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University students urged to drive innovation

Masvingo Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minister, Ezra Chadzamira, has called on university students to embrace innovation and transform research into viable business ventures that can drive Zimbabwe's economic development.Speaking duri…

Published: 15 May 2025 at 08:59hrs | 50 | by Staff reporter

Chiwenga urges industry to partner universities

Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday called on Zimbabwe's industry and commerce sectors to strengthen their collaboration with universities and research institutions to drive innovation and fuel the country's re-industrialisation …

Published: 24 Apr 2025 at 07:35hrs | 654 | by Staff reporter

Nust embarks on high impact projects

The National University of Science and Technology (Nust) has announced plans to launch three major high-impact projects as part of its strategy to achieve self-sustainability, fully utilize human resources, and create significant revenue s…

Published: 13 Apr 2025 at 09:39hrs | 144 | by Staff reporter

University of Matopo gets approved

Matabeleland South province is set to have a third higher education institution following the approval of a proposal to establish the University of Matopo. The new university, an expansion of the Brethren in Christ Church's (BICC) commitme…

Published: 02 Feb 2025 at 17:28hrs | 3229 | by Staff reporter

Bindura University loses suit against Amtec

Bindura University of Science Education (BUSE) has lost a lawsuit against Amtec Motors after the company failed to deliver a Nissan Urvan NV350 diesel minibus despite receiving US$65,000 from the university.The case, which was filed before…

Published: 12 Dec 2024 at 06:53hrs | 1115 | by Staff reporter

Senzelweyinkosi Ngwenya: From rural perseverance to academic excellence

Every morning, long before the first light broke the horizon, a determined young girl from St Paul's Mission in Lupane District embarked on a grueling 12km journey to Amandlethu Secondary School. That young girl, Senzelweyinkosi Ngwenya, h…

Published: 23 Nov 2024 at 12:51hrs | 180 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe students excel at African Leadership University

Recently in Kigali, Rwanda, President Paul Kagame celebrated the graduation of 431 students from 30 African countries at the African Leadership University (ALU), including sixteen students from Zimbabwe. Kagame praised the graduates as a n…

Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 17:38hrs | 781 | by Staff reporter

EcoCash partners 9 universities across the country

In a move set to bring payment convenience to tens of thousands of tertiary students, parents and guardians alike, EcoCash has partnered with nine local university institutions across the country as the country's leading mobile financial s…

Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 20:33hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Outcry over Zimbabwe varsity fees increase

THE marginal increase in fees for public university students is meant to meet operational costs while ensuring quality education at a time when the Government is subsidising tuition fees and levies by up to 70 percent, a senior Government …

Published: 30 Aug 2023 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Local varsity pioneers road tolling system

Vehicles will spend just seven seconds going through a Zimbabwe tollgate once a new express tolling system developed by Bindura University of Science Education to Zinara specifications, which is already in its testing phase at Christon Ban…

Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 05:22hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe universities adjust fees structures

STATE universities in the country have raised their tuition fees in line with regional trends  to cover  operational costs.Lupane State University (LSU) released their new fee's structure effective 1 August 2022 with the fees ran…

Published: 25 Sep 2022 at 16:43hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa greenlights new university fees

PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has bemoaned the low uptake of Government facilitated loans by students at the country's tertiary institutions amid reports that only 10 000 students have benefited so far despite the facility being open to all.Writing …

Published: 18 Sep 2022 at 16:53hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Varsity suspends 21 students for exposing theft of US$1 000 by Dean

GREAT Zimbabwe University (GZU) suspended 21 students representative council (SRC)  leaders after leaking paper trail that detailed theft of a US$1 000 donation by the institution's dean of students.The money was meant to buy toiletri…

Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 17:55hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter

Teacher drags Chiwenga to court

A KWEKWE-based primary school teacher, Mercy Mjikwa, has dragged the Health Minister Constantino Chiwenga to court over new Covid-19 rules targeting unvaccinated citizens.In an urgent chamber application, Mjikwa and Tolerance Nyamukapa are…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

'Mugabe's bitter, vengeful spirit decimating foes'

THE late former president Robert Mugabe's family claims his spirit is causing the death of his tribesmen who are at the forefront of the exhumation of his remains.Mugabe's body was buried at his rural home in Kutama, Zvimba, following week…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:22hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa and dodgy Zanu-PF characters

WHEN Zanu-PF activist Marx Mupungu filed a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) application in June seeking to quash the High Court judgment by the three brave judges who had barred Chief Justice Malaba from extending his controversial tenure b…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:21hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa targets 6 million votes as 2023 campaign gathers momentum

ZIMBABWE'S main opposition MDC Alliance says it has set its sights on mobilising six million votes ahead 2023, with the party refocusing to attract the elusive rural vote.This comes at a time Zanu-PF has gone for broke to woo voters, recru…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:21hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Govt curtails internet freedom

THE Zimbabwean government has maintained a tight grip on internet control, curtailing the basic rights to freedom of expression and information, a report has revealed.According to the Freedom on the NET 2021 report, an annual survey on int…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:20hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

