SOUTH Africa’s upcoming national elections, where the ruling African National Congress (ANC) will be seeking to extend its rule by another five years might present headaches for ZANU-PF. (more…)
ZIMBABWE’S 34-year-old education for all drive is fast losing momentum. Gains the country had made in education since independence in 1980, which government had fervently and unrelentingly pursued, much to the envy of neighbouring countries, are rapidly evaporating. (more…)
BULAWAYO — Government’s move to veto hikes in school fees by denying such requests has met with mixed feelings.A number of schools had applied to government for permission to raise fees citing northward bound operational costs but found government to be unyielding.In fact, bureaucrats in the education sector…
BULAWAYO — The new and first ever Minister of State for Liaising on Psychomotor Activities in Education Josiah Hungwe has begun consultations on transforming the country’s education system, four months after his appointment. (more…)
FOR now, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) leader Morgan Tsvangirai appears to have abdicated his main role of closely monitoring the government of the day and holding it accountable to the public. (more…)
BULAWAYO — The US$20 million proposed in the National Budget to compensate depositors whose Zimbabwe dollar balances were trapped in the financial system when the country switched over to the multi-currencies in 2009 is too little to wipe off government’s indebtedness. (more…)
BULAWAYO — Analysts have called upon residents’ associations to concentrate on their core mandate of representing residents and stop meddling in politics.Residents’ associations have been accused of deviating from their core mandate of championing the interests of their diverse members by meddling in politics of the day.University of…
THE year 2014 begins amidst serious uncertainties’ as to whether ZANU-PF’s new mandate to rule would usher in a turnaround of the faltering economy or things would take a turn for the worst. Following the dissolution of the inclusive government after last year’s general polls, President Robert Mugabe’s…
THE ZANU-PF government has its work cut out for it in the New Year despite claims that the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation (Zim Asset), its economic blueprint, will ignite economic revival. (more…)
AS he travelled back to Zimbabwe just before Christmas from South Africa, where he has been staying for the past year, James Kunaka (33) was determined never to return to the neighbouring country. Feeling homesick and somewhat displaced and with threats of xenophobic violent acts always lurking in…