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ZICOSU leader dies in accident.
The Zimbabwe Congress of Students Union (ZICOSU) is in mourning following the tragic passing of its provincial chairperson for Mashonaland Central, Panashe Chatambudza. Chatambudza, who also served as...Published: 08 Oct 2023 at 16:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Expelled UZ SRC secretary general claims to being persecuted for supporting Chanisa
EXPELLED University of Zimbabwe Students Representative Council (SRC) duo claim they were booted out of the body for supporting Nelson Chamisa's led Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC).Munashe...Published: 16 Feb 2023 at 04:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
ConCourt hears case by Zanu-PF activist that could upend delimitation
The Constitutional Court on Thursday began hearing an application by a Zanu-PF supporter seeking to force the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to restart the process of delimitation of constituency...Published: 19 Jan 2023 at 13:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF rift grows
A Zanu-PF activist who wrote to parliament last week raising objections to a draft delimitation report submitted by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) was seized by state security agents on Monda...Published: 10 Jan 2023 at 18:27hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zec delimitation report challenger hounded
A Zanu-PF activist and former Zicosu president Tonderai Chidawa, who last week challenged the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) preliminary delimitation report, says he is being hounded by suspected...Published: 09 Jan 2023 at 07:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Spooks assault Chamisa's activist
A MEMBER of the opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) in Zaka, Tafara Chimwaradze, was on Monday briefly abducted and assaulted by known Central Intelligence Organisation operatives while at...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bornfrees4ED calls for the removal of sanctions
BORNFREES4ED, a newly-formed Zanu-PF affiliate whose membership is drawn from young people born after 1980, has joined the fray in calling for the unconditional removal of illegal sanctions imposed on...Published: 12 Oct 2022 at 19:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'No room for chicanery in Zanu-PF,' says Mnangagwa
AHEAD of Zanu-PF Central Committee elections this weekend, President Mnangagwa has said there is no room for chicanery, name dropping, violence, or imposition of candidates in the ruling party....Published: 06 Oct 2022 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
New students' body launched
TERTIARY students have partnered with an independent civic group to establish a new students' body, the National Students Council (NSU) to fight polarisation among learners at higher learning institut...Published: 28 Sep 2022 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Witch-hunt scare hits UZ
UNIVERSITY of Zimbabwe students say they are living in fear and skipping lectures amid strong suspicion of an ongoing police witch-hunt to bring to book suspects behind recent demonstrations that rock...Published: 17 Sep 2022 at 06:47hrs | | 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 | 1 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Life gets tough for Zimbabwe's tertiary level students
LIFE for tertiary level students is becoming increasingly difficult due to economic hardships, an official has said.Addressing students at Kwekwe Polytechnic, president of the Zimbabwe Congres...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:13hrs | 1 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu heaps praises on ZICOSU for MSU win
ZANU PF Secretary for Administration Obert Mpofu has commended the ZANU PF aligned student movement ZICOSU for a win in the student representative council elections at the Midlands State University....Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 15:37hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Teachers, students go digital to protest
TEACHERS and students unions have embarked on an online protest dubbed #FeesMustFall to press the government to reduce fees at the country's tertiary institutions.Tertiary fees have been hiked...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF resurrects youth conferences
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has announced plans to resume its national youth conferences eight years after the last indaba was held.Party youth secretary Tendai Chirau confirmed the development y...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 08:54hrs | | 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 | 7 | by Shelton Muchena/Simbarashe Sithole
Zanu-PF intensifies campaigns as Mnangagwa eyes 2023 election
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has injected ZW$73 million into Mashonaland East vocational training centres as Zanu-PF canvasses for youth support in its quest to garner five million votes in the 2023 g...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 15:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Passion Java endorses Mnangagwa's 2023 re-election bid
CONTROVERSIAL celebrity prophet, Passion Java has endorsed Emmerson Mnangagwa's presidential re-election bid in the 2023 campaign.Zanu-PF has already confirmed Mnangagwa as their presidential ...Published: 24 May 2021 at 18:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Journalism, a new form of activism!
