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Disband colonial education replicas; Mnangagwa warns SADC
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has challenged Southern African Development Community (SADC) leaders and representatives of member states' respective educational institutions to disband curriculum infras...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 17:34hrs | 1077 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
Zimbabwe's ZPC struggles to procure new equipment
Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) management highlighted the ongoing challenge of insufficient funds for procuring spare parts and equipment to maintain aging machinery, impacting energy sufficiency. Durin...Published: 30 May 2024 at 08:35hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Copyright claims plague artists due to ignorance
THE legal principle ignorantia juris non excusat, meaning: Ignorance of the law is no excuse, underscores the fundamental responsibility that individuals have to abide by the law, regardless of person...Published: 22 Feb 2024 at 04:56hrs | 11 | by Clinton Chipo
'23 years of sanctions embolden Zimbabwe'
ZIMBABWE'S story is that of resilience, innovation, people-centred policies and the undying resolve to defeat illegal Western sanctions that have continued to pound the country for over 23 years....Published: 14 Feb 2024 at 04:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Econet complainant takes fight to new ICT minister
HARARE-BASED information communication technology innovator and entrepreneur Ignatius Munengwa has escalated his fight with mobile network operator Econet to the minister of Information Communication ...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 06:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe varsities lowly ranked on uniRank 2023
Zimbabwe’s citadel of higher learning - the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) - continues to languish in the bottom half of the Top 100 best universities in Africa, according to uniRank 2023.It is...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 08:25hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
US-based firm appoints Zimbabwean Dr as Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Victor Moyo has been appointed as the Chief Medical Officer at Onconova Therapeutics, Inc, a US-based clinical-stage Biopharmaceutical Company. Dr. Moyo brings with him extensive experience as a p...Published: 25 Oct 2023 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa calls for end to unjust global financial architecture
President Mnangagwa has told the Group of 77 (G77) and China summit in Havana, Cuba, of the urgent need to reform the current unjust financial architecture which favours countries of...Published: 18 Sep 2023 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Zanu-PF will romp to victory
Zanu-PF will romp to victory in the August 23 harmonised elections, riding on a crest of tangibles and deliverables and no meaningful opposition, President Mnangagwa has said.Addressing scores...Published: 31 Jul 2023 at 06:54hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe universities ranked among the best in sub-Saharan Africa
Three Zimbabwean universities have been ranked among the best universities in Africa from 88 universities in 20 countries by the Times Higher Education Sub-Saharan Africa University Rankings, demonstr...Published: 29 Jun 2023 at 06:28hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
What happened to the revolutionary spirit in today's Zimbabwe youths?
For a very long time, whenever I see the world-famous picture of the lifeless Hector Pieterson, being carried by a crying fellow schoolmate, my heart bleeds.It reminds me of the fearless revol...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 07:16hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa salutes private sector
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday saluted the country's private sector which has risen to the occasion through the production of the majority of goods found in local supermarkets.This is testimony...Published: 11 Mar 2023 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kagame expected in Harare
Rwandan President Paul Kagame is expected to visit Harare as part of efforts to strengthen bilateral ties between the two countries, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.This comes about two ...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 06:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Climbing on rooftops' in criticizing Zimbabwe ruling elite is indictment on dictatorial regime insensitivity to citizens' cries
The past week in Zimbabwe was characterized by the fervent reprimand by two prominent individuals on citizens who ostensibly 'climb on rooftops' in condem...Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 17:55hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
We know our heroes
THOUSANDS of people yesterday thronged the National Heroes Acre to remember the country's luminaries who sacrificed limb and life to liberate Zimbabwe and deliver freedom that flourishes today....Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Free land, duty-free equipment for science facilities
Government will provide land free of charge to investors who intend to build facilities for innovation, research and development, while equipment and materials for such centres would be imported duty-...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 10:04hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
