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UZ lecturers' strike averted
Public Service and Labour Minister Edgar Moyo stepped in on Friday to prevent a salary strike by University of Zimbabwe (UZ) lecturers, following their threats to down tools on Monday in demand for a ...Published: 22 Mar 2025 at 12:14hrs | 8912 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers demand urgent salary review, threaten strike
Zimbabwean teachers have renewed their salary demands, citing unbearable working conditions and government inaction on their grievances.Teachers' unions have repeatedly written to the governme...Published: 26 Feb 2025 at 12:37hrs | 503 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers get paltry US$20 wage hike
Teachers unions have declared a three-day strike starting this Wednesday in a bid to press for better wages after government recently offered a paltry US$20 increase on monthly salaries for civil serv...Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 14:24hrs | | 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
Mthuli Ncube abandons TNF
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube, who is currently seized with political campaigns for the Cowdray Park parliamentary seat, has left workers seething with anger after he snubbed the crucial latest round ...Published: 27 Jul 2023 at 20:31hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers earn ZW$39 636 (US$33)
THE impoverishment of professionals by the government has reached heart-rending levels, but those who dare complain are often victimised, leaving public sector workers feeling helpless in the face of ...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 11:34hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants' salary talks resume
STALLED salary negotiations between the Government and civil servants, which the latter had called off over lack of progress, will resume on Wednesday, a Cabinet Minister has said.Citing the l...Published: 27 Feb 2023 at 15:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Factional-driven fights rock Nssa
NATIONAL Social Security Authority (Nssa) Investments and Properties director Brian Mrewa has been suspended, as turmoil, external interference and factional-driven fights continue to buffet the compu...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Knives out for Lobels COO Andrew Dinhidza
Hundreds of Lobels workers staged protests against Chief Operating Officer Andrew Dinhidza over allegations of nepotism, sexual harassment and several other allegations. Dinhidza is no strange...Published: 24 Nov 2022 at 17:46hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jailed former labour minister launches freedom bid
FORMER Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare minister Petronella Kagonye (pictured), who was slapped with a 36-month jail term in June this year for corruption, has appealed for bail pending appea...Published: 17 Sep 2022 at 19:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kangai's bid for NetOne severance package rejected by court
SPIRITED efforts by former NetOne chief executive officer Reward Kangai (pictured) to get his severance package have been further delayed after the High Court dismissed his application in which he sou...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 06:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Time for Zimbabweans to reclaim lost glory
THE Communities in Action Platform (CAP) last month penned down reflections on the economy to alert the responsible authority, government, and bring awareness to the general citizenry on the deteriora...Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 06:22hrs | 2 | by Martin Stobart
High Court throws out ex-NetOne boss application
HIGH Court judge Justice Joseph Mafusire has dismissed an application by ex-NetOne chief executive Reward Kangai, where he was seeking to declare a provision in the Labour Act unconstitutional in his ...Published: 05 Sep 2022 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's broke govt rules out US dollar salaries
GOVERNMENT has cast doubt over the possibility of paying civil servants in US dollars as inflation continues to ravage salaries amid growing tensions and fears of unrest, The NewsHawks can report....Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 08:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe total shutdown looms
Zimbabwe's public service sector faces total shutdown this week over a salary deadlock as government maintains it cannot afford to meet their pay demands.Civil servants are demanding to be pai...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:12hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
South Africa blow for foreigners, Dudula wins
AS South Africa readies itself to face a legal fight over Zimbabwean Work Permits, the Employment and Labour Minister, Thulas Nxesi is pressing ahead with the National Labour Migration Policy (NLMP) a...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Labour Minister Kagonye convicted for stealing school laptops
Former Public Service Minister Petronella Kagonye has been convicted for personalising computers donated to schools in her Goromonzi South constituency by the Postal and Telecommunication Regulation A...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 18:15hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe freezes registration of new NGOs
