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Mthuli Ncube misleading Mnangagwa, says Mashakada
FORMER Economic Planning and Investment Promotion minister Tapiwa Mashakada has accused Finance minister Mthuli Ncube of misleading President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the nation through his continued de...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:12hrs | 1626 | by Staff reporter
'Civil servants salary gap a security threat'
PROGRESSIVE Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) president Takavafira Zhou yesterday warned that the huge salary gap between the security sector and other arms of the public service was a serious securi...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 08:03hrs | 6056 | by Staff reporter
ZLHR secures release of protest detainees on bail
HARARE Magistrate Ngoni Nduna on Saturday granted bail to 13 residents of the capital city, who appeared before him facing various charges after they were arrested by some Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZR...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:16hrs | 544 | by Stephen Jakes
Doctors scoff at Mnangagwa plea
STRIKING doctors have vowed to press on with their job boycott despite pleas by President Emmerson Mnangagwa for them to return to work amid revelations that scores of people could be dying in their h...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:38hrs | 3441 | by Staff reporter
Highlanders seek free use of BF
HIGHLANDERS could play their first two home league matches at Barbourfields Stadium for free when the season eventually starts if the Bulawayo City Council's finance and development sub-committee has ...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:09hrs | 454 | by Staff reporter
In Zimbabwe, no one can breathe
On July 20, police in Zimbabwe arrested and detained journalist Hopewell Chin'ono. The prominent investigative reporter had blown the whistle on a $60 million corruption scandal in June.They a...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:01hrs | 136 | by Panashe Chigumadze
Hospitals should not demand Covid-19 certificate before admitting patients
Hospitals should neither turn away patients nor demand a Covid-19 certificate before admitting patients, particularly in emergency cases, the Government has said.The exhortation comes after th...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 07:04hrs | 711 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa begs health workers
Health workers should put the nation first in the fight to contain Covid-19, President Mnangagwa said yesterday when assuring them that Government was attending to their grievances. In a movin...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 07:53hrs | 6782 | by Staff reporter
Senior doctors down tools
SENIOR doctors yesterday downed tools, joining nurses who have been on strike for more than 40 days, a move that will add a strain to the country's already paralysed healthcare system.The stri...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:52hrs | 768 | by Staff reporter
Will Shiri's demise force Mnangagwa govt to act?
ZIMBABWEANS yesterday woke up to news of the death of Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri, who reports suggest was the latest victim of COVID-19.He was no angel, but we hope his passing on may...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:59hrs | 1089 | by Staff reporter
Traditional leaders to be installed by chiefs
TRADITIONAL leaders will now be installed and disciplined by other chiefs, a shift from the obtaining position where Government installs and disciplines them.The development is in line with pr...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 17:08hrs | 447 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt begs doctors to stop strike
GOVERNMENT yesterday begged senior doctors to reconsider their threat to go on strike from today as COVID-19 wreaks havoc in the health sector, with 253 healthcare workers (HCWs) falling victim to the...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:06hrs | 903 | by Staff reporter
New fines proposals unsettle Bulawayo vendors
BULAWAYO residents have reacted angrily to proposals by the local authority to hike fines for alleged illegal vending and flouting other bylaws governing the operations of informal traders.The...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:30hrs | 769 | by Staff reporter
2020 Mid Term Budget Hits and Misses
The 2020 mid-term budget and economic review was delivered amid high inflation levels and declining economic productivity that has been worsened by the Corona Virus pandemic. The Zimbabwean economy is...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 20:38hrs | 1144 | by Victor Bhoroma
'Politicians must stop victimising health professionals'
HEAlTH workers in Zimbabwe bear the brunt of savage politics and are victimised for providing professional services to victims of political violence and demanding better working conditions, United Kin...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:50hrs | 688 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers now the least paid civil servants
Teachers are worried about the difference between their salaries and those of other civil servants such as the armed forces after noticing that they have become the least paid among the government wor...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:20hrs | 6456 | by Stephen Jakes
Why I am standing with Hopewell Chin'ono
THE harsh treatment of journalist hopewell Chin'ono has shown the extent to which President Emmerson Mnangagwa can go to protect those robbing future generations of their wealth through unbridled corr...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:13hrs | 1349 | by Obey Manayiti
