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6 employees arrested after robbing manager in salary dispute
Six former employees of Ryagri Zimbabwe (Pvt) Ltd have been arrested after allegedly assaulting their manager and stealing US$10,000 in a violent dispute over unpaid salaries.The incident occu...Published: 30 Jun 2025 at 09:00hrs | 713 | by Staff reporter
Gweru City Council under fire for US$155,000 mayoral vehicle purchase
The cash-strapped Gweru City Council (GCC) has ignited outrage among residents and ratepayers by purchasing a US$155,000 mayoral luxury vehicle, a Land Cruiser Prado, amid pressing service delivery is...Published: 07 Mar 2025 at 06:57hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
AMH Workers in salary arrears quandary
Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) workers are grappling with stress over unpaid salary components, particularly the United States dollar portion, which has remained outstanding for five months and is not ref...Published: 17 Dec 2024 at 11:17hrs | 1402 | by Staff Reporter
Tshabangu says Mnangagwa, Chiwenga showed him love in 'my darkest hour'
Sengezo Tshabangu, Secretary General of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), recently revealed the unwavering support he received from both government leaders and Parliament during a serious illne...Published: 02 Dec 2024 at 07:27hrs | 1298 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu in bruising tussle over windfall
Employees of the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) have turned to Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, appealing for assistance in recovering approximately US$1.2 million in outstanding sala...Published: 27 Oct 2024 at 12:29hrs | 4539 | by Staff reporter
CCC owes US$1,2m in salary arrears
The opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party is under pressure as it faces claims from its employees for over US$1.2 million in accumulated salary arrears spanning a two-year period. The e...Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 08:05hrs | 396 | by Staff reporter
Spirit medium stops operations at Zimbabwe gold mine
Mining operations at Renco Mine were halted for two days due to concerns following warnings from a local spirit medium. The medium had forewarned of potential worker fatalities if specific demands wer...Published: 14 Sep 2024 at 14:32hrs | 1402 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe diplomatic missions swim in poverty
Government is grappling with severe financial constraints in meeting its obligations for diplomatic missions, including salaries and operational expenses, due to a shortage of foreign currency, as rev...Published: 02 Jul 2024 at 06:31hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Farewell Chairman VK: Reflections of a dear friend
The late Vimbai Kamoyo (VK) was quite a character.They buried him last week in Chiunye village, Mt Darwin, Mashonaland Central. Between him and I, the title of "Chairman" took tu...Published: 18 Jun 2024 at 14:54hrs | 55 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Mohadi 'summons' Kazembe
The ongoing mine dispute involving Kazembe Kazembe, the Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage and Zanu-PF Mashonaland Central provincial chairperson, has entered a new phase. Former employees...Published: 24 May 2024 at 08:54hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Councillors fume over US$7 allowance
SOME councillors are reportedly failing to attend committee meetings citing paltry monthly allowances of ZWL$113 000 that translates to less than US$7 at the prevailing interbank rate.This was...Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 04:43hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Gweru council repossesses stands
THE GWERU City Council has repossessed at least 26 Mkoba 21 residential stands from the government after its beneficiaries failed to pay for them, it has been established.In a memo dated Janua...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 04:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ex-RBZ workers win labour row
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has been ordered to pay a group of 168 retrenched former security officers' salary arrears accrued over two years, putting to rest a 15-year-old labour dispute. Th...Published: 05 Feb 2024 at 04:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe claims to be up to date with payments
Zimbabwe has successfully settled its subscriptions to international organizations and significantly reduced salary arrears for diplomats. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade p...Published: 26 Oct 2023 at 06:41hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chinhoyi mayoral election sparks fierce jostling among CCC councillors
THERE is fierce tussling within Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) Chinhoyi as four contestants position themselves ahead of elections to choose a new mayor and deputy premier.Last Wednesday...Published: 11 Sep 2023 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zupco in 6 months salary arrears
WORKERS at the State-owned Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) are up in arms with management over non-payment of salaries for almost six months.The workers are threatening job action....Published: 08 May 2023 at 06:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ex-MP in court for rape
