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Mass exodus of teachers hits Zimbabwe's education sector
Zimbabwe's education sector is facing a worsening crisis as thousands of government-employed teachers continue to resign each year due to poor salaries, lack of job satisfaction, and growing politicis...Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 11:03hrs | 1031 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa spokesperson concedes UZ lecturers have genuine grievances
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesman, George Charamba, has admitted that University of Zimbabwe (UZ) lecturers, who have been picketing outside the campus over poor wages and working conditions, h...Published: 27 Apr 2025 at 18:30hrs | 2324 | by Staff reporter
Poor remuneration of academic staff at state universities a national crisis
THE poor remuneration and deplorable conditions of service for academic staff at Zimbabwe's state universities, which has led to the highly publicised indefinite strike by the teaching staff at the Un...Published: 26 Apr 2025 at 10:14hrs | 740 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
Job Sikhala movement shifts focus
THE Job Sikhala Solidarity Movement has been renamed the Zimbabwe Solidarity Movement to push for the release of other "political prisoners" who include nine Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP 9) members c...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 04:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police officer hangs himself over pay shame
A police officer hanged himself at Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare after telling doctors of his shame that his salary was too little to support his family, ZimLive has heard.Francis Patama, 34...Published: 24 Jun 2023 at 17:32hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Teacher found hanged after collecting pay
Two unions have blamed derisory salaries after a deputy head hanged herself at a primary school in Mwenezi, Masvingo.She has been named as Miriam Mzenda, nee Manyarara.The Progressive ...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 18:32hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Vote ED, Zanu-PF chef orders civil servants
FORMER State Security minister Owen "Mudha" Ncube has ordered civil servants to vote for President Emmerson Mnangagwa as payback for his "outstanding leadership and unparalleled commitment" to address...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 06:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe nurses bemoan 'slave wages'
NURSES have complained of being denied access to loans because of poor salaries, saying without being paid in United States dollars, it will be difficult for them to remain in the country.Acco...Published: 12 May 2023 at 06:04hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
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
Al Jazeera exposé: Mnangagwa should step down for enabling corruption
A CROSS-SECTION of Zimbabweans say they feel gutted after watching the first of a four-part Al Jazeera exposé on money-laundering and gold smuggling activities implicating President Emmerson Mnangagw...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Magaya gold mine workers picket his hotel over unpaid 'slave wages'
Prophetic, Healing and Deliverance Ministries (PHD) leader, Walter Magaya is reportedly embroiled in a protracted salary dispute with workers at his Shamva gold mine, who picketed his Yadah Hotel in H...Published: 19 Aug 2022 at 20:19hrs | 65 | by Staff reporter
ED has absolutely nothing to show for his five years of misrule!
It was quite intriguing learning of a group calling itself, Varakashi4ED, reportedly traversing the width and breadth of Zimbabwe - ostensibly, on a mission to showcase achievements made in the countr...Published: 06 Jul 2022 at 11:03hrs | 12 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Maybe Zimbabweans are okay with their suffering!
Tune in to any international news channel, and one encounters citizens of various nations around the world taking a firm stand against their pain and suffering endured as a result of unbearable econom...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 21:04hrs | 13 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe sliding into full-blown crisis
CRISIS in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) chairperson Peter Mutasa was recently in South Africa for engagements with top officials from labour, political parties, civic society organisations and other solid...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 08:26hrs | | by Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition
'Teachers' salary can only buy 20 loaves of bread'
AS bread prices continue to soar, public sector employees are now comparing and contrasting their low wages to how many loaves they can actually purchase.A loaf of bread in the country now cos...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 09:01hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe nurses pile pressure on Mnangagwa
AN emerging union of nurses with a sound base of membership in Midlands and Matabeleland provinces has issued the government a two-week ultimatum to resolve grievances of the health workers or face a ...Published: 31 May 2022 at 12:27hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Govt intensifies blitz on striking teachers
HUNDREDS of teachers are set to appear before disciplinary hearings this week for failing to report for duty when schools opened for the first term this year.This follows other punishments met...Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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 | 17 | by Staff reporter
ZBC employees should learn that a dog used to hunt down other animals is always given leftovers!
I never revel in others people's misery and suffering - since, due to the same compassion that drives me to fearlessly stand up, and speak out for oppressed and unjustly-treated Zimbabweans - I simila...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 16:54hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe has taught me how easy it is to oppress people!
