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A Challenge to the Ministry of Health Show us the Truth, Not the Spin
Dear Minister of Health, Deputy Minister, and Permanent Secretary, Allow me to also include Nick Mangwana and the Chairperson of the Parliamentary Portfolio committee on health.Followi...Published: 11 May 2025 at 10:37hrs | 175 | by Hector Mbizvo
Mnangagwa appoints line ministries permanent secretaries
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has with immediate effect appointed deputy chief secretaries, line ministries' permanent secretaries and provincial affairs secretaries for devolution.In a stateme...Published: 06 Oct 2023 at 21:10hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Johnson and Johnson's baby powder causes cancer?
ZIMBABWE's health ministry has banned the use of Johnson and Johnson's baby powder over allegations that it causes cancer.In a letter seen by NewZimbabwe.com written to all provincial medical ...Published: 03 Jun 2023 at 08:21hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF trounces CCC in weekend by-elections
THE ruling Zanu-PF party on Saturday won four of the five contested council seats in Gweru, Mberengwa and Binga which used to be main opposition's stronghold.According to results released by t...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Perm Sec appointed to UN secretary general's advisory panel
Local government minister permanent secretary Zvinechimwe Churu has been appointed to the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) Advisory Group by United Nations secretary general António Guterres....Published: 01 Oct 2022 at 06:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cops arrested for conning ICT perm sec
TWO former police officers and two other serving members of the force were arraigned before Harare magistrate Yeukai Dzuda after conning the acting Information Communication Technology ministry secret...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 11:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Please don't jail me I am old: ex perm sec Proff Gudyanga pleads in court
Former secretary for mines professor Francis Gudyanga who was convicted for Criminal abuse of office after he received boarding fees for meeting done with himself has asked the court for a lenient sen...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 05:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Mines perm sec convicted of graft
In the latest high-profile corruption conviction, former Mines and Mining Development Permanent Secretary Francis Gudyanga was yesterday convicted of corruptly claiming US$29 000 from the Minerals Mar...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Madhuku says suspension of striking teachers illegal
OPPOSITION politician and top Harare lawyer, Professor Lovemore Madhuku, has dismissed as illegal, the decision by government to suspend striking teachers.Primary and Secondary Education Minis...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 05:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Performance contracts for Zimbabwean ministers
Performance contracts signed last year by permanent secretaries, the top level in the civil service, are being extended this year upwards to ministers and across to the heads of local authorities, Sta...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 05:33hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zacc urges perm secs not to drop their guard
ZIMBABWE Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) chairperson Loice Matanda-Moyo has urged secretaries of ministries not to succumb to undue pressure from Cabinet ministers resulting in them misappropriating...Published: 02 Nov 2021 at 18:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Education Perm Sec riles teachers
TEACHERS unions have demanded an apology from the government following remarks by Primary and Secondary Education secretary Tumisang Thabela that educators who could not afford to travel back to their...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 06:13hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
DDF Perm Sec dies
Permanent Secretary for the District Development Fund in the Office of the President and Cabinet, James Jonga has died.Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services secretary, Ndavani...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 17:26hrs | 1 | by Shelton Muchena/Simbarashe Sithole
Beware of post-lockdown gravy train
COVID-19 and the resultant lockdowns around the world, no doubt, killed the life for just about everybody and everything.Trans-border ships docked. That meant loss of thousands of direct and d...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:07hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Mnangagwa's govt to raise Covid-19 household payouts to $1,000
Government has increased the Covid-19 cash transfers to vulnerable households to ZWL1,000 (USD12) per month from a paltry ZWL300 (USD3,50). Government has further mulled its intention to ...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 10:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Agric perm sec faces contempt of Parly charges
PARLIAMENT has warned the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture John Basera against withholding critical information on the beneficiaries of government programmes, including command agric...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
President Mnangagwa, you need to attend to Political acumenship, legacy & perceptions !!!
