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School Owner Who "Stole" US$7 000 Exam Fees Appears In Court

5 months agoSat, 26 Oct 2024 05:08:43 GMT
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School Owner Who "Stole" US$7 000 Exam Fees Appears In Court

A man from Damafalls Phase 4, Ruwa, who was allegedly running an unregistered school in Eastview Phase 6, Caledonia, and misappropriated nearly US$7,000 paid by students for examination registration, has appeared in court.

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said that the accused person, Rutendo Zivanai, appeared before the Harare Magistrates’ Court on Thursday for contravening the Education Act and fraud charges. Said the NPA:

Allegations are that, sometime in March 2024, the accused person received payments from 34 Ordinary Level students purporting that he would register them for examinations at a registered ZIMSEC centre but failed to make any arrangements and converted the money to his own use.

The accused person was running an unregistered school in Eastview Phase 6, Caledonia, Findale Academy.

On the 14th of October 2024, the students went to the purported examination centre as advised by the accused person to sit for the examinations and upon arrival were informed that they were not registered as candidates, hence were sent away.

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A police report was made, leading to the arrest of the accused person.

The complainants suffered a total prejudice of US$6 908 and nothing was recovered.

The students were later able to write some of their examinations after President Emmerson Mnangagwa paid the examination fee.

The Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Torerai Moyo, confirmed this development during a visit to Findale Academy on 16 October. Said Moyo:

I want to thank His Excellency the President for coming to the rescue of all these learners because their fundamental right, education, had been violated through this theft by the owner of this school.

What is most important is the fact that the proliferation of unreasonable schools is a challenge to us as the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, and we are going to take measures against all those schools that are operating illegally.

ZIMSEC Chief Executive Officer, Lazarus Nembaware confirmed the centres where learners were set to sit for their examinations. Said Nembaware:

We are now putting in place all the requirements so that the affected learners will start writing their exams starting tomorrow.

So starting tomorrow they must report to the centres which we have allocated them. They will write as Pirate candidates and their results will be made public.

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10 Comments

Goi koi · 5 months ago
Ko zvikoro zvese zvadii kungo e registered nhai Erectile Dysfunction ED
...,. · 5 months ago
it is good that the students are writing the examinations. can the reporters tell us as to how they managed to be registered by zimsec for an examination already in place, long after registration and very late registration had closed, how much was paid, and if zimsec had to print specific question papers for the "pirates"? if it was any other good Samaritan who had wanted to pay for the students to register and write an examination already in process, would they have succeeded? if that had happened to students registered for Cambridge or any other foreign examinations, would a similar intervention have succeeded?
mculi nthube · 5 months ago
What is important is that the students did not miss a year in their academic development. Izvo zvamava kubvunza tatova drama iro. Let us just appreciate the intervention without politicizing it.
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Mushurugwi · 5 months ago
That's my question also
🇿🇼44yrs · 5 months ago
Mubvunzi wakanakisa chose and handi vana vanowana maslips anoratidza time yaanonyora kubva pazvakaitwa issued sei vakange vakanyarara kusvika day reExam. Zimsec Zimsec yoo after closing!
saint · 5 months ago
Nhai Pindula how come you paste News dze last week, come on guys don't be lazy 😴 🙄 nxaaa
Prigozhin · 5 months ago
@Gafa ndiri weMadrid but Barca magetsi
Gafa · 5 months ago
ko nhasi ndeip inofa between Barcelona vs Madrid
tavez.com · 5 months ago
Ngaite chiratidzo kune wamwe! Munhu mukati plz
Gafa · 5 months ago
yar munhu mukati sure

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