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Bulawayo prioritises schools in master plan
BULAWAYO needs an additional 52 pre-schools and more learning institutions to meet the growing population. In the Bulawayo City Council's (BCC) 2021-2033 Masterplan proposal, the city fathers ...Published: 20 Apr 2021 at 17:23hrs | 250 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda villagers build dams
VILLAGERS in the Garanyemba area of Gwanda in Matabeleland South province have launched a community initiative to build small dams and roads to boost development in the area.In an interview, w...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 09:07hrs | 296 | by Staff reporter
Nakamba targets one million kids
WARRIORS midfielder, Marvelous Nakamba, has set himself a target to assist, at least, one million kids in Zimbabwe to have access to education. This will be done through his Marvelous Nakamba Foundati...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 07:21hrs | 356 | by Staff reporter
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 | 928 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gets 1 million more COVID-19 doses from China
With the vaccine supply chain now assured with the arrival yesterday of more than a million doses of Sinovac vaccine, the bulk of Zimbabwe's first commercial order, the Ministry of Health and Child Ca...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 06:28hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter
New exam model for Forms 4 and 6
THE Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has said this year all examination classes will be subjected to a new model that will combine marks for continuous assessment as well as final examinati...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 06:44hrs | 1416 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to issue Covid-19 'passport'
ZIMBABWE will be among the first countries in the world to issue out Covid-19 certificates that will be linked to the person's passport and National Identify Document.The certificate will also...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 06:49hrs | 1370 | by Staff reporter
'Broadcasters should speak all national languages'
Reaching 90 years of age on March 15 this year , retired veteran broadcaster and national languages enthusiast Amon Nyamambi, better known on the airwaves as 'uMaqhulayibambe' his grandfather's name, ...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:26hrs | 324 | by John Masuku
Zimbabwe regime's shameless incompetence only serves to reinforce colonial stereotypes that Africans just talk but seldom delive
As per my usual daily routine, I pray to Jehovah God as the first thing I do (and, the first Person I talk to), then converse with my wife, and then get my daily dose of the morning news (both local a...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 09:29hrs | 240 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF's bid to dissipate MDC might return to haunt it
LAST week's Zanu-PF politburo meeting was interesting in two ways - the apparent strange continuation of the shamed Kembo Mohadi as the party's vice president, and second secretary. I have never under...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | 2671 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Greedy' councils sacrificing recreational facilities
LOCAL authorities countrywide, who are capitalising on the rising demand for residential stands and sacrificing space reserved for children's recreational facilities in urban areas, are violating the ...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 06:08hrs | 281 | by Staff reporter
Using philanthropic work to gain cheap publicity and humiliating recipients is the height of sadistic cruelty, hypocrisy and sel
What should be the main motive behind helping the needy? What makes someone wake up one morning, and decide that they want to provide for the disadvantaged? Why, then, would the same person feel compe...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 14:03hrs | 366 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Boys and men are raped also - urgent need to eliminate double-standards in prosecution of sexual gender-based violence cases
As a survivor of childhood sexual gender-based violence - which I was subjected to at the tender age of seven years old, at the hands of an older female, whom we resided with, and for some strange rea...Published: 09 Mar 2021 at 14:36hrs | 651 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ZANU PF's eagerness to dissipate MDC might return to haunt them, as could be spur needed to finally urge Zimbabweans to stand up
Yesterday's ruling ZANU PF party Politburo (supreme body) meeting was interesting in two ways - firstly, the apparent strange continuation of the shamed Kembo Mohadi as the organization's vice preside...Published: 04 Mar 2021 at 10:23hrs | 2304 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Corruption in Zimbabwe fueled by ZANU PF's 'tichingotonga' mentality of a leadership that believes will never leave power
After waking up early in the morning to chop firewood for cooking, in the middle of a low-density suburb - as there has not been any electricity supply in our area for the past two days - there is not...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 14:08hrs | 705 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Quicker route to wealth for black Africans
AFRICANS are currently receiving education that orients them towards employment rather than real wealth creation.Most value chains for our daily consumables as black people in Africa are contr...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 06:44hrs | 1037 | by Dumisani Nduku
Zimbabwe in quandary due to a leadership that has no idea what leadership entails
If ever there is one sure thing to expect from Zimbabwe's leadership, it is that they will never accept any responsibility for anything that goes wrong in the country, nor will they apologize and allo...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 10:28hrs | 602 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Village head killed by police after armed robbery
