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Murder charges against trade unionists withdrawn
The State has formally withdrawn murder charges against two prominent leaders of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ), Obert Masaraure and Robson Chere. The two had been facing all...Published: 30 Nov 2024 at 13:06hrs | 75 | by Staff reporter
Trade unionist arrested for theft of US$5 100 workers monies
A trade union representative has found himself in the dock after being accused of stealing from the very workers he was meant to represent and protect.Pardon Mangena (55), a member of the Zimb...Published: 23 Nov 2024 at 12:42hrs | 98 | by Staff reporter
The push to celebrate Joshua Nkomo by declaring July 1 a national holiday
Zimbabwe is set to celebrate the legacy of one of its most cherished leaders, the late Vice-President Joshua Nkomo, with the declaration of July 1 as a national holiday. This historic move honors "Fat...Published: 02 Nov 2024 at 08:42hrs | 255 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's spirit haunts Zanu-PF, claims Komichi
Senator Morgan Komichi has asserted that the legacy of former trade unionist and politician Morgan Tsvangirai continues to haunt Zanu-PF, despite the party's perceived decimation of opposition splinte...Published: 04 Oct 2024 at 12:20hrs | 1070 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
SADC meetings underway in Harare
Ahead of the 44th ordinary summit of heads of state scheduled for 17 and 18 August in Harare, Zimbabwe, Southern African Development Community (SADC) engagements proceeded without incident, despite gr...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 08:02hrs | 506 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to SADC
Beloved SADC, It is with a heavy heart as I write this letter to you.Firstly, in what capacity are you bestowing the Chairmanship of Sadc to President Emmerson Mnangagwa when there is ...Published: 06 Aug 2024 at 18:03hrs | 1435 | by Leonard Koni
Obert Masaraure fired from his teaching job
Firebrand unionist and human rights campaigner Obert Masaraure has summarily been dismissed from his job as a schoolteacher.The Amalgamated Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) president reveale...Published: 24 Jul 2024 at 11:25hrs | 1869 | by Staff reporter
ANC of Ramaphosa: Obliterating, political cleansing of left leaning socialists
South Africa is witnessing a significant shift in its political landscape after the African National Congress (ANC), under President Cyril Ramaphosa, lost its majority in Parliament. This development ...Published: 23 Jul 2024 at 07:18hrs | 239 | by Marshall Ndlela
Zimbabwe CIO's business network
Zimbabwe's Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) likely has a secret stream of money, The Sentry has found. Publicly availa...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 17:53hrs | 69 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt targets recruiting 5 000 teachers this year
The Government has so far employed 1 800 teachers with the recruitment of 5 000 more educators underway.Apart from that, Government is also in the process of building 2 800 schools to further ...Published: 27 Feb 2024 at 03:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
What constitutionalism when citizens barred from exercising their rights?
