Bulawayo is clean again

The Occasion Magazine By Margaret Kriel 16th May 2009 The streets of Bulawayo were so clean and shining after the Big Clean Up on Saturday morning, May 16, that we had to wear our sunglasses! Over one thousand people took to the streets armed with brooms, shovels, rubber gloves, plastic bags and masks, to Clean

At long last, exam results out Friday

Zimbabwe Times May 21, 2009 By Our Correspondent HARARE – The government will start releasing results for last year’s Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (ZIMSEC) examinations, beginning this Friday. The government has also committed itself to proceeding with this year’s mid-year public examinations, ending months of uncertainty over its capacity to manage any public examination before

Zimbabwe struggling to get funding for education: Minister

AFP 21 May 2009 HARARE, Zimbabwe (AFP) — Zimbabwe’s mid-year schools examination had been postponed for a month due to lack of funding by international donors, the education ministry announced Wednesday. And the results from last year’s exams, which should have been issued in February, would finally be released this Friday, Education Minister David Coltart

A-Level Results Out Tomorrow

Herald 21 May 2009 Harare — THE November 2008 Zimsec Advanced Level results will be out tomorrow while Ordinary Level results are expected to be released on June 5 as Government set June examination fees at US$10 per subject for both “O” and “A” Levels. Education, Sport, Art and Culture Minister David Coltart yesterday said

Mutasa accused of inciting teachers’ strike

Zimbabwe Times 20 May 2009 By Our Correspondent Harare – The Public Service Association, PSA, the umbrella body representing civil servants in the country has applied for police permission to march in protest at failure by the government to address their remuneration concerns. In the PSA application, which is addressed to the officer commanding Harare

‘A’ and ‘O’ Level June exams postponed

New Zimbabwe.com By Lebo Nkatazo 20/05/2009 THE government has postponed the Advanced and Ordinary Level June examinations by a month while last year’s delayed examination results would be released starting Friday, Education Minister David Coltart said Wednesday. Coltart said the government has availed US$352,218,000 to the Zimbabwe Schools Examinations Council (Zimsec) for the running of

Culture Week Opens With Bang

Herald 20 May 2009 Harare — The Culture Week celebrations are back with a bang and this year there are no lowlights with several standout activities lined up throughout the country to mark the seven-days of plenty. One of the highlights at the launch ceremony held at the Zimbabwe College of Music in Harare on

A most dangerous time

The Age Russell Skelton, Harare May 16, 2009 In a land of continued violence, struggle and fear, the critical question is whether the “inclusive government” brokered after last year’s national election stalemate ever had a hope of success. ASATU sits in the filtered, early morning light, gently sobbing. She is 22 and eight months pregnant.

Tsvangirai is now a Born- again Christian

Zim Diaspora Sunday, 17 MAY 2009 Administrator Religion Zimbabwe Prime Minister and mainstream MDC leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, says he is now a born-again Christian after his wife, now late, took him to church. Speaking at the memorial service for his wife, Susan Nyaradzo Tsvangirai, held at the Large City Hall in Bulawayo on Saturday, the

Parents, school heads clash over exam fees

Sunday News Deputy News Editor 17 May 2009 CONFUSION reigned in primary schools across the country last week as school heads demanded that parents pay US$15 as fees for writing grade seven examinations while the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) insisted that this year’s fees had been scrapped. Most of the schools had set May