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Lecturer strike at UZ deepens
The Association of University Teachers (AUT) has accused the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) of deliberately stalling wage negotiations while exploiting the labour of part-time staff brought in to replace...Published: 19 Jun 2025 at 07:04hrs | 3393 | by Staff reporter
UZ students rally behind striking lecturers, reject replacement staff
Students at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) have thrown their weight behind striking lecturers, vowing to resist any attempts by university authorities to replace them with temporary staff as the sala...Published: 28 May 2025 at 12:13hrs | 4498 | by Staff reporter
UZ students break new ground with over 30 Pharmaceutical innovations
Zimbabwe is taking a major step toward pharmaceutical self-sufficiency and scientific innovation, thanks to groundbreaking research and development by students at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ)...Published: 26 May 2025 at 19:38hrs | 2886 | by Staff reporter
6 UZ students arrested for protesting over lecturers' strike
Six University of Zimbabwe (UZ) students were arrested on Monday afternoon after staging a flash protest demanding urgent action to resolve a protracted lecturers' strike that has crippled academic ac...Published: 13 May 2025 at 10:01hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
UZ students demand exam postponement
Student leaders at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) have formally requested a one-week postponement of upcoming examinations, citing academic disruptions caused by an ongoing strike by university lectu...Published: 09 May 2025 at 11:06hrs | 562 | by Staff reporter
UZ students turn to High Court
EIGHT students at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) have approached the High Court seeking an order to declare that their banning from contesting in Student Representative Council (SRC) elections by the...Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 05:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
UZ students granted bail
FOUR University of Zimbabwe (UZ) students arrested two months ago for disorderly conduct were yesterday granted $500 000 bail each by High Court judge Justice Lucy Mungwari.The students were a...Published: 18 Jul 2023 at 06:23hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
47% of UZ students HIV positive
ALMOST half of University of Zimbabwe students who recently underwent voluntary HIV testing were positive, a revelation which has forced the institution to limit inter-residence visits between male an...Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 09:55hrs | 3 | by Erick Matotoba
Jail nightmare for 'graffiti painting' UZ students
Four University of Zimbabwe (UZ) students who were arrested last week charged with malicious damage to property shall stay longer behind bars after the investigating officer (IO) who is key to their b...Published: 25 May 2023 at 06:31hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
UZ barred from fees hike
THE feud between University of Zimbabwe (UZ) and its students has taken a new twist with High Court judge, Justice Tawanda Chitapi, ordering the former not to withhold the former's results on acc...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 13:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
UZ students fail to obtain certificates
HUNDREDS of University of Zimbabwe (UZ) graduates are up in arms after failing to obtain academic certificates over a year after graduating.This, according to students, has been hindering thei...Published: 10 Jan 2023 at 18:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Power blackout disrupts UZ exam
UNIVERSITY of Zimbabwe (UZ) students wrote part one of their examinations in the dark after power suddenly went off at the institution amid the unrelenting countrywide power crisis.The power c...Published: 09 Dec 2022 at 05:13hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa caps 6084 UZ students
President Mnangagwa has conferred degrees on 6084 University of Zimbabwe students at the first face to face graduation ceremony held since the onset of the Covid 19 pandemic in 2020. The gradu...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 21:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
UZ students want 500% increase reversed
HIGH court Judge, Justice Tawanda Chitapi, has reserved judgement in a case where University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Students are seeking an order for the institution to reverse the exorbitant fees it announ...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 05:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
UZ fees case postponed
A HIGH Court judge yesterday postponed a case in which University of Zimbabwe (UZ) students are seeking an order compelling the university to reverse its steep fees incease.The UZ Students Rep...Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 05:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Minister defends UZ's 1000% fee hike
HIGHER and Tertiary Education minister Amon Murwira has defended the hefty fee hike at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) saying local tertiary institutions‘ fees were too low.The UZ increased ...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:10hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
5 more UZ students arrested
POLICE yesterday arrested five student leaders at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) following protests by learners over a more than 700% fee hike.The protests, which saw 14 students being arrest...Published: 15 Sep 2022 at 05:56hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Robayi bash, injure UZ students during flash protest over fee hike
Police, popularly known as orobayi, Monday beat up and injured three female University of Zimbabwe (UZ) students who were part of a group of 14 learners arrested during a flash campus protest over a s...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
16 UZ students arrested for staging fees protest
SIXTEEN University of Zimbabwe (UZ) students were arrested Monday for participating in a protest that erupted at the Mt Pleasant campus to press for a cut in tuition fees.The group is expected...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parliament petitioned over hefty UZ fees
