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Zimbabwean sister of UK child abuse victim blames the Church for brother's death
The sister of a 16-year-old boy who drowned while swimming naked at a Christian holiday camp in Zimbabwe run by child abuser John Smyth blames the Church of England for his death."The Church k...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 18:32hrs | 531 | by Staff reporter
St Faith High School Priest shows off punching skills
TEMPERS flared at St Faith's High School on Wednesday, with a priest from the Anglican Diocese of Manicaland showing his boxing skills as parents who escorted Form Five learners bulldozed their way in...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 08:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man breaks in school to see girlfriend
A 30 year-old sex starved Plumtree man was sent to jail for breaking into a school in a bid to see his girlfriend.Kudakwashe Munatsi was jailed two years by Plumtree magistrate Joshua Nembawar...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 21:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sex-starved man breaks into schoolyard to see girlfriend
A 30-year-old sex-starved Plumtree man was sent to jail for breaking into a school in a bid to see his girlfriend.Kudakwashe Munatsi was sentenced to 2 years in jail by Plumtree magistrate Jos...Published: 30 Aug 2023 at 23:53hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Old Gwanda Road project begins
PRELIMINARY works have started ahead of the construction of the US$150 million 120km Old Gwanda Road with engineers and surveyors on the ground conducting the feasibility study which is expected to be...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 06:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
21 Form Four pupils expelled
TWENTY-ONE Form 4 pupils were allegedly expelled from the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) run Lower Gwelo Mission High School in Lower Gweru.The boys were expelled for allegedly sneaking into the ...Published: 30 Sep 2022 at 06:06hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Magaya gold mine workers picket his hotel over unpaid 'slave wages'
Prophetic, Healing and Deliverance Ministries (PHD) leader, Walter Magaya is reportedly embroiled in a protracted salary dispute with workers at his Shamva gold mine, who picketed his Yadah Hotel in H...Published: 19 Aug 2022 at 20:19hrs | 39 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa visited Mutami at school?
A FORMER boyfriend of Susan Mutami and her school friends at Loreto High School in Silobela, Midlands, have validated claims that a man believed to be President Emmerson Mnangagwa she now accuses of r...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 08:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Former students association donates to Zwelabo Secondary School in Nkayi
Former students of Zwelabo Secondary School in Nkayi under their grouping named Zwelabo Former Students Association (ZFSA) have donated books, soccer kit and 10 500 Rands for the drilling of a borehol...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 08:56hrs | 14 | by Stephen Jakes
Teachers' strike cripples education system on first day of new term
A pay strike by teachers disrupted learning on Monday as schools opened for the first term following Covid-19 delays.All the teachers' unions declared "incapacitation" in anger over salaries t...Published: 07 Feb 2022 at 20:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prominent Bulawayo pastor dies
PROMINENT pastor Apostle Morgan Nyathi who was popular for his sermons in the 1990s was buried on Wednesday at Umvutcha cemetery following his death last week.He was 64.Apostle Nyathi ...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 05:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
264 Covid cases in schools
Schools have recorded about 264 Covid-19 infections since the resumption of lessons, with the affected pupils being isolated in sick bays or in special dormitories. In Mberengwa, Lutheran Chur...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sick bays set up at boarding schools
Schools today reopen for non-examination classes for the long second and final term of 75 teaching days for these classes, without exeat weekends, and with temporary holding and sick bays set up at mo...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 05:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Afrobarometer opinion is it is flawed and manipulated
Zimbabwe woke up to a report by Afro Barometer which was so negative to the efforts being made in the democratisation of Zimbabwe and positive on the fight against COVID-19. The mixed bag from Afrobar...Published: 21 Jun 2021 at 17:27hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
If we want Zimbabwean youth to register to vote, then include a 'None of the above' option on ballot paper!
