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50 Joshualites awarded Scholarships amid debate over tribal bias
Fifty academically gifted students from across Zimbabwe's 10 provinces have been awarded the prestigious Joshua Nkomo Scholarship, administered by the Higherlife Foundation, in the latest effort to su...Published: 08 Jul 2025 at 22:52hrs | 839 | by Staff reporter
Why were Zimbabweans left behind 45 years after independence, in the first place?
There's always something telling - yet deeply disturbing - about the mantras repeated by the Zimbabwean government.Yesterday, I watched a report on the state-controlled broadcaster in which th...Published: 24 May 2025 at 23:30hrs | 1377 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Government investigating defiant school heads
The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has launched a crackdown on school heads who defied a government directive barring the expulsion of learners over unpaid fees, insisting that schools mu...Published: 17 May 2025 at 12:16hrs | 100 | by Staff reporter
Have our churches turned into sanctuaries for the corrupt?
Have our churches become places where criminals go to cleanse their reputations and whitewash their activities?In Zimbabwe, we are witnessing a deeply troubling phenomenon - one that strikes a...Published: 09 May 2025 at 10:38hrs | 270 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe to recruit 8,000 teachers
The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education is set to recruit 8,000 teachers in the upcoming second term, pending final approval from the Treasury. The recruitment drive, announced yesterday, is a...Published: 08 May 2025 at 09:37hrs | 245 | by Sytaff reporter
Midlands State University pushing to promote a Shona-centric education system
The advert for Midlands State University's (MSU) ECD Foundation Certificate has raised several concerns about the quality of education being offered, the qualifications of the instructors, and the bro...Published: 29 Mar 2025 at 08:32hrs | 8907 | by Staff reporter
If ZANU-PF regime cracked down on gold smugglers as they do small businesses, Zimbabwe would prosper
This morning, while in town, I had a fascinating encounter with a lady entrepreneur who owns a small clothing business. After recognizing me as the author of articles she regularly reads, she ...Published: 09 Jan 2025 at 08:33hrs | 479 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe lags behind South Africa in literacy rates?
Zimbabwe has secured the 4th spot in the ranking of African countries with the highest education levels in 2024, according to a report by Data Panda. The ranking is based on literacy rates and years o...Published: 05 Dec 2024 at 09:18hrs | 2701 | by Staff reporter
Parents demand school head's removal
Learning at Mkaya Primary School in Mangwe District, Matebeleland South Province, has been halted as parents demand the removal of the school head, Ms. Clemencia Sibanda, citing several grievances. ...Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 07:22hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has 20 000 teaching vacancies
The government has announced its intention to address the acute shortage of nearly 20,000 teachers through an extensive training program.Amon Murwira, the Minister of Higher and Tertiary Educa...Published: 21 Oct 2023 at 18:42hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zapu pledges Lupane facelift
ZAPU parliamentary candidate for Lupane East, Mthenjwa Gumbo has bemoaned lack of development and poverty in the constituency.Gumbo was speaking during a virtual debate organised by Lupane Com...Published: 16 Aug 2023 at 06:40hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
18 Binga schools post 0% pass rate and Zanu PF post 80% rural vote regardless - thx to voter rigging mastery
"18 Binga schools record 0% passes!" screamed the headlines in Newsday Zimbabwe and Bulawayo24. "At least 18 schools in Binga, Matabeleland North province, recorded a zero percent pass rate at...Published: 17 Feb 2023 at 15:02hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabwe in massive teacher recruitment drive
MORE qualified teachers are being recruited to be deployed in 28 largely rural districts of the eight non-metropolitan provinces to improve delivery of quality education with special focus on infant e...Published: 16 Jan 2023 at 16:19hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
UK target Zimbabwean teachers
The UK has opened opportunities for teachers from South Africa, Ghana, Zimbabwe, and Nigeria with equivalent qualifications to their British counterparts and at least one year of teaching experience t...Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Community rejects non-Ndebele speaking teachers
The Silobela community has rejected non-Ndebele speaking teachers deployed by the government to take early childhood development classes in Donsa-Donsa, a predominately Ndebele area.Donsa Coun...Published: 19 Oct 2022 at 06:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Teacher unions blast free service move
TEACHERS unions say they will not succumb to government's attempt to pressure public workers to offer free services.Recently, about 400 teachers reportedly offered to "teach for free" in schoo...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 06:08hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean teachers welcome extension exemption permits, call for waivers
Zimbabwean teachers in the Western Cape have welcomed Home Affairs Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi's decision to extend the Zimbabwean Exemption Permits (ZEP), but they called for the relaxation of visa ...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean ministry fails to recruit 5,000 new teachers
