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Salary erosion irks employees
SALARIES in local currency are being eroded on a daily basis by the downward spiralling economic situation worsened by runaway inflation, the Zimbabwe Independent has observed.The fluctuating ...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:09hrs | 189 | by Staff reporter
'Stayaways not likely to work in Zimbabwe'
ANALYSTS yesterday said stayaways are not likely to work now as Zimbabwe is a highly informalised economy where the majority have no formal jobs.It was business as usual on Monday, the day of ...Published: 11 May 2022 at 09:15hrs | 539 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Ncube fret over failing economy
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is fretting over the possibility of losing the 2023 elections at a time Zanu-PF members of Parliament say launching a serious campaign for themselves and their leader will...Published: 10 May 2022 at 17:26hrs | 2381 | by Staff reporter
Govt should restore teachers' dignity
AFRICAN leaders have never valued education. It is never their culture to learn and explore.The current leadership in Zimbabwe is a very good example. Our leadership does not even value qualit...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:07hrs | 241 | by Village Teacher
Zimbabwean commuters bear brunt of police, motorists' war
ARMED with batons, police officers disembark from a tinted vehicle running at full speed to block a honking pirate taxi in the heart of the city in a dramatic and dangerous move.The targeted v...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:05hrs | 269 | by Staff reporter
Police guarantee public security
LAW enforcement agents will thwart any illegal protests called for today by proponents of illegal regime change under the banner Pachedu, an oppositional civil body.The faceless individuals ha...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:05hrs | 106 | 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 | 384 | by Staff reporter
Pressure mounts over transport crisis
ZIMBABWE's transport crisis yesterday attracted global attention with the Amnesty International (AI) berating the Zanu-PF government for refusing to rescind the Zupco monopoly.This came as Zup...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:19hrs | 661 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa too rich to send kids to government school
THE High Court has ordered Norton legislator Temba Mliswa to pay fees for his two minor children at a private school saying he is rich enough to afford it.Mliswa had challenged a magistrate's ...Published: 06 May 2022 at 19:30hrs | 760 | by Staff reporter
'PSC demands videos of teachers in class'
THE Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) yesterday claimed that the Public Service Commission (PSC) was forcing school heads to record videos of teachers who report for work.Sc...Published: 04 May 2022 at 07:02hrs | 807 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers down chalks
WORKERS yesterday accused government of making empty promises on improved wages and conditions of service for "too many years", as teachers declared "incapacitation" again.With schools opening...Published: 03 May 2022 at 06:53hrs | 4263 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: United Freedom Party Workers' Day statement
As the world marks Workers Day, also known as May Day, the United Freedom Party (UFP) mourns the position of the Zimbabwean worker saying strongly that there is nothing to celebrate given the conditio...Published: 02 May 2022 at 20:19hrs | 269 | by United Freedom Party
'Zimbabwe MPs get a salary of US$180' Temba Mliswa reveals
Norton Member Temba Mliswa says many Members of Parliament are impoverished because they are paid slightly above US$180 for the hard work they do in formulating laws and policies in parliament. ...Published: 02 May 2022 at 11:42hrs | 5271 | by Mandla Ndlovu
School fees shocker
GOVERNMENT and private schools have hiked fees ahead of opening day tomorrow citing the weakening Zimbabwe dollar.While the bulk of schools were still assessing the situation, some private sch...Published: 02 May 2022 at 08:05hrs | 2099 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: Nelson Chamisa Workers' Day statement
WORKERS' DAY is a special day to appreciate, salute and celebrate the amazing efforts ,resilience and endurance of all the hard pressed workers who gave and continue to give their sweat and bloo...Published: 01 May 2022 at 18:37hrs | 594 | by Nelson Chamisa
WATCH: Cyril Ramaphosa chased away by workers at May Day rally
South African President and African National Congress (ANC) leader Cyril Ramaphosa had to abandon the May Day celebrations at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium, outside Rustenburg, in the North West after ro...Published: 01 May 2022 at 17:54hrs | 2590 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Economic growth all good, but meaningless when Zimbabweans' livelihoods deteriorating!
