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Civil servants push for another wage hike
Civil Servants have made fresh wage demands on the government as Zimbabwe's economy battles rising inflation and a weakening domestic currency.Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe secretary...Published: 9 hrs ago | 1500 | by Staff reporter
Strong institutions needed in fight against corruption
WHILE reasonable progress has been made in strengthening capacity to ensure effectiveness, efficiency and accountability in the management of national resources, the institutional framework for dealin...Published: 22 hrs ago | 441 | by Tawanda Zinyama
No pay for striking nurses
STRIKING health workers did not receive their July salaries after the Health Services Board (HSB) implemented the no-work-no-pay principle but talks are underway for them to be put back on the payroll...Published: 22 hrs ago | 978 | by Staff reporter
Doctors, nurses hail Chiwenga appointment
DOCTORS and nurses yesterday welcomed the appointment Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga as Health minister and Jasper Chimedza as the ministry's secretary, saying they hoped the two would work towar...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:30hrs | 11297 | by Staff reporter
Poverty fighting...our generational struggle
Every generation has its own unique Struggle to fight for without shame or apology. Born Free from Colonial rule we are chained by Poverty. We have no jobs and by 2030 when we are in our 50s, unable t...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 18:00hrs | 318 | by Lynnette Tendayi Mudehwe
Dr Chiwenga's appointment is Constitutional
The appointment of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga as Minister of Health sparked a legal debate erupted among legal experts on social media. However, knowledgeable top lawyers including Nelson Cha...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 22:19hrs | 5827 | by Staff reporter
Legal experts speak on General Chiwenga's appointment as Minister of Health
The appointment of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga as Minister of Health sparked a legal debate erupted among legal experts on social media. The matter was started by MDC Secretary f...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 20:38hrs | 7222 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'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 | 6199 | by Staff reporter
A passport is a privilege in Zimbabwe
I goT my current passport in 2016, three years after the election that ended the government of National Unity. This was also the year the government introduced bond coins and bond notes, and foreign c...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:29hrs | 780 | by Kudzai Mubaiwa
Nakamba's Aston Villa survives
ZIMBABWE international Marvelous Nakamba's Aston Villa will play Premier League football next season after a draw at West Ham was enough to ensure they escaped relegation on the final day of the leagu...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 18:13hrs | 3461 | by Staff reporter
Was the shutting down of mobile money, ZSE a necessary evil?
ON June 26, 2020 the Information ministry announced in a tweet that all mobile money transactions and the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) would stop transacting forthwith.The authorities halted ...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:11hrs | 2667 | by Admire Maparadza Dube
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
Open letter to ZRP boss Matanga
GREETINGS to you Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga. I am a human rights defender and the watchdog of society.In most cases I write on issues of police brutality, corruption and unconstitutio...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:06hrs | 779 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
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
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 | 1064 | by Staff reporter
University lecturers and the 'missing' Covid-19 cushioning allowances
Dear Editor, Please allow me to take advantage of your widely read online publication to express my concerns over the seemingly non-payment of the President Mnangagwa awarded 50% of gross sala...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 07:32hrs | 1617 | by Affected University Staff
Varsity lecturer pounces on students: No sex, no trips
A SENIOR lecturer at Lupane State University (LSU) has been accused of allegedly demanding sex from students in return for university-facilitated trips that pay up to US$30 a day in allowances....Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 18:28hrs | 8429 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe nurses insist on US dollar pay
STRIKING nurses at government hospitals have insisted on being paid in the more stable United States dollars as government on Wednesday indicated that it had no immediate plans to introduce forex-inde...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:49hrs | 2054 | by Staff reporter
'Mthuli economic review damp squib'
ZIMBABWE'S main opposition MDC Alliance party yesterday described the 2020 midterm budget and economic review statement presented by Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube as a damp squib for failing to addres...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:46hrs | 1218 | by Staff reporter
Govt, nurses meeting deadlocked
A CRUNCH meeting between Government and striking nurses over salaries ended in deadlock with health workers' representatives maintaining their stance of demanding salaries pegged in United States (US)...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:43hrs | 1253 | by Staff reporter
Showdown looms over US$ 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
PHOTO: Zimbabwe police officer’s boot breaks the internet
An image of an old and torn police boot has gone viral on the internet causing social media users to respond with mixed reactions. Some social media users felt pity for the uniformed forces an...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 17:51hrs | 4442 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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
Mahere accused of flirting with Zanu-PF than MDC Alliance
Former MDC Vanguard Leader Shakespeare Mukoyi said MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa erred in appointing Fadzayi Mahere as the party's spokesperson.Mukoyi, who is now the Thokozani Khupe-l...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 17:15hrs | 8351 | 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 | 5191 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Is Zimbabwe a collapsed or failed State?
