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It's no secret that students actively use the assistance of custom writing services. Freelance writing is popularized in every corner of the globe. You won't be taken by surprise if you see online req...Published: 16 hrs ago | 404 | by Staff writer
Defiant teachers receive threats
TEACHERS yesterday claimed that were being threatened a Zanu-PF-sponsored group led by Martin Mazivisa.Mazivisa fronts a shadowy parents union called Zimbabwe Parents Union (ZPU), which has be...Published: 17 hrs ago | 1986 | by Staff reporter
Bonus joy for civil servants
GOVERNMENT has started paying civil servants their annual bonuses for this year and the first group comprising employees in the health and security sectors were paid their 13th cheque last week. The b...Published: 17 hrs ago | 3946 | by Staff reporter
Govt staffer in double-dipping storm
A SENIOR government official employed in the education sector served as a principal for the Red Cross Independent College in violation of the Public Service Act.Investigations carried out by T...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:58hrs | 896 | by Staff reporter
From Njube to Surrey-Kwangwa's story
GROWING up in Bulawayo's Njube suburb, Zimbabwe netball team captain Felisitus Kwangwa never really liked sport.If anything, she was forced to play netball by the teachers while she was in Gra...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:49hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
Salaries to be restored to 2018 levels
CIVIL servants' salaries will, by June 2021, be restored to the United States dollar value that they stood at during the multi-currency era as Government continues to reform and grow the economy, a Ca...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:42hrs | 1287 | by Staff reporter
More schools, colleges hit by Covid-19
COVID-19 is ripping through educational institutions in the country with latest statistics showing that more than 150 learners and teachers at schools and colleges have tested positive.Sunday ...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:40hrs | 564 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt ups stakes in Covid-19 fight
GOVERNMENT will today roll out a nationwide community-based Covid-19 testing study, expected to pinpoint coronavirus hotspots, in order to inform the deployment of tailor-made response strategies for ...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:36hrs | 134 | by Staff reporter
Panic strikes Zimbabwe schools
PANIC has gripped the country's education sector as schools and other learning institutions battle to deal with the lethal coronavirus, amid fears of a second wave of the pandemic, the Daily News repo...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:16hrs | 339 | by Staff reporter
John Tallach Sch death rumours untrue
GOVERNMENT has dispelled rumours that one student from John Tallach, a mission school in Matabeleland North, 40km outside Bulawayo, had died of COVID-19.Matabeleland North acting provincial me...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 09:49hrs | 1268 | by Staff Reporter
Teachers Unions clash again
Divisions have rocked teacher's unions again as some have ordered their members to return to work while others remain defiant educators are still incapacitated. This comes after the Zimbabwe C...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:37hrs | 2915 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 cases at Matabeleland North school rise to 122
The number of students and teachers at John Tallach Secondary School who are infected with Covid-19 has risen to 122, officials said.Testing is still ongoing and the figure could rise, primary...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:18hrs | 369 | by Staff reporter
Govt ranks highest payer, says Mthuli Ncube
THE Government is currently the highest paying employer in the country and pay scales for public servants far outstrip what private sector players are giving their employees, Finance and Economic Deve...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 05:57hrs | 210 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe MPs demand schools closure
PARLIAMENTARIANS yesterday accused government of rashly reopening schools when it was ill-prepared to deal with COVID-19 outbreaks at institutions of learning after a number of students tested positiv...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 05:29hrs | 1614 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants in major climbdown
HARD-PRESSED civil servants, who had been demanding a significant pay rise, made a surprise climbdown yesterday when they agreed to a 41 percent salary increment, just a week after they had rejected a...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 20:21hrs | 3399 | by Staff writer
Govt has failed to resolve strike by teachers, and all civil servants
The major reason why the Zimbabwe government is failing is in whole part for its reason to resist the tide. For a start, the government has over the decades tried and failed dismally to control th...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 12:29hrs | 3760 | by Zanda Shumba
Printing money will bury us: Govt
GOVERNMENT yesterday called on teachers and civil servants to be realistic in their salary demands, saying any unreasonable demands would push them into printing money to fund employment costs, which ...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 05:34hrs | 4638 | by Staff reporter
John Tallach School closes as 100 students test positive to Covid-19
