STAKEHOLDERS in the education sector have hailed the government for scrapping the Continuous Learning Assessment (Cala), replacing it with the School Based Continuous Assessment saying the new model of learning will foster specialisation. This comes after last week the cabinet received and approved the Heritage-Based Education 2024- 2030 curriculum, which seeks to foster critical thinking,…
WHEN the Warriors failed to play any friendly matches in the lead up to the start of their 2026 Fifa World Cup Group C qualifiers last year, the Zifa Normalisation Committee (NC) found themselves in the spotlight for the wrong reasons. After all, announcing that you would be playing a friendly match with so-and-so only…
ZAMBIA’S President Hakainde Hichilema has declared a national disaster to tackle the prolonged drought affecting the country. Addressing the nation on Thursday,…
Elon Musk is suing OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT, arguing it has breached the principles he agreed to when he helped found it in 2015. The lawsuit – which has also been filed against OpenAI boss Sam Altman – says the firm has departed from its original non-profit, open source mission. It says instead of…
THE Nigerian government says it has demanded almost $10bn (£8bn) in compensation from the cryptocurrency firm, Binance. It says Binance manipulated foreign exchange rates through currency speculation and rate-fixing, which have seen the naira lose nearly 70% of its value in recent months. Two Binance executives were arrested in Nigeria earlier in the week. Binance…
PROCESSES to introduce the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) have reached an advanced stage and it is expected to be operational by…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa was yesterday forced to abandon his trip to Victoria Falls after authorities were alerted to a “bomb or firearm threat” at all local airports. Mnangagwa’s spokesperson, George Charamba, later confirmed the ominous development — revealing further that authorities had been alerted to the possible terrorist attacks by budget airline Fastjet, which had…
THE state-run Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) on Thursday cut power supplies to the parliament over a debt of 23m Ghanaian cedi…
By Nyasha Kunyiswa kunyiswan@dailynews.co.zw IT is time that women strived even harder to rise above all the myriad obstacles that are hindering…
Emmanuel Marambe SPORTS WRITER marambee@dailynews.co.zw THE country’s African Gamesbound contingent of athletes and offi cials was unveiled yesterday with sports minister Kirsty Coventry urging the competitors to represent the country with pride in Accra, Ghana. Zimbabwe will be represented in 11 sports codes, namely athletics, cycling, chess, judo, rugby, karate, tennis, swimming, women’s cricket and…
