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Wave of arrest in Zimbabwe as authorities clamp down on dissent
ZIMBABWEAN authorities have stepped up their onslaught against dissent after arresting a total of 47 people in one day for allegedly participating in anti-government protests over the country's worsen...Published: 1 hr ago | 466 | by Nomusa Garikai
Rural teachers want to engage in gold buying
Rural teachers operating under the Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) have reportedly engaged the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to fun...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 06:14hrs | 1295 | by Stephen Jakes
Pupil expelled for exposing, mocking teachers' salaries
An Upper Sixth pupil at Goldridge College was last week expelled after he shot a picture of the opulent private school's teachers salaries list and posted it on his WhatsApp status. The named ...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 06:04hrs | 2006 | by Staff reporter
Over 25 000 apply for student loans
MORE than 25 000 students have applied for loans following the re-introduction of student loans by Government, Higher and Tertiary Education, Innovation, Science and Technology Development Minister Pr...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 05:39hrs | 189 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt engages inyanga over goblins
THE Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has sought the assistance of traditional leaders and healers to cast away goblins that terrorised teachers at Ntenjane Primary School in Bulilima, Matab...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 05:34hrs | 949 | by Staff reporter
Zim government resorts to old examination fees
Zimbabwe's Primary and Secondary Education minister Cain Mathema, has rescinded the recently announced 2020 examination fees. Mathema said new examination fees will be announced after further ...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 16:45hrs | 880 | by Daniel Itai
Is the New Dispensation keen on devolution?
It should be recalled that the nationalist struggle's main focus was the achievement of an electoral system with one person one vote as its basis and the resultant establishment of a newly independent...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:25hrs | 63 | by Vivian Viyo Siziba
Zimbabwe teacher fears for life, as suspected state agents threaten him
A Zimbabwe teacher, based in the country's fifth largest city of Kwekwe, is now living in fear after allegedly receiving threats on his life from suspected state agents, veterans of the liberation str...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:14hrs | 482 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Parliamentarians sleeping on duty
It boggles the mind that out of the more than 260 Members of Parliament, it only took Senator Omega Hungwe to advance a motion in Parliament to petition legislators to consider reviewing "O" and "A" L...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 20:29hrs | 834 | by Manuel Nyawo
Mangudya and Mthuli's economic policies failing as the RTGS tumbles
As the Zimbabwe's economy meltdown continues to hit the vulnerable people from both the urban and rural areas, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new dispensation has been put on a litmus test...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 07:42hrs | 4363 | by Leonard Koni
CIO controlled journalism run stark mad
I hardly respond to social media reports, but found it prudent to respond to acidic reports peddled by the so called 'Harare Post' insinuating that Ptuz has not paid its workers since November 2019, w...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 22:14hrs | 1771 | by Takavafira Zhou
Cheating students get their O-Level results
THE Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) has "mistakenly" released the Ordinary Level results for the nine Chiredzi students accused of cheating, although the public examinations body had ear...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 10:42hrs | 2091 | by Staff reporter
Teachers demand US dollars from parents
Parents and guardians who are being forced by teachers to pay for extra lessons, chair bags and other demands in foreign currency outside what has been officially approved must report to the Ministry ...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 06:02hrs | 537 | by Staff reporter
Fugitive Njube school teacher fled to Namibia
A TEACHER who allegedly led a strike by students at Njube High School in Bulawayo has broken his silence from Namibia where he is hiding.Speaking from Namibia after fleeing the country's law e...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 17:37hrs | 2516 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt mobilises $105m for student loans
Government has mobilised $105 million to be accessed as loans by students in tertiary institutions.The loan scheme, which was recently reviewed by removing stringent conditions and introducing...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:36hrs | 204 | by Staff reporter
Government injects $105m for student loans
Government has mobilised $105 million to be accessed as loans by students in tertiary institutions.The loan scheme, which was recently reviewed by removing stringent conditions and introducing...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:34hrs | 192 | by Staff Reporter
$15m for science teachers training
Government has mobilised $15 million for training science teachers that would help promote the academic discipline in schools.Learning institutions are often accused of churning out students t...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:32hrs | 241 | by Staff reporter
PTUZ in financial crisis while leaders are living flamboyant lives
Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) is said to be in financial crisis at a time its own leaders are living flamboyant lives.The Harare Post has it on good ground that PTUZ is failing...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 15:33hrs | 1074 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's legacy and Shona triumphalism: Zimbabwe's case for a two-state solution
ZIMBABWE, which was called Rhodesia before its attainment of independence in 1980, is a former British colony.Although there are over ten tribes that inhabit the country, Zimbabwe can neatly b...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 17:59hrs | 4426 | by George Mkhwanazi
MP holds school heads to account for 0 to 3% pass rate - real change guaranteed is when people hold MP to account
"Chiredzi South legislator Kalisto Gwanetsa last week called a meeting with all school heads in his constituency after it recorded poor results during the 2019 Grade 7, Ordinary Level and Advance Leve...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 08:58hrs | 755 | by Nomusa Garikai
Saint-Gobain launches US$1 million plant
SAINT-Gobain Construction Products Zimbabwe yesterday launched a US$1 million plant in the capital set to produce 15 000 tonnes of tile adhesive per annum while operating entirely on solar power...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 07:55hrs | 757 | by Staff reporter
Man dies in Honda Fit and Falcon College bus head-on collision
ONE person is reported dead after a Falcon College bus was involved in a head-on collision with a Honda Fit vehicle along the Bulawayo-Gwanda road on Wednesday.Eyewitnesses said the driver of ...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 13:17hrs | 3363 | by Staff reporter
Kalisto Gwanetsa reads riot act to school heads over poor results
Chiredzi South legislator Kalisto Gwanetsa last week called a meeting with all school heads in his constituency after it recorded poor results during the 2019 Grade 7, Ordinary Level and Advance Level...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 09:04hrs | 1059 | by Staff reporter
Headmaster kills self ahead of AGM
A CHIKOMBA acting headmaster died after hanging himself with a belt a few hours before the school held its annual general meeting (AGM).Irvine Manjengwa, the acting headmaster at Masvaure Prim...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 07:10hrs | 3271 | by Staff reporter
Mutambara's Zimsec prognosis will hurt the poor
Renowned and leading African scientist and scholar, Professor AGO Mutambara, ignited a storm with his recent piece alleging shameless and scandalous grade inflation by ZIMSEC citing a school where 79 ...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 06:56hrs | 1662 | by Munya Gwisai
Zimbabwe has too many teachers on acting capacity, says Minister
PRIMARY and Secondary Education Minister Cain Mathema has raised concern over the high number of education officers working on an acting capacity across the ministry's departments.Minister Mat...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 15:08hrs | 700 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's minister against shona ECD teacher deployment in Matebeleland
THE Minister of Primary and Secondary Education Cain Mathema has urged the Public Service Commission to deploy teachers who know local languages for Early Childhood Development learners. Minis...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 05:41hrs | 2736 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo business management school on the cards
THE Minister of Primary and Secondary Education Cain Mathema has announced plans to establish a business management school in Bulawayo to empower informal traders with skills to better manage their fi...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 05:40hrs | 159 | by Staff reporter
Be patient with Zimbabwe on reforms, says Misihairabwi
MDC-T legislator Mrs Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga has urged the international community to extend financial support to Zimbabwe to speed up the reform process. She said this last week durin...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 05:35hrs | 349 | by Staff reporter
ZPP remembers January 2019 stay away violence
The Zimbabwe Peace Project in its latest Januiary 2020 report has remembers the January 2019 stay away which resulted to state sponsored violence that claimed 17 lives as the citizens took to the stre...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 12:17hrs | 440 | by Stephen Jakes
Boy (9) dies in school fight
A NINE-year-old boy who was attending school at Makore Primary School in Bikita, Masvingo Province died when he was struck on the head with an iron bar by a 13-year-old boy for playing peacemaker duri...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 06:22hrs | 853 | by Staff reporter
Lupane storm-ravaged school renovations complete
REFURBISHMENT of classrooms and teachers' cottages at Komba Primary School in Lupane is now complete after a non-governmental organisation, World Vision and the Civil Protection Unit mobilised materia...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 06:01hrs | 110 | by Staff reporter
Teachers abandon formal dressing
Teachers have said they will no longer be able to adhere to the formal dress code requirement due to incapacitation as they push to be paid a clothing allowance as part of improving their working cond...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 06:49hrs | 2866 | by Staff reporter
How to choose subjects to pursue at A-level
YOUR child has just received their Ordinary Level results. Do you know how to assist them to move from O Level to A Level or choose other career options?So far I have noted that some children get ...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 05:58hrs | 1103 | by Memory Nguwi
Should corporal punishment at home and school be banned?