Malaba case: The key actors

ZIMBABWE, for the past four months has been going through a constitutional test and legal drama following the extension of Chief Justice Luke Malaba's term in May, which was put to bed last week following a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) …

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Authorities unleash sweeping crackdown on forex market

IN a renewed bid to contain the runaway foreign exchange rate - now trading at double the official rate around US$1: ZW$170 - the government has launched a fierce crackdown on currency traders in a multi-pronged approach deploying law and …

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:19hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa considers reopening borders

THE Government is considering re-opening land borders to the general public in time for the festive holidays as the country has officially gone past the Covid-19 third wave and continues to see a decline in new cases and deaths.The land bo…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Currency crisis alarms Zimbabwe business

BUSINESS has expressed alarm over the free- falling Zimbabwe dollar, warning that the foreign currency crisis could plunge the economy into a deeper crisis.The gap has been widening between the official exchange rate, which is at pegged at…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:16hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Mugabe burial saga in bizarre twist

Former president Robert Mugabe's family says his spirit is fighting back after "mysterious" deaths and illnesses hit families of some traditional leaders that were pushing for the exhumation of the late strongman's remains.The battle to ex…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:16hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Let's compile register of the dead in all our conflicts

January 1977 was the worst of the several months when I personally endured the ravages of the war for the emancipation of Zimbabwe from the toxic grip of rebel leader Ian Douglas Smith's Rhodesian Front regime.My ordeal started on my birth…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:15hrs | 11 | by Geoffrey Nyarota

Why elections matter in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe has its next elections in 2023. That is less than two years ahead. It is imperative that every Zimbabwean should examine why we have elections. What are elections for?What will we achieve through elections?There are more than 180 …

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:15hrs | 2 | by Fay Chung

Spare a thought for Chiwenga's estranged wife

My Dear People,Pictures of the former second lady Marry Mubaiwa struggling to walk while being led to court to face charges of allegedly plotting to kill her powerful ex-husband got everyone talking last week.Some of you were asking whethe…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Proposed BCC budget for 2022: $12 000 a month for rates in Bulawayo

THE proposed 2022 budget by the City of Bulawayo will see residents in some places paying as much as $12 000 for rates only, before factoring in water charges as the local authority targets to introduce various fees increases ranging betwe…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:14hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Livestock rustler caught with 11 beasts, 2 donkeys

POLICE have recovered 16 cattle and seven donkeys after a weeklong operation against cattle rustlers in Gwanda District that have terrorised farmers and villagers over the last few months.A suspect, Prince Dube alias Vusa Mutopini, was arr…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:14hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

When the police officer is actually a thug

CRISES bring out the best or worst in people.Well, for Britain, the current fuel shortages have brought out the bad and nasty side of a people that we are told are supposedly more civilised than Bishop Lazi and his kinsmen in this part of …

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:10hrs | 7 | by Bishop Lazi

Illegal forex dealers move $1,5 billion in six months

EIGHT companies allegedly handled transactions valued over $1,5 billion in illegal foreign currency deals that involved transferring huge amounts of money from corporate bank accounts into mobile money agent and bulk payment lines, it has …

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:10hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe won't sacrifice our economic gains

THE Second Republic is paying tribute to heroes of the liberation struggle by growing the economy and progress made on economic development should not be sacrificed on account of narrow interests, President Mnangagwa said yesterday.Speakin…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:09hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe Varsity lecturers to embark on go-slow

University lecturers have announced that they will be embarking on a go-slow after declaring incapacitation due to poor salaries which have largely been eroded by inflation and sky-rocketing prices, while school teachers will also join in …

Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:31hrs | 2752 | by Staff reporter

Varsity graduates hope for better Zimbabwe

Calls for equipping the girl child with educational skills have been growing louder across the world with Zimbabwe being one of the countries to partake in the ''every girl child in school campaign.''This development has seen most girls at…

Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 19:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

'Mugabe ally's children chucked out of varsity'

Former Energy minister Samuel Undenge has been dragged to the High Court by his daughters Bongai and Kumbirai, who are represented by their mother, seeking to force him to pay their school fees.According to an urgent chamber application fi…

Published: 17 Mar 2018 at 08:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Mugabe appoints varsity councils

PRESIDENT Mugabe has appointed councils for nine State universities including the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) in Bulawayo as well as the Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education (ZIMCHE) board.Nust had been operating …

Published: 28 Jun 2017 at 06:05hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter

Baby dumped in MSU sewage pond

IN a suspected act of infanticide, a newborn baby was found dead, dumped in a sewage pond at Midlands State University (MSU) main campus, police have confirmed.Midlands Police spokesperson Inspector Joel Goko confirmed the incident which o…

Published: 11 Oct 2015 at 16:40hrs | 4 | by Munyaradzi Musiiwa

LUPANE State University introduces new degree programme

LUPANE State University (LSU) has introduced a Department of Educational Foundations and three degree programmes in the Faculty of Commerce. The Department of Educational Foundations which commenced in April offers a Bachelors Degree (Hono…

Published: 30 Jun 2013 at 21:25hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

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