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If civil servants must declare assets, then let's start with the president and his ministers
As the old saying goes, what's good for the goose must be good for the gander - yet in Zimbabwe, accountability seems reserved only for the powerless.The government's recent announcement of a ...Published: 20 Jun 2025 at 22:36hrs | 580 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Proposed law to compel civil servants to disclose assets
Zimbabwe's Cabinet has approved the Public Service Amendment Bill, a major legislative step aimed at modernising the civil service, increasing transparency, and aligning the current framework with the...Published: 19 Jun 2025 at 07:06hrs | 636 | by Staff reporter
Teachers petition Rights Commission over labour injustices
The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) has filed a formal complaint with the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC), accusing the government of systematically violating the rights o...Published: 26 May 2025 at 07:55hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Parly moves on teachers' welfare
In a move aimed at revitalizing Zimbabwe's education system, Parliament has emphasized the urgent need to improve teachers' welfare. This call was made during a workshop hosted by the Zimbabwe Teacher...Published: 05 Nov 2024 at 08:24hrs | 250 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers vow to fight on after High Court setback
Teachers in Zimbabwe are set to boycott the National Joint Negotiation Council (NJNC) following a High Court ruling that dismissed their application for improved working conditions. The joint applicat...Published: 14 Oct 2024 at 08:17hrs | 385 | by Staff reporter
EFF to refer John Steenhuisen to Parliament's Ethics Committee over his lies
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) have announced plans to refer Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen to Parliament's Ethics Committee for allegedly lying about the appointment of unqualified sta...Published: 07 Oct 2024 at 13:53hrs | 1133 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa orders Parliament to finalise PVO Bill
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has directed the 10th Parliament to expedite the finalization of the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Bill, a move critics argue will significantly restrict the opera...Published: 03 Oct 2024 at 08:57hrs | 263 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt working on currency stability
In a comprehensive State of the Nation Address delivered yesterday at the new Parliament Building in Mt Hampden, President Emmerson Mnangagwa highlighted the government's ongoing efforts to stabilize ...Published: 03 Oct 2024 at 08:47hrs | 172 | by Staff reporter
ARTUZ urges members to take sick leave on schools opening day
As schools reopen today, September 10, 2024, the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) is calling on its members to apply for sick leave, citing severe mental health issues exacerbated ...Published: 10 Sep 2024 at 08:18hrs | 298 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa makes key appointments
President Mnangagwa announced new appointments to the Public Service Commission (PSC) and the Zimbabwe Land Commission (ZLC), effective tomorrow.Dr. Tsitsi Choruma, currently the Secretary to ...Published: 23 Jun 2024 at 08:52hrs | 37 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt workers sue over 'retrogressive labour laws'
Civil service organizations have taken the government to court, alleging that "retrogressive labor laws" are violating their collective bargaining rights. The Civil Service Employees Association, Amal...Published: 20 Sep 2023 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dragged to court
CIVIL servants through their respective trade unions have dragged to High Court President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the Public Service Commission and other officials over the manner in which their salaries ...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 19:42hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Access to justice: Discipline and grievance mechanisms
On the Teachers' Agenda Weekly; we focus on access to justice for teachers. We invite teachers to share their feedback on the justice system for teachers in the public service.Section 69 of th...Published: 15 May 2023 at 11:26hrs | 19 | by ARTUZ
Zimbabwe teachers earn ZW$39 636 (US$33)
THE impoverishment of professionals by the government has reached heart-rending levels, but those who dare complain are often victimised, leaving public sector workers feeling helpless in the face of ...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 11:34hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers reject 100% salary hike
TEACHERS yesterday rejected government's 100% salary increase, saying they remain incapacitated, while accusing their employer of dishonesty after reportedly dodging wage talks under the National Join...Published: 22 Mar 2023 at 07:00hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF demands slot in schools' leadership
Zanu-PF has been roping in civil servants including teachers to campaign for Mnangagwa's re-election.Zanu-PF is reportedly meddling in the running of schools in the Midlands province, after it...Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 05:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA Labour Court sets aside dismissal of three Zimbabwe immigrant lecturers
