Girl writes O-Level exam for 31-year-old

Chamunorwa Wilson Herald Correspondent
An audacious 17-year-old was caught recently writing an Ordinary Level examination for a candidate at Macheke High School. The Lower Sixth Form  from Nyameni High School in Marondera was arrested on November 8 this year. She was arrested while writing the Mathematics Paper 2 examination.

Mangoma in court for undermining President

Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter
ENERGY and Power Development Minister Elton Mangoma yesterday appeared at the Bindura Magistrates’ Court charged with undermining or insulting the authority of the President. Mangoma is being accused of insulting President Robert Mugabe while addressing an MDC-T gathering at Manhenga

Syria bids for peace, not war

Anthony Antonio
In the past week or so, the level of cruelty shown by rebels in Syria has shocked the world. Gory pictures show rebels pumping bullets into heads of captives and rebels murdering prisoners of war like they are killing chickens, yet the United States, the self-acclaimed vanguard of the world’s

Diamond indaba a major coup

Tichaona Zindoga
Those who convened the inaugural Zimbabwe Diamond Conference in Victoria Falls in the last two days will no doubt be satisfied with how the event panned out. The biggest thing, demonstrably, is that it constituted a major diplomatic coup that Zimbabwe, in its quest to lawfully and rightfully

Linking vectors and bitmaps

Knowledge Mushohwe
Information technology has given computer-literate designers a new platform for creating art. Tools in several design suites available locally, including Adobe and Coreldraw, are being routinely manipulated by designers to produce visual representations. The artworks developed using

Empower youths for development

Obediah Dodo
When the Diaspora community hears of conflicts in Zimbabwe at the instigation of the youths on the social media, they sometimes believe it, especially if the multinational media houses are peddling the news. The multinational media houses, also referred to as international media, have

Capacitate CPU for disaster preparedness

Zimbabweans usually keenly await the rainy season for different reasons, but we believe the season that can bring both joy and pain, should never be treated with trepidation. How the rains are viewed depends on the preparedness of communities on how to deal with the impact of insufficient rains

Malawian minister resigns

LILONGWE. — Malawi’s Economic Planning and Development Minister Austin Atupele Muluzi on Monday announced his resignation from his cabinet post citing “lack of respect and dignity” from President Joyce Banda’s People’s Party officials (PP) towards him. In his resignation tendered to

Moza lures Brazilians

MAPUTO. — Brazilian businessmen have been invited to invest in Mozambique at an economic seminar in Maputo. The invitation was made on Monday by the general manager of the Mozambican government’s Investment Promotion Centre (CPI), Lourenco Sambo, to a group of 12 business

Sex scandal delays Obama’s nomination of Nato commander

WASHINGTON. — President Barack Obama has delayed General John Allen’s nomination as Nato’s supreme commander pending a probe into his e-mail correspondence with a woman at the centre of a sex scandal, a White House spokesman said yesterday. “At the request of the secretary of

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