STATE failure can occur in many dimensions such as security, economic development, political representation, income distribution and so on.Zimbabwe seems to be both a failed and a collapsed St...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:08hrs | 1247 | by Concerned
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
Muchenje reinstated and fired as NetOne CEO
NetOne chief executive officer Mr Lazarus Muchenje's turbulent tenure at the helm of the State-owned mobile telecommunications company ended dramatically yesterday after he was fired barely 24 hours a...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:02hrs | 1114 | 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 | 4206 | by Staff reporter
NRZ splurges US$319K on vehicles
THE state-owned National Railways of Zimbabwe has spent more than US$319 000 on six luxury cars for top managers, amid allegations the money was diverted from a purse meant for the refurbishment of lo...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:18hrs | 2442 | by Staff reporter
Pressure mounts on Mnangagwa
Pressure is mounting on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to resolve the economic crisis as the cost of living skyrockets.This comes as the local currency continues to lose value a...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 20:53hrs | 9732 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pampers soldiers, police
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has pampered soldiers and the police, giving them between $5 000 and $8 000 COVID-19 allowances which critics say are meant to appease them ahead of the planned July 31 pr...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:26hrs | 21727 | by Staff reporter
Teachers' salaries frozen
TWO vocal unionists representing rural teachers in Zimbabwe have not been paid for almost two years after the government froze their salaries after they took part in last year's protests against a ste...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:10hrs | 6015 | by Staff reporter
Chinese miners urged to stop colonial tendencies in Zimbabwe
THE Zimbabwe Diamond and Allied Minerals Workers Union (ZDAMWU) has challenged the Chinese miners to stop colonial tendencies on local employees.This came after a Chinese man shot and injured ...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 09:52hrs | 773 | by Stephen Jakes
Covid-19 saves Zimbabwe millions
THE Covid-19 pandemic has achieved what the government has failed to accomplish for decades: drastically slash the amount of money spent on foreign travel.According to the latest consolidated ...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:31hrs | 7187 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube misses revenue collection target
FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube missed April's revenue collection targets by 11 % owing to the impact Covid-19 lockdown had on businesses that were grounded to a halt as part of measures to minimise the...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:09hrs | 1030 | by newzimbabwe
'Mthuli Ncube's policies a security threat'
FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube was Thursday told in Senate the newly introduced foreign currency exchange auction trading system was a security threat as it had added burden to long suffering Zimbabwea...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:55hrs | 1157 | by newzimbabwe
Lancet Lab workers down tools
LANCET Clinical Laboratories employees yesterday staged a sit-in at their workplace over poor remuneration, demanding salaries in United States dollars or the black market rate equivalent.Thei...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:54hrs | 1101 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt neglecting diplomats, Parly told
THE government is neglecting its foreign missions and owes ambassadors and employees a cumulative US$30 million in salaries, rentals and tuition fees.Presenting oral evidence before the Parlia...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:53hrs | 245 | by Staff reporter
Govt, workers face off over US$ salaries
ZIMBABWE'S public sector unions yesterday demanded that government pays their wages in United States dollars and threatened to go on strike, adding to the problems facing President Emmerson Mnangagwa'...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:27hrs | 1176 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean embassies in dire straits
ZIMBABWEAN embassies are in dire straits with diplomats not being paid for several months, while living in squalid conditions as the government owes close to US$30 million for services rendered and re...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:23hrs | 730 | by Staff reporter
Mixed reactions over re-opening of schools in Zimbabwe
Various stakeholders across the southern African country have expressed mixed feelings over the reopening of schools on the 28th of July this year.Prior to the reopening of schools, the govern...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 22:15hrs | 4276 | by Daniel Itai
Striking nurses' issue taken to government
THE Health Service Board (HSB) yesterday said it had submitted the demands of the striking health workers to government and was still awaiting a response.HSB chairman Paulinus Sikosana made th...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:30hrs | 2600 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri failing to feed family
FORMER Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri has disputed the valuation done on his vast properties describing it as mischievous political persecution that has compromised his family's surviva...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 8936 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe's striking nurses declare total shutdown after govt snub
HEALTH workers in the country's public hospitals Monday declared a complete shutdown of the sector after government continued to pay a deaf ear to their plight.Zimbabwe nurses downed tools som...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:50hrs | 1087 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to stop at nothing in arresting corruption, SB Moyo
President Mnangagwa, at the coming in of the new dispensation, pledged to fight corruption and true to his word, the Government will stop at nothing in arresting graft and dealing with economic sabote...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:23hrs | 1298 | by Staff reporter
City health workers reject salary offer
Harare City Council nurses have rejected a $4 498,18 salary offer presented by the local authority, arguing that the proposed figures were below the poverty datum line, and have issued a 14-day ultima...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:20hrs | 989 | by Staff reporter
EcoCash ignores govt ban amid
ECOCASH has continued offering its services despite a shock government ban on mobile money services on Friday.The government said it had suspended all mobile money services as it battles again...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:17hrs | 1081 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe economy run by master criminals fleecing the poor
Ordinary Zimbabweans have suffered for years as a result of currency manipulation and corruption by the elites who have siphoned US dollars away into their overseas bank accounts. Now, a recent ruling...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:11hrs | 1511 | by Thandekile Moyo
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