THE government has frozen the registration of private voluntary organisations (PVOs) and trusts, stoking fears that the President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has begun a clampdown on non-gover...Published: 10 May 2022 at 17:29hrs | 50 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's minister has case to answer
A HARARE magistrate yesterday said former Labour minister Petronella Kagonye has a case to answer on fraud charges after dismissing her application for discharge at the close of the State case....Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 08:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africa Labour Minister slams #OperationDudula
South African Minister of Labour Thembelani Waltermade Nxesi (also known as Thulas Nxesi) says the government will not allow South Africans to take the law into their hands and treat foreign wor...Published: 14 Mar 2022 at 20:02hrs | 13 | by Mandla Ndlovu
South Africa makes it difficult to hire Zimbabweans and other foreigners
South African Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi has published the Draft National Labour Migration Policy and Employment Services Amendment Bill for public comment.Employers who rely ...Published: 14 Mar 2022 at 06:37hrs | 12 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean truck drivers in SA face the boot
THE South African All Truck Drivers Forum (ATDF) has called for abolition of the Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) in a bid to bar all foreign truck drivers from working in the neighbouring country....Published: 07 Mar 2022 at 05:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africa to ban foreigners from starting businesses in some sectors
Government will introduce new employment quotas on foreign workers, as well as ban foreigners from starting small businesses in some sectors.On Monday, Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nx...Published: 01 Mar 2022 at 08:58hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe regime destroying our children's future by denying them education!
By nature, Zimbabweans are a very responsible citizenry - who do everything that we are able in ensuring that we faithfully play our part in the development of not only our country but also our childr...Published: 07 Feb 2022 at 13:05hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwean migrant workers seek Ramaphosa intervention
ZIMBABWEAN migrant workers in South African yesterday said Pretoria should put its promise to protect them from xenophobic attacks into action.Zimbabwe Exiles Forum chairperson Gabriel Shumba ...Published: 29 Jan 2022 at 14:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA truckers block roads in protest over foreigners
The failure by the South African government to provide feedback on November 3 to small truck operators regarding the employment of foreign drivers resulted in the blockade of the N3 highway near Van R...Published: 04 Dec 2021 at 07:15hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Robin Vela slaps Finance ministry director with US$2 million lawsuit
FORMER NSSA board chairperson Robin Vela is demanding US$2 million from a Finance ministry director, Memory Mukondomi, who this week implicated him in the ongoing Priscah Mupfumira corruption case....Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 05:55hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Teachers say to strike over poor pay
THE Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) says its members will go on strike beginning today, a week before "O" and "A" Level students are due to sit for the November Zimbabwe Schools E...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cash-rich ex-Zanu-PF councillor funds chaos to stop district elections
FORMER Zanu-PF Chinhoyi Ward 7 councillor, Charles Mutisi has been accused of financing hoodlums to destabilise the smooth conduct of party internal elections to choose a new district leadership....Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:20hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Govt dangles carrot to school heads
GOVERNMENT has pledged to increase salaries for heads ranging from 10% to 25% depending on the number of pupils per school, a development teachers unions described as a tool to clamp down on restive t...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 05:34hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
South African govt to ban foreign drivers?
The South African government will announce several policy changes for drivers following widespread protests in the truck and freight industry.Drivers are aggrieved about foreign nationals taki...Published: 09 Nov 2021 at 07:51hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU vaccination challenge suffers body blow
THE High Court has struck off the roll of urgent cases an application by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union (ZCTU) in which the labour movement sought an order barring companies from demanding COVID...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 05:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Companies challenge ZCTU over unvaccinated workers
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU)'s court challenge against compulsory vaccination of workers has suffered a major blow after government and several private entities cited as respondents di...Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 06:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mutodi set to leave Mashonaland East?
