Monthly Archives: November 2011

The Financial Gazette By Clemence Manyukwe 3 November 2011 Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai assembled a cabinet team that included banker Nigel Chanakira as finance minister in anticipation of an electoral victory in the run-up to the disputed presidential poll of2002. According to revelations contained in a United States diplomatic cable dated February 5, 2002, the […]

Newsday By Daniel Nhakaniso 3 November 2011 Education, Sport, Arts and Culture minister David Coltart has dismissed damning reports which surfaced in the New Zealand (NZ) media yesterday criticising the Black Caps’ current cricket tour of Zimbabwe. New Zealand are currently battling it out with Zimbabwe in a one-off Test match in a tour which […]

The Herald By Felex Share 3 November 2011 Government will today launch a US$10 million secondary schools textbook facility under the Education Transition Fund.  ETF is a Government-initiated programme being co-ordinated by Unicef and the donor community and is aimed at mobilising resources for the education sector. Over eight million textbooks, to benefit secondary schools countrywide, […]

Speech delivered by Honourable Senator David Coltart, Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture on the occasion of the secondary textbook distribution and Education Transition Fund II BAK Storage Distribution Centre, Harare 3 November 2011 As Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture, I feel highly honoured by the presence at this occasion of high […]

NewZimbabwe.com 3 November 2011 The Zimbabwe government, the United Nations and other Western donors have launched an US$85 million education fund aimed at improving education in the country’s secondary schools. The donation will pay for seven million textbooks, and follows a similar project last year in which UNICEF and other agencies donated 13 million textbooks […]

The Herald 2 November 2011 Zanu-PF says teachers’ incentives should be exempted from taxes to avert labour unrest from disenchanted educators. The call comes after the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority decided to tax incentives that school development committees have been paying to teachers to cushion them from the paltry salaries they are getting from Government. Zanu-PF’s […]

VOA By Jonga Kandemiiri 2 November 2011 Zimbabwe Teachers Association Secretary General Richard Gundani said the decision was welcome as children are now writing examinations. Moving to end a controversy over the taxation of cash incentives to low-paid Zimbabwean teachers by parents and schools, Finance Minister Tendai Biti has promised to direct the Zimbabwe Revenue […]

AfricanBrains launches The Southern African ICT for Education Summit being held at the Elephant Hills Resort, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe on 26-27 January 2012 PRWEB 2 November 2011 AfricanBrains is proud to announce, under the patronage of the Zimbabwe Ministry of Education, Sport, Arts & Culture, the launch of The Southern African ICT for Education Summit 2012 being held at […]

The Herald  Felex Share 1 November 2011 The taxation of teachers’ incentives by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority has caused panic among educators, with unions  threatening to call for a strike as pupils write public examinations. Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart said yesterday that Zimra’s move should be stopped forthwith to avoid further […]

Newsday By Ronald Moyo 1 November 2011 Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) secretary-general Raymond Majongwe has claimed some officials in the Education, Sport, Arts and Culture ministry were behind the proliferation of illegal colleges recently closed in a government clampdown. “Anyone with money can open up an illegal college including those from within the […]