It was quite curious listening to the Chief Justice of Zimbabwe Luke Malaba urge Zimbabweans to respect constitutionalism. He made these comments at the occasion to mark the opening of the 202...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 15:29hrs | 13 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Job Sikhala's New Year Message
CHIKURUBI MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISONNEW YEAR MESSAGE FROM CHIKURUBI MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISONDear Zimbabweans and my Worldwide friends.My dearest Zimbabweans and Worldwide friends, ...Published: 04 Jan 2024 at 20:19hrs | 13 | by Job Wiwa Sikhala
Suffering Zimbabweans should free themselves
CRISIS in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiCZ) chairperson and former Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president Peter Mutasa (PM) was awarded the International Trade Union Confederation Africa (ITUC-Afr...Published: 14 Dec 2023 at 16:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Masaraure to lead Sikhala solidarity project
Incarcerated former Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala has mandated trade unionist Obert Masaraure to organise the movement meant to put pressure on the government to release the opposition political...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 05:38hrs | 1 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
MDC: End of an era
SEPTEMBER remains significant in the MDC as the party was conceived in this ninth month of the year before making an instant impact on the Zimbabwean political landscape.Then led by firebrand ...Published: 09 Sep 2023 at 07:51hrs | 1 | by Harriet Chikandiwa
ZAPU accuses ANC of opportunistic relationship with Zanu PF
The Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) has accused the African National Congress (ANC) of having an opportunistic relationship with the ruling Zanu PF party in Zimbabwe.These sentiments co...Published: 08 Sep 2023 at 06:43hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
South Africa, Zimbabwe in behind the scenes talks
The South African government and the governing ANC under President Cyril Ramaphosa are engaged in new secret talks with Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa's freshly-minted administration to resol...Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 18:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ten percent of what CEOs earn for general workers
HARARE - (ZimStat) Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency has released what most unionists alleged is a damning review analysis of the current cost of living which they said had jumped upwards by 10.4 pe...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 20:09hrs | 2 | by Maxwell Teedzai for Table Salt News
Mnangagwa remembers Joseph Musikavanhu
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has described the late Vice President and National Hero, Joseph Wilfred "Bruno" Musikavanhu as a combative man who shunned tribal, regional and racial affinities in favour of great...Published: 04 Aug 2023 at 19:51hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai quits active politics
GLEN VIEW South MDC legislator Vincent Tsvangirai, who is the son of the founding Movement for Democratic Change leader, Morgan, says he is stepping away from politics because of its toxicity....Published: 29 Jul 2023 at 07:26hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube abandons TNF
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube, who is currently seized with political campaigns for the Cowdray Park parliamentary seat, has left workers seething with anger after he snubbed the crucial latest round ...Published: 27 Jul 2023 at 20:31hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
U.S. sanctions take center stage in Zimbabwe elections
When Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's long-time despot, lost power in a 2017 military coup, many Zimbabweans took to the streets, celebrating what they hoped would be the beginning of a new chapter.M...Published: 27 Jul 2023 at 06:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dragged to court
CIVIL servants through their respective trade unions have dragged to High Court President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the Public Service Commission and other officials over the manner in which their salaries ...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 19:42hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Biti, Ncube snub Chamisa?
CCC deputy presidents Mr Tendai Biti and Professor Welshman Ncube snubbed the party's election campaign launch amid reports that the party could be headed for yet another split.This comes as C...Published: 19 Jul 2023 at 06:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
2008 election theme back again in 2023
One fascinating pursuit in the study of electoral politics is tracking recurring election campaign themes which, like the wheel, are unwise to reinvent.A typical example of such themes is time...Published: 18 Jul 2023 at 17:52hrs | 9 | by Jonathan Moyo
Zimbabwe's new labour and patriotic laws are bad for business and rights to protest
Amendments to Zimbabwe's labour and criminal law codification to include what is popularly known as the Patriotic Act have been described as bad for business and workers' rights to protest under Presi...Published: 18 Jul 2023 at 06:18hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Colonial masters say Mnangagwa's despotic rule is worse than Mugabe
MEMBERS of the United Kingdom's House of Lords have described President Emmerson Mnangagwa's so-called second republic as worse than that of Robert Mugabe in terms of authoritarian rule and repression...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 14:21hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC hints at election upset
ZIMBABWE'S main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party this week declared fireworks in next month's landmark polls, warning it would upset President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ruling Zanu-PF p...Published: 08 Jul 2023 at 10:04hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF remembers Joshua Nkomo with Bulilima rally?
