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Civil servants savage Mthuli Ncube
CIVIL servants have not only rejected the government's plans to introduce a welfare fund- that will see them contributing 2,5 percent of their salary to this pot every month- they have also slammed Fi...Published: 5 hrs ago | 590 | by Staff reporter
53 African countries converge in Zimbabwe
The representatives of small and medium-scale farmers, rural women and youth, fish folks, agricultural workers, livestock keepers, pastoralism, indigenous people, cooperatives, consumers, Non Governme...Published: 10 hrs ago | 1031 | by Rudo Saungweme
'ZBC only owns 4 vehicles'
The national broadcaster Zimbabwe Broadcasting Cooporation owns only four vehicles the parliamentary portfolio committee on Media, Information and Publicity was told on Friday. Appearing befor...Published: 11 hrs ago | 1184 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Civil servants reject 2,5% tax
GOVERNMENT's decision to introduce subsidised grocery shops in army barracks and for all members of the uniformed forces has attracted an outpour of anger from civil servants and the generality of Zim...Published: 14 hrs ago | 1310 | by Staff reporter
Zupco must spread its services in Bulawayo
This is an open letter to the Zupco Southern Region manager. As commuters in Bulawayo we are happy that Zupco is providing an affordable mode of transport despite the tough economic environment. Havin...Published: 16 hrs ago | 262 | by Angry Commuter
War vets storm Mthuli Ncube's office
A group of ex-civil servants most of whom are war veterans on Wednesday stormed New Government Complex seeking Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube's audience to discuss their welfare upon realising their fo...Published: 23 hrs ago | 3520 | by Staff reporter
'Army snubs Mthuli Ncube's 2.5% garrison shops tax scheme'
The Zimbabwe Army has reportedly snubbed an initiative by the Emmerson Mnangagwa-led government to impose a 2.5% tax on civil servants so as to generate funds to subsidize garrison shops for the unifo...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 15:20hrs | 3235 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mthuli Ncube haunted by civil service welfare
A group of ex-civil servants most of whom are war veterans on Wednesday stormed New Government Complex seeking Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube's audience to discuss their welfare upon realising their fo...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 12:12hrs | 2065 | by Staff reporter
Kirsty Coventry commits to refurbish stadiums
YOUTH, Sports, Arts and Recreation minister Kirsty Coventry has on Thursday, spoken out on the dilapidated state of the local stadiums and made a commitment to refurbish them.She however categ...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 12:11hrs | 1325 | by Staff reporter
MDC raps govt for asking workers to subsidize the military
The MDC Secretary for Labour and Social Security Gideon Shoko has rapped the government for asking other civil servants to subsidise the military as if they are the only government employees affected ...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 09:31hrs | 1079 | by Stephen Jakes
Special tuckshops for Zimbabwean soldiers, cops
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government says it will set up subsidised grocery shops in army barracks to cushion restive members of the uniformed forces from the rising cost of living, but made no i...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 06:16hrs | 1077 | by Staff reporter
Low-interest loans for all Government employees
All Government employees will be able to access low-interest loans from a fund set up with Government seed money and salary deductions from all civil service and defence forces staff. In addit...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 05:56hrs | 659 | by Staff reporter
Prof Murwira promises to resolve Nust strike
National University of Science and Technology (Nust) lecturers yesterday declared that they were incapacitated to work. Incapacitation loosely translates to a strike as workers would be saying their s...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 05:40hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt workers to be taxed 2.5% to feed the army
Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube has announced that 2.5 percent will be deducted from every government employee to set up shops that will sell subsidised com...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 17:07hrs | 5827 | by Staff Reporter
Why Prof Mthuli Ncube and John Mangudya must resign
In this dossier I am challenging the Finance Minister, Mr Mthuli Ncube, and his RBZ counterpart Mr Mangudya to resign with immediate effect citing their combined failure to fulfil their objectives and...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 09:19hrs | 1199 | by Magugu Benard, ZAPU NPC member (Midlands province)
Mthuli Ncube, Mangudya must resign
In this dossier, I am challenging the Finance Minister, Mr Mthuli Ncube, and his RBZ counterpart Mr Mangudya to resign with immediate effect citing their combined failure to fulfil their objectives an...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 08:43hrs | 1349 | by Magugu Benard, ZAPU NPC member (Midlands province)
Pay civil servants in stable US dollar
Every civil servant must be paid in foreign currency.Business is now refusing to take payments in bond notes, EcoCash and swipe or transfer.Why would business accept a currency that is...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 07:13hrs | 2220 | by Pardon Makunike
'Heavy police presence shows Zimbabwe regime is panicking'
