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Actions by the Ministry of Education since Lazarus Dokora took over seem to show the gap between government and the people. He definitely has good intentions but maybe he should do things more diplomatically, but more importantly he must consult the stakeholders, both schools and parents.

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President Robert is not likely to step down as leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front at the party congress to be held this year, a new report says.

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Government and teachers on collision course- The government and teachers are headed for a collision following a unilateral decision by the Ministry of Education to ban incentives to teachers introduced in 2009 to keep them on the job. Education Minister Lazarus Dokora says his ministry sent out a circular scrapping the incentives but Zimbabwe Teachers Association chief executive Sifiso Ndlovu said they had not received the circular. “There is no justification for their payment. Their payment is not consistent with the educational values they are meant to be servicing,” Dokora said according to The Herald. Ndlovu responded: “I have not gone through that circular but this reveals that the ministry is not transparent and intellectually honest. As stakeholders we should have been a participant. In the absence of that and as representatives of teachers, we will continue to deny the existence of that circular until we have a delivery of that in our hands as a union. We still hold on the 2009 circular number 5 that legalised incentives.”

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Besieged Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai today went back to his roots- the workers- and pledged that he would not remain at the helm of the party but would pass on the baton to a new generation but only through a democratic process called a Congress and not through a boardroom coup.

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Easter Sunday, 20 April 2014, will be a day to remember as the turning point for Zimbabwe. The Southern African country generally regarded as the Jewel of Africa, has gone through turmoil which saw its economy plunge to the extent that it stopped calculating inflation when it could no longer count the zeros. It abandoned its currency which at independence was stronger than the United States dollar and entered into an unease marriage which brought back things to near normal. But the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front which won a more than two-thirds majority in July 2013-ending the four-year marriage- has failed to turn around the country’s economy. So far!

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Zimbabwe’s political leaders-Robert Mugabe, Morgan Tsvangirai, Tendai Biti and Welshman Ncube- especially the first three- could learn a few things from this article which appeared in the Harvard Business School Working Knowledge publication three years ago.

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If you thought it was Zimbabwe, you are wrong. For now. More information is needed and there could be an answer within the next 12 months according to Britain’s Minister of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, George Eustice.

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The secretary-general of the Movement for Democratic Change Tendai Biti who led a faction that suspended party leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Saturday was today expelled from the party and all the Members of Parliament and a senator who attended Biti’s meeting will be withdrawn from parliament.

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The United States intended to start a twitter-like social media platform in Zimbabwe to trigger an “Arab Spring” type of uprising in the country, according to The New York Times.

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This was the title of the press statement issued by Movement for Democratic Change spokesman Douglas Mwonzora following Saturday’s suspension of the party leadership including its president Morgan Tsvangirai, national chairman Lovemore Moyo, Mwonzora himself and organising secretary Nelson Chamisa among others.

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