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ZCTU tells Mavima to come clean on US$359,000 loan deal
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has demanded that Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare minister Paul Mavima must come clean on the US$350 000 Borrowdale house he is alleged to have b...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 05:33hrs | 646 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai turning in his grave
THE late opposition MDC stalwart Morgan Richard Tsvangirai who died on 14 February, five years ago, is turning in his grave because some of his family members and close associates have joined the Zanu...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 10:43hrs | 2058 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opposition quietly celebrates Tsvangirai on 5th anniversary of his death
TUESDAY marked five years since former opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai died.Tsvangirai succumbed to colon cancer in South Africa aged 65.Touted...Published: 15 Feb 2023 at 05:04hrs | 1021 | by Staff reporter
Negative reporting by SA media on new Chinese steel plant in Zimbabwe starts
Workers building the $1bn steel plant for the Chinese-owned Dinson Iron & Steel Company (Disco) claim they are exploited, forced to work in inhumane conditions, and sleep crammed eight to a small ...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:39hrs | 1081 | by Staff reporter
Did the emergence of a strong opposition extinguish the revolutionary spirit in Zimbabweans?
To me, those where the good old days - when Zimbabweans were a people of valor, who did not brook any nonsense from their government and never wasted any time in courageously standing up for themselve...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 19:27hrs | 266 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ZCTU threatens to boycott meetings
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has threatened to boycott the Tripartite Negotiating Forum (TNF) meetings next year, saying the body has failed to represent the interests of workers....Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:11hrs | 100 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs shielded from power cuts
At least 100 top government officials, including service chiefs, are having solar panels installed at their homes at the taxpayers' expense to cushion them and their families from the inconvenien...Published: 11 Dec 2022 at 09:12hrs | 1779 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU blasts Mthuli Ncube's paltry 2023 budget tax free threshold
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) says Finance Minister, Mthuli Ncube's tax free thresholds in the 2023 National Budget are a blow for the workers who will continue to carry the yoke of ove...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 05:09hrs | 553 | by Staff reporter
Expatriate businessman arrested for offering ZCTU officials US$300 bribe
AN expatriate businessman has landed in trouble after Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) officials he wanted to offer US$300 bribe, snitched him to police.Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) ...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:17hrs | 571 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's SONA raises dust
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday urged legislators to finalise laws relating to elections and the controversial Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) (Amendment) Bill, which has been criticised...Published: 24 Nov 2022 at 05:00hrs | 2494 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's lieutenants losing faith and not confident of 2023 win
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) president, Nelson Chamisa's leadership skills, his approach to the opposition's protracted fight against Zanu-PF and prospects for an electoral win next year are b...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 18:26hrs | 2990 | by Staff reporter
Chinese embassy response to ZCTU statement
THE Chinese embassy in Zimbabwe has noted the Press release by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) on October 25. However it looks rather like a lame judgment in which there are only groundle...Published: 28 Oct 2022 at 06:28hrs | 513 | by Chinese embassy
ZCTU accuses Chinese companies of rights' abuses
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has expressed concern over alleged continued disregard of labour laws by Chinese-owned firms operating in the country.The ZCTU raised the concerns ...Published: 28 Oct 2022 at 06:25hrs | 128 | 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 | 2755 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU urges government not to evoke painful Gukurahundi memories
ZIMBABWE Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has urged authorities to be tactical enough to prevent the evoking of sad Gukurahundi memories by bringing to book all perpetrators behind instigating politica...Published: 19 Oct 2022 at 06:05hrs | 858 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa jolts Zimbabwe ministers into compromise agreement
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa was recently forced to compel 13 ministers who sit in the Tripartite Negotiating (TNF) Forum to urgently attend meetings to discuss solutions to worsening economic hardshi...Published: 16 Oct 2022 at 19:30hrs | 5424 | by Staff reporter
'Majority of Zimbabweans earning peanuts'
