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ZACC joins fight against education corruption
The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has intensified efforts to root out corruption in schools across Manicaland by enlisting the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) and the po...Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 09:34hrs | 116 | by Staff reporter
Motorist loses $1,000 to passengers
A 40-year-old motorist, Rojers Nyarai Dzuda of Rugoi Business Centre, Rusape, was recently robbed of $1000 in cash by three unknown individuals, including an elderly man, while traveling along the Rus...Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 15:03hrs | 159 | by Staff reporter
Stinking school heads' great heist
Parents and guardians in Manicaland have raised alarm over what they describe as growing financial exploitation by school headmasters, who are allegedly misusing public funds and imposing unofficial l...Published: 30 May 2025 at 08:51hrs | 546 | by Staff reporter
Ministry of Education fails to pay rent for 16 years
Zimbabwe's education system is rapidly collapsing, driven by a combination of chronic underfunding, rampant corruption, indiscipline, and government failure to disburse allocated budgets. Despite prom...Published: 18 May 2025 at 12:13hrs | 582 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF women's league hounds school head
Zanu-PF Women's League members in Chirumhanzu Ward 10 recently led a community protest aimed at removing Tonias Mushayi, the head of Chengwena Secondary School, over allegations of misconduct, includi...Published: 21 Dec 2024 at 08:44hrs | 134 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa fired Minister for enforcing govt language policy
MEMBER of Parliament for Bubi Constituency in Matabeleland North Simelisizwe Sibanda has said he was enforcing Government policy when he called for the transfer of an ECD teacher who could not s...Published: 02 Jul 2024 at 06:44hrs | 41 | by Staff reporter
Massive corruption unearthed at education offices
Massive corruption has been un earthed in Mashonaland Central provincial education offices where employees are reportedly awarding themselves with unautho...Published: 13 Oct 2023 at 22:28hrs | | by Desmond Nleya | Simbarashe Sithole
Bussed Zanu-PF supporters excites Mnangagwa
President Emerson Mnangagwa praised Mashonaland East province on Saturday for mobilising the largest gathering, so far, of ruling Zanu-PF supporters for his presidential election rally at Mutawatawa i...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 18:02hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
2021 O-Level pass rate improves
Last year's Ordinary Level results are now out with a subject pass rate of 26,34 percent that is marginally higher than the 24,77 percent recorded in 2020, the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic and ...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:35hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warned that threats won't work
AFTER years of haggling between teachers and the government, the authorities are issuing fresh threats of dismissed if educators continue with their ongoing industrial action. Farirai Musekiwa (59) sa...Published: 26 Feb 2022 at 19:30hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Govt to replace striking teachers with college graduates
GOVERNMENT yesterday threatened to expel all striking teachers and school heads who fail to report for duty by Tuesday next week and replace them with college graduates and unemployed trained educator...Published: 17 Feb 2022 at 05:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pupils idle as teachers stage sit-ins
PUPILS at public schools across Bulawayo are idle as some teachers are going to class but not teaching in defiance of a Government directive for them to resume duty.Since schools opened last w...Published: 17 Feb 2022 at 05:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Awol teachers considered resigned, says PSC
Teachers who do not report for duty by Tuesday next week or those attending but not doing their work will be deemed to have resigned and are supposed to vacate institutional accommodation immediately,...Published: 17 Feb 2022 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Teachers who do not report for work on 22 February will be fired'
The Public Service Commission has issued a directive to the headmasters and teachers to report for work by the 22nd of February and those who do not report for duty by Tuesday 22 February 2022 will be...Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 11:14hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Teachers seek legal recourse over withheld salaries
TEACHERs unions yesterday vowed to take legal action against government for withholding salaries of their members who were not reporting for work because of "incapacitation".Some teachers clai...Published: 01 Nov 2021 at 07:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Rogue' teachers terrorise school
I went to the district education offices and they told me that I should not bother with these people because there is a process to be followed to reprimand teachers and it can take some time. I was to...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:33hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Cain Mathema agrees with Mthwakazi
