Category Archives: Press reports

Sunday News 16 May 2010 By Lulu Brenda Harris THE late Buzzie Bavasi, an American, put it well when he said: “We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules.” Many parents would testify Bavasi’s was right when it comes to those who set school levies. People who have been elected […]

Guardian.co.uk 13 May 2010 From Zimbabwe to Belize, how the world waited to discover who would run Britain next – and what they think of the outcome. Russia Russian coverage of the vote may say more about Russia itself than its attitude to Britain. Komsomolskaya Pravda, the country’s biggest tabloid, made a big show of […]

The Herald 12 May 2010 By Paul Munyuki NO major changes were made to the Zimbabwe Under-20 side set to take part at the Junior World Rugby Trophy in Moscow, Russia, next week and Graham Kaulback was retained as captain. The majority of the players that drove Zimbabwe to qualify for the world event were […]

VOA By Gibbs Dube 11 May 2010 Education, Culture and Sport Minister David Coltart said the Cabinet did not take up the issue on Tuesday but said North Korean authorities are likely to respond this week to the invitation from the Zimbabwe World Cup Committee. Confounding expectations, the Zimbabwean Cabinet took no decision at its […]

New York Times By Celia W. Dugger 11 May 2010 JOHANNESBURG — A High Court judge in Zimbabwe on Monday acquitted Roy Bennett — a leader of the party that has long opposed President Robert Mugabe but now governs the country with him — on charges of plotting to violently overthrow Mr. Mugabe, 86, who […]

Www.zicora.com Zimbabwe Community Radio Posted By Own Staff Tuesday 11 May 2010 THE Ministry of Education, Sports, Arts and Culture is working on a programme to assist children who are not able to pay their examination fees for Ordinary and Advanced level, a Cabinet Minister has revealed. Minister David Coltart said his ministry was working on […]

ZimEye.org By Gerald Chateta May 10, 2010 Harare – Education Sports and Culture Minister, David Coltart said he was in a process of introducing civic education in the country’s education curricular which would see children being taught to respect tolerance and human and property rights. The idea comes after the country had witnessed a decade […]

Sunday News By Nobuhle Nyoni 9th May 2010 A ROW is looming pitting printing houses and the United Nations Children’s Educational Fund (UNICEF) over a textbook tender that they claim was “mysteriously” awarded to Longman Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe Printing House and College Press Publishers argue the awarding of the tender was unfair. The tender flighted under […]

The Standard By Vusumuzi Sifile 9 May 2010 ZIMBABWE’S schools are using a curriculum that was last reviewed in the 1980s, a development that has contributed to the perennial “free fall” in education standards and put the country out of sync with fast-changing education trends globally. Government, which is battling to bring normality to an […]

The Herald Editorial 6 May 2010 Harare — Zimbabwe’s  State schools cannot cope without fees and levies; parents need to realise that there is no “free education” and the better the school the more it is going to need in the way of parents’ money and support to maintain and raise standards. The urban-rural divide […]