In 2013, the former Zimbabwe President, Robert Mugabe, upon his arrival at Harare International Airport, speaking to journalists, shortly after his arrival , he said in Shona , " Nhai weduwe imi, tonz...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 16:06hrs | 2 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Smelly Dube sues The Mirror for $1,5m
Gweru businessperson Smelly Dube has taken a Masvingo-based publication, The Mirror, to the High Court demanding defamation damages in the sum of $1,5 million, accusing the paper of misrepresenting fa...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police ban MDC Friday demonstration
The Zimbabwe Republic Police have banned the August 16 demonstration that was called by the opposition MDC on Friday. In a statement issued on Thursday evening the police said, "After due cons...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 21:10hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mthuli Ncube to buy cars for Ministers and raise price of fuel
Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube has announced that he will be sanctioning the purchasing of vehicles for Ministers and Members of parliament this week after a long period of aus...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 09:14hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Muzamhindo pushes for a Policy Indaba
Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo's initiativeI'm driving a national agenda which has no political affiliation, but to assist on enhancing development. We simply ...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 22:31hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Good and sound advice for the Presidential Advisory Council (PAC)
To be quite honest and frank the Presidential advisory council which President Mnangagwa appointed have a tough assignment to accomplish though I still have some disputation over some names which were...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 14:14hrs | 2 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Honourable Mutodi must behave like an adult
Power is vested in a minister in a government for a variety of reasons, including their experience, expertise, education, business acumen, wisdom or tenure. The head of state will have believed that t...Published: 25 Feb 2019 at 21:19hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Perm sec's wife arrested at Supa's trial
THERE was drama at the Harare Magistrates' Courts yesterday when the wife of ICT ministry permanent secretary Sam Kundishora, Beaulla, was arrested for recording an audio of court proceedings in which...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:10hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Perm Sec recalled over growing rift with minister
The minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare, Sekai Nzenza, has surrendered back her permanent secretary, Judith Kateera, after the two clashed over the running of the crucial government ...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 08:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Two coffins at Mtukudzi's funeral
AWAY from the mourning that was taking place nationwide and beyond Zimbabwe's borders - behind the scenes a war over custody of the body of the late national hero, Dr Oliver Mtukudzi, was raging....Published: 03 Feb 2019 at 11:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe wheelchair-hound, Zimbabweans to foot $4m bill
THE taxpayer continues to foot former president Robert Mugabe's medical bills, as it emerged President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government gave the deposed strongman US$4 million to cover his hospital exp...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Finance Minister stirs controversy
Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube has divided opinion after appointing his permanent secretary, George Guvamatanga, to the board of the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra)....Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 16:34hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Perm Sec in $250 million probe
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission has opened an investigation into how Lands, Agriculture, Water and Climate Permanent Secretary Mr Ringson Chitsiko handled a $250 million contract with an inves...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 06:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa handed fodder to finish off Obert Mpofu
Hwange based Zambezi Gas, a coal mining company, has appealed to the Temba Mliswa-led parliamentary panel to intervene so that it can get its land, which was allegedly grabbed by Zanu-PF administratio...Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe must set a clear development agenda
First and foremost, Zim is poised with toxic politics. We must deal with our politics first before we table economic matters. , it is important to admit that we have a crisis so that whoever comes on ...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 16:27hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Best advice on how to deal with current Zimbabwe economic crisis
Patience pays for our situation. What has contributed much to our current situation is that Zimbabwe pressed the panic button after contested elections. We need to move on and deal with what is curren...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 07:15hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Mnangagwa's Perm Sec loses $15,000 in EcoCash scam