John Tallach Secondary School in Matabeleland North has been closed after 100 pupils and an undisclosed number of teachers tested positive to Covid-19, with the school now a quarantine centre with all...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 05:18hrs | 685 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants start getting bonuses
Civil servants will start getting their annual bonuses this month with the last groups being paid out next month. The payments are based on the 41 percent salary rise and new allowance agreed ...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 05:18hrs | 1508 | by Staff reporter
Reviving the rural economy in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's rural economy plays a significant role in national food production, in alleviating extreme poverty and in the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Zimbabwe National Stati...Published: 17 Nov 2020 at 12:37hrs | 2392 | by Victor Bhoroma
Civil servants accept govt's pay offer
CIVIL servants have accepted Government's offer of a 41 percent salary increase and a bonus whose payment will be staggered from this month to December. The salary agreement also states that G...Published: 17 Nov 2020 at 07:33hrs | 5888 | by Staff Reporter
Govt pay offer divides civil servants
LABOUR unions representing civil servants were yesterday divided over the 40% pay offer by government following a prolonged salary dispute with their employer.Some said negotiations had failed...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:56hrs | 3793 | by Staff reporter
No bonuses for absconding teachers
THE Government have warned that teachers who did not report for duty will not get bonuses for this year as it starts implementing a no-work no-pay principle.Government will this week start pay...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 06:16hrs | 880 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo slides back into lockdown
BULAWAYO will go back to either complete lockdown or suburb specific lockdown as officials try to quickly combat the continued increase in the number of Covid-19 cases in the city, Sunday News reporte...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 06:16hrs | 6748 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec sets exam timetables
THE Zimbabwe Schools Examinations Council (ZIMSEC) has released timetables for the 2020 November candidates with Ordinary and Advanced level exams set to commence on December 1, while Grade Seven test...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 06:15hrs | 1387 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's office reaches out to militant PTUZ for dialogue
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's office has reportedly reached out to the militant PTUZ for dialogue as government yesterday reportedly raised its salary increment offer in a desperate bid to end the ed...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 05:32hrs | 4041 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt tells teachers to take it or leave it
GOVERNMENT has tabled a new salary offer to its workers that will see the least paid teacher earn about $19 975, including a 10% risk allowance and shut the door for further negotiations. The ...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 05:28hrs | 4343 | by Staff reporter
Government, employees in crunch indaba
THE government will today hold a crunch meeting with its restless workers, in a bid to resolve a long-standing salary dispute.This comes as teachers — who make up the bulk of the public sect...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 20:21hrs | 759 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec suspends exam setting
The Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council was this week forced to suspend the setting of examination papers after examiners downed tools, rejecting a $4 000 payment offer, which they deemed too little....Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 07:50hrs | 21926 | by Staff reporter
Where wildlife produces medical doctors
In Africa, some communities still don't have a single person who has graduated as a medical doctor. The reasons are many. It could be a lack of funds for brilliant children to further their ed...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 07:32hrs | 1892 | by Emmanuel Koro
Teachers decline 'mockery' govt pay offer
TEACHERS have rejected the government's 40% salary hike offer, describing it as a mockery, vowing not to return to work until their employer pays them meaningful salaries.Government on Tuesday...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 06:31hrs | 5108 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe trapped between State collapse and State failure'
ZIMBABWE is trapped between State collapse and State failure because President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has failed to provide basic amenities for its citizens, uphold civil liberties and arrest...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 06:28hrs | 1517 | by Staff reporter
Donald must phone Dambudzo
It never rains but pours for the little boy. Things haven't been going his way of late and I would never want to be in his shoes. Zvakaomera Chamisa hama dzangu and I feel sorry for him. Morgan Richar...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 18:47hrs | 2449 | by Mapombi
Zimbabwe teachers study latest pay increase offer
The government attempted to break a crippling teachers' strike on Tuesday with a 40 percent wage increase, coupled with a 10 percent risk allowance.Most of Zimbabwe's 130,000 teachers have bee...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 14:07hrs | 4854 | by Staff reporter
