GOVERNMENT has established over 100 information communication technology (ICT) laboratories at schools across the country under its e-learning platform. This was confirmed by Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa during the post-Cabinet media briefing yesterday. “The construction of 24 community information centres has reached 90 percent of completion. 100 ICT laboratories have been established at schools across…

ZIMBABWE Power Company (ZPC) says it needs US$5 million to enhance power generation at its Harare Thermal Power Station. This comes as the thermal power station is currently producing 12 megawatts against a potential of 60. Speaking after a tour of the station by the parliamentary portfolio committee on Energy yesterday, ZPC managing director, Nobert…

RESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will announce the dates for this year’s harmonised elections before the end of next month. Speaking at the rehabilitation of the Zimbabwe Platinum Mines-sponsored Mhondoro-Mubaira hospital project yesterday, Mnangagwa also implored citizens not to fight over the polls. “Tatarisana nesarudzo … mwedzi unouya uyo ndichakuudzai (We are approaching the elections and I…

THE Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) will embark on a mop up exercise to allow candidates who failed to meet the April 14 registration deadline to pay their examination fees when schools open. In a statement yesterday, Zimsec said the exercise was also meant to enable candidates who paid their examination fees during the holiday…

SADC is pushing to ensure that the forthcoming general elections in Zimbabwe are free, fair and credible, punctuated by peace and nonviolence in keeping with the region’s principles and guidelines governing democratic elections that were adopted in 2004. This comes as the Sadc Electoral Advisory Council (SEAC); an institutional mechanism meant to ensure that electoral…

THE Cabinet has approved a new draft law aimed at improving the country’s examination standards and ending the shameful scourge of rampant cheating by learners in many public schools. The proposed new law, the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Amendment) Bill, will entail far-reaching reforms that include the taking of oaths of secrecy by officials handling…

THE Political Actors Dialogue (Polad), a group comprising some of the losing candidates in the 2018 presidential election, is still pushing for electoral reforms ahead of the country’s upcoming harmonised polls. Polad member and president of the National Constitutional Assembly(NCA), Lovemore Madhuku, told the Daily News yesterday that the group had been having regular meetings…