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Zimbabwe govt against underhand plot to entice children into devilish sexual activities
The Zimbabwean government has expressed outrage against the local LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community for offering young students scholarships to study at tertiary institutions, s...Published: 15 Feb 2024 at 22:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
British-Zimbabwe comedian playing the former Prince Charles in Channel 4 satire
When a drag queen called Baga Chipz is selected to play Margaret Thatcher in a TV show, and that's not even the most delicious bit of casting, you know you're onto a winner.In Channel 4's...Published: 27 Nov 2022 at 14:55hrs | 2 | by Agencies
Mnangagwa's govt told to deliver free education
THE Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) has demanded that President Emmerson Mnangagwa should fulfil his promise of free education made in 2017 following a major fee hike by the Unive...Published: 13 Sep 2022 at 06:00hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Massive 50% drop in 'O' Level candidates
THE number of candidates sitting for Ordinary Level examinations has plummeted by 50% in five years, prompting teachers unions to raise alarm.The number of candidates sitting for the Zimbabwe ...Published: 05 May 2022 at 19:07hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Where are the human rights defenders when our children are being denied the right to education?
Dear We the Murowa community sympathise with teachers and all the civil servants per se'. Its an undeniable fact that civil servan...Published: 12 Feb 2022 at 08:35hrs | 3 | by Concerned Murowa Ward Community
Govt rolls out fourth phase of radio lessons programme
GOVERNMENT will today roll out the fourth phase of radio lessons programme for early childhood development (ECD), primary and secondary school classes as part of an alternative education platform to m...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Continuous lockdowns to hit Zimbabwe's literacy rate'
REPEATED lockdowns due to COVID-19, leading to continuous closure of schools, is impacting education in a hard way in landlocked Zimbabwe.On the eve of International Literacy Day, which is bei...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 06:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Pressure mounts on govt over Zimsec fees
TEACHERS unions yesterday called on Treasury to pay $2,9 billion examination fees for candidates sitting for this year's November Ordinary and Advanced Level Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zims...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 15:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Investments in poor children save more lives per dollar spent, new UNICEF study says
Unless the world makes faster progress on reducing child mortality, by 2030 almost 70 million children will die before reaching their fifth birthdayUNICEF Communications Specialist Elizabeth B...Published: 30 Jun 2017 at 07:15hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Ndlovu family connives with court to steal children's inheritance
A corruption case have emerged involving Jacky Dube 22 years old, his twin sisters 14 years of age and their late mother’s family. According to the reports made to us by Mr Jachin and his father Dum...Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by MRP
Police brutality, arrest of children leaves Bulawayo traumatised
Prominent Bulawayo pastor Useni Sibanda is a human rights defender of note, but nothing had prepared him for the catastrophe that befell the city last week.Sibanda, who is Zimbabwe Christi...Published: 10 Jul 2016 at 09:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbos in UK to conduct super vigil protest against Harare houses demolitions
The Zimbabweans living in the United Kingdom will end of this month conduct a Super Vigil protest in the foreign land accusing the government of Zimbabwe for ordering the demolition of houses in Harar...Published: 22 Feb 2016 at 12:39hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Education is now a closed door for Zimbabwean poor children
The ZANU PF government has hammered the final proverbial nail on the coffin to signal the end of education for children in Zimbabwe. The planned introduction of examination fees fo...Published: 05 Apr 2015 at 12:52hrs | 1 | by Themba Mthethwa ZAPU Europe Information, Publicity and Marketing Department
Junior Members of Parliament source funds for the needy
