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Govt offers civil servants 50% cushioning allowance
The government has offered civil servants a 50% cushioning allowance for the month of July and salary increments of ZW$116 from August to December, but representatives of the workers rejected the prop...Published: 15 hrs ago | 3439 | by Staff reporter
'Don't expect decent salaries from Mnangagwa govt'
The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC yesterday said President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government, in its present form, does not have the capacity to decently reward its employees unless there is change in the poli...Published: 15 hrs ago | 1094 | by Staff reporter
Government, Apex Council meet to continue negotiations
GOVERNMENT and Apex Council negotiators are set to meet to continue with negotiations that will culminate in an agreement over civil servants' cushioning allowances. The proposed meeting of ne...Published: 15 hrs ago | 333 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa threatens to sue Govt, Parly over his poor $1,800 salary?
Norton legislator Mr Temba Mliswa has threatened to sue the Government and Parliament over poor remuneration for parliamentarians. Mr Mliswa said this in the National Assembly yesterday while ...Published: 15 hrs ago | 522 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants warn government of imminent strikes
Civil servants on Tuesday night rejected the government's latest pay offer as insufficient in the face of soaring consumer prices, raising the likelihood of unofficial strike action on Wednesday....Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 08:43hrs | 3865 | by zimlive
Poor salaries jolt civil servants
Civil servants representatives yesterday demonstrated in Harare and handed over a petition to the government demanding a restoration of their salary to at least the equivalent of US$475 using the inte...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:55hrs | 1278 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants wages: Govt can't run forever
GOVERNMENT's continued action of snubbing its workers as it tries to avoid paying what is due to the civil servants is nothing short of folly.In fact, it reminds us of lyrics of one of reggae ...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:48hrs | 1055 | by Editorial - Newsday
Govt to announce workers' package
GOVERNMENT is today expected to make an announcement pertaining to civil servants' conditions of service following engagements by workers' representatives with President Mnangagwa recently. Pu...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:38hrs | 968 | by Staff reporter
'A coup against Mnangagwa is about to explode'
The November 2017 military coup which forced tyrant Robert Mugabe from power is still haunting Zimbabwe almost 18 months down the line. The remnants of the coup and its footprints will not disappear s...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 16:59hrs | 17311 | by Blessing Ivan Vava
Civil servants stage demonstration in Harare
Some section of civil servants' staged a protest in the Harare Central Business District over the meagre salaries that they are paid by the government. The protestors who were petitioning the ...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 14:53hrs | 6971 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's govt snubs civil servants again
Civil servants are today expected to stage a demonstration in Harare to protest government's reluctance to negotiate a salary deal after the planned National Joint Negotiation Council slated for yeste...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 07:47hrs | 4439 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants in make or break meeting with govt
CIVIL servants are today expected to engage their employer in a make or break meeting to address their remuneration as calls for industrial action get louder.’The government has on many occa...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 07:55hrs | 2516 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to narrowly avoid recession
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube says Zimbabwe's economy will flat-line this year, narrowly skirting recession in the face of growing headwinds.Initial forecasts had suggested that the economy wo...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 14:56hrs | 641 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala's message from prison to Zimbabweans
Dear ZimbabweansThe walls of Jericho fell. Saul the murderer was hit by lightening for him to repent. Zimbabweans are suffering on a daily basis for 40 years after the attainment of Independen...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 11:53hrs | 9614 | by Job Sikhala
Teachers shortchanging pupils, parents and cheating government
Dear, We, the Murowa Ward Community would like to air our complaint regarding the conduct, performance and attitude of Murowa Secondary (aka Chinembeure) School teachers. The school has the wo...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 06:12hrs | 2720 | by Murowa Ward Community
Zimbabwe civil servants brace for strike
CIVIL servants yesterday said they had run out of patience with their employer over poor remuneration and threatened to take "appropriate action" if government fails to come up with a satisfactory wag...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 08:11hrs | 3301 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans face another fuel price hike