A former member of parliament for Kambuzuma, Tinashe Maduza, yesterday appeared in court for allegedly drugging, sexually assaulting and robbing one of his former employees and later for kidnapping hi...Published: 23 Mar 2023 at 19:45hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Man commits suicide over mounting debts
A PREMIER Service Medical Investments (PSMI) loss control supervisor, Bernard Chatindivara, who was stationed at Mpilo Hospital in Bulawayo, committed suicide on Saturday after being overwhelmed by de...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 05:29hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
PSMAS gets $4,25bn bailout
Another $4,25 billion has been provided by the Government to bail out Premier Service Medical Aid Society and get the country's largest society, and the one that is used by almost all State employees,...Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 05:04hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
PSMI faces collapse
EMBATTLED Premier Services Medical Investments (PSMI) shut down 120 of its 155 facilities last month as the entity battled to settle a four-month salary arrears bill in a turbulent period that culmina...Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 05:38hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai estate: Workers claim US$150 000
THE family of the late former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe and MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai may not benefit much from the politician's estate as domestic workers and other employees are claiming sa...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo Orders Councils To Stop Paying Top Managers With Land
LOCAL Government, Public Works and National Housing minister July Moyo has written to local authorities around the country instructing them to stop using land to settle salary arrears for senior manag...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP's workers up in arms
OVER 600 workers at Progress gold mine in Filabusi, Matabeleland South province are up in arms with their employer, Insiza North Zanu-PF legislator Farai Taruvinga, over outstanding salaries.L...Published: 29 Dec 2021 at 05:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Major boost for NRZ
A new fleet of locomotives, wagons and coaches should be equipping the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) by year end with the new dispensation making major strides in revamping the almost collapsed ...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Trust gets US$5million, collapses in 3 years
THE Marange-Zimunya Community Share Ownership Trust (MZCSOT) has collapsed only three years after the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamonds Corporation (ZCDC) injected US$5 million to prop it, a Zimbabwe Ind...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 18:58hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's new Ponzi scheme
FOLLOWING the MDC's dizzying electoral defeats at the hands of Zanu-PF in March 2013 and July 2018, the opposition outfit lost most of its traditional Western funding as donors turned off the funding ...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:11hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Turkish investors arrive for NRZ deal
The recapitalisation of the National Railways of Zimbabwe is pacing up, with representatives of the Turkish construction company Yapi Merkezi that is keen to invest in the railway firm, arriving in Zi...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 06:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
NRZ clears $326m salary arrears
The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has cleared its legacy salary arrears that accrued from 2012, after paying out $326 million to employees from its coffers, in a development that is expected to ...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 18:25hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo mayoral mansion divides Chamisa's MDC
"The State House was never built for Mugabe (late President Robert) and Mnangagwa (President Emmerson)," Bulawayo mayor Solomon Mguni said, as he sought to justify why the council should also build a ...Published: 28 Aug 2021 at 21:29hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora flees party HQ
THE cash-strapped Douglas Mwonzora-led opposition MDC-T party has been forced to shut down its offices at the Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House after the Harare City Council cut water supplies over unpa...Published: 29 Jul 2021 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance using unorthodox means to fundraise
The MDC Alliance has embarked on using unorthodox means to fundraise to keep the party afloat as the embattled opposition party's coffers are reportedly dry on account of donor fatigue.An impe...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 15:39hrs | 4 | by Political Reporter
BCC hails residents for paying bills
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has applauded its residents for paying their bills amid indications that the local authority was now collecting 70% of the total billing, the council minutes show.A...Published: 09 Jul 2021 at 12:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC factions have bungled in running Harare
The MDC Alliance (MDC-A) faction leader, Nelson Chamisa, uses every opportunity he gets to pontificate about smart cities each time he has to talk of Zimbabwe's urban areas.Given the fact that...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:17hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Ex-AirZim workers reject Zimdollar payouts
