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Zimbabwe president signs law allowing pregnant girls to continue in school

Ihesiulo Grace 23 August 2020 0

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has signed a law barring government schools from excluding girls who fall pregnant from attending lessons, Daily Times Nigeria gathered. Teachers are also no longer allowed to cane pupils, under amendments to the Education Act, which became law on Saturday.

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Zimbabwe won’t return land to white farmers – Emmerson Mnangagwa

Ihesiulo Grace 1 March 2018 0

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Saturday said the country will not return land seized from former white commercial farmers almost two decades ago. “It will never happen,” Mnangagwa said in a speech to his ZANU-PF party supporters in central Zimbabwe, broadcast on television. His statement comes two months after white farmer Robert Smart got his […]

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Zimbabwe president promises elections by July, says Mugabe not immune from prosecution

Ihesiulo Grace 24 January 2018 0

Emmerson Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe’s new president said on Wednesday the country would go to elections by July and that he would respect the result if the opposition won power. Mnangagwa, 75, who took power after long-term ruler Robert Mugabe was toppled by the military, told the World Economic Forum that he had also given Mugabe a […]

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New dawn for Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa sworn in as President

Ihesiulo Grace 24 November 2017 0

Emmerson Mnangagwa is Zimbabwe’s new president after he was inaugurated in the capital, Harare. The ceremony took place in a crowded National Sports Stadium where gun salutes took place. Mnangagwa is the southern African nation’s second leader and takes over from Robert Mugabe, who resigned after a near-bloodless coup, ending his 37-year rule.

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Sacked Zimbabwe’s Mnangagwa to be sworn in as president on Friday

Ihesiulo Grace 22 November 2017 0

Zimbabwe’s former vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa will be sworn in as president on Friday following the resignation of Robert Mugabe, the parliament speaker said on Wednesday. Speaker Jacob Mudenda said the ruling party ZANU-PF had informed him it has nominated Mnangagwa to fill the vacancy of the office of president, replacing the 93-year-old Mugabe who […]

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Zimbabwe: Ruling ZANU-PF fires Mugabe, replaces him with sacked VP

Ihesiulo Grace 20 November 2017 0

…As ZANU-PF Youth wing urge him to step down President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe was fired as leader of the ruling ZANU-PF party on Sunday and replaced by Emmerson Mnangagwa, the deputy he sacked this month, sources at a special ZANU-PF meeting to decide Mugabe’s fate told Reuters. He was replaced by Emmerson Mnangagwa, the […]