Mugabe talk reveals excessive old fashioned dictator
The Zimdiaspora By Job Sikhala www.zimdiaspora.com 25 October 2010 “There is only one President. Hanzi dai ndakaconsultwaâ€. These words came from the colossal and unmatched Zanu PF strongman and Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe. He was addressing a small group of no more than one hundred very old women of his same age who looked senile and starving at
Government acquires vehicles for senior education officers
Herald 25 October 2010 From George Maponga in MASVINGO GOVERNMENT is in the process of acquiring about 70 vehicles worth nearly US$1,3 million for senior education officers to improve monitoring schools throughout Zimbabwe. Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart said the vehicles would be distributed to senior education officials in an attempt to
Headmaster sues teachers for US$150 000
Standard http://www.thestandard.co.zw/ Sunday, 24 October 2010 By Caiphas Chimhete A Harare headmaster is suing four teachers for US$150 000 after they allegedly wrote to the Ministry of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture accusing him of looting school funds. Vainona High School headmaster David Makanza, through his lawyers Muvirimi and Associates, said the allegations by the teachers were highly
Innovative politicians turn to online social networks
Newsday 21 October 2010 By Mernat Mafirakurewa Last month Finance minister Tendai Biti revealed shocking statistics that ministers in the inclusive government were ignorant of technology with a mere 10% bothering to open and use e-mail addresses. He said some ministers even raised a storm over the amount of money allocated to the Information Communication
Success in Cambridge
www.nzfgw.org.nz By Esther Watt, NZFGW Fellow 21 October 2010 My year at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, studying for the LLM has been amazing. Academically, the year has been challenging and very rewarding. I took four papers relating to areas of my interest. Although the LLM paper in which I had hoped to write my thesis was unavailable this year, I was able to examine key aspects of
Death penalty a slur on civilisation
Newsday 20 October 2010 By Phillip Chidavaenzi and Veneranda Langa Within the forbidding prison complex, Rudo Masara (not her real name), sits silently, her vacant eyes gazing into the future, now just a wasteland. For a year now, she has been in this grim dungeon of Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison, to which society has banished
MDC’s Nabanyama declared dead
Newsday By Fortune Moyo 19 October 2010 Patrick Nabanyama, who disappeared after being abducted at the beginning of Zimbabwe’s political turmoil in 2000, has finally been declared dead. The declaration was officially made on August 11, but the announcement was made by his wife Patricia Nabanyama only Tuesday. She immediately applied for private prosecution of
Call for speedy re-engagement of temporary teachers
Chronicle 18 October 2010 Chronicle Reporter THE Ministry of Public Service has called for the fast-tracking of the re-engagement of temporary teachers. In an interview, Minister of Public Service, Professor Eliphas Mukonoweshuro, said there was a shortage of teachers in schools and there was an urgent need for the Ministry to speed up the re-engagement
Murdered activist: NGO wants fresh inquest
The Standard 17 October 2010 By Nqobani Ndlovu BULAWAYO — A human rights organisation representing victims of political violence has written to the Attorney General (AG) demanding a fresh inquest and prosecution of six surviving war veterans accused of kidnapping and murdering MDC activist Patrick Nabanyama in 2000. The Zimbabwe Victims of Organised Violence Trust
US$10 million unutilized funds
The Zimbabwean By Paul Ndlovu 13 October 2010 HARARE – The Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture has issued directives to his subordinates to use US$10 million that lay unutilised at the treasury to acquire learning materials for secondary schools in the country. Senator David Coltart said he came to know about the funds