Former Deputy Infomation Minister and Goromonzi West legislator Energy Mutodi is reportedly planning to leave his Mashonaland East base in favour of another Constituency in Masvingo, a reliable source...Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 15:16hrs | 6 | by Nicholas Ncube
Zimbabwe NGOs to defy Mnangagwa govt directives
NON-GOVERNMENTAL organisations (NGOs) operating in Harare yesterday hit back at Harare Metropolitan provincial development coordinator (PDC) Tafadzwa Muguti saying he had no mandate to order them to r...Published: 08 Jul 2021 at 11:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
'No salary increase for civil servants'
GOVERNMENT says it will not relent to civil servants' demands for salary increases, as this would cripple productive sectors of the economy and derail the ongoing International Monetary Fund (IMF) sta...Published: 25 Jun 2021 at 07:44hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
My charges aren't clear, says Mupfumira
THE trial of former Labour minister Priscah Mupfumira on criminal abuse of office charges resumed yesterday where she claimed that her charge sheet did not specify the duties she allegedly abused....Published: 06 May 2021 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
TNF talks collapse over US dollar wages
Tripartite Negotiating Forum (TNF) engagements have been thrown into disarray following labour's decision to pull out of a crucial meeting recently, as the standoff over minimum wages intensified....Published: 02 May 2021 at 09:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira snubbed during surprise Zanu-PF meeting appearance
CORRUPTION accused former Public Service minister Prisca Mupfumira Saturday made a surprise appearance at a Zanu-PF provincial coordinating committee meeting (PCC) held in Chinhoyi.Mupfumira c...Published: 02 May 2021 at 08:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Sheriff attaches Justice Ndewere's 2 vehicles
A HIGH Court sheriff on Monday broke into suspended judge Justice Erica Ndewere's residence and attached two motor vehicles to recover legal fees won by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) against h...Published: 29 Apr 2021 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff writer
Labour storms out of TNF meeting
WORKERS' representatives stormed out of a Tripartite Negotiation Forum ( TNF) meeting in Harare yesterday in protest after government said it was unable to intervene in salary negotiations.Lab...Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 07:34hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dines with MDC ally, ZCTU
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa seems to have extended an olive branch to the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) through a surprise invitation to the hostile workers group to attend the official In...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 09:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
General strike is the only way out, says ZCTU
WORKERS under the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) banner have declared that a crippling general strike was the only way out of the current salary crisis as government was not keen on addressi...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ndewere hearing: Mushore exposes Justice Malaba
JUDICIAL Service Commission (JSC) deputy legal services secretary Faith Mushure has exposed Chief Justice Luke Malaba for "lying" that suspended High Court judge Justice Erica Ndewere, had 28 reviews ...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
CJ Malaba lied to Mnangagwa, says Ndewere
SUSPENDED High Court judge Justice Erica Ndewere has accused Chief Justice Luke Malaba of lying to President Emmerson Mnangagwa that she had 34 out-standing matters when she only had three. Th...Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 09:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Employment council sues minister Mavima
THE National Employment Council for the Commercial Sectors of Zimbabwe (NECCSZ) has challenged at the High Court a decision by Labour minister Paul Mavima to appoint two administrators on their board....Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 18:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt cuts off Covid-19 allowances
ABOUT 60 000 vulnerable urban families hard hit by the ravaging effects of Covid-19 last received cushion allowances from government in September 2020 as Treasury has no resources to finance the socia...Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 08:11hrs | 97 | by Staff reporter
Ndewere challenges Mabhiza appointment as tribunal secretary
SUSPENDED High Court judge Justice Erica Ndewere's hearing on misconduct charges commenced in Harare yesterday with her lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa, challenging the appointment of Justice ministry permane...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Justice Ndewere appears before tribunal
SUSPENDED High Court judge Justice Erica Ndewere will today appear before a tribunal appointed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to investigate her alleged misconduct case.A letter from the trib...Published: 18 Mar 2021 at 05:45hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Poisoning scare as land barons' war turns nasty
GOVERNMENT'S fight against land barons, accused of illegally parcelling out State land in urban areas, has turned nasty amid reports that Harare's provincial development coordinator (PDC) Tafadzwa Mug...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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