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Have Zimbabweans become Chivayo's wives?
Have we lost all self-respect?One of the most disturbing spectacles unfolding in Zimbabwe today is the humiliating spectacle of grown men and women - from all walks of life - openly begging co...Published: 09 Jun 2025 at 21:59hrs | 1129 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chivayo begs Mukanya to accept his gifts
Wickell Chivayo strongly criticized journalist Hopewell Chin'ono in response to his remarks following musician Thomas Mapfumo's refusal of a contentious businessperson's car and home gifts.In ...Published: 25 Mar 2024 at 18:47hrs | 20 | 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...Published: 30 Aug 2023 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt okays US$ university fees
UNIVERSITIES have been given the go ahead to peg their fees in United States dollars while allowing use of local currency convertible at interbank rate at the time of payment with Government reaffirmi...Published: 20 Aug 2023 at 09:27hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Tsholotsho woman seeks assistance to fulfil dream
A 25-year-old woman from Tsholotsho District, Matabeleland North Province is appealing for financial assistance to commence university studies to fulfil her dream of becoming a social worker.M...Published: 09 May 2023 at 06:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Education has highest inflation, says ZimStat
THE country's education sector has the highest inflation compared to other sectors, according to the latest Zimbabwe Statistics Agency (ZimStat) report.ZimStat says education had the highest i...Published: 28 Sep 2022 at 05:57hrs | 1 | 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 ...Published: 18 Sep 2022 at 16:53hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Robayi bash, injure UZ students during flash protest over fee hike
Police, popularly known as orobayi, Monday beat up and injured three female University of Zimbabwe (UZ) students who were part of a group of 14 learners arrested during a flash campus protest over a s...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
16 UZ students arrested for staging fees protest
SIXTEEN University of Zimbabwe (UZ) students were arrested Monday for participating in a protest that erupted at the Mt Pleasant campus to press for a cut in tuition fees.The group is expected...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Armed security thwarted protests?
HEAVILY armed security detachments yesterday thwarted a nationwide shutdown called by university students, teachers and nurses.Government deployed armed security forces in the capital and othe...Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe shutdown protest call gains momentum
Internet activists joined by students and trade unions have called for a stay-at-home protest on May 9 over Zimbabwe's deepening economic crisis.Mobilising under the hashtag #ShutDownZimbabwe,...Published: 05 May 2022 at 20:59hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Govt justifies hefty varsity fee hikes
HIGHER and Tertiary Education minister Amon Murwira has justified the widely criticised university fee hikes as necessary to promote and finance quality education in the country.He issued a mi...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 09:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Parly turns heat on minister over varsity fees hike
MEMBERS of National Assembly have requested Higher and Tertiary Education minister Amon Murwira to issue a ministerial statement in the House on the escalating fees charged to tertiary students....Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 06:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Adv Sibanda declared national hero
THE Zanu-PF Politburo has posthumously declared the late former High Court Judge Advocate Siwanda Kennedy Mbuso Sibanda a national hero.Adv Sibanda, a legal icon of the liberation struggle, di...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 18:58hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Wife sells veggies, raises hubby's versity fees, he gets degree and weds another woman
A woman who claims to have paid her husband's fees until he got a University degree was shocked on Friday when she found the latter wedding another woman at Chiredzi Magistrate Courts.Albert N...Published: 22 Dec 2021 at 17:46hrs | 11 | by Staff Reporter
'Zimbabwe's retailers deserve a wage subsidy'
WHILE government was bullish in the midterm fiscal policy and revised upwards gross domestic product (GDP) growth projections for 2021 from 7,4% initially projected in November last year to 7,8%, grow...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 08:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Teachers give notice to strike
THE education sector is set to suffer another heavy blow after teachers and State University employees gave notice yesterday to embark on a nationwide industrial action starting Monday to press for be...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 06:40hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
University fees hike ill-timed
