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By Regis Chingawo TEACHERS’ unions have called on the Zimbabwe Schools Examinations Council (Zimsec) to increase the examination markers’ allowances as the payments are “poor and demoralising”. In an interview with the Daily News, the president of Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) Takavafira Zhou accused the examination body of making “unilateral” decisions in pegging…

THE Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) has been taken to court by an Advanced Level candidate, Yolandah Musonde, who failed to obtain her results despite having sat for the examinations in 2020. The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZHLR) initially wrote a letter of demand to the examination body in September this year on behalf…

By Nyasha Dube A CHINHOYI man Jonah Chiramba has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after the High Court found him guilty of causing the death of a taxi driver Sydney Zuruvi in 2017. Chiramba was arrested after he attempted to hijack Zuruvi’s Honda Fit vehicle which the now deceased was using as a…

By Yvonne Ncube A BULAWAYO magistrate court has ordered that Godknows Ncube, 26, facing stock theft charges must go through psychiatric tests to establish if he is mentally stable after he allegedly stole three goats at a local farm and slaughtered them at the crime scene. Ncube from Nyamandlovu appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Busani Sibanda…

By Nyasha Dube HIGH Court judge, Justice Lucy Mungwari, has acquitted a Guruve man, Herbert Mikunku, ruling that he was acting in self-defence when he kicked Togarepi Kamanga in the chest resulting in injuries that led to his death. According to court documents, on April 8 2018, Kamanga went to his father in law’s homestead…

FORMER Finance minister and Citizens Coalition for Change senior member Tendai Biti believes Zimbabwe has nothing to benefit from re-joining the Commonwealth, describing the grouping as a ‘‘tea committee’’. Last month, the Commonwealth’s assistant secretary-general Luis Franceschi was in Zimbabwe to assess the situation in the country as Harare seeks re-admission into the grouping. On…

THE government is grappling with the shortage of primary and high school qualified teachers in rural communities amid concerns that the trained personnel were resisting deployment to the countryside. Education ministry permanent secretary Tumelang Thabela told the Daily News on Sunday yesterday that while the government was training and recruiting teachers, new recruits were resisting…

By Nyasha Kunyiswa AT LEAST five people are dying while 120 others are being injured daily in deadly road traffic accidents and the government has called for all stakeholders to work together to reduce the carnage in the country. The shocking statistics were confirmed by deputy Transport minister Mike Madiro in Harare at the Traffic…