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Court overturns ZCTU's bid to retire official
The Labour Court has overturned the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions' (ZCTU) attempt to retire its long-serving secretary-general, Mr Japhet Moyo, ruling that the move was unlawful and procedurally f...Published: 28 Apr 2025 at 12:10hrs | 42 | by Staff reporter
Labour Court reinstates ZCTU's secretary-general
In a significant legal ruling, the Labour Court of Zimbabwe has annulled the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU)'s decision to retire its secretary-general, Japhet Moyo, at the age of 60. Justice...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 23:28hrs | 296 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt's ‘Zionist' approach to land evictions condemned
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has condemned the government's heavy-handed approach to dealing with illegal land occupations, likening it to past controversial actions and expressing con...Published: 22 Feb 2024 at 05:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Withdraw Zimdollar from circulation
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Your Excellency, it is my conviction that the Zimdollar, all things considered, is a swine. It is the epitome of voodoo economics, based on implausible assumpti...Published: 14 Feb 2024 at 19:25hrs | 2 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Zimbabwe CEOs push back on salaries disclosure
THE chief executives (CEOs) of firms trading their shares on Zimbabwe's two stock exchanges have slapped down proposed regulations that would force them to disclose their earnings in line with interna...Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 18:16hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU under pressure
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), which of late has been accused of being captured by government, is facing fresh controversy after it summoned Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabw...Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 09:38hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
2023 another wasted year for Matebeleland
Former principal director in the office of the prime minister Samukele Hadebe, says 2023 has been another year of deferred hopes for Matebeleland, a region that has suffered years of marginalisation....Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 18:16hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Suffering Zimbabweans should free themselves
CRISIS in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiCZ) chairperson and former Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president Peter Mutasa (PM) was awarded the International Trade Union Confederation Africa (ITUC-Afr...Published: 14 Dec 2023 at 16:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's budget has strong traits of capitalism
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has slammed the just passed 2024 National Budget describing it as largely anti-welfare.This follows the tabling of a ZW$58,2 trillion National Budg...Published: 02 Dec 2023 at 05:45hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa played a part in the formulation of the 2024 national budget
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday revealed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa played a part in the formulation of the 2024 national budget to be presented in Parliament this afternoon.Ncu...Published: 30 Nov 2023 at 06:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe workers scoff at reviewed tax threshold
WORKERS have scoffed at government's latest review of the tax-free threshold to $500 000 effective this month, saying there is nothing to celebrate when the majority are earning below that figure....Published: 11 Aug 2023 at 06:45hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition goes after ZCTU
THE Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) yesterday accused the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) of being captured by the State following the suspension of Obert Masaraure.Masaraure is t...Published: 29 Jul 2023 at 07:25hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Masaraure suspension divides ZCTU
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU)'s general council has suspended Obert Masaraure over alleged misconduct.But the decision has left the union divided with one of its affiliates, Zim...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 06:47hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Labour quota system key to reducing future conflict in Zimbabwe
The current president of NMWUZ - National Mine Workers' Union of Zimbabwe, Mr Kurebwa Javangwe Nomboka during an interview on labour and the combined 2023 Presidential, Parliamentary and Local Governm...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 18:39hrs | 18 | by Maxwell Teedzai
Redollarise, labour tells Zimbabwe govt
CALLS for the government to redollarise Zimbabwe's economy are growing louder, with labour unions saying it would arrest inflation which has wiped out salaries.Zimbabwe's month-on-month inflat...Published: 29 May 2023 at 06:35hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU pours scorn on Mthuli Ncube's firefighting stunts
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has dismissed as futile, Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube's attempts to tame a recent price surge that has eroded incomes and brought restlessness within the ...Published: 16 May 2023 at 20:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe parents brace for tough times as schools reopen
PARENTS and guardians have been warned to brace for tough times ahead of schools opening on Monday next week over demands for exclusive fees payments in United States dollars and skyrocketing prices o...Published: 04 May 2023 at 06:13hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe price spikes spook consumers
A NEW wave of price hikes, triggered by the plummeting local currency on the parallel market, has thrown many consumers off balance.As of yesterday, the local currency was trading between $1 8...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Demand for US$ salaries grow louder
WORKERS' unions yesterday implored government and the private sector to pay United States dollar salaries with immediate effect as the economy has moved closer to full dollarisation.Latest Zim...Published: 09 Feb 2023 at 05:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs shielded from power cuts
At least 100 top government officials, including service chiefs, are having solar panels installed at their homes at the taxpayers' expense to cushion them and their families from the inconvenien...Published: 11 Dec 2022 at 09:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Majority of Zimbabweans earning peanuts'
AT LEAST 62% of Zimbabwe workers are earning measly salaries, taking about US$60 per month as of April, a latest Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) 2022 second quarter labour force survey h...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt cracks down on nurses' strike organisers
The Zimbabwe government is cracking down on organisers of a nurses' strike which has already seen a union president fired from work.In June, the country's nurses downed tools at most public ho...Published: 22 Aug 2022 at 20:55hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe civil servants well paid, claims Mthuli Ncube
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has dismissed claims that civil servants were underpaid, insisting that their salaries were above the poverty datum line (PDL).Addressing Parliament on Wednesday ...Published: 19 Aug 2022 at 06:47hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told walk the talk
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) yesterday called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to "walk the talk" on improving the welfare of civil servants.Mnangagwa made a pledge to improve c...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Another bread price hike looms