A polarised political environment breeds microcosms across all other subsectors of the community.As the old truism would put it, "a fis...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 00:56hrs | 1 | by Shelton Muchena
FULL TEXT: Tawanda Muchehiwa's gory story on how he was abducted by Ferret team
I often wake up in the middle of the night sweating profusely with a pulsating headache. At that moment, I can feel intense pain on the right side of my jaw. I never get back to sleep.I have t...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 09:49hrs | 18 | by Tawanda Muchehiwa
'Beware of regime change agents'
ZIMBABWEANS should be wary of agents of regime change who come under the guise of human rights activism as they seek to unseat Government. This was said by Zanu-PF Politburo member Munyaradzi ...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 08:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers on demand
THREE African countries have approached Government to recruit Zimbabwean teachers who are on demand in those nations. Primary and Secondary Education Minister Professor Paul Mavima revealed th...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to recruit 5 000 teachers
THE Public Service Commission (PSC) is negotiating with Treasury for the employment of 5 000 teachers to reduce the deficit of educators in schools which have almost 13 000 vacancies, a Cabinet Minist...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 16:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe tertiary education irrelevant'
The Zimbabwe National Students Union (Zinasu) and Zimbabwe Congress of Students Union (Zicosu) have called for the alignment of educational programmes offered at different universities with the curren...Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 17:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo denies recieving $400 000 from Gono
Professor Jonathan Moyo has denied allegations that he was paid $400 000 by former Reserve Bank Govenor Dr Gideon Gono to draft a ZANU PF manifesto in 2008 bloody run off elections that claimed lives ...Published: 05 Jun 2019 at 13:53hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zinasu victory under threat
The Zimbabwe Congress of Students Union (Zicosu) and Youth Advocacy for Reform and Development Students Congress (YardSC) have challenged the outcome of the recent Great Zimbabwe University (GZU) Stud...Published: 25 May 2019 at 15:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF infighting deepens
Tonderai Chidawa former Zimbabwe Congress of Students Union ZICOSU leader is the favourite amongst the majority of Harare Provincial youth members to land the post of ZANU PF provincial youth Chairman...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 18:36hrs | 2 | by Alistair Nyakudya
$8 million loan guarantee for tertiary students
Government has set aside $8 million as collateral for the release of more than $60 million pledged as student loans by various financial institutions.Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 08:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hacking forces MSU to stop SRC polls
MIDLANDS State University (MSU) students have raised concern after the institution's administration halted the Students Representative Council (SRC) elections and postponed them indefinitely.T...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 05:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZINASU defeats ZANU PF youths in Bindura
THE Zanu PF-aligned Zimbabwe Congress of Students Union (Zicosu) dismally lost the Bindura University of Science Education Student Representative Council Elections held on Monday at the University cam...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 10:05hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zinasu victory a reflection of the turning political landscape
One primary reason why young people are cynical or even repulsed at the thought of politics is because of its mental turn off.Watching your entire future being plundered by some old out-of-tou...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 13:27hrs | 1 | by Roy Muroyi
MRP Applauds MTHWASA Formation
It has become the norm that everything that comes from Matabeleland is regarded as tribal. We are now used to this line of thinking and we are not concerned at all about this type of propaganda....Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 10:24hrs | 2 | by Mbonisi Gumbo MRP Secretary for Information and Publicity
Students will never support Mnangagwa
Students are totally against ED and Zicosu's statement that more than three-quarters of the country's tertiary students are behind Mnangagwa. As far as we are concerned, this statement is an i...Published: 07 Jul 2018 at 16:13hrs | 1 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Mnangagwa chides Chamisa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has lashed out at MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, accusing him of raising "unsubstantiated" vote rigging claims just to soil the ruling Zanu PF party's image after rea...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 07:19hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
Students to meet Mnangagwa
STUDENTS from the country's institutions of higher learning are set to meet President Mnangagwa on Thursday in Harare to discuss their challenges.Zimbabwe Congress of Students Union (ZICOSU) S...Published: 02 Jul 2018 at 07:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe students claim stake in upcoming national elections
Higher and tertiary education students in Zimbabwe have a real opportunity to make their mark in the 2018 harmonised elections on 30 July which pundits say will be heavily influenced by the youth vote...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 15:28hrs | | by universityworldnews
Zicosu throws weight behind Zanu-PF
The Zimbabwe Congress of Students Unions (Zicosu) has pledged to mobilise full support for President Mnangagwa so that he leads the ruling Zanu-PF party to a crushing victory in harmonised elections s...Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa finding it hard to appoint a youthful Cabinet
Finance deputy minister Terence Mukupe has said President Emmerson Mnangagwa is finding it hard to appoint a youthful Cabinet, as most young people shy away from politics, leaving him with no option, ...Published: 07 Jun 2018 at 15:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
#ChamisaChallenge launched
Social Media users in Zimbabwe are pocking fun on allegation that Movement for Democratic Change leader Nelson Chamisa told a rally last week that he met Kagame in Geneva and the East African nation's...Published: 30 May 2018 at 11:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fist fight over Mukupe's alleged rigging
VIOLENCE broke outside the New Government Complex in Harare yesterday when Zanu-PF youths aligned to Finance deputy minister Terence Mukupe clashed with students from various tertiary institutions who...Published: 30 May 2018 at 08:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mukupe enjoys good relationship with Chinamasa
Under-fire deputy Finance minister Terrence Mukupe has claimed he enjoys a good working relationship with his boss Patrick Chinamasa.This comes amid reports of fierce run-ins between the two a...Published: 27 May 2018 at 16:29hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Zanu-PF youth plot Mnangagwa interface rally
ZANU-PF youths have announced plans to organise a bumper crowd at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's first youth interface rally in Gweru next week, as part of efforts to drum up support for the ruling pa...Published: 23 May 2018 at 07:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths see political hand in student protests
THE Zanu-PF National Youth League says it fears there might be a political hand in the continued demonstrations at universities ahead of the forthcoming harmonised elections.Their concerns com...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Students want loan conditions reviewed
Tertiary students in Mashonaland West Province are pushing Government to relax supposedly stringent conditions on applying for student loans.The students raised their concerns to Finance and E...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Students told to join Zanu-PF structures
Tertiary education students should actively participate in politics through formally joining the ruling party's structures, Finance and Economic Development Deputy Minister Terrence Mukupe has said....Published: 11 Apr 2018 at 07:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
University refuses to release bus to ferry students to Chamisa rally
THE Zanu PF-aligned student's body, Zimbabwe Congress of Students' Union (Zicosu), has defended the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) authorities for allegedly refusing to release a...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 09:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zicosu turning lectures into Zanu-PF campaign rallies'
THE Zanu-PF-aligned Zimbabwe Congress of Students Union (Zicosu) has been accused of turning public lecturers at universities into campaign platforms for the ruling party, where Finance deputy ministe...Published: 02 Apr 2018 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zicosu joins #EDHasMyVote campaign
THE Zanu PF-aligned Zimbabwe Congress of Students Union (Zicosu) has launched the #EDHasMyVote campaign at tertiary institutions, as part of efforts to drum up support for President Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 06:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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