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Coltart condemns virginity testing

Chronicle Reporter
VIRGINITY testing in schools is contrary to the Government policy and heads that do that will be subjected to disciplinary procedure, Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart said yesterday.

Responding to reports of virginity testing at Tsetse Primary School in West Acre, Minister Coltart said schools had no right to unilaterally sanction such tests.
The minister’s remarks come at a time when villagers and school officials are already at each other’s throats over the matter.
“We certainly do not condone genetic testing in schools as that is contrary to Government policy. Any teacher who does that would be subjected to disciplinary procedure.

“Headmasters do not have a right to make decisions of that nature. Matters of health about the child should be handled with the full consent of the parents,” said Minister Coltart in a telephone interview.

“In matters like these, no matter how well intentioned the school heads might be, they should not do it on their own. It is fundamentally wrong to do so.

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Hwange miss flight

By Sikhumbuzo Moyo
CAF Confederation Cup representatives Hwange missed their flight to Sudan yesterday after some of their players’ visas came late.
Hwange play Al Amal Atbara on Friday evening due to the scorching heat in Sudan.

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Nkomo, Dabengwa clash over Zambezi water project

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A fresh war of words has erupted between Water Resources and Management Minister Samuel Sipepa Nkomo and the Matabeleland Zambezi Water Trust (MZWT), with the latter accusing the former of frustrating his fundraising activities for the National Matabeleland Zambezi Water Project (NMZWP).
Two weeks ago Minister Nkomo announced that the Government had engaged China in a $900 million deal that would see the completion of the Gwayi-Shangani

Dam, a major component of the 450km pipeline, in the next three years.
Although the Government has taken over the implementation of the NMZWP from MZWT, the trust’s chairman, Dr Dumiso Dabengwa, last Thursday claimed his organisation still holds the keys to its success.

He spoke against the Chinese deal, saying the trust had managed to raise funding for the project but would not say how much had been raised, when and whom the funders were.

The NMZWP, which is estimated to cost about $1, 2 billion, was mooted in 1912.  Since then successive governments have tried to implement it without much success due to inadequate funding.