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ZCTU urges govt to act on rogue businesses
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has called on government to act on businesses refusing to use the official exchange rate in pricing of products and services, thereby prejudicing the consu...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 07:02hrs | 509 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: ZCTU blasts General Chiwenga's move
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has learnt with dismay moves by the government to enlist into the army all graduating junior doctors before they could be employed by the government....Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 16:56hrs | 3662 | by ZCTU
ZCTU blasts Mnangagwa ally over 'reckless' coup claims, threats
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has called on State Security Minister Owen Ncube to retract his threats to deal with labour activists, civil society and the opposition he collectively acc...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 07:17hrs | 568 | by Staff reporter
Employers group rejects US dollar wage demands
THE Employers Confederation of Zimbabwe (EMCOZ) has rejected demands for US dollar wages by workers insisting such "a one size fits all" approach was not applicable in the local context.This c...Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 07:33hrs | 1294 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told not to label workers terrorists
THE International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to stop labelling workers demanding fair wages as terrorists in order to justify a clampd...Published: 24 Sep 2020 at 07:35hrs | 4054 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU mobilises for nationwide protests
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has begun mobilising for a national general strike of both public and private sector workers. The event, according to ZCTU president Peter Mutasa, ...Published: 23 Sep 2020 at 06:05hrs | 3465 | by Staff reporter
Global trade unions rally behind ZCTU
THE International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has set aside tomorrow, September 23, for global mass protests in solidarity with the poorly-paid Zimbabwean workers.In a statement, Zimbabwe...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:30hrs | 859 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's CIOs still pursuing activists linked to #31JulyProtests
SOME of the people linked to the foiled July 31 mass demonstrations claimed yesterday that they were still being trailed by suspected State security agents despite being recently cleared by the police...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 17:47hrs | 1472 | by Staff reporter
Activists claim Mnangagwa's ferret squad stalking them
Some of the people linked to the foiled July 31 mass demonstrations have claimed they are being trailed by suspected State security agents despite being recently cleared by the police. However...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 07:19hrs | 1085 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU bemoans criminalisation of trade unionism
ZIMBABWE'S labour body has bemoaned the criminalisation of trade unionism as it marked the 14th anniversary of the torture of its members on September 13, 2006.About 147 Zimbabwe Congress of T...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:22hrs | 308 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe students switch to social media for lessons
Reacting to the coronavirus spread March 30, the Zimbabwean government closed the entire country, shutting down schools indefinitely. But, for many like 13-year-old Adrean Machingura, a grade seven pr...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:13hrs | 376 | by Anadolu Agency
Early Christmas for Zimbabwe civil servants
CIVIL servants are set to continue receiving US$75 COVID-19 allowances each until December. Government had initially indicated that the facility would run for three months from June this year,...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 07:15hrs | 7083 | by Stff reporter
Ignore ZCTU's 'politicised' lunch hour Demos'
LABOUR Minister Paul Mavima has urged workers to snub the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) organised demonstrations, which start this Monday, saying the protests have nothing to do with improv...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 11:40hrs | 1454 | by Staff reporter
No going back on strikes, says ZCTU
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union (ZCTU) yesterday vowed to press ahead with the strike to force employers to pay United States dollar-denominated salaries, but police said they would crush any "il...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:38hrs | 868 | by Staff reporter
Teachers to join protests
The Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) has started mobilising its members across the country to participate in tomorrow's protests organised by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 11:11hrs | 2986 | by Staff reporter
Business cries foul over EcoCash limits
ZIMBABWE'S hard-pressed businesses say they are likely to witness depressed revenues in the short term due to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe's decision to limit EcoCash transactions to ZW$5 000 per day....Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 07:17hrs | 2566 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU plots lunch hour protests
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has mobilised its members to embark on lunch hour protests starting Monday to push for United States dollar based salaries in light of the free falling eco...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 07:35hrs | 2419 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala in police custody