THE Zanu-PF rally to be addressed by President Mnangagwa at Nyele Primary School in Bulilima District, Matebeleland South Province today is a celebration as it is the rolling out of the ruling party's...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 08:01hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Nation remembers Father Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe will forever cherish the invaluable contributions by former Vice President and Pan-African Dr Joshua Nkomo, President Mnangagwa has said, as the country commemorates the 24th anniversary of h...Published: 29 Jun 2023 at 06:26hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora kills MDC
AFTER Zimbabwe's fast-fading opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T), led by Douglas Mwonzora, failed to field candidates in all constituencies around the country amid reports that it is too...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 19:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Characteristics of good presidential candidates for Zimbabwe's 2023 elections
EVERY five years, Zimbabweans go to the polls in general elections - including the presidential race - to elect their representatives at various levels of government.However, the most high-pro...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 19:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe civil servants beg Mnangagwa
LEADERS of civil servants' unions under the banner of the Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (ZCPSTU) on Tuesday met President Emmerson Mnangagwa at State House in Harare where they ...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Labour quota system key to reducing future conflict in Zimbabwe
The current president of NMWUZ - National Mine Workers' Union of Zimbabwe, Mr Kurebwa Javangwe Nomboka during an interview on labour and the combined 2023 Presidential, Parliamentary and Local Governm...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 18:39hrs | 13 | by Maxwell Teedzai
Coltart nominated for a European award
Zimbabwean human rights lawyer Doug Coltart has been nominated for the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe's (CCBE) 2023 Human Rights Award. He was nominated by the Law Society of Irel...Published: 20 May 2023 at 20:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Access to justice: Discipline and grievance mechanisms
On the Teachers' Agenda Weekly; we focus on access to justice for teachers. We invite teachers to share their feedback on the justice system for teachers in the public service.Section 69 of th...Published: 15 May 2023 at 11:26hrs | 9 | by ARTUZ
Sikhala's conviction rocks Zimbabwe opposition and civil society
THE conviction of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC)'s Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala on Wednesday has rocked the opposition and civil society, with critics saying it showed an intensifying crac...Published: 04 May 2023 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ratchets up political persecution, claims ZLHR
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Rights (ZLHR), an organisation that protects and defends human rights through sustainable litigation, has raised concern over the continued prosecution of perceived opponents ...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 17:00hrs | 1 | 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 | 11 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's son vows to floor 'Bhuru' Mliswa
Richard Tsvangirai, son to late founding MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, has vowed to upstage sitting Norton legislator Temba Mliswa in the race for the seat during harmonised elections due this year....Published: 21 Mar 2023 at 19:36hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Cyril Ramaphosa's real surmame revealed
South African opposition leader Julius Malema has claimed that the real surname of South African President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa is Mennel. Malema was speaking during the #EFFNationalShutdo...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 20:22hrs | 48 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa's CCC urged to employ 'guerilla' tactics
Prominent civic leader and trade unionist Peter Mutasa has urged Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) to adopt underground campaign methods in the wake of a state crackdown coupled with a systematic ba...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 19:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe regime change agents appeal to Sadc
REGIONAL human rights defenders have called on the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) to rally its member States to respect constitutional rights in the wake of rising intolerance to dissen...Published: 27 Feb 2023 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition starts looking for money through fear mongering
The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition believes the country will have one of its bloodiest elections since independence in 1980.The group of more than 80 organisations, among them human rights bodie...Published: 18 Dec 2022 at 06:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Quailed-off Vumbachikwe Mine Spouse demo brews possible spontaneous strike
Tuesday the 8th of November 2022 saw more than five hundred disgruntled Vumbachikwe (known as Forbes and Thompson Duration Gold Mine) spouses of mine work...Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 13:30hrs | 4 | by Maxwell Teedzai
UK monitoring the ongoing detention of Job Sikhala
The British government says it is concerned over the continued incarceration of lawmakers of the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change and political violence ahead of Zimbabwe's 2023 general electi...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 17:46hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
List of people and organisations who participated in the sanctioning of Zimbabwe
FORMER Masvingo Urban legislator, Tongai Matutu, has published a long list of eminent opposition politicians he claims were at the forefront inviting "hurtful" sanctions on Zimbabwe.Last week,...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says he is ready to support teachers
THE Government is ever ready to support teachers through programmes and activities that capacitate them on both national and international levels, platforms from which they can unleash their full pote...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Late former MDC legislator Mdlongwa remembered
MATABELELAND-based pressure group, Ibhetshu likazulu on Friday held a memorial lecture for the late former Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) legislator and veteran trade unionist, Esaph Mdlongwa in...Published: 17 Oct 2022 at 06:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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