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Mnangagwa's govt employs national youth service graduates
The Zimbabwean government has begun employing graduates from the National Youth Service (NYS) program in line with a Cabinet directive that prioritizes the recruitment of these trainees into the civil...Published: 07 Dec 2024 at 10:35hrs | 529 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt to establish VTCs in all districts
The Zimbabwean Government has launched an ambitious plan to establish Vocational Training Centres (VTCs) in every district, aiming to enhance skills development among the country's youth. The initiati...Published: 28 Nov 2024 at 06:40hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo councillors bemoan state of vocational centres
Bulawayo councillors have raised concerns over the poor condition and shortage of vocational training centres (VTCs) in the city, urging for immediate action to address the issue.During a rece...Published: 14 Sep 2024 at 12:18hrs | 70 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt shuts down 368 illegal colleges, VTCs
The government has shut down 368 technical and vocational training centres across the country for operating without the necessary documentation, in line with the Manpower Planning and Development Act ...Published: 09 Sep 2024 at 08:00hrs | 744 | by Staff reporter
Zim schools, Polytechnics face imminent closure: Govt
Several schools, Vocational Training Centers (VTCs), Polytechnic colleges and some universities will forcibly shut down as a result of stunted skill devel...Published: 01 Mar 2024 at 23:23hrs | 135 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa to headline Mugabe Day celebrations
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is expected to headline the National Youth Day celebrations at Mushagashe Vocational Training Centre in Masvingo on Wednesday with Youth Development, Empowerment and Vocational Tra...Published: 18 Feb 2024 at 09:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints son Deputy Finance minister in new Cabinet
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed a new cabinet, retaining a bulk of his ministers in key posts and adding a few new faces.Finance and Investment PromotionProf Mthuli NcubeDep...Published: 11 Sep 2023 at 17:00hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Stray lion wreaks havoc in Filabusi
VILLAGERS in Filabusi, Matebeleland South province, are living in fear of a stray lion that is reportedly terrorising the area killing livestock.Villagers on Wednesday told NewsDay that people...Published: 16 Jun 2023 at 07:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on alert for measles outbreak
Cabinet received an update on the Country‘s Response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and a report on the procurement and roll-out of vaccines, as presented by the Chairman of the National Covid-19 Inter-M...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zupco leading local bus assembly revival
From being a shining beacon of mass public transport during the early years of independence, Zupco had in recent years mutated into a classic example of a failed State-owned entity.In 1993, it...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Diaspora vote a logistical nightmare
Over the past four years, the Government has instituted high-impact legislative reforms to help strengthen the country's democracy and promote personal freedoms. Ahead of next year's harmonised electi...Published: 24 Jul 2022 at 09:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA ministry accuses NGOs challenging Zimbabwe permits cancellation of wanting to 'dislodge' ANC government
The Department of Home Affairs has accused the Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) and NGOs of trying to "dislodge" the government in response to the notice that the foundation intended to take the departme...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt pumps $1m into VTCs
GOVERNMENT has allocated $1 million to vocational training centres (VTCs) across the country to enable them to produce multi-skilled graduates.This was revealed by Youth, Art, Sport and Recrea...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa congratulates new Tanzania President
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday congratulated new Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan after she was sworn in on Friday following the death of President John Magufuli.President Hassan became ...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwelivesmatter, says Mnangagwa
THE lives of Zimbabweans matter more than the economy which is why the Second Republic put in place measures that have seen the country managing to ensure that Covid-19 infections do not spiral out of...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Mugabe has 48hrs to ditch Grace and save himself
Former Zanu-PF official Acie Lumumba has said president Mugabe is only left with 48hrs to save himself. Lumumba said the 93-year-old leader has only two options, either to save himself by ditching wif...Published: 13 Nov 2017 at 21:40hrs | | by Staff Reporter
170 teachers drop-out of training programme
At least 170 primary and secondary school teachers enrolled at different local universities under the recently introduced teacher capacity building programme have dropped out after finding the going t...Published: 29 Mar 2017 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Vocational Training way to go for unemployed youth
In the year 2000, I got enrolled at a certain local primary school teachers' college as a trainee teacher. There were compulsory subjects for everyone and we were asked to choose one main subject of o...Published: 15 Feb 2017 at 07:16hrs | | by Tendai Guta
Mugabe's Zanu-PF appeals to 'green bombers'
Ahead of the eagerly anticipated October 22 Norton by-election, Zanu PF is now appealing to the notorious national youth service graduates, famously known as Border Gezis or green bombers, to lead...Published: 13 Oct 2016 at 08:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA exodus worries Gwanda college principal
GUYU Vocational Centre principal, Milton Moyo, has lamented the exodus of youths from Gwanda to South Africa which he said was affecting programmes they have introduced. Moyo was briefing the ...Published: 30 May 2016 at 06:42hrs | | by Richard Muponde
Chief Ndiweni, police clash
CHIEF Ndiweni has petitioned police Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri following a fresh confrontation with police in Ntabazinduna after they shut down a vocational training centre opened at one o...Published: 02 May 2016 at 11:40hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Matabeleland region youths shortchanged
MATABELELAND North and South Provinces do not have sustainable industrial opportunities, a development that has seen youths in the provinces failing to benefit from the Governmment's Youth Fund, an of...Published: 22 Nov 2013 at 02:52hrs | | by Pamela Shumba in Banket
'Govt to revive 42 vocational training,' says Nhema
GOVERNMENT has plans to spend close to $40 million in reviving 42 vocational training centres (VTCs) for youth skills training and entrepreneurship development, a Cabinet minister has said.VTC...Published: 03 Oct 2013 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Am not too old to lead,' says 89 year old Mugabe
President Robert Mugabe has told a documentary that he has no intentions of stepping down as Zimbabwe's leader.The 89-year-old has lead the country for more than 30 years - but he told the S...Published: 01 Jun 2013 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Youth training center facilities 'worse than pig sties'
Zimbabwe's youth vocational training centres under the charge of Zanu PF's Minister of Youth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment Savior Kasukuwere have been likened to pig sties.Infam...Published: 16 May 2012 at 10:01hrs | | by Alois Sibanda
MDC-T backs Border Gezi training concept
MDC-T legislators yesterday made a major climb-down by admitting that vocational training centres are important for youth development.The party has in the past discredited the training centre...Published: 16 May 2012 at 05:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
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