adminRelease Money for Grade Seven exams urgently
The Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) early this year received accolades from parents, pupils and other stakeholders for releasing the 2011 O-level and A-level results in a record time. The A-level results were out on 19 January while the O-level results were out on 31 January. This good record which had restored confidence in the examinations body was unfortunately short lived.
Madzorera contradicts Nyatanga’s evidence
Innocent Ruwende Senior Court ReporterFormer Zifa vice-president Mr Tendai Madzorera contradicted the evidence proffered by his former boss inferring that he might have been an accomplice in the Asiagate scandal. Madzorera made the inference while giving evidence in the case in which Rushwaya is accused of concealing
NetOne manager in court for assaulting journalist
Herald ReporterNetOne Masvingo regional manager John Zvirikuzhe has been arrested for allegedly assaulting Herald’s Masvingo reporter George Maponga last week. Zvirikuzhe (38) of Rhodene suburb in Masvingo allegedly teamed up with three friends and attacked Maponga (31) with empty beer bottles.
Government intends to acquire Whitecliff Farm
Herald Reporter
Government intends to acquire the remainder of Whitecliff Farm for urban development after its residents were given up to yesterday by the Supreme Court to vacate the land. The land belongs to Mr Edward Pfugari of Eddies Pfugari Properties who successfully argued in court that the residents
UZ wins stay of execution
Labour ReporterThe Supreme Court yesterday granted the University of Zimbabwe a stay of execution against property that had been attached by the Messenger of Court to cover an arbitration award of US$305 888 in favour of two former workers. Ms Kwanele Muriel Jirira and Mr Louis Masuku had won the
Minor abused
Court ReporterA Chitungwiza man was yesterday brought to court charged for allegedly indecently assaulting his six-year-old stepdaughter. After committing the alleged crime, the 51-year-old man reportedly gave the little girl US$1 to conceal the offence, the court heard. The man was not asked to plead to
Critics of security forces misled
Special MatariranoThe portrayal of the security forces by the private media, some members of the civic society, some human rights groups and non-governmental organisations in Zimbabwe certainly reflects and attempts to create a very misleading, idolistic, inactive, docile and politically insensitive force which
Of chicken heads, Petraeus, PM
Special CorrespondentGrowing up at the family farm decades ago, I loathed each time a chicken was slaughtered. As the youngest in a family set-up of three boys eating from a common plate, it was a foregone conclusion the chicken head would be mine. In our dinner or lunch settings back then, the eldest picked the
‘Non-state’ actors construct case for war on Iran
Stephen Gowans“There have been,” writes Julian E Barnes and Jay Solomon in the Wall Street Journal (November 8, 2012), “a series of provocations by Iran in recent years. US officials say Iran has been responsible for a series of cyberattacks this year on US banks. There have also been incidents in the
When fat was beautiful
Sekai NzenzaEver since my cousin Pirisira left the village and came back to Harare to start her own tuckshop in Mbare, she is getting fat. Really fat! And she is so proud of it. She turns around and admires her backside almost on a daily basis.
Piri makes enough money in the tuckshop to rent a room in Mbare. She lives somewhere between Rufaro Stadium and the bar. The market is just across the street from her place.
I had tea with her at the tuckshop last Saturday. For one dollar you get a big mug of tea half covered with a plastic sheet to stop flies getting in