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Zimbabwe's currency reforms dilemma
The Zimbabwean government has indicated that the country will be launching a new currency before the end of 2019. The announcement has caused some confusion amongst businesses and the transacting publ...Published: 1 hr ago | 200 | by Victor Bhoroma
Zimbabwe's currency reforms dilemma
The Zimbabwean government has indicated that the country will be launching a new currency before the end of 2019. The announcement has caused some confusion amongst businesses and the transacting publ...Published: 2 hrs ago | 1026 | by Victor Bhoroma
Civil servants ratchet pressure over pay
CIVIL servants are today convening an urgent meeting to discuss remuneration for their members in the wake of calls by some Apex Council members for an industrial action to arm-twist government into i...Published: 11 hrs ago | 3282 | by Staff reporter
Hope emerges in Zimbabwe
Nearly two decades after the European Union imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe, a thaw in relations is palpable, following praise by the EU ambassador and head of the EU-Zimbabwe Delegation Timo Olkkonen....Published: 12 hrs ago | 5159 | by EU Today
Zanu-PF rescues apostle Chiwenga from the jaws of death
Zimbabwe and social media has been awash with the sad news of the accident of apostle Talent Chiwenga of the TF Chiwenga ministries. Apostle Chiwenga lost his wife and another church member. I...Published: 15 Jun 2019 at 13:13hrs | 33912 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'My main focus is to make urbanites understand Zanu-PF'
The ruling party Zanu-PF on Tuesday appointed Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association (ZNLWVA) secretary-general Victor Matemadanda as secretary for the Commissariat. He replaced Engelb...Published: 15 Jun 2019 at 08:51hrs | 409 | by Staff reporter
Doctors and nurses to engage in full strike
The Health Apex Council which is the highest negotiation body for medical practitioners in Zimbabwe on Friday resolved to engage in a full scale industrial action if their demands are not met by the 2...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 20:09hrs | 4687 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Civil society activists on Zimbabwe military watch list
THE Zimbabwe National Army's Military Intelligence (MI) unit has placed on its watchlist several civil society activists it claims are conniving with United States to unseat President Emmerson Mnangag...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 08:26hrs | 2140 | by Staff reporter
ILO panel summons Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is set to appear before an International Labour Organisation (ILO) panel in Geneva, Switzerland, today amid allegations that the State was failing to protect civil servants as demanded by Con...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 08:08hrs | 1414 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa slapped with $10m defamation lawsuit
Norton MP Temba Mliswa (independent) has been taken to the High Court by BDO Zimbabwe boss, Ngoni Kudenga, who is demanding $10 million compensation for alleged defamation.The lawsuit emanates...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 08:07hrs | 1509 | by Staff reporter
Accountant demands $10 million damages from Mliswa
THE fight between Independent Member of Parliament for Norton Temba Mliswa and BDO Zimbabwe boss, Ngoni Kudenga has spilled to the courts with the later claiming RTGS$10 million defamation damages fro...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 20:02hrs | 3442 | by newzimbabwe.com
Zanu-PF MP 'rejects' MDC official's medical donations
CHIREDZI West legislator Farai Musikavanhu has allegedly withdrawn hospital beds and other medical ancillary supplies donated to Chiredzi Polyclinic by opposition MDC losing parliamentary aspirant Joh...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 07:24hrs | 1516 | by Staff reporter
Another blow for Bulawayo
BULAWAYO textile manufacturing firm, National Blankets (Pvt) Limited, has been liquidated following years of poor performance and failure to find a good investment suitor in yet another blow to the ci...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 08:59hrs | 3004 | by Staff reporter
Fix politics, not currency, says Chamisa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's plans to abolish the multi-currency system in favour of a new local currency could spectacularly fail, resulting in more catastrophe for troubled Zimbabwe if fundamental...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 08:04hrs | 6875 | by Staff reporter
Call To Investigate Ingwebu Breweries
Mthwazi Republic Party is concerned with the rumours of corruption and the abuse of workers and corporate governance at Ingwebu Breweries in Bulawayo. We call upon the City authorities to swiftl...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 12:12hrs | 2623 | by MRP
Zimbabwe to be food insecure by September, says USAid
MOST of the country’s districts will be food insecure by September due to a poor 2018/19 harvests and "escalating" macroeconomic hardships, a food security report by the United States Agency for Int...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 07:07hrs | 415 | by Staff reporter
Mixed feelings over Harare artistes at Econet gig
Econet Wireless' Ziyawa kuEcoCash promotion's first monthly draw in Bulawayo was a resounding success despite efforts by some groups in the city to bar people from attending because of the inclusion o...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 07:00hrs | 896 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's ZCTU confronts RBZ in currency battle
WORKERS have threatened to take their war to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) for unilaterally declaring a new currency, the RTGS dollar, effectively eroding the value of their salaries that were pe...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 07:24hrs | 4957 | by Staff reporter
Diamond workers want salaries in US$
THE Zimbabwe Diamond and Allied Minerals Workers' Union (Zdamwu) says workers in the mining sector should be paid in United States dollars since the sector is one of the top foreign currency earners i...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 07:21hrs | 603 | by Staff reporter
'Chinese bosses beat up Zimbabwean workers'
THE Amalgamated Mine Workers' Union of Zimbabwe (Amuz) has accused Chinese investors of allegedly abusing workers and failing to adhere to the country's laws. Giving his solidarity messa...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 07:17hrs | 1643 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's ZCTU throws weight behind Mnangagwa's TNF?
Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president Mr Peter Mutasa says the Tripartite Negotiating Forum Act, which was gazetted on Friday, can help address some challenges confronting the country, wh...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 06:48hrs | 3975 | by Staff reporter
MDC will never split again, says Hwende
NEWLY-ELECTED MDC secretary-general Charlton Hwende says the Nelson Chamisa-led party will never split again as structural issues which were causing divisions have been addressed through constitutiona...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:35hrs | 394 | by Staff reporter
Give Mthuli a chance!
The story is told that Moses undertook the dangerous assignment to relocate the children of Israel to the Promised Land. The Red Sea, that vast water body, presented an intractable obstacle. T...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 07:50hrs | 438 | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa's Econet in tribalism storm
Econet Wireless a Telecommunications giant owned by Dr Strive Masiyiwa has court tribalism storm after advertising an all-Shona arts line-up for an event to be held on Saturday at Bulawayo's City Hall...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 09:11hrs | 7831 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mthwakazi blocks Econet from bringing Jah Prayzah & Winky to Bulawayo
Mthwakazi Republic Party, MRP, has ordered giant mobiles phone service provider, Econet, to reverse the decision to bring Harare based top Zimbabwean musicians Jah Prayzah and Winky D to perform at a ...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 08:13hrs | 12420 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must incorporate a National Day of Prayer and Fasting
Over the past few weeks, our political and economic landscape is showing signs of deterioration, and National Dialogue Forum (NDF), an initiative brought by my own school of thought has been a topical...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 07:53hrs | 1025 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Dabengwa burial snub cannot erase his legacy
Twitter: @MuckrakerZimTHE presidium was last week conspicuously absent at the burial of Zimbabwe's liberation war stalwart, the late Zipra intelligence supremo Dumiso Dabengwa, at his Ntabazin...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 07:26hrs | 486 | by MUCKRAKER
Nicholas Goche faces eviction
FORMER Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare minister Nicholas Goche, is facing eviction from a Shamva township stand after the alleged owner recently petitioned the High Court seeking a court ord...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 06:58hrs | 1195 | by Staff reporter
Teachers petition Parliament
Struggling teachers have petitioned Parliament to deal with their low wages, saying most of them were now unable to report for duty as the economic situation continues to erode their earnings....Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 06:55hrs | 469 | by Staff reporter
Teachers' deliver petition on rescue package to Parliament
Neglected and long-suffering teachers of Zimbabwe, (today) the 6th of June 2019 presented a Petition to Parliament in Harare, demanding that government which is the main employer of Teachers in Govern...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 16:50hrs | 2798 | by Public Relations
Chamisa's ZCTU, Mnangagwa's govt come face-to-face
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday came face-to-face with Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president Peter Mutasa, who faces a charge of trying to unseat the former through unconstitutiona...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 07:43hrs | 7164 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe civil servants demand US$ salaries
CIVIL servants have demanded payment of their salaries in United States dollars and have threatened to activate a pending notice for a potentially crippling strike, NewsDay has been informed.T...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 07:34hrs | 3258 | by Staff reporter
Foreign aid dreadful, unnecessary!