POLICE have increased their presence in and out of Harare in apparent readiness to quash attempts by restless opposition supporters and workers in the wake of threats of massive protests to pressure P...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 07:10hrs | 4322 | by Staff reporter
Harare public toilets deplorable
Harare is sitting on a health time bomb as most of its public toilets are in bad shape and no longer fit for use.While council has refurbished public toilets in some parts of the central busin...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 06:52hrs | 187 | by Staff reporter
Zacc probes Mnangagwa's presidential scholarships
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) on Monday revealed that it was probing the Presidential Scholarship Programme and the National Pharmaceutical Company of Zimbabwe (NatPharm), with the fi...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 06:15hrs | 407 | by Staff reporter
Bankers seek 40% salary hike
ZIMBABWE'S banking sector workers are pushing for a 37,6% salary hike as salaries continue to be wiped out by rising inflation.Currency volatility and inflation, which closed 2019 at 521%, rem...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 06:52hrs | 1001 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe Kazembe hit with another $1.1 million lawsuit
HOME Affairs Minister, Kazembe Kazembe and Police Commissioner General Godwin Matanga have been jointly slapped with a US$1,1 million lawsuit by a miner who claims that they barred him to operate with...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 06:29hrs | 291 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean family hopes to be granted US asylum after long wait
The Dzawo family has built their life in Burlington since fleeing government persecution in Zimbabwe in 2012. On March 4, a judge will decide whether to grant or deny them asylum status.It's b...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 08:39hrs | 819 | by Staff reporter
City firms shut down
A number of Bulawayo companies are closing down due to the intensifying economic problems, leaving thousands of workers stranded, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has warned.Ambros...Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 08:38hrs | 2861 | by Staff reporter
Inside Zhombe's mining cartels
CONTRARY to the common perception in which fingers are only being pointed at the machete-carrying illegal gold panners for the chaos and lawlessness that characterises the small-scale gold mining sect...Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 08:18hrs | 435 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF hegemonic grip on power depends on poverty and violence' - without reforms, never be broken
Last week, former Zanu PF Minister Walter Mzembi promised to spill the beans of how Zanu PF has been rigging elections. Those who know Mzembi is but a man of little substance, an intellectual midget m...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 08:43hrs | 711 | by Nomusa Garikai
I need to see one article from Mthwakazi Parties condemning Jonathan Moyo for supporting Robert Mugabe to the bitter end!
Israel Dube does not cease to amaze me each time he writes articles on Bulawayo24 regarding the Mthwakazi nation and how they are going to liberate it. His latest article was all subtly pointing at Ma...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 16:01hrs | 1763 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa comes face to face with reality
BUSINESS and labour yesterday openly told President Emmerson Mnangagwa that the mono currency policy was not working and had pauperised many Zimbabweans while scaring away investors.In a candi...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 06:13hrs | 10337 | by Staff reporter
Sexual harassment scandal rocks firm
BAKER'S INN Bulawayo branch has been rocked by widespread allegations of workplace harassment, after claims surfaced that employees, especially female merchandisers and students on attachment, have be...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 06:02hrs | 1396 | by Staff reporter
Zimra needs monetary, fiscal alignment
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) Commissioner-General Faith Mazani has called for monetary and fiscal policies alignment as the depreciating Zimbabwe dollar (ZWL) has made it difficult to plan.&...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 05:50hrs | 159 | by Staff reporter
Corrupt garages feed the black market'
BULAWAYO Provincial Affairs Minister, Judith Ncube, has accused some fuel stations of diverting the product to the black market thereby creating an artificial shortage of the commodity in the city. ...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 05:39hrs | 311 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa keeps dialogue invitation open
The Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) - a grouping of politicians who contested the 2018 presidential elections - yesterday held its maiden Economic Summit which drew together captains of industry, la...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 05:31hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to recruit 900 nurses
The Health Services Board (HSB) intends to recruit 900 nurses to fully staff referral hospitals, board chairperson, Dr Paulinus Sikosana has said. Dr Sikosana said there were shortages of nurs...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 05:28hrs | 255 | by Staff reporter
Alternatives for Matebeleland
After the signing of the Unity Accord, Zimbabwe had a semblance of National peace and calm. At face value one would think that the country was now poised towards true peace and national development. H...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:26hrs | 362 | by Mthulisi Gaja Masumbilka Hanana
Is the New Dispensation keen on devolution?
