Monthly Archives: January 2012
Mugabe’s Ministers splash out on parties, but where does the money come from!
Bulawayo 24News By Mathula Lusinga 16 January 2012 Why do Zimbabweans bark up the wrong trees leaving the real culprits splashing the diamonds money like there is no tomorrow? When schools opened for the first term of 2012, teachers went on strike in demand of a better wage which is currently pegged at US$300, asking […]
Guy Scott and the ‘Caribbeanization’ of Zambia – Consequences for Zimbabwe?
allAfrica.com By Brooks Marmon 15 January 2012 The recent ascension of Guy Scott to the vice-presidency of Zambia has been viewed with great interest by the country’s neighbors as well as Western media. Dr. Scott was born in what was then the British colony of Northern Rhodesia in 1944 to settler parents and recent pieces […]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-15
Great u tube on Ngoni Makusha – Zimbabwe's star athlete http://t.co/7pROtkwl # Met William Hague and Prince Andrew last night at Lancaster House reception and discussed need for UK to assist Zim's GPA, flawed as it is # Attending #Apple summit for education in London – fascinating educational apps – some schools have a iPad […]
Dreadlocked child thrown out of school
NewsDay 12 January 2012 A Bulawayo man yesterday filed a High Court application seeking an order barring Masiyephambili Junior School from stopping his dreadlocked son from attending Grade 0 classes. Khumbulani Dube who is representing his four-year -old son, Mbalenhle Dube, filed an urgent chamber application yesterday afternoon after the headmaster of the school denied […]
Coltart tells the world’s most feared UK Boss to “assist Zimbabwe’s governmentâ€
11 January 2012 Zimbabwe’s minister of Education and Sport, David Coltart has asked Britain’s most feared foreign policy guru to assist the Zimbabwe government despite the current problems it is facing. The UK’s foreign secretary William Hague is Britain’s most feared government official who Robert Mugabe recently expressed personal concerns of following the UK’s recent […]
How is Zimbabwe improving its national education system and what are the results?
Speech given at the Education World Forum, London By David Coltart 11 January 2012Â Introduction Zimbabwe was recognised in the past as having arguably the best education system in Africa. A sound curriculum for black Zimbabweans was developed in the 1950s prior to the destructive Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) period. The post-independence period from […]
Spell out parents, professionals’ roles in education system
The Herald 10 January 2012 Over the past 30 years the relationship between parents and the schools their children attend has undergone a long overdue revolution. Parents are no longer, and must be no longer, passive payers of fees and limit their involvement to dropping their children off and picking them up. Soon after independence, […]
Some Zimbabwe Teachers Embark on Nationwide Sit-in Labor Action
VOA By Gibbs Dube 10 January 2012 Members of the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe in Harare launched a sit-down labor action Tuesday on the first day of the new school term to enforce their demand for pay increases of more than 100 percent for the lowest paid instructors. A VOA correspondent who visited primary […]
CCJP applauds recognition of Tonga
The Zimbabwean 10 January 2012 The Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace in Zimbabwe joins the Tonga speaking people in celebrating the official recognition of their mother tongue- Tonga through its public testing at Grade 7 level by the Ministry of Education, Sports, Arts and Culture in 2011. At the same time, CCJPZ recognises the […]
Teachers unions divided over strike
NewZimbabwe.com 9 January 2012 The main teachers unions appeared divided over a call to go on strike when schools re-open on Tuesday while education minister, David Coltart warned any job action could cripple the country’s education sector. Junior teachers currently earn about $253 a month and unions are demanding parity with the country’s poverty line […]