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ZCTU honours 2006 torture victims
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has honoured its members who were brutally tortured by police on September 13 2006 after spearheading countrywide protests against social injustices by for...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Lovemore Matombo thrown out of office
COMMUNICATION and Allied Services Workers Union of Zimbabwe (CASWUZ) members this week forcibly chucked out of office the union's president, Lovemore Matombo, who was refusing to relinquish his po...Published: 17 Nov 2016 at 07:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU torn apart by power struggles
POWER struggles are threatening to tear apart the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), with its president, George Nkiwane, being accused of wanting to cling to power through abusing the const...Published: 17 Sep 2016 at 13:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Lovemore Matombo defies expulsion
FORMER Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president, Lovemore Matombo, has approached the High Court in a bid to overturn his expulsion from the Communication and Allied Workers Union of Zim...Published: 30 Jun 2016 at 09:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Unable to address you in full, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I have to sincerely apologise that I will not be able to address you in full this week as you are all aware that I had to travel to New York where I...Published: 01 Oct 2015 at 11:57hrs | 1 | by CZ
Tsvangirai's MDC-T thrives on crisis
Recent developments, among them, the vending issue, the alleged disappearance of Itai Dzamara and the Supreme Court labour ruling, have exposed MDC-T as a party that always attempts to flourish on cri...Published: 28 Jul 2015 at 09:10hrs | 1 | by Tafara Shumba
Zimbabwe workers shocked by ruling
THE Supreme Court ruling yesterday that employers can terminate contracts of employment by giving three months notice has sent shockwaves across the labour fraternity in the country.Workers wh...Published: 18 Jul 2015 at 13:31hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Ex-ZCTU President's property is attached
There was drama at the residence of former Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions president Mr Lovemore Matombo in Greendale, Harare, yesterday when his wife locked in the Deputy Sheriff who sought t...Published: 10 Jul 2015 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZCTU irked by Matombo faction' being referred to as ZCTU
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has expressed its concerns over the Lovemore Matombo's splinter group being referred to as the ZCTU saying its worries are because the High Cour...Published: 07 May 2015 at 09:14hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
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
Reflections on Zimbabwe's Press Freedom Day Celebrations: A case of the Daily News
The talk that characterised the recent, last minute cancellation of the Press Freedom Day commemoration for Harare and the subsequent decision by Government to intervene and have same held, at a ...Published: 14 May 2014 at 16:05hrs | 1 | by Dingizulu Mahlathini Moyo
ZCTU Matombo on a rebound
The Lovemore Matombo led faction of Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union is on a rebound if statistics of attendance to the May 1 Workers Day Celebration that took place across the country's ten provinces...Published: 02 May 2014 at 11:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Trade unionist 'Majongwe' blasts MDC-T ex-ministers
OUTSPOKEN trade unionist and secretary-general of the Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe Raymond Majongwe yesterday accused former MDC-T Labour and Public Service ministers Paurina Mpariwa and Lu...Published: 01 May 2014 at 12:11hrs | | by Staff Reporter
ZCTU calls for peaceful demonstrations against SalaryGate
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has called for peaceful demonstrations against the SalaryGate Scandal that saw top executives and board members in state owned enterprises award themselves...Published: 14 Feb 2014 at 11:02hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Police ban ZCTU march
Police in Harare have banned a planned march against violation of workers' rights in Zimbabwe.Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), the country's largest labour union, wanted to mark the...Published: 10 Sep 2013 at 08:07hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU warns of crippling labour protests
Zimbabwe's hard-pressed and poorly paid civil servants can now exploit some provisions in the country's new governance charter to stage crippling work boycotts as such action has now been legalized....Published: 27 Aug 2013 at 11:11hrs | | by Roy Chikara I RadioVOP
ZCTU faction wants truce with MDC-T
A break-away faction of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) is hoping to mend relations with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC after months of mudslinging.Now calling itself ZCTU...Published: 22 May 2013 at 09:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai in catch-22 situation
