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Stench of sewage in cholera-hit Harare
Zimbabwe is struggling with its worst outbreak of cholera in a decade, which has killed at least 28 people. An emergency has been declared and public gatherings banned in the capital, Harare.L...Published: 6 hrs ago | 941 | by BBC
Cholera: Harare City Council caught sleeping on the job
The ongoing cholera outbreak started on 1 September in Glen View 3, Harare and has since spread, killing 30 people with 5 463 cases having been reported to date. As usual opposition elements hav...Published: 8 hrs ago | 3237 | by Elijah Chihota
MRP assists Hadon & Sly employees
Mthwakazi Republic Party leadership and members braved the scorching heat to give support to the employees of Hadon & Sly who are on the brink of losing their jobs.The retail outlet is all...Published: 12 hrs ago | 1749 | by Stephen Jakes
ZCTU honours 2006 torture victims
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has honoured its members who were brutally tortured by police on September 13 2006 after spearheading countrywide protests against social injustices by for...Published: 15 hrs ago | 316 | by Staff reporter
Haddon and Sly workers down tools
Workers at struggling Bulawayo supermarket Haddon and Sly, one of the oldest in the city, at the weekend staged a demonstration against a decision by the company to close the shop, allegedly for renov...Published: 15 hrs ago | 1165 | by Staff reporter
Cholera fund 'fraud', Harare City Council workers suspended
SOME Harare City Council officers have been suspended from work with immediate effect following allegations of overcharging for goods and services to cash in on a $10 million donation from Econet Grou...Published: 16 hrs ago | 900 | by Staff reporter
'Banks have let Bulawayo down'
A NUMBER of viable manufacturing projects in Bulawayo have remained stagnant and failed to take off for years due to lack of affordable credit lines from banks, entrepreneur and one of Bulawayo's few ...Published: 16 hrs ago | 413 | by Staff reporter
What does investment look like on the ground in Zimbabwe?
LAST week I was at the African Studies Association of the UK (ASA) conference in Birmingham. I was co-hosting, with my colleague Jeremy Lind (whose earlier blog this one draws from), a fantastic strea...Published: 16 hrs ago | 306 | by Ian Scoones
Is MDC really for the people or just opportunistic?
MDC on its inception was more of a Workers party formed by trade unionists led by the late Dr Morgan Tsvangirai. The party eventually grew into a formidable vibrant opposition party with the likes of ...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 18:12hrs | 2332 | by AT Kadada
Bulawayo's Haddon & Sly supermarket shuts down shop
One of Bulawayo's leading giant supermarkets, Haddon and Sly Supermarket has reportedly closed due to operational challenges.According to the workers, the supermarket closed 5 days ago....Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 14:28hrs | 9889 | by Staff Reporter
Workforce experiences to match customer experiences: the next frontier for telco success
Since GSM was first demonstrated in Cape Town in 1993 and the first GSM networks launched the next year, the telco industry has fundamentally transformed every country on the African continent. As som...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 12:16hrs | 214 | by Mariam Abdullahi, Telco Industry Lead at SAP Africa
Construction of new Zimbabwe Parly to start soon
Construction of the new Parliament Building in Mt Hampden is expected to commence soon after China identified a contractor, Speaker of the National Assembly Advocate Jacob Mudenda has said. Ad...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 06:41hrs | 187 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe budget deficit seen widening
Zimbabwe's budget deficit will increase this year after government awarded its workers a 17,5% wage increase while revenue collection remains weak, according to a leading research firm."A hike...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 09:08hrs | 483 | by Staff reporter
Expectant mothers vacate clinic over goblins sexual attack
HEALTH workers, expecting mothers and some patients have allegedly vacated a clinic in Lupane following sexual attacks by suspected goblins, authorities have confirmed.Expecting mothers in wai...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 08:53hrs | 747 | by Staff reporter
UK is introducing a new two-year seasonal visa
The UK Home Government announced earlier this month that it will launch a two-year seasonal worker pilot scheme.According to Breytenbachs Immigration Consultants, the scheme aims to bring 2,50...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 12:18hrs | 5548 | by Staff reporter
Charamba sexual abuse probe set to start
THE Zimbabwe Gender Commission has launched a probe into claims of sexual harassment levelled against police Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba's husband and two other Department of Immigr...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:13hrs | 1595 | by Staff reporter
Harare vendors get 24-hr ultimatum to vacate
The National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe (Navuz) yesterday started mobilising its members to leave undesignated vending sites in Harare's central business district today in order to contain the cholera ...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:00hrs | 2658 | by Staff Reporter
Cholera tsunami sweeps across Mashonaland again
