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O-Level Maths Paper Leaks

The Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) 2022 O-Level Mathematics Paper 1 leaked prior to Tuesday’s examination, Nhau/Indaba has learnt. In a statement, the examination body revealed that an investigation involving the Zimbabwe Republic Police had since been launched to determine the extent of the breach. “The Zimbabwe School Examinations Council …

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Controversy Swirls Around Zim’s US$961m IMF Windfall

Where is the money? THE lack of transparency surrounding how the Zimbabwean government has spent the US$961 million Special Drawing Rights (SDR) windfall from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is raising serious questions on matters of accountability and prudent public finance management, The NewsHawks can report. This comes at a time …

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Chihuri Set To Lose His Farm

Government is intensifying its vindictive approach to seizing farms belonging to its critics, most of whom were the late former president Robert Mugabe’s loyalists in the twilight years of life and rule. The latest victim is former police commissioner-general Augustine Chihuri whose Inyika Farm in Shamva, Mashonaland Central province, has …

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Veld Fires Destroy Over 80ha Of Winter Wheat In Mash Central

Bindura Bureau Around 80 hectares of Mashonaland Central’s winter wheat have been destroyed by veld fires leaving farmers optimistic of high yields counting losses. The province has about 14 290 hectares under the crop and the losses were incurred since the beginning of the fire season at the end of …

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Zimra Garnishes Gem Miner’s Bank Accounts

A Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) bank account was garnished ZW$490 million by authorities over delays in settling tax and pension-related payments owed to the National Social Security Authority (Nssa) at a crucial phase when the state-run mining firm is emerging from a loss-making streak stretching for years. The garnished …

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Nurse Exodus Blocked

GOVERNMENT has reportedly stopped issuing clearance letters for nurses in a bid to frustrate them from leaving the country for greener pastures. This follows mass resignations that have hit the country’s public hospitals as health professionals migrate abroad for better salaries and working conditions. In March, government doubled application fees …

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Haulage Truck Rips Into New Border Post

A Cross-border haulage carrying a granite rock has crashed into the bus terminal of the new Beitbridge Border Post coming a few meters shy of ripping into the Immigration and Customs and Excise offices. Noone has been injured. Witnesses said the truck left unattended in the south-bound parking area moved …

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Top Brass Set To Fall In PSC Shake-Up

AN overhaul is looming at the Public Service Commission (PSC) with reports suggesting President Emmerson Mnangagwa is likely to transfer chairperson Vincent Hungwe from his powerful post while commission secretary Jonathan Wutawunashe has since left the post. According to high-level sources, Mnangagwa is moving Hungwe to the Office of the …

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Civil Servants Squeal Over Performance Based 13th Cheque

For decades, Zimbabwe’s 350,000 civil servants have been paid a blanket end-of-year bonus, but in a dramatic shift just announced, future payments will be performance-based – starting this year. The Public Service Commission (PSC), in a circular, has decreed that bonuses will only be paid following staff appraisals by departmental …

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