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'I was told to stop supporting Mnangagwa'
WE today conclude our interview with Elphas Tshuma, a former guerilla who operated in Hurungwe in Mashonaland West Province and later on in Hwange in Matabeleland North. Tshuma, now a member of the ru...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 08:27hrs | 755 | by Staff reporter
Charamba justifies Emmerson Junior's presence at meeting with Belarus chefs
DEPUTY Chief Secretary in the Office of the President and Cabinet Office, George Charamba, has justified the presence of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's son, Emmerson Jr, at a high-level State House me...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:01hrs | 608 | by Staff reporter
Polad gobbles millions in taxpayers' money
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's creation, the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad), hangs in the balance after gobbling millions of dollars in taxpayers' money as Zimbabwe hurtles towards make-or-break ge...Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 19:13hrs | 252 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints Chief Maduna
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has appointed Mr Dambisamahubo Mafu as substantive Chief Maduna in Insiza district, Matabeleland South province.Chief Maduna replaces his father Chief Vezi Maduna Mafu who ...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 07:42hrs | 254 | by Staff reporter
Shadowy group sends shivers down voters' spines
A Zanu-PF-affiliated organisation, Forever Associates Zimbabwe (FAZ), has deployed tens of its members in Masvingo province to collect personal voter information from each rural household, raising fea...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:53hrs | 2476 | by Staff reporter
'We aim to win big!' insists Chamisa oblivious Zanu PF is rigging big, there is verified voters' roll, etc., etc.
"The world is flat or round not because you or me say it is flat/round. It is round because the mountain of supporting evidence say it is round," my Secondary School teacher used to say. Zimba...Published: 24 Jan 2023 at 17:04hrs | 1399 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
8 300 more teachers hired
Another 8 382 teachers are being hired by the Government as the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education is looking to further its national educational goals anchored on providing quality, inclusiv...Published: 23 Jan 2023 at 05:44hrs | 370 | by Staff reporter
18 000 teachers get school fees support
The Government, through the Public Service Commission (PSC), has processed more than $820 million in school fees payments for children of 18 794 teachers.To date, the PSC has processed applica...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 12:12hrs | 187 | by Staff reporter
Senior CIO directors given US$350 000 cash windfall
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's financially struggling administration has given senior Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) directors US$350 000 housing loans each in a desperate bid to appease crit...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 09:43hrs | 3183 | by Staff reporter
Snake feeder and handler job ad trends in Zimbabwe
Would you apply for a job as a snake feeder and handler who has to look for lost snakes, help reptiles breed and take care of hatchlings at a snake park in Zimbabwe?No?Would you still ...Published: 12 Jan 2023 at 09:46hrs | 813 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa bans health workers from prolonged strikes
Zimbabwean health workers are now barred from going on strikes lasting more than three days, according to a new law just signed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.The government says the Health S...Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 16:58hrs | 672 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa fuelling Zanu-PF tension
POLITICAL analysts have warned that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's increasing use of parallel campaign groups for himself which are outside Zanu-PF structures is stoking tension in the ruling party....Published: 06 Jan 2023 at 18:23hrs | 1504 | by Staff reporter
PowerChina Supports Cultivation of Highly Skilled Talent in Zambia
LUSAKA, Zambia, PRNewswire/ -- On the Kafue River about 90 km south of Zambian capital Lusaka, Zambia's first large-scale hydropower station is humming sm...Published: 05 Jan 2023 at 07:01hrs | 997 | by PRNewswire
NSSA shouldn't act as if they derive some depraved pleasure from elderly's suffering
Whenever I witness the sad plight of the elderly in Zimbabwe, the adage, ‘there's no rest for the weary' always comes to mind.Having gone to the local Kwekwe branch of the state-owned POSB (...Published: 29 Dec 2022 at 20:23hrs | 792 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ZCTU threatens to boycott meetings
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has threatened to boycott the Tripartite Negotiating Forum (TNF) meetings next year, saying the body has failed to represent the interests of workers....Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:11hrs | 98 | by Staff reporter
Our leaders are not just corrupt, they're godfathers of corruption. 'But who will guard the guards themselves!'