I am always intrigued, and oftentimes bemused, witnessing the concerted efforts by many sections of Zimbabwean's society, in their energetic attempts in urging the country's youth to register to vote....Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 20:10hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Matopo High school expels 15 learners over alleged sex scandal
Matopo High School in Matabeleland South expelled 15 learners last week and put another 10 on punishment for 'improper association' after a group of boys snuck into the girls' dormitory.This m...Published: 28 May 2021 at 19:31hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 vaccination programme shifts a gear up
MORE than 12 000 frontline workers were inoculated against Covid-19 during the first five days of the national vaccination programme, with authorities now preparing to intensify the immunisation blitz...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 07:04hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Govt orders cut in boarding schools intake
GOVERNMENT has ordered boarding schools across the country to cut down on their intake for this year to allow for social distancing among learners.The order will come as another knock to the h...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 10:13hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec exams resume
GOVERNMENT will continue to assess the safety of school children from Covid-19,before announcing the dates for reopening of schools as Advanced and Ordinary Level examination classes resume on Tuesday...Published: 03 Jan 2021 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe's business empire crumbles
THE blistering sun scorches vast swathes of lush green land in the picturesque Mazowe Valley, 40 kilometres north of Harare, as the November heat takes a toll on the baked surface below.It is ...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 05:25hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
20 pupils suspended over 'group sex'
ABOUT 20 Form Four pupils at Loreto High School have been suspended for allegedly engaging in group sexual activities in July. One of them has reportedly gone on a hunger strike in protest against her...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Prioritise locals over Chinese contractors for the benefit of Zim economy
Kenyan law professor Patrick Lumumba gets animated when he talks about China's rising influence on the African continent where governments get blinded by their fraternal ties with the Communist Party ...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 10:51hrs | 7 | by Anthony Matutu
The Chishawasha Mission headmaster Mr Tizora dies
The headmaster of Chishawasha Boarding School has died. Mr Simon Muzanenhamo Tizora passed on Monday 28th September in the morning at West End clinic in Harare.He is survived with his wife Ann...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 14:27hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
John Nkomo Museum stalls due to funding challenges
FUNDING challenges have stalled the completion of the John Landa Nkomo Museum located in Bulawayo City Centre despite work having started in earnest in 2016.The museum, which is situated along...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 09:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
US universities welcome Zimbabwe students
SHORTLY after my arrival in Zimbabwe 10 months ago, I met two young Zimbabweans - Panashe Muriro and Tinashe Maparura.Both students were in the nascent stages of applying to study at American ...Published: 11 May 2019 at 14:57hrs | | by Brian A. Nichols
Fire leaves Guinea Fowl High teachers homeless
SIX teachers and their families were left homeless when a fire destroyed two housing blocks at Guinea Fowl High School in Gweru following a suspected electrical fault. Midlands Provincial Educ...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nurse on the run for sex with pupil
YOUNG love a hot potato!Simbarashe Ndemera (32) a nurse at Lutheran Church-run Mnene District Hospital in Mberengwa has disappeared from the face of the earth after the community bayed for blo...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
UK in Zimbabwe: From tragedy to farce
A poetic cliché by Karl Marx which claims that in the life of nations "history repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce" does not only keep gaining new meanings for all countries but at ...Published: 28 May 2018 at 16:05hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Students go on a rampage
ST MATHIAS Tsonzo High school in Mutasa has been rocked by student riots which are allegedly being instigated and sponsored by some teachers in a bid to push out the school head Mr Obvious Chikata....Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 16:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cleric, teachers fingered in high school Satanism
A UNITED Baptist Church (UBC) cleric and four teachers at Biriiri High School in Chimanimani District were named as architects of satanic acts bedevilling the school as female students at the institut...Published: 01 Dec 2017 at 05:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Goblin terror at church boarding school
SUSPECTED goblins have struck at Minda High School in Maphisa, Kezi with teachers and pupils living in fear of midnight attacks from invisible creatures.Minda pupils who spoke to B-Metro said ...Published: 15 Sep 2017 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
The truth about atrocities of British colonisation
MY previous two articles have concentrated on the period of the Bush War or the Second Chimurenga, mainly because this period covers my own time growing up in Rhodesia.In this article I focus ...Published: 10 Aug 2017 at 06:54hrs | 2 | by Simon Massey
Parents petition Dokora over poor services at Mzingwane high school
Parents at Mzingwane High school in Matabeleland South have petitioned the minister of primary and secondary education over poor services and administration of the school.In a petition seen by...Published: 01 Jul 2017 at 13:15hrs | 8 | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe's Gaygangsters will be Defeated!!