Matembudze Village head Marxwell Matembudze was shot dead by the police at his home in Ward 23, Chief Nyakunuwa area in Zaka after he resisted arrest.Matembudze was among five suspected robber...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 06:41hrs | 4221 | by Staff reporter
Kwekwe school maintains 100% pass rate
CAMELOT Primary School in Kwekwe recorded a successive 100% pass rate in the 2020 Grade Seven Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) national examinations.The headmistress, Clarinet Sit...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 06:25hrs | 607 | by Staff reporter
Govt, private sector venture to build 140 blocks of flats
AT least 140 blocks of flats will be built in a large housing programme in Prospect Harare with private sector partners doing the development on Government land.This follows the State's alloca...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:41hrs | 199 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe pilot makes waves in US
GROWING up in the dusty streets of Highfield in Harare more than 40 years ago, Felix Chiota would gaze in awe at the sky each time an airplane flew over his neighbourhood. At a young age, Chio...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 07:31hrs | 2375 | by Staff reporter
Hardships pushing young girls into prostitution
SHE wriggled in pain, trying to set herself free from the tightened grip of the menacing older woman, who was about to choke her to death.She was too frightened to scream, let alone say anythi...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 05:51hrs | 1173 | by Staff reporter
Sibusiso B. Moyo, the man who read Mugabe the riot act
November 15, 2017 is not an ordinary day in Zimbabwe's political history. The day was characterised by action-packed events that culminated in the resignation of former president Mr Robert Mugabe....Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 18:33hrs | 2757 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe regime getting taste of own medicine, and shouldn't mourn about US 'hypocritical' bullying
If ever there were profound lessons life has taught me, these are that, 'we reap what we sow', 'what goes around, eventually comes around', and that 'poetic justice' is never far away from those who b...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 08:03hrs | 1009 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Government to arrest those spreading falsehoods about Covid-19 and the vaccine
The CORONA VIRUS pandemic has shaken the world and gripped it with fear. In the last 24 hours I lost people very close to me due to COVID. there is no one who can say he does not know a family which l...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 18:39hrs | 1245 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Nodumo Nyathi never asked for favours
THE chairman of the Highlanders South African Supporters Chapter Nodumo Nyathi says he never asked for any favours from the Bulawayo giants after he led a spirited fundraising campaign to clear the cl...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 07:47hrs | 897 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe regime crippled by fear more than us, we're more powerful together
Zimbabweans have borne the brunt of unflattering worldwide ridicule over our perceived cowardice and fear in boldly standing up, and speaking out, for our God-given rights to a dignified and respectab...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 17:48hrs | 1590 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimdancehall chanter wins US$10,000
RISING Zimdancehall artiste and Lower Six student at Washington Hills High, Keith "Spucky B" Antonio (19), has emerged the ultimate winner of the US$10K grand prize for the Sasai African and Talented ...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 07:01hrs | 701 | by Staff reporter
NewsDay senior reporter dies
NEWSDAY senior court reporter Charles Laiton has died. He was 48.Laiton, who is survived by his wife and five children, passed on yesterday mid-morning at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospita...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 06:54hrs | 487 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean scientist in Covid-19 vaccine breakthrough
A US-BASED Zimbabwe-born scientist Dr Tatenda Shopera has made history by being part of a team that developed the world's first Covid-19 vaccine. Dr Shopera is a senior scientist (bioprocess r...Published: 17 Dec 2020 at 06:53hrs | 1035 | by Staff reporter
Indeed, let's tell our own true African story, including the brutality we have suffered under our 'liberators'
It was with great delight and jubilation when I learnt about the establishment of an African museum, that would tell the true African story, from the perspective of Africans themselves - as that would...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 16:51hrs | 363 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'They called me a dissident,' says Thambolenyoka
Tennyson Ndlovu is quite an enigma. Having joined the liberation struggle at 21, he quickly became a highly-respected instructor for the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA), only to be demobil...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:45hrs | 1014 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife launches school feeding scheme for Harare
ZIMBABWEANS should unite in fighting hunger in schools and ensure every learner acquires education regardless of social standing, the First Lady, Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa, has said.Speaking at ...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:37hrs | 57 | by Staff reporter
Lamentations of a Zimbabwean
