‘National Pledge Is Principally Correct But Wrongly Implemented’ Ex Education Minister Coltart

‘National Pledge Is Principally Correct But Wrongly Implemented’ Ex Education Minister Coltart

FORMER Minister of Education, Sport and Culture David Coltart has defended the recently-launched national pledge saying it is principally correct but wrongly implemented. The pledge was launched in schools at the beginning school term on May, 3, but was received with mixed reactions as public schools embraced it while a majority of private ones rejected it. Parents and churches have been campaigning against its recital saying it violates the country’s constitution and their religious beliefs….

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‘ Zimbabwe’s Ngundu Growth Point Tops STIs Infections Rate In Southern Africa’-National AIDS Council (NAC).

‘ Zimbabwe’s Ngundu Growth Point Tops STIs Infections Rate In Southern Africa’-National AIDS Council (NAC).

Ngundu Growth Point in Masvingo Province has earned itself the infamous name as the epicentre of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in Southern Africa, according to the National AIDS Council (NAC).Between 500 and 1000 haulage trucks pass through Ngundu Growth Point daily and commercial sex workers have made it their hub. Speaking on the sidelines of a visit to the centre by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Health, NAC Co-ordinator for Masvingo Province,  Mr Evos Makoni…

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Former RBZ Governor ‘Moyana’ Perplex By Zanu PF Regime’s Leisurely Approach To National Crisis

Former RBZ Governor ‘Moyana’  Perplex By Zanu PF Regime’s Leisurely Approach To National Crisis

FINANCE minister Patrick Chinamasa continues to take brick-bats from Zimbabweans across the political divide with respected former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Kombo Moyana the latest high-profile person to tell the government it is lost. Chinamasa almost blew his top during a heated public discussion organised by the Southern African Political and Economic Series (Sapes) Trust on Thursday, where economists argued against the re-introduction of the country’s comatose currency. Moyana, Zimbabwe’s first black head of…

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Thousands Of Pensioners Stranded At Post Offices As Cash Externalisation Bites

Thousands Of Pensioners Stranded At  Post Offices As Cash Externalisation Bites

Thousands of pensioners were stranded at the Post Office Servings Bank after failing to access money from the bank. This comes as the country faces serious cash shortages which the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe blames on the externalisation of  money by some unscrupulous people. After failing to access their pensions at the POSB branches in Harare, hundreds of people, most of them elderly told the ZBC News that they had no money to go back…

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Vice President Mnangagwa’s Son Fined US$100 Or One-month Jail For Negligent Driving

Vice President Mnangagwa’s Son Fined US$100 Or One-month Jail For Negligent Driving

Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s son, Samora Samuel, was yesterday fined $100 or one-month imprisonment by Marondera magistrate Josephine Sande for negligent driving. Samora (28), of 127 Broadlands Road, Emerald Hill in Harare, was in February involved in a head-on collision with a Proton Bakeries truck near Watershed College outside Marondera which left two people seriously injured. According to court papers, on February 15 at around 2:30am, Samora was driving a silver Ford Focus (Reg No. ADP…

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Southern Region Division One, Bulawayo’s Chiefs Players In Horrific Accident Along Victoria Falls Road.

Southern Region Division One team Bulawayo Chiefs players cheated death on Friday after being involved in a horrific accident. The team bus was in a accident along Victoria Falls Road. Players and staff where injured and rushed to Hwange hospital. Interim coach Anzlom Ndlovu is said to have sustained a broken arm. Pictures show the former Highlanders defender heavily bandaged. By thobekile Zhou. Source: Byo24News

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‘ Zimbabweans Urged To Withdraw All Cash Before Worthless Bond Notes Conversion Wipes Out Savings’

‘ Zimbabweans Urged To Withdraw All  Cash Before Worthless Bond Notes Conversion Wipes Out Savings’

Zimbabweans have been urged to immediately withdraw all their cash in banks.  Zimbabwe Informal Sector’s Organization Director Promise Mkwanazi made the call to all those in the informal sector  saying the introduction of Bond notes will wipe all their savings. “The people in the informal sector must with immediate effect withdraw their money from the banks and secure it elsewhere as we assess the situation” he said. “History has it that when we transited from…

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Post Mortem Shows Air Zimbabwe Public Relations Executive, Was Strangled To Death

Post Mortem Shows Air Zimbabwe  Public Relations Executive, Was Strangled To Death

POST mortem results for the Air Zimbabwe public relations executive, Shingai Dhliwayo, who was found dead in a bush in Botswana, have revealed that she was strangled to death. The post mortem was conducted at a Francistown hospital in the presence of a team of senior police officers from Zimbabwe who were dispatched to assist in probing the death of Dhliwayo.The team was made up mostly of officers from Bulawayo and Matabeleland South provinces. Some of them…

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Magaya Seeks To Avoid Testifying in Inquest Into Death Of Eleven People At His Crusade

Magaya Seeks To Avoid Testifying in Inquest Into Death Of Eleven People At His Crusade

PROPHETIC Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader Prophet Walter Magaya has written to the National Prosecution Authority (NPA) seeking to avoid testifying in the ongoing inquest into the death of 11 people at his church’s crusade in Kwekwe in 2011. Prophet Magaya was summoned by Kwekwemagistrate Taurai Manwere to appear at the inquest on May 17. PHD lawyer Everson Chatambudza, in a letter to the prosecutor, Fiona Mukwena, said Prophet Magaya had no relevant evidence to…

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Five Ambulances Race 37 Manondwane Pupils To Hospital After Ingesting Toxic Jatropha Fruit

THIRTY-SEVEN Grade 2 pupils were yesterday rushed to Mpilo Central Hospital after some of them started vomiting, apparently from food poisoning after eating poisonous Jatropha fruits. Sources at Manondwane Primary School in Bulawayo’s Nketa 7 said 16 pupils ingested the toxic fruits at the school playground at around 10AM and the rest of the class was taken for treatment as a precaution. “They were playing in their enclosed place where there are swings and slides. The…

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