Monthly Archives: January 2011

New York Times 24 January 2011 By Celia Dugger BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe — The exhibit at the National Gallery is now a crime scene, the artwork banned and the artist charged with insulting President Robert Mugabe. The picture windows that showcased graphic depictions of atrocities committed in the early years of Mr. Mugabe’s 30-year-long rule are now papered over with […]

The Zimbabwean By Gift Phiri Monday, 24 January 2011 HARARE – Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara has been demoted by the powerful 24-member MDC Standing Committee, which has assigned Professor Welshman Ncube to take up his post as the new Deputy Prime Minister. Mutambara has been deployed to the ministry of Regional Intergration and International […]

Newsday By Mernat Mafirakurewa January 24 2011 Embattled Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara was on Sunday redeployed to a less glamorous portfolio at the Ministry of Regional Integration and International Co-operation, paving way for newly-elected MDC president Welshman Ncube’s ascendancy to the position of Deputy Premier. The recalling of Mutambara comes after concerted denials by […]

Sunday Mail 23 January 2011 FRESH allegations implicating Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart in a plot to smuggle Western ideology into the country have emerged amid revelations that he has dumped key secondary textbooks for publications that contain dodgy political undertones. It emerged last week that Senator Coltart intends to sideline Zimbabwean and African history to […]

Newsday By Ropafadzo Mapimhidze January 23 2011 It is almost a rhythmic pattern that every day, a school child is beaten by their teacher somewhere around Zimbabwe. Some are beaten so severely they have to seek medical attention. Although no figures are yet available to substantiate the extent of this violence, media reports have shown […]

Times Live January 22, 2011 By Vladimir Mzaca Henry Bala, a Bachelor of Arts graduate from a United Kingdom university, is back in the job market. Bala, having served as an educationist for more than 20 years, retired from civil service in the mid 1990s. “When I retired things were not bad economically. I was […]

SW Radio Africa 20 January 2011 The president of the revived Zimbabwe African People’s Party (ZAPU) Dumiso Dabengwa (Pictured) has said the kidnapping and later disappearance of MDC polling agent Patrick Nabanyama in June 2000 still worries him to this day. In a wide ranging interview on SW Radio Africa’s Question Time, Dabengwa said ‘much […]

Zimbabwean By Paul Ndlovu 19 January 2011 HARARE – The launch of Academies of Excellence might take longer than expected due to alleged financial constraints. In November last year, the government identified 20 schools that were to be turned into Academies of Excellence starting from January this year. Each province had two schools chosen for […]

Newsday 18 January 2011 By Khanyile Mlotshwa The federalist-oriented Matabeleland-based opposition party, Patriotic Union of Matabeleland (Puma), has challenged the Ministry of Education to re-look at its teacher deployment policy to avoid a situation where teachers who could not speak local languages were deployed to teach infants in the region. In an interview on Monday, […]

VOA By Gibbs Dube 17 January 2011 Sources familiar with a ministry concept paper said the program was to be implemented in all schools next month and would be supervised by officials of the Youth Ministry and trained youth based at the ward level Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Youth Development, Indigenization and Empowerment has circulated a […]