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube says government is set to increase the prices of electricity and fuel because the current pricing structure was no longer sustainable.Zimbabwe is currently battli...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 19:57hrs | 5808 | by Staff reporter
'Salary Idai' hits civil servants
The government has once again sold a dummy to the loyal and hardworking civil servants of Zimbabwe. The workers were expecting a salary increment in line with the current cost of living but were yeste...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 13:36hrs | 7651 | by ARTUZ
Civil servants union divided over boycotting feedback meeting
Divisions have rocked the Apex Council with the Progressive Teachers Union yesterday boycotting a feedback meeting following deliberations between representatives of Government employees and the emplo...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:22hrs | 1073 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants get 40% pay rise (30% cut given 100% inflation), thin end of very thick hyperinflation wedge
"CIVIL servants yesterday started receiving a cushioning allowance while the National Joint Negotiating Council (NJNC) convened a meeting to discuss an increment and other conditions of service for Go...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 06:39hrs | 5215 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Civil servants start getting cushioning allowance
CIVIL servants yesterday started receiving a cushioning allowance while the National Joint Negotiating Council (NJNC) convened a meeting to discuss an increment and other conditions of service for Gov...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 07:50hrs | 2570 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe civil servants reject $21 million pay rise - union
Zimbabwe's government on Tuesday offered its workers 180 million Zimbabwe dollars ($21 million) in additional pay for the July-December period, which unions rejected as inadequate in the face of soari...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 07:32hrs | 2803 | by Reuters
Mthuli Ncube taunts 'misguided' lawyers challenging SI 142
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has described litigations against the reintroduction of the Zimbabwean dollar and ban on the use of foreign currencies as "misguided".Currently, there are three c...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 17:58hrs | 2504 | by Staff reporter
Govt to increase civil service salaries
Government is set to increase civil service salaries, potentially beginning this month-end to cushion them from recent price hikes once a framework to guide the planned pay and benefits rise has been ...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 07:18hrs | 2202 | by STaff reporter
Mnangagwa promised a 'Zimbabwe you want' but has failed to deliver
Last year, during Zimbabwe's national elections, the ruling party erected dozens of banners all over the country, emblazoned with lofty promises and a giant photo of the man who won that contest, Emme...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 08:37hrs | 2988 | by John Sparks
Fresh headache for Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's recently enacted economic measures will be tested next week when government workers meet to decide the salary threshold they should demand from their employer following ...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 12:34hrs | 5373 | by Staff reporter
Minister Ncube you are printing Z$ 400 m to pay for increased expenditure = financial indiscipline. Simple!
"ZIMBABWE will print ZWL$400 million bond notes which it says will be drip-fed into the economy to cover the gap left after government banned the use of multi-currencies in local transactions," report...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 07:37hrs | 2096 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Go deeper Auditor-General, probe and do forensic audit of the Office of President and Cabinet
Allow me to start by congratulating you Auditor-General Mildred Chari for such a job well done. After reading your audit report I was shocked to see how public officials bled Zimbabwe dry through corr...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 10:20hrs | 2409 | by Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo
Zimbabwe to print $400 million bond notes
ZIMBABWE will print ZWL$400 million bond notes which it says will be drip-fed into the economy to cover the gap left after government banned the use of multi-currencies in local transactions.T...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:32hrs | 4463 | by Staff reporter
Massive Zesa disconnections loom
POWER utility Zesa could soon embark on massive disconnections in an effort to recover over $1,2 billion owed to it by defaulting customers, most of whom are Cabinet ministers and top civil servants....Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:19hrs | 2490 | by Staff reporter
Measures in place to preserve Zimbabwe dollar value
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube says authorities have instituted measures that will ensure that the local currency will not suffer previous depredations, following the...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:10hrs | 828 | by Staff reporter
Are we enjoying the fruits of our independence-Zimbabwe?