Gwekwerere reveals agony under Gorowa
FOURTEEN years have passed since a virtually unknown young striker called Evans Gwekwerere made a storming entrance onto the domestic football scene and set tongues wagging with his goal-scoring prowe...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:04hrs | 1841 | by Staff reporter
United Nations calls out Mnangagwa
THE Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHCR) has reacted angrily to increasing cases of human rights abuses in Zimbabwe under the cover of the COVID-19 lockdown. In a statement yesterday, UNHCR...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:36hrs | 6369 | by Staff reporter
Organisations lobby for improved education sector wages
NATIONAL Employment Council for Zimbabwe Schools Development Associations and Committees in government (NEC-ZSDA/C) have called for the immediate increase in teachers and ancillary staff wages to resc...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 07:42hrs | 412 | by Stephen Jakes
'Mnangagwa ignoring silent genocide at public hospitals'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has been accused of ignoring the plight of striking nurses and other health workers leading to a "silent genocide" at public hospitals.The situation h...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:11hrs | 737 | by Staff reporter
The Patriotic Front white President Darryl Collet's message to Zimbabweans
My fellow Zimbabweans;This is the first time I address you as President of The Patriotic Front. And I do it with great honor and humility. TPF is a multiracial movement born out of a collectiv...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 19:16hrs | 5278 | by Darryl Collet
200 nurses, doctors contract COVID-19
ABOUT 200 health workers have tested positive to COVID-19, forcing some hospitals to shut down as government continues to dither on its promise to avail adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) to...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:48hrs | 2997 | by Staff reporter
Trial date set for Artuz leaders
THE State has set August 26 as the trial date for two leaders of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union in Zimbabwe (Artuz), who in June participated in a demonstration demanding salaries in United Stat...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:46hrs | 229 | by Staff reporter
'November exams in doubt'
THE Zimbabwe Examinations Council November examinations are hanging in the balance, with Primary and Secondary Education minister Cain Mathema casting doubt because of rising COVID-19 infections....Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 09:26hrs | 1419 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga wins US$283,000 debt row
A HARARE couple has withdrawn its petition for civil imprisonment against South Africa-based businessman, Frank Buyanga over a 2016 debt of US$283 000. Tawanda Jakachira and his wife Winnie ha...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 09:01hrs | 1216 | by Staff reporter
July 31 & the Political Economy Failures of Sorts
It was during the French Revolution of the 1780s when a scholar noted that, ‘things must be bad in society for men to throw everything in violence. Men cannot risk everything for nothing.' The prote...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 11:49hrs | 1556 | by Robert Sigauke
Zimbabwe headed for upheaval, report says
WITH security forces having seized control of economic and financial policy at a time of shrinking GDP and skyrocketing inflation, Zimbabwe is facing its worst crisis in more than a decade.Bas...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:23hrs | 16719 | by Elliot Smith
Police tighten lockdown regulations
POLICE have started tightening lockdown regulations especially in major cities with 1 000 people having been arrested in two days for flouting measures that were put in place to deal with rising cases...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:19hrs | 2098 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants start receiving US$ salaries
CIVIL servants and Government pensioners have started receiving US$75 and US$30 Covid-19 relief allowances respectively as part of an initiative to cushion them from skyrocketing prices of goods....Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 07:37hrs | 2983 | by Staff Reporter
Audit exposes Gweru council decay
GWERU City Council doled out residential stands to workers in lieu of outstanding salaries and bonuses for 2015 without government approval and in violation of the Urban Councils Act, a forensic land ...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 08:47hrs | 1063 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa orders Ncube to arm riot police
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has instructed Treasury to urgently buy a fleet of brand new vehicles for the police, including all-terrain troop carriers, water cannons, buses and equipment used by riot...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:51hrs | 14834 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe nurses insist on US dollar pay
STRIKING nurses at government hospitals have insisted on being paid in the more stable United States dollars as government on Wednesday indicated that it had no immediate plans to introduce forex-inde...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:49hrs | 2053 | by Staff reporter
Specialist doctors threaten strike
A MASSIVE health crisis is looming in Zimbabwe after specialist doctors yesterday threatened to down tools if their demands were not met in the next two weeks.The doctors said they would join ...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:44hrs | 1037 | by Staff reporter
