Peace, Leadership and Conflict Resolution is rocked by serious allegations of corruption involving foreign students paying tuition fees in foreign cu...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 07:00hrs | 2250 | by Staff reporter
Schools hit by COVID-19 outbreak
A NUMBER of private boarding schools have closed down and sent students home after an alarming increase in confirmed COVID-19 cases at the learning institutions.According to situational report...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 05:35hrs | 1118 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa alleges assassination attempts by Zanu-PF
ZIMBABWE'S opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance, believes that the country's ruling Zanu-PF has decided to assassinate MDC-A leader Nelson Chamisa because all its other effort...Published: 01 Dec 2021 at 10:04hrs | 1651 | by Staff reporter
'Students paraded as MDC Alliance defectors'
Zanu-PF on Saturday allegedly bussed students from various tertiary institutions to Marymount Teachers College in Mutare for a party event and later paraded them as MDC Alliance defectors.The ...Published: 01 Dec 2021 at 05:40hrs | 2931 | by Staff reporter
Govt imposes mandatory quarantine
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday imposed mandatory quarantine for returning citizens and foreigners entering the country and tightened lockdown measures amid concern over the new COVID-19 Omicro...Published: 01 Dec 2021 at 05:39hrs | 1530 | by Staff reporter
NRZ caught up in nepotism, corruption and maladministration scandals
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) is reportedly riddled by allegations of nepotism, corruption and mal-administration with the parastatal's board member and acting general manager Respina Zinyan...Published: 30 Nov 2021 at 12:16hrs | 2717 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa's drinking habits explained
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa only takes alcohol in the first six months of the year, a routine drinking habit he has observed since 1978, presidential spokesperson George Charamba claimed yesterday....Published: 30 Nov 2021 at 07:32hrs | 5440 | by Staff reporter
Covid hits Masvingo teachers' college
THE Masvingo provincial Covid-19 taskforce has, together with ministry of Health and Child Care, launched investigations to establish a sudden spike in Covid-19 cases at Masvingo Teachers College....Published: 30 Nov 2021 at 05:30hrs | 547 | by Staff reporter
Patriotic Act will leave ZANU PF supporters out of the definition
The recently tabled patriotic bill in the Zimbabwe parliament will expose that ZANU PF supporters, surrogates and appendages are not patriotic.You cannot have a whole party that claims to have...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 19:29hrs | 667 | by Phosiwe Ncube
Japan bans entry of all international travellers over Omicron variant
Japan has announced it will suspend entry of all foreign visitors due to the spread of the new coronavirus variant Omicron.Prime Minist...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 06:46hrs | 872 | by Staff Reporter
Experts warn govt over the omicron variant
LOCAL health experts yesterday warned government against giving false hope on its ability to deal with the Omicron variant of COVID-19, which has since been described as "a variant of concern" by the ...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:35hrs | 971 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec registrations decline
THE number of pupils who registered to sit for public examinations fell sharply this year, declining to nearly half of last year's numbers on account of the Covid-19.About 643 000 pupils are s...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 07:46hrs | 111 | by Staff reporter
Marc Holtzman: His axis with Mnangagwa and CBZ Bank
ON Monday last week - 15 November - Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa travelled with a delegation of senior government officials and top business executives to the Intra-African Trade Fair in Du...Published: 27 Nov 2021 at 16:54hrs | 1540 | by Staff reporter
Lupane State University hit by students protest
LUPANE State University (LSU) students on Thursday staged a demonstration against poor service delivery after they were forced to go back home a week into the campus instead of the stipulated three mo...Published: 27 Nov 2021 at 01:42hrs | 1515 | by Staff Reporter
Gender Commission pushes for criminalisation of sexual harassment in Zimbabwe
THE Zimbabwe Gender Commission is pushing for the enactment of legislation that criminalises sexual harassment and gender-based violence at the workplace.The criminalisation of sexual harassme...Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 20:41hrs | 346 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe govt to engage SA on the non-renewal of special permits
ZIMBABWE's top envoy to South Africa, ambassador David Hamadziripi says government accepts the decision by the South African government to discontinue the issuing of special permits to Zimbabweans, bu...Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 20:31hrs | 1911 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa at MSU for graduation - 6594 graduating today
The Chancellor of the Midlands State University (MSU) President Mnangagwa has arrived to officiate at the 22nd MSU graduation ceremony.The graduation ceremony is being held at MSU's main campu...Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 09:46hrs | 1388 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa 'drunk' video explained
THE government says the public misunderstood a video currently circulating where President Emmerson Mnangagwa appeared heavily intoxicated during a fundraising event held at State House last Friday....Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 06:19hrs | 16286 | by Staff reporter
Second Republic marred by litany of unfulfilled pledges
WHEN President Emmerson Mnangagwa got into power in 2017, a lot of promises were made, creating the impression that Zanu-PF was ready to give Zimbabweans a fresh start.Four years later, it see...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:16hrs | 231 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa committed to uplift the underprivileged'
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has said his personal background of lack in colonial Rhodesia instilled in him a sense of benovelence towards the underprivileged in society. The President said this last night at ...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 05:52hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Hichilema to work with leaders from neighbouring countries
President Hakainde Hichilema has emphasised the importance of child rights and the need to place a high premium on the plight of children who are leaders of tomorrow, adding that together with his fel...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 05:51hrs | 211 | by Staff reporter
Israel looks to partner Zimbabwe
Outgoing Israeli ambassador Gershon Kedar paid a farewell courtesy call on President Mnangagwa at State House last night.Mr Kedar's tour of duty will be ending soon, but he also saw the call o...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 05:50hrs | 86 | by Staff reporter