AT LEAST 62% of Zimbabwe workers are earning measly salaries, taking about US$60 per month as of April, a latest Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) 2022 second quarter labour force survey h...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 07:55hrs | 340 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa slams 'blabbermouth' Chamisa
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has accused the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) of desperately using every occasion to grandstand, misrepresent facts and blatantly lie about the situation in t...Published: 21 Sep 2022 at 06:08hrs | 3108 | by Staff reporter
MDC founding Gibson Sibanda remembered
THE late founding MDC vice-president Gibson Sibanda has been described as having been politically mature and a unifier during his lifetime.This was said by former MDC legislator Paul Themba Ny...Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | 606 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told walk the talk
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) yesterday called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to "walk the talk" on improving the welfare of civil servants.Mnangagwa made a pledge to improve c...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 06:34hrs | 345 | by Staff reporter
Another bread price hike looms
ZIMBABWEANS should brace for another bread price hike after the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) increased the price of wheat by 30%, industry officials said yesterday.NewsDay understands that GMB ...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:44hrs | 467 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube, civil servants meet over salaries
PUBLIC Service minister Paul Mavima has invited more than 40 public service unions to a meeting to discuss salaries and conditions of service today.Finance minister Mthuli Ncube is expected to...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | 1257 | by Staff reporter
US$ salary demands grow louder in Zimbabwe
DEMANDS for United States dollar (US$) salaries have increased across all sectors of the economy as a number of employees struggle to buy basic commodities now being charged in the greenback.M...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 08:26hrs | 1355 | by Staff reporter
Call to review Zimbabwe tax thresholds
Government has been implored to increase the exemption threshold on payroll tax to cushion workers from current challenges such as high inflation and the contagion effects of conflict between Russia a...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 08:09hrs | 196 | by Staff reporter
Zacc commissioner faces US$1m lawsuit
ZIMBABWE Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) commissioner Gabriel Chaibva faces a US$1 million lawsuit if he does not retract his claims that the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) was plotting an...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:27hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU slams Mthuli Ncube
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) have criticised Finance and Economic development minister Mthuli Ncube for pursuing economic policies which have worsened the plight of workers and ordinar...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 08:34hrs | 358 | by Staff reporter
Xenophobia-hit Zimbabweans saving country's dead economy
Two decades ago, Trynos Mahamba left Zimbabwe for the United Kingdom, but back home, he has changed the lives of his relatives.Since the day after he left, Mahamba (53) has been sending money ...Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 09:12hrs | 1000 | by Staff reporter
Govt slaps in face domestic workers
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has blasted the recently gazetted minimum wages for domestic workers as pathetic.The Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare ministry recently ga...Published: 27 May 2022 at 06:44hrs | 269 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU slams Mnangagwa
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions has slammed President Emmerson Mnangagwa for implementing a raft of economic stabilisation measures before consulting with partners at the Tripartite Negotiation ...Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:27hrs | 4133 | by Staff reporter
A fool and his money are soon parted!
The cash taps have well and truly been turned on.It seems hardworking Zimbabweans in faraway lands have been doing their bit to support family and friends back home, including bankrolling pote...Published: 15 May 2022 at 06:10hrs | 351 | by Bishop
Zimbabwe's shutdowns not the best protest strategy
WORSENING economic conditions, coupled with growing unemployment as most Zimbabweans struggle to eke out a living in the informal sector are among the major reasons why this week's shutdown flopped....Published: 14 May 2022 at 19:42hrs | 347 | by Staff reporter
Salary erosion irks employees
SALARIES in local currency are being eroded on a daily basis by the downward spiralling economic situation worsened by runaway inflation, the Zimbabwe Independent has observed.The fluctuating ...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:09hrs | 198 | by Staff reporter
ILO to table findings on Zimbabwe mission
THE International Labour Organisation (ILO) will table a report on Zimbabwe at the International Labour Conference set for later this month in Geneva, Switzerland after its recent visit to the country...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:08hrs | 111 | by Staff reporter
'Stayaways not likely to work in Zimbabwe'
