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Tendai Rupapa and Thupeyo Muleya in BEITBRIDGE SCHOOLchildren must focus on education and shun drugs and early sexual relationships which only pile misery on them, First Lady Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa has said. She made the remarks during her educative Nhanga/Gota/Ixhiba session in Beitbridge aimed at moulding morally upright children at a time when drug abuse, […]

Tendai Rupapa-Senior Reporter ZIMBABWEANS are grateful for First Lady Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa’s work which has vastly and visibly changed society and enhanced ordinary people’s contribution to the economy, Deputy Minister of Climate, Tourism and Hospitality Industry Barbara Rwodzi has said. She made remarks in a wide-ranging interview on an international television network with TV BRICS’ […]

Ishola A Salami University of Ibadan The poor performance of many children in Mathematics continues to absorb researchers around the world. Studies of the possible reasons have explored various perspectives, including children’s thinking processes. But low achievement remains a problem worldwide. It’s a problem because Mathematics is the bedrock for the development of scientific reasoning. […]

Ngonidzashe Emmanuel Chikandiwa The culture of “semester marriages”, is fast becoming the new norm among tertiary students. Every so often, word on campus is about who “divorced” or “moved in together”. “Semester marriages”, as co-habitation is commonly referred to, sees student couples sharing living quarters and assuming the setting of “a married couple”. The stay-ins, […]

Collen Takaza Becoming a postgraduate student brings with it challenges that require one’s vigilance to overcome them. In undemanding terms, a postgraduate learner is anyone who is studying a post-graduate course, including a master’s course, a post-graduate diploma, an MPhil and Ph.D., that requires an undergraduate or Bachelor’s degree as part of the entry requirements. […]

Towards the end of the First Chimurenga in 1896, Cecil John Rhodes convened an indaba with Matabele chiefs, and among them was a young traditional leader, who asked a valid and pertinent question: “Where are we to live when it is over? The white man claims all the land” (Vere Stent cited in Julie Frederikse’s “None But Ourselves”, 1990).

Dennis Tendai Charles Jaricha is not your everyday writer or minister of the word of God, or a lay counsellor purporting to know so much about the world he/she is still to live. Neither is he your common motivational speaker or author, but a spiritually motivated being, whose only inspiration is the knowledge of God’s existence, not only in his life as reflected through his experiences, but in all humanity’s toils.

If Ibram X Kendi has been a lifelong racist — as he confesses in this book — then we all have been. This is the unsettling idea at the heart of “How to Be an Antiracist” (2019), in which one of the US’s most respected scholars of race and history steps away from documenting the racist sins of others, and turns the lens pointedly, uncomfortably, at himself.

A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity,” says Toni Morrison in “Peril”, the brief, remarkable introduction to her newest book, “Mouth Full of Blood” (2019).

The German government, through its development bank, KfW, yesterday contributed €10 million to the second phase of the Education Development Fund (EDF) to improve access to quality education for Zimbabwe’s children.

By definition, a conducive learning environment is a platform devoid of both physical intimidation and emotional frustration, which allows for a free exchange of ideas.

Two Harare lawyers have approached the High Court seeking to compel Government to ensure that three main languages — Ndebele, Shona and English — are taught in all schools up to Form Two level in line with the dictates of the country’s statutes.

This transcendental novel “Branching Streams Flow in the Dark” (2013), published by his family, marks the long awaited “return” of leading Zimbabwean author, Charles Muzuva Mungoshi.

Danny Conroy and his family attend a school production of “The Nutcracker”. Danny is in his 40s, married and living in New York City, a world away from the Pennsylvania suburbs where he grew up. But as the play begins, with “beautiful children dressed as children” and a Christmas tree standing tall on stage, he’s transported 30 years into his past.

In Shona traditions, you do not strike the rival once and just expect him to fall and die. Ignatius Mabasa has returned with yet his third blow in the form of beautiful tapestry of ideas.