Monthly Archives: September 2010

The Zimbabwean By Tafadzwa G. Gidi 19 September 2010 Our people need to understand that diversity is great for Zimbabwe. I am not just talking about accepting Whites or Asians or Chinese who in many cases have roots in our nation going back for generations. For these people, Zimbabwean is all they have ever known. […]

Daily News www.dailynews.co.zw By Maxwell Sibanda 18 September 2010 HARARE – Education, Arts, Sports and Culture minister Senator David Coltart has urged political parties and rural communities to stop violence against teachers during  campaigns like the current constitutional making programme. “All those responsible for violence and killing  in rural communities are actually killing the teaching profession and destroying the education […]

Zimbabwean By Wallace Mawire 18 September 2010 HARARE – Former beneficiaries of the Farm Orphan Support Trust FOST) education assistance programme have been left out in the Basic Education Assistance Module (BEAM) and may be forced to drop out of school in the long run, according to FOST executive director Moira Ngaru. BEAM is a […]

New Zimbabwe 17 September 2010 IRELAND’S cricket team was flying out to Zimbabwe on Friday – defying UK government advice that the trip would send an “inappropriate message given the controversy surrounding President Robert Mugabe’s regime.” The Irish named a 14-strong squad which includes captain William Porterfield, Andrew White, Gary Wilson and Paul Stirling — […]

Chronicle 17 September 2010 PLAYERS who excelled for Matabeleland Tuskers during the last domestic cricket season will be honoured during the Tuskers awards ceremony to be staged at Queens Sports Club this evening. Vumindaba Moyo, the Tuskers area manager who is also the chairman of the organising committee, said all was set for the ceremony […]

New Zimbabwe.com By Alex T. Magaisa 17 September 2010 The “A to Z” of Zimbabwe’s Global Political Agreement – Two Years On … Alex T. Magaisa ON SEPTEMBER 15, 2008, the three main political actors in Zimbabwe, namely the Zanu PF, MDC-T and MDC-M signed the Global Political Agreement (GPA) which formed the foundation of […]

Mail and Guardian By Jason Moyo 17 September 2010 Two years ago Harare Central Hospital was virtually shut down. Its large wards stood empty, wind sweeping through broken windows and paint peeling off the walls. Doctors and nurses, living on worthless pay and distraught at having to watch patients die from a lack of basic […]

RadioVOP 17 September 2010 THE two Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) factions are engaged in informal reunification talks following their 2005 acrimonious split, David Coltart, the legal secretary of group led by Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara has said. Coltart, who emphasised that he was speaking in his personal capacity, told participants at a lecture […]

The Zimbabwean 16 September 2010 As primary schools receive new textbooks, the Government promises to improve teachers’ conditions, wrotes our special correspendent. The country’s 5,000 primary schools should receive new textbooks by the end of this term. But books alone will not improve children’s education. Schools have been short of teachers since the economic crisis […]

Belfast Telegraph www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk By Ian Callender 16 September 2010 Four of the Ireland squad travelling to Zimbabwe tomorrow for an Intercontinental Cup game and three one-day internationals will be going to the country against the advice of their government. Captain William Porterfield, Andrew White, Gary Wilson and Paul Stirling are all UK passport holders but […]