New lease of life for Zimbabwe’s children
Newsday 9th April 2011 Thirteen year old Sarah Motsi (not her real name) is writing her Grade 7 examinations this year and has high hopes of passing. She wants to become a doctor when she finishes school. A few months ago Sarah would not have harboured these ambitions at all as shortages of textbooks and
Coltart justifies Longman tender award
Newsday 8th April 2011 Education, Sport, Arts and Culture minister David Coltart on Wednesday told Parliament that Unicef has managed $52 million last year to avert a catastrophic textbook shortage and further decline in the country’s educational standards. Coltart made the remarks while addressing MPs in Parliament after they queried how Longman Publishers had won
School hikes fees to pay for road
Zimbabwean By Jane Makoni Friday, 8 April 2011 MARONDERA-SVOSVE – Parents here are bitter about St. Ludger Primary School which raised school fees from US$6 to US$10 starting next term, ostensibly to fund a public road maintenance project and ‘purchase’ text books. The school, which recently received text books and other educational material from UNICEF
Teachers in trouble over anti-sanctions petition
Newsday By Tatenda Chitagu in Masvingo April 6 2011 Two teachers at Ndarama High School are reported to have been beaten up by suspected members of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) after they denounced the anti-sanctions petition document which they had been ordered to take home for signing by their wives. According to the Progressive
Air Zim strike costs Chinese martial arts visit
Newsday 6th April 2011 The industrial action by pilots at Air Zimbabwe has denied the Zimbabwe Wushu Association a high-level visit from the Chinese Wushu Federation and the Beijing Shaolin Wushu School. Wushu is a form of martial arts. In a statement on Tuesday, the Zimbabwe Wushu Association president Muzondiwa Makowa said the three-member Chinese delegation
Parliamentary Question time 6 April 2011 – Hansard Volume 37:29 (unedited)
Hansard Volume 37:29 Parliamentary Question time 6 April 2011 PARLIAMENT OF ZIMBABWE Wednesday, 6th April 2011 The House of Assembly met at a Quarter-past Two o’clock p.m. PRAYERS (THE DEPUTY SPEAKER in the Chair) ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE DEPUTY SPEAKER CHANGES TO PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP THE DEPUTY SPEAKER: I have to inform the House of changes
Coltart to revive night school
Newsday By Fortune Moyo 5th April 2011 Education, Sport, Arts and Culture minister David Coltart says he has secured donor funding for the re-introduction of night school programmes in the country. Coltart told NewsDay the programme which was popular between the early 80s and 90s would be back soon. “As a ministry, we have resolved
Quartet to illuminate Zim exhibition in Venice
Zimbabwe Independent Friday, 1 April 2011 By Ngoni Muzofa FOUR artists are set to represent Zimbabwe at the 54th Venice Biennale –– a major contemporary art exhibition in Venice, Italy. The Biennale opens on June 1 and runs until the end of November. The Venice Biennale is one of the most prestigious international forums for
Former Test star Stuart MacGill says Australia A should not be touring Zimbabwe
The Daily Telegraph By Christian Nicolussi 31 March 2011 Don’t tour Zimbabwe…that’s the message from former Test star Stuart MacGill to Cricket Australia THE cricketer who once famously abandoned a tour of Zimbabwe has slammed Cricket Australia for a planned trip to the troubled African nation later this year. Stuart MacGill, who abandoned a 2004 tour
Children drafted to sign sanctions petition
The Zimbabwean Written by ZimOnline Wednesday, 30 March 2011 President Robert Mugabe’s supporters have drafted hundreds of schoolchildren from Mashonaland West province to sign a petition demanding scrapping of Western sanctions against the veteran leader and his top allies. Mugabe’s ZANU PF party hopes to collect at least two million signatures for the petition that