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University students urged to drive innovation

Masvingo Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minister, Ezra Chadzamira, has called on university students to embrace innovation and transform research into viable business ventures that can drive Zimbabwe's economic development.Speaking duri…

Published: 15 May 2025 at 08:59hrs | 49 | by Staff reporter

Chiwenga urges industry to partner universities

Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday called on Zimbabwe's industry and commerce sectors to strengthen their collaboration with universities and research institutions to drive innovation and fuel the country's re-industrialisation …

Published: 24 Apr 2025 at 07:35hrs | 654 | by Staff reporter

Nust embarks on high impact projects

The National University of Science and Technology (Nust) has announced plans to launch three major high-impact projects as part of its strategy to achieve self-sustainability, fully utilize human resources, and create significant revenue s…

Published: 13 Apr 2025 at 09:39hrs | 143 | by Staff reporter

University of Matopo gets approved

Matabeleland South province is set to have a third higher education institution following the approval of a proposal to establish the University of Matopo. The new university, an expansion of the Brethren in Christ Church's (BICC) commitme…

Published: 02 Feb 2025 at 17:28hrs | 3227 | by Staff reporter

Bindura University loses suit against Amtec

Bindura University of Science Education (BUSE) has lost a lawsuit against Amtec Motors after the company failed to deliver a Nissan Urvan NV350 diesel minibus despite receiving US$65,000 from the university.The case, which was filed before…

Published: 12 Dec 2024 at 06:53hrs | 1115 | by Staff reporter

ZRP collaborates with varsities to tackle modern policing challenges

The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has partnered with the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) and Bindura University of Science Education (BUSE) to enhance the capacity of its officers in addressing emerging forms of crime, such as cybercrime and …

Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 16:33hrs | 123 | by Staff reporter

Senzelweyinkosi Ngwenya: From rural perseverance to academic excellence

Every morning, long before the first light broke the horizon, a determined young girl from St Paul's Mission in Lupane District embarked on a grueling 12km journey to Amandlethu Secondary School. That young girl, Senzelweyinkosi Ngwenya, h…

Published: 23 Nov 2024 at 12:51hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter

Whizkid lights up Zimbabwe varsity graduation

President Emmerson Mnangagwa, in his role as Chancellor of all State Universities, presided over Gwanda State University's (GSU) third graduation ceremony yesterday, where he capped 126 graduates at the institution's Epoch Mine campus in I…

Published: 23 Nov 2024 at 12:49hrs | 598 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa unveils modern student accommodation at CUT

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has officially commissioned a modern student accommodation facility and a new administration block at Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT), marking a significant milestone during the institution's 20th gradu…

Published: 04 Oct 2024 at 16:27hrs | 2428 | by Staff reporter

Khupe calls for cancer medicine research in Zimbabwean varsities

BULAWAYO proportional representative legislator Thokozani Khupe has called on the government to fully fund universities and promote research on cancer medicines throughout the country.Khupe was speaking in Parliament recently in support of…

Published: 24 Jul 2024 at 09:22hrs | 231 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe students excel at African Leadership University

Recently in Kigali, Rwanda, President Paul Kagame celebrated the graduation of 431 students from 30 African countries at the African Leadership University (ALU), including sixteen students from Zimbabwe. Kagame praised the graduates as a n…

Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 17:38hrs | 781 | by Staff reporter

EcoCash partners 9 universities across the country

In a move set to bring payment convenience to tens of thousands of tertiary students, parents and guardians alike, EcoCash has partnered with nine local university institutions across the country as the country's leading mobile financial s…

Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 20:33hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe varsity workers threaten strike over poor salaries

State university workers have threatened to down tools accusing the government of failing to pay decent salaries.The workers through their unions, the Zimbabwe State Universities Union of Academics (ZISUUA) and the Zimbabwe Universities an…

Published: 19 Feb 2024 at 04:54hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Outcry over Zimbabwe varsity fees increase

THE marginal increase in fees for public university students is meant to meet operational costs while ensuring quality education at a time when the Government is subsidising tuition fees and levies by up to 70 percent, a senior Government …

Published: 30 Aug 2023 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

'Zimbabwe college students threatened against falling pregnant'

Zimbabwe college students who fall pregnant during the course of their studies continue to face threats from intolerant authorities within the tertiary institutions, legislators have observed.Under Zimbabwean systems, it is within students…

Published: 15 May 2023 at 19:06hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

University probes 0% pass rates in schools

Lupane State University (LSU) has been engaged by the Government to conduct research that will establish why some schools record zero pass rates.A number of rural schools, particularly those in remote areas have for years been recording ze…

