Zimbabwean offer to host North Korean World Cup squad backfires
Guardian.co.uk By David Smith Friday 30 April 2010 Zimbabwe‘s attempt to bask in the reflected glory of next month’s World Cup has backfired by reviving memories of one of the country’s bloodiest massacres. Plans to host the North Korean football squad have been condemned as a symbolic insult by opposition politicians and activists because of
O, A-Level Results Rebound
The Herald By Felex Share 29 April 2010 Harare — The November 2009 national percentage pass rate for Ordinary and Advanced Level examinations was 19 and 70 percent respectively, a slight improvement from previous years. Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart yesterday also revealed that the Grade Seven performance was the worst in a
Zimbabwe schools produce worst results
ZimEye.org By Thembani Gasela 29 April 2010 Harare (ZimEye) – Zimbabwe schools produced the worst results in the education history of the country with the November 2009 national percentage pass rate for Ordinary Level examinations standing at 19 percent. David Coltart, Education Minister revealed the Grade Seven results were equally pathetic having recorded 20 percent
Zimbabwe loses 45,000 teachers to brain drain
Daily Monitor Uganda www.monitor.co.ug By Kitsephile Nyathi 29 April 2010 More than 45, 000 teachers have left Zimbabwe to look for greener pastures abroad in the past decade, a new report indicates. An unprecedented economic decline blamed on the political squabbles and President Robert Mugabe’s questionable policies has seen millions of Zimbabweans, including sought-after professionals seek
Press Statement by the Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture on performance in the November 2009 Grade 7, `O’ And `A’ Level Zimsec Examinations
The Ministry of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture has been provided with an analysis of the November 2009 ZIMSEC examination results. The results were presented to Cabinet which has debated them. Given its national importance and the large amount of interest in the subject by the public, it is necessary that the public be appraised
“Saving Zimbabwe” Book release
Zimbabwean Written by Staff Reporter Monday, 26 April 2010 The book of a gripping story of a group of extra-ordinary black and white Zimbabweans who lived together for a period of reconciliation –Saving Zimbabwe- will be released in Harare, tomorrow. This follows a day of book signings and selling in Johannesburg South Africa, last week.
Gasela’s tragic accident shows breakdown of rule of law on roads
SW Radio Africa By Violet Gonda 26 April 2010 Zimbabwe’s roads claimed four senior politicians from both ZANU PF and the MDC-M, this weekend alone, raising more questions about the state of the roads, but more importantly, the way people drive in Zimbabwe. ZANU PF Central Committee member Alice Nkomo died in a car accident
Playing Bach to hippopotamuses
The Spectator by Petroc Trelawny 25 April 2010 For an extraordinary month in 1953, Bulawayo became the epicentre of culture in the southern hemisphere. In celebration of the centenary of the colonialist and diamond magnate Cecil Rhodes, the Royal Opera House and Sadlers Wells Ballet took up residence. Sir John Gielgud staged and starred in
Coltart on teachers’ incentives
Sunday News By Lulu Brenda Harris 25 April 2010 PARENTS are likely to be saddled with the burden of paying teacher incentives for some time now, as the Government has resolved to freeze civil servants’ salaries for an undisclosed period. Speaking at a residents’ consultative meeting between various stakeholders organised by the Bulawayo Progressive Residents
The Constitutional Process: The Status Quo, Requirements and Prospects
Transcript of a Speech given by Senator David Coltart Berlin 23 April 2010 I have been asked to speak on the topic  “Constitutional Process: The Status Quo, Requirements and Prospects”. The Global Political Agreement entered into in September 2008 has a detailed clause regarding the need for constitutional reform within Zimbabwe, and there are detailed