PERMANENT Secretary in the Office of the President and Cabinet Sylvester Maunganidze allegedly lost $15 000 from his bank account to an EcoCash agent after he gave her his CBZ bank card and pin number...Published: 23 Oct 2018 at 06:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mines Permanent Secretary in 'baptism of fire'
Legislators yesterday grilled Mines and Mining Development Permanent Secretary Mr Onesimo Moyo over delays in appointing a board for the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe, saying it might per...Published: 23 Oct 2018 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Performance-based contracts for perm secs
Government has put permanent secretaries on performance-based five-year contracts which can only be renewed once, Civil Service Commission chairperson Dr Vincent Hungwe has said. He said no permanent ...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mrs Thabela appointed Primary and Secondary perm sec
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has appointed Mrs Tumisang Thabela as the new Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education replacing Dr Sylvia Utete Masango, who has retired. Mrs...Published: 04 Oct 2018 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mashayamombe in corruption storm
MASHONALAND West provincial education director, Sylvester Mashayamombe is facing accusations of abuse of office which have reportedly resulted in him falling out of favour with some of his subordinate...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parly urged to review tenure of perm secs
HOME affairs and Culture deputy minister Obedingwa Mguni has urged Parliament to review the term of office for permanent secretaries to avoid abuse of power."Permanent secretaries should have ...Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 08:10hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
WikiLeaks: 25 most corrupt ministers and public figures in Zimbabwe
These individuals will never be prosecuted by the Mnangagwa government because he is involved with entirely all of them. Either they were in the deal together or they know too much of his own dirty de...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 11:06hrs | 103 | by WikiLeaks
Zimbabwe education system need revamp
Schools in Zimbabwe will find it very difficult to progress in the use of ICT in the teaching and learning progress if the old guard of educational administrators maintain their stance on their attitu...Published: 12 May 2018 at 16:17hrs | 2 | by Nkomah Isaac
Government threatens to stop paying striking doctors
The Ministry of Health and Child Health Care has threatened to stop paying salaries of government hospital doctors who have gone for three weeks on strike.Permanent Secretary in the Ministry o...Published: 20 Mar 2018 at 18:47hrs | 1 | by Byo24News Reporter
Mzembi freedom bid thrown out
Former Tourism and Hospitality Industry Minister Walter Mzembi, who is facing $1,6 million theft of trust property charges, will remain on remand pending trial after the court yesterday dismissed his ...Published: 20 Feb 2018 at 07:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
There is no sincerity on corruption
Since the President started preaching about corruption, so far I've not yet received any light that the President is genuine on his corruption crusade. Whilst he has a good start, the way he is handli...Published: 25 Jan 2018 at 14:56hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
We must stop this culture of bootlicking
Harare West MP Jessie Fungayi Majome has warned citizens and politicians to stop the bootlicking of leaders habits saying this has resulted to the creation of monsters.She said recently at the...Published: 16 Jan 2018 at 11:31hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Tsvangirai remains a key figure in economic revival and national healing
For those who attended ED's inauguration you can easily tell that Tsvangirai can really pull a big crowd, you can also tell that the stadium was full to its capacity because of Tsvangirai and his supp...Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 10:25hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Spare us from this drama Mahere, Moyo and Mujuru we know you (these are projects wake up)
These demons should stop terrorizing people each time we go for elections. We don't need any more drama, Zimbabweans have suffered enough. Our problem is we have people who are bought in exchange of 3...Published: 29 Jun 2017 at 10:19hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Jonathan Moyo seeks Mnangagwa perm sec's arrest
HIGHER Education minister Jonathan Moyo has filed criminal charges against Justice ministry permanent secretary Virginia Mabhiza, accusing her of abusing her office and interfering with court processe...Published: 16 Jun 2017 at 08:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa brews shocker
VICE-President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been accused of trying to advance his Zanu-PF factional interests after the Justice ministry's shock revelations that plans are afoot to amend the new Constitutio...Published: 12 Dec 2016 at 19:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
PICTURES: Gweru-Bulawayo road perimeter fencing project
Matabeleland South community members taking part in the road perimeter fencing projects recently....Published: 25 Oct 2016 at 07:07hrs | 2 | by online
Emhlangeni suburb development to be affected by tender issues
THE Government has instructed all local authorities to ensure that all works within their jurisdiction be it infrastructural development, service delivery, Private Public Partnerships and joint ventur...Published: 10 Jul 2016 at 09:28hrs | 1 | by Vusumuzi Dube
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