Govt, nurses meeting deadlocked
A CRUNCH meeting between Government and striking nurses over salaries ended in deadlock with health workers' representatives maintaining their stance of demanding salaries pegged in United States (US)...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:43hrs | 1253 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's reality check
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube will today present the Mid Term Fiscal Statement.The outbreak of the novel coronavirus, which is also known as Covid-19, disrupted business both in the public and...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 08:03hrs | 4946 | by Staff reporter
ZSE resumes trading
The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) will resume the trading of shares next week minus three fungible securities, nearly a month after the local bourse was forced to suspend trades on allegations of spec...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 08:03hrs | 2947 | by Staff reporter
Showdown looms over US$ salaries
Civil servants have requested a post-Mid-Term Fiscal Policy review meeting with the ministries of Finance and Public Service Labour and Social Welfare and central bank chief John Mangudya as they push...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 08:02hrs | 6780 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt has no plans to abandon Zimdollar'
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi yesterday told Parliament that government had no immediate plans to abandon the Zimbabwe dollar, totally crashing any hopes by civil servants of having their salaries ...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 07:50hrs | 3376 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga rushed to China again
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga was last week airlifted to China amid reports his troubling health had deteriorated, it has emerged. The former army commander flew out of the country on a ...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 08:40hrs | 22349 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo nurses stage another joint demonstration
NURSES from the United Bulawayo Hospitals, Ingutsheni Mental Health Hospital and Mpilo Central Hospital staged a joint demonstration yesterday over government's reluctance to pay their salaries in Uni...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 08:43hrs | 3000 | by Staff reporter
United we will conquer
As the Mnangagwa's government suffers from a shock stomach run, we must continue in unison fighting for our rights. They can dismiss it as a non-event to downplay their fears. BUT let's us all...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 23:15hrs | 2273 | by Dr. Takesure Tazvishaya
Mthwakazi Nation's Address - MLF
Revolutionary greetings to you all, in all corners of earth. I hope you are doing well and are safe from the coronavirus.Fellow Mthwakazi citizens, this has been one challenging quarter of the...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 15:19hrs | 1936 | by MLF
Panicky Mnangagwa spoils security forces
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is pampering security forces to forestall an uprising amid growing discontent over the deteriorating economic situation in the country, analysts have said.Mnangagw...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:12hrs | 11331 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's striking nurses cry foul over allowances
Health workers, that include nurses, who have been on strike for the past three weeks were not paid allowances given to all civil servants amid allegationsgovernment is trying to arm-twist them to...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:07hrs | 1977 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe was better under Mugabe,' says Hopewell Chin'ono
PROMINENT journalist Hopewell Chin'ono says Zimbabwe needs political reforms to end the multifaceted crisis facing the country.Chin'ono (HP), who has become a target of Zanu-PF attacks for exp...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:02hrs | 2205 | by Staff reporter
It is time for Mthuli Ncube to go
Finance minister of Zimbabwe, Mthuli Ncube, PhD (cantab), has become the poster child of everything that is wrong with the management of affairs in Zimbabwe. He must go. Then and only then, will Zimba...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:58hrs | 5190 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Smells like November 2017
WHEN harvesting is completed in many parts of rural Zimbabwe, there are many rituals that take place.Villagers hold night vigils, sing and dance, but more importantly for those who love blood ...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:10hrs | 1981 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Mnangagwa's govt dares political union leaders
Government has dared union leaders, who are trying to whip up emotions of civil servants instead of negotiating for their welfare, to join politics and leave welfare negotiations to bona fide workers ...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:03hrs | 683 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube faces uphill task
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube, expected to present his mid-term budget statement next week, faces a daunting task to craft a cocktail of measures to stem the steepest economic decline in Zimbabwe sinc...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:21hrs | 4205 | by Staff reporter
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