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Zimbabwe govt urged to dollarise pensions
THE Zimbabwe National Union of School Heads (Zinush) has pleaded for the dollarisation of pensions as inflation continues to eat away the life savings of educators, condemning many to poverty after ye...Published: 27 Dec 2023 at 07:32hrs | 16 | 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
Mnangagwa meets civil servants leaders
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has pledged to address the plight of civil servants as the Second Republic remains firmly committed towards improving their welfare and working conditions.This was revealed...Published: 08 Jun 2023 at 09:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa commends labour movement leadership
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has hailed workers for engaging in dialogue, instead of strikes, to find solutions to problems they are facing at workplaces.In his May Day statement, President Mn...Published: 11 May 2023 at 05:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's shutdowns not the best protest strategy
WORSENING economic conditions, coupled with growing unemployment as most Zimbabweans struggle to eke out a living in the informal sector are among the major reasons why this week's shutdown flopped....Published: 14 May 2022 at 19:42hrs | 14 | 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
Mnangagwa declares war
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared war on unlicensed private passenger transporters, a stance that many believe will worsen the country's transport crisis.Mnangagwa's May Day speech, wh...Published: 03 May 2022 at 06:51hrs | 9 | 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
FULL TEXT: United Freedom Party Workers' Day statement
As the world marks Workers Day, also known as May Day, the United Freedom Party (UFP) mourns the position of the Zimbabwean worker saying strongly that there is nothing to celebrate given the conditio...Published: 02 May 2022 at 20:19hrs | 10 | by United Freedom Party
Chamisa speaks on reports that he is negotiating with Mnangagwa
CCC leader Nelson Chamisa has denied reports that he is engaged or seeking to engage President Emmerson Mnangagwa on forming a coalition government under any other other name. Chamisa was ...Published: 02 May 2022 at 09:22hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Should Zimbabweans be Commemorating Workers Day?
May day is a commemoration of the historic struggles and gains made by workers and the labour movement, but can Zimbabweans really take part in these historic celebrations as there is not much to appl...Published: 01 May 2022 at 20:55hrs | 1 | by Prince Njagu
ZLHR salutes all workers for resilience
ON this International Workers Day, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has saluted all workers in Zimbabwe for their immense contributions to the country and their resilience in the face of the e...Published: 01 May 2022 at 20:48hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
WATCH: Cyril Ramaphosa chased away by workers at May Day rally
South African President and African National Congress (ANC) leader Cyril Ramaphosa had to abandon the May Day celebrations at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium, outside Rustenburg, in the North West after ro...Published: 01 May 2022 at 17:54hrs | 10 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Ramaphosa booed, abandons workers day celebrations
Cyril Ramaphosa had to leave Cosatu's Worker's Day rally in the North West in a police Nyala as aggrieved workers stormed the stage in the Royal Bafokeng Stadium on Sunday with cries of "he [Ramaphosa...Published: 01 May 2022 at 14:14hrs | 10 | 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
New school terms set
This year's school calender has three terms, with the first starting on Monday next week, encompassing in total 185 school days and no exeat weekends to minimise health risks from school breaks....Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Register to vote, says Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF has called upon its members to register to vote ahead of the 2023 harmonised elections as failure to vote is a disservice to the revolutionary party. The call comes after the party has...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Workers, pensioners feel the pinch
WORKERS under the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) banner yesterday decried living standards in the country, which they described as "unbearable and terrible", and worse than life during the t...Published: 03 May 2021 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pay workers in US dollar, says Chamisa
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said employers must pay their workers in United States dollars, saying they deserve a decent wage.In a message to commemorate Workers Day, Chamisa ...Published: 02 May 2021 at 08:58hrs | | by Staff Reporter
All doom and gloom for Zimbabwean workers