PRIMARY and Secondary Education Minister Cain Mathema has reiterated the need for children in primary school to be taught by teachers conversant in local languages which is a rallying point for Mthwak...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 07:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt readies to open schools
THE Government has assured learners that this year's Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) June examinations will go ahead, noting the need for the education sector to adjust to the reality of...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:43hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate acquits ARTUZ leader, convicts another
A MASVINGO magistrate has acquitted Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) president Obert Masaraure of violence charges but convicted the union's provincial gender and welfare secretary...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:50hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Idle pupils turn to sex orgies, drugs
Some of the pictures making rounds on social media of students kissing or standing next to each other in sexually suggestive positions at school. The authenticity of the images could not be immediatel...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 10:01hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Teachers to join protests
The Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) has started mobilising its members across the country to participate in tomorrow's protests organised by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 11:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Sex scandal hits school
A massive sex scandal has hit Mahlothova Secondary School in Umguza District, Matabeleland North amid allegations that one Form Three girl dropped out of school after being continuously defiled by one...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 09:47hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Government dismisses teachers' job list
THE Government has dismissed as fake a document purportedly showing a shortlist of recruited primary school teachers submitted to the Public Service Commission (PSC). According to the document...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 08:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government to recruit 3,000 teachers
THE Government will on Wednesday and Thursday recruit 3 000 teachers in a bid to improve the teacher to pupil ratio as it moves to enhance the quality of education in schools.In a notice dated...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 10:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Satanism scare at Minda
SUSPECTED satanism cases have rocked one of Matabeleland South's prestigious boarding schools, Minda Girls High at Maphisa Growth Point in Kezi with reports that more than 60 pupils have allegedly bee...Published: 28 Oct 2018 at 08:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Headmaster's isiNdebele ban unfortunate
Editor,When 2017 ended little did Nhwali primary school pupils know they were kissing goodbye to their favourite language isiNdebele.Letters were dispatched to parents to choose which ...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 12:38hrs | 1 | by Nkunziyembongolo Dube, Nhwali, Gwanda South
Parties scale up campaign against frog-marching children to rallies
OPPOSITION political parties and civic groups have scaled up the campaign against frog-marching of schoolchildren to political rallies, thus exposing them to attacks.This follows a suspected g...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 07:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Teachers 'fired' over satanism
Two female teachers at Kana Mission High School in Gokwe were on Friday sent packing after pupils implicated them in alleged Satanism acts.Scores of girls have been mysteriously collapsing and...Published: 26 Mar 2018 at 06:47hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Education offices using a roofless house
The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education's Mhondoro Ngezi District Office are using a roofless house in Kadoma, it has been learnt.The former two-storey building at 12 Campion street ha...Published: 05 Mar 2018 at 06:30hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Parents shut down school over poor Grade Seven results
LESSONS at Chivaka Primary School in Bikita were briefly stopped last week as disgruntled parents stormed the school demanding the transfer of two Grade Seven teachers, accusing them of producing poor...Published: 29 Jan 2018 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Headmaster collapses, dies
BUSINESS came to a standstill yesterday at the Gwanda Government complex when a school head collapsed and died at the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education provincial offices.Mr Bernard ...Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 05:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mat North Grade 7 results missing
A number of schools in Matabeleland North did not receive their Grade Seven results, it has been learnt.School heads who spoke to Sunday News said they have been stuck at the provincial educat...Published: 10 Dec 2017 at 05:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Open Letter to the President of Republic of Zimbabwe: Emmerson Dambuzo Mnangagwa
Ndebele people (all other tribes which are not Shona, as they have been classified as such) have always been treated like 2nd class citizens in a country that they belong to. How long are we goin...Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 23:20hrs | 3 | by Patience Nomusa Mpofu