Clergy tells teachers, govt to find common ground
THE clergy has implored government to find common ground with teachers to arrest the crisis in the education sector as schools continued to turn students back because the educators, who declared incap...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 13:55hrs | 956 | by Staff reporter
10% risk allowance for teachers: New basic salary package now $18 237
GOVERNMENT has introduced a 10 percent risk allowance for teachers while proposing a 40 percent salary increase for civil servants which will result in the lowest paid employee getting over $14 500. ...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 05:32hrs | 2582 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt ignores US dollar pay demands, hikes wages by 40%
GOVERNMENT has ignored demands for US dollar wages or Zimbabwean dollar equivalent by teachers, announcing Tuesday it had increased the educators' salaries by 40 percent.This will see a teache...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 19:44hrs | 4624 | by Staff reporter
Teachers strike continuing, school heads overwhelmed
THE final phase of the re-opening of public schools countrywide got off to a rocky start yesterday, with many teachers failing to turn up for work — forcing some overwhelmed school heads to send lea...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 19:41hrs | 2419 | by Staff reporter
Non-monetary incentives the way to go
The face-off between government and its workers over salaries has protracted to a magnitude that it's now threatening the realisation of the national vision.The new political dispensation comm...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 15:20hrs | 2008 | by Petros Manyuchwa
Majongwe blasts Mnangagwa
FIREBRAND trade unionist, Raymond Majongwe has told President Emmerson Mnangagwa to stop posturing on television and begin to address the plight of Zimbabwean teachers in earnest.The country's...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 06:32hrs | 8432 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF jingle angers MDC Alliance
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance officials in Masvingo are up in arms against a Zanu PF jungle which "wrongly" credits First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa for building an orphanage at Chambuta refugee camp in Chired...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:52hrs | 4332 | by Staff reporter
Teachers absent as schools re-open
TEACHERS have been urged to report for duty as schools opened under Phase Three which has paved the way for lessons for everyone in primary and secondary school to resume being conducted in the classr...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 23:23hrs | 7567 | by Staff Reporter
5 300 new teachers start work
THE 5 300 teachers recently engaged to beef up staff at schools following Government's decision to reduce classes to maximum of 30 pupils to allow for social distancing start work today. The l...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 05:31hrs | 1996 | by Staff reporter
ARTUZ members arrested
Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) president Obert Masaraure and his Mutoko district chairperson, Wellington Gweshe, were last week arrested for disorderly conduct after they allege...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 05:28hrs | 1011 | by Staff reporter
School suspends classes after two pupils test positive to Covid-19
Government has suspended classes at Rujeko Primary School after two pupils tested positive for Covid-19, a government official said yesterday.The Grade Seven pupils at Rujeko primary are among...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:39hrs | 1469 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants start getting bonuses
THE Government will next week start paying the first batch of civil servants their annual bonus together with their November salaries as it continues to meet its obligations to its workforce.S...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:03hrs | 1291 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt moves to dock teachers' salaries
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's underfire government has ordered provincial education directors to name teachers who failed to report for duty since the reopening of schools in September, as it moves t...Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 06:01hrs | 3902 | by Staff reporter
5 family members catch COVID-19
FIVE Masvingo family members have tested positive to COVID-19, a government official said yesterday.The new infections come at a time when complacency has been high among Zimbabweans ever sinc...Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 05:58hrs | 964 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa symbolises a failed leadership
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa symbolises a failed leadership. When a leadership fails to provide basic services such as clean water, shelter, food, jobs and power, that leadership deserves urgent repla...Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 05:55hrs | 3244 | by Chief Muzivikanwi
'No work no pay' to apply for absconding teachers
TEACHERS who have been absconding from work risk action being taken against them as the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education is now demanding the list of all those who have not been reporting f...Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 05:50hrs | 592 | by Staff reporter
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