The about 250 percent hike in university fees could not have come at a worse time for parents and guardians. As we reported, Government has approved fees increases for universities, following proposal...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 06:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
250% fees hike for varsities
Government has approved fees increases of up to 250 percent for universities, following proposals by tertiary institutions. Some State universities have announced their new fees structure which will s...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 06:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ariel Sibanda scores a gig
HIGHLANDERS captain and goalkeeper Ariel Sibanda continues to unlock his brand value after landing a gig with a Bulawayo fruit and vegetable outlet, Eyethu Fruit and Veg. Sibanda signed up to ...Published: 01 Mar 2021 at 04:55hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Where wildlife produces medical doctors
In Africa, some communities still don't have a single person who has graduated as a medical doctor. The reasons are many. It could be a lack of funds for brilliant children to further their ed...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 07:32hrs | 13 | by Emmanuel Koro
Mnangagwa threatens to withhold striking teachers' wages
LABOUR groups have criticised President Emmerson Mnangagwa over plans to withhold salaries of all teachers on strike.Speaking during a briefing in Mutare last week, Mnangagwa vowed to stick to...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
RBZ sees blended inflation in single digits in 2021
Inflation is expected to drop to double digits next year as the economy converges to a new steady state although there are now heightened stagflation fears. According to the RBZ, blended annua...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Outcry over Solusi University fees hike
Solusi University international students are up in arms with the university's management for increasing fees saying they have been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic.The university reportedly i...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 13:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Educate partners with UK's SympliFi
Educate, a Zimbabwe-based education access and people improvement company, has partnered with UK-based Fintech company, SympliFi, to enable Zimbabweans based in the United Kingdom to invest in the edu...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 08:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Govt dismisses university fees increase claims
GOVERNMENT has said all State-owned tertiary education institutions are not increasing school fees and should accept payment in both local and foreign currency. There were social media reports...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 08:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Express Links International Statement on Zimbabwe Fashion Showcase
Statement Express Links International Limited (www.expresslinksintl.com) are, honoured and delighted to be...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 11:41hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Undenge maintenance case ruling reserved
A Harare magistrate has reserved ruling on whether former Energy minister Samuel Undenge should continue paying maintenance for his son who has turned 18.Undenge, who has been dragged to the M...Published: 30 Jun 2018 at 17:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF vote rigging juggernaut well-oiled with $4b to MDC's $2m - will bullet train run out of gas before race is done
In 2013 SADC leaders wanted Zimbabwe's elections to be postponed to allow the implementation of the democratic reforms designed end Zanu PF's carte blanche powers to rig the elections. "If you...Published: 15 Apr 2018 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
'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....Published: 17 Mar 2018 at 08:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri's $270,000 maintenance case delayed
DIE another day!Sithulisiwe Mthimkhulu who is claiming a lump sum maintenance of $270k for her love child with Retired Commissioner General of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), Augustine Chi...Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 05:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri, mistress in messy child support row
Retired Commissioner General of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), Augustine Chihuri is embroiled in a messy maintenance wrangle, B-Metro can exclusively reveal.In court documents exclusively...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 06:28hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Whizz-kids appeal for financial aid
Two students in Triangle who gained straight As in their ‘‘A''Level results are appealing for scholarships or financial assistance to proceed to university.The two Terry Goss High School s...Published: 03 Feb 2018 at 20:07hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Adapt or Die: The need for Zimbabwean companies to adapt to the forex shortages
'Companies need to source their own forex.' This was the statement by the Minister of Industry and Commerce Michael Bimha at a recent press conference in Harare recently. He is absolutely right....Published: 06 Jan 2018 at 07:41hrs | 1 | by Gilbert O'Neil Mushure
