Gokomere — a case of winding back to the long drop
Newsday By Tangai Chipangura 27 September 2011 After exactly 28 years, I returned to my old school, Gokomere High School, last week. As I left the Harare-Masvingo Highway, driving up the gravel road to the school, the familiarity of the scenery gripped me so strongly it felt eerily like the clock had wound back 20
Robbing teachers, criminal, immoral
Newsday Comment 26 September 2011 Zimbabwe’s teachers are among the least paid workers in the country and have, for years, fought losing battles for reconsideration and restoration of dignity to their profession. They earn around $300 per month, minus incentives – paid by parents and these benefit mostly teachers in urban areas. It is not only criminal
Crisis indaba over incentives
Herald By Felix Share 26 September 2011 EDUCATION, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart will tomorrow hold a crisis meeting with the three teachers’Â unions to strike a “common ground” over the payment of incentives. Confirming the meeting yesterday, the minister dismissed claims by teachers’ unions that the incentive scheme was not a Public
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If all our players had the lion heart of Tatenda Taibu we would be world beaters – took us within a whisker of beating Pakistan today # Methinks that Jonathan Moyo doth protest too much – about Wikileaks that is…what is said is said; what is done is done- just live with it # In
“We all know someone killed by ZANUPF”
The Sunday Independent, South Africa By Peta Thornycroft 25 September 2011 When Tendai Biti quipped that he was finance minister without any “financeâ€, his audience in a church hall in Harare smiled knowingly. They knew that when Biti went into the treasury for the first time as finance minister in 2009, he found his Zanu-PF predecessor had
“Government probes teacher unions”
Sunday Mail By Itai Mazire 25 September 2011 THE Government has launched investigations into the operations and financial affairs of the country’s three main teachers’ unions following allegations of misappropriation of US$7,6 million collected from teachers in membership fees annually. Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart last week confirmed the launch of the
Coltart Under Fire Over Teachers’ Incentives
Herald 23 September 2011 THE introduction of incentives for teachers was a “serious miscalculation” by Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister, David Coltart, teachers’ unions have said. Unions officials yesterday said the incentives were not a Public Service Commission policy, but came as a result of Minister Coltart’s “insistence”. This comes as teachers in some
Zimbabwe Teachers Association Backs Parents Over ‘Incentives’ Row With Striking Teachers
VOA  22 September 2011 By Violet Gonda Education Minister David Coltart had encouraged parents to make incentive payments to teachers at a time when the system was still recovering from a deep crisis during the tumultuous 2008 election year. “I am not going to support a teacher who finds himself fighting the parent because if
Chinamasa critical of AG
Financial Gazette Thursday,22 September 2011Â By Clemence Manyukwe, Political Editor JUSTICE and Legal Affairs Minister, Patrick Chinamasa, is allegedly critical of the Attorney General (AG)’s Office which he considers as incompetent. Chinamasa, who was once the country’s AG before he was appointed into cabinet, also believes that it is wrong for the AG, Johannes Tomana,
Technical subjects a priority: Tapela
Zimbabwean By Brenna Matendere Munyati 21 September 2011 Technical subjects should be prioritised above subjects such as history because they are more likely to equip students to contribute to the economy, said Deputy Higher Education Minister Senator Lutho Addington Tapela. Speaking at the graduation of over 600 students from Gweru Polytechnic college over the weekend, Sen