EDITOR — The teacher to pupil ratio in most primary and secondary schools in Zimbabwe currently stands at 1:50 and in some extreme cases one teacher to 80 learners, a scenario which definitely compromises quality of the end result. Just imagine how parents are traumatised and tormented by just one or two kids of ECD…
HARARE – Sharif Mussa’s decision to quit as the manager of the Zimbabwe senior national football team is a very big blow to the country’s most loved sport. Mussa was a dedicated professional who selflessly discharged his services for the benefit of the national game often with very minimal appreciation from the Zimbabwe Football Association…
HARARE – Former Presidential Affairs minister and one of the caretaker leaders of the Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) party, Didymus Mutasa, says the popular former prime minister during the government of national unity, Morgan Tsvangirai, is the only person “capable and deserving” of leading the country’s mooted opposition coalition. Speaking to the Daily News in…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe returned home from Singapore yesterday morning — where he had gone for a medical check-up — but will have little time to either rest or knuckle down to business in his office as he is scheduled to fly out this morning, to attend Ghana’s independence celebrations. Mugabe took medical leave…
HARARE – The crippling doctors’ strike, which was nearing four weeks, was called off in the interest of saving desperate patients’ lives, a union representing the health professionals said. According to the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA), government offered them a raw deal as it failed to meet their demands, but they considered calling off…
HARARE – The appointment process of retired Chief Justice (CJ) Godfrey Chidyausiku’s successor has lost credibility due to political interference, a legal watchdog — Veritas — has said. It said the race to replace Chidyausiku, who retired last week after reaching the retirement age of 70, has been marred by Zanu PF infighting. “It is…
HARARE – Opposition Transform Zimbabwe (TZ) plans to petition Sadc over government’s alleged move to hijack the procurement of biometric voter registration (BVR) kits from the United Nations’ Development Programme (UNDP). A few weeks ago, President Robert Mugabe’s hard-pressed administration announced it will inject $17 million towards the procurement of the BVR kits, to be…
HARARE – Police in Mhondoro-Ngezi are finding it difficult to attend to crime scenes due to a severe shortage of vehicles, officer commanding Mashonaland West province Rangarirai Mushaurwa has said. She said the single Land Rover Defender vehicle that has been servicing the area — dogged by rampant stock theft — is currently broken down,…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has upgraded the National Defence College to university status. The institution, which remains under the Defence ministry’s ambit, is now Zimbabwe National Defence University, as proclaimed in Friday’s government gazette. Established in October 2007 as Robert Mugabe National School of Intelligence, the learning institution trains members of the army, police…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF is forcing Mwenezi East villagers to obtain birth certificates and identity cards for the purposes of registering for the forthcoming by-election, a human rights group has claimed. The poll — proclaimed by Mugabe on February 3, and gazetted in Statutory Instrument 25A/2017 — will be held on April…