ZAPU message on the occasion of May Day commemoration.As the world observes another occasion of workers day, widely referred to as the May Day, the cond...Published: 01 May 2021 at 09:27hrs | 10 | by Iphithule Thembani Maphosa
Of poor political performers, protests and stupid protestors
Those who attended or listened to the speeches delivered during Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) May Day commemorations in Dzivarasekwa, Harare, last week will testify of how the labour body's...Published: 06 May 2019 at 13:50hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Chamisa, ZCTU warned
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF has issued a chilling warning to MDC leader Nelson Chamisa and the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) leadership over their threats to unleash demonstratio...Published: 04 May 2019 at 20:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dialogue: the panacea to Zimbabwe's economic and political fortunes
When the US Democrat Presidential candidate, Hilary Clinton lost the election in 2016 to Donald Trump she did not lose heart, but she put the United States national interests first and moved on. As an...Published: 02 May 2019 at 11:44hrs | 11 | by Elijah Chihota
MDC, ZCTU joins forces
The main MDC opposition party and the country's biggest trade union, ZCTU- shall be taking to the streets to vent out their anger over the deteriorating economic situation.Workers unions have ...Published: 02 May 2019 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Chamisa's full May day speech
MDC President Nelson Chamisa addressed the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions May day celebrations on Wednesday where he told the huge crowd which had gathered that MDC is prepared to unleash pea...Published: 01 May 2019 at 14:45hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwean workers celebrate May Day with empty stomachs
It's all gloomy faces across the country as workers celebrate the workers day with empty stomachs. May Day is a public holiday usually celebrated on 1 May. It is an ancient Northern Hemi...Published: 01 May 2019 at 11:56hrs | | by Leonard Koni
May Day message: Restating our commitment to the struggles of the working people
The MDC is headed to Buhera to celebrate the life of a veteran Unionist, the face of the struggles of the working people of Zimbabwe. Dr Morgan Tsvangirai, the founding father of the party did battle,...Published: 01 May 2019 at 11:15hrs | | by Jacob Mafume
MDC-T 2019 May Day Statement
The Movement for Democratic Change joins the ZCTU and indeed all the citizens of Zimbabwe in celebrating the many victories of workers throughout the world, notwithstanding the many challenges that st...Published: 01 May 2019 at 10:07hrs | | by Khaliphani Phugeni
Zimbabwe Communist Party May day Statement 2019
Revolutionary Greetings to all Zimbabwean working people from the National Steering Committee of the ZCP. As Proletarian Internationalists we extend our revolutionary greetings to workers, communists ...Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 14:07hrs | 3 | by ZCP
The ZCTU should choose between labour and politics
A few days before the violent and ruinous protests of 14 to 16 January this year in the main cities of Harare, Bulawayo and Mutare, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president, Peter Mutasa...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 13:13hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mnangagwa given final ultimatum
Trade unions from across the divide have threatened to roll fresh protests if President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government does not address the deepening economic problems facing the country.The ...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 08:40hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa working on salary review, incentives for civil servants
THE Government has come up with a comprehensive consultative strategy with its employees that will see an establishment of a platform for engagement, every fortnight, on issues affecting the workers a...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 07:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa speaks on power grab
MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa, has spoken at the Oxford Union about his contentious rise to the MDC presidency.The 40-year-old opposition leader spoke to students about th...Published: 09 May 2018 at 13:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matibenga endorses Mujuru
LUCIA Matibenga, leader of the breakaway faction of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), recently opened up on how she was hounded out of the MDC-T led by the late Morgan Tsvangirai.Matibenga ...Published: 07 May 2018 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa's rant against China irritating
Mthwakazi Republic Party has said the rants by MDC-T President Nelson Chamisa that he wil chase away Chinese in the country were irritating and misleading."Firstly, it is a matter of concern f...Published: 06 May 2018 at 16:06hrs | 33 | by Stephen Jakes
