Monthly Archives: April 2009
Honesty is the best policy
The Zimbabwean 3 April 2009 Schools will be closing this week after slightly more than one month of uninterrupted learning for our children. Notwithstanding a shortage of drugs, hospitals and clinics are open as nurses and doctors try to provide a service to the sick. Other government departments, slowly, have started to function again as […]
June 2009 exams could be dropped
Zimbabwe Times By Raymond Maingire 3 April 2009 HARARE – The government is under pressure to do away with this year’s June examinations following its continued failure to complete the marking of last year’s June and November public examinations due to a crippling strike by teachers over salaries. Education, Arts, Sport and Culture minister, David […]
Zimbabwe’s MDC ministers accept official Mercedes cars
The Times By Jan Raath 3 April 2009 All but one of Zimbabwe’s ministers from the former opposition has accepted an official Mercedes Benz. When they were in opposition MDC politicians condemned the profligacy of Mr Mugabe’s Mercedes Benz-mobilised Zanu(PF) party. Last September, when the agreement to form a power-sharing Government was signed, senior MDC […]
Ministers get Mercs whilst Nation starves
ZimEye.org April 2, 2009 Harare (ZimEye) – The cash-strapped government has given 39 ministers poshy cars – Mercedes Benz at a time the country is facing a deepening economic crisis. The Ministers received the cars last month and are enjoying the luxuries associated with driving the Mercedes Benz at the expense of ordinary Zimbabweans who […]