THE government has failed to recruit 5,000 new teachers after the budget allocation to the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education was eroded by inflation, Parliament heard this week.Zimba...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:46hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Students in Matebeleland struggle to pass exams
MATOBO residents have blamed the poor pass rate in the district on low budgetary support to schools in the area.They made the remarks at a Parliamentary Portfolio Committee meeting on budget, ...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 19:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean Wits University PhD student commits suicide over expired permit
A Zimbabwean PhD Candidate at University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa Philip Chuma has reportedly committed suicide after failing to register for the 2022 academic year due to an expired permi...Published: 02 May 2022 at 13:08hrs | 198 | by Mandla Ndlovu
2 more teachers deployed at Ngungumbane Satellite School
GOVERNMENT has reportedly deployed two more teachers at Ngungumbane Satellite Secondary School in Mberengwa, Midlands province following an expose by The Sunday Southern Eye that learners were not hav...Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
School has 2 teachers for 140 learners
NGUNGUMBANE Satellite Secondary School in Mberengwa, Midlands only has two qualified teachers amid reports that efforts to engage the Primary and Secondary Education ministry to address the staff shor...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt claims to have addressed teachers' grievances
GOVERNMENT yesterday said it had addressed teachers' salary grievances, adding that civil servants should be grateful to President Emmerson Mnangagwa for improving their welfare in terms of salary adj...Published: 18 Feb 2022 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teachers, tutors cash in on extra lessons
TEACHERS and private tutors are cashing in on extra lessons, charging up to US$40 per subject per month especially for examination classes as parents and guardians become desperate to make up for lost...Published: 17 Feb 2022 at 05:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Address current challenges before adding more teachers
GOVERNMENT last week said it would recruit 10 000 more teachers to fill the skills gap in the education sector.But teachers' unions have argued that this figure is a drop in the ocean, given t...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 05:33hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean teachers embrace Rwanda jobs offer
LOCAL educators yesterday said there was nothing to celebrate during this year's World Teachers' Day commemorations, but applauded plans by the Rwandan government to recruit qualified teachers from Zi...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:49hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Rwanda keen on Zimbabwean teachers
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has said Zimbabwe and his country share a common history that gives impetus to current efforts to develop the two countries and consolidate existing relations.The...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 07:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'ECD struggling under COVID-19'
EARLY childhood development (ECD) is key for development and deserves funding from government and stakeholders to ensure children are well groomed. In Zimbabwe and other third world countries, governm...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 05:28hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Former students move to lift Nkayi school
IN the winter of 2019, about 20 pupils from Sagonda Primary School in Matabeleland North's Nkayi district set out on a 53-kilometre walk aimed at raising funds to purchase building and educational mat...Published: 09 May 2021 at 08:14hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Marginalisation, tribalism - The emergence of Mthwakazi Republic Party
A PARTY of young people from Matabeleland, the Mthwakazi Republic Party, believes there is no reason for Matabeleland to remain under the subjugation of Zimbabwe and they have been calling for secessi...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 06:51hrs | | by Thandekile Moyo
Ministry requires 40 000 more teachers
THE Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education requires at least 40 000 more teachers to address the critical manpower deficit in the education sector with science subjects and early childhood develo...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 06:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC Senator says striking teachers must resign
AN opposition MDC-T senator last Thursday said teachers who were not reporting for work should leave employment and let unemployed qualified teachers take over.Masvingo senator Tichinani Mavet...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
3 000 more teachers to be recruited
Another 3 000 new teaching posts have been created for State schools and recruitment will be completed as soon as all classes are open on March 22, taking the number of new teachers hired to cope with...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Urgent action needed on Matabeleland schools
IT is a worrying trend that every year when Grade Seven results are released, a significant number of schools in Matabeleland record a 0% or poor pass rate.Even the Ordinary and Advanced Level...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
The harassment of nurses is getting ridiculous!