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Here are the lamentations of a Zimbabwean.Any oppressor is given the power to oppress by the oppressed. That is what we refuse to acknowledge as Zimba...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 06:22hrs | 531 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Teachers absent as schools re-open
TEACHERS have been urged to report for duty as schools opened under Phase Three which has paved the way for lessons for everyone in primary and secondary school to resume being conducted in the classr...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 23:23hrs | 7646 | by Staff Reporter
5 300 new teachers start work
THE 5 300 teachers recently engaged to beef up staff at schools following Government's decision to reduce classes to maximum of 30 pupils to allow for social distancing start work today. The l...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 05:31hrs | 2033 | by Staff reporter
Chaos looms at schools, says Minister
THE reopening of schools for the last batch of pupils next week might be chaotic, with Primary and Secondary Education deputy minister Edgar Moyo yesterday admitting that they don't have enough teache...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:37hrs | 970 | by Staff reporter
Parents withdraw children from school
PARENTS have withdrawn their children from a private school in Victoria Falls saying they cannot afford the fees. Amazing Kids Primary School is run by Mr Ozias Marange of Makomwe Transport an...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:24hrs | 1659 | by Staff reporter
Minister grilled over recruitment of new teachers
Members of Parliament on Wednesday grilled Primary and Secondary education deputy minister Edgar Moyo over government's plans to recruit 10 000 new teachers before resolving the salary stalemate with ...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:28hrs | 1779 | by Staff reporter
Bail bid flops for terror gang member
A BID to secure freedom through the High Court by police officer Tapiwa Mangoma, 27, who harboured Zimbabwe's most wanted seven-member terror gang at his residence in Beitbridge supplying them with am...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 14:20hrs | 1017 | by Staff reporter
Having endured bullying and sexual abuse in my childhood, Zimbabweans shouldn't tolerate any more bullying and brutality by regi
This is arguably the most traumatic, painful, and difficult article that I have ever penned in my entire 31 years of social justice activism through media writings - having embarked on this long and t...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 13:40hrs | 1472 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Knowledge for all, not ignorance, can restore hope in Zimbabwe
"IGNORANCE is bliss", but only temporarily. As the world commemorates the International Day for Universal Access to Information, it is worth re-stating the importance of knowledge, for everyone – no...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:40hrs | 190 | by Chris Mhike
Dr Masimba Mavaza, sex in Zimbabwean culture is tantamount to rape. Men think sex is physics!
Dr. Mavaza, your article was informative, I am sure many will benefit from your input. What excited me most in your article is not so much about sex element which is exciting enough but your confirmat...Published: 24 Sep 2020 at 12:39hrs | 5257 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe ruling elite unfit to govern a democratic state - as not trained to serve and protect, but only to kill and destroy
Yesterday I experienced two things that clearly opened my eyes to why I have never seen eye-to-eye with those in power in Zimbabwe, and will forever be at loggerheads.The first was having to t...Published: 16 Aug 2020 at 09:38hrs | 2568 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Book Aid International supports libraries in Bulawayo
Bulawayo City Council has revealed that the Book Aid International is continuing to support libraries in the city despite economic hardships and Covid 19 outbreak.This is revealed in the lates...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 08:21hrs | 503 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwean actress fulfilling Hollywood dream
Sibongile Mlambo, a Zimbabwean actress based in Hollywood, says she enjoys authentically portraying different characters, lives, and perspectives, especially those of fierce, strong, multi-faceted wom...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:55hrs | 529 | by Staff reporter
Master Ndo wasn't a thug, says Simango
CLAIMS that Pumula's mystic martial arts king Ndodana Gonde, better known as Master Ndo, was a violent street thug and gang leader, who took advantage of his karate skills to harass and terrorise inno...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:56hrs | 900 | by Staff reporter
Perrance Shiri untimely death - evoking my traumatic childhood memories of witnessing Gukurahundi genocide
When I woke up this morning, there were two main things on my mind: to check if there was still Internet connectivity, as there had been widespread rumours last evening of an impending plan by the Zim...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 15:09hrs | 1358 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Saved from the bad boys by bad boys
On Thursday 23 July prominent lawyer Alex Magaisa had an expose on the farm mechanisation scandal of 2007 of farm equipment that was meant to benefit the then newly resettled farmers in the government...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 20:04hrs | 1415 | by Sandra Bvungidzire
Zimbabweans with Coronavirus to pay US$5 000
Mater Dei Hospital has announced that it will be charging US$ 60 for casualty and US$3000 for a general ward and then US$5000 for ICU for all aptients with Coronavirus.Commenting on the matter...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 10:18hrs | 11615 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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