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Varsity uniforms proposal sparks outrage
People from all walks of life, including Government officials, yesterday reacted with outrage to a proposal by the Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) for tertiary institutions to introduce uniforms for ...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 03:49hrs | 81 | by Staff reporter
Specialist neurosurgeon in trouble for saving life
Parirenyatwa Hospital-based neurosurgeon Aaron Musara has accused the institution's department of anaesthesia and clinical medicine of neglecting and refusing to attend to patients in need of urgent s...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 09:01hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Unlocking Zimbabwe's dead capital
Agriculture remains central to Zimbabwe' economic revival hopes even though its contribution has declined to less than 12% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2018. Agriculture has strong backward and ...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 14:18hrs | 548 | by Victor Bhoroma
Outcry over high graduation fees
GRADUANDS at various universities are in a quandary over whether they will be able to graduate after most institutions announced exorbitant graduation fees.Most universities hold their graduat...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 07:48hrs | 777 | by Staff reporter
Firing doctors won't ease Zimbabwe health crisis
ZIMBABWE'S health sector is mired in a crisis as public hospital doctors have been on strike for over a month. The job action has resulted in patients being turned away from hospitals while there have...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 07:08hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
Mental health service platform launched
Zimbabwe faces a critical shortage of mental health professionals, with only 17 psychiatrists and 900 mental health nurses available to serve the whole country.Speaking at a combined commemora...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 06:40hrs | 110 | by Staff reporter
Polytechnics urged to adopt new technologies
Polytechnics should embark on a relentless drive for adoption, adaptation and import substitution of advanced technologies in line with the policy of developing and adopting scientific technologies th...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 06:28hrs | 68 | by Staff reporter
UZ doctors abandon strike
University of Zimbabwe (UZ) consultant doctors who temporarily withdrew their services from the institution in solidarity with paediatric surgeon Bothwell Mbuwayesango and consultant cardiothoracic su...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 07:32hrs | 1926 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs to move beyond uncertainty
"Climate change in Zimbabwe. You can hear it on the banks of Lake Kariba up north and feel it in the fields of Beitbridge in the south. You'll see it in the classrooms of rural Gokwe, where the succes...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 06:57hrs | 296 | by Pearl Matibe
Zanu-PF blasts UZ over Doctors sacking
The Zanu-PF youth league has blasted the University of Zimbabwe over the the sacking of two specialist doctors that sparked an uproar from their colleagues who also threatened to down tools.Th...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 19:02hrs | 4552 | by Staff Reporter
BREAKING: Dr Mbuwayesango suspension lifted
The University of Zimbabwe has lifted the supension of two top medical doctors Mbuwayesango and Chaminuka who were suspended over participating in an ongoing industrial action/. The lifting of...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 18:33hrs | 2226 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Doctors' strike: Medical school lecturers suspended
The case in which Government was seeking determination on the legality of doctors' job action has been deferred to tomorrow to allow the applicant to provide documents of proceedings that transpired b...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 06:46hrs | 352 | by Staff reporter
Government suspends top surgeon over doctors strike
The University of Zimbabwe has suspended Dr Bothwell Mbuwayesango over bei8ng one of the ring leaders of the ongoing industrial actions being carried out by doctors for the past 36 days. ...Published: 08 Oct 2019 at 17:19hrs | 2651 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Nust students protest over 700% increase in graduation fees
NATIONAL University of Science and Technology (Nust) students, who are expecting to graduate on November 8, have petitioned their administration over exorbitant graduation fees which they described as...Published: 07 Oct 2019 at 08:12hrs | 1097 | by Staff Reporter
Zacc recovers $100m property from looters
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission Chairperson Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo said the body has recovered more than $100 million worth of properties from looters as it intensifies anti-graft efforts ...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 19:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dandemutande CEO declared Chartered Secretary of the Year
Dandemutande chief executive Never Ncube was declared Chartered Secretary of the Year at the Institute of Chartered Secretaries annual conference dinner in Victoria Falls last week. Agribank company s...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 13:35hrs | 295 | by Agencies
Can an undervalued currency boost Zim Exports
