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Zimbabwe - Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
Exercise increased caution in Zimbabwe due to crime and civil unrest.

Zimbabwe is a landlocked country in southern Africa, bordered by the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. The official language is English, however, the majority of the population speaks Shona. A new unity government was formed in February 2009, along with a formal acceptance of dollarization by the government that ended the country's period of unprecedented hyperinflation. Although Zimbabwe offers popular tourist attractions in Victoria Falls, Great Zimbabwe, and selected game parks, much of the country's infrastructure has collapsed and emergency medical care is very limited.

The culture of reading is dying a little each day
Remember its the business language in Zimbabwe. Its not that English teachers are not doing their work but practice and zeal on part of the students is lagging behind. At some boarding schools ...
Publ.Date : Sun, 08 Dec 2019 06:23:00 GMT

Zimbabwe\'s food crisis: \'Food security is national security\'
"As economic inequalities are on the rise, the once thriving middle-class of Zimbabwe is severely impacted by the crisis. Civil servants, doctors, nurses, and teachers are no longer able to feed their ...
Publ.Date : Thu, 28 Nov 2019 12:40:00 GMT

PSHE KS2 / KS3: Juliane\'s journey from Zimbabwe
In addition, in an English lesson this film could generate discussion for the different genres of writing, providing an example of narrative and describing personal experiences. This short film will ...
Publ.Date : Sun, 11 Aug 2019 04:51:00 GMT

Zimbabwe teachers\' unions suspend national strike
Teachers? unions met Education Minister Paul Mavima in Harare and agreed to return to work on Monday. The two biggest unions, the Zimbabwe Teachers Association and the Progressive Teachers? Union, ...
Publ.Date : Sun, 10 Feb 2019 11:46:00 GMT

Focus on Africa: Rural teachers in Zimbabwe brace for strikes
Zimbabwe?s new rural teachers union has warned the government of a catastrophe that it says is likely to flatten the country?s strategic education sector. ?School workers remain incapacitated, with ...
Publ.Date : Wed, 12 Jun 2019 04:44:00 GMT

Zimbabwe Teachers End Two-Week March for Better Pay
HARARE, ZIMBABWE - A group of teachers finished a 300-kilometer protest march Thursday to push President Emmerson Mnangagwa?s government to pay them in U.S. dollars and improve their working ...
Publ.Date : Fri, 21 Dec 2018 03:09:00 GMT

A shock to the system: how new teachers in Zimbabwe learn to do their jobs
Working with early career high school English language teachers from Zimbabwe, we found that teachers obtained their knowledge about their work from three sources. First, they drew from theories of ...
Publ.Date : Wed, 23 May 2018 08:18:00 GMT

Zimbabwe ex-President Robert Mugabe dead
Zimbabwe's former President Robert Mugabe has ... graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and English in 1951. Mugabe then returned to his hometown to teach there. By 1953, he had earned ...
Publ.Date : Thu, 05 Sep 2019 22:49:00 GMT

Zimbabwe, Rwanda to Strengthen Ties
"This provides an opportunity for the two countries to regularly update each other. Zimbabwe boasts of highly skilled English teachers who can be easily deployed to work in Rwanda under the auspices ...
Publ.Date : Tue, 19 Nov 2019 16:00:00 GMT

Zimbabwe\'s Nobuntu Spreads Peace and African History Through A Cappella
Even though the members all speak and understand English perfectly, the group tours regularly through ... that?s not the case in Zimbabwe, according to Sibanda. Nobuntu, she says, is the only ...
Publ.Date : Thu, 07 Nov 2019 05:56:00 GMT