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Where is full judgment on 2018 electoral case?
ON August 24, the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) handed down its abridged judgment in the electoral challenge case brought by the opposition candidate, Nelson Chamisa, against the ruling Zanu-PF's Em...Published: 21 hrs ago | 1542 | by Swikani Ncube
'Blanket ban on demos, unconstitutional'
A blanket ban on demonstrations violates citizens' rights to protest as provided for in the Constitution of Zimbabwe, a lawyer has said.Esau Mandipa, a legal practitioner and law lecturer at M...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 19:50hrs | 2300 | by Staff reporter
Police quash Nust protest
Anti-riot police on Monday stopped a National University of Science and Technology students protest and picked up their representatives for questioning.Nust's Bulawayo campus students were pro...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:29hrs | 1144 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, Tsvangirai died miles away from Zimbabwe's dilapidated death traps
THE death of former president Robert Mugabe - some 8 260 kilometres away from home in far-flung Singapore - is a terrible indictment on his legacy and the state of the country's healthcare institution...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:39hrs | 496 | by Staff reporter
ICSAZ responds to former lecturer's allegations
The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators in Zimbabwe continues to observe the highest standards of corporate governance and to conduct its examinations in a transparent and profession...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 21:32hrs | 194 | by Staff reporter
MDC bigwig threatens Mnangagwa with ICC prosecution
MDC deputy secretary for legal affairs and Gweru urban legislator, Brian Dube, says the continued human rights violations in the country coupled with the August 2018 and January 2019 army killings, co...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 13:00hrs | 3587 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa not immune to ICC prosecution'
MDC deputy secretary for legal affairs and Gweru urban legislator, Brian Dube, says the continued human rights violations in the country coupled with the August 2018 and January 2019 army killings, co...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 07:47hrs | 693 | by Staff reporter
UK downplayed gukurahundi genocide to guard its interests, study claims
British officials repeatedly downplayed the massacre of thousands of innocent civilians by Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe in the 1980s to protect the UK's interests in southern Africa and their relationshi...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 13:15hrs | 1231 | by The Guardian
Mthuli Ncube: Fixing Mugabe's mess
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube may not have realised quite what he was letting himself in for when he took the job of Zimbabwe's Treasury boss in September last year.With his impeccable CV - he...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 08:50hrs | 693 | by Financial Mail
Lecturers demand $37,000 a month
Lecturers at state universities are demanding salary reviews that could push their monthly income up to as much as $37 000, it has been revealed.According to a letter written by the Zimbabwe S...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 08:46hrs | 986 | 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 | 2854 | by Staff reporter
Education permanent secretary Tabela's husband dies
VETERAN educationist and husband to Primary and Secondary Education permanent secretary Tumisang Tabela, Ketso Calvin, has died.He was 63.Tabela died in Zvishavane on his way home from...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 07:58hrs | 1777 | by Staff reporter
Civil service undergoing massive overhaul
Public Service Commission (PSC) chairperson Vincent Hungwe has revealed that the civil service is under massive transformation to improve professionalism and efficiencies.In an exclusive inter...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:51hrs | 1559 | by Staff reporter
UK lecturer attacks General Sibusiso Moyo
United Kingdom based Zimbabwean Scholar Brilliant Sgabande Mhlanga says International Trade Minister General Sibusiso Busi Moyo must not talk about anything related to the economy because he is ...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 11:41hrs | 9263 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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 | 3217 | 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 | 2063 | by Staff reporter
Underperforming schools in intensive holiday classes
MORE than 400 Grade Seven pupils from primary schools that often register zero pass percent rates in Lupane District are undergoing intensive holiday learning at Lupane Primary to improve pass rates. ...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:33hrs | 207 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants reject pay rise
GOVERNMENT has awarded a 76% salary hike to its restive workers, a move which will see the lowest paid civil servant getting around $1 000 per month, but civil servants' representative body, the Apex ...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 08:08hrs | 3225 | by Staff Reporter
Court throws away RTGS$ challenge
THE High Court has dismissed with costs an application filed by Harare businessman and University of Zimbabwe lecturer, Shakespear Hamauswa, challenging the legality of the Real Time Gross Settlement ...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:45hrs | 1391 | by Staff reporter
University lecturers to go on strike
The Zimbabwe State Universities Union of Academics (ZISSUA) has instructed all lecturers to down their tools on September 8, citing incapacitation to keep up with the economic crisis.ZISSUA Pr...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 16:25hrs | 4071 | by Staff reporter
Signs of economic resuscitation rattle MDC