In this present crisis, govt is not a solution to our problem: govt is the problem
When Shingai Sibanda, a family man and school teacher since the early 1990s is struggling to secure high school, college and university fees for his three daughters: is it fair to deduce that life wil...Published: 28 Dec 2017 at 07:45hrs | 1 | by Tafi Mhaka
Bindura University should not become the citadel of Ccorruption
As part of the current corruption busting campaigns and in light of the efforts being embarked on by the new government, I feel obliged to play a part in aiding the government's cause, albeit, in a ve...Published: 16 Dec 2017 at 05:49hrs | 3 | by Kudakwashe Ncube
Govt reviews policy on fees for students on attachment
Government is seized with the request to scrap fees for students on industrial attachment, Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has said. ...Published: 26 Jul 2017 at 08:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
State institutions to slash fees for students
STATE universities and other institutions of higher learning will soon slash fees for students on industrial attachment, the Deputy Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology De...Published: 12 May 2017 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Short story - The Money
What money? That was my reaction after receiving a message telling me to go and collect my money. During those days for cheap and fast communication people used ———- , what did they call it then...Published: 13 Mar 2017 at 15:01hrs | 1 | by Nyasha Reward Mapuvire
'Mukadzi waMugabe' Chinamasa tells Mugabe overseas health trips 'need attention'
The country's deplorable health situation made worse by Mugabe's persistence in flying out of the country for all his and his family's health needs is the one issue that had the smooth talking Finance...Published: 07 Jul 2016 at 20:24hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwean student languishing in Chinese jail
Johannesburg - A Zimbabwean student is languishing in a Chinese jail with no access to a lawyer or visits from family members. Paul Mbongeni Nyoni, a 21-year-old law student at Zhejiang Gongshang Univ...Published: 12 May 2016 at 10:16hrs | 4 | by Thabo Kunene
SimbaPay announces single money transfer of up to $45,000 (USD) to Africa
LONDONm - SimbaPay is revolutionizing the remittance space through its official announcement of raising the single transaction limit to a whopping $45,000. This is substantially higher than the previo...Published: 03 May 2016 at 18:26hrs | | by APO
Nust student blows fees, hangs self
A NATIONAL University of Science and Technology (Nust) student hanged himself in his father's house after blowing his college fees with a woman he met in a nightclub.George Bonomali, 26, of Mk...Published: 17 Mar 2016 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman wants her gun confiscated by police back
PHILISIWE Cele wants her gun back!Daily Sun reported that the 45-year-old mother of three says she doesn’t feel safe without it. The gun is held by cops at the Rosebank Police Station....Published: 11 Feb 2016 at 14:28hrs | | by Staff Reporter
25-year-old 'dumped' by lover claims maintenance from dad
A 25-YEAR-OLD Bulawayo woman yesterday dragged her father to the maintenance court demanding $250 maintenance.Rebecca Masuku, allegedly fresh from co-habiting with her lover, approached the co...Published: 27 Jan 2016 at 05:37hrs | | by Noleen Makhurane
What makes Robert Mugabe rattle his enemies so unfailingly?
What is it that makes Robert Mugabe rattle his enemies so unfailingly? Even when he does nothing at all?We have been having a big debate on the local media, more accurately, on a portion of it...Published: 26 Oct 2015 at 05:59hrs | 3 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Zimbabwe youth please rise up! SA youths next door 'did it', we can 'did it' too!
Youth of Zimbabwe please rise up and free us from the evil regime of Zanu PF! South African Youths have given you a practical example, please rise up! Rise up and fight for your birthrights.We...Published: 25 Oct 2015 at 19:59hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Solani: Zim-born and SA-bred street child who made good!
Wits law student, Solani Sibanda now has a promising life ahead of him and this is one of the good stories to be celebrated this youth month. The picture, however, was bleak when he was a homeless yo...Published: 07 Jul 2015 at 06:21hrs | 2 | by Miranda Lusiba
Zimbabwe University students graduating to be street vendors
Its very painful and shocking when Zimbabwe now turned Vending Capital of the world! Cities and Towns now turned to a dog eat dog scenario as desperate unemployed Zimbabweans jostle for customers ...Published: 09 Jun 2015 at 19:26hrs | 1 | by Richard M Simango
MDC Harare Youth Assembly Condemns Zanu-PF Congress
The MDC Harare Youth Assembly strongly condemns the upcoming Zanu-PF congress which is set to start tomorrow in the Capital. Zanu-PF is holding this celebration of national failure it calls a co...Published: 01 Dec 2014 at 19:31hrs | | by Francis Mufambi, MDC Provincial Youth Secretary General
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