The announcement that government will be installing 5 KVA solar powered kits at the homes of over 100 top government official including service chiefs "to cushion them and their families from ZESA loa...Published: 13 Dec 2022 at 09:34hrs | 1028 | by Wilbert Mukori
'It is nice to call the US$40k to MPs a loan, it is a bribe' admitted Chamisa - his first tacit admission he too was bribed
Renemanyanga hariputirwi!" (The one whose defects stick out like horns cannot hide them forever. They will stick out!) so goes the Shona saying. Nelson Chamisa and his CCC friends are corrupt ...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 08:59hrs | 1143 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa's govt withdraws Xmas goodies for bigwigs
BIGWIGS in government will this year not be pampered with Christmas goodies, such as end of year hampers as the Finance ministry seeks to curb excessive spending.In the past, civil service bur...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 05:08hrs | 417 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt clamps down on foreign travel, hampers
THE practice of Government headquarters staff buying themselves hampers and vouchers has been blocked and the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development has insisted that any Government travel must ...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 05:05hrs | 509 | by Staff reporter
MPs scrimmage for US$40 000 loan shows how we all are dependent on the dictator's benevolence
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to the...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 10:49hrs | 2498 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mliswa says Ministers' US$20m controversial allowances not budget for
CONTROVERSY over the huge housing allowances for Zimbabwean ministers and deputy ministers has deepened amid revelations the money was not budgeted for in the first place.This is according to ...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 09:06hrs | 2205 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pampered MPs, ministers for political survival
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa pampered legislators and his cabinet ministers with loans ranging between US$40 000 and US$500 000 in order to avoid protest votes, commonly known as bhora musango, from w...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 18:11hrs | 588 | by Staff reporter
ZESA and government corruption and incompetence to blame for perennial power challenges in Zimbabwe
As I write this article, I am preparing for a scheduled eight-hour power outage - from 08:00 to 17:00 hours - and, as can be seen, translates into an enti...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 11:57hrs | 2588 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa, Mnangagwa legislators united over US$40m loan
Members of Parliament (MPs) from across the political divide who usually fiercely clash over policy issues have come to speak with one voice in defence of the controversial US$40m loan facility from t...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 09:12hrs | 1077 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's politics of salving troubled consciences
Politics and poetryWilliam Butler Yeats, I think it was he who said out of our arguments with others we make politics, but out of arguments with ourselves we make poetry!We can forgive...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 07:10hrs | 165 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Mnangagwa's govt failing Zec
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has admitted failing to run elections properly, but has laid the blame on poor funding by the State.In its latest report on the March 26 by-elections, Z...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 05:07hrs | 415 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MPs offered US$40,000 loan facility by Mnangagwa's govt?
NORTON legislator Temba Mliswa has defended an alleged US$40 000 purse dangled at sitting members of parliament (MPs) as loans by government ahead of next year's elections.Mliswa, who is on re...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 17:50hrs | 2567 | by Staff reporter
NSSA a curse upon pensioners and vehicle for fleecing Zimbabweans!
As Zimbabwe continues to spiral out of control in an economic vortex - sinking deeper into an abyss - numerous employees are getting laid off from companies without any terminal benefits, becoming mor...Published: 28 Nov 2022 at 16:07hrs | 1224 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa's govt hard-pressed to appease restless public sector workers
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has proposed to increase the proportion of employment costs on state expenditure to 52.4% from 42.3% as the desperate government makes frantic efforts to appease the 300 ...Published: 27 Nov 2022 at 14:58hrs | 286 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube pampers security sector
THE security sector, which includes the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC), Defence and War Veterans Affairs and the Home Affairs ministries were some of the departments that got the largest ch...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:15hrs | 945 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants get lion's share
SALARIES for civil servants are set to go up markedly after the Government allocated the biggest chunk of the 2023 National Budget towards the public sector wage bill to cushion workers from the negat...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:05hrs | 518 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe pilot appointed Mangwe headman
HIGHFLYING Air Zimbabwe pilot Captain Simon Thalon Moyo has been appointed as Godzi headman under Chief Tjanguluba in Mangwe District, Matabeleland South Province.The pilot has flown President...Published: 23 Nov 2022 at 04:58hrs | 864 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi poised to bounce back after 2023 elections
FORMER vice-president Kembo Mohadi, who resigned from the government in shame in March last year, amid allegations he was using his office for sexual encounters with married women- including aides, is...Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 19:44hrs | 3387 | by Staff reporter
Sakunda windfall for Bosso
CHARMED by Highlanders' improved second half of the season performance in the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League, the club's principal sponsors, giant energy company Sakunda Holdings has offered 250 p...Published: 15 Nov 2022 at 04:48hrs | 748 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa donates farming equipment, bus to Solusi
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday donated an assortment of equipment that will help transform the Seventh Day Adventist-run Solusi University in Figtree, with the consignment including tractors with ploug...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 05:10hrs | 401 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants scoff at bonus offer
CIVIL servants are set to receive their bonus in United States dollars including a flat US$200 presidential bonus, but unions said there was nothing to be celebrated.A correspondence from the ...Published: 11 Nov 2022 at 05:07hrs | 1329 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants' bonuses to be paid 100 percent in forex
CIVIL servants will this year be paid 100 percent of their annual bonus in foreign currency but the payment will be spread over two months starting this month.Fifty percent of the bonuses will...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:05hrs | 599 | by Staff reporter
PSMI faces collapse
EMBATTLED Premier Services Medical Investments (PSMI) shut down 120 of its 155 facilities last month as the entity battled to settle a four-month salary arrears bill in a turbulent period that culmina...Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 05:38hrs | 2544 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's education was once the envy of Africa. Not anymore!
