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Money fuelling Mnangagwa's ED2030 bid?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his allies are embroiled in a heated political struggle to secure his controversial bid for a third term, disguising it under the guise of the so-called "2030 project....Published: 05 Feb 2025 at 12:14hrs | 661 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MPs wants to bring spouses to hotel stays during parliament business trips
Members of Parliament (MPs) are urging the government to compare their compensation with that of neighboring South Africa. Additionally, they are requesting permission to bring their spouses to offici...Published: 18 Dec 2023 at 04:54hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe MPs demand overdue allowances
LEGISLATORS are yet to be paid allowances backdating to September last year, despite getting assurance they would be paid during last year's pre-budget seminar, and Treasury having budgeted for them....Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 11:07hrs | 1 | 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 | | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Nurse aid certificate the new gold for Zimbabweans
FOR 35-year-old Lorraine Siziba, attaining a nurse aid's certificate is nudging her closer to achieving her goals.Siziba has never been formally employed since completing a Bachelor's degree f...Published: 04 May 2022 at 20:13hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga hails Bulawayo for best vaccination record
VICE-PRESIDENT Dr Constantino Chiwenga yesterday hailed Bulawayo Province for the best vaccination record nationwide with over 50 percent of the population having received the first dose while over 44...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 06:21hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Brain drain too rampant in the health sector
IN 1963, the first medical school in then Rhodesia was established and was affiliated to the University of Birmingharm. This followed the establishment of University of Rhodesia in 1952, which was fun...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:23hrs | 2 | by Johannes Marisa
Anti-brain drain committee set up
GOVERNMENT has set up a committee to arrest the brain drain in the health sector as the Second Republic continues to pursue bilateral agreements with other countries for health professionals within th...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Doctors, nurses leave Bulawayo hospitals
MORE than 140 healthcare workers have resigned from Bulawayo's central hospitals, a development which has compromised service delivery. Most of these healthcare workers are said to be trekking to the ...Published: 18 May 2021 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa aborts annual leave
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been forced to report for duty, hardly a week into his annual leave, as the crisis in the country continues to deepen, with his deputy Constantino Chiwenga failing to ...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 09:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt partially fulfils doctors' demands
GOVERNMENT met striking doctors yesterday and urged them to resume work as some of their grievances had been addressed. Health and Child Care Minister Dr Obadiah Moyo met the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors...Published: 14 Dec 2018 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Case for return of Zimdollar
In year 2014, I wrote an article explaining why the government should bring back our own local currency, and I was bashed by all and sundry. I am expecting the same reaction in response to this articl...Published: 02 Oct 2018 at 09:48hrs | 9 | by Ayanda Nyanga
Mnangagwa gives in to doctor's demands
Health minister David Parirenyatwa yesterday said the impasse between government and striking doctors, who are demanding improved conditions of service, has been resolved.Parirenyatwa said the...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
NUST lecturers go on strike
Some lecturers at the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) have gone on strike over an array of issues, accusing the management of pampering themselves with huge benefits at the expens...Published: 14 Sep 2017 at 19:37hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
I think we need Mature and academic debates in parliament to debate sound policies
The level of debates in our parliament continue to show shallowness and remorse. I'm quite disturbed with the MPs that we have in parliament. Honestly I was watching the live debate in parliament toda...Published: 03 May 2017 at 18:16hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Govt bows down to doctors demands
Hardly 48 hours after awarding junior doctors increased on-call allowances, posts and car loans following a two-week strike, Government has bowed down to the medical practitioners' demands yet aga...Published: 09 Mar 2017 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parliament sues ex-MPs over $258,000 car loans
PARLIAMENT has descended heavily on six former legislators, who left without servicing their vehicle loans.Former Zanu-PF chief whip, Kudakwashe Bhasikiti (Mwenezi East) and ex-Energy mini...Published: 23 Jan 2017 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Moyo says Zanu-PF failing to use majority?
Gorden Moyo, an MDC member, seems to be a mental patient that suffers from acute amnesia as he appears to be a black-out on the unprecedented effects of western imposed illegal sanctions on the well-b...Published: 16 Jun 2015 at 13:52hrs | | by Suitable Kajau
Zim local authorities sucked in salary scams
SEVERAL local authorities have been implicated in a scandal involving the corrupt allocation of stands, payment of ghost workers and outrageous salary increments without following laid down procedures...Published: 08 Oct 2014 at 05:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Gweru mayor under fire
THE cash-strapped Gweru City Council (GCC) has come under fire over top of the range cars that the local authority recently purchased for its top brass while workers are not paid and service deliv...Published: 04 Oct 2014 at 08:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Local car assemblies should get govt support
The recent statement by the Finance Minister, Mr. Patrick Chinamasa that people should not import second hand cars from abroad as they are externalizing the little foreign currency needed in the ...Published: 30 Sep 2014 at 13:36hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Zimpapers in massive salary cuts
State owned Zimpapers has announced a 20 percent salary cut for all employees after posting $2 million loss for the first half of the year.With immediate effect the company has proposed a fo...Published: 05 Aug 2014 at 21:10hrs | | by Staff Reporter
The Great Commission for Masimirembwa
My congratulations go to Mr Goodwills Masimirembwa on his recent appointment as the board chairman for the government transport enterprise, the Central Mechanical Equipment Department (CMED). ...Published: 24 Jun 2014 at 09:29hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
SA company wins bid to buy Homelink
ADDAX Trading, a South African-based company has won the bid to buy Homelink Private Ltd for $22 million, sources familiar with the transaction said.The company won the bid ahead of other cont...Published: 16 May 2014 at 07:07hrs | | by Martin Kadzere
Zimbabwe to spend $15 million on MP's vehicles
Zimbabwe's 355 MPs could each soon receive $30,000 car loans in a development that will cost the taxpayer close to $15 million, a weekly newspaper has reported.The Zimba...Published: 15 Apr 2014 at 19:34hrs | 1 | by Mthulisi Mathuthu
Is the lack of liquidity the biggest challenge for the Zimbabwean economy?
Many a business woe has been put down to the problem of liquidity - everything from slow sales to non-performing loans to less robust economic growth. If there was more credit out there, the saying go...Published: 09 Apr 2013 at 12:41hrs | 1 | by Anonymous
Who is Zimbabwe's true revolutionary
This writer was a mere 13-year-old on the eve of Zimbabwe's national independence in April 1980. Then there was an enigmatic political atmosphere pitting the overrated and defeated camp of capitalist-...Published: 11 Feb 2012 at 13:13hrs | 2 | by Reason Wafawarova
MPs refuse to repay car loans, threaten to attend parliament in overalls
Lawmakers insist they will not use the US$15 000 windfall they recently received from Treasury to offset their car loans. Most legislators argued that they could not pay for vehicles they used for Gov...Published: 27 Jan 2012 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Legislators receive outstanding allowances (US$15 000 each)
LEGISLATORS have started receiving their outstanding US$15 000 sitting allowances at a time Constitutional and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Eric Matinenga says the money cannot cover their car loan ...Published: 03 Jan 2012 at 20:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe civil servants promises come to nothing
Government promises of pay rises and improved conditions for Public Servants in Zimbabwe have not been kept with the two main Ministers claiming the country can’t afford them....Published: 03 May 2011 at 07:37hrs | | by Nare Msupatsila
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