Published: 15 May 2023 at 18:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Local varsity pioneers road tolling system

Vehicles will spend just seven seconds going through a Zimbabwe tollgate once a new express tolling system developed by Bindura University of Science Education to Zinara specifications, which is already in its testing phase at Christon Ban…

Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 05:22hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter

US embassy partners Zimbabwean varsities

THE United States embassy in Harare has entered into partnerships with Zimbabwean universities to help strengthen their research skills.US embassy public diplomacy officer John Hishmeh said the programme titled Zimbabwean Emerging Faculty …

Published: 07 Jan 2023 at 07:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe universities adjust fees structures

STATE universities in the country have raised their tuition fees in line with regional trends  to cover  operational costs.Lupane State University (LSU) released their new fee's structure effective 1 August 2022 with the fees ran…

Published: 25 Sep 2022 at 16:43hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter

Gwanda State University complex to boost mineral beneficiation

THE construction of an Engineering Laboratory and Innovation Complex at Gwanda State University is set to spur mineral beneficiation and exploration initiatives as the country moves towards attaining a $12 billion mining milestone by 2023.…

Published: 08 Jul 2022 at 07:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Varsity bursar up for $10m fraud

The assistant bursar with the Midlands State University with responsibility for the payroll has been issued with a warrant of arrest after he went on the run and failed to appear at the Gweru Magistrate Courts where he is facing charges of…

Published: 01 Jun 2022 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Ezekiel Guti University in enrolment scandal

TOP officials at Zimbabwe Ezekiel Guti University (ZEGU) in Bindura have been caught up in a serious enrolment scandal after it emerged that some of them have been selling fake admission letters to aspiring students.Unnamed officials at th…

Published: 22 May 2022 at 09:21hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Govt justifies hefty varsity fee hikes

HIGHER and Tertiary Education minister Amon Murwira has justified the widely criticised university fee hikes as necessary to promote and finance quality education in the country.He issued a ministerial statement in the National Assembly on…

Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 09:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Varsity suspends 21 students for exposing theft of US$1 000 by Dean

GREAT Zimbabwe University (GZU) suspended 21 students representative council (SRC)  leaders after leaking paper trail that detailed theft of a US$1 000 donation by the institution's dean of students.The money was meant to buy toiletri…

Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 17:55hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

Teacher drags Chiwenga to court

A KWEKWE-based primary school teacher, Mercy Mjikwa, has dragged the Health Minister Constantino Chiwenga to court over new Covid-19 rules targeting unvaccinated citizens.In an urgent chamber application, Mjikwa and Tolerance Nyamukapa are…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

'Mugabe's bitter, vengeful spirit decimating foes'

THE late former president Robert Mugabe's family claims his spirit is causing the death of his tribesmen who are at the forefront of the exhumation of his remains.Mugabe's body was buried at his rural home in Kutama, Zvimba, following week…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:22hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF-linked businessman fails to turn around Zimglass

SLIGHTLY more than a decade ago, a drive along Portland Road in Gweru's heavy industrial sites would lead one to the glass-manufacturing giant â€” and one of the companies that made the Midlands capital a force to reckon with.Fast forward …

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:22hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Lawyer Hara distances self from CCC name hijack plot

PROMINENT Bulawayo lawyer Tavengwa Hara has distanced himself from the shadowy Citizens for Convergence for Change (CCC) that listed him as its lawyer upon notifying the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) of its existence and intention to…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:22hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa and dodgy Zanu-PF characters

WHEN Zanu-PF activist Marx Mupungu filed a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) application in June seeking to quash the High Court judgment by the three brave judges who had barred Chief Justice Malaba from extending his controversial tenure b…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:21hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Renaming roads fails to convince Zimbabweans

A BID to rename major roads in the country after President Emmerson Mnangagwa and some fallen heroes seems to have failed to resonate with Zimbabweans as they are still using old names, while in some cases, residents have even taken the go…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:21hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

New Parly lit up as China celebrates National Day

CONSTRUCTORS of Zimbabwe's imposing new parliament building, perched on top of Mt Hampden, north of Harare last night lit up the building, which is nearing completion, to celebrate China's National Day.The National Day of the People's Repu…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:21hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Govt curtails internet freedom

THE Zimbabwean government has maintained a tight grip on internet control, curtailing the basic rights to freedom of expression and information, a report has revealed.According to the Freedom on the NET 2021 report, an annual survey on int…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

US$12 000 compensation can't soothe activist for unjustified imprisonment

AT the age of 28, Linda Musiyamhanje was charged with the murder of a police officer and spent almost a year in prison.She left her two-year-old son in the care of her siblings and together with 28 other individuals became known as the Gle…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Malaba case: The key actors

