September 19, 2024
The embarrassing mess-up by the Zimbabwe Schools Examin-ations Council (ZIMSEC), which replaced the Cambridge University examinations over a decade ago, was said to have cost several students across the country A-level places.Teachers and other stakeholders said a lot of O-level candidates had received examination slips with missing subjects…
Informed sources said the convention, dubbed the 2009 People Constitutional Convention, seeks to find a compromise amid fears the civic society could be left out if the majority prevailed that the process be boycotted.The National Constitutional Assembly (NCA), a non-governmental organisation, has been in the forefront campaigning for…
The accused persons’ lawyer, Blessing Nyamaropa, of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights said 88 villagers are being charged under the Criminal (Codification and Reform) Act and they would appear at Nyanga Magistrates Court on September 30 for trial. Nyamaropa added that the trial, initially penciled for June…
Ncube was the brains behind Barbican Bank, which he launched after converting Trade and Investment Bank's merchant banking license into a commercial banking license.He relocated to South Africa in 2004 at the height of a liquidity crunch that resulted in Barbican being forced to amalgamate with Trust Bank…
Market sources said recent developments, under which Telecel Zimbabwe had dismantled its antiquated base stations and replaced them with modern ones, were part of an ambitious plan for the mobile cellular operator to be seen as a competitor in the domestic mobile phone market, where it has always…
The launch comes more than a year after he abandoned ZANU-PF over policy issues and went ahead to contest the March 2008 presidential election against President Robert Mugabe and the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) led by Morgan Tsvangirai.Nearly 300 people attended the launch at Mbare's Stodart Hall…
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) took over the assets of Trust Bank, Royal Bank and Barbican Bank following its liquidation of the banking institutions, which had been declared insolvent.This followed an RBZ clampdown after rampant financial sector indiscipline – characterised by underhand dealings as well as a…
Government Ministers aligned to the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) dropped the clearest hint so far that the marriage between the country's main political parties was headed for the rocks barely five months after it was solemnised when they boycotted a Cabinet session on Monday that had been…
The contentious document was crafted in September 2007 by representatives of the three main political parties in Kariba at the height of the negotiations among the protagonists to the Zimbabwe crisis.South Africa brokered the negotiations.ZANU-PF has in recent weeks been trying to worm its way out of a…
Well placed KFHL sources told The Financial Gazette this week that the banking group which operates a discount house, a stockbroking firm and an asset manager had started laying the groundwork for heavy funding requirements in the post de-merger era.A former chief executive officer (CEO) of KMAL, Chanakira's…