OPC ZITF stand has public in awe
AN imposing artistic image depicting President Mnangagwa carrying a masonry trowel laden with mortar and building blocks in the background, admirably stood above the Office of the President and Cabine...Published: 02 May 2022 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on verge of becoming mbanje research hub for southern Africa
MBANJE, marijuana, cannabis or hemp, is one plant that has accounted for many people in Zimbabwe's prisons.Possession, let alone, cultivation or smoking it, has had serious consequences such a...Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 05:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says 2022 a year of growth
ZIMBABWE's economic trajectory will this year transition from recovery to growth on the back of a hugely prosperous 2021 in which the Government funded a number of national development projects despit...Published: 02 Jan 2022 at 09:08hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Zimbabweans must remain optimistic, full of hope
We publish here the full text of the New Year message delivered by the President and Commander-in-chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, His Excellency President E.D MnangagwaGood evening fello...Published: 01 Jan 2022 at 13:51hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Govt unbundles Department of Deeds
GOVERNMENT has unbundled the Department of Deeds as part of the restructuring of the administration of intellectual property in the country by creating the Companies and Intellectual Property Zimbabwe...Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 07:03hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Entreprenuer wrestles with Econet
HARARE-BASED businessman, innovator and entrepreneur Ignatius Munengwa has reported the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) top executives to the regulator's chairp...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:44hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo urges Chamisa to protect his party name
Former Cabinet Minister professor Jonathan Moyo has urged the MDC-Alliance to take legal steps in protecting their party name.Moyo who ...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 17:08hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Malema power: SA approves Sinovac for Covid-19
South Africa has approved China's Sinovac vaccine against Covid-19, the acting Health minister said yesterday, as the country faces a crippling third wave of infections that has paralysed hospitals an...Published: 04 Jul 2021 at 14:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Persistent moaning for COVID-19 vaccine patent waiver by Africa questions our intellectual capacity
Please allow me to start this discourse with a list of names - Max Theiler, Allan McLeod Comack, Aaron Klug, and Sydney Brenner.I am not sure if these names ring a bell for most of us, but the...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 14:00hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Sanctions: The unfair comparison between Zimbabwe and Rhodesia
MANY Zimbabweans often bring up the comparison between Rhodesian and Zimbabwean sanctions to drive the narrative that Rhodesia had more stringent sanctions that they managed better than Zimbabwe is ma...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 06:35hrs | | by Rutendo Bereza Matinyarare
Quicker route to wealth for black Africans
AFRICANS are currently receiving education that orients them towards employment rather than real wealth creation.Most value chains for our daily consumables as black people in Africa are contr...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 06:44hrs | | by Dumisani Nduku
Bulawayo to get 100 MW solar plant
POWER generation in the country and more significantly in Bulawayo is set to increase after it has emerged that British investors have partnered a local company to set up solar fields that will genera...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 07:46hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa commissions MSU Industrial Park
AN industrial park established by Midlands State University (MSU) in Gweru was yesterday commissioned by President Mnangagwa, who reiterated the need for all institutions of higher and tertiary educat...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 04:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean entrepreneur launches Europe's first autonomous delivery vehicle, Kar-go
The vehicle was praised by both English Dukes and Zimbabwean dignitaries Zimbabwean, William Sachiti and his team at the Academy of Robotics laun...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 06:08hrs | 2 | by Agencies
Emasculating briefcase activists
What really is the Zimbabwean question? Are the Matabeleland development priorities similar to those of Midlands or Mashonaland West? Are Harare priorities? Zimbabwean priorities? Who holds the rights...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 06:18hrs | | by Nhlanhla Mlilo
Education 5.0 - towards problem-solving and value creation
Many thanks to a serious and strong hint by His Excellency President ED Mnangagwa, Education 5.0 is now a reality having been adopted by the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Tech...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 09:22hrs | 29 | by Enock Jonathan
We can import knowledge, technology to boost the economy