Prime Minister and former ZCTU Secretary General, Morgan Tsvangirai, is caught in a catch-22 situation as the two warring factions of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions are fighting to win his sup...Published: 22 Apr 2013 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
The 16 March uprising
To many, the fact that MDC, MDCT and ZANU PF will jointly campaign for Vote Yes in the upcoming referendum suggests that it will not be contested and therefore inconsequential. The reality however...Published: 20 Feb 2013 at 09:51hrs | 10 | by Discent Bajila
ZCTU stages demo against torture in Bulawayo
Hundreds of Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union (ZCTU) members on Thursday staged street demonstrations in Bulawayo against the torture of union leaders by police.The trade union members defied a...Published: 23 Sep 2012 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai engineering split of teacher's union
The Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe faces an imminent split following a widening rift caused by the organization's allegiance to a faction of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions led by Lovem...Published: 07 Aug 2012 at 05:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai fires Thabitha Khumalo
The Movement for Democratic Change led by Morgan Tsvangirai has fired its deputy spokesperson, who becomes the first victim of the internecine factionalism rocking the party in Bulawayo where dozens ...Published: 12 Jul 2012 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court brings finality to ZCTU case
On the 15th of November 2011 the ZCTU and its President George Nkiwane and Secretary General Japhet Moyo filed an application for an interdict at the High Court in Case No HC 11473/11 seeking to stop...Published: 19 Jun 2012 at 16:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nkiwane faction wins ZCTU case in court
The bid by the Lovemore Matombo-led ZCTU faction to hold on to the labour organisation's brand has hit a brick wall after the Supreme Court upheld the decision by High Court Judge, Justice Chinembiri ...Published: 18 Jun 2012 at 16:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZCTU castigates Thabo Mbeki, tells him to solve Soweto problems first
Former South African President and mediator to the unity government Thabo Mbeki has been castigated for pretending to be helping the University of Zimbabwe when Zimbabwe through President Robert Mugab...Published: 03 May 2012 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
West seeks assistance to topple Tsvangirai, replace him with an academic - Claims
The state controlled media reports that some Western governments, through their emissaries in Harare, approached National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) chairman Professor Lovemore Madhuku to get...Published: 28 Apr 2012 at 23:08hrs | | by
ZCTU rival presidents debate on Question Time: Part 2
Following last year’s split in the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), SW Radio Africa journalist Lance Guma hosts Part 2 of a debate between rival Presid...Published: 13 Apr 2012 at 16:11hrs | | by Lance Guma
ZCTU rival presidents debate on Question Time: Part 1
Following last year's split in the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), SW Radio Africa journalist Lance Guma hosts Part 1 of a debate between rival Presidents Lovemore Matombo and George Nkiwane...Published: 13 Apr 2012 at 10:49hrs | | by Lance Guma
11 top labour leaders arrested in Zimbabwe
Eleven top leaders of the breakaway faction of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) aligned to Lovemore Matombo were yesterday arrested and briefly detained after they led a demonstration in H...Published: 01 Mar 2012 at 12:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU demands salary reviews for civil servants
Long time political allies, the ZCTU and the MDC-T, could be headed for a showdown after the labour movement presented petitions to the inclusive government demanding salary reviews in solidarity wit...Published: 29 Feb 2012 at 14:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matibenga 'must publicly admit and resign as a minister' - Sikhala
The leader of MDC-99, Job Sikhala on Tuesday demanded the resignation of Public Service Minister Lucia Matibenga as thousands of workers embarked on a Zimbabwe-wide public sector strike, the Daily Ne...Published: 25 Jan 2012 at 13:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZCTU breakaway factions calls for a crippling civil servants strike
A break-away faction of the ZCTU has appealed to the workers in the private sector to join civil servants in a crippling strike. Lovemore Matombo, who leads the faction, said joining the civil servant...Published: 23 Jan 2012 at 08:30hrs | | by Mafu Sithabile
Victory for ZCTU As High Court Declares Matombo Illegitimate
The High Court has brought to finality the case where the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) sought to bar Lovemore Matombo and his group from using the ZCTU name, logo, letterheads and setting...Published: 19 Dec 2011 at 08:33hrs | | by Khumbulani Ndlovu | edited by Mafu Sithabile
Ruling on 9 December in ZCTU Case Against Matombo
