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2020 holds no promise for troubled Zimbabwe
A SHORT queue has formed outside a supermarket in Sunningdale, a supposedly middle-class suburb in Harare.Behind the supermarket, a truck is offloading bags of mealie-meal, a commodity that re...Published: 16 hrs ago | 122 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa loyalist says Govt roller meal taskforce foolish
South African based President Emmerson Mnangagwa's confidante and MDC critic Kudzai Mutisi has scoffed off at Industry and Commerce Minister Sekai Nzenza's roller meal committee set to monitor the sel...Published: 16 hrs ago | 195 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt revises civil servants pay offer
Government and representatives of civil servants are set to meet again today after the latter turned down Government's revised salary offer made on Friday, which would see the least-paid employee earn...Published: 16 hrs ago | 438 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF youths in bid to provide decent accommodation
Zanu PF youths have acquired the remainder of Melfort Farm in Goromonzi as part of their efforts to provide decent accommodation in line with Vision 2030. In an interview yesterday, Zanu PF Ma...Published: 24 Jan 2020 at 01:01hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
There is a special place in hell for women!!!!
This is a special quote from the former Secretary of State Madeline Albright. There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women." This quote comes to my mind because the ZACC boss ...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 21:58hrs | 2168 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mthuli Ncube to introduce $50 notes
GOVERNMENT will soon introduce $50 notes to address the currency crisis in the short term as the Zimbabwe dollar (ZWL) continues to devalue, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has said.In June 2019...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:36hrs | 2735 | by Staff reporter
Council workers demand 6-fold salary increment
Municipal Correspondent Stung by the alleged quadrupling of salaries for top council management, ordinary Harare City Council workers are now demanding a six-fold rise in their earnings to beat inflat...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:16hrs | 439 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa’s Agenda 2020 address to the nation
(Transcript of MDC leader Nelson Chamisa’s ‘Agenda 2020’ address as prepared for delivery at Stodart Hall in Mbare on January 21, 2020)Fellow Zim...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 19:47hrs | 1291 | by Nelson Chamisa
Charamba gets it wrong - Mnangagwa's illegitimacy remains the people's key fight
In his seminal statement yesterday, the people's President Advocate Nelson Chamisa was unstintingly consistent, particularly regarding the party's position on the illegitimacy of Mr Mnangagwa, given t...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 11:40hrs | 3010 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Zanu-PF blames climate change
ZANU-PF has claimed that while it has a burning desire to address the economic challenges affecting the country, its hands remain tied by nature.This came as the ruling party has been accused ...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 07:06hrs | 380 | by Staff reporter
Teacher kneels before Mohadi in pay rise plea
A BEITBRIDGE male teacher at the weekend knelt down before Vice-President Kembo Mohadi begging him to influence an upward pay review for teachers.Poloko Malapela, a teacher at Dulivhadzimo Pri...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:50hrs | 1029 | by Staff rpeorter
Teachers rule out strike
THE Zimbabwe Teachers' Association (Zimta) has ruled out any industrial action saying it is in favour of dialogue with Government to address its members' concerns. In an interview yesterday, Z...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:43hrs | 306 | by Staff reporter
Police sanction MDC's Agenda 2020 event
All roads lead to Stodart Hall in Mbare in Harare tomorrow as the police have sanctioned the MDC's Agenda 2020 programme that will be officially unveiled by the People's President Advocate Nelson Cham...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 09:02hrs | 1360 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Zimbabwe civil servants rule out strike
Government has reiterated its commitment to improve the welfare of its workers ahead of another round of salary negotiations.The Government workers have also ruled out the possibility of a str...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 13:11hrs | 1308 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants to reveal source of funds
CIVIL servants importing vehicles under the government's special motor vehicle rebate may be asked to produce proof of their source of funds, the State has said.Statutory Instrument (SI) 52 of...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:35hrs | 1023 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa faces serious challenges
A bleak outlook characterised by growing expectations to end Zimbabwe's political impasse, a weakening currency, power and foreign currency shortages stare in the face of President Emmerson Mnangagwa'...Published: 18 Jan 2020 at 08:58hrs | 11975 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants receive cushioning allowances
GOVERNMENT has said civil servants will be paid more cushioning allowances this year as its employees yesterday started receiving their promised payments for this month. Government this week r...Published: 18 Jan 2020 at 05:43hrs | 3564 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's HONA will solve nothing