AS our government continues with the belief that borrowing money is one of the means to kickstart the economy, perhaps they can be reminded that they can also import new knowledge and technology, whic...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:06hrs | | by Tapiwa Gomo
Never give up
In 1964 in Oslo Norway Dr King was awarded the Nobel Prize for great work he did which was birthed from his passion to see equality in the nation of America despite your race ,color,tribe.Few people i...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 16:21hrs | 2 | by Enos Denhere
Mnangagwa reads riot act
President Mnangagwa yesterday challenged universities to stop taking pride in high enrolment figures and glamorous infrastructure and focus on providing answers to the country's aspirations. He said t...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe State Universities must also open for business: Part II
The first installment on subject above, acknowledged the provincial economy concept being emphasized in the devolution agenda of the second republic and called for a leadership of state universities, ...Published: 29 Sep 2018 at 08:45hrs | | by Enock Jonathan
Zimbabwe channels 1% of GDP to research, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has revealed that the government is channelling 1% of the gross domestic product (GDP) to science development in line with the 2007 call by African Union Heads of State an...Published: 08 Jun 2018 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
How Zimbabwe universities can prepare for the future of work
How do you transform a dinosaur into an automated machine? This seems to be the question that universities in Zimbabwe will increasingly face in preparation for the future of work vis-à-vis the explo...Published: 13 Jul 2017 at 11:13hrs | | by Richard Mugobo
Huawei sues Samsung over patents claims
Huawei is suing its tech rival Samsung over claims that its patents have been infringed.The Chinese firm said it was pursuing its South Korean rival in two courts – one in California, the ot...Published: 01 Jun 2016 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff Reporter
German multiculturalism and Xenophobia
Part 4. 1. 2. How West Germany fought Xenophobia and racial prejudices Be it East Germany or West Germany, the economy of these countries was...Published: 22 May 2016 at 11:45hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabweans should stop this cruel, heartless, and thieving government
It is one thing for a government to fail to achieve or deliver what is expected of it, but it is clearly a different thing for a government to be downright cruel, heartless, and thieving - as this is ...Published: 19 Mar 2016 at 06:53hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Jonathan Moyo tells private universities to reduce tuition fees
THE Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Professor Jonathan Moyo has castigated private universities for charging exorbitant tuition fees, saying they are not ...Published: 21 Dec 2015 at 03:58hrs | | by Pamela Shumba
Govt to audit varsities on mandate, says Jonathan Moyo
Government will soon audit universities' conformity to their general mandate of generating new knowledge and intellectual property and patents, which will help spur community and economic development....Published: 04 Dec 2015 at 05:35hrs | | by Walter Nyamukondiwa
Mugabe caps 1 490 BUSE graduands
President Robert Mugabe has capped 1 490 students who graduated with various degrees at the Bindura University of Science Education.The graduands were drawn from the faculties of science educa...Published: 20 Nov 2015 at 17:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF swaggers in UK
Attempts to disrupt the Vigil as we embark on our 14th year are linked we believe to a growing Zanu-PF mafia in the UK. It is clear that some Zimbabweans who have settled here are unrepentant Mugabe s...Published: 08 Nov 2015 at 19:25hrs | | by Zimvigil
Mugabe caps 320 HIT graduands
A total of 320 graduands from the Harare Institute of Technology (HIT) have been conferred with bachelor of technology degrees by President Robert Mugabe who is the Chancellor of the institution....Published: 06 Nov 2015 at 14:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to make it mandatory to study Maths and Science
THE government will soon make it mandatory for those wishing to enrol in universities and other institutions of higher learning to have Mathematics and Science subjects at Ordinary level, the Minister...Published: 30 Sep 2015 at 06:08hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
Lecturers to have minimum qualification of PhD
Lecturers at State universities must have upgraded themselves to doctoral degrees by 2017 or risk losing their jobs as Government moves to improve the quality of learning at tertiary institutions....Published: 29 Sep 2015 at 23:13hrs | | by George Maponga
Zimbabwe universities need more science students, says Prof Moyo
Government has expressed concern over the high enrolment of students who would have majored in commercial subjects at advanced level into science and technology universities. Higher and Tertiary Educa...Published: 30 Aug 2015 at 10:22hrs | | by Walter Nyamukondiwa
ZTE applies for over 50 new core patents for its flagship Axon phone
ZTE, a leading global mobile device maker, today announced that it has applied for over 50 new core patents for its global flagship Axon phone. ZTE Axon versions are currently available in the U.S. an...Published: 21 Aug 2015 at 10:36hrs | 1 | by Agencies
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