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Mzila Ndlovu honoured for championing human rights in Matebeleland
Veteran freedom fighter, former minister, and opposition politician Moses Mzila Ndlovu has been honoured with the General Lookout Masuku Award by the 1893 Matebeleland Human Rights Restoration Movemen...Published: 02 Dec 2024 at 18:33hrs | 1429 | by Staff reporter
College lecturers flag govt over poor salaries
COLLEGE lecturers have warned the government of possible disruption of service delivery in tertiary educational institutions amid government's failure to pay decent salaries.According to Colle...Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 04:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe college lecturers threaten strike over low pay
The College Lecturers Association of Zimbabwe (COLAZ) has officially informed its employer, the Tertiary Education Service Council (TESC), that their members cannot report to work due to a drastic red...Published: 21 Oct 2023 at 21:00hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF demands slot in schools' leadership
Zanu-PF has been roping in civil servants including teachers to campaign for Mnangagwa's re-election.Zanu-PF is reportedly meddling in the running of schools in the Midlands province, after it...Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 05:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe university lecturers to attend Zanu-PF's ideology classes
UNIVERSITY lecturers are set to undergo Zanu-PF's commandeered ideology classes under the tag Academics for Economic Development this week.Invitations have been sent to universities across the...Published: 23 Jan 2023 at 05:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dearth of college lecturers spells disaster
IT is indisputable that our otherwise very beautiful country Zimbabwe is going through some really trying times, adversities which citizens have endured for many years now.And each passing yea...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 05:07hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Staff shortage hits Zimbabwe universities
THE country's institutions of higher learning have been hit by acute staff shortages caused by mass exodus of academics due to poor remuneration and working conditions, NewsDay has been informed....Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 05:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Staff exodus hits State universities
A MASSIVE brain drain has hit the country's State universities with lecturers leaving the country in droves in protest over poor salaries, NewsDay Weekender has learnt.Great Zimbabwe Uni...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt told to do more COVID-19 testing
HEALTH experts have implored authorities to complement the re-introduced coronavirus lockdown measures with heightened testing of as many people as possible, to curb the spiralling infections in the c...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 07:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Colleges to open for face-to-face learning
POLYTECHNICS, teachers' colleges and industrial training colleges will reopen on October 5 for face to-face learning. Authorities will be required to strictly adhere to the health guidelines a...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Varsity employees get salary hike
GOVERNMENT has hiked salaries for State university workers in a move that will see cleaners at institutions of higher learning earning more than teachers and college lecturers.Acting Higher an...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 08:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt pay offer divides civil servants
SHARP divisions have emerged within the civil service following the decision by the Apex Council to accept a paltry 76% pay hike from their employer at a time the workers wanted an over 400% pay hike....Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants in Mnangagwa salary U-turn
ZIMBABWE'S impoverished civil servants yesterday made a volte-face and embraced a 76% salary adjustment made by their employer, hardly a week after they scoffed at the offer, describing it as falling ...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZOU to partner ZIMCHE, AAU in four day workshop
The Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU) in collaboration with the Association of African Universities (AAU) and the Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education (ZIMCHE), will host a four day Research Method work...Published: 18 May 2018 at 13:25hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Industrial attachment for college lecturers
