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Transport Ministry hit by high staff turnover

Harare, 3 October 2025 - The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development is grappling with a severe staffing crisis, with more than 30% of posts - including managerial and technical positions - lying vacant, a Parliamentary Portf…

Published: 15 hrs ago | 131 | by Staff reporter

Govt scraps 1-sitting requirement for nurse training enrolment

Harare, 3 October 2025 - The Government has scrapped the requirement that nurse training applicants must have obtained their five Ordinary Level passes in a single sitting, after realising the rule unfairly excluded capable students, legis…

Published: 15 hrs ago | 200 | by Staff reporter

Woman admits forging O-Level certificate to gain nurse training spot

A 29-year-old woman from Greendale, Harare, has pleaded guilty to forging an Ordinary Level certificate in a desperate attempt to secure a place in a nursing training programme.Tendai Florence Muroiwa appeared before Harare magistrate Ruth…

Published: 19 May 2025 at 09:24hrs | 525 | by Staff reporter

Gift Banda arrested over fake O-level certificate

Former Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) vice-president and interim president Gift Banda was arrested yesterday on allegations of forging an Ordinary Level certificate. The 54-year-old businessman and former Bulawayo councillor spent th…

Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 06:34hrs | 602 | by Staff reporter

Form 1 girl passes Cambridge O Level exams

A Form One learner at Atlantic Academy in Harare, Shalom Zingwe, took the Cambridge O Level exams last year aged only 14 and scored three A grades in Computer Science, Accounting and Economics with Bs in Mathematics, Geography and Business…

Published: 23 Jan 2024 at 04:37hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF buys its 2023 election candidates 4x4s

Zanu-PF is holding a winter school for its heavily pampered election candidates, while the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is still in the process of selecting candidates ahead of the 23 August general elections.Zanu-PF's 210 parliamen…

Published: 08 Jun 2023 at 09:39hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

5 'O' Levels requirement for councillors rocks Zanu-PF

Zanu-PF is battling fierce strife within its Women's League following exclusion of long-serving and supposedly deserving female cadres, who were disqualified from nomination as Proportional Representation (PR) councillors on basis they lac…

Published: 08 Jun 2023 at 09:39hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

ZIMSEC 'A' Level results out

Zimbabwe School Examinations Council chairperson Professor Eddie Mwenje has announced that the 2021 A Level results are out and will be accessed via the institution website from Wednesday 1800hrs. The national pass rate is at 84.67%. Read …

Published: 05 Apr 2022 at 15:39hrs | 8 | by Mandla Ndlovu

Matabeleland North leading in terms school dropouts, 50% students register for Nov O-Level exams

MATABELELAND North province is said to be leading in terms of school dropouts, amid reports that 40% to 50% of learners that are supposed to sit for examinations are failing to register.This was revealed by the Matabeleland North provincia…

Published: 05 Jul 2021 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff Reporter

English made easy

THE ART OF WRITING         Many of us struggle with composition which is a core component in any English Exam. As a result this is our topic for the day. My first piece of advice to anybody who wants to b…

Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 09:18hrs | 18 | by The Language Coach

English made easy by the Language Coach

How to Improve Your Spoken EnglishIf you struggle with spoken English, below are a few handy hints that will turn you into a champion speaker.Speak in English only when at school.Speak in English as often as you can.Do not be embarrassed t…

Published: 17 Apr 2018 at 06:25hrs | 577 | by Language Coach

2017 O-Level pass rate down to 26.35%

THE Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) November 2017 Ordinary Level results are out, with the pass rate falling to 26.35 percent to 27.92 percent as compared to the previous year.The 2017 O-Level pass rate is down to 26.35% from…

Published: 23 Feb 2018 at 15:34hrs | | by Ndou Paul

How to pass O-Level History exams

History belongs to the Humanities in the updated curriculum and success in the subject at ''Ã'' Level alongside other subjects will lead one to a career in Law or the Social Sciences. Thus, it is incumbent upon the students to raise the b…

Published: 20 Oct 2017 at 09:24hrs | 2570 | by Freedom Mutanda

O-Level pass rate goes up

OVER 29 percent of students who sat for the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) November 2016 examinations passed.This represented a 2.10 percentage increase from the 2015 results.This was revealed by acting Primary and Secondary…

Published: 04 Feb 2017 at 11:51hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter

O- Level attachment talks begin

Government is engaging private companies and non-governmental organisations to facilitate industrial attachment for Ordinary Level students in terms of the new school curriculum.Internship is a prerequisite of the curriculum's lifeskills o…

Published: 29 Jan 2017 at 09:21hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter

Why pupils fail O-Level English

In the 20 odd years that I have been in the Zimbabwean education system and 10 years spent in English remediation, I have identified a number of factors that cause students to fail their Cambridge O-Level English. The most important of the…

Published: 24 Aug 2016 at 06:30hrs | 27 | by Theodora Chirapa

70% O'Level students fail Maths, Science and English

GOVERNMENT says 70 percent of pupils who sit for Ordinary Level examinations fail to garner five subjects, including Mathematics, Science and English making it necessary to adopt a skills-based training system as a way of creating employme…

Published: 23 Jul 2016 at 07:27hrs | | by Abigail Mawonde

Whiz kid attains 11As, 2Bs in 2014 O level exams

A DAVID Livingstone Memorial Secondary School pupil got 10 As while another from Msiteli Secondary School in Bulawayo attained 11 As and two Bs in the 2014 Ordinary Level examinations.An ecstatic Butholezwe Sibanda - the former headboy at …

Published: 17 Feb 2015 at 08:53hrs | 18 | by Molline Gagare and Emily Mbewe

HIV exams for O-level

Zimbabwe will soon introduce HIV and AIDS related examinations for O-Level and Grade seven.THE Government will introduce the subjects through the National Life Skills, Sexuality, HIV and Aids Education Strategic Plan 2012- 2015.Speaking du…

Published: 10 Oct 2013 at 23:24hrs | | by Mafu Sithabile

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