Zim situation forcing the poor to be poorer
HARARE - Employers are living luxurious lives while their employees are not getting adequate salary and the situation has made the poor to become more poorer, a trade unionist has said.Address...Published: 03 May 2018 at 11:51hrs | | by Virginia Zifesho and Stanley Chirimbani
Khupe's spokesperson ejected from ZCTU Workers' Day event
Workers' Day commemorations should not be politicised by any organisation and should not be an event to score cheap political scores, MDC-T Thokozani Khupe's national spokesperson, Linda Masarira, sai...Published: 03 May 2018 at 09:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
There is logic in Chamisa's 'madness'
Some people have seen it as madness in Nelson Chamisa's call of kicking the Chinese out of Zimbabwe. There is logic in that madness! "Addressing hundreds of workers commemorating May Day...Published: 03 May 2018 at 06:21hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Chamisa calls for an Audit of all business deals
The MDC dismisses malicious falsehoods peddled by the state-owned newspaper, The Herald attributing certain statements to the People's President Nelson Chamisa. The gist and essence of Preside...Published: 02 May 2018 at 20:36hrs | 1 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Chamisa's irresponsible talk could cost us jobs
Nelson Chamisa has said a lot of irresponsible things over the last few months since he became leader of the MDC. Perhaps the worst to date was when he publicly claimed that the U.S. Administration ha...Published: 02 May 2018 at 13:42hrs | 4 | by Charles, Harare (student)
May Day loses significance
Noah Bikita (42) is a former Detroop Mine workers committee chairman. He worked at the mine as a driver and is now paying the price for standing for workers' rights in 2016, as he is out of employment...Published: 02 May 2018 at 08:04hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'Don't vote Zanu-PF'
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) yesterday labelled the Zanu-PF government as the workers' number one enemy, and called on all workers to dump the ruling party in the upcoming general elec...Published: 02 May 2018 at 08:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Road to Victory (R2V): Nelson Chamisa on Tuesday
Seke: A despondent people who can no longer afford the laughter and the smileFellow Zimbabweans, in keeping with our Gogogoi Tisvikewo/Ekuhle campaign, I was in rural Seke and Mhondoro over th...Published: 01 May 2018 at 12:40hrs | 2 | by Adv Nelson Chamisa
Zimbabwe teachers threaten strike over pay
Just days after the nurses' strike ended, educators in Zimbabwe are threatening to put up their own fight as soon as schools open if government does not give them a pay rise and a review of rural-base...Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 22:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai must be watched
That Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the opposition MDC-T party, is a dangerous loser, who is staring a potentially career-ending defeat in 2018, has become a notorious fact not just for casual political...Published: 24 May 2017 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by zimpapers
Bid to oust Zuma leaves SA opposition in catch 22
Opposition parties trying to get Jacob Zuma to resign are in a conundrum: if they bring down an unpopular president they may lose their best chance to win the next election."I suspect oppositi...Published: 03 May 2017 at 08:03hrs | 3 | by Paul Vecchiatto and Mike Cohen, Bloomberg
Ramaphosa visits Prophet Shembe for prayers
Deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa was told to start "talking straight" and declare his ambitions to take over from Jacob Zuma.It came as he visited the home of the Prophet of Mduduzi‚ "Unyazi...Published: 02 May 2017 at 18:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa the ANC sell-out?
Johannesburg - The divisions in the tripartite alliance over the ANC's succession battle played out at Cosatu's nationwide May Day rallies with President Jacob Zuma and his "allies" booed while his d...Published: 02 May 2017 at 05:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
PDP May day statement
Zimbabwe, like all progressive nations of the world, is celebrating the 1st of May as an International Workers' Day set aside to promote the welfare of the working class, improve their standards of li...Published: 01 May 2017 at 15:19hrs | 1 | by George Mkhwanazi, Deputy Secretary for Information and Publicity PDP South Africa
Tsvangirai slams Mugabe
OPPOSITION MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai has urged the electorate to "punish" President Robert Mugabe in next year's general elections for failing to honour his 2013 pledge to create 2,2 million jobs...Published: 01 May 2017 at 12:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
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