The ban of opposition leader Nelson Chamisa's so called Hope of the Nation Address (HONA) by Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is justified as it was meant to disrupt smooth opening of first term schools...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 09:25hrs | 2051 | by Christopher Makaza
Government controls fuelling the black market
Business at the country's parallel (black) market for foreign currency and other commodities has never been as brisk. Billions of dollars in local or foreign currency exchange hands on a daily basis i...Published: 16 Jan 2020 at 09:07hrs | 3945 | by Victor Bhoroma
Mthuli can only afford allowances
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday poured cold water on civil servants' demand for United States dollar-benchmarked salary adjustments, saying the broke Zanu-PF government will, instead, continue...Published: 15 Jan 2020 at 06:48hrs | 3790 | by Staff reporter
MDC, unions plan to defy state threats over demos
DARK clouds are hanging over Zimbabwe once again following the threat by the MDC and labour unions to hold rolling anti-government protests around the country despite the State's stern warning against...Published: 15 Jan 2020 at 06:21hrs | 941 | by Staff reporter
Guns before food
With millions of Zimbabweans facing starvation, hospitals and schools collapsing in the rubble of the economy and civil servants rejecting a 98% pay rise as inadequate, President Mnangagwa is reported...Published: 12 Jan 2020 at 20:32hrs | 4538 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Schools, parents must meet halfway
Schools open in a few days' time and almost all Zimbabwean parents, to their immense credit and often with great financial sacrifice, have made the required arrangements to send their children to clas...Published: 12 Jan 2020 at 08:04hrs | 818 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Matemadanda came out of the Zanu-PF conference a mature cadre
In the political party a political commissar or political officer is a supervisory officer responsible for the political education (ideology) and organization of the party, they are assigned to, and i...Published: 12 Jan 2020 at 07:56hrs | 4719 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Civil servants offered 97% pay rise
GOVERNMENT has offered civil servants a salary increment of up to 97 percent which will see the lowest paid worker earning a monthly salary of over two thousand Zimbabwe dollars.According to t...Published: 11 Jan 2020 at 18:59hrs | 3741 | by Staff Reporter
'Teachers need new skills to counter Zanu PF enslavement' - name just one profession with 0% unemployment
Once upon a time, 40 years ago but it might as well be 400 years ago for we have regressed so quickly we are now back in the dark ages, Zimbabwe used to produce enough food to not only feed all her pe...Published: 10 Jan 2020 at 07:55hrs | 1089 | by Wilbert Mukori
Teachers need to be economically empowered so as to fearlessly stand up against government enslavement
A few days ago I was talking to my neighbour - who is a teacher - on the collective job action proposed by the two main teachers' unions in the country - who have called upon their members not to turn...Published: 09 Jan 2020 at 12:12hrs | 1321 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa pledges to look into unjustified school fees hike
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has pledged to look into the unjustified increase in school fees saying his government will not allow school authorities to wantonly increase school fees as the school yea...Published: 03 Jan 2020 at 13:47hrs | 5362 | by Staff Reporter
Currency stability tops RBZ priorities -
Reducing inflation and maintaining a stable exchange rate are the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s top priorities in the new year to bolster President Mnangagwa's drive to increase production, grow th...Published: 03 Jan 2020 at 00:28hrs | 3702 | by Staff Reporter
'You have failed us' - Zimbabweans reject Mnangagwa Christmas message
Zimbabweans have rejected President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Christmas message and accused him of running down the country and leaving them with nothing to celebrate. Responding to Mnangagwa's mes...Published: 24 Dec 2019 at 17:25hrs | 4337 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe judges to work up to 70
Cabinet has approved that the Chief Justice, Deputy Chief Justice and judges of the Supreme and Constitutional Courts hold office until they reach the age of 70 and thereafter have their contracts ren...Published: 18 Dec 2019 at 08:49hrs | 3380 | by Staff Reporter
We are living in a prison
If ever there was need for a revolution- a real revolution - it is now.We are really living in a self-made, man-made prison.We can no longer continue like this, and it is time "w...Published: 15 Dec 2019 at 12:05hrs | 846 | by Bishop Lazarus
'Compulsory National Youth Service training for civil servants to be introduced'
ZANU PF National Youth Service have adopted a resolution that all youths intending to work for the government must face attend a mandatory paramilitary National Youth Service Training. The res...Published: 14 Dec 2019 at 17:05hrs | 2622 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Women's group engages MPs to push for gender equality
Women's Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (WALPE) has engaged Members of Parliament (MPs) on the need to push for the full implementation of gender equality provisions in the constitutio...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 09:17hrs | 235 | by Stephen Jakes