Former Air Zimbabwe workers have vowed to fight against the payment of their salary arrears in local currency at a rate of US$1: ZW$1, arguing that the move is unconstitutional.The 300 ex-work...Published: 02 May 2021 at 09:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Willowgate' Shava refused to work over his US$100k arrears yet no qualms enforcing 'no work no pay' over slave wages
The 1980s Willowvale Motor Industries scandal in which the Zanu PF ruling elite used or rather abused their positions of power and authority to buy new vehicles at the low controlled prices, ostensibl...Published: 01 May 2021 at 09:18hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Shava demands US$100,000 to assume ministerial duty
NEWLY-APPOINTED Foreign Affairs and International Trade minister Frederick Shava refused to assume duty for over a month after taking oath of office, demanding payment of about US$100 000 he was owed ...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 07:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mine workers demand US$600 living wage
THE Zimbabwe Diamond Allied and Minerals Workers Union (ZDAMWU) has demanded wage reviews between US$400 and US$600 for mine workers and expressed concern over the delay by employers to pay salary arr...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 08:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SMM workers want administrator fired over US$43m salary arrears
SHABANIE and Mashava Mines Holdings (SMM) has accrued a debt of over US$43 million in salary arrears and unremitted pension contributions, it has emerged.This was revealed in an application re...Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 07:10hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
SMM loses mining claims
SMM Holdings administrator Afaras Gwaradzimba allegedly sold land under the company's mining leases, with the land set to be converted into residential stands. SMM, formerly owned by businessm...Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 07:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Ex-RBZ guards back at court
The labour dispute pitting the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) and security guards it retrenched nine years ago is back at the Labour Court, for the second time in four years, with the former workers d...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 06:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs in fresh trouble
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has launched a fresh investigation into allegations that Zanu-PF bigwigs unjustly benefited from lengthy leases from the ailing Cold Storage Company (CSC...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
City of Harare workers give notice to strike
CITY of Harare workers have given their employer a seven-day notice to strike over poor salaries and non-availability of personal protective equipment (PPE), among other grievances.The move co...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 19:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Perrance Shiri estate: Family demands DNA tests
Some relatives of the late national hero Air Chief Marshal Perrance Shiri have requested DNA tests for some of his children despite them having birth certificates. According to some children, ...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chaos as Zimbabwe abandons embassies
ZIMBABWE's foreign missions are struggling because they have been neglected, with workers staying in dilapidated houses while vehicles used by top officials are run-down.This was revealed in t...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 06:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
NRZ clears 2009 debt with Nssa
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has cleared its $7,5 million legacy debt to the National Social Security Authority (Nssa) which the parastatal incurred in 2009 after the country adopted the mu...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pastor sues church over unpaid salary
An Anglican Church priest in Bulawayo has taken his employers to court demanding his salary arrears and compensation for using his personal car.Edgars Kasongo, who is based at the St Columbus ...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 15:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC property to be auctioned
A 150 square-metre stand belonging to the Nelson Chamisa led MDC will be sold on Friday the 30th of September over a $108 000 salary debt that the party owes a former employee called Sally Dura. ...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 12:14hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa party's ex-workers eye MDC's govt grant
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC has been taken to the High Court by five former employees have approached the court seeking an order to garnish the political party's grant from the Finance ministry in a bi...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Harare council nurses on go-slow
NURSES working at Harare City Council-run clinics have embarked on a one-day working week starting yesterday, saying they could no longer afford to go to work every day due to the high cost of living ...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sixth judge dumps ex-PG director's case
Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Thompson Mabhikwa has recused himself from hearing the 19-year-old legal wrangle between former PG Industries (Zimbabwe) Limited marketing director Nkululeko Mabhena ...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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