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Mnangagwa caps 3 927 University of Zimbabwe students
The Chancellor of the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday conferred 3 927 graduands with various undergraduate and postgraduate degrees.President Mnangagwa...Published: 19 hrs ago | 528 | by Staff reporter
Doctors refuse to be capped by Mnangagwa
The 2019 class of graduating medical students at the University of Zimbabwe are to boycott their graduation ceremony at which they were due to be capped by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.This in...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 09:41hrs | 6571 | by Staff reporter
Does mindfulness training really work for preparing students to be in the moment?
Numerous thoughts take place within your mind at the same time. More so, when you are students. It is sometimes challenging to concentrate on the present moment and focus on the things that will benef...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 09:37hrs | 159 | by Staff Reporter
Zacc investigates Mbare school
George Stark High School in Mbare, Harare, is mired in controversy following the submission of a dossier to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), detailing allegations of corruption dating b...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 08:31hrs | 1077 | by Staff reporter
Electricity timetable for exam practicals
GOVERNMENT will issue the Zimsec November public examination timetable to the Ministry of Energy and Power Development to ensure availability of electricity during the practical examinations period, a...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 07:51hrs | 434 | by Staff reporter
Minister sues bank over US$1,6m student funds
Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Professor Amon Murwira has approached the High Court seeking to recover about US$1 600 000 student funds from Metbank Limi...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 07:51hrs | 363 | by Staff reporter
Heavy winds destroy 2 top schools
Heavy winds destroyed infrastructure worth thousands of dollars at two top schools in Wedza, Mashonaland East province, at the weekend, an official said yesterday.The Anglican-run Mt St Mary's...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 08:07hrs | 1405 | by Staff reporter
NUST enrolment must be biased towards Matebeleland region students
THE National University of Science and Technology (Nust) should have a deliberate policy biased towards enrolling students from Matebeleland region as it suffered underdevelopment during the early yea...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 07:56hrs | 2513 | by Staff reporter
Nust underdevelopment rapped
THE underdevelopment of the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) is inexcusable and the tertiary institution cannot blame Government for lagging behind, legislators said yesterday. ...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 07:49hrs | 708 | by Staff reporter
Police quash Nust protest
Anti-riot police on Monday stopped a National University of Science and Technology students protest and picked up their representatives for questioning.Nust's Bulawayo campus students were pro...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:29hrs | 1145 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa scholarship bosses arrested
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) yesterday arrested three Government officials for allegedly abusing the Presidential Scholarship Programme. Deputy Director Scholarships in the O...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:51hrs | 857 | by Staff reporter
Mbeki honour Mugabe at SA memorial
THE African National Congress (ANC) yesterday held a memorial service for former President Robert Mugabe in KwaZulu-Natal and described him as an African statesman who played a key role in the liberat...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:44hrs | 149 | by Staff reporter
Ryan Bukevicz helps the Hope Bilingual Academy in Nicaragua during desperate times
The Hope Bilingual Academy (HBA) is a Nicaraguan school that aims to give disadvantaged children the chance to succeed in life. The country of origin, financial situation, or mental and physical capab...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 18:38hrs | 319 | by Staff Reporter
Chief Zvimba blasts Mugabe's nephew
Chief Zvimba has blasted some relatives of former President Robert Mugabe who are trying to politicise his burial while tainting President Mnangagwa's name. Speaking to The Herald on the sidel...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 01:06hrs | 3476 | by Staff reporter
Doctors strike calls for urgent attention
The death of Robert Mugabe has taken the nation's focus away from very pressing issues, among them the strike by doctors at public hospitals.Doctors went on strike almost two weeks ago after f...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 08:04hrs | 2339 | by Staff reporter
ZB Bank introduces WhatsApp banking
ZB Financial Holdings has signed a money transfer agreement with one of the largest international money transfer companies, Ria Money Transfer of the United States as part of its efforts to enable dia...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:49hrs | 600 | by Staff reporter
'The West is upset about Zimbabwean land'
Let us start by saying that Robert Mugabe is a Zimbabwean giant, Robert Mugabe is an African giant.From 1960 to 2017 - 57 years - he was at the front-end of African politics, front-end of Zimb...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:45hrs | 427 | by Prof Arthur Mutambara
Xenophobia dishonour Pan Africanism ideology
