Here is a scene that would not be in a spy movie necessarily but it is a scene that is seen far more regularly than we may think.
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By Tim Middleton
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Golden Knot Holdings, which led by Group CEO Peace Pundu, has established a solid reputation in Zimbabwe over the past 20 years
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By Takemore Mazuruse
Sep. 14, 2025
Everyone knows Ed Sheeran as a prolific singer and song-writer, a four-time Grammy award winner, no less, with perhaps his most well-known hit song being Perfect
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By Tim Middleton
Sep. 14, 2025
We need to take politics out of education and not develop policies designed purely to win a vote. We need to give schools independence.
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By Tim Middleton
Sep. 7, 2025
It is interesting that there was a huge debate when Oscar Pistorius, the South African paralympic athlete (aka the ‘Blade Runner’) wanted to race against able-bodied athletes
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By Tim Middleton
Aug. 31, 2025
In a similar but different vein, the celebrated writer, Ernest Hemingway, once made a bet that he could write a story only six words long.
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By Tim Middleton
Aug. 24, 2025
Tatenda Matirongo is on a mission to inspire hope, excellence, hard work, virtuous living, and perseverance through her writings.
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By Takemore Mazuruse
Aug. 17, 2025
Many children desperately want to be a Prefect, not always for the right reason
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By Tim Middleton
Aug. 17, 2025
The surprise at so many points was nothing in comparison to her feelings when she saw some of the points mentioned on the list.
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By Tim Middleton
Aug. 10, 2025
The make of a car or the educational system are not exactly the key factors when it comes to driving or teaching.
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By Tim Middleton
Aug. 3, 2025
Heroes really are those to whom we look up, those who set a positive, consistent, inspiring example.
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By Tim Middleton
Jul. 27, 2025
It is the same thing as the plane prepares its final descent and once again passengers are reminded of their responsibilities.
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By Tim Middleton
Jul. 20, 2025
In line with global trends and standards, Nyaude said the Lusaka campus comes with ultramodern classrooms complete with facilities for science and technology studies.
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By Takemore Mazuruse
Jul. 13, 2025
When the teacher handed back the work, the young girl paused, breathed in deeply and looked at her mark before breaking out into an enormous smile – nineteen out of twenty!
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By Tim Middleton
Jul. 13, 2025
In some churches, the sermons may well be punctuated by such cries of “Preach it, brother!”
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By Tim Middleton
Jul. 6, 2025
Parents must be in the lives of their children at all possible times, taking precedence where necessary over work and personal pleasure and play.
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By Tim Middleton
Jun. 29, 2025
Both these viewpoints are very relevant when it comes to education.
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By Tim Middleton
Jun. 22, 2025
In sport, we see how things have become easier (or maybe just different).
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By Tim Middleton
Jun. 8, 2025
People, however, are fascinated by space, wondering what is out there.
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By Tim Middleton
May. 18, 2025
That superpower is the power to stay “No”.
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By Tim Middleton
Apr. 27, 2025
Running under the theme Transforming Education in Zimbabwe: Embracing Innovation and Excellence, the conference provides a platform to network,
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Apr. 20, 2025
The child, in turn, would not advise the parents of what had transpired.
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By Tim Middleton
Apr. 20, 2025
All were obviously correct in their thinking, but each viewed their work through different eyes.
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By Tim Middleton
Apr. 6, 2025
A jungle is generally wild, untamed, full of extreme danger, just like the world.
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By Tim Middleton
Mar. 30, 2025
The second answer to that question, however, is ‘everyone’; everyone wants to be the referee; in fact, everyone considers they are the referee
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By Tim Middleton
Mar. 23, 2025
There is another film that focuses on a difficult choice.
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By Tim Middleton
Mar. 9, 2025
The two-day forum held in Harare recently brought cheer to local business minds, investors, and property enthusiasts eager to secure real estate opportunities in Dubai.
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By Takemore Mazuruse
Mar. 2, 2025
Much more relevant (and therefore important) advice would be, firstly, to Do It Just, in other words for them to reflect carefully if they are doing it correctly, rightly, justly, fully.
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By Tim Middleton
Mar. 2, 2025
Compliments are gold dust. They can have a really positive impact on the recipients.
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By Tim Middleton
Feb. 9, 2025
That smooth, wide, straight and clear road is dull and boring (and perhaps also sleep-inducing). It is what we see and experience on the way that really inspires and excites us.
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By Tim Middleton
Feb. 2, 2025
“Bullying. Yes, I am going to teach you how to bully!” The class groaned audibly.
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By Tim Middleton
Jan. 19, 2025
There will be no rest while people think themselves better than others; such people are simply Vain In Passing.
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By Tim Middleton
Jan. 12, 2025
‘The Three Bulls’ is not a fairy tale or a nursery rhyme; it is a sad reality which does not have a happy ending
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By Tim Middleton
Jan. 5, 2025
Tradition also plays a huge part in the school but we might note how someone once said, “Tradition is peer pressure from dead people”.
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By Tim Middleton
Dec. 29, 2024
So, thank you, William Shakespeare (and his father and mother)! All will be well if we end this article well and show it is not much ado about nothing.
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By Tim Middleton
Dec. 8, 2024
John Steinbeck’s East of Eden ends with “And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good” which maybe goes against the argument of this article but it no doubt
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By Tim Middleton
Dec. 1, 2024
Let us not be fussbudgets in our thinking and speaking and treating of children.
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By Tim Middleton
Nov. 17, 2024
Smart phones are all the ‘thing’; everyone must have one, even, it would seem, young children
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By Tim Middleton
Nov. 10, 2024
That is where the treasure will be found.
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By Tim Middleton
Nov. 3, 2024
At the heart of connectivity are two of the essential five Cs of twenty-first century learning - communication and collaboration.
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By Tim Middleton
Oct. 27, 2024
When it comes to stories about fish, we all know that they tend to be dubious and exaggerated; there is always something fishy about such!
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By Tim Middleton
Oct. 20, 2024
However, words of a song (or from a teacher’s mouth), will not make them get started, let alone not stop.
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By Tim Middleton
Oct. 6, 2024
The lie is missing the F. Education must bring life. Ten out of ten people need to know that.
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By Tim Middleton
Sep. 29, 2024
Too many children have been written off by society, by schools, by systems as being a lost cause.
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By Tim Middleton
Sep. 8, 2024
WhatsApp would not change anything but What’s Up conceivably could.
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By Tim Middleton
Sep. 1, 2024
Many children nowadays are quick to advise everyone they are bored — there is nothing to do.
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By Tim Middleton
Aug. 25, 2024
Watch a toddler with this new-found ability to totter on two legs, wandering around in a new place, seeing what is there, what happens if they touch things.
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By Tim Middleton
Aug. 18, 2024
Going back in time, in the Bible we read of the children of Israel who sent spies into Canaan to ascertain what lay ahead of them, in order to fulfil the promise that awaited them.
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By Tim Middleton
Aug. 11, 2024
The Speech Night, or rather more importantly the Prize Giving Night, is for the school to celebrate the achievements of the school
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By Tim Middleton
Aug. 4, 2024
We have drivers pulling out onto the road when there is no gap, expecting (or rather demanding) that others must slow down to allow them in, instead of waiting for a gap to appear.
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By Tim Middleton
Jul. 28, 2024