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Zimbabwe family food basket hits $1 684,45 mark
CONSUMER rights watchdog, Poverty Reduction Forum Trust (PRFT), says during the month of July, an average family of six required at least $1 684,45 to sufficiently source food and non-food items....Published: 19 hrs ago | 756 | by Staff reporter
Teachers threaten chalks down
TEACHERS have threatened to withdraw their labour when schools open for the third term next month to force government to pay them in United States dollars or the equivalent of US$550 at the interbank ...Published: 19 hrs ago | 430 | by Staff reporter
Rural teachers to wear black every pay day to mourn death of 'our salaries'
FIREBRAND teachers group, Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Unions of Zimbabwe ARTUZ, famed for embarking on a 275km march to press for improved wages, on Tuesday said they were now turning to wearing black...Published: 19 hrs ago | 188 | by newzimbabwe
IMF says Zimbabwe must not increase civil servants salaries
MDC Secretary-General Charlton Hwende has urged the Minister of Finance Mthuli Ncube to increase the civil salaries to match the ever-increasing price of commodities in the country. Hwende...Published: 20 hrs ago | 1088 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Rural teachers chicken out
Following a brutal crackdown on MDC demonstrations by the police in Harare last Friday, the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) yesterday announced that it had postponed plans to pick...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 15:14hrs | 604 | by Staff reporter
No pay, no invigilation: Zimsec told
TEACHERS have threatened to withdraw invigilation services in the Zimbabwe School Examination Council (Zimsec) October to November examinations if the public exam body reneges on paying them their due...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 15:09hrs | 561 | by Staff reporter
IMF warns Zimbabwe against pay boost as living standards crash
The International Monetary Fund's resident representative in Zimbabwe warned the government against boosting wages for state workers after the introduction of a new currency pushed up inflation and re...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 07:41hrs | 2270 | by Bloomberg
Huge payout plan for civil servants
GOVERNMENT is understood to be preparing a "meaningful offer" for civil servants as it seeks to address the challenges they face of high prices of goods and services. The offer is set to be ta...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 07:27hrs | 1456 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says despot Mugabe is better than Mnangagwa
Police on Friday assaulted and rounded up over 90 MDC supporters who had gathered in Harare for a peaceful march against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government.This followed a prohibition o...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 13:09hrs | 2534 | by Staff reporter
Does Brother Mthuli Ncube live in Zimbabwe?
Hope is the expectation, against all rational considerations, that desires will be fulfilled miraculously.When the "new dispensation" was introduced in Zimbabwe, we hoped against past experien...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:51hrs | 1011 | by Kennet Mufuka
Government, labour back to negotiating table
GOVERNMENT will this week bring its employees under the auspices of the Apex council to the negotiating table to discuss the August to December cost of living adjustments.This comes after Gove...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:38hrs | 360 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube has a plan, but is it gobbledegook?
Zimbabwean finance minister Mthuli Ncube has laid out a plan to end the nation's two-decade stand-off with international creditors and has dismissed rapidly accelerating inflation as "wage compression...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 11:08hrs | 4131 | by Bloomberg News
Mnangagwa presents new coup-proofing measures
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa - under siege in the face of worsening economic hardships fuelling a groundswell of social discontent - is coup-proofing his regime by giving the security forces preferent...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:28hrs | 1502 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe has last laugh as economic crisis reaches breaking point
The fault lies entirely with the ruling Zanu-PF party, which has lost its legitimacyWhen Zimbabweans are expressing nostalgia for Robert Mugabe you know things must be bad. Yet it is now commo...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:13hrs | 486 | by www.msn.com
MDC repeats calls for State of Emergency
The opposition MDC has reiterated its call for a state of emergency on the energy crisis affecting the country. In a statement issued by the MDC Secretary for Energy and Power Development Jasm...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 12:48hrs | 5237 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Adjust all civil servants' pay, don't cherry-pick
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's overtures towards the military during the Defence Forces Day commemorations - on whose back he swept to power in November 2017 - should be extended to every government e...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:27hrs | 942 | by Editorial - NewsDay
It's all systems go for the Chamisa's march on Friday
Zimbabwe is at a crossroads.On the 31st of July 2018, Zimbabweans overwhelmingly voted for President Nelson Chamisa. That election was stolen in broad daylight and since then, the crisis of le...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 15:39hrs | 2450 | by MDC
