Coltart set for crisis meeting with Zimsec officials
Chronicle Chronicle reporter 29th of September 2009 The Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture, Senator David Coltart, will this week hold a crisis meeting with the Zimbabwe schools examination Council (Zimsec), to find ways of helping pupils who fail to register for this year’s November examinations. The meeting comes in the wake of pleas
Speech: Conference of Heads of Independent Schools of Zimbabwe CHIZ : Harare 28/9/09
By Senator David Coltart Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Harare 28th September 2009 “ Back to the future†Introduction Mrs Robertson, Chairlady of CHIZ, Ladies and Gentlemen, Thank you for this invitation to open your annual conference. I note that your theme is “Back to the future†and that this represents a feeling
Zimbabwe schools begin fightback
CNN September 28, 2009 • STORY HIGHLIGHTS • In two years, 20,000 teachers have left Zimbabwe • Desperately poor parents sometimes pay for education with livestock • Zimbabwe’s education system suffered as the economy went into freefall • Head teacher: We need to teach these kids … to become something in the world HARARE, Zimbabwe
Dictator Mugabe Makes a Comeback
The New York Review of Books VOLUME 56, NUMBER 16 • OCTOBER 22, 2009 Dictator Mugabe Makes a Comeback By Joshua Hammer The arrivals lounge at Harare International Airport in Zimbabwe once provided a sinister foretaste of life under the Robert Mugabe dictatorship. In every corner lurked agents of Mugabe’s Central Intelligence Organization, his domestic
Back to school for many Zimbabwean children
Eyewitness News 21st September 2009 Many of Zimbabwe’s children are back at school after the main teachers’ union directed members to end their three-week strike. Zimbabwe’s education system is in a shambles and parents fear their children are far behind after two disrupted school years. The main union ZIMTA says it now understands the efforts
Teachers call off strike
Zimbabwe Telegraph 21st September 2009 ZIMBABWE – HARARE – The Zimbabwe Teachers Association has called off the strike by teachers and urged all its members to report for duty on Monday. In a statement, Zimta national president Tendai Chikowore said the National Executive Committee convened a meeting on Friday where it was resolved to call
Call for artists to join BAF
The Chronicle 21st September 2009 Entertainment Reporter The Bulawayo Arts Forum (BAF) is inviting artists in and outside Bulawayo to join the organisation. The co-ordinator of BAF, Joshua Nyapimbi, said the organisation was also appealing for support to conduct advocacy work. “There is an urgent need for BAF to formalise its membership if local artists
Zimbabwe’s Education System in ‘Shocking’ State
The Standard By Bertha Shoko and Vusumuzi Sifile 20th September 2009 Temptation Muringisi, a teacher in Highfield, is struggling to master one new technique she was never trained to do: getting pupils to concentrate while learning under a tree. Every now and then, she has to shout at her pupils to stop watching passersby and
Zimbabwe’s ‘Gringo Dish’: A year After GPA
The Standard By Alex Magaisa 20 September 2009 THIS week marked the first anniversary of the Global Political Agreement (GPA) between Zanu PF and the two MDC parties. Signed amid pomp and ceremony on September 15 2008, it became the basis of the Government of National Unity that has been in power since February 2009.
Civil Servants’ Strike Looms as Zimta Makes U-turn
The Standard 20th September 2009 A crippling civil servants strike is looming after government last week reneged on an agreement to meet unions to discuss fresh salary demands. But the Zimbabwe Teachers’ Association (Zimta) made a dramatic u-turn yesterday and called off its three-week-old strike accusing Zanu PF of trying to “hijack†the job action