The Zimbabwean Dollar was re-introduced on the 24th of June 2019 through the gazetting of Statutory Instrument (SI) 142 of 2019. The law outlawed the use and indexing of multiple currencies for local ...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 11:16hrs | 1095 | by Victor Bhoroma
REWIND: Mugabe: A good candidate for Egyptation
I am still looking and searching for the vocabulary and diction with which to name and describe what I saw in Bhengazi. After what I saw, I believe that God is the people and that the people are God. ...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 20:32hrs | 1155 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Ncube declared Chartered Secretary of the Year
Dandemutande chief executive Never Ncube was declared Chartered Secretary of the Year at the Institute of Chartered Secretaries Annual Conference Dinner in Victoria Falls today (Friday). Agribank comp...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 20:26hrs | 1734 | by Staff reporter
Review of the Mid Term Monetary Policy Framework
The Zimbabwean government announced the much awaited Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) on the 10th of September 2019, a few days before the announcement of the mid-term monetary policy. The appointment ...Published: 25 Sep 2019 at 09:14hrs | 1685 | by Victor Bhoroma
Industrialists welcome rogue accounts freeze
THE decision by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to freeze accounts of companies suspected to have been involved in the manipulation of the local currency last week, has been hailed as a bold move b...Published: 25 Sep 2019 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dokora sues ex-wife over domestic violence
FORMER Primary and Secondary Education minister Lazarous Dokora's ex-wife, Mercy Hanyani (31), has been issued with a warrant of arrest over malicious damage to property as their divorce case rages on...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 08:27hrs | 1980 | by Staff reporter
Gonyeti scores big, roped in US embassy's anti-Zimbabwe project
The United States Embassy in Harare has commissioned a documentary promoting the narrative of wanton abductions and human rights abuses in the country, The Herald has reported. Impeccable sour...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 07:45hrs | 1028 | by Staff reporter
Energy Mutodi's star rising
One of the Mthwakazi political parties assisted by a Bulawayo based lawyer recently tried to file criminal charges of violence incitement against Mutodi at the Bulawayo Central Police Station but poli...Published: 23 Sep 2019 at 10:18hrs | 3432 | by Nicholas Ncube
UZ tells graduands to create jobs
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa capped 3 927 graduands at the University of Zimbabwe, where the vice-chancellor Paul Mapfumo emphasised job creation instead of job-seeking.Mapfumo said the univer...Published: 23 Sep 2019 at 08:49hrs | 1069 | by Staff reporter
Demystifying Robert Mugabe's Pan-African bubble
When the dust settles, it's time to write. I have just watched Ian Bedowes' engagement of Robert Mugabe's legacy, which got me thinking. I was reminded of my very robust, 'no walls barred' WhatsApp re...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 16:18hrs | 1440 | by Dr Brilliant Sigabade Mhlanga
Mugabe's troubled legacy
This name evokes emotions of anger, hatred, regret and revulsion to many. Yet it is also a name that draws a lot of admiration, satisfaction, pride and gratitude to others.In death, just like ...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 18:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa caps 3 927 University of Zimbabwe students
The Chancellor of the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday conferred 3 927 graduands with various undergraduate and postgraduate degrees.President Mnangagwa...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 18:02hrs | 577 | by Staff reporter
Doctors refuse to be capped by Mnangagwa
The 2019 class of graduating medical students at the University of Zimbabwe are to boycott their graduation ceremony at which they were due to be capped by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.This in...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 08:41hrs | 7991 | by Staff reporter
When a government starts abducting its own doctors…
While the President of the Republic is busy trying to be endorsed by a dead man called Robert Mugabe, all the country's referral hospitals are without doctors, after the Doctors Association called for...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 08:15hrs | 4405 | by Knowledge Hakata
'The West is upset about Zimbabwean land'
Let us start by saying that Robert Mugabe is a Zimbabwean giant, Robert Mugabe is an African giant.From 1960 to 2017 - 57 years - he was at the front-end of African politics, front-end of Zimb...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 06:45hrs | 270 | by Prof Arthur Mutambara
Zimbabweans now living in extreme poverty as economy declines
With Zimbabwe's economy all but confirmed to contract by at least 8% in the year 2019, households are feeling the heat as poverty levels surge at alarming levels. Zimbabwe's last recession cycle occur...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 19:32hrs | 1318 | by Victor Bhoroma
Mugabe, Tsvangirai died miles away from Zimbabwe's dilapidated death traps
THE death of former president Robert Mugabe - some 8 260 kilometres away from home in far-flung Singapore - is a terrible indictment on his legacy and the state of the country's healthcare institution...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 06:39hrs | 465 | by Staff reporter
Tracing Mugabe's troubled legacy