Government has expressed dissatisfaction at the quality of skills being churned out by technical colleges, and called on lecturers to go for industrial attachment.Higher and Tertiary Education...Published: 28 Aug 2017 at 13:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe civil servants breathe fire
CIVIL servants have urged President Robert Mugabe to fire one of his two deputies and reduce the size of his Cabinet instead of introducing measures that will further impoverish already struggling...Published: 11 Sep 2016 at 13:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt allays July salary fears
Government yesterday met civil servants' representatives and assured them that it will furnish them with the actual July pay dates by next week, allaying fears that the employer might fail to pay them...Published: 12 Jul 2016 at 07:15hrs | 1 | by Felex Share
Zimbabwean soldiers to get their pay before other civil servants
Government negotiators yesterday met civil servants' representatives and gave them specific January pay dates, with all set to be paid by the end of the month, and promised to soon give them firm date...Published: 07 Jan 2016 at 05:15hrs | | by Felex Share
Civil servants get outstanding December salaries
Civil servants have received their outstanding December salaries as promised by the government.The Apex Council leadership confirmed the development but said they will engage the government th...Published: 05 Jan 2016 at 17:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants to push for salary increase
THE National Joint Negotiating Council (NJNC) is expected to meet within a week as civil servants push the government to respond to their demands for a pay rise and other non-monetary benefits....Published: 04 May 2015 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Oliver Kazunga
Tsvangirai heavily criticised
MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai was yesterday heavily criticised by workers who attended the Workers' Day commemorations organised by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions at Gwanzura Stadium after ...Published: 02 May 2015 at 13:27hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika and Diana Nherera
Chinamasa speaks out on Mugabe's bonuses directive
FINANCE and Economic Development minister Patrick Chinamasa yesterday said President Mugabe's directive to reinstate civil servants bonuses will be implemented as directed saying the announcement of ...Published: 20 Apr 2015 at 08:32hrs | | by Tendai Mugabe
College lecturers earning US$300 per month
College lecturers have appealed to the legislature to lobby government for the improvement of their welfare and working conditions.Giving oral evidence before the Parliamentary Portfolio Commi...Published: 22 Sep 2014 at 16:54hrs | | by Staff Reporter
No mid-year salary hike for civil servants
Government has no capacity to review upwards civil servants' salaries this month as committed to early this year, The Zimbabwe Mail reported.Senior members of the Apex Council, a body that rep...Published: 11 Jul 2014 at 10:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Civil servants demand written commitment on salary hikes
APEX Council chairperson Richard Gundani has challenged government to confirm its pledge to review civil servants' salaries in writing to the National Joint Negotiation Council (NJNC) instead of verba...Published: 17 Mar 2014 at 08:54hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants slam pay delay
CIVIL servants unions yesterday demanded an urgent meeting with the government, furious after a promised pay increase was delayed.The cash-strapped government courted the ire of public sector ...Published: 14 Feb 2014 at 15:57hrs | 1 | by Mashudu Netsianda
'No civil service salary increment till April'
THE cash-strapped government yesterday risked the wrath of public sector workers after announcing that a promised pay increase would now only be effected in April, not this month.The gover...Published: 13 Feb 2014 at 06:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt fails to bankroll civil servants pay rise
Government's pledge to increase civil servants' salaries appears to be a pie in the sky as it emerges that the increment has not been effected as promised.The civil servants were expecte...Published: 12 Feb 2014 at 10:18hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Will 2014 usher in an Egypt style revolution in Zimbabwe? Part 3
In Part One, we explored two contrasting perspectives on the possibility of an Egypt-style revolution in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe. On the one hand, the late Professor Makumbe emphasised that "...Published: 04 Feb 2014 at 07:20hrs | 3 | by Dr Clifford Chitupa Mashiri, 4th February 2014.