It should be recalled that the nationalist struggle's main focus was the achievement of an electoral system with one person one vote as its basis and the resultant establishment of a newly independent...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:25hrs | 83 | by Vivian Viyo Siziba
Its only but a pie in the sky
Children of God, job placements and vacancies advertised with a bunch of 'carrots on the stick' are just but a pie in the sky. You will part with money before the advertiser vanishes on 'is not reacha...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:23hrs | 40 | by Gabarinocheka. Mkunyadzi.
176 Zimra officers fired for corruption
ONE-HUNDRED-AND-SEVENTY-SIX Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officers were either suspended or dismissed between 2016 and last year for allegedly smuggling 433 vehicles into the country, according t...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 05:25hrs | 1785 | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus: Zimbabwe woman tests negative
The Zimbabwean woman, who was quarantined at Wilkins Hospital's specialised unit in Harare yesterday for a suspected case of Coronavirus (COVID-19), had tests coming out negative last night, which mea...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 05:24hrs | 757 | by Staff reporter
Parliamentarians sleeping on duty
It boggles the mind that out of the more than 260 Members of Parliament, it only took Senator Omega Hungwe to advance a motion in Parliament to petition legislators to consider reviewing "O" and "A" L...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 20:29hrs | 844 | by Manuel Nyawo
Mangudya and Mthuli's economic policies failing as the RTGS tumbles
As the Zimbabwe's economy meltdown continues to hit the vulnerable people from both the urban and rural areas, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new dispensation has been put on a litmus test...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 07:42hrs | 4385 | by Leonard Koni
Matutu loses Kwekwe farm
The High Court has confirmed the eviction of former Zanu-PF deputy youth secretary Lewis Matutu from a Kwekwe farm which he had violently grabbed from Onisimo Zhavairo with the help of over 20 ruling ...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:41hrs | 3425 | by Staff reporter
Matutu ordered off farm
Former Zanu-PF Youth League deputy secretary Lewis Matutu and his associates have been barred by the High Court from entering or occupying a farm in Kwekwe belonging to Mr Onsimo Zhavairo. Jus...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:28hrs | 831 | by Staff reporter
CIO controlled journalism run stark mad
I hardly respond to social media reports, but found it prudent to respond to acidic reports peddled by the so called 'Harare Post' insinuating that Ptuz has not paid its workers since November 2019, w...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 22:14hrs | 1777 | by Takavafira Zhou
'Tagwirei provided fuel for Chamisa's MDC 2018 elections campaign'
Sakunda Holdings boss, Kuda Tagwirei reportedly sponsored the opposition MDC's 2018 elections campaign with fuel and money.These allegations were made by popular socialite, Matigary who posted...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 21:49hrs | 6157 | by Staff reporter
Decent salaries guarantee stability
FOR any economy to develop, there is need for stability in the country, and stability can only be realised when people are able to put food on the table. But as the Zimbabwean economy continues on a d...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 05:51hrs | 785 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU plots crippling living wage protests
THE country's largest labour body, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), has threatened to roll out mass protests and make life difficult for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government until it...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 10:49hrs | 916 | by Staff reporter
The market has redollarised, says Biti
MDC vice-president Tendai Biti (TB), who during the inclusive government era, served as Finance minister speaks to NewsDay (ND) senior reporter Blessed Mhlanga on the failing Zimbabwe dollar and other...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 10:45hrs | 1978 | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa exposes Innscor Africa Limited
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has accused Innscor Africa Limited's Mike Fowler of running a cartel that has captured the state and is practicing racism in the country. Mliswa who wr...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 09:12hrs | 4636 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Machete gang wreaks havoc in Lupane
AN eight-member machete-wielding gang on Thursday morning went on a rampage in Lupane, Matabeleland North leaving victims seriously injured before fleeing with undisclosed amounts of cash and grocerie...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 06:07hrs | 1113 | by Staff reporter
Where is the empathy from the regime
YESTERDAY, February 14, Zimbabweans in relationships celebrated Valentine's Day. It is a day that has been commercialised, but its origins may not have changed much over the centuries — celebrating ...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 18:09hrs | 560 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
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