MIDLANDS Midlands State University (MSU) lecturers have embarked on an industrial action, protesting the late payment of February salaries. The lecturers downed tools on Monday following a meeting held at the university’s main campus last Friday came up with a… read more

SOME 13,000 children dropped out of school in 2013, a 43 percent increase on the previous year, a report from the ministry of primary and secondary education has revealed. Lack of school fees was cited as one of the main… read more

THE world has been shrunk into a “village” with a lot of business – both economic and social – now being conducted in virtual space, necessitating wide coverage of new multi-media technologies such as computers, tablets and mobile phones. Over… read more

There will  be readings in April or May in Harare at the Book Cafe. For more information, readers can contact amaBooks Publishers  (www.amabooksbyo.com).  

Dailynews-Harare’s Prince Edward High School will tomorrow host a “Meet the Author” session in which Shimmer Chinodya and Valerie Tagwira, authors of Strife and The Uncertainty of Hope respectively, will discuss their books with veteran arts personality and writer Ignatius… read more

The Royal Danish Embassy on Tuesday donated 1 700 law text books to the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) as a way of improving justice delivery system in the country. The books which cover up to date aspects of law were… read more

Dailynews-Bulawayo Public Library  last week received a donation of books worth more than $8 000 from mining giant Zimbabwe Platinum Mines (Zimplats). The donation comes at a time when the library is facing closure owing to financial constraints. The library,… read more

The Herald-I PURCHASED my first copy of Chinua Achebe’s third novel, “Arrow of God”, at a CMS (Church Mission School) Bookstore in 1964, in Onitsha, in Eastern Nigeria, a few weeks after the novel was published in England.I was at… read more