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Zimbabwe's refugee population to rise to 18,000 by year-end
Zimbabwe's refugee population is projected to reach 18,000 by December 2025, driven by the country's continued political stability and peaceful environment, government officials have revealed....Published: 20 Jun 2025 at 06:17hrs | 109 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa reshuffles his cabinet
President Cyril Ramaphosa has reshuffled his cabinet, moving the embattled minister of justice and constitutional development Thembi Simelane to the human settlements portfolio.There has been ...Published: 04 Dec 2024 at 06:58hrs | 1115 | by Staff reporter
Tito Mboweni dies
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed he was deeply saddened by the death of former Governor of the South African Reserve Bank and Labour and Finance Minister Dr Tito Mboweni.He died on Satu...Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 12:31hrs | 571 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa linked Zuva judgment knocks out Air Zimbabwe employees
After accepting retrenchment packages, 300 former Air Zimbabwe employees lost their appeal against their dismissal, as ruled by the labor court. The terminations stemmed from the 2015 Zuva Petroleum P...Published: 12 Mar 2024 at 20:10hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo statement on Matabeles in South Africa false dangerous, smacks of tribal hatred
The statement by the Minister of Labour and Child Welfare, July Moyo that the majority of more than 400 children that were intercepted by South African authorities at Beitbridge border were from Matab...Published: 07 Dec 2023 at 08:26hrs | 13 | by Israel Dube
SA inflated the number of intercepted minors
The Zimbabwean government has begun investigating the "heinous offence" of trafficking children into South Africa - but has disputed that South Africa sent back 443 unaccompanied children under the ag...Published: 05 Dec 2023 at 07:25hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa confers Muzenda's son with liberation hero status
President Mnangagwa has conferred liberation hero status on the late Minerals and Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe general manager Tongai Muzenda who passed away in a car crash on Wednesday night....Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 07:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU tells Mavima to come clean on US$359,000 loan deal
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has demanded that Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare minister Paul Mavima must come clean on the US$350 000 Borrowdale house he is alleged to have b...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
A random 10 political questions that will make 2023 an uncertain year
As the euphoria of the New Year begin to fed away, we have to wait to see whether it's clear that the trends we have been seeing over the last few decades show no signs of slowing down. You might say ...Published: 04 Jan 2023 at 01:08hrs | 2 | by Farai Chirimumimba
Mnangagwa jolts Zimbabwe ministers into compromise agreement
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa was recently forced to compel 13 ministers who sit in the Tripartite Negotiating (TNF) Forum to urgently attend meetings to discuss solutions to worsening economic hardshi...Published: 16 Oct 2022 at 19:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF to elect Ndebele President in the coming congress?
Should a Matabele, through a miracle, be elected as ZANU PF President in the coming congress, that man or woman would be very lucky to come out of Harare alive.You have heard how MDC aka CCC s...Published: 12 Oct 2022 at 13:54hrs | 2 | by Israel Dube
Zimbabwean teachers undergo exams for Rwandan jobs
ZIMBABWEAN teachers who have applied to work in Rwanda following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the two countries will this week go through virtual examinations before they...Published: 16 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 8 | 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
Zimbabwean ministry fails to recruit 5,000 new teachers
THE government has failed to recruit 5,000 new teachers after the budget allocation to the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education was eroded by inflation, Parliament heard this week.Zimba...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:46hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Govt gets fortnight ultimatum
Government has been given a fortnight ultimatum by the workers' unions over a cost of living adjustment. In a notice of industrial action addressed to the Minister of Labour, Public Service and Social...Published: 06 Jul 2022 at 09:57hrs | | by George Swarei
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
Zacc investigates Nssa corruption
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) this week invaded and camped at the National Social Security Authority (Nssa) offices in Harare to investigate complaints of alleged malpractices, corrup...Published: 22 May 2022 at 11:19hrs | 53 | 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
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 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
Malema now an advocate of xenophobia
Malema has double standards. He is trying to please South Africans, at the expense of Zimbabweans. At first he abhorred Xenophobia, but now he is motivating other South Africans to hate foreigners. Th...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 08:54hrs | | by Njabulo
Government that brags about paying its pensioners $45 per month needs to go!