1893 MHRRM at 5: Birth of 1893 Insingo Regiment Arts
The 1893 Matebeleland Human Rights Restoration Movement also known as 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM) is an organization that represents a proud Matebele Nation made up o...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 08:38hrs | 384 | by Thembani Dube, 1893 MHRRM Executive Director
Banga laid to rest
SCORES of mourners thronged Nhekairo Village in Hwedza communal lands for the burial of veteran lecturer and media practitioner Peter Banga.He was head of department for Mass Communication at ...Published: 19 Nov 2021 at 12:52hrs | 2288 | by Virimayi Nzira
'Mzee' SK Moyo was a real brother to all
I FIRST met SK in 1974 when I went to study at Makerere University, in Kampala, Uganda. I was in the company of around 10 young men who were former students of the University of Rhodesia from which we...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:35hrs | 559 | by Staff reporter
Court halts Guti varsity SEC elections
THE High Court yesterday ordered the Zimbabwe Ezekiel Guti University (ZEGU) to call off Students Executive Council (SEC) elections at the institution until a matter in which a student is challenging ...Published: 16 Nov 2021 at 05:42hrs | 496 | 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 | 1730 | by Staff reporter
Student drags ZEGU to court for not speaking in tongues
A-STUDENT at the Zimbabwe Ezekiel Guti University (ZEGU) has dragged the learning institution to court after she was allegedly barred from participating in the student executive council elections for ...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:26hrs | 1661 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga opens nursing school, clinic
Government has officially opened the Accident and Emergency Nursing School in Chivhu, and Pimbi Clinic here in line with the Second Republic's thrust of configuring its human resource towards the atta...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:20hrs | 271 | by Staff reporter
The letter of deceit
Prodigious things always happen. Reading the letter which Emerson Mnangagwa wrote to Zimbabweans and published on the 9th of November 2017 after he had been dismissed from both government and party is...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 23:27hrs | 1219 | by Phosiwe Ncube
Local institution sends 24 chefs to the US
Harare-based SAHTC - The Hospitality School, on Thursday held a send-off lunch for 24 trainee chefs, who are travelling to the United States for a one-year internship at two luxury properties....Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:41hrs | 391 | by Staff reporter
Lupane varsity probed over sex scandal
THE Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) has engaged the Higher and Tertiary Education ministry over allegations that female staffers at Lupane State University are being sexually harassed by some top exe...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:41hrs | 614 | by Staff reporter
6 school gangs unearthed in city
AN investigation has revealed disturbing insight into gangs in the Emganwini and Nketa areas that have become a threat to the safety of both teachers and pupils at schools within the areas.Sun...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:39hrs | 538 | by Staff reporter
Pupils' lawyers give police ultimatum over alleged brutality
Lawyers representing the Gokomere High School pupils who were arrested on November 7 have given police a seven-day ultimatum to release names of officers involved in alleged brutality of some of the s...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:37hrs | 116 | by Staff reporter
Student stabs classmate in 'gang war'
An 18-year-old student at Domboramwari High School in Epworth has appeared in court for allegedly stabbing his classmate in a suspected gang war.Allegations are that Honest Chitakunye, an Ordi...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 07:51hrs | 1761 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe re-engages retired nurses
GOVERNMENT has turned to retired nurses and training of Primary Care Nurses (PCNs) as a solution to the massive brain drain currently bleeding the country's health sector, the Zimbabwe Independent can...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:54hrs | 136 | by Staff reporter
Police put on spot over students assault
HUMAN rights lawyers have given police in Masvingo seven days to provide names of law enforcement agents who brutalised protesting students at Gokomere High School.In a statement yesterday, th...Published: 12 Nov 2021 at 05:35hrs | 413 | by Staff reporter
Mass exodus of science teachers hits Bulawayo schools
BULAWAYO schools have been hit by a mass exodus of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) teachers with 145 having left since the beginning of the year.The skills flight by ST...Published: 12 Nov 2021 at 05:34hrs | 676 | by Staff reporter
Govt dangles carrot to school heads
GOVERNMENT has pledged to increase salaries for heads ranging from 10% to 25% depending on the number of pupils per school, a development teachers unions described as a tool to clamp down on restive t...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 05:34hrs | 837 | by Staff reporter
Gender Commission probes LSU harassment scandal
THE Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) says it has begun investigations on a case where Lupane State University (LSU) vice-chancellor (VC) Pardon Kuipa is being accused of sexually abusing females at th...Published: 09 Nov 2021 at 05:37hrs | 608 | by Staff reporter
Gokomere pupils arrested after'attacking' cops
AT LEAST 40 Gokomere High School pupils in Masvingo were Monday arrested after they were violent protests at the Catholic-run learning institution.The pupils were reportedly protesting against...Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 19:58hrs | 1049 | by Staff reporter
Mutambara lands top post in SA
FORMER deputy prime minister Arthur Mutambara has been appointed executive director and full professor of the Institute for the Future of Knowledge (IFK) at the University of Johannesburg.The ...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:54hrs | 984 | by Staff reporter
Mkhombo school empowers students through sports
Mkombo Primary School at Lupanda in Lupane held their first programme which was meant to empower students via sport. The event was held yesterday 5/11/21 at Mkhombo Primary School and included Sipopom...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:13hrs | 367 | by Staff Reporter
Kudakwashe Tagwirei, a champion of black empowerment
Business mogul Kudakwashe Tagwirei remains a champion of black empowerment. I am an ardent follower Tagwirei's business ventures and empowerment initiatives. His Command Agriculture scheme has benefit...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 17:55hrs | 241 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Chiwenga hails Bulawayo for best vaccination record
VICE-PRESIDENT Dr Constantino Chiwenga yesterday hailed Bulawayo Province for the best vaccination record nationwide with over 50 percent of the population having received the first dose while over 44...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 06:21hrs | 174 | by Staff reporter
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