UNIVERSITY of Zimbabwe (UZ) students have petitioned Parliament seeking its intervention over the recent hefty tuition fees hike.The UZ increased its fees by more than 600%, from $60 526 to $4...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
University of Zimbabwe students stage protest against 1,000% fees hike
UNIVERSITY of Zimbabwe (UZ) students Monday staged a flash demonstration over the latest round of tuition fees hike, and have vowed to boycott lectures until the new fees are reversed.The univ...Published: 13 Sep 2022 at 06:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
UZ students go on strike over fees hike
The University of Zimbabwe is revising the recently announced hike in tuition fees of up to $500 000, described by many students as unaffordable and beyond the reach of their parents and guardians....Published: 13 Sep 2022 at 05:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Politics rock UZ SRC election
Police officers reportedly descended on the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) campus Friday and randomly attacked students after the conclusion of Student Representative Council (SRC) elections.The ...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Student takes UZ to court over SRC elections
A UNIVERSITY of Zimbabwe (UZ) student Alfred Ndlovu has approached the High Court seeking the suspension of Student Representative Council (SRC) elections.Ndlovu was barred from running for pr...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 12:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
What a shame!. . . .UZ students walks into trap
A MARRIED law student, who is a police officer, was caught by her husband in a naked state on the bed of her lover in Domboshava on Tuesday night.H-Metro were exclusive witnesses to the drama....Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 10:11hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
10 'riotous' UZ students granted bail
TEN University of Zimbabwe (UZ) students were yesterday granted $50 000 bail each when they appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court charged with public violence.They were arrested on Wednesda...Published: 18 Mar 2022 at 05:40hrs | 1 | by Staf reporter
UZ students arrested
POLICE yesterday arrested ten University of Zimbabwe (UZ) students for demonstrating against the latest tuition and accommodation fees hike.Anti-riot police camped at the university premises a...Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Riot police crush UZ students demo
BATON wielding police officers have descended on University of Zimbabwe (UZ) students who were protesting against fees hike WednesdayThe University's authorities recently substantially increas...Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 17:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
UZ students call for SRC fraud scandal to be further investigated
University of Zimbabwe students have called for an audit and intervention of Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Committee (ZACC) and Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) following the recently expelled St...Published: 21 Dec 2021 at 07:44hrs | 12 | by Shelton Muchena/Simbarashe Sithole
UZ SRC faces fraud allegations
THE University of Zimbabwe's (UZ's) students representative council (SRC) has been accused of emblezzling $160 000.SRC vice-president Athanasius Sagonda and his fellow secretary for sports and...Published: 17 Dec 2021 at 23:42hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
UZ investigating student accommodation scandal
Further to the story on Thursday, 15 August 2019 under the heading, 'Accommodation scandal rocks UZ', the University of Z...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 20:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC secretary-general hopefuls speak out
The MDC today enters into a crucial week in which it holds its elective congress. Several positions are up for grabs and many officials are jostling - fair and foul - to fill them up. One of t...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
UZ students grill Prophet Magaya
UNIVERSITY of Zimbabwe students had an opportunity to grill Prophetic Healing and Deliverance founder, Prophet Walter Magaya in a question and answer session at the campus' Great Hall on Tuesday....Published: 02 May 2019 at 19:08hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
UZ students in love drama, cheated lover smashes window
THERE was drama at the University of Zimbabwe when a student was allegedly caught in her room in the company of a 'blesser' by her UZ boyfriend.After a tip-off, the boyfriend Tatenda Kandawasv...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 17:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
UZ students snub Zupco, complain over kombi fare hikes
Kombi fares for University of Zimbabwe students were hiked to $1,50 from $1, causing an uproar amongst students not resident at the institution.However, the university has said the students ha...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 17:12hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
A dying (public) intellectualism in Zimbabwe
THE late Masipula Sithole taught me (and many others) how to perceive and think about our country, Zimbabwe's politics.Not only formally via the university lecture room, but also more signific...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 05:54hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
Outrage over Grace Mugabe's doctorate
Former first lady Grace Mugabe's record-time PhD granted by the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) four years ago only for the thesis to be published this week on the institution's website, has courted furth...Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 15:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga commands UZ students to go back to class and write exams
The University of Zimbabwe (UZ) has been forced to reverse it's decision to close early and defer exams to next year in January following Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF)'s Commander Constantino Chiwenga...Published: 21 Nov 2017 at 15:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: UZ students refuse to write exams until #MugabeMustGo
Students at the University of Zimbabwe had vowed not to write examinations until President Robert Mugabe stepped down.Zimbabweans were left angered and confused after President Robert Mugabe f...Published: 20 Nov 2017 at 07:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Has Mugabe's critic lost relevance?