Few weeks ago winds of xenophobia started blowing, leading to loss of life, destruction of property and causing some severe wounds. This time around xenophobia erupted in Gauteng province which is the...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 12:54hrs | 233 | by Matora Hupile
Mugabe death ignites an inferno of debates, discussions
DEPOSED late former President Robert Mugabe is currently the most talked about individual among Zimbabweans. Ever since his death last week, tongues never took leave from wagging. His death was bound ...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 21:38hrs | 245 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
'Keep your De Klerk, we will keep our Mugabe'
EFF leader Julius Malema gave a defiant tribute to former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe, who he called a "patriot", at a memorial service held by the party on Thursday."For so long we have ...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 21:36hrs | 575 | by City Press
Mugabe mourners take over Harare Poly student quarters
Harare Polytechnic students have been asked to vacate their hostels to accommodate mourners coming for former President Robert Mugabe's burial.The students said they were addressed by the dean...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 21:04hrs | 576 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's impact on education: An undying legacy
The former President Robert Mugabe leaves a challenge for future leaders to prioritise education through his Presidential Scholarship scheme, an initiative which will be an everlasting legacy....Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 20:52hrs | 78 | by Sallomy Matare
The untold side of Robert Mugabe
"We all die....The goal isn't to live forever,The goal is to create something that will"Robert Gabriel MugabeThe man and legend,The myth and mystery,Truly a man of Destiny ...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 10:19hrs | 9024 | by Temba Mliswa
Mugabe mourners invade Harare Poly
Harare Polytechnic students have been asked to vacate their hostels to accommodate mourners coming for former President Robert Mugabe's burial.The students said they were addressed by the dean...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 08:28hrs | 1751 | by Staff Reporter
Foreign students to stay in UK for 2 years after finishing studies
International students will be allowed to stay in the UK for two years after graduation to find a job, under new proposals announced by the Home Office.The move reverses a decision made in 201...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 13:50hrs | 2001 | by BBC
Teachers declare incapacitation as schools open
TEACHERS have indicated they will not be able to resume work when schools open for the third term today citing incapacitation due to erosion of their salaries and the recently advanced cost of adjustm...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 21:48hrs | 449 | by Staff reporter
Closure of the University of Zimbabwe a callous act
The ZANU (PF) aligned leadership at the University of Zimbabwe needs to be challenged by the students including seeking a Court interdict. It is indeed a fitting tribute to their departed hero who cau...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 21:05hrs | 590 | by Lizwe Dube
University of Zimbabwe students defiant over Mugabe burial
University of Zimbabwe students have vowed to defy an order by the President Emmerson Mnangagwa led University of Zimbabwe to vacate from the students quarters till the mourning period for the late Ro...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 19:46hrs | 1821 | by Mandla Ndlovu
UZ blasted over command mourning
We cannot allow a shift from command agriculture to command mourning. This time we are ready to make sure that as they bury Robert Mugabe they also bury the dictatorial tendencies he planted in this c...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 12:36hrs | 3090 | by Ashlegh Pfunye
University of Zimbabwe shutdown to mourn Mugabe
The University of Zimbabwe has announced that it is shutting down for the 12th to the 15th of September to mourn the former Chancellor of the university Robert Mugabe who died of old age in Singapore....Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 09:45hrs | 2856 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Xenophobic attacks targeting Cyril Ramaphosa'
The recent wave of xenophobic attacks that is sweeping across South Africa may be funded by a faction of ANC that wants President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa to fail political analysts have said. ...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 08:33hrs | 8951 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mugabe: Despot, narcissist and murderer
The one-time hero has left behind a country in ruins, its economy in tatters, its moral fabric torn by poverty and sufferingRobert Gabriel Mugabe's name should have been there in the pantheon ...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 17:55hrs | 710 | by Mondli Makhanya
Robert Mugabe: The greatest trick the devil ever played
The fallacy of the hero-turned-villain narrative of Robert Mugabe is the greatest trick this devil ever played.The closest I have to feeling anything is quiet, seething rage.Rage that ...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 08:35hrs | 264 | by Siphosami Malunga
The method behind the protest madness
As international business leaders and politicians gathered in Cape Town last week for the World Economic Forum on Africa (WEF), xenophobic violence erupted in parts of South Africa.Ghoulish im...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 08:28hrs | 89 | by Wendy Nyakurerwa- Matinde
