Herald
28 July 2010
Herald Reporter
Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart has announced a new 18-member Zimbabwe School Examinations Council board as part of efforts to revamp operations at the body.
He retained three members from the old board. The new board is chaired by Solusi University Vice Chancellor Professor Norman Maphosa and will be deputised by Chartered Accountant Mrs Hilda Shindi.
Prof Maphosa sat on the old board and was retained. The team takes over from the Professor Phineus Makhurane-led board whose term of office expired in 2006.
However, that board last met in May 2008 to discuss the institution’s challenges.
The Zimsec Act stipulates that the chairman of the board must be a serving Vice Chancellor of a university. Prof Makhurane ceased to be National University of Science and Technology VC on June 30, 2004.
However, Prof Makhurane was retained in the new board, as was Prof Obert Maravanyika (Great Zimbabwe University Vice Chancellor).
New board members are Paul Themba Nyathi (former MDC MP for Gwanda North), Dr Gary Brooking, Dr Wonderful Dzimiri (Midlands State University), Dr Zifikile Gambahaya and Dr Rosemary Moyana (both University of Zimbabwe). Also on the board are Mr Erison Huruba (Education Ministry), Dr Primrose Kurasha and Dr Leonorah Nyaruwata (both Zimbabwe Open University) and Dr Isaac Machakanja (Africa University).
Others are Dr Donna Musiyandaka (Chinhoyi University of Technology), Ms Nomsa Hazel Ncube (Law Society of Zimbabwe), Mrs Lesley Ross, Mr Andrew Jonathan Sibanda (NUST) and educationist Mr Obert Sibanda.