STEWART Murambiwa's snow-white teeth appear too big for his mouth; his arms and limbs look like they belong to a little boy and not the 27-year-old man he is.Propped up on an iron bed in a ten...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 16:29hrs | 2362 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to splash over $20 million on top-of-the range vehicles for MPs
Treasury is set to splash over $20 million on top-of-the range vehicles for Members of Parliament and Senators in the ninth Parliament.This is at a time when government is struggling to mobili...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 16:07hrs | 663 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T in trouble over arbitral awards
Former MDC-T information officer Lawrence Paganga has approached the High Court seeking to register his $42 000 arbitral award granted by an arbitrator as terminal benefits.Paganga filed the c...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 06:50hrs | 1555 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cholera death toll rallies
THE death toll due to the cholera outbreak that has hit Harare and other parts of the country has increased to 25, with more than 3 700 people hospitalised as government availed a paltry $1 million to...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 06:26hrs | 1912 | by Staff reporter
Commission opens probe into work-related sexual abuses
The Zimbabwe Gender Commission has launched investigations into allegations of sexual abuse at the Department of Immigration which were raised before Parliament by workers."The Zimbabwe Gender...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 06:25hrs | 585 | by Staff reporter
Israel's Desert Agriculture experience and technologies can help transform agriculture in Zimbabwe and Africa
Agriculture in Israel is a highly developed industry. Israel is a major exporter of fresh produce and a world-leader in agricultural technologies despite the fact that the geography of the country is ...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 13:22hrs | 1076 | by Enos Denhere
Debt-ridden CSC downscales
COLD Storage Company (Ltd), a beef producer with refrigerated warehousing, has downscaled its operations and put its employees on a "short time" work schedule under which they will now be paid based o...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:39hrs | 425 | by Staff reporter
Gweru residents fume over dumpsite blaze
AN environmental disaster is looming in Gweru's Woodlands suburb following yesterday's outbreak of a fire at the city's largest dumpsite, Southern Eye has established.The fire is emitting a th...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:35hrs | 236 | by Staff reporter
Dirty City Mayor lifts lid on cholera
NEW Harare mayor, Herbert Gomba says the central government and Zanu PF should take responsibility for the cholera outbreak which has so far claimed the lives of 21 people, alleging that a caretaker c...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:26hrs | 591 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo safe from Harare cholera
BULAWAYO has not recorded any cases of cholera or typhoid with officials calling on travelling residents to practise good hygiene and desist from shaking hands at funerals, churches and other public g...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:16hrs | 809 | by Staff reporter
Econet joins fight against cholera
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe has mounted a massive public awareness campaign to fight the cholera crisis in the country, which is reported to have already claimed 21 lives. The company has also started of...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:14hrs | 151 | by Staff reporter
Silo blast exposes GMB can of worms
The recent explosion which killed six people at the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) Lions Den silos along the Harare-Chirundu Highway has exposed favouritism in the parastatal's employment policy and fail...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:23hrs | 1957 | by Staff reporter
Harare councillor proposes pay hike
A HARARE City councillor, Jacob Mafume (MDC Alliance), has proposed a pay hike for city employees as a way to retain skilled and experienced staff at a time service delivery is at its lowest.O...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:23hrs | 997 | by Staff reporter
19 shades of the MDC
Yesterday marked the 19th birthday of the Movement of Democratic Change - Zimbabwe's once formidable opposition party. Of course, one can be forgiven for not knowing what that name actually now repres...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 06:38hrs | 390 | by Tichaona Zindoga
ARTUZ Gender Secretary attacked by Presidential Guard officers
Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe, ARTUZ Gender Secretary, cde Moreblessing Madambi was attacked by at least 8 men from the Presidential Guard on Saturday 08 September 2018 night.T...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 11:33hrs | 1378 | by ARTUZ
Obert Mpofu redeployed to Zanu-PF HQ
SEVERAL former ministers who did not make it into the 20-member Cabinet announced by President Mnangagwa last week were yesterday redeployed to work at the Zanu-PF headquarters as full time employees,...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 07:07hrs | 1523 | by Staff reporter
Restless unions push for pay hike
