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Simba ChakanyukaO’ LEVEL results released on Monday — showing a frightening 81,6 percent of children who sat exams last November failing — are quite alarming by any measure.
Sports, Education and Culture Minister David Coltart has earned rave reviews over perceived gains in the education sector since he took over in 2009, but these
Charity Shield voting starts
Eddie Chikamhi Sports ReporterMOBILE network operator, NetOne, yesterday launched the sms voting platform to choose teams to take part in this year’s Charity Shield tournament and said they were eager to extend their partnership with the Premier Soccer League. The company has been running the tournament since 2011 and their three-year
FC Platinum date Bantu Rovers
From Paul Mundandi in ZvishavaneFC Platinum will host Bantu Rovers in a friendly match at Mandava tomorrow. The platinum miners returned home on Tuesday night from Zambia where they played two friendlies against Zanaco and Power Dynamos. They also had a three-week training camp in Kariba. “We are going to host Bantu Rovers on Saturday. We
Thanks Pagels, But Real Tests Await
Augustine Hwata Sports ReporterWASHINGTON ARUBI went from outcast to captain of his country on a red letter day for the Warriors, who began the first steps of a crawl, which is expected to bloom into a full sprint, under the guidance of German coach Klaus Dieter-Pagels. For a country that still holds, in high esteem, the party days of the Dream Team
UN mulls sending troops to Mali
UNITED NATIONS — The UN is considering sending peacekeepers to Mali, following a proposal from Paris which said that French forces have killed hundreds of Islamist rebels but are still coming under attack. After announcing plans to start withdrawing its 4 000 troops from Mali in March, France called for a peacekeepingFrom the village to Madrid
In the village, in the land of milk honey and dust or Guruve, one who plants grapes by the road side, and one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem – every passerby wants to taste.But the careless ones do not care!
In the other world, in the land of football there are many fruit trees planted on the roadside for everyone to pick – call it human rights.
Journalism is that profession that, takes you to ringside seat of events and unbeknown to you, you are already in the deep-end of things. There, you mix with the
51 perish in bus accident
LUSAKA — At least 51 people have been confirmed dead after a public bus they were traveling in collided with a truck in central Zambia’s Chibombo district in the early hours of yesterday, police said. The accident occurred when the bus, belonging to a state-firm, Postal Bus Services, was travelling from Ndola city on the
VP Nkomo motion moved
Herald Reporter
Senate on Wednesday moved a motion that on January 17, Zimbabwe lost a liberation icon Cde Landa John Nkomo who died after a long battle with cancer. Zanu-PF national chairman, Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo moved the motion that was seconded by Zanu-PF Masvingo senator
Mashakada speaks of “watershed year’
Business Reporter
ECONOMIC Planning and Investment Promotion Minister Tapiwa Mashakada is hopeful of Zimbabwe’s economy, describing 2013 as a “watershed year”. “There is no need to be pessimistic,” he said in an address to delegates at the Zimbabwe Economic Symposium in Harare today.
MDC-T exiled activist tries to exit the country on someone’s passport
Herald Reporter
A 29 year old exiled MDC -T activist has been arrested by police detectives for attempting to illegally cross into South Africa using a passport belonging to another person.
Wellington Makumbinde who is a member of the party’s youth committee for mobilisation and is resident in South Africa was intercepted at Beitbridge Border Post by alert