It wasn't just his well-fitted suit, the crisp shirt, and the neatly paired tie that caught everyone's attention. When Amos Mawoyo walked through the rural areas of Imbeza, a timber estate in the East...Published: 03 Nov 2022 at 05:10hrs | 1338 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa may call Zimbabwe snap 2023 general polls early next year
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa may call snap general elections in the first quarter of next year - in March - after securing a fresh mandate as Zanu-PF leader and its candidate in the polls, it emerged ...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 18:52hrs | 595 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF splashes on cars for top chefs
Zanu-PF has splashed millions of dollars on cars, party regalia and improving the welfare for its chefs ahead of next year's polls.This is despite that the majority of citizens in the country ...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 04:55hrs | 1971 | by Staff reporter
Thumbs up to a renewed ZANU PF!
The historic November 2017 Central Committee meeting which saw a change of guard at the ruling party HQ brought a number of positive developments for the party. Party First Secretary and Presi...Published: 26 Oct 2022 at 07:09hrs | 4348 | by Nicholas Ncube
Hunger stalks Zimbabwe army barracks
MORALE has reportedly hit rock-bottom in the army as the country's soldiers wallow in poverty and are having to make do with inadequate rations and uniforms, NewsDay can report.This was reveal...Published: 25 Oct 2022 at 06:08hrs | 3191 | by Staff reporter
Mafume laughs off latest govt salary schedule
Harare mayor Jacob Mafume has laughed off the latest government salary schedule, saying that he is now one of the country's lowest-paid workers.Mafume who labelled the allowances a "mockery" w...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 06:12hrs | 2885 | by Staff reporter
Bosso's Divine intervention
Highlanders 1-0 Bulawayo ChiefsSHEER individual brilliance by man-of-the-match, Highlanders midfielder Divine Mhindirira who scored in the 37th minute against Bulawayo Chiefs, earned Bosso maximum...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 06:08hrs | 217 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MPs meet Mnangagwa and Chiwenga over allowances
DISGRUNTLED Zanu-PF members of Parliament on Wednesday met President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga at State House, where they complained bitterly about their incapacitatio...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 17:24hrs | 283 | by Staff reporter
BCC warns of reduced service delivery
THE Bulawayo City Council has proposed a standstill 2023 budget with no rates increase although residents' bills will continue being pegged in foreign currency.In July the local authority star...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 09:14hrs | 121 | by Staff reporter
Zifa abandoned veteran administrator
THE Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) has been castigated for allegedly failing to offer any ‘meaningful' assistance to its founding Eastern Region Administrator, Thadeous Machawira who passed on...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 06:01hrs | 497 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe banking sector risks crippling strike over US$ salary portions
PLANS for a crippling strike are hovering above the country's banking sector following the recent denial by the employers' side to honour partial payment of US$ salaries, Zimbabwe Banks and Allied Wor...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 06:01hrs | 709 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube urged to present USD budget for 2023
THE Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (Zimcodd) has called on Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to present the 2023 national budget in United States dollar terms to avoid the need for a supplemen...Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 05:57hrs | 498 | by Staff reporter
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