A father can boast of his recent promotions at work or the expansion of his business entities.He can even be proud of the increased financial earnings, and profit margins coming into his pocke...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 21:42hrs | 860 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Wear black on Friday, says Masaraure
THE Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) has urged Zimbabweans to wear black clothes on Friday to mourn the high cost of living that has pushed many into extreme poverty."We wi...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 09:03hrs | 581 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans MPs reduced to beggars
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime has reduced members of Parliament to beggars whose lives are now miserable, opposition MDC-T national chairperson Morgen Komichi (pictured) has said.This ...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:39hrs | 733 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe charges trafficking kingpin
The offer was hard to resist. A life-changing job opportunity in the United Arab Emirates with fully paid flights and visas to Dubai, its most modern capital. A route out of grinding poverty in Zimbab...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:29hrs | 391 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cops resist 'punishing' transfers to rural outposts
AT least nine junior police officers have gone AWOL after resisting transfers to rural outposts.Confidential documents seen by NewZimbabwe.com indicate that the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) ...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:00hrs | 1133 | by Staff reporter
Nssa to increase pension pay-outs
NATIONAL Social Security Agency (Nssa) has promised to increase pension pay-outs starting from next month and it will be backdated to this month.In an interview with Daily News on Sunday yeste...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 12:57hrs | 837 | by Staff reporter
Please tell me the president is also paid in Zim dollars!
As a truly patriotic Zimbabwean - who earnestly cares about this country's development and fellow citizens' welfare and wellbeing - I make every effort in...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 20:33hrs | 2328 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Police chief Matanga told to reinstate officer or face jail
The High Court has given police commissioner-general Godwin Matanga seven days to re-instate a sacked police officer or go to prison for 90 days for contempt of court.Constable Sikhathazile Mo...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:31hrs | 1769 | by Staff reporter
Teacher witch-hunt continue
GOVERNMENT has embarked on a witch-hunt, scrapping the recruitment of teachers as enumerators for the national census exercise as punishment for participating in a strike action when schools opened fo...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 10:27hrs | 145 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers' pay hike riles civil servants
A move to award soldiers a 37% pay increase at a time when the government is silent about reviewing civil servants salaries has drawn fire from some teachers' unions, who say it exposed double standar...Published: 17 Apr 2022 at 09:17hrs | 2793 | by Staff reporter
Poor pass rates stalk Lupane schools
BUSANI Ncube's dream is to become a nurse.But across the field, his mother Anna Ncube (39) feels sorry for him."Seeing these boys is like looking at the shattered big dreams. I think o...Published: 17 Apr 2022 at 09:14hrs | 266 | by Staff reporter
The departure of Stan Chartered: A case of Economic commitment
Few days ago, the Standard Chartered bank closed all it's branches in Zimbabwe, except a few remaining as they wind up their 120 year journey in the southern African nation. This came as a surprise, a...Published: 16 Apr 2022 at 19:56hrs | 962 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Ghost Workers: A Testament of Government's Failure in Rationalising the Wage Bill: Zimcodd
The findings of the Auditor-General on the Appropriation Accounts, Finance and Revenue Statements and Funds Accounts for the financial year ending December 31, 2020, stated that approximately $2.5 bil...Published: 16 Apr 2022 at 19:37hrs | 151 | by Stephen Jakes
IMF Calls for More Taxes as Citizens Face Cost-of-living-crisis
THE Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development has revealed that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has called for more taxes as citizens in Zimbabwe f...Published: 14 Apr 2022 at 08:09hrs | 1439 | by Stephen Jakes
Mukuru blasted for employing 225 Shona and Chichewa speakers in SA
Financial services company Mukuru will have to revisit its employment policy after the Western Cape High Court lambasted it for ignoring South Africa's employment laws in favour of hiring foreigners i...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:47hrs | 3639 | by Staff reporter
Headmaster politician ‘refuses' to quit job
A GOKWE headmaster based at Nyaradza Primary School, who is said to have a tendency of bullying teachers and villagers, is allegedly still working as a civil servant yet he is now a ward 19 Zanu-PF co...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:42hrs | 1365 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo reads riot act to councils
LOCAL Government and Public Works Minister July Moyo yesterday read the riot act to councils over the manner in which they are wantonly suspending or firing senior officials without following laid dow...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:33hrs | 180 | by Staff reporter
