adminStrict laws on fees hikes loom
Felex Share and Kelvin Benjamin
SCHOOLS open tomorrow amid calls by the Government for strict regulations to curb unilateral fees hikes.
Most schools applied to the Government for permission to raise fees citing rising operating costs.
The applications were turned down, but some schools increased tuition fees and levies in defiance of the Government directive.
Most such increases range between 20 percent and 30 percent.
Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart yesterday said the new regulations would effectively deal with school administrators who increase fees without Government approval. He said the new regulations would give parents “more say” in the determination of fees increases.
“I am aware that most schools have done that (increased fees) but it becomes pointless to warn them each and every term without taking action.
“We are working hard, pushing for these new regulations because we
Nicolas Sarkozy suffers humiliating poll defeat
PARIS. — Francois Hollande was elected France’s first Socialist president in nearly two decades yesterday, dealing a humiliating defeat to incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and shaking up European politics.
The result will have major implications for Europe as it struggles to emerge from a financial crisis and for France, the eurozone’s second-largest economy and a nuclear-armed permanent member of the UN Security Council.
Hollande, a 57-year-old centre-left moderate, won the vote with between 52 and 53 percent, according to several estimates, becoming France’s first Socialist president since Francois Mitterrand left office in 1995.
Joyful crowds were gathering in Hollande’s adopted hometown of Tulle and in front of the Socialist headquarters in Paris, as rumours of the result spread more than an hour before French media were legally permitted to publish results.
Three polling institutes — CSA, TNS Sofres and Ipsos — estimated that Hollande had won 52 percent of the vote to Sarkozy’s 48, based on
State to amend Procurement Act
Lloyd Gumbo Herald Reporter
THE State Procurement Board is going through a metamorphosis geared at improving its effectiveness, Finance Minister Tendai Biti has said.
He said Treasury was effecting changes to the Procurement Act following complaints by Cabinet Ministers over its poor showing.
The amendments will provide for the creation of a board to oversee the activities and decisions of the State Procurement Board.
“I was given a go-ahead by the President to make major changes to the Act because there have been countless complaints among ministers about the Act and the State Procurement Board,” said Minister Biti.
Ministers were concerned that most Government projects were taking too long to be completed because of the SPB’s delays in awarding tenders.
In some instances, tenders were awarded to incompetent firms.
“Some Government tenders are being awarded to some charlatans who oftentimes would have tendered for the highest amounts. Some of the companies awarded these tenders don’t have the resources and are of no fixed abode,” he said.
Washaya wins bronze
Collin Matiza Sports EditorANOTHER promising Zimbabwean track and field star — Tawanda Washaya — was unearthed at the prestigious Penn Relays in Philadelphia, United States, last month. Washaya, a St. Johns College pupil, made his presence felt at this year’s Relays when
Zim Futsal side go down
From Roy Matiki in JOHANNESBURG, SATHE ZIMBABWE five-a-side soccer team were left with a lot of work on their hands after losing to a tactically superior South African side in the second round, first leg of the 2012 Futsal World Cup qualifiers at Wembley Stadium in Johannesburg on
Buffaloes take maximum points against Shabanie
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BUFFALOES collected their first set of maximum points at home when they edged a battling Shabanie Mine in a Castle Lager
Mashonganyika’s star rises
Collin Matiza Sports EditorJULIUS Mashonganyika recently became one of the most qualified Zimbabwean tennis coaches when he got a Professional Rating after writing a United States Professional Tennis Association examination. Mashonganyika, who is currently based at
Pasuwa unhappy with concentration lapses
Grace Chingoma Sports ReporterDYNAMOS players yesterday were handed a tough team-talk by their coach Callisto Pasuwa after their match against Hwange at Rufaro with the gaffer declaring that if they displayed the same attitude in next weekend’s Champions League match
City Fathers hold Rangers
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HARARE City striker Crybet Muvuti scored a beautiful curling goal to earn his side a point in a drawn Castle Lager Premier
Dynamos beat Hwange
Augustine Hwata Sports Reporter
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Hwange ……………………………………..….(0) 2
ON-FIRE Dynamos striker Takesure Chinyama scored a wonder goal and created two others as he helped his side to beat