Schools Bar Pupils Over Fees
The Herald 5 May 2010 Harare — Schools in Harare opened for the second term yesterday with scores of students at Government institutions being turned away for failing to pay tuition fees and levies. The financial burden on parents appears to have taken its toll as large numbers of schoolchildren did not attend classes. The
Zimbabwe Cabinet Deliberations on Visit by North Korean Soccer Team Pushed Off
VOA By Gibbs Dube May 5, 2010 Cabinet discussion of whether Zimbabwe should invite the North Korean soccer team to train in the country through the June-July World Cup period has been put off to next Tuesday as President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai are in Tanzania for the World Economic Forum, a
Minister Coltart’s daughter survives lion attack
Zimbabwe Guardian 4 May 2010 The daughter of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart’s daughter was on Saturday mauled by a lion and had to undergo surgery at St Anne’s Hospital in Harare. She was attacked at the Antelope Game Park in Gweru before being hospitalised at St Anne’s Hospital. “She was operated
Zimbabwe Cabinet to Review Sensitive Issue of Hosting North Korean Soccer Teams
VOA By Gibbs Dube Washington 3 May 2010 The Zimbabwean Cabinet on Tuesday was to take up the highly sensitive question of to whether the country should invite North Korea’s soccer team to train in the country through the World Cup in neighboring South Africa, amid demands by Matabeleland regional activists that the team not
Minister Coltart’s daughter bitten by lion
SW RADIO Africa By Violet Gonda 3 May 2010 Bethany, the eight year old daughter of Minister of Education David Coltart, was attacked by a lion at Antelope Game Park in Mkoba, Gweru, on Saturday morning. The Minister told SW Radio Africa on Monday that his traumatised daughter was airlifted to St Annes hospital Harare
Teachers threaten to stay away as schools open in Zimbabwe
Zimdaily.com 2 May 2010 By Sarah Ncube ZIMBABWE – HARARE – Schools open Tuesday with divisions among teachers’ unions on the course of action to take following conflicting statements over salary increments. ZANU-PF aligned Zimbabwe Teachers’ Association has urged its members to report for duty when schools open while the more respected — the Progressive
Zimbabwe players bury the hatchet to aid resurrection
The Observer By Andy Bull Sunday 2 May 2010 No team in the World Twenty20 have more to prove than Zimbabwe. They missed the 2009 edition in England after being denied visas and have been blackballed by most of the top nations in international cricket. Now they are powered by two potent forces: anger and pride. Anger for
A letter from the diaspora
SW Radio Africa By Pauline Henson 1 May 2010 Dear Friends, The UK is in the throes of an election campaign. For perhaps the first time in years the Brits actually seem to have woken up to politics and one of the reasons has undoubtedly been the television debates between the leaders of the three
Still unclear if North Korea team will stay in Zimbabwe
Eyewitnessnews.co.za 1 May 2010 By Ryan Truscott Officials in Zimbabwe on Saturday said it was not clear whether the North Korean football team will train in the country ahead of the 2010 Fifa World Cup. Rights groups had promised to protest against the team’s presence in Zimbabwe because of North Korea’s military involvement in the
MDC’s violent streak must be nipped in the bud
Zimbabwe Independent 30 April 2010 Editor’s Memo by Constantine Chimakure THE failure by the Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC to curb growing violence in the party is disturbing and gives credence to reports that its leaders are fanning the brutality – negating the founding principles of the party that placed so much emphasis on a non-violent democratic