Govt probes 22 000 absconding teachers
MORE than 22 000 teachers and headmasters are being investigated for failing to report for work while 1 220 have been suspended since schools opened in February, unions have said.Since the reo...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 06:31hrs | 521 | by Staff reporter
Call for mine workers to register and vote opposition into power - last resort
HARARE - As the momentum for the electoral cycle nears 2023 Presidential, Parliamentary and Local Government General Elections, workers and their dependants have been urged to register to vote as Unio...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 19:42hrs | 789 | by Maxwell Teedzai
ZBC CEO bans employees from using WhatsApp groups
WORKERS at the loss-making state broadcaster, ZBC, are up in arms against Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Adelaide Chikunguru over many grievances, which include salary increment and Covid-19 allowance ...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 08:19hrs | 1000 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants' salaries war erupts
THE ruling Zanu-PF says the opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) should call for the removal of sanctions first before advocating living wages for restless civil servants who have declared ...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 11:14hrs | 1792 | by Staff reporter
Suspected ghost workers siphon ZW$2.5bn from govt
THE government could be financing ghost workers prejudicing the state as the authorities have failed to account for payments amounting to ZW$2.5 billion, it has emerged.A red flag has been rai...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 19:30hrs | 761 | by Staff reporter
Prices in Zimbabwe run riot!
THE economic malaise has deepened in recent weeks as the cost of living is spiralling out of control with prices soaring by about 30% during the first week of April. This has plunged households into e...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 08:22hrs | 1007 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's crying doctor stabbed in South Africa
A Zimbabwean doctor who famously wept at a Zanu-PF rally while claiming doctors were having it good under President Emmerson Mnangagwa has revealed that he was nearly killed in a stabbing incident in ...Published: 06 Apr 2022 at 20:41hrs | 1873 | by Staff reporter
CIO operatives fired
TWO Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) operatives, already in trouble after complaining about corrupt activities within their organisation, had their High Court appeal thrown out and have been or...Published: 04 Apr 2022 at 20:48hrs | 3292 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants should earn their keep
Over a third of our taxes go towards civil service staff costs, and we all pay taxes even if it is only VAT and the two percent transfer tax on our phone money, plus a higher percentage of our rates, ...Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:20hrs | 158 | by Staff reporter
Teachers scoff at Zacc threats
TEACHERS unions yesterday challenged the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) to probe the root causes of educators' poverty instead of penalising them for supplementing their meagre salaries th...Published: 01 Apr 2022 at 09:19hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
Zacc warns against payment for extra lessons
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has warned teachers to desist from demanding fees for extra lessons saying this constituted corruption.Zacc spokesperson John Makamure told NewsD...Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 11:42hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
Teachers want total of $8.4 billion bill for 141 000 educators
Teachers under the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) have demanded a $8,4 billion total salary bill for 141 000 educators per month fro...Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 07:07hrs | 1270 | by Stephen Jakes
Millers tussle over salary deal
THE Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) has filed an urgent High Court chamber application seeking an order setting aside a collective bargaining agreement signed by other industry players....Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:33hrs | 64 | by Staff reporter
Govt, teachers in fresh showdown
GOVERNMENT is headed for another showdown with teachers after failing to honour its pledge to pay tuition fees for their children, with less than three weeks before schools close for the first term....Published: 23 Mar 2022 at 05:34hrs | 1317 | by Staff reporter
'Voters roll is in shambles, unusable'
THE voters roll which will be used by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) in the Saturday by-elections is shambolic, with an unacceptably high margin of error of 27%, watchdogs have said.A...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 05:48hrs | 870 | by Staff reporter
Parly backs 'striking' teachers
PARLIAMENTARIANS yesterday asked the government to urgently address the plight of teachers after the Public Service Commission suspended thousands of teachers and embarked on recruitment exercis...Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 05:35hrs | 779 | by Staff reporter
Top management milk LSU in economic rental scam
IN yet another scandal the top management at Lupane State University is reportedly milking the higher learning institution through paying sick money in rentals for the properties they are using ...Published: 14 Mar 2022 at 07:51hrs | 2413 | by Stephen Jakes
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