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Uber shutdown warning in South Africa
The National E-hailing Federation of South Africa (Nefsa) has warned that e-hailing drivers will down tools nationwide unless their demands regarding pay and working conditions are met.Speakin...Published: 29 Jul 2025 at 10:27hrs | 1335 | by Staff reporter
Zesa western region contract workers down tools
More than 30 contract workers operating hired vehicles for the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) in the western region have downed tools in protest over what they desc...Published: 11 Jul 2025 at 08:26hrs | 321 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers to embark on indefinite strike
Teachers under the Federation of Zimbabwe Educators Union (FOZEU) have notified the government of their intention to embark on an indefinite strike starting Tuesday, May 26, 2025, citing unresolved gr...Published: 24 May 2025 at 11:02hrs | 416 | by Staff reporter
Woman arrested for killing her disabled daughter
State agents outwitted at Artuz congressThe Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) successfully thwarted an attempt by State security agents to block its congress held in Jotsholo, L...Published: 29 Apr 2025 at 07:11hrs | 374 | by Staff reporter
UZ tells disgruntled staff to ignore strike
The University of Zimbabwe (UZ), armed with a Public Service, Labour and Social Ministry Show Cause Order, has instructed its staff to ignore the Association of University Teachers (AUT) call for coll...Published: 24 Mar 2025 at 05:28hrs | 2719 | by Staff reporter
UZ lecturers' strike averted
Public Service and Labour Minister Edgar Moyo stepped in on Friday to prevent a salary strike by University of Zimbabwe (UZ) lecturers, following their threats to down tools on Monday in demand for a ...Published: 22 Mar 2025 at 12:14hrs | 8916 | by Staff reporter
University of Zimbabwe lecturers threaten to down tools
Lecturers at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) have resolved to go on strike starting Monday, March 24, 2025, after university management failed to address their long-standing salary grievances. The edu...Published: 22 Mar 2025 at 06:27hrs | 486 | by Staff reporter
Mayor Jacob Mafume steps in to address nurses' grievances
Harare Mayor, Jacob Mafume, has stepped in to prevent a potential strike by council nurses, who had threatened to down tools over a series of welfare issues, a commission of inquiry into council opera...Published: 05 Feb 2025 at 11:58hrs | 137 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers get paltry US$20 wage hike
Teachers unions have declared a three-day strike starting this Wednesday in a bid to press for better wages after government recently offered a paltry US$20 increase on monthly salaries for civil serv...Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 14:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe varsity workers threaten strike over poor salaries
State university workers have threatened to down tools accusing the government of failing to pay decent salaries.The workers through their unions, the Zimbabwe State Universities Union of Acad...Published: 19 Feb 2024 at 04:54hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers divided over job action
DIVISIONS have rocked teacher unions over the fight for better salaries with the majority opting for dialogue with government to resolve a wage deadlock between them and their employer.Schools...Published: 08 Jan 2024 at 05:33hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Zimpapers staff down tools
Journalists and other staffers under Zimpapers' Bulawayo based divisions, Chronicle and Sunday News have downed tools after management announced cutting of allowances and further curtailment of other ...Published: 24 May 2023 at 17:13hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zupco in 6 months salary arrears
WORKERS at the State-owned Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) are up in arms with management over non-payment of salaries for almost six months.The workers are threatening job action....Published: 08 May 2023 at 06:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
1 000% pay hike for GMB workers
THE Grain Marketing Board (GMB) has been ordered to pay its least paid employee US$350 or the equivalent in local currency after it was dragged to the Arbitration Court.GMB workers were earnin...Published: 22 Mar 2023 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers' union vows full blown strike on Monday
TEACHERS are pressing ahead with industrial action slated for Monday, despite receiving a cost of living adjustment increment by government.Government dangled a 25 percent increase to the cost...Published: 24 Sep 2022 at 06:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grade 7 exams in limbo
ZIMBABWE Schools Examination Council (Zimsec)'s Grade Seven final examinations due to start on Monday could be plunged into chaos as teachers have threatened to down tools on the day to protest poor p...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 05:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe civil servants halt strike
GOVERNMENT sincerity will be put to the test this Friday when teachers receive their salaries.Government promised to increase civil servants' salaries this month and various workers unions say...Published: 13 Sep 2022 at 06:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA likely to get observer status in 2023 Zimbabwe elections
Through its participation in regional governance bodies, South Africa will likely act as an elections observer when Zimbabweans go to the polls in 2023.According to International Relations and...Published: 07 Sep 2022 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zwelinzima Vavi calls on all South Africans to join national shutdown on Wednesday
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) is calling on all South Africans to join their national shutdown on Wednesday.Thousands of workers affiliated with Saftu and Congress of So...Published: 22 Aug 2022 at 20:18hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP fails to pay mine workers for 4 months
WORKERS at Progress Mine in Filabusi, which is owned by Insiza North legislator Farai Taruvinga (Zanu-PF), have complained that the MP has not paid them for four months, forcing them to down tools....Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Construction workers mull strike
CONSTRUCTION workers have given a 72-hour notice to down tools if their salary demands are not met.In a memorandum, Zimbabwe Construction and Allied Trade Workers Union general-secretary Mucha...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 06:11hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe total shutdown looms
Zimbabwe's public service sector faces total shutdown this week over a salary deadlock as government maintains it cannot afford to meet their pay demands.Civil servants are demanding to be pai...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:12hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers, nurses down tools
TEACHERS and health professionals have vowed to go ahead with their planned industrial action today after snubbing a 100% salary hike offered by government in Zimbabwe.Salary talks between gov...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Can real leaders please stand up!
WHEN hospitals start turning away patients because of inadequate sundries, this should jolt any serious government to act.When the face of hospitals, which are the nurses, decide to down tools...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:29hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Hospitals turn away pregnant women
PUBLIC hospitals are reportedly turning away pregnant women due to lack of sundries needed for childbirth.The dire state of the country's health delivery system has prompted nurses to call for...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 08:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe nurses pile pressure on Mnangagwa
AN emerging union of nurses with a sound base of membership in Midlands and Matabeleland provinces has issued the government a two-week ultimatum to resolve grievances of the health workers or face a ...Published: 31 May 2022 at 12:27hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Ndiraya's suspension stinks
DYNAMOS have initiated negotiations with possible candidates to replace suspended head coach Tonderai Ndiraya.Ndiraya is unlikely to survive the storm at the Premiership football giants....Published: 23 May 2022 at 06:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa claims sabotage
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday appealed to the youth to expose businesses "sabotaging the economy" saying the prevailing economic crisis was being engineered to topple him.Speaking at ...Published: 06 May 2022 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Red tape blights civil servants' vehicle import scheme
EVERAL civil servants' vehicles imported under a duty-free scheme are stuck at the country's borders accumulating storage costs as the Finance and Economic Development ministry has not yet processed e...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 20:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's health workers down tools
ZIMBABWE'S troubled health sector is headed for paralysis after doctors, radiographers, nurses and other specialists yesterday boycotted on-call and night duties citing incapacitation.This cam...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
UZ employees down tools
UNIVERSITY of Zimbabwe (UZ) employees downed tools yesterday citing incapacitation.This follows a declaration of incapacitation by teachers since schools opened on February 7 as they demanded ...Published: 22 Feb 2022 at 05:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec markers down tools
ZIMBABWE Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) markers yesterday downed tools in dispute over allowances, which could delay the release of the 2021 Ordinary and Advanced Level results.The teach...Published: 22 Feb 2022 at 05:40hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans told to brace for more power cuts
ENERGY and Power Development deputy minister Magna Mudyiwa yesterday urged consumers to brace for more power cuts owing to a breakdown of machinery at the Hwange Thermal Power Station.Mudyiwa ...Published: 18 Feb 2022 at 05:35hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on verge of redollarisation?
GOVERNMENT's failure to resolve a perennial currency crisis could push Zimbabwe back into dollarisation, analysts warned yesterday.In the past year, markets have been increasingly rejecting th...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:33hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Furore over civil servants USD allowances
THE government has offered its employees and pensioners a Covid-19 risk allowance in United States dollars (USD) as it seeks to cushion them against the high cost of living but workers have scoffed at...Published: 07 Jan 2022 at 19:38hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Teachers down tools
HUNDREDS of teachers yesterday downed tools to launch their 12-day strike over poor salaries and conditions of service, but government claimed that the protest was largely unheeded.Teachers un...Published: 16 Nov 2021 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Brown Engineering workers down tools
Over a hundred Brown Engineering workers have downed tools over poor working conditions chief amongst them health and safety issues....Published: 01 Nov 2021 at 13:37hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Harare
Teachers stage online anti-govt demo
Members of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) yesterday staged online anti-government protests meant to coincide with the Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) anti-sancti...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 06:40hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Wage dispute threatens Hwange power station upgrades
A Chinese firm, SinoHydro Corporation, which is undertaking the refurbishment of Hwange Thermal Power Station is reportedly engaged in a wage dispute with its employees who accuse it of unfair labour ...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mineworkers demand US$600 pay per month
Mineworkers have demanded their pay base to be pegged at US$600 inclusive of their Covid 19 allowances.In a statement Zimbabwe Diamond Allied and Mineral Workers Union Secretary-general Justic...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 12:18hrs | 15 | by Stephen Jakes
Mine workers push for 270% salary hike
THE Zimbabwe Diamonds and Allied Workers Union of Zimbabwe (ZDAMWU) is pushing for a 270% salary increase that would see the least paid worker pocketing at least $65 000 per month.They are cur...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 05:25hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
ANC crumbles under Cyril Ramaphosa
UNDER President Cyril Ramaphosa, the ANC seems to be falling apart. The once-glorious movement seems to be a former shadow of its past. These sentiments are shared by, among others, the staff ...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Unions cast doubt on new school term
Two unions representing teachers yesterday cast doubts on the smooth re-opening of schools tomorrow, saying their members would not be able to go back to work because of poor pay.In a surprise...Published: 29 Aug 2021 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bosso players rubbish strike claims
HIGHLANDERS players have refuted claims circulating on social media that they threatened to strike over failure by the club to fulfill its January promise to raise their salaries by 78 percent....Published: 27 May 2021 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gweru City Council employees down tools
GWERU City Council workers have embarked on a strike after salary negotiations between their representatives and their employer collapsed.The two parties had been locked in negotiations since ...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Millers declare looming workers strike illegal
The Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) has warned employees representatives of the milling industry that their threats to embark on a nationwide...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 18:36hrs | 2 | by Paul Ndou
BCC exhausts US$33 million AfDB allocation
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) says it has exhausted the US$33 million received from the African Development Bank (AfDB) on various projects, forcing the contractor working on the Epping Forest water...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BCC workers down tools
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) workers yesterday downed tools citing incapacitation.The workers demanded a living wage based on the poverty datum line which is pegged at $20 000.The disgr...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 08:00hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Govt denying pfumvudza workers COVID-19 risk allowances
Agricultural extension officers around the country are threatening to down tools after government overlooked them on COVID-19 risk allowances, a source close to the matter told NewsDay.The ext...Published: 23 Dec 2020 at 07:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sit-in protest grounds city council
Bulawayo City Council workers staged a sit-in on Thursday and Friday protesting poor salaries and delays in payment of November salaries and bonus, a development that saw some people failing to access...Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
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