Monthly Archives: February 2009

Zim Daily By MIRANDA DUBE Published: Wednesday 25 February 2009 ZIMBABWE – HARARE – Scores of ordinary and advanced examinations markers yesterday thronged Belvedere Technical Teachers College for the second and final phase of the marking schedule. The markers who came in their droves were seen scrambling for accommodation at Belvedere Technical Teachers College from […]

New York Times By CELIA W. DUGGER Published: February 25, 2009 JOHANNESBURG — Two weeks after Zimbabwe’s opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, was sworn in as prime minister and joined President Robert Mugabe in governing, the archrivals are openly matching wits and wiles in a struggle to dominate the political landscape of a country whose people […]

Afrol News, 25 February 2009 Zimbabwean teachers have agreed to end a year long strike after the government promised to review salaries. Teachers had demanded to be paid in foreign currency to cope with the country’s hyperinflation currently estimated at 231 million percent. According to the state run newspaper, The Herald, the newly appointed Education […]

SW Radioafrica Violet Gonda 25 February 2009 5 WOZA members have been detained at Harare Central while 9 are being treated for injuries, after being severely beaten by police on Wednesday. The group were waiting to present a petition to David Coltart, the new Education Minister, when they were set upon by riot police. WOZA […]

RadioVop 25 February 2009 HARARE, – Education Minister David Coltart has made a plea to teachers to go back to work amid reports that in Chimanimani a headman is turning away teachers who fled political violence as commercial banks are also failing to cash the USD 100 vouchers paid as allowances to all civil servants. […]

Business Day By Dumisani Muleya 25 February 2009 SOUTHERN African Development Community (SADC) finance ministers, including SA’s Finance Minister Trevor Manuel, will meet in Cape Town today to discuss Zimbabwe’s economic recovery plan amid news the country needs $1bn to pay vital obligations. The summit, which comes a day ahead of the SADC council of […]

The Standard Tuesday, 24 February 2009 HARARE — Zimbabwe’s teachers have agreed to end a strike that emptied classrooms for a year, after the government promised to review salaries and appealed for 458 million dollars’ aid for schools, according to officials. Schoolteachers have been on strike since early last year to demand payment in foreign […]

New Zimbabwe.com By Tafadzwa G. Gidi 24 February 2009 FOR all the rhetoric and promises we hear from our politicians, business leaders and even individuals on the street about how much we need to change the status quo, when it comes down to it, no one really likes change. Put simply, even when we know […]

Sunday Herald Sun February 23, 2009 NEW Zealand Prime Minister John Key is prepared to intervene if needed to stop the country’s cricket team from touring Zimbabwe. The Black Caps are scheduled to play three one-day internationals in the strife-torn African nation in July under the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) future tours programme. The only […]

Tinaro Herald South Canterbury Monday, 23 February 2009 IT’S a vexed question that has cropped up before, but this time an added variable is thrown in. Should the Black Caps, our national cricket team, tour Zimbabwe, ravaged by cholera, AIDS, unemployment, rampant inflation and other ills that started on the watch of internationally vilified president […]