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Civil servants push for another wage hike
Civil Servants have made fresh wage demands on the government as Zimbabwe's economy battles rising inflation and a weakening domestic currency.Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe secretary...Published: 52 mins ago | 112 | by Staff reporter
Region turns heat on Mnangagwa
SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa has voiced his concern over the deteriorating situation in Zimbabwe that has seen a spike in State-sponsored abductions, arrests and torture of opposition activ...Published: 14 hrs ago | 4872 | by Staff reporter
'Chiwenga best hands to cure ailing health sector'
SMALL and Medium Enterprises minister Sithembiso Nyoni says Vice President Constantino Chiwenga was ideal for the highly demanding health ministry portfolio.President Emmerson Mnangagwa Tuesda...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 13:12hrs | 1842 | by newzimbabwe
Hunger stalks Plumtree villagers
BULILIMA traditional leader Chief Masendu has called on the government and non-governmental organisations to strengthen social protection systems to complement traditional leaders' efforts in assistin...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:22hrs | 823 | by Staff reporter
Ruling on NetOne chief's firing reserved
THE High Court has reserved ruling in the case in which NetOne chief executive Lazarus Muchenje is challenging the decision by the company's board to fire him on three months' notice last month, hours...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:01hrs | 421 | by Staff reporter
Poverty fighting...our generational struggle
Every generation has its own unique Struggle to fight for without shame or apology. Born Free from Colonial rule we are chained by Poverty. We have no jobs and by 2030 when we are in our 50s, unable t...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 18:00hrs | 318 | by Lynnette Tendayi Mudehwe
Chamisa's MDC Alliance criticise appointment of unqualified Chiwenga
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday appointed his deputy Constantino Chiwenga as the new health minister, tasking him with reforming a decaying health sector amid a rise in Covid-19 infections and...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 22:23hrs | 3956 | by Reuters
WATCH: Zimbabwe's new Minister of Health General Chiwenga talking about doctors
The newly appointed Minister of Health and Child Care General Constantino Guvheya Dominic Nyikadzino Chiwenga has set social media with Zimbabweans reposting a video of him mocking doctors...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 18:47hrs | 8768 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabweans see little change after leadership shift
WHEN the late Robert Mugabe was ousted as President of Zimbabwe in a coup in November 2017. many in the country hoped or an end to the repression and mismanagement that had characterised his 37 years ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 08:00hrs | 1633 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chamisa talks now overdue, says Hlatshwayo
THE much anticipated political talks between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and main opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa are now overdue and remain the only solution to Zimbabwe's socio-econom...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:57hrs | 2483 | by Staff reporter
Shutdown continues amid tension
Security forces for the third day running yesterday blocked people from entering business districts in major cities as authorities feared an uprising over corruption and misgovernance.Tensions...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:42hrs | 7056 | by Staff reporter
British MP calls for more sanctions against Mnangagwa
BRITISH MP and former anti-apartheid campaigner Peter Hain has urged the British government to extend sanctions against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime because of "escalating human rights violat...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:03hrs | 1144 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa begs health workers
Health workers should put the nation first in the fight to contain Covid-19, President Mnangagwa said yesterday when assuring them that Government was attending to their grievances. In a movin...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 07:53hrs | 6793 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans labour under Zanu-PF debt concrete slab
ONE thing that makes me smile when I think constitutional democracy an elected government that shows unwavering love for its citizens. In perfect liberal or social democracies, elected governments fea...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:56hrs | 252 | by Rejoice Ngwenya, Comaliso
Nurses' strike illegal, says HSB
THE Health Services Board (HSB) has slated the month-long industrial action by nurses as illegal saying they rushed to withdraw labour without sufficient notice. HSB, through the Attorney-Gene...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:28hrs | 289 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants struggle to use US$75 allowances
CIVIL servants are facing challenges utilising US$75 deposited into their accounts by Government as a flat non-taxable Covid-19 monthly allowance. The news crew understands that those who rece...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:52hrs | 1411 | by Staff reporter
Vela piles pressure on BDO Zimbabwe
FORMER National Social Security Authority (NSSA) chairperson Robin Vela has threatened to sue BDO International if it fails to distance itself from a 2019 audit report by BDO Zimbabwe on the pay-as-yo...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 09:21hrs | 593 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance shows police the middle finger...vows to defy ZRP directives
MDC Alliance has written a letter to Zimbabwe Republic Police Spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi informing him that its members will not be reporting to the police after an advert was cir...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 12:12hrs | 5134 | by Mandla Ndlovu
2020 Mid Term Budget Hits and Misses
The 2020 mid-term budget and economic review was delivered amid high inflation levels and declining economic productivity that has been worsened by the Corona Virus pandemic. The Zimbabwean economy is...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 20:38hrs | 1145 | by Victor Bhoroma
Judges attack CJ Malaba
HIGH Court judges have come out against Chief Justice Luke Malaba for directing them to present their judgments to the Judge President or himself before delivering them, saying his actions were meant ...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:52hrs | 5757 | by Staff reporter
Zesa boss faces corruption probe
ENERGY minister Fortune Chasi says he has been alerted to fresh corruption allegations at Zesa Holdings (Zesa) - and specifically being perpetrated by executive chairperson Sydney Gata - and which the...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 16:20hrs | 1108 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers now the least paid civil servants
Teachers are worried about the difference between their salaries and those of other civil servants such as the armed forces after noticing that they have become the least paid among the government wor...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:20hrs | 6461 | by Stephen Jakes
Zim govt exposed, again, for its frivolous and unsubstantiated accusations of activists being Western-sponsored illegal regime c
What I love so much about the Zimbabwe regime's live televised press conferences, and parliamentary debates, is the way top government officials shamelessly stutter, struggle, and outrightly fail to a...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:58hrs | 260 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
James Makamba eyes huge comeback
NATHAN Shamuyarira, Webster Shamu, James Makamba and Supa Mandiwanzira are some of the names that easily come to mind as having made the successful transition from journalism into the murky world of b...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:55hrs | 1637 | by Staff reporter
July 31 will definitely come
Well, July 31 is now five days away; it will come and go largely without incident, but it simply represents the largely mutating strategies of the country's sworn enemies.EONS ago, on one fine...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:55hrs | 1967 | by Bishop
Zinef condemns arrest of Chin'ono
