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ZIMSEC Exam Cheats Risk Nine Years In Jail

1 year agoTue, 26 Sep 2023 07:04:55 GMT
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ZIMSEC Exam Cheats Risk Nine Years In Jail

The Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC) has introduced new regulations that impose stiffer penalties on people involved in the leakage of public examinations and cheating.

Under the new regulations, individuals convicted of leaking public examination question papers could get nine-year prison sentences, while learners found guilty of the same offence will have their results nullified.

Previously, those found guilty of similar offences faced up to a year in jail but the courts prescribed community service for the majority of offenders.

Speaking to The Sunday Mail, ZIMSEC board chairperson Professor Eddie Mwenje said the new regulations will be gazetted soon. He said:

We have been working on new regulations meant to curb leakages of the question papers.

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We have realised that there are individuals who are taking advantage of the current regulations and making money out of the leakages.

So, with the help of the Attorney-General, we drafted new regulations that impose stiffer penalties, and they will be gazetted soon.

ZIMSEC public relations manager Nicolette Dlamini told The Sunday Mail that the new regulations will deter would-be offenders. She said:

Anyone caught with Zimsec papers this time around is given a nine-year imprisonment sentence and there is no community service, because some people were taking advantage of the light sentences imposed by the courts, and that is why we are introducing stiffer penalties. They are charged under the ZIMSEC Act.

ZIMSEC says it will nullify the results of (i) candidates found in possession of question papers prior to the examination, (ii) candidates found to have had pre-access to examination papers, and (iii) candidates found to have distributed exam papers prior to the tests.

The candidates will only be allowed to write their exams “after four examination sessions”, according to the new regulations.

In 2022, 11 exam papers leaked. More than 100 people were convicted for having pre-access to the papers, among them school headmasters, teachers, police officers and learners.

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13 Comments

Sharpshooter · 1 year ago
Mitemo inoiswa nani zimsec or parliament.... Soon it will be zimra, zinara.,zbc and so on
doug · 1 year ago
Is it not the same Zimsec that was saying recently that they ar devising a system to leak proof the examinations? Have they seen it to be impossible and are now going to lawfare? Why nine years and not twenty years or a life sentence, or even death sentence?
bhobhojani bhadhiza · 1 year ago
@pipiro wakurunga gwatagwata nehunyanzvi asingananzviri anenge anerurimi rouropi rakakwasharara segwati remupani.Hazvidi makore mazhinji kuti vanhu vasiye kuba,vanhu varikungourawa,kubatwa chibharo asi makore acho arigumi nefararira.Mhuka inonzi munhu haidi nzara ,ura hwayo ukapera chinoipa Simba inotsvaga mabhidhauko anoita kuti izadze ****u zvinova zvoita kuti nezvatanga tisati tamboona tichikura zvive zviri kuitika.Dzokororo ine Simba" ongorora chikonzero chaita musoro uteme" ndirikuona bepa richidhura kana rapiwa chichava chikonzero chekuti ribiwe uye vanoriba vachiriitisa nehunyandzvi
CHAWABVUNZA · 1 year ago
I want to congratulate ZIMSEC for implementing a piece of legislature which is intended to curb examinations cheating. It pains much to write the same examinations with cheats. During the days I wrote my examinations question papers were flow. from London and answer sheets were also sent back by air. The results were also flow. back to Salisbury, Rhodesia.The phrase "examinations cheats" was non existent. This is my story and I am sticking to it. [ THE BUSH LAWYER4CCC
abc · 1 year ago
point of correction not yet implemented zvinhu zva gazetwa .implement its the action.
abc · 1 year ago
they have stated the design process ,we want the building process
coni · 1 year ago
ma methods enyu anoshanda ku opposition chete to hell with you
Pipiro · 1 year ago
Ongorora chikonzero chaiita musoro ubande
Tateguru · 1 year ago
Does ZIMSEC make laws concerning convicts?
tambaoga · 1 year ago
Zimsec Zec
G · 1 year ago
no the state attorney general does read carefully. a law is made by parliament. it a sentence not a law
Mambo · 1 year ago
Kuzvikoro uko kwakushanda kuti uri mwana waani fut uko. Ko yekuChemhanza iye yakazopera seiko yainzi munhu arandutsira vana vairohwa ndiye akadzingwa pachikoro pacho

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