Civil servants new salary structure talks, to be finalised
Civil servants will know their new salary structure on Wednesday when Government negotiators and their representatives meet at the National Joint Negotiating Council, a Cabinet minister has said....Published: 11 Jan 2014 at 07:24hrs | 7 | by Staff Reporter
Civil servants salary increments to be announced today
Civil servants could know how much they will get in salary increments on Tuesday as the much-awaited negotiations with Government start in Harare.Workers' representatives have already said the...Published: 24 Dec 2013 at 02:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants ready for salary negotiations
Civil servants are ready for salary negotiations with the Government after they agreed on nine representatives to second to the National Joint Negotiating Council yesterday.The NJNC brings to ...Published: 18 Dec 2013 at 18:03hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
'Civil servants were not supposed to be given bonuses,' says Biti
Former Finance minister, Tendai Biti says government's decision to award civil servants bonuses at a time the country is hard pressed will further strain the deteriorating economy. "The bo...Published: 18 Dec 2013 at 06:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Infighting threatens civil servants' salary negotiations
RENEWED infighting within the Apex Council is threatening negotiations to review civil servants' salaries, with six unions last Friday boycotting a meeting convened by the body to appoint negotiators...Published: 16 Dec 2013 at 02:13hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Civil servants in new round of salary talks
GOVERNMENT yesterday appealed to unions representing civil servants to shun divisions and instead come to the negotiating table united to review salaries and improve working conditions.Public ...Published: 22 Nov 2013 at 02:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
College and polytechnic lecturers demand more from govt
COLLEGE and polytechnic lecturers are demanding that Government pays them salaries and set working conditions that are in line with their university counterparts. The lecturers, through th...Published: 10 Nov 2013 at 20:22hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Government ordered to pay lecturers $5,3m
An attempt by Government to suspend a Labour Court order compelling it to pay 18 lecturers $5,3 million in relocation expenses and interest failed last week after the same court ruled that the em...Published: 04 Nov 2013 at 02:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Civil servants assured they will get bonuses next month
GOVERNMENT is acting on civil servants' demands for a salary increment and improvement of working conditions, with consultations already taking place between relevant ministries. The workers ...Published: 04 Oct 2013 at 02:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Civil servants can now participate in politics by contesting in elections
CIVIL servants will be allowed to contest the next election as councillors and Members of Parliament with the Public Service Commission (PSC) yesterday issuing guidelines for their participation. ...Published: 07 Jun 2013 at 03:54hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Government and civil servants to clash
The government and civil servants are heading for a showdown after its recent decision to freeze the processing of transfers and filling of vacant posts in the civil service.The recent announc...Published: 30 Mar 2013 at 14:34hrs | | by Mafu Sithabile
Anger as civil service promotions frozen
Government has with immediate effect frozen processing of transfers and filling of vacant posts in the civil service, a development that has angered workers who see it as an infringement on their work...Published: 24 Mar 2013 at 22:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
No breakthrough in civil servants' salary impasse
Nothing concrete came out of the meeting between Public Service Minister Lucia Matibenga and civil servants unions on Thursday as the minister reportedly insisted that the workers should put their ho...Published: 26 Jan 2013 at 09:38hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Govt fails to effect civil servants' salary increments
GOVERNMENT has failed to effect the 5,5 percent inflation-related salary increment it promised to award civil servants this month. In his 2013 National Budget last year, Finance Minister Tend...Published: 11 Jan 2013 at 20:28hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Civil servants threatens to sue Minister Matibenga
The civil servants representative board, the Apex Council says it is going to sue the Minister of Public Service, Ms Lucia Matibenga for allegedly failing to recognise the newly elected board as a way...Published: 24 Oct 2012 at 17:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government given a 48 hour ultimatum
CIVIL servants yesterday gave Government a 48-hour ultimatum to invite them for a meeting over bonuses and salary negotiations or face a strike.The resolution was made after a three-hour Apex ...Published: 09 Oct 2012 at 04:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Civil servants not going on full-scale strike yet
CIVIL servants on Monday responded to reports that they were going to embark on a full-scale strike saying they were yet to make a decision on whether to go on strike or not....Published: 31 Jul 2012 at 02:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Civil servants embark on a full-scale strike
CIVIL servants have resolved to embark on a full-scale strike and will meet in Harare today to map out the modalities, 'The Chronicle' reported.This com...Published: 30 Jul 2012 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Squabbles threatens civil service unions' demonstration against Biti
INTERNAL squabbles over the appointment of a new Apex Council chairperson have hit the civil servants' unions ahead of today's demonstration against Government over pay.Police yesterday said a...Published: 24 Jul 2012 at 04:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Civil servants give Government a 14 day ultimatum over pay
Civil servants have handed Government a 14 day ultimatum to respond to their salary hike demands after Wednesday talks failed to yield favorable results.Apex Council president Tendai Chikowo...Published: 05 Jul 2012 at 06:22hrs | | by Alois Sibanda
Govt comes up with a new pay deal for civil servants
GOVERNMENT has come up with a new position paper on salaries and working conditions for civil servants to be revealed to the Apex Council during tomorrow's National Joint Negotiating Council meeting, ...Published: 23 Jan 2012 at 22:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
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