There is a popular saying - "if you don't want a prisoner to escape, don't let him know he is in prison".A bit cocky, it may sound - but, this is one of the most packed saying I have ever come...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 19:05hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Kazembe Kazembe linked to child labour storm
HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe allegedly instructed Zanu-PF youths to block an investigation into allegations of child labour at white-owned farms in Mazowe district, Mashonaland Central provin...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 05:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Suspending incapacitated teachers is flogging a starved horse - they're victims of mess not the culprits
In 2018 a Zimbabwe teacher was paid US$540 per month in US$. Since then, government paid them the equivalent in local currency but never bother to adjust the amount to keep pace with inflation. ...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 11:47hrs | 4 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'We want Zimbabweans to work in SA but locals first' - can't have the cake and eat it too, not even Malema
"We want to make an emphasis to the owners of restaurants that no-one should stop employing Zimbabweans and say the EFF said they don't want them," said Julius Malema on Wednesday."We want Zim...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 09:59hrs | 13 | by Nomusa Garikai
Teachers petition Parly over surge in COVID-19 cases
TEACHERS yesterday petitioned Parliament demanding safety guarantees in the face of the fast-rising COVID-19 cases.In 2021, several schoolchildren were infected with the virus, resulting in pr...Published: 08 Jan 2022 at 06:06hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Miserable X-mas for impoverished workers
THE year 2021 was a sad one for workers because of a plethora of challenges, including the Covid-19 pandemic and now they will round it off with a bleak Christmas.Workers' unions say the gover...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 15:30hrs | 12 | by Staffreporter
Exam disruptions feared as teachers renew pay grumble, call strikes
Disgruntlement is growing among teachers after one union declared a 12-day strike, and a second said its members would not be invigilating final year examinations for Grade 7, Form 4 and Upper Sixth....Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:15hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Teachers stage online anti-govt demo
Members of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) yesterday staged online anti-government protests meant to coincide with the Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) anti-sancti...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 06:40hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimta members threaten industrial action
ZIMBABWE Teachers Association (Zimta) members in Bulawayo have urged its leadership to call for strike action over poor salaries.In a position paper dated October 14, 2021, addressed to the Zi...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:31hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
ZDAMWU extends a condolences to six Chinese Miners in Mazowe
The Zimbabwe Diamond Allied and Minerals Workers Union (ZDAMWU) has extended its condolences to the families of those who lost their lives following a mining explosion at SAS mine in Mazowe, a nickel ...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 14:12hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
'Govt to blame for health workers' exodus'
THE Zimbabwean Community in South Africa (ZCSA) has blamed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration for paying "slave wages", thus causing local health workers' migration to neighbouring countrie...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 06:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Paltry salaries aching Zimbabwe workers'
Zimbabwe leads on mental health cases among workers, with the majority suffering depression due to paltry salaries that cannot sustain them in an inflationary environment, research has established....Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chombo can now freely rejoin the feeding trough
THE nation celebrates with Ignatius Chombo, who can now freely join the national feeding trough in peace.It was announced this week that all charges against the man had been dropped, seeing as...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 19:02hrs | 1 | by Muckracker
Zimbabwean teachers embrace Rwanda jobs offer
LOCAL educators yesterday said there was nothing to celebrate during this year's World Teachers' Day commemorations, but applauded plans by the Rwandan government to recruit qualified teachers from Zi...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:49hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
380 Zimbabwean teachers commit suicide
EVEN though suicide is considered the 19th most common cause of death in Zimbabwe, a slew of suicides by teachers have shocked the country.According to the Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimba...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:45hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Black capitalists and new colonisers
The promises of liberation have not been met and polls show persistent discontent with the Mnangagwa government.The Secretary-General of the Zimbabwe Diamond and Allied Minerals Workers' Union...Published: 16 Aug 2021 at 09:25hrs | 5 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Mnangagwa frets over rogue soldiers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is fretting over a rise in the number of armed robberies involving soldiers and police officers, with observers saying it is tantamount to a mutiny.Mnangagwa promi...Published: 11 Aug 2021 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'China is our new coloniser'
THE Zimbabwe Diamond and Allied Minerals Workers' Union (ZDAMWU) says the mining industry has a new coloniser, the Chinese, who are looting the country's minerals and, therefore, stifling development....Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 08:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA back on lockdown and Ramaphosa criticised for slow vaccine rollout - Zimbabweans duped into complacence
Pressure is mounting on SA's President Cyril Ramaphosa to contain the coronavirus pandemic as he places the country back on a strict level-4 lockdown, with restrictions including a ban on all alcohol ...Published: 28 Jun 2021 at 18:42hrs | 2 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Unrest rocks Bosso
HIGHLANDERS players yesterday staged a sit-in at their White City Stadium B-Arena training base, demanding that the club addresses their salary adjustment pleas.The players refused to train an...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC says the Zanu-PF is plotting violence ahead of 2023 polls
Zanu PF is in panic mode and is pulling out all the stops to win the 2023 elections using violent means and draconian legislation to crush all dissent, the MDC Alliance charged on Wednesday.Th...Published: 27 May 2021 at 07:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Africa Day has lost its significance, says workers
WORKERS' unions yesterday said Africa Day, celebrated annually on May 25 since 1963, had lost its significance following the erosion of their rights, adding that the day now symbolised oppression of t...Published: 26 May 2021 at 06:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF claims to have delivered on 2018 election promises
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday claimed that it had delivered on all its 2018 electoral promises, among them a smooth public transport system and economic stability.Addressing a Press confe...Published: 21 May 2021 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why did Zimbabwe regime invest so much in our post-independence education, yet always insults our intelligence?
The Zimbabwe government has always prided itself in the phenomenal strides it made in the country's post-independence education, that witnessed the proliferation of schools to reach nearly all section...Published: 17 May 2021 at 10:25hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'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
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
General strike is the only way out, says ZCTU
WORKERS under the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) banner have declared that a crippling general strike was the only way out of the current salary crisis as government was not keen on addressi...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mine workers salary talks collapse
THE Zimbabwe Diamond and Allied Minerals Workers Union (Zdamwu) yesterday claimed that negotiations for first quarter wage increments had stalled after the National Employment Council (NEC) for the mi...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Stanbic in eye of 'wage theft' storm
STANBIC Bank Zimbabwe is facing its toughest moments in many years, after a key union approached the financial institution's South African headquartered parent, Standard Bank Group, raising a stink ov...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 06:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants salary talks inconclusive
Government and unions representing civil servants adjourned negotiations to later this week after yesterday's discussions on salaries, wages and other employment terms. Public Service Commissi...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 05:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Teachers must be realistic in their wage demands' - no doubt, expected to survive on fresh air
School closed end of March, at the on set of the nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of corona virus, have just reopened. Many teachers are refusing to go back to work until they are paid living...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 08:24hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
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