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Zimbabwe teachers suffer setback in salary demands
Teachers in Zimbabwe have faced a significant setback in their quest for improved salaries and working conditions, following the High Court's dismissal of their joint application against the governmen...Published: 09 Oct 2024 at 07:48hrs | 988 | by Staff reporter
Maybe if there had been no social media, Zimbabwe would be free today!
When I started writing these social justice articles way back in 1989, as a form three pupil, the world was a very different place.Those of us who had chosen this path - of speaking for the op...Published: 05 Nov 2023 at 13:23hrs | 10 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ZBC, a national embarrassment and huge shame on journalism!
Who can still remember the late great Bornwell Chakaodza?I can still see the images of the fiery no-nonsense renowned journalist and media lecturer - as he bombarded government officials on pe...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 18:06hrs | 9 | by by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa dragged to court
CIVIL servants through their respective trade unions have dragged to High Court President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the Public Service Commission and other officials over the manner in which their salaries ...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 19:42hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo's undying legacy
THE 1st of July 2023 marks 24 years since the passing away of Zimbabwe's former Vice-President of Zimbabwe, Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo, after a long battle with cancer.Nko...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 09:09hrs | | by Taona Blessing Denhere
Protests loom over Zimdollar implosion
Workers unions are agitating for a nationwide strike over the continued economic implosion that has been characterised by the spectacular collapse of the Zimbabwe dollar.The country is facing ...Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 21:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Labour quota system key to reducing future conflict in Zimbabwe
The current president of NMWUZ - National Mine Workers' Union of Zimbabwe, Mr Kurebwa Javangwe Nomboka during an interview on labour and the combined 2023 Presidential, Parliamentary and Local Governm...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 18:39hrs | 11 | by Maxwell Teedzai
Mnangagwa hails best world student team
ZIMBABWE's students are inspirational and continue conquering the world in various spheres raising the country's flag high in whatever endeavour and in the process earning commendation from President ...Published: 06 Jun 2022 at 09:39hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
End of the road for Tsvangirai's MDC
D-DAY has arrived for the MDC brand, with the electorate expected to decide its fate, as analysts say the iconic party associated with the firebrand Morgan Tsvangirai may disappear into oblivion if it...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
A golden gift from the political gods
If next year's watershed elections needed any divination, then the just-ended by-elections were the divine bones cast by a bone-thrower to provide a reading of the future.Well, they are a gold...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:27hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
ZIMTA files urgent chamber application challenging teacher suspensions
Zimbabwe Teachers' Association (ZIMTA) has filed an urgent chamber application with the High Court seeking to render suspension of teachers from duty null and void as the victims were not heard neithe...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 13:22hrs | 2 | by Lloyd Mangoh and Virginia Zifesho
The rise and fall of the MDC: Winners, losers and neutrals
AS Zimbabwe approaches crucial by-elections in March, which will test the strength of main contestants while determining the authentic opposition, there is no denying that the MDC, which has posed the...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:21hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Court cases backlog expected to ease as 18 magistrates are sworn in
EIGHTEEN magistrates were sworn-in on Monday by acting chief magistrate Faith Mushure in Harare, bringing the total number of magistrates to 235.The newly-sworn in magistrates; Hezel Tariro Ch...Published: 01 Dec 2021 at 05:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CJ Malaba intra-elite fights: Workers must seize the moment
Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister Ziyambi Ziyambi's unhinged, incendiary attack not only on perceived opposition-nominated judges but in particular "securocrat" stalwart High court Jud...Published: 18 May 2021 at 06:55hrs | | by Munyaradzi Gwisai
'Zanu-PF govt has failed democratic test'
GOVERNMENT was yesterday blasted for inheriting and maintaining colonial civic suppression tactics 41 years after independence.This came out during a virtual meeting conducted by SIVIO Institu...Published: 20 Apr 2021 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Recall of MPs is Mugabe's baby,' says Madhuku
THE provision of recalling legislators from Parliament, which has been widely used in recent months to decimate the opposition MDC Alliance should never have found its way in the 2013 Constitution, Lo...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff repporter