It is exactly a year since #ThisFlag leader pastor Evan Mawarire shot to fame following a successful shut-down campaign, but his relevance seems to have sharply nose-dived, with most critics arguing h...Published: 02 Jul 2017 at 14:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
UZ students' eviction: ZLHR petitions High Court
HIGH Court Judge Justice Nyaradzo Munangati-Manongwa will today preside over the hearing of an urgent chamber application filed by human rights lawyers on behalf of University of Zimbabwe (UZ) student...Published: 28 Jun 2017 at 10:10hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Chasing the elusive Zimbabwean dream
Arthur Guseni Oliver Mutambara, a world-renowned robotics professor and one of the most intriguing figures in Zimbabwean public life, has rarely written about the private dimensions of his life - unti...Published: 16 Jun 2017 at 16:59hrs | 5 | by Brezhnev Malaba
Science education - bitter, sweet returns
Whilst enough scorn and ridicule has been peddled on policy inconsistencies in the country, parallels can be drawn from the recent hike in the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) medical students' fees hike, ...Published: 12 Jan 2017 at 09:07hrs | 1 | by Rungano Dzikira
UZ students cry foul over recent fees hike
STUDENTS at the University of Zimbabwe's (UZ) Faculty of Medicine are crying foul over the recent hike of their tuition fees from $773 to $1 043 per semester, saying the move was likely to cause s...Published: 10 Jan 2017 at 05:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
University graduates take fight to Mugabe
September 29 made a mark in Zimbabwe's history as University of Zimbabwe (UZ) graduands literally spat in President Robert Mugabe's face by expressing their displeasure at the escalating rate of u...Published: 10 Oct 2016 at 12:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo warns student protesters
Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo has warned students against using politics to interfere in academic processes, cautioning that those who do it will face "costly" consequences....Published: 06 Oct 2016 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
UZ deny 47% HIV rate among students
The University of Zimbabwe (UZ) has denied that at least 47% of students at the institution are HIV positive.UZ director for communications, Daniel Chihombori said in the purported survey by t...Published: 25 May 2016 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff Reporter
47% of UZ students HIV+
ALMOST half of University of Zimbabwe students who recently underwent voluntary HIV testing were positive, a revelation which has forced the institution to limit inter-residence visits between male an...Published: 20 May 2016 at 06:35hrs | | by Ellah Mukwati
Tsvangirai, Mliswa misleading youths
Opposition political parties in the country, having failed to convince enough of the older generation of Zimbabweans to secure electoral victory, are increasingly targeting the excitable youth constit...Published: 04 May 2016 at 06:55hrs | | by Nicole Hondo
'We want beer on campus,' says UZ students
STUDENTS at the University of Zimbabwe say they want access to beer on campus despite acknowledging that there are problems with cocaine and marijuana at the university.The students also calle...Published: 18 Apr 2016 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by Lloyd Gumbo
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