The Zimbabwe is on standstill not because of sanctions. The real matter is on "CORRUPTION" and Zimbabwe to go forward need to adhere to its "Constitution".. In the Zimbabwean scenario, a certain secti...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 21:26hrs | 1719 | by Enos Denhere
Recession, Zim Dollar return and Economic Outlook
As the country enters the last half of the year and warms up to the re-introduction of the Zimbabwean Dollar, it is now evident that the economy is swiftly sliding into a recession. In 2018, the econo...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 12:20hrs | 5222 | by Victor Bhoroma
US$ ban piles pressure on employers
The government should channel its entire surplus towards cushioning workers in the face of rising costs and declining incomes, economist Ashok Chakravarti has said.In a wide-ranging interview ...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 09:10hrs | 1417 | by Staff reporter
De-dollarisation fraught with risk
LATIN American countries such as Bolivia and Peru - like Zimbabwe did this week - once embarked on de-dollarisation without macro-economic stability and other necessary conditions, with the process en...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 09:06hrs | 481 | by Staff reporter
Currency reforms restore country's sovereign dignity
The Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP) has laid the foundation for fiscal consolidation at the same time generating sustainable budget methods. So far, the implementation of the TSP ha...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 09:03hrs | 168 | by Richard Mahomva
ZIMSEC and MoPSE should come clean on AG report
Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe, ARTUZ is angered by the findings of misappropriation of funds by government departments exposed by the Auditor General's 2018 report. We are particularly...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 10:39hrs | 1196 | by ARTUZ
Zimdollar comeback divides civil servants
THE reintroduction of the Zimbabwe dollar as the sole legal tender has widened divisions within the civil service, particularly teachers, who are now accusing each other of colluding with government t...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 06:28hrs | 7173 | by Staff reporter
Lecturer in trouble over anti-Mnangagwa slur
A LECTURER at the Harare Polytechnic College has been suspended for allegedly denigrating President Emmerson Mnangagwa over poor civil servants' salaries during a conversation with a soldier at a bar ...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 06:42hrs | 1211 | by Staff reporter
10 Implications of de-dollarization and introduction of the Zim dollar
Wheels have finally come off as government has been cornered and forced to involuntarily de-dollarize without a plan.When government introduced bond notes we warned that the surrogate currency was bad...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 21:01hrs | 15626 | by Tapiwa Mashakada and Miriam Mushayi
The civil servants problem
All along I have been thinking that cevil servants understand and know how to deal with their problem. No they don't. Cevil servants don't need a bond note salary increment because it becomes the caus...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 11:24hrs | 2569 | by Clemen Moyo
Mthuli Ncube interacts with journalists
Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday held an informal interaction with local and foreign journalists where he spoke on a wide range of issues prevailing in the country's ec...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 09:30hrs | 742 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants get pay rise
GOVERNMENT has fended off a potentially crippling industrial action in the civil service after President Emmerson Mnangagwa assented to a pay raise for the restive workers effective next month....Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 07:19hrs | 8582 | by Staff Reporter
Why Fadzayi Mahere joined Chamisa bandwagon
Prominent lawyer Fadzayi Mahere saw her stock rise in the run-up to last year's harmonised elections after launching an audacious campaign as an independent candidate for Mt Pleasant constituency....Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 21:02hrs | 1097 | by Staff reporter
'Prices have dropped 19% in US$ terms but soared in RTGS$' says Ncube - scrap RTGS$ then, cowardly lion pulling his own tail
FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube says prices of basic goods in terms of RTGS$ were "grossly inflated" adding that Treasury calculations indicate prices were in fact going down. "Prices for b...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 17:12hrs | 2557 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zanu-PF's power obsession in hunger-stricken nation
THE acquisition of a huge assortment of weapons and ammunition at a time the country's economic crisis is deepening is reflective of government's misplaced priorities, as well as President Emmerson Mn...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:49hrs | 1013 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa duty-bound to whip officials into line
Among many issues raised in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's radio talk last week dubbed "Catching up with Mnangagwa", was his explanation that government cannot do much about civil servants who remain ...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:47hrs | 2313 | by Martin Tarusenga
Zimbabwe stocks year's supply of ARVs
Zimbabwe has enough anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs that will last the next 12 months after Government secured funding to procure the life-prolonging therapy, Parliament has heard. Health and Child Care M...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:14hrs | 145 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa offers civil servants another salary hike
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi yesterday assured Parliament that government is hoping to further increase civil servants' salaries to cushion them from the rising cost of living.Responding t...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 08:06hrs | 14342 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers demand just US$200 pay package
TEACHERS have petitioned Parliament demanding that Government immediately releases a teacher salary rescue package of US$200 on top of their RTGS salaries saying earnings have been eroded by inflation...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 07:55hrs | 1091 | by Staff reporter
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