Activists plot demo at Harare Magistrates Courts
SEVERAL local human rights activists and civic society groups have threatened to storm the Harare Magistrates Courts today in protest against pro-democracy campaigner Makomborero Haruziviishe's convic...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 07:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
West's Zimbabwean political project crumbling
There is an interesting quotation from the Old Man in Charles Mungoshi's "Waiting for the Rain" (1975). It is a quotation that epitomises his lament about the alienation that has afflicted Lucifer, hi...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:13hrs | | by Ranga Mataire
Mnangagwa likely violated Constitution and must face the consequences
A major public controversy has erupted over the recent resignation of Vice President Kembo Mohadi over sexual impropriety scandals and President Mnangagwa not giving a public notice of the resignation...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 15:58hrs | 7 | by Munyaradzi Gwisai
Double trouble for Zimbabwe's poorly paid teachers
Zimbabwe's poorly paid teachers have little room to manoeuvre when trying to force a change in their work environment as the country's laws are heavily staked against government workers, a new report ...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why unity is unachievable for Chamisa's MDC
Leading to election 2018, we saw the formation of what is now called the MDC - Alliance on the backdrop of massive campaigning for a united front against Zanu-PF, not around a common cause or unity of...Published: 13 May 2019 at 08:47hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
GMB ex-employees turn on their lawyer
Former Grain Marketing Board (GMB) workers are at loggerheads with the lawyer who represented them after they were sacked on three months' notice in 2015 following the landmark Supreme Court ruling....Published: 03 May 2019 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
A dying (public) intellectualism in Zimbabwe
THE late Masipula Sithole taught me (and many others) how to perceive and think about our country, Zimbabwe's politics.Not only formally via the university lecture room, but also more signific...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 05:54hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
Gwisai roasts 'capitalist' Masiyiwa for faking national interest
ZIMBABWEANS must not be fooled by Econet founder Strive Masiyiwa when he talks about national interest as he was only concerned about profits, International Socialist Organisation (ISO) leader and fir...Published: 28 Feb 2019 at 06:21hrs | 1 | by newzimbabwe
Land developer sues Minister
A GWERU-based land developer, River Valley Properties (Pvt) Ltd is suing Midlands Provincial Affairs Minister Larry Mavima for $60 000 in defamation damages. River Valley Properties, whose dir...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 09:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Intern' doctors refuse to return to work
The negotiations between health workers and Government yesterday failed to lure striking doctors back to work as they insisted on their demands despite the employer offering to review their allowances...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 11:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Doctors take fight to Supreme Court
Following Saturday's ruling by the Labour Court declaring the strike by junior doctors illegal, the medical practitioners are escalating their case to the Supreme Court.Munyaradzi Gwisai, who ...Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 19:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Doctors' strike legal, says court
The Labour Court ruled on Friday that the ongoing strike by doctors was legal.The Court threw out an application in which the Health Services board (HSB) sought to have the strike deemed illeg...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 20:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Senior doctors join strike
SENIOR doctors have joined the strike by their juniors citing increased workload as the Labour Court spurned government attempts to declare the crippling industrial action by the medical professionals...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 10:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa badly wants a deal with Mnangagwa
FROM the time Nelson Chamisa entered mainstream politics as the youth chairman for the then newly formed MDC in 1999, his ambitions were quite evident. At the time all he was armed with was political ...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 06:19hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
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 | | by AT Kadada
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 | | by Tichaona Zindoga
Harare, workers declare deadlock
Harare City Council and its workers have declared a deadlock over demands by the employees for a pay rise at a time the local authority is planning to cut salaries.Harare Municipal Workers' Un...Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 11:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teachers sue property developer after stands deal sours
TWENTY-FOUR teachers under the Zimbabwe Teachers' Union (Zitu), have taken a Gweru-based leading property developer, River Valley Properties, to court for failing to deliver residential stands which t...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