Mberengwa East MP torches storm
MBERENGWA East legislator Marko Raidza (Zanu-PF) reportedly teamed up with party activists and disrupted a prize-giving ceremony at a local primary school on December 4, where businessman Comings Hove...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 08:04hrs | 1548 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF in Mat South targets civil servants
ZANU-PF Matabeleland South province has resolved to push the government to adopt a policy of vetting civil servants to establish their political affiliation to allegedly guard against sabotage....Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 12:09hrs | 1437 | by Staff reporter
Coltart defiant against vicious Varakashi
Douglas Coltart is probably one of the most trolled Zimbabwean on Twitter with pro-government ghost accounts spewing out vitriol against him on a daily basis.Even senior civil servants such as...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 12:08hrs | 870 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa threatens to 'deal' with doctors
President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday threatened to "deal" with striking doctors, claiming they were being paid by unknown organisations to continue with their job boycott.Doctors at governme...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 11:53hrs | 924 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF indaba must bring solutions to economic woes
It will not be business as usual at the 18th Zanu-PF Annual National People's Conference which begins this week in Goromonzi, if sentiments expressed by President Mnangagwa at the Women's League's Sec...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 11:40hrs | 91 | by Staff reporter
IMF team jets in for crucial talks
A six member delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) led by Gene Leon jetted into the country this week for crucial meetings to revive the Staff Monitored Programme (SMP), which stalled ...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 07:30hrs | 933 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga to reveal secret for the Zanu-PF conference in his province
Mashonaland East province which is the province which house the Vice President of Zimbabwe retired Army General Chiwenga sets to witness fireworks as the ZANU PF conference begins. It's great to be he...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 12:03hrs | 11949 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Doctors defy Mnangagwa
STRIKING public hospital doctors have defied President Emmerson Mnangagwa's latest 48-hour moratorium which came after government reversed its earlier decision to fire them.Information ministe...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 06:32hrs | 6667 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Matebeleland backs Mnangagwa
ZANU-PF Matebeleland North and Matebeleland South provinces have endorsed President Mnangagwa as the party's presidential candidate in the 2023 elections and recommended that the Government speedily i...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 06:31hrs | 880 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to engage civil servants over COLA
Government says it is ready to engage civil servants' representatives over the possibility of another cost of living adjustment (COLA) to enable them to have a decent festive season. While ack...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 06:28hrs | 2157 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda warns errant civil servants
Zanu-PF National Political Commissar Victor Matemadanda has warned civil servants who are sabotaging President Mnangagwa's plans to transform the economy, to be prepared to lose their jobs. He...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:06hrs | 899 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors to get 'mushikashika' cars from govt - can this absurdity ever get any worse?
As the Zimbabwe government ups the ante in its concerted efforts in dehumanizing and degrading the people of this country - through its brazenly heartless and cold-hearted economic policies that have ...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 18:37hrs | 1500 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Ramaphosa asked to push Zanu PF and MDC dialogue - endorsed rigged elections soiled his hands
There is no denying that President Mnangagwa's trade-mark "Zimbabwe is open for business!" clarion call is dead in the water. Instead of putting the Zimbabwe economy back on track, the economic meltdo...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 09:23hrs | 3348 | by Nomusa Garikai
Doctors dig in over readmission
Fired government doctors have said they will not reapply for their jobs and have instead asked Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga to first address their concerns as well as the chaos that is prevaili...Published: 26 Nov 2019 at 07:25hrs | 1186 | by Staff reporter
2020 Budget Hits and Misses
Zimbabwe's 2020 National Budget was presented amid high expectations from the market on the urgent need to turnaround the fortunes of the waning economy, restore incomes, and improve productivity and ...Published: 25 Nov 2019 at 11:17hrs | 1319 | by Staff Reporter
'Democratic space shrinks under Mnangagwa rule'
ZIMBABWE's democratic space continues to shrink under President Emmerson Mnangagwa's rule despite government claims that several good laws have been crafted or aligned with the Constitution in line wi...Published: 25 Nov 2019 at 07:00hrs | 680 | by Staff reporter
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