The High Court in Harare is set to hand down judgement on 9 December 2011 in a case where the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions is seeking to bar Lovemore Matombo and Raymond Majongwe from using the Z...Published: 28 Nov 2011 at 08:07hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Judge urges ZCTU to unite to serve the interest of workers
High Court judge Ben Hlatshwayo has recommended that the 2 ZCTU factions fighting for the control of the organisation unite to serve the interests of the workers. Hlatshwayo offered his legal...Published: 24 Nov 2011 at 07:33hrs | | by Nare Msupatsila
Troubled ZCTU Terminates Matombo, Majongwe Group Affiliation
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions General Council meeting of 15 November 2011 at Management Training Bureau in Msasa, Harare unanimously resolved to terminate membership of eight affiliates follo...Published: 17 Nov 2011 at 14:17hrs | 1 | by Nare Msupatsila
'Whiteman' Makumbe to contest Buhera West House of Assembly seat
UNIVERSITY of Zimbabwe lecturer Dr John Makumbe has set the stage for a bruising showdown with Constitutional and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Eric Matinenga after he declared his interest in the la...Published: 11 Sep 2011 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim civic society leaders power hungry
The threatened split of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) last week reinforces the fact that civil society leaders are not ready to give up power when their tenure ends.This has led...Published: 07 Sep 2011 at 05:16hrs | | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Zanu-PF finger prints on ZCTU factionalism: ZCTU
The newly elected Secretary General of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has said that Zanu-PF is behind the worsening factionalism in the union grouping, SW Radio has reported. The...Published: 29 Aug 2011 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZCTU-Matombo to take ZCTU-Nkiwane to court over elections
Embattled former Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president Lovemore Matombo on Thursday declared himself the legitimate leader arguing the outcome of the elections that ushered a new executiv...Published: 26 Aug 2011 at 04:38hrs | | by Sapa
ZCTU has dismissed Majongwe's claims on another congress
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions has dismissed claims by Raymond Majongwe and ousted leader Lovemore Matombo that another ZCTU Congress will be held in December 2011.In a press statement ...Published: 24 Aug 2011 at 09:02hrs | | by Nare Msupatsila
Confusion hits ZCTU
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions has split with a camp aligned to Mr Lovemore Matombo announcing that it will hold its own congress before the end of this year.The announcement was made b...Published: 24 Aug 2011 at 04:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nkiwane takes over ZCTU presidency
Mr Lovemore Matombo has been booted out of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions after delegates at their congress voted in Mr George Nkiwane as the new president.The outgoing president has h...Published: 22 Aug 2011 at 04:39hrs | 2 | by Byo correspondent
ZCTU President boycotts congress
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions is feared to have split with a faction led by incumbent president Mr Lovemore Matombo boycotting the labour body's congress that began in Bulawayo yesterday....Published: 20 Aug 2011 at 05:18hrs | | by .
ZCTU cracks widens as factions takes each other to court
Cracks within the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) continue to widen as a faction led by Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) Secretary General, Mr Raymond Majongwe has filed an urge...Published: 15 Aug 2011 at 20:39hrs | | by .
Mugabe, Tsvangirai, Madhuku and now Matombo clings to office
ZIMBABWE Congress of Trade Unions president, Mr Lovemore Matombo has refused to give up power ahead of the labour body's congress in August.Mr Matombo was expected to hand over power to a new ...Published: 06 Jun 2011 at 13:11hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Zimbabwe cannot afford labour's pay demands
WITHOUT exception, all employers have been confronted with demands from employees in general, and the labour force in particular, for increased wages. Most collective bargaining agreements have been r...Published: 06 Jun 2011 at 09:22hrs | | by Eric Bloch
MDC-T leaders' wealth raising eyebrows
HARARE - From driving lavish 4-litre fuel-guzzling cars to quaffing rare whiskies, the display of wealth by the new ruling elite in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC party is raising eyebrows amo...Published: 07 May 2011 at 19:06hrs | 1 | by Moyo Roy
Zimbabwean workers celebrate workers day despite reports of intimidation
Zimbabwe's main labor federation said Sunday the coalition government has failed to stop arrests, violence and intimidation against labor activists more than a year after the International Labor Organ...Published: 02 May 2011 at 07:17hrs | | by Angus Shaw
Intelligence officer's affidavit: 'how Gwisai and 45 activist were trapped'
Below is an affidavit produced in court by the police officer who penetrated the Gwisai meeting without the organisers of the meeting suspecting anything."I...Published: 26 Feb 2011 at 02:22hrs | | by Byo24NEWS
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