ZIMBABWE does not need foreign aid to escape this economic malaise. Our leaders have been saying it so many times that the country's hope lies on a bailout package; the quicker we get it, the better, ...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 07:30hrs | 336 | by Blessing Machiva
Mnangagwa calls for fierce fight against corruption
ZANU-PF First Secretary President Mnangagwa yesterday called for a fierce fight against corruption at all levels for economic turnaround to be achieved. Further, the President said there was n...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 07:25hrs | 1728 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa denounces demonstrations
President Mnangagwa has slammed the culture of violence and demonstrations by workers, saying that must never be used in the Second Republic as they worsen economic challenges facing the country and p...Published: 05 Jun 2019 at 18:02hrs | 1622 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa confronts Mnangagwa
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has told President Emmerson Mnangagwa to stop using Robert Mugabe's tactics to crush dissenting voices and activists who are showing displeasure at how the government is runn...Published: 05 Jun 2019 at 17:47hrs | 10252 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa condemned for banning strikes
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has been condemned for signing into law a bill that prohibits workers from engaging in industrial action before exhausting ionternal channels of negotiation. ...Published: 05 Jun 2019 at 11:35hrs | 5597 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangangwa rescues San community in Plumtree
THE San community in Makhulela area in Plumtree have for the first time benefited from the government's irrigation mechanisation programme after the intervention of First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa last ...Published: 05 Jun 2019 at 08:01hrs | 2287 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa confronts cartels
President Mnangagwa is today expected to launch the Tripartite Negotiating Forum Act to pave way for the establishment of a platform of social partners - Government, labour and business - to discuss p...Published: 05 Jun 2019 at 07:30hrs | 5954 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's police brace for Chamisa's anti-government protests
Zimbabwean police are not being allowed to resign and all leave has been cancelled as authorities brace for potential opposition and labour protests over the country's economic collapse.Intern...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 17:02hrs | 4385 | by ZimLive
Mnangagwa petitioned over 'slave wages'
ZIMBABWE's restive workers, hard-hit by an unrelenting economic meltdown which has eroded their incomes, have petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured) to organise an urgent Tripartite Negoti...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 16:48hrs | 1067 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa signs new law to ban strikes
LABOUR minister Sekai Nzenza has told Senate that the Tripartite Negotiating Forum Bill, which she says will be signed into law tomorrow by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, will outlaw stayaways or strik...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 07:17hrs | 5811 | by Staff reporter
Fresh civil servants salary talks
GOVERNMENT has invited the Apex Council for fresh civil servants salary talks tomorrow (Wednesday) after indicating that salaries would be adjusted against the prevailing inflation levels not the fore...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 07:09hrs | 1982 | by Staff reporter
Teachers shutdown schools
Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe have announced that 40% of teachers did not turn out for duty on Monday. The teachers were heeding to a call by ARTUZ to engage in a 3 day industri...Published: 03 Jun 2019 at 12:01hrs | 16198 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Black market sharks suppressing interbank rate'
Industry and Commerce Minister Nqobizitha Mangaliso Ndlovu said yesterday that some big companies that were getting the lion's share of foreign currency when the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe was allocatin...Published: 03 Jun 2019 at 07:30hrs | 1453 | by Staff reporter
Zupco to get additional new buses this week
THE Zimbabwe United Passengers Company (Zupco) is expected to take delivery of additional new buses this week, most of which will be deployed to rural areas, as Government broadens social safety nets ...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 08:23hrs | 1148 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa undeterred by sanctions
Zimbabwe will leverage on its natural resources and will not be deterred by the economic embargoes imposed by Western nations, President Mnangagwa has said. The Head of State and Governm...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 07:45hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter
Fresh push for Mnangagwa, Chamisa dialogue
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions has implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa to urgently convene a Tripartite Negotiating Forum (TNF) meeting to address economic challenges being faced by the natio...Published: 31 May 2019 at 08:46hrs | 4410 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa aligned ZCTU pressures Mnangagwa into negotiations
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions has implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa to urgently convene a Tripartite Negotiating Forum (TNF) meeting to address economic challenges being faced by the natio...Published: 31 May 2019 at 07:35hrs | 1042 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Polad needs gravitas
Polad (an acronym for Political Actors Dialogue) is a voluntary platform for national dialogue launched by President Emmerson Mnangagwa just a few days after the Ides of May 2019.Polad was fla...Published: 31 May 2019 at 07:33hrs | 273 | by Willard Chinhara
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