MDC Alliance national vice chairperson Job Sikhala was yesterday arrested in Tynwald, Harare, after several days of evading law enforcement agencies who were keen to interview him on allegations of in...Published: 22 Aug 2020 at 08:27hrs | 1322 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU endorses Catholic Bishops' letter
The Zimbabwe Congres of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has issued a statement supporting a pastoral letter by the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops (ZCBC) which called upon the government to respect human rights and cea...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 14:13hrs | 4784 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe and the Founders Sydrome (Foundiritis)
Let me introduce this article as an opinion piece by a pedestrian activist. I write from personal experience not other peoples lenses.l have been in the political field for a while now and with Covid1...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 23:46hrs | 798 | by Tendayi Lynnette Mudehwe
Labour organisations pile pressure on Mnangagwa
INTERNATIONAL labour organisations continue to pile pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government demanding that it respects workers' rights.This follows the recent characterisation of...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 20:22hrs | 766 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean liberators have turned oppressors
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions yesterday castigated "a few rogue elements" in the security sectorwho were allegedly benefiting from the feeding trough and abusing Zimbabwean citizens whenev...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 08:25hrs | 1710 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa must walk the talk on corruption'
TRANSPARENCY InternationalZimbabwe (TI-Z) has decried the deep entrenchment of corruption in the country and bad governance despite a well-articulated Constitution on anti-corruption and President Emm...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 11:57hrs | 796 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told to stop harassing workers
INTERNATIONAL trade unions have raised concern over harassment of workers' representatives by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government as pressure piles on the Zanu-PF regime to respect human rights....Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 11:57hrs | 694 | by Staff reporter
Swaziland political party condemns Mnangagwa
The Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) has thrown its support behind the Zimbabwean workers who are trying hard to make ends meet during a time when the Zimbabwe Dollar is losing value every week....Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 09:07hrs | 2809 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa's MDC, an American Trojan horse
It's categorically correct to say the MDC-Alliance, which has assumed many appellations over the year is not a political party, but a representative of the United States and its Western allies....Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:11hrs | 418 | by Khumbulani Vodloza Sibanda
Zanu-PF to beat up protesters?
ZANU PF yesterday urged its supporters to beat up protesters who will take to the street on July 31 and threatened to kick out United States ambassador to Zimbabwe, Brian Nichols for allegedly support...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:40hrs | 2021 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF labels Chamisa's MDC a 'terrorist organisation'
Zanu-PF on Monday urged its supporters to use "any means at your disposal" to disrupt anti-government protests planned for July 31, as a spokesman labelled the main opposition MDC Alliance party a ter...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 19:32hrs | 1645 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is a failed State, says ZCTU
ZIMBABWE Congress of Trade Unions president Peter Mutasa yesterday described the country as a "failed State" given the high poverty levels, decaying infrastructure, the odious debt situation caused mo...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:35hrs | 5068 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe protests leaders flee their homes
MANY leading players in the planned month-end anti-government mass protests have fled their homes as raids on their residences by suspected State agents continue.This comes as authorities and ...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 19:04hrs | 7372 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance's role in undermining national development
President Mnangagwa continues to pursue an ambitious economic reform agenda that has, within a short space of time, seen the budget deficit being tamed, economic fundamentals once again in place and a...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:43hrs | 1725 | by Pupurai Togarepi
Raids on homes of Mnangagwa's critics escalate
THE government stands accused of escalating its clampdown on critics ahead of the planned July 31 mass demonstrations, which have raised fears of potentially bloody clashes between protesters and secu...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 19:08hrs | 3717 | by Staff reporter
31 July protest organisers being stalked by CIOs
ORGANISERS of the July 31 anti-corruption march yesterday alleged harassment by suspected State security agents in a bid to stop the planned nationwide protests against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 08:48hrs | 3761 | by Staff reporter
Khupe's MDC-T accuses MDC Alliance of plot to disrupt congress