HARARE - Junior Members of Parliament and councillors in Muzarabani took matters into their own hands when they approached the local business community to source school fees and uniforms for orphans a...Published: 17 Aug 2014 at 11:45hrs | 11 | by Staff Reporter
Commercial moringa project a profitable business
Harare - Commercial cultivation of Moringa tree is taking root at Nyamashato primary in Murewa as the Rotary club come on board to add value to thousands of the plant they have planted at Heather ...Published: 20 Jun 2014 at 12:57hrs | 1 | by Freeman Makopa
Zanu-PF's call for Tsvangirai arrest ignorant
Press statement (1 April 2014) - Fools DayThe statement by Zanu-PF that MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai must be arrested for calling for mass action against government c...Published: 01 Apr 2014 at 22:05hrs | 1 | by Douglas Mwonzora
MDC-T needs total reconciliation, says Mwonzora
President Morgan Tsvangirai is very serious about uniting the Party so that we focus on the big job ahead. There must be total reconciliation in the Party for us to...Published: 27 Mar 2014 at 21:57hrs | 2 | by Douglas Mwonzora
Zimbabwe asks France to help mend rift with Britain
Zimbabwe has asked France to help the troubled southern African nation mend relations with former colonial ruler Britain.Christopher Mutsvangwa, Zimbabwe's deputy Foreign Affairs minister, ask...Published: 24 Mar 2014 at 17:25hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
British govt gives Zimbabwe $10 million for school fees
The UK government has provided an extra $10 million to enable thousands of poor children across Zimbabwe to access basic education.The Social Welfare Ministry asked for help from the UK's Depa...Published: 27 Feb 2014 at 08:33hrs | | by Nomalanga Moyo
'Only with miracle money,' MDC-T told
Clerk of Parliament Mr Austin Zvoma says the obscene benefits being demanded by MDC-T legislators are not feasible and will only be achievable with "miracle money".MDC-T's parliamentary caucus...Published: 13 Feb 2014 at 06:35hrs | | by Felex Share
Harare appeals to London for school fees
A UK-based newspaper reports that Zimbabwe approached Britain for funds to help cover school fees for an estimated one million pupils who could be forced out of school because the cash-strapped g...Published: 26 Jan 2014 at 17:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
UK based Zimbabwe an nurse on a mission to build a school for poor children
A poor rural primary school in Zimbabwe is set to benefit from the proceeds from a Zimbabwean nurse based in the UK whose book launch and fundraiser scheduled for 9 November 2013 in Bristol, UK. ...Published: 20 Oct 2013 at 15:35hrs | 10 | by Muzvare Betty Makoni Empowerment Initiative
Man bust burying beheaded wife in yard
A 40-YEAR-OLD Ekurhuleni man is facing a murder charge after being caught red-handed by police digging a shallow grave for his wife's torso.Stanley Modikane was arrested in the early hours ...Published: 14 Feb 2013 at 07:05hrs | | by Crime Reporter
The Way I See It - Zimbabwe's Education Ministry needs urgent help
Bulawayo - Last week, I wrote about the distressing case of children with disability in Zimbabwe and asserted that their rights are not being observed.ZUPA, the non-political civil society or...Published: 13 Jan 2012 at 08:23hrs | | by Thamsanqa Zhou Jr | ZUPA
Zimbabwe's Children with Disability Rights Neglected
(09-01-12, Bulawayo) Stigmatised by part of an increasingly intolerant society, neglected by a state that is short of resources and facing potential abuse in institutions, the lives of Zimbabwean c...Published: 09 Jan 2012 at 04:30hrs | 2 | by Thamsanqa Zhou Jr
ZUPA calls for Public Roebuck Inquiry on Children Sexual Abuse
Recent reports on allegations of sexual abuse on both girls and boys in institutions and communities in Zimbabwe including a report that a significant percentage of those raped have tested positive ...Published: 07 Jan 2012 at 14:56hrs | 2 | by Innocent Ndibali (ZUPA President)
Schools warned against inviting unlimited pupils for Form One entrance tests
SCHOOLS have been warned against inviting unlimited prospective pupils for Form One entrance tests to compete for very few places, the Herald reported.This follows complaints from parent...Published: 28 Nov 2011 at 06:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Lack of infrastructure and bad timing of GPA policy makers
Lack of infrastructure and bad timing of making Mathematics, Science and History mandatory subjects: GPA policy makers' ploy to shift the blame of their education policy bankruptcy to marginalised s...Published: 15 Jul 2011 at 17:43hrs | 1 | by Akim Zwelibanzi
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