I know that when one is a good for nothing loser - whose life is characterized by roguish and disgraceful behavior - finding anything positive to boast about becomes ever more impossible, and, is forc...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 20:48hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Jane Ngwenya laid to rest
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has described the late national heroine Jane Lungile Ngwenya as a courageous woman who played a pivotal role in the liberation of the country and pioneered the discourse o...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 21:26hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Heroine Ngwenya burial set for Saturday
NATIONALIST and liberation stalwart Jane Ngwenya who was declared a national heroine, will be buried on Saturday at the National Heroes Acre in Harare. Ngwenya (86) died last night at Bulawayo's Mater...Published: 11 Aug 2021 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF mourns heroine Jane Ngwenya
Zanu-PF has described the late veteran nationalist, Jane Ngwenya as an astute and unflinching revolutionary who played an integral role in the liberation of the country. Ngwenya, who is ...Published: 09 Aug 2021 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff writer
Mnangagwa mourns Jane Ngwenya
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday sent a condolence message to the Ngwenya family following the death of nationalist and freedom fighter Jane Lungile Ngwenya. Mnangagwa said he received the news of the pa...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF recommends admission of G40 movers
The Zanu-PF Midlands Provincial Coordinating Committee (PCC) has recommended the readmission of all former G40 cabals in the province, party provincial chair Daniel Mackenzie Ncube has said.He...Published: 12 Jul 2021 at 16:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ex-minister Kagonye back in court
Investigations into the case of former Minister of Labour and Social Welfare Petronella Kagonye, who is facing six counts of fraud, theft and criminal abuse of office charges, is expected to be comple...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Help in cleaning up urban settlements - Zanu-PF
ZANU-PF has urged all its structures to cooperate with the Government team set-up to bring normalcy to urban settlements that had become feeding troughs for land barons and some councillors. T...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans fume as fraud-accused Shava is appointed Foreign Minister
ZIMBABWEANS have been left fuming following President Emmerson Mnangagwa's shock Monday appointment of Frederick Shava as the new Foreign Minister.Shava replaces the late Sibusiso Moyo who suc...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:57hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Kagonye to answer to fraud charges
Former Minister of Labour and Social Welfare Petronella Kagonye is expected in court today to answer fraud allegations relating to the illegal sale of State land in Harare and Mashonaland East Provinc...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt urged to extend social safety nets
THE Women's Coalition of Zimbabwe (WCoZ) has called on the government to extend social safety nets to minimise the burden on breadwinners.The call comes as Vendors Initiative for Social and Ec...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 18:07hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Former minister grilled over land
THE government is probing former Labour minister Petronella Kagonye on allegations of improperly acquiring six farms in Mashonaland East under her real estate firm, Glorious Properties.On her ...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 15:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youth praise 'hardworking' Chitando
The Zanu-PF youth here have praised the Gutu Central Member of Parliament (MP) and minister of Mines Winston Chitando for his exploits in the development of the constituency and district at large....Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:54hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
No blessings for government that steals from the elderly
As I write this article - looking through my window that faces the street - there are countless smartly dressed gentlemen, ladies and children, eagerly and excitedly purposefully going to their variou...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 12:57hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mliswa forced Nssa to appoint his baby Mama
OUTSPOKEN Independent Norton legislature Temba Mliswa used his political position to influence the appointment of the mother of his two children to senior position in National Social Security Authorit...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 08:16hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Corruption has become endemic a pandemic
My memory is either clouded or crowded, maybe erasing some irrelevant stuff would help. This Hon. Minister of Labour and Social Welfare whose name keep popping up in the NSSA saga, was she not...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 17:58hrs | 1 | by Thomas Murisa
Civil servants stage demonstration in Harare
Some section of civil servants' staged a protest in the Harare Central Business District over the meagre salaries that they are paid by the government. The protestors who were petitioning the ...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 14:53hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
ZCTU denies hand in planned ShutDownZimbabwe protests
LABOUR federation, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), has dismissed messages circulating on social media linking it to a "shutdown" of the country on July 1.A pamphlet that has gone...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 09:23hrs | 1 | by newzimbabwe.com
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 | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
In their time NSSA pensioners kept the economy going
The Hon. Minister of Labour and Social Welfare is said to have confirmed a periodic upward review of civil servants salaries to cushion them against rising prices of goods and services. Dr Sek...Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 07:51hrs | 1 | by Tondorindo
Mnangagwa given a 7-day deadline
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been accused by a Zanu-PF-aligned union of ignoring the plight of workers "to please his neo-capitalist friends", in another sign of fissures in the ruling party....Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa faces revolt
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been accused by a Zanu-PF-aligned un- ion of ignoring the plight of workers "to please his neo-capitalist friends", in an- other sign of fissures in the ruling party....Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 09:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government assures the nation on adequate grain in silos
The deputy minister of Labour and Social welfare Lovemore Matuke assured villagers of Urere in Rushinga Mashonaland Central province last week that there is adequate food in the country's silos to fee...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 19:22hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe cyclone death toll rises to 40
The death toll from Tropical Cyclone Idai is now at 40 after more bodies were recovered in Chimanimani and Chipinge, Manicaland province.A high powered government delegation today visited Chim...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 18:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Absolom Sikhosana urges NGO ban for dabbling in Zimbabwe politics
ZANU-PF politburo member, Absolom Sikhosana says government should ban all Non-Governmental Organisations operating in the country claiming they were dabbling in national politics on behalf of the opp...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 05:53hrs | | by newzimbabwe
'True heroes, heroines never die'
We publish the final part of an interview by our Deputy News Editor Levi Mukarati with nationalist Jane Lungile Ngwenya. In this instalment, Ngwenya chronicles how she earned mistrust in both Zapu and...Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 19:00hrs | 3 | by Staff rpeortet
Government riot act to errant NGOs welcomed
The reading of the riot act to some errant Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) by the Acting Minister of Labour and Social Welfare, Honourable Kazembe Kazembe on 11 December 2018 should be applauded...Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 10:18hrs | 4 | by Brightface Mutema
Zanu PF bigwigs suffer shocking defeats
Many political bigwigs in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF suffered shocking defeats in the July 30 National Assembly elections even as votes were still being counted.Ministers Chris Mut...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 08:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Response to Chamisa's meted lean cabinet
Advocate Nelson Chamisa's cabinet in-waiting: 1. Ministry of Health - Dr Ruth Labode. 2. Minister of Education (Primary &Secondary) - David Colt...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 20:50hrs | 2 | by Benny Gudo
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