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Leonard Ncube
THE final time of reckoning has come. On Monday, 286 343 candidates who are registered for the Zimsec Ordinary Level examinations started writing their final year examinations.
Gunmen shoot policeman, wound another in Kenya
GARISSA (Kenya) — Unknown gunmen shot dead a police officer and injured another in Garissa town of northern Kenya near the border with Somalia on Tuesday night. Divisional police commander, Gorge Losku said the two policemen were on normal security patrol in the town at around 20:00 local time when they were shot at by the attackers as they were having coffee at a kiosk less than a kilometre.Ministry on bilharzia alert
Chronicle Correspondent
THE Ministry of Health and Child Welfare is on alert for bilharzia ahead of the onset of the rainy season.Age gives away exam cheating teacher
Chronicle Reporters
THE Bulawayo Accounts and Mathematics private teacher who was allegedly caught writing an examination on behalf of an Ordinary Level candidate at the Methodist College in Makokoba was sold out by his age.
Edward Moyo (40) and Phephile Dlamini (29) were on Monday morning arrested after Moyo was caught writing the English Paper 1 examination for Dlamini.
Officials from the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) and the police intercepted Moyo during the examination after a tip-off from authorities at the college.Mpilo faces lawsuit over ‘negligent surgical operation’
Leonard Ncube
A 16-year-old girl is battling for life at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo following an alleged negligent surgical operation by doctors who reportedly left a pair of scissors inside her womb.
The girl (name withheld) had to undergo two operations within a week as the doctors had allegedly left a pair of scissors in her womb when she delivered through Caesarean section on 4 October.
The second operation was done on 9 October and since then the wound, measuring roughly 20cm, is still open and is now discharging pus.
While hospital authorities said the second operation was necessitated by the growth of an abscess in the womb, the girl insists that she felt prickling-like pains soon after the first operation and reported to the hospital staff, who said she “should stop eating” solids for six days.SA must let go of anger, Zuma urges
Cape Town — Deep-seated pain from the past cannot translate to violence, President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday.Pupil given wrong exam paper
Masvingo Correspondent
TEACHERS invigilating examinations at Mucheke High School in Masvingo got themselves into hot soup when they allegedly made a pupil sit for a wrong paper, an official confirmed.
Gunmen kill 20 in northern Nigeria’s Zamfara state
KADUNA (Nigeria) — Gunmen suspected to be armed robbers have killed 20 people in a village in the northwest Nigerian state of Zamfara, authorities said yesterday, a similar attack to one in June.Industry encouraged to penetrate foreign markets
Business Reporter
THE Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ) has urged local industries to penetrate international markets to shrug off stiff competition on the domestic market posed by the influx of imported products.