ZIMBABWE, for the past four months has been going through a constitutional test and legal drama following the extension of Chief Justice Luke Malaba's term in May, which was put to bed last week following a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) …

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Authorities unleash sweeping crackdown on forex market

IN a renewed bid to contain the runaway foreign exchange rate - now trading at double the official rate around US$1: ZW$170 - the government has launched a fierce crackdown on currency traders in a multi-pronged approach deploying law and …

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:19hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

US$4m tender scandal rocks Zinwa

THE Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) awarded Helcraw Electrical (Pvt) Ltd - owned by Harare businessman Farai Jere - a tender worth over US$4 million to supply pre-paid water meters despite the parastatal's executives knowing that…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:19hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Parliament investigates US$109m dam tender scandal

THE Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) executive is under investigation for awarding a dodgy US$109 million Kunzvi Dam construction tender to China Nanchang Engineering, which has a shady past, ahead of other cheaper yet competitive…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:19hrs | 78 | by Staff reporter

Judges set wrong precedent by hearing own case

CONSTITUTIONAL Court judges who overturned a High Court ruling that Chief Justice Luke Malaba's continued stay in office beyond 70 years was illegal despite being cited have set a wrong precedent by being "judges in their own cause", judic…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa lays out 2023 game plan

MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's move to reshuffle the top leadership of his party is meant to kick- start preparations for another high stakes election in 2023 against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF.Zimbabwe is already in elec…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:18hrs | | by Staff reporter

Sadc ignores Zimbabwe 'crisis'

SADC has not responded to a plea by Zimbabwean civil society organisations (CSOs) which last month petitioned the organ to intervene and order President Emmerson Mnangagwa to, among other things, call for by-elections.Over 350 organisation…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:17hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

Ex-ZEC commissioner tipped for Insiza seat

FORMER Zimbabwe Electoral Commissioner (ZEC) Qhubani Moyo reportedly plans another try at the ballot box, targeting the same Insiza constituency he twice lost to Zanu-PF when he was a member of the opposition MDC.Moyo's term and that of ZE…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:17hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Muchinguri blames dead Mugabe for govt failure

DEFENCE minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri last week said the Robert Mugabe administration had failed the country in the 40 years that it was in power, saying the Emmerson Mnangagwa dispensation had done much better in the three years they …

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's industry capacity utilisation rises

CAPACITY utilisation in Zimbabwe's manufacturing industry is projected to increase to 58% in the third quarter of this year, an improvement from 54% in the second quarter of 2021.In its second quarter business and economic intelligence rep…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:16hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Currency crisis alarms Zimbabwe business

BUSINESS has expressed alarm over the free- falling Zimbabwe dollar, warning that the foreign currency crisis could plunge the economy into a deeper crisis.The gap has been widening between the official exchange rate, which is at pegged at…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:16hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Mugabe burial saga in bizarre twist

Former president Robert Mugabe's family says his spirit is fighting back after "mysterious" deaths and illnesses hit families of some traditional leaders that were pushing for the exhumation of the late strongman's remains.The battle to ex…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:16hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Let's compile register of the dead in all our conflicts

January 1977 was the worst of the several months when I personally endured the ravages of the war for the emancipation of Zimbabwe from the toxic grip of rebel leader Ian Douglas Smith's Rhodesian Front regime.My ordeal started on my birth…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:15hrs | 8 | by Geoffrey Nyarota

Spare a thought for Chiwenga's estranged wife

My Dear People,Pictures of the former second lady Marry Mubaiwa struggling to walk while being led to court to face charges of allegedly plotting to kill her powerful ex-husband got everyone talking last week.Some of you were asking whethe…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Ex-Bulawayo Deputy Mayor Amen Mpofu dies

FORMER Bulawayo Deputy Mayor Alderman Amen Mpofu has died.He was 67. Ald Mpofu died as a result of kidney failure on Friday at Mpilo Central Hospital.  Family spokesperson Alderman Phineas Ndlovu confirmed the passing on of the former…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Proposed BCC budget for 2022: $12 000 a month for rates in Bulawayo

THE proposed 2022 budget by the City of Bulawayo will see residents in some places paying as much as $12 000 for rates only, before factoring in water charges as the local authority targets to introduce various fees increases ranging betwe…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:14hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Livestock rustler caught with 11 beasts, 2 donkeys

POLICE have recovered 16 cattle and seven donkeys after a weeklong operation against cattle rustlers in Gwanda District that have terrorised farmers and villagers over the last few months.A suspect, Prince Dube alias Vusa Mutopini, was arr…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:14hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

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