THOKOZANI Khupe's MDC-T has confirmed it shall not be part of the July 31 anti-corruption demonstrations while accusing the rival MDC Alliance of sponsoring the planned national resistance to disrupt ...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 08:10hrs | 2059 | by newzimbabwe
Police attempt to abduct ZCTU President's family
Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) President Peter Mutasa has reported that some police officers attempted to abduct his family members forcing them to reveal his whereabouts.In a Twitte...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 07:41hrs | 1859 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'We're marching against looting'
OPPOSITION politician Jacob Ngarivhume, who is leading the July 31 nationwide protests, says the demonstrations will go ahead as Zimbabweans are reeling under corruption whose impact is more ruinous t...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:07hrs | 2351 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF frets over planned protests
ZANU-PF says the planned July 31 protests presented a threat to its hegemony and accused the opposition MDC Alliance of leading an "unholy alliance" to remove President Emmerson Mnangagwa unconstituti...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:00hrs | 886 | by Staff reporter
Teachers' salaries frozen
TWO vocal unionists representing rural teachers in Zimbabwe have not been paid for almost two years after the government froze their salaries after they took part in last year's protests against a ste...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:10hrs | 6020 | by Staff reporter
Khupe expels ex-Lover from Senate?
MDC-T interim president Thokozani Khupe has been accused of using her new position to hound an ex-lover, Gideon Shoko through recalling him from the Senate, New Zimbabwe reported.Shoko is a Bu...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:12hrs | 11813 | by Staff reporter
Khupe fast embarrassing herself
I TRY to avoid the use of harsh words in expressing opinions about personalities, but I can't help but endorse the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union (ZCTU) secretarygeneral Japhet Moyo's description of...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:25hrs | 3562 | by Kennedy Kaitano
ZCTU dares Khupe over congress invite
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has vowed it will not entertain reinstated MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe who reportedly plans to hire the labour group to observe a party elective poll in S...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:18hrs | 3021 | by newzimbabwe
Chamisa has been hijacked, says Mashakada
Founding MDC member and Economic Planning former minister Tapiwa Mashakada recently left the MDC-Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa claiming the party had stopped being a workers' movement and that it had...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:44hrs | 9026 | by Staff reporter
Calls for civil society to be audited
ZANU PF-aligned Zimbabwe Citizens Forum (the Forum) has called for the auditing of civil society organisations (CSOs) operating in Zimbabwe to establish where they are getting their funding among othe...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 20:32hrs | 1010 | by Staff reporter
MDC jecha boys' tendency for mindless destruction
A walk along Harare's Simon Muzenda Street (formerly Forth Street), past a City of Harare paid parking lot, reveals a rusting body of a bus parked near the eastern part of the municipal space. ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:07hrs | 1872 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mnangagwa's solders fear crippling mass protests
THE security sector is on high alert, amid fears among authorities of crippling mass protests by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) - over the country's deteriorating economic situation....Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 14:55hrs | 2822 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans beaten raped and held as slaves in their own country
Zimbabwe is the only country we can call ours in the whole world. There is no other country we can call ours besides Zimbabwe. Having stayed outside Zimbabwe for a long time I became aware of the fact...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 10:35hrs | 2471 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe's security forces on high alert
The security sector is on high alert amid fears among authorities of crippling mass protests by the ZCTU. This comes after the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Association staged demonstrations in M...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 08:12hrs | 17805 | by Staff reporter
Weak ZCTU plots rolling protests
WORKERS' umbrella body, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) yesterday compounded President Emmerson Mnangagwa's woes by threatening countrywide protests against his government's failure to en...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:34hrs | 1574 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told to fix politics to save economy
BOTH political and economic experts have implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF to move with urgency to resolve Zimbabwe's long running political crisis if the deepening local economic rot ...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 17:19hrs | 6001 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU calls for stayaway
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has called on workers to stay at home, claiming they had received several reports of workers being harassed at army and police-manned checkpoints and faili...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 17:45hrs | 3956 | by Staff reporter
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