Category Archives: Press reports

Afrique en Ligne 17 August 2009 Harare, Zimbabwe – Zimbabwe has lost more than 20,000 teachers to its neighbours in the last two years because of poor remuneration, Education Minister David Coltart said here Monday. Coltart said most of the teachers, who taught maths and english, had gone to Botswana and South Africa. He said […]

The Standard 16 August 2009 By Enock Muchinjo BULAWAYO — AFTER losing the second ODI to Bangladesh on Tuesday to trail 2-0, the Zimbabwe cricket team got a surprise visit in the changing room from sports minister David Coltart. Coltart who later said he told the players that they were part of the transition-taking place […]

Sunday Mail 16 August 2009 THE country has lost more than 20 000 teachers due to migration over the past two years with the majority of them being Mathematics and English teachers, while a bulk of the remaining teachers are threatening to strike, a Cabinet Minister has said. Speaking before the House of Assembly Portfolio […]

The Standard By Ndamu Sandu 16 August 2009 ZIMBABWE’S bid to host visiting teams for the 2010 soccer World Cup went up in smoke after the Ministry of Education, Sports, Arts and Culture said there were no funds to host the Cosafa tourney seen as a dress rehearsal for next year’s showcase. In June, Zimbabwe […]

India Times By Associated Press 14th August 2009 BULAWAYO: Hamilton Masakadza scored a maiden century and Brendan Taylor hit 94 runs to guide Zimbabwe to a 69-run victory over Bangladesh in the third cricket ODI on Friday. Masakadza smashed four boundaries and two sixes to score 102 from 112 balls in his 71st ODI as […]

SA Times Moses Mudzwiti August 14, 2009 ZIMBABWE Education Minister David Coltart said yesterday that poor villagers could continue to pay school fees with goats, chickens and other animals. He was quizzed in Parliament on the government’s position on the acceptability of schools demanding fees in cash and kind. Coltart said there was nothing wrong […]

SW Radio Africa By Violet Gonda 12 August 2009 The Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has said too many centres of power in the education ministry are behind the problems bedevilling the sector at present. The PTUZ says it is very bitter because the government has still not addressed the challenges facing teachers, despite […]

Sunday News 9th August 2009 By Lulu Brenda Harris The number of boys enrolling for education after primary school is declining in Matabeleland South as most of them skip the border to neighbouring countries while others are going into gold panning, an official has said. The Provincial Education Director (PED), Mrs Tumisang Thabela, told Sunday […]

30 July 2009 The Herald HARARE -The Herald newspaper was at the weekend forced to eat humble pie and retract a story in which it accused MDC ministers of absconding from official duty during the COMESA summit held early this month in Victoria Falls. Nelson Chamisa: “We call for facts to be thoroughly checked.” The […]

The Herald 28 July 2009 GOVERNMENT has called for local authorship of books following a decline in the publications written and published in local languages. In a speech read on his behalf by Secretary for Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Dr Stephen Mahere at the official opening of the Zimbabwe International Book Fair Indaba yesterday, […]