Indications of economic stabilisation currently being witnessed in the country have distressed the MDC, which for a long time has been using the challenges as their trump card, a Namibian based econom...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 13:59hrs | 2203 | by John Sigauke in Namibia
Wrong to blame Zimbabwe crisis on war veterans
I have always been a fan of Zimbabwe Independent. It has an excellent record of providing the nation with sound and truthful analyses of the economic situation in Zimbabwe.The last edition of ...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 11:54hrs | 252 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe doctor's death a great loss'
The late senior medical consultant, Dr Kumbirai Mumbwandarikwa who died on the 11th of this month at his Borrowdale home after battling cancer has been described as one of the best medical practitione...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 20:10hrs | 2159 | by Staff reporter
The invisible professionals
Highly educated blacks working in South Africa struggle against a system that aims to exclude and sideline them. There is the open struggle that is fought with bullets and bombs out on the plains. War...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 19:44hrs | 1488 | by Wiseman Magasela
Lupane East by-election and the need for political reforms
ZIMBABWE staged three by-elections in Matabeleland North last weekend, an opposition stronghold since the formation of the MDC in 1999, but all three were won by Zanu-PF, bringing under the spotlight ...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 11:48hrs | 998 | by Staff reporter
Nssa forensic audit report: Who is who
In today's second analysis of the National Social Security Authority (Nssa) forensic report on the key individuals implicated in the State pension fund prejudice of US$175,25 million, NewsDay Business...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 07:27hrs | 513 | by Staff reporter
NSSA forensic audit report: Who is who?
Adam Molai, Environment, Tourism and Hospitality Industry minister Priscah Mupfumira, Robin Vela and Ozias Bvute are the individuals heavily implicated in the National Social Security Authority (NSSA)...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 07:51hrs | 1980 | by Staff reporter
Anti-corruption courts handle 39 cases
The specialised anti-corruption courts have received 39 cases since the beginning of the year, most of which implicate officials for allegedly abusing public offices to enrich themselves, but a ...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 10:03hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
Judge orders Moyo to be reinstated as CEO of Old Mutual
The South Gauteng High Court has ordered Old Mutual and respondents to temporarily reinstate Peter Moyo as CEO, who was fired in June and to put a halt on any decision to replace him. It also ordered ...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 14:39hrs | 1943 | by CNBC Africa
Zimbabweans say their economy is worse than ever: 'This is hell'
Dadirai Tsvakai and her family have taken to combining dinner and breakfast — a meal they now eat just after midnight, if they are lucky to have a few hours of electricity. Then, in the dead of the ...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 21:14hrs | 5877 | by Farai Mutsaka
Tsvangirai's son confident of victory
Vincent Tsvangirai, who won the right to represent the MDC in the Glen View South constituency by-elections, is confident of winning the by-elections on September 7 and replace his late sister, Vimbai...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 07:57hrs | 2265 | by Staff reporter
Icsaz lecturer's resignation opens can of worms
The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Zimbabwe (Icasz) is under the spotlight after a former lecturer, Last Mapuranga, quit his job alleging exam fraud and poor corporate govern...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 07:50hrs | 1623 | by Staff reporter
Khupe, Chamisa joins hands in Glen View by-election
FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe's MDC-T party will not field a candidate in the upcoming Glen View South by-election as a sign of respect for the late opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai....Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 07:35hrs | 3989 | by newzimbabwe
Professor Madhuku, Advocate Mpofu square off over Mupfumira bail refusal
Lawyers Professor Lovemore Madhuku and Advocate Thabani Mpofu have differed sharply about the application of Section 32 of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act by a court on Saturday to further det...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 19:23hrs | 15318 | by ZimLive
World body condemns Zimbabwe over poor state of teachers
THE World's biggest sectoral union federation, Education International (EI), has criticised the Zimbabwean government over the deteriorating labour situation and poor welfare of teachers.EI is...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 08:25hrs | 743 | by Staff reporter
By-elections take centre stage
The ZANU-PF Politburo yesterday extensively discussed the forthcoming by-elections in Lupane East, Glen View South and Mangwe constituencies in which the revolutionary party is eyeing resounding victo...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 07:50hrs | 515 | by Staff reporter
Biti now speak dialogue and not protests
MDC deputy president Tendai Biti has warned the country is facing imminent implosion due to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration's failure to deal with the deteriorating economic situation....Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 14:13hrs | 3872 | by Staff reporter
'RBZ can do more to force rate down'
THERE is significant headroom for the foreign exchange rates to come further down, thereby reining in inflation and speculative price increases, but only if the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe abides by Gove...Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 08:01hrs | 559 | by Staff reporter
City fathers or city dealers at council chambers?