Home Affairs sits on 340 000 passports backlog
HOME Affairs deputy minister Mike Madiro told Senate on Thursday that his ministry was struggling to process 340 000 passport applications due to a severe shortage of resources, particularly imported ...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 10:12hrs | 1408 | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe: The leader who shouldn't have been
About a kilometre from State House - the official residence of the Zimbabwean president, where Robert Mugabe lived until the mid-2000s before moving to his hideous mansion popularly known as Blue Roof...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 16:38hrs | 2413 | by Percy Zvomuya
'Mugabe was a brilliant man but complex man,' says Coltart
Tributes are being paid to former President Robert Mugabe who died aged 95 on Friday.Mugabe, who ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years before he was overthrown by the military in 2017, died in a hospita...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 15:38hrs | 2300 | by ZimLive
Mugabe was no revolutionary. He was obsessed with power and control
Robert Mugabe will not be remembered as the freedom fighter who helped liberate Zimbabwe, but as a man who whose 40 years in power was anything but admirable, writes Melusi Nkomo.In the future...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 12:51hrs | 1676 | by Melusi Nkomo
Automated training for learner drivers
CMED (Private) Limited has unveiled a mobile driver training simulator, modern technology aimed at enhancing efficiency for learner drivers through computerised and objective assessment, expected to m...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 06:58hrs | 183 | by Staff reporter
Varsity employees get salary hike
GOVERNMENT has hiked salaries for State university workers in a move that will see cleaners at institutions of higher learning earning more than teachers and college lecturers.Acting Higher an...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 08:12hrs | 2854 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sanctions solidarity march deferred to next week
THE highly-anticipated solidarity march that was scheduled for tomorrow, has been deferred to next week, due to President Mnangagwa's unavailability owing to other national duties.The Presiden...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 12:36hrs | 531 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo attacks Lovemore Madhuku
Exiled Professor Jonathan Moyo has told Constitutional Law expert Professor Lovemore Mdhuku that he must start winning cases in court if he wants Zimbabweans to take him seriously. Moyo uttere...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 09:59hrs | 4999 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Rentals shocker for students
Students at Midlands State University (MSU) have expressed concern over high rentals being charged for off-campus accommodation which are now beyond the reach of many. Most students at the uni...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 08:23hrs | 715 | by Staff reporter
Blood of foreigners flow in South African streets as locals swim in joy
If one can not be angered by the animalistic sadistic killings of our people in South Africa then one has a heart of a stone. Please be angry with me as we moan the patriots who are slaughtered like a...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 22:34hrs | 6581 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
South Africans and their companies given 7 days to leave Nigeria
South Africans and their companies operating in Nigeria have been given seven days to pack up their bags and leave Nigeria by the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) following an increase...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 20:50hrs | 10748 | by Staff reporter
Boity and Fikile Mbalula in Twitter spat
South African television personality and singer Boitumelo Thulo popularly known as Boity has been involved in a Twitter war with Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula after the celebrity accused the gover...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 21:06hrs | 11106 | by Staff Reporter
'One rule for Zanu-PF, another rule for others' over sanctions march
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF party has called anti-sanctions protests for Harare on Thursday, two weeks after authorities banned countrywide protests by the Movement for Democratic Change (M...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 09:42hrs | 3512 | by ZimLive
Mnangagwa to address anti-sanctions march
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is expected to address thousands of people set to gather next Thursday for an anti-sanctions solidarity march in Harare. The march is in support of SADC member states who a...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 07:39hrs | 514 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, SA to implement programmes under Trans-Limpopo initiative
Matabeleland region is poised for economic growth following a crucial meeting in Polokwane, South Africa to operationalise programmes under the auspices of the Trans-Limpopo Spatial Development Initia...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 07:38hrs | 293 | by Staff reporter
Gays and Lesbians targets Zimbabwe universities, colleges
THE Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) has started a process of engaging universities and other higher learning institutions as part of a broader strategy to strengthen academic freedom of members o...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:57hrs | 401 | by Staff reporter
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