ANALYSTS yesterday said stayaways are not likely to work now as Zimbabwe is a highly informalised economy where the majority have no formal jobs.It was business as usual on Monday, the day of ...Published: 11 May 2022 at 09:15hrs | 547 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean commuters bear brunt of police, motorists' war
ARMED with batons, police officers disembark from a tinted vehicle running at full speed to block a honking pirate taxi in the heart of the city in a dramatic and dangerous move.The targeted v...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:05hrs | 276 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers down chalks
WORKERS yesterday accused government of making empty promises on improved wages and conditions of service for "too many years", as teachers declared "incapacitation" again.With schools opening...Published: 03 May 2022 at 06:53hrs | 4272 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora's speech booed at May Day commemorations
THE opposition MDC-T got a rude awakening Sunday when an unapologetic crowd at this year's Workers' day celebrations in Harare forced the party's organising secretary Gift Chimanikire off the stage....Published: 03 May 2022 at 06:47hrs | 2078 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa speaks on reports that he is negotiating with Mnangagwa
CCC leader Nelson Chamisa has denied reports that he is engaged or seeking to engage President Emmerson Mnangagwa on forming a coalition government under any other other name. Chamisa was ...Published: 02 May 2022 at 09:22hrs | 7623 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Govt urged to address issues fuelling inflation
TRADE unions have urged Government to promote dialogue among social partners to address issues revolving around the welfare of workers and whip into line cartels which are fuelling inflation.T...Published: 02 May 2022 at 07:59hrs | 91 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe political parties attend Workers Day commemorations
Zimbabwean workers yesterday joined the rest of the world in commemorating Workers' Day, with the Government calling for unity while expressing its commitment to improving the welfare of workers throu...Published: 02 May 2022 at 07:53hrs | 88 | by Staff reporter
Wear black on Friday, says Masaraure
THE Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) has urged Zimbabweans to wear black clothes on Friday to mourn the high cost of living that has pushed many into extreme poverty."We wi...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 09:03hrs | 586 | by Staff reporter
ZIMRA bus in horrifying accident...4 confirmed dead
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority bus was involved in a tragic accident on Tuesday that has reportedly claimed the lives of four of its members. According to a statement issued by the Revenue Aut...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 09:58hrs | 2690 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa told to leave NGOs alone
CRISIS in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) chairperson Peter Mutasa has told President Emmerson Mnangagwa to appreciate the work done by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Zimbabwe.Mutasa was r...Published: 26 Mar 2022 at 06:33hrs | 1650 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU will lobby for US dollar salaries
FLORENCE TARUVINGA (FT), broke the glass ceiling when she was elected Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president in October, beating Peter Mutasa after polling 73 votes to his 59, thereby beco...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 06:35hrs | 1119 | by Staff reporter
Opposition blamed for tarnishing Morgan Tsvangirai's legacy
FOUR years after the death of democracy icon Morgan Tsvangirai, the opposition is falling short of his fighting spirit and wantonly tarnishing his legacy, political analysts have said.Tsvangir...Published: 15 Feb 2022 at 05:44hrs | 1276 | by Staff reporter
'Govt housing projections unrealistic'
ANALYSTS have ridiculed government claims that it would construct 34 000 housing units for civil servants as mere politicking to attract votes as the country heads for the March 26 by-elections and th...Published: 14 Feb 2022 at 05:30hrs | 641 | by Staff reporter
RBZ defends bank withdrawal limits
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya defended bank withdrawal limits announced on Monday last week, saying while there has been a groundswell of criticism, the new levels were above average...Published: 14 Feb 2022 at 05:28hrs | 1337 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU demands urgent salary talks
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has called on the government to urgently initiate a Tripartite Negotiating Forum (TNF) meeting to review salary levels across all sectors of the economy as...Published: 12 Feb 2022 at 16:39hrs | 1088 | by Staff reporter
New Gates Foundation trustee led plot to overthrow Zim leader alongside US
WHILE Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa, recently appointed to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to add his other high-profile board appointments such as at Rockefeller Foundation, is a rol...Published: 05 Feb 2022 at 19:41hrs | 1822 | by Staff reporter
Workers demand USD salaries
ZIMBABWE Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president Florence Taruvinga has said the economy can afford US dollars salaries and workers should be paid salaries that match the poverty datum line (PDL) as...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 21:31hrs | 1435 | by Staff reporter
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