Last week's events of Jonathan Moyo publicly throwing Sydney Sekeramai's name in the Presidential succession matrix and Grace Mugabe and a whole President Mugabe seemingly chastising Moyo at a rally i...Published: 05 Jun 2017 at 20:51hrs | | by Sam Wezhira
Payout rise for pensioners
The government is finalising the feasibility studies in its drive to increase the pensioners' payout that will see the least paid getting US$100 with results expected by as early as next month....Published: 19 May 2017 at 18:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Paying school fees with goats: Fact vs fiction
"IWE! Mbudzi munadzo here dzekubhadhara fees term ino?" asked my cousin Piri, meaning, do you have goats to pay for your school fees this coming term? The schoolchildren from St Columbus School were g...Published: 26 Apr 2017 at 22:23hrs | | by Dr Sekai Nzenza
Masvingo floods threat recedes
The situation yesterday started slowly returning to normal at Lundi Mission on the border between Chivi and Mwenezi where nearly 300 girls at the school had to be evacuated after floods induced by hea...Published: 01 Mar 2017 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rains trigger state of disaster
The Ministry of Environment, Water and Climate yesterday recommended that a state of disaster be declared in the country's southern provinces where one person was killed, while hundreds were maroo...Published: 28 Feb 2017 at 05:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Falcon College admits girls for the first time
WHEN the 2017 schools first term started last month, a new era began at Falcon College when the private, previously a boys only institution in Esigodini, Matabeleland South, opened its doors to 12 gir...Published: 12 Feb 2017 at 08:26hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Lesbianism scandal rocks Adventist high school
HANKE Adventist High School in Shurugwi has been rocked by a lesbianism scandal after two female pupils suspected to be in an illicit love affair were caught in a compromising position in one of t...Published: 13 Nov 2016 at 09:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Boys sneak into girls dormitories at night
Two Marist Brothers Secondary School, Dete, pupils were sold out by their schoolmates after they sneaked into girls dormitories.The pair, both in form four have been suspended together with on...Published: 28 Oct 2016 at 14:25hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Tsholotsho schools get help for science education
ZIBUNGULULU Secondary School in Tsholotsho North had gone for five years with no single candidate passing Ordinary Level public examinations until only one pupil managed to pass five subjects last yea...Published: 05 Sep 2016 at 06:49hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Cash shortages hit school opening preps
WITH schools opening on Tuesday a majority of parents are feeling the heat of cash shortages that has disrupted their preparations for the new school term as yesterday hundreds of them were stuck ...Published: 04 Sep 2016 at 09:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Uchuku Olwenziwa ngoPasi Luzwisa Ubuhlungu Project #6
Bab' Ndlovu, unjani? Nansi eyami indaba. Ngangiku for one eUsher Girls Sec. School ngonyaka ka1983. Sasilungiselela ukuthi sesizaya eholweni yokudlela sisiya kudla ukudla kwantambama.Sonke...Published: 28 Aug 2016 at 17:04hrs | | by Veap Ndlovu
'Grace Mugabe birthday celebrations coming soon'
The First Lady, Dr Grace Mugabe, who had her 51st birthday last weekend, says the celebrations to mark the day will be held soon in the spirit of charity in accordance with her desire.Spea...Published: 26 Jul 2016 at 14:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Form 1 pupil severely attacked by seven dogs
A FORM one pupil at Eastview High School in Mahatshula was on Sunday severely attacked by seven dogs which had strayed into the school premises. The pupil, Carryn Chengeta a boarder at the sch...Published: 10 Jul 2016 at 07:00hrs | | by Faith Phiri
Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo: marking his death on the 1st of July
If I was at home I would be drinking utshwala bamabele, but I am here in Germany where our party Zapu sent us to acquire that education which was to fight economic independence, you said. However, I a...Published: 02 Jul 2016 at 15:33hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
RG Mugabe varsity mooted
THE First Lady Dr Grace Mugabe is working on the construction of a university to be named after President Mugabe as a way of building the nation through education.Dr Mugabe who was officiating...Published: 02 Jul 2016 at 12:11hrs | | by Leonard Ncube
Jonathan Moyo to build 5 new schools in Tsholotsho
FIVE new schools and low cost dormitories are set to be constructed in Tsholotsho North constituency to address the issue of long distances being travelled by pupils. Tsholotsho North MP Professor Jon...Published: 25 Jun 2016 at 09:34hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Understanding the concept of multi-culturalism in German political landscape
Part four: 4.1 East Germany's multi culturalism When Germany was occupied by the Soviet Union and the Western allies it was divided into four parts...Published: 05 May 2016 at 19:26hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
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