The Constitutional Court must be applauded for handing down far reaching judgments in so far as the promotion, protection and fulfilment of human rights set out in the Constitution is concerned. Among...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 06:20hrs | 418 | by Staff reporter
'No tampering with exam grading system'
GOVERNMENT has said candidates who excelled in the 2019 public examinations with flying colours did so on merit as there was no tampering with the country's public examination grading system. ...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 05:58hrs | 711 | by Staff reporter
Teaching Profession Council draft Bill expected this year
THE drafting of the Teaching Profession Council (TPC) Bill is expected to be completed this year, Zimbabwe Teachers' Association (Zimta) chief executive Dr Sifiso Ndlovu has said. Speaki...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 05:44hrs | 156 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Minister calls on teachers to shun planned demonstration
BULAWAYO Provincial Affairs Minister Judith Ncube yesterday urged teachers to shun today's planned demonstrations against purported fees increases and poor remuneration among other pertinent issues af...Published: 03 Feb 2020 at 05:29hrs | 1377 | by Staff reporter
Teachers demand US$1 per week from learners
SCHOOLS in Hwange and Victoria Falls are reportedly demanding an extra US$1 from each learner per week for teachers to attend class despite the learners having paid fees in full.The developmen...Published: 02 Feb 2020 at 13:11hrs | 1745 | by Staff reporter
Star Force's reign of terror . . . and the rise, decline of Bulawayo street gangs
IT is hard to separate truth from fiction when one talks of the legend of the one-time Bulawayo street gang known as Star Force. When those who grew up in Nkulumane, where it is thought ...Published: 02 Feb 2020 at 12:15hrs | 371 | by Bruce Ndlovu
New twist to Zimsec saga
THE matter involving four Chiredzi South teachers who allegedly wrote public examinations for their wives and girlfriends during last November's Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) examinati...Published: 02 Feb 2020 at 12:06hrs | 1074 | by Staff reporter
Teachers, Apex Council trade barbs over 140% pay hike
TEACHERS have described the recent decision by the Apex Council to accept a paltry 140% salary hike from government that will result in the least paid government worker getting paid $2 400, as "a grea...Published: 31 Jan 2020 at 19:11hrs | 458 | by Staff reporter
Is the new dispensation keen on devolution?
It should be recalled that the nationalist struggle's main focus was the achievement of an electoral system with one person one vote as its basis and the resultant establishment of a newly independent...Published: 31 Jan 2020 at 13:45hrs | 476 | by Vivian Viyo Siziba
Zimbabweans turn to cheap makeshift schools
HOME-MADE benches line up under the shade of an avocado tree in the backyard of a Zimbabwe suburb, the home of a makeshift school for numerous students.Scores of pupils have no choice but to d...Published: 30 Jan 2020 at 09:29hrs | 1169 | by Anadolu Agency
Where is our promised listening President?
When President Emmerson Mnangagwa returned from his brief exile in South Africa in 2017, he famously declared that the "voice of the people is the voice of God", promising a new era of responsive gove...Published: 30 Jan 2020 at 08:56hrs | 284 | by Nqaba Matshaz
ZIMSEC grade inflation: A disgraceful and shameful national cancer
I HAVE seen press reports about this years' Ordinary Level and Advanced Level examination results all over the place. I want to congratulate all the students, schools and teachers who excelled. Congra...Published: 30 Jan 2020 at 08:55hrs | 2230 | by Arthur G. O. Mutambara
Unemployed teachers swindled in jobs scam
Scores of unemployed teachers in Shurugwi and Mberengwa districts in the Midlands province lost about $10 000 to some conmen who clandestinely accessed a list of names submitted to the Public Service ...Published: 30 Jan 2020 at 08:49hrs | 390 | by Staff reporter
Zimta urges teachers to report for work
THE Zimbabwe Teachers Association (ZIMTA), the country's largest teachers' body, has instructed its members to resume work with immediate effect.The decision was reached after the association ...Published: 30 Jan 2020 at 08:48hrs | 379 | by newzimbabwe
Varsity fees back to $15 000
State universities could be charging more than $15 000 a semester once all ancilliary fees, accommodation and meals have been added on top of the Government-controlled tuition fees. Government...Published: 30 Jan 2020 at 08:45hrs | 897 | by Staff reporter
Universities in fresh bid to hike fees
State universities could end up charging up to $15 000 a semester once all ancillary fees, accommodation and meals have been factored in. ...Published: 30 Jan 2020 at 06:43hrs | 1460 | by Staff Reporter
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