The Labour Court in Gqeberha has granted four lecturers, who are foreign nationals, an interdict to set aside their dismissals by the Port Elizabeth TVET College's Iqhayiya Campus.In the written r...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 18:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Civil servants forced to buy Zanu-PF cards'
Civil servants in some parts of the country have protested over what they have described as "coercion" by the ruling Zanu-PF party to buy the ruling party's membership cards at US$3 each.To av...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 07:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Teachers to sue govt over stalled wage talks
THE Zimbabwe Teachers Association (Zimta) says it has resolved to approach the courts after government ignored its ultimatum to disband the National Joint Negotiating Council (NJNC).The union ...Published: 28 Dec 2022 at 20:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF regime treating citizens like rubbish
IF the ever-bungling Zimbabwe regime had been a roving circus act, it would have been a huge hit, guaranteed my undying devotion and following — as it has proven to be thoroughly amusing, with its c...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:07hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Police major perpetrators of sexual harassment: Parly
POLICE have been singled out as major perpetrators of sexual harassment against women throughout the country.This was revealed in investigations conducted by the joint Parliamentary Portfolio ...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:44hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Employees may be compelled to take Covid-19 vaccine
The strides made by the government to scale up the voluntary vaccination process in Zimbabwe are welcome as a move to contain the surging virus.however, some employers are now compelling their...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:33hrs | 3 | by Cephas Mavhondo
Teachers' unions blast govt over ‘command' workshops
TEACHERS' unions have accused the Primary and Secondary Education ministry of employing a "command" and "haphazard" approach in implementing the new examination model, starting with the ongoing worksh...Published: 20 May 2021 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Contract workers petition Chiwenga
CONTRACT workers employed by the Health and Child Care ministry are complaining of unfair labour practice, saying they are being subjected to abuse, discrimination and non-payment of salaries....Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 08:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt staffer in double-dipping storm
A SENIOR government official employed in the education sector served as a principal for the Red Cross Independent College in violation of the Public Service Act.Investigations carried out by T...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:58hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Legislative reform agenda buttresses Mnangagwa's sincerity
This is the second part of a trilogy of articles that I am writing outlining the reform agenda being pursued by President Mnangagwa in the Second Republic. In the previous article I dwelt on political...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 16:16hrs | 3 | by Nick Mangwana
Teachers appeal for wages above poverty line
TEACHERS unions, represented by the Zimbabwe Teachers' Union (Zimta) and the Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ), yesterday demanded that government pays salaries above the poverty datum li...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 13:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe assaults housekeeper with fists
FORMER first lady Grace Mugabe allegedly assaulted a housekeeper at her Blue Roof mansion with fists and a shoe after she accepted a cash gift as a wedding present from former president Robert Mugabe,...Published: 13 May 2019 at 16:18hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Govt, civil servants resume talks
Government and civil servants are today scheduled to meet for further discussions under the National Joint Negotiating Council (NJNC) after consulting their constituencies over salary increments. ...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 11:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt, Apex Council continue wage talks
Government will today meet the Apex Council to review civil servants' salaries at the National Joint Negotiations Council (NJNC) at Kaguvi Building.This comes after civil servants demanded to ...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 12:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt, civil servants crunch meeting on today
GOVERNMENT is today expected to table the cost of living adjustment it is offering to civil servants when it meets their representatives in Harare. The meeting, to be held under the auspices o...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 07:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimta, PTUZ in ugly fallout
The Zimbabwe Teachers Association (Zimta) and Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) are engaged in a war of words emanating from whether or not to engage in collective bargaining with their em...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 16:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt divides teachers
Teachers are divided over whether or not to engage in collective bargaining with their employer under the Apex Council - the umbrella body for all civil servants.Zimbabwe has five main unions ...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 13:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Illicit financial flows at Zimbabwe Education ministry
Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee has exposed massive illicit financial flows within the Higher and Tertiary Education ministry.In a report on the examination of the appropriation and fu...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 17:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt raises civil service pay offer to 17.5%
GOVERNMENT yesterday further increased its salary offer to civil servants from 15 to 17,5 percent in a move that saw the employer and workers negotiators finally finding common ground and putting pen ...Published: 25 May 2018 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
10% salary increase for civil servants
Government yesterday offered civil servants a 10 percent salary increase with effect from July 1 and rescinded its decision to bar teachers from going on vacation leave.Teachers, who were shor...Published: 08 May 2018 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Joy for civil servants
Cabinet has approved principles to the amendment of the Public Service Act as Government steps up efforts to give civil servants the right to collective bargaining as enshrined in the Constitution....Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 15:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers' unions form federation
TEACHERS' unions in the country have come together to form the Federation of Zimbabwe Educators' Unions (Fozeu) as they up the ante in their push for improved working conditions for teachers.T...Published: 01 Apr 2018 at 20:52hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Healthcare workers pen letter to Mnangagwa
To: The President of the Republic of Zimbabwe Cc: Speaker of the House of Assembly &...Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 20:27hrs | | by Primary Counsellors, Data Entry Clerks, Microscopists
Simbarashe Mumbengegwi appointed Minister for civil service
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has designated the Minister of State for Presidential Affairs and Monitoring Implementation of Government Programmes Simbarashe Mumbengegwi as the minister responsible for...Published: 06 Mar 2018 at 05:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
'73 year old Mudede to stay'
Registrar-General Tobaiwa Mudede will continue to hold office despite reaching the retirement age of 65 years, since the Civil Service Commission is empowered to engage such persons if their services ...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 04:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mudede to remain in office, is it for rigging elections?
REGISTRAR General Tobaiwa Mudede will continue to hold office despite reaching the retirement age of 65 years since the Civil Service Commission is empowered to engage such persons if their service ar...Published: 09 Dec 2017 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mudede won't be forced to retire
Registrar General Tobaiwa Toneth Mudede will not be forced out of his job even though he has reached the compulsory age of retirement, Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare minister Petronella Kag...Published: 08 Dec 2017 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rural teachers to strike over pay
Thousands of rural teachers across Zimbabwe have threatened to hold a #pocketsoutprotest to demand higher pay and better benefits, the State 's largest rural teachers ' union said.The Amalgama...Published: 27 Sep 2017 at 16:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
We demand our full salaries - ARTUZ
The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) is appalled by the government's lack of will to harness the scourging inflation and full scale economic collapse. We are left with...Published: 25 Sep 2017 at 16:21hrs | | by ARTUZ
Civil servants welcome govt stance on salaries, bonuses
The Apex Council says it welcomes the announcement that civil servants bonuses will not be suspended and that salaries and allowances will not be reduced.The 13 associations affiliated to ...Published: 14 Sep 2016 at 21:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
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Government reveals plans to recruit more teachers
THE Public Service Commission will soon recruit teachers as the Government moves to address the shortage of educators in schools.The PSC has since written to the Ministry of Primary and Second...Published: 02 Sep 2016 at 06:40hrs | | by Whinsley Masara
'No civil servant shall be laid off'
PUBLIC Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Prisca Mupfumira yesterday assured workers that no employees will be laid off as the government rationalises the country's public service establishme...Published: 03 May 2016 at 09:28hrs | | by Paidamoyo Chipunza
Teachers leave case defered
Judgement on the merits of the case where teachers took the government to court over the cancellation of leave days has been reserved to a later date.The teachers are arguing that the governme...Published: 29 Mar 2016 at 20:08hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
88% of South African police officers are HIV+
About 88% of active staff in the South African Police Services (SAPS) are HIV-positive.According to SABC, Deputy Police Minister Maggie Sotyu says the number includes police officers and n...Published: 17 Feb 2016 at 11:09hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
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