THERE is a wide and telling difference, just like the North and South Poles, in stature and charisma, between city councillors of old and the current generation of men and women in the council chamber...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 10:06hrs | 432 | by Limukani Ncube
Lupane lecturers go on strike
LUPANE State University (LSU) lecturers have gone on strike following the institution's failure to review their salaries. LSU Academic Staff Association members held a meeting on Wednesday and...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 07:17hrs | 840 | by Staff reporter
Ndebele lecturing post at Mkoba Teachers College
Applications are invited from suitably qualified and experienced persons for the IsiNdebele and Music Lecturing posts:Post 1. IsiNdebele x 1 post Qualifications- Bachelor of Education in N...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 09:19hrs | 2077 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Zowa
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has accorded a State-assisted funeral to the late deputy chairperson of the Zimbabwe Law Development Commission and a law reviser, Mr Joel Bigboy Zowa, who died last week in New Yo...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 07:52hrs | 937 | by Staff reporter
LSU students demand immediate commencement of non-discriminatory block classes
To: The Vice ChancellorCc: The Pro-Vice Chancellor : The Deputy Registrar : The BursarLupane State University3rd Floor CBZ B...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 20:41hrs | 633 | by LSU
Anti-Mnangagwa demonstration set for Bulawayo
Prominent Bulawayo activist Josphat Mzaca Ngulube says he will be leading Zimbabweans to stage a massive demonstration in Bulawayo on the 17th of July. The demonstration which will be held fro...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 11:22hrs | 10794 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa's MDC to launch Zanu-PF like ideological school
MAIN opposition MDC says its soon-to-be-launched ideological school will change the scope of politics in the country by birthing a crop of leaders who will fully understand and articulate their polici...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 07:26hrs | 1937 | by Staff reporter
Tomana eyes comeback
Former Prosecutor-General Johannes Tomana's return to private practice hangs in the balance two years after his sacking, amid reports that the Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) is unwilling to re-admit hi...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 07:50hrs | 1198 | by Staff reporter
Mangudya in a Catch-22
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya would be improperly before the courts if he does not sue Zanu-PF after being named by the party's youth league as dabbling in corruption and front...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 08:30hrs | 6663 | by Staff reporter
Police speak on Magaya rape allegations
Zimbabwe Republic Police has reacted to allegations doing rounds that Prophet Walter Magaya raped a minor and impregnated her. A video of the parents talking about the matter went viral on soc...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 16:32hrs | 4940 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Introduction of Zimdollar to sink economy, say analysts
THE decision by government this week to abolish the multi-currency regime and re-introduce the Zimbabwean dollar as the sole legal tender could be catastrophic as the local currency's value may tumble...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 09:05hrs | 814 | by Staff reporter
'We are not USA must use Z$' argue Professor Chakravarti - no common sense nor integrity, must shut up
"Ever since we dollarised, everybody has been benchmarking against the US dollars," said Zimbabwe economics lecturer Professor Ashok Chakravarti."We are not the United States of America, we ar...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 21:31hrs | 2329 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
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