Monthly Archives: May 2009
A-Level Results Out Tomorrow
Herald 21 May 2009 Harare — THE November 2008 Zimsec Advanced Level results will be out tomorrow while Ordinary Level results are expected to be released on June 5 as Government set June examination fees at US$10 per subject for both “O” and “A” Levels. Education, Sport, Art and Culture Minister David Coltart yesterday said […]
Mutasa accused of inciting teachers’ strike
Zimbabwe Times 20 May 2009 By Our Correspondent Harare – The Public Service Association, PSA, the umbrella body representing civil servants in the country has applied for police permission to march in protest at failure by the government to address their remuneration concerns. In the PSA application, which is addressed to the officer commanding Harare […]
‘A’ and ‘O’ Level June exams postponed
New Zimbabwe.com By Lebo Nkatazo 20/05/2009 THE government has postponed the Advanced and Ordinary Level June examinations by a month while last year’s delayed examination results would be released starting Friday, Education Minister David Coltart said Wednesday. Coltart said the government has availed US$352,218,000 to the Zimbabwe Schools Examinations Council (Zimsec) for the running of […]
Culture Week Opens With Bang
Herald 20 May 2009 Harare — The Culture Week celebrations are back with a bang and this year there are no lowlights with several standout activities lined up throughout the country to mark the seven-days of plenty. One of the highlights at the launch ceremony held at the Zimbabwe College of Music in Harare on […]
A most dangerous time
The Age Russell Skelton, Harare May 16, 2009 In a land of continued violence, struggle and fear, the critical question is whether the “inclusive government” brokered after last year’s national election stalemate ever had a hope of success. ASATU sits in the filtered, early morning light, gently sobbing. She is 22 and eight months pregnant. […]
Tsvangirai is now a Born- again Christian
Zim Diaspora Sunday, 17 MAY 2009 Administrator Religion Zimbabwe Prime Minister and mainstream MDC leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, says he is now a born-again Christian after his wife, now late, took him to church. Speaking at the memorial service for his wife, Susan Nyaradzo Tsvangirai, held at the Large City Hall in Bulawayo on Saturday, the […]
Parents, school heads clash over exam fees
Sunday News Deputy News Editor 17 May 2009 CONFUSION reigned in primary schools across the country last week as school heads demanded that parents pay US$15 as fees for writing grade seven examinations while the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) insisted that this year’s fees had been scrapped. Most of the schools had set May […]
Mudenge Should Slash Fees
The Standard 16 May 2009 I AM writing this letter to register my anger at the Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Dr Stan Mudenge, for misleading thousands of students at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ). The minister said six boreholes were to be drilled at UZ prior to the opening of the institution. The […]
In Bulawayo, too, they remembered the fallen
SA JEWISH REPORT 15 May 2009 BY DAVID SAKS ON MAY 3, nearly three-quarters of the Bulawayo Jewish community gathered at the Holocaust memorial in the Jewish cemetery for the annual Yom Hashoah ceremony. Among those who attended was MDC Senator David Coltart, the newly-appointed minister of education. The ceremony was conducted by African Jewish […]
EU Hosts Environment Conference in Zimbabwe
VOA By Peta Thornycroft Harare 14 May 2009 This week in Harare the European Union hosted an environmental conference in Zimbabwe which organizers hope would start a multi-party conversation about land ownership and use. The issue continues to be at the center of the country’s political conflict. EU ambassador Xavier Marchel, who has been the […]