This name evokes emotions of anger, hatred, regret and revulsion to many. Yet it is also a name that draws a lot of admiration, satisfaction, pride and gratitude to others.In death, just like ...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe mourners take over Harare Poly student quarters
Harare Polytechnic students have been asked to vacate their hostels to accommodate mourners coming for former President Robert Mugabe's burial.The students said they were addressed by the dean...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 20:04hrs | 555 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe mourners invade Harare Poly
Harare Polytechnic students have been asked to vacate their hostels to accommodate mourners coming for former President Robert Mugabe's burial.The students said they were addressed by the dean...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 07:28hrs | 1749 | by Staff Reporter
Closure of the University of Zimbabwe a callous act
The ZANU (PF) aligned leadership at the University of Zimbabwe needs to be challenged by the students including seeking a Court interdict. It is indeed a fitting tribute to their departed hero who cau...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 20:05hrs | 570 | by Lizwe Dube
University of Zimbabwe students defiant over Mugabe burial
University of Zimbabwe students have vowed to defy an order by the President Emmerson Mnangagwa led University of Zimbabwe to vacate from the students quarters till the mourning period for the late Ro...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 18:46hrs | 1853 | by Mandla Ndlovu
UZ blasted over command mourning
We cannot allow a shift from command agriculture to command mourning. This time we are ready to make sure that as they bury Robert Mugabe they also bury the dictatorial tendencies he planted in this c...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 11:36hrs | 3100 | by Ashlegh Pfunye
University of Zimbabwe shutdown to mourn Mugabe
The University of Zimbabwe has announced that it is shutting down for the 12th to the 15th of September to mourn the former Chancellor of the university Robert Mugabe who died of old age in Singapore....Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 08:45hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zim Dollar rates tumbles ahead of monitory policy
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is expected to announce the Mid-Term Monitory Policy statement in the coming days. The market is not anticipating major changes to the country's economic fortunes fr...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 06:47hrs | 10298 | by Victor Bhoroma
Nust receives $900,000 for DNA lab
THE Government has released $900 000 to the National University of Science and Technology's (Nust) DNA lab which is involved in national projects including profiling of Cyclone Idai victims. T...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC bigwig threatens Mnangagwa with ICC prosecution
MDC deputy secretary for legal affairs and Gweru urban legislator, Brian Dube, says the continued human rights violations in the country coupled with the August 2018 and January 2019 army killings, co...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 12:00hrs | 3541 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa not immune to ICC prosecution'
MDC deputy secretary for legal affairs and Gweru urban legislator, Brian Dube, says the continued human rights violations in the country coupled with the August 2018 and January 2019 army killings, co...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 06:47hrs | 694 | by Staff reporter
Robert Gabriel Mugabe - Academic Qualifications
ACADEMIC DEGREES: Bachelor of Arts (History and English) (BA) degree from the University of Fort Hare (1951) Bachelor of Administration (B.Admin) fr...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 09:15hrs | 10980 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
What happens to Grace now that Robert Mugabe is gone?
Zimbabweans may have mixed feelings about the death of Robert Mugabe: in the end, he was a brutal despot who left his country divided and impoverished. But he was also the founding father of the natio...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 19:51hrs | 5280 | by Farai Sevenzo and Tara John, CNN
Mugabe's major accomplishments
Robert Gabriel Mugabe is the country's founding President having served as Prime Minister from 1980 to 1987 and then as Executive President from 1987 to 2017. He chaired the former Zanu ...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 09:06hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa condemns sanctions at WEF conference
Zimbabwe is facing unique challenges of a malfunctioning economy and a "collapsed" local currency that will need a private-sector led strategy to get it back on track, President Mnangagwa has said. ...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 08:52hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe was no revolutionary. He was obsessed with power and control
Robert Mugabe will not be remembered as the freedom fighter who helped liberate Zimbabwe, but as a man who whose 40 years in power was anything but admirable, writes Melusi Nkomo.In the future...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 11:51hrs | 1741 | by Melusi Nkomo
Zimdollar rates tumble ahead of monetary policy
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is expected to announce the Mid-Term Monitory Policy statement in the coming days.The market is not anticipating major changes to the country's economic fort...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:40hrs | 2711 | by Victor Bhoroma
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