Zimbabwe's new Cabinet will face major problems from day one, with militant unions already pushing for pay rises in the wake of the recent price hikes and deteriorating economy, which they say have er...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 07:08hrs | 743 | by Staff reporter
Hospital workers win $480K terminal benefits standoff
THE Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by private Harare hospital, Streamsleigh Investments (Pvt) Ltd trading as African Medical Investment (AMI) Hospital, and ordered the institution to fork out o...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 06:58hrs | 429 | by Staff reporter
Egodini to reopen in November 2019
THE developer of the much anticipated Egodini Bus Terminus, Terracotta Private Limited, has revealed that the first phase of the project will be open for trading by November 2019 as they work towards ...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:42hrs | 1502 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's new Cabinet: The raison d'être
Students of politics and philosophy will be familiar with Francis Bacon, who some call the Father of Empiricism because of his contention that inductive reasoning and observation of events were the ro...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:11hrs | 307 | by Staff reporter
Egodini to reopen in November 2019
THE developer of the much anticipated Egodini Bus Terminus, Terracotta Private Limited, has revealed that the first phase of the project will be open for trading by November 2019 as they work towards ...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:09hrs | 363 | by Staff Reporter
Jonathan Moyo shocked
Former Information Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo said he was shocked that Zimbabwe had a "Stop List" which was being used by the Registrar General to refuse to issue passports to Zimbabwean citizen...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 20:50hrs | 22901 | by Staff reporter
Illegal miners clash with cops
Artisanal miners in Mazowe mine reportedly went on rampage burning cabins for security guards at Mazowe mine last night after one of their colleagues was shot by the police.Sources familiar wi...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 14:58hrs | 1146 | by Simbarashe Sithole
South Africa heads for an economic crunch
South Africa is likely going face a recession starting from the last quarter of this year. The recession is mainly attributed to the malfunctioning of the agricultural sector, the mining sector, the t...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 10:16hrs | 3097 | by Daniel Itai
Gweru faces salary headache
GWERU City Council has, for the second time running, failed to pay its workers on time, citing revenue problems as the local authority struggles to improve its monthly collections, a senior council of...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:16hrs | 485 | by Staff reporter
'Bulawayo loaded with untapped tourism'
THE tourism industry presents a huge opportunity for the City of Bulawayo to grow its economy and comple-ment efforts to revive the manufact-uring sector with significant impact on livelihoods. ...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 06:48hrs | 72 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must appoint competent team to steer economic recovery
THE enormity of the task of steering the country's economic revival requires that President Emmerson Mnangagwa appoints the best team at his disposal into Cabinet. The pool of possible Ministe...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 06:48hrs | 526 | by Staff reporter
Open Letter to Makandiwa and Mahiya
It came not as surprise to Zimbabweans to hear the words of Makandiwa denouncing USA concerning sanctions to Zimbabwe. Your prophesies are fake. Remember you were to vocal in support of introd...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 09:01hrs | 6542 | by Isaac Nkomah
Gweru mayor, deputy elected unopposed
WARD Two councillor Josiah Makombe is the new mayor of Gweru after being elected unopposed while Clr Cleopas Shiri will deputise him after also sailing through unopposed. Gweru councillors wer...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 06:40hrs | 204 | by Staff reporter
Keep Harare clean
Fallen pylons are found all over in our towns and cities especially Harare. Most were brought down as a results of road traffic accidents but surprisingly these now useless power poles are left to rus...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 20:27hrs | 674 | by Thomas Murisa
Shocking massive price hikes hit Zimbabweans
Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has noted with great concern the shocking massive price hikes that have affected almost every basic commodity, worsening the plight of the already struggling m...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 15:47hrs | 3941 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa petitioned over Zesa corruption
Youth Against Corruption (Yac) has petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa demanding him to act on corruption at power utility Zesa Holdings (Zesa).Yac accused Zesa senior management of firing...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 13:42hrs | 1858 | by Staff reporter
Belling Zimbabwe's electoral-ideological cat
IT will take a while yet for the national after-effect of the 2018 harmonised election to wear off. Praise singers of President Emmerson Mnangagwa will continue justifying his eventual victory, while ...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 07:10hrs | 452 | by Takura Zhangazha
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