Blaming Mthuli Ncube for the crumbling Zimbabwe economy is totally wrong
At times we just jump to conclusions without giving a thought about an issue. Mthuli Ncube is not the government.He is also not a member of ZANU PF. He was appointed to that position just because of h...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 14:49hrs | 2810 | by Njabulo
Mnangagwa commits to pamper military
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday pledged to pamper the country's military with salary upgrades and other benefits to cushion them against the skyrocketing cost of living, while urging the rest o...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 07:49hrs | 2092 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in new wave of price increases
ZIMBABWE is witnessing another wave of massive price increases, following the presentation of the 2019 mid-term fiscal policy review, which are further decimating citizens' incomes.In the mid-...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 07:48hrs | 2640 | by Staff reporter
Kombi crews circumvent tollgates
Commuter omnibus operators plying highway routes are reportedly dropping off passengers just before approaching tollgates as a strategy to avoid paying high tollgate fees which were introduced by Fina...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:16hrs | 1881 | by Staff reporter
Economic reforms are necessary, says Mnangagwa
Economic reforms being undertaken by Government are necessary to guarantee sustainable development and prosperity for the country and efforts should now be on national peace, unity and increasing prod...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:12hrs | 323 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers have been 'reduced to beggars'
Zimbabwe teachers protesting their low wages are threatening to go on strike when schools reopen next month as the country's deteriorating economy simultaneously faces yet another hike in fuel prices....Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 18:24hrs | 1744 | by ANA
Biti attacks Mthuli Ncube again
FORMER Finance Minister Tendai Biti on Thursday laid into Treasury chief Mthuli Ncube, dismissing his claims that Zimbabwe had recorded an $800 million budget surplus since the introduction of his Tra...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 08:03hrs | 4405 | by newzimbabwe
Zimdollar introduction timely, says Mthuli Ncube
FINANCE and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube yesterday said the introduction of the Zimbabwe dollar was timely as the country has registered macro-economic fundamentals that will p...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 08:54hrs | 4703 | by Staff reporter
By-elections TKO and below the belt politics
If the Matabeleland North by-elections held recently were a boxing match, the MDC-Alliance would have been dealt a technical knock-out (TKO).After jabs and uppercuts, then a flurry of combinat...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 08:50hrs | 272 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge govt workers plead for accommodation
Civil servants in Beitbridge, who are facing accommodation challenges, have raised concern over favouritism in the allocation of 176 government houses in the border town.Some potential benefic...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 15:08hrs | 331 | by Staff reporter
Sustaining the Zimdollar
I AM naturally enchanted by the logic, sequence and clarity of a thought process. But l have grown to learn that, quite often, economic plans are elaborately ornamented.The number of economies...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 15:02hrs | 381 | by Persistence Gwanyanya
PSMAS risks rejection by healthcare providers
GOVERNMENT has committed to settle its debt to Premier Service Medical Aid (PSMAS), running into millions of dollars, but its failure to pay the health insurer could jeopardise access to health servic...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 08:01hrs | 833 | by Staff reporter
'Arresting Mupfumira over NSSA not enough'
ANTI-CORRUPTION watchdog, Transparency International Zimbabwe (TI-Z) has warned that State-owned enterprises (SOE's) will continue to be bled by corrupt senior civil servants and ministers as long as ...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 07:33hrs | 957 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's 'illegal' budget causes chaos in parliament
THERE was chaos and drama in Parliament yesterday as tempers flared when Finance minister Mthuli Ncube and Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi ignored issues raised by opposition MDC Alliance MPs and Nor...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 07:31hrs | 1992 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda wants big mines in Matebeleland to empower war vets, women & youths
ZANU-PF National Political Commissar Victor Matemadanda has urged big mining companies located in Matebeleland South Province to give mining claims that they are not utilising to war veterans, youths ...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 07:22hrs | 172 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants chide 'inconsiderate' Mthuli Ncube
CIVIL servants have chided Finance minister Mthuli Ncube for saying he will pay them full bonuses in November at a time impoverished government workers desperately need a salary review to be able to s...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 07:55hrs | 3819 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland Collective Press Statement on Staff Rationalisation at Lupane Registry Office
