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The Deputy Minister of Education Paul Mavima last week said the 21 percent pass rate recorded in last year’s O-Level ZIMSEC results was actually an improvement as at one time it was 16.5 percent.

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EU says NO to Mugabe- The European Union is planning to lift the remaining sanctions on Zimbabwe but not on President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace. EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton told the European Parliament today it was now time for the EU to respond because Zimbabwe was moving forward. “I think we probably are now in the right place to do this on the basis that if things go badly we can move back again,” she said. The EU has refused to endorse last year’s elections which ZANU-PF won overwhelmingly but it has lifted sanctions on Zimbabwe’s diamonds. Sanctions on Zimbabwe, imposed 12 years ago, will be renewed on 20 February. But reports said the EU would lift sanctions on eight of the 10 remaining individuals on the list. Apart from Mugabe and his wife, others still under EU sanctions are: ZANU-PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa, war veterans leader Jabulani Sibanda, Central Intelligence Director Happyton Bonyongwe, Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri, Defence Forces chief Constantine Chiwenga, Air Force Chief Perrence Shiri, Army Commander Phillip Sibanda and army brigadier Douglas Nyikayaramba. Only one firm, the Zimbabwe Defence Industries, remains on the list.

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A Member of Parliament this week said former South African President Thabo Mbeki deserves recognition by Zimbabwe and one of the ways could be to name a road after him because he brought peace and tranquillity to Zimbabwe but that cost him his job.

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The Member of Parliament for Hurungwe North Reuben Marumahoko says Zimbabwe’s parliament is too big for a small country like Zimbabwe.

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I had high expectations when Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front chairman Simon Khaya Moyo announced on Thursday that President Robert Mugabe had called an emergency meeting of the politburo the following day.

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The top executive at the country’s pre-eminent health care quality organization is being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by two large medical companies that have a stake in the group’s work.

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Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa said the government did not condone corruption but was following the rule of law to deal with any people suspected of wrong doing.

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