THE Zanu-PF politburo on Wednesday took a jab at nurses and we know the meaning of what the party bigwigs were trying to say — intimidation and harassing of health workers.This is the same p...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:47hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
20 000 new teachers to start work
Another 15 000 to 20 000 qualified but unemployed teachers are being recruited by the Primary and Secondary Education Ministry in line with a directive from President Mnangagwa, with 5 300 already in ...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 06:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Massive teacher recruitment underway
GOVERNMENT has recruited 5 300 teachers in a drive that will result in about 20 000 unemployed but qualified teachers being hired as part of measures to ensure social distancing in schools. Pr...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 07:08hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Student teachers petition Parly over allowances
STUDENT teachers have petitioned Parliament to push the President Emmerson Mnangagwa-led government to raise their monthly allowances currently pegged at $150, which translates to less than US$2 using...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
5 300 extra teachers recruited
More than 5 300 extra teachers are being employed to enable schools to run smaller classes and minimise the risk of a spike in Covid-19 infections. The first batch of 2 300 teachers is expecte...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 09:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Temporary teachers take over exam classes
GOVERNMENT has, in an unprecedented move, put 25 000 temporary teachers on standby for possible takeover from qualified teachers who have been on strike over poor salaries since Monday when schools re...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt publishes school calendar
Government has published a school calendar, which will see the last term of this year ending seven days before the Christmas Holiday. According to the government, the last term of 2020 ends on...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 07:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mathema to issue statement on striking teachers
PRIMARY and Secondary Education minister Cain Mathema is today expected to issue a ministerial statement in the National Assembly on the problems in the education sector where teachers have refused to...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 07:23hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers to know 4 languages
It will soon be mandatory for newly qualified teachers to know at least four of the 16 Zimbabwe's official languages, a Cabinet minister has said. Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Te...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwanda South communities feel betrayed
GWANDA South constituency is crying out loud for development.Having provided a passage for thousands of former freedom fighters departing to Botswana, en-route to Zambia and Mozambique for mil...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to recruit more teachers
GOVERNMENT has recruited the last batch of nearly 350 new teachers to fulfil a 3 000 quota allocated by Treasury this year, amid fresh revelations the education sector might engage at least 5 000 more...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Shona teacher terrorises pupils at Nejambezi Secondary school
A Shona speaking teacher by the name Huggins Makiwa based at Nejambezi Secondary school situated 28 km from Victoria Falls town is reportedly terrorising pupils that he teaches, by constantly remindin...Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 12:52hrs | 1 | by MRP
Matebeleland hit by a serious shortage of teachers
MATABELELAND is facing an acute teacher shortage, with some schools reportedly having three, often unqualified teachers, taking ECD classes up to Grade Seven.In an interview on Friday, Matabel...Published: 28 May 2019 at 18:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland North education still a pipe-dream
SIFISO Ndebele, a Grade 5 pupil at Samukele Primary School in Matebeleland North, dreams of becoming a scientist.But sadly, her dream is not in tandem with the learning conditions at her schoo...Published: 27 May 2019 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Patriotic Union of MaNdebeleland
While I was going through my archives I came across the Election Manifesto below. Quite interesting.PATRIOTIC UNION OF MANDEBELELAND (PUMA)ELECTION MANIFES...Published: 21 May 2019 at 12:35hrs | 21 | by PUMA
Reduced political power is a veiled attack on Mthwakazi
The reduction of political power through among other things, the unelected VP slots and the imposition of candidates from outside the region is a veiled attack on Mthwakazi and smacks of muzzled democ...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 07:56hrs | 1 | by Nhlanhla Moses
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