Matabeleland Collective notes with concern that the spirit of Devolution of Power enshrined in the Zimbabwean Constitution is being flouted by Government as it is redeploying Ndebele speaking Ci...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 23:26hrs | 2252 | by Matabeleland Collective
Mnangagwa sinking $13 million monthly into Zupco hole
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday revealed that government was coughing about $13 million every month to subsidise the country's public transport system through Zupco buses."Again, we ha...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 12:59hrs | 5263 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants to get bonuses in November
Government says civil servants will get their bonuses for the year in November, amid expectations that the amounts could be increased to improve the workers' welfare.This was said by Finance a...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 07:24hrs | 1278 | by Staff reporter
'Tollgate fees hike unconstitutional'
THE steep hike in tollgate fees by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube is unconstitutional and legislators must unanimously block the move, a top MDC official has said.Mbizo MP Settlement Chikwinya ...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 13:18hrs | 2733 | by Staff reporter
ARTUZ Pay Day Funeral
Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) notes with great concern the continued erosion of teachers' salaries as economic meltdown remains unmitigated.We further note the arroganc...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 12:25hrs | 1294 | by ARTUZ
'Civil servants are Zanu-PF deployees'
Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister Ellen Gwaradzimba has revealed that she is teaching and forcing government workers to chant Zanu-PF slogans because they are deployees of the ruling party....Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 07:45hrs | 2527 | by Staff reporter
Budget tinkering will not solve Zimbabwe crisis
In an economy with inflation nearing 200% a year, budget figures come with severe health warnings as Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube can attest. His presentation on August 1 was his third in nine months...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 07:42hrs | 1500 | by The Source
Talking Nkayi Education: Slicing the education cake with high-flying Zwelabo Secondary School
Zwelabo Secondary School, founded in 1984 and located about fifty kilometres west of Nkayi Centre in Matabeleland North Province, is arguably the jewel and golden place to be, for many progressive stu...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 16:46hrs | 789 | by Nhlanhla Moses
'Zimbabwe's private sector is not doing its part'
Professor Mthuli Ncube presented the Mid-Term Fiscal Policy Review on Thursday last week and many naturally sought to understand what his new measures mean. Understandably, many are concerned about th...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 10:09hrs | 246 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's budget plots progress on fundamentals
Presenting his supplementary budget last week, Minister of Finance and Economic Development Professor Mthuli Ncube spoke directly to the concerns of Zimbabweans, both as individuals and as businesses....Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 10:02hrs | 133 | by Staff reporter
Private sector urged to adjust workers' salaries
The private sector should adjust salaries to cushion its workers from rising prices similar to the way Government has responded to the plight of civil servants who, in addition to getting more than $6...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 10:01hrs | 269 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's hike in charges slammed
VARIOUS workers' unions have slammed Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's decision to hike charges for government services without adjusting civil servants' salaries.On Thursday, Ncube presented hi...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 09:50hrs | 2275 | by Staff reporter
Building a strong foundation for future prosperity
The 2019 Mid Year Budget Review presented by the Minister of Finance and Economic Development Prof Mthuli Ncube presented more challenges than solutions for the ordinary Zimbabweans.The theme ...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 09:28hrs | 156 | by Nkosikhona Dibiti
Mthuli Ncube, Mangudya should contend with being unpopular
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube on Thursday presented a $10,85 billion Supplementary Budget and the 2019 Mid-Term National Budget Review Statement. Themed; "Building a...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 09:19hrs | 261 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube confirms new grand fiscal heist
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday unwittingly confirmed government committed a grand US$7 billion fiscal heist - by design or accident - when it banned without warning the multi-currency system ...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 15:17hrs | 3349 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records ZW$803m budget surplus
TREASURY recorded a budget surplus of ZW$803,6 million between January and June on the back of fiscal discipline in line ministries and government, as the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP) be...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 15:15hrs | 473 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube repeals indigenisation law
Zimbabwe's government has repealed legislation which give Zimbabweans the right to take over and control foreign-owned companies.The indigenisation law requires all companies to be at least 51...Published: 01 Aug 2019 at 22:08hrs | 4580 | by BBC
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