ZIMBABWEANS should brace for another bread price hike after the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) increased the price of wheat by 30%, industry officials said yesterday.NewsDay understands that GMB ...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube, civil servants meet over salaries
PUBLIC Service minister Paul Mavima has invited more than 40 public service unions to a meeting to discuss salaries and conditions of service today.Finance minister Mthuli Ncube is expected to...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Workers turn heat on Mthuli Ncube
WORKERS have turned on the heat on Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, accusing him of presiding over the country's economic collapse and ignoring the Tripartite Negotiation Forum (TNF) to help improve wor...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Call to review Zimbabwe tax thresholds
Government has been implored to increase the exemption threshold on payroll tax to cushion workers from current challenges such as high inflation and the contagion effects of conflict between Russia a...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube has not ruled out US$ salaries
GOVERNMENT yesterday said it had not yet ruled out the possibility of paying civil servants salaries in United States dollars citing the current US$175 incentive as evidence of its willingness to meet...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pay half salaries in US$: NECs
THE National Employment Councils (Necs) has directed private sector employers to pay half of their salaries in foreign currency as appetite for the free-falling local currency wanes.Nec yester...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants fret over stagnant salaries
CIVIL servants have expressed dismay over government's failure to increase their salaries to cushion them against inflation and the country's weekly price rampage.Since Monday this week, gover...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt slaps in face domestic workers
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has blasted the recently gazetted minimum wages for domestic workers as pathetic.The Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare ministry recently ga...Published: 27 May 2022 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZCTU slams Mnangagwa
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions has slammed President Emmerson Mnangagwa for implementing a raft of economic stabilisation measures before consulting with partners at the Tripartite Negotiation ...Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:27hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Salary erosion irks employees
SALARIES in local currency are being eroded on a daily basis by the downward spiralling economic situation worsened by runaway inflation, the Zimbabwe Independent has observed.The fluctuating ...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ILO to table findings on Zimbabwe mission
THE International Labour Organisation (ILO) will table a report on Zimbabwe at the International Labour Conference set for later this month in Geneva, Switzerland after its recent visit to the country...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers down chalks
WORKERS yesterday accused government of making empty promises on improved wages and conditions of service for "too many years", as teachers declared "incapacitation" again.With schools opening...Published: 03 May 2022 at 06:53hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora's speech booed at May Day commemorations
THE opposition MDC-T got a rude awakening Sunday when an unapologetic crowd at this year's Workers' day celebrations in Harare forced the party's organising secretary Gift Chimanikire off the stage....Published: 03 May 2022 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Wear black on Friday, says Masaraure
THE Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) has urged Zimbabweans to wear black clothes on Friday to mourn the high cost of living that has pushed many into extreme poverty."We wi...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 09:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Govt housing projections unrealistic'
ANALYSTS have ridiculed government claims that it would construct 34 000 housing units for civil servants as mere politicking to attract votes as the country heads for the March 26 by-elections and th...Published: 14 Feb 2022 at 05:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU demands urgent salary talks
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has called on the government to urgently initiate a Tripartite Negotiating Forum (TNF) meeting to review salary levels across all sectors of the economy as...Published: 12 Feb 2022 at 16:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Civil servants scoff at govt offer
CIVIL servants have rejected the government's 20% salary increase plus US$100 in hard currency offer and insisted on their demands for a pre-October 2018 salary of US$540.Government said the&n...Published: 10 Feb 2022 at 05:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean consumers feel the pinch as cost of living shoots up
THE wave of price hikes resulting from the weakening of the Zimbabwe dollar spells doom for beleaguered citizens in the New Year, with no reprieve in sight to the country's deepening economic crisis....Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 16:11hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
School fees shocker for parents
ZIMBABWEANS should brace for a steep rise in school fees next year as learning institutions are pushing for increases of up to 300% to hedge against the depreciation of the local currency against majo...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:17hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Miserable X-mas for impoverished workers
THE year 2021 was a sad one for workers because of a plethora of challenges, including the Covid-19 pandemic and now they will round it off with a bleak Christmas.Workers' unions say the gover...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 15:30hrs | 12 | by Staffreporter
Ex-ZCTU leader alleges political persecution
FORMER Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president Peter Mutasa has alleged that he was being persecuted by suspected Zanu-PF activists and that graft allegations against him were a plot ...Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 05:48hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Ex ZCTU boss dragged to Zacc over $500 000 donation
Former Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president Mr Peter Mutasa has been dragged to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) for prejudicing the union, in cahoots with his accomplices,...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 22:47hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
MDC, ZCTU in strategic talks
MDC Alliance senior officials led by vice president Tendai Biti Friday paid a courtesy call on the newly elected Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) where the two parties exchanged notes how to p...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:20hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
No US$ bonus for nurses
HEALTH professionals have expressed disgruntlement after some of them allegedly received their bonuses in local currency while other civil servants were struggling to access their 13th cheques at loca...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 05:34hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, Mwonzora's plot to 'takeover' ZCTU
Zanu-PF and the MDC-T have set their sight on taking over control of the firebrand workers' group, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) at its elective congress set for this Friday, NewZimbabw...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:34hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Peter Mutasa ousted as ZCTU president
Florence Taruvinga is the new president of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions after beating incumbent Peter Mutasa at a congress on Friday to become the first woman to hold the position.Tar...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:01hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
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