PDP raps Zimsec over leaked examinations
People's Democratic Party Deputy National Spokesperson Nqobizitha Khumalo has rapped the Ziombabwe School Examinations Council over the continuous leak of examinations in the country.He said w...Published: 02 Nov 2017 at 07:03hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Teacher 'who proposed love to pupil' gets job back
THE Labour Court has ordered the Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Dr Lazarus Dokora, and the Civil Service Commission (CSC) to reinstate a Ntabazinduna teacher who was fired last year for ...Published: 30 Oct 2017 at 05:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chaos rocks schools' opening day
CHAOS reigned supreme at most schools countrywide, with teachers battling to come to grips with the new education curriculum foisted on them by Education minister Lazarus Dokora, while some aspiri...Published: 11 Jan 2017 at 05:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Court acquits teachers' union leader over POSA
MUREHWA Magistrate Learnmore Mapiye has discharged and acquitted Obert Masaraure, the President of the Rural Teachers Union in Zimbabwe (RTUZ), who had been on trial for allegedly contravening some pr...Published: 17 Oct 2016 at 16:07hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Ndebele exiles warn Zanu-PF tribalists of severe consequences over Lupane arrests
Lupane- The people of Lupane have vowed to continue fighting the Zanu-PF government over its tribal policy of deploying Shona speaking teachers in the district.The villagers said they were prepared to...Published: 29 Jun 2016 at 10:50hrs | | by Thabo Kunene
Chivhu teacher dismissed over school trip funds
A Chivhu Primary School teacher has been discharged by the Ministry after he was found guilty of misusing funds mobilised of a trip by pupils.A disciplinary hearing held at the school found Ed...Published: 15 Jun 2016 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe sets demonstration date
The Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (RTUZ) has set 29 April 2016 as the day it would mobilise its members and go into the streets and peacefully protest against various government policies.Th...Published: 16 Apr 2016 at 11:35hrs | | by RTUZ
Milton headmaster, deputy face demotion
EMBATTLED Milton High School head Mr William Ncube and his deputy Mrs Nosizi Muleya are set to be demoted and transferred after a disciplinary hearing instituted by the Ministry of Primary and Seconda...Published: 03 Apr 2016 at 12:20hrs | 2 | by Vusumuzi Dube
Teacher arrested for pupil rape attempt
A TEACHER at Entumbane High School in Bulawayo has been arrested after he allegedly attempted to rape a Form One pupil from the same school. Edwin Shamu, a History teacher, allegedly attempted...Published: 11 Mar 2016 at 05:50hrs | 1 | by Nqobile Tshili
Private school likely to increase fees
PRIVATE schools could be forced to increase fees after the government recalled thousands of teachers deployed at the institutions, arguing that they are commercial enterprises and as such must meet th...Published: 11 Feb 2016 at 07:38hrs | 1 | by Auxilia Katongomara
2 injured as school collapses
Two people were critically injured when heavy rains that pounded Gwanda yesterday totally destroyed a mine owned primary school.Sabiwa Primary Schools at Vumbachikwe Mine in Gwanda had 13 clas...Published: 16 Jan 2016 at 10:18hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Hunger forces 6000 Mat'land pupils to drop out of school
OVER 6 000 pupils in the Matabeleland region has dropped out of school due to hunger.Education authorities in the region have cut learning hours as a significant number of pupils come to class...Published: 18 Oct 2015 at 12:10hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Shona speaking ECD teachers kicked out of Gwanda
An undisclosed number of Shona speaking Early Childhood Development (ECD) teachers who were engaged by the public service commission on behalf of the Ministry of Education in Gwanda last week have had...Published: 02 Sep 2015 at 17:49hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Teacher caught in bed with married student
A teacher at Nandi Secondary School appeared before a disciplinary hearing after allegedly being caught in bed with a married woman who was also a form three student at the school.A hearin...Published: 07 Aug 2015 at 12:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ministry of Education public advisory - Mathematics and Sciences teachers
THE MINISTRY OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION : PUBLIC ADVISORYIt has come to the Ministry's attention that some holders of the following teaching qu...Published: 23 Mar 2015 at 16:01hrs | | by Ministry of Education
Failure Rate in Matebeleland South Schools: More Needs To Be Done
A lot has been said, about the low pass rate in a number of Mateleland South schools. It is no secret that a number of primary schools did not perform well in the 2015 examinations. This has led many ...Published: 15 Feb 2015 at 10:10hrs | 1 | by Collin Nyabadza
Confusion Looms at Binga District Education Office
10:31, 3 Feb - ‪+263 7* *** ****‬: CONFUSION LOOMS AT BINGA DISTRICT EDUCATION OFFICEThere has been much speculation on how the staffing process would ...Published: 04 Feb 2015 at 13:36hrs | | by Concerned Citizen
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