A leader has been born in Chiredzi West Constituency
Located in the Lowveld, Chiredzi West constituency is a product of vast sugarcane plantation owned by Tongaat multinational company which employs more than twenty five thousand employees."Chiredzi Wes...Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 16:53hrs | 15 | by Khesani Mlilo
Gwisai acquitted in Mugabe ouster plot
FORMER Highfield legislator Munyaradzi Gwisai and five other activists who were six years ago convicted for conspiring to commit public violence, with a view to remove former President Robert Mugabe f...Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 09:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
High Court overturns conviction and sentence of activists arrested for plotting to topple Mugabe
The High Court of Zimbabwe has overturned conviction and sentence of six human rights activists who were arrested in 2011 for allegedly plotting a demonstration against the then government of Robert M...Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 19:41hrs | 7 | by Byo24News Reporter
Zimra accused of stifling export growth
Delays at border posts have seen Bulawayo companies accusing the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) of being an impediment to exports growth, as they say this has seen them losing business worth milli...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Picketing Hwange workers' wives vow to stay put
WOMEN rights groups in Harare yesterday demonstrated in solidarity with spouses of Hwange Colliery workers, who have been picketing at the company premises since January over their husbands' unpaid sa...Published: 11 May 2018 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teacher sues Zimta for $5 million
A TEACHER who sustained fractured ribs which resulted in her retiring on medical grounds following an accident involving a Zimbabwe Teachers’ Association (Zimta) vehicle she was travelling in is sui...Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 11:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Munyaradzi Gwisai savages Chamisa and his puppies
FORMER MDC MP and labour lawyer Munyaradzi Gwisai has launched a scathing attack at the main party's leader Nelson Chamisa and allies, describing them as a bunch of puppies that are always ready to wa...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 09:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe must swallow her pride and join Chamisa
I once opinied about the growing fissures within the most powerful opposition political party in Zimbabwe the Movement of Democratic Change -T and an immediate split. I was quickly dismissed and label...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 13:57hrs | | by Leonard Koni
3,200 'Green Bombers' bounce back
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has made a U-turn and re-engaged Zanu-PF's dreaded national youth service graduates, derisively called known as Green Bombers to their positions as youth offi...Published: 12 Apr 2018 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bid to evict workers' spouse from protesting over outstanding salaries flops
HIGH Court Judge Justice Lavender Makoni on Tuesday dealt a major blow to Hwange Colliery Company (HCC)'s bid to evict and bar spouses of mineworkers from protesting over payment of outstanding wages ...Published: 01 Mar 2018 at 07:46hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Tsvangirai left an incomplete legacy
IN Morgan Tsvangirai's final journeys and last orders, there's something quintessentially Zimbabwean.He went to Johannesburg, the city with the largest concentration of Zimbabweans living abro...Published: 26 Feb 2018 at 05:49hrs | | by Percy Zvomuya
Violent send off for Morgan Tsvangirai
With soaring freedom songs and poignant memories, tens of thousands of mourners yesterday paid tribute to opposition leader and freedom icon Morgan Tsvangirai at an emotional farewell in Harare, with ...Published: 21 Feb 2018 at 01:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
More drama at Tsvangirai send-off
MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai's mother caused a scene at Robert Mugabe Square in Harare yesterday when she refused to disembark from the hearse carrying her son's body at a send-off ceremony for p...Published: 20 Feb 2018 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Arthur Mutambara pens new book on Zimbabwe politics
Sapes Books, to be launched in Harare on June 14 2017 is a most welcome addition to the Sapes Books' stable of illustratious autobiographies/biographies: Elijah Mudenda (Zambia: A Generation of Strugg...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 08:14hrs | | by Ibbo Mandaza
Tsvangirai's former aide sees 2018 coalition defeat
Former MDC-T top official turned academic Dr Toendepi Shonhe has predicted grand defeat for a coalition of opposition parties in next year's harmonised elections, arguing that the opposition suffers i...Published: 09 May 2017 at 06:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai: Grand defeat or a grand face-saver?
FIVE issues have had a profound influence in the writing of this piece; President Mugabe says the opposition faces a grand defeat in 2018.Zanu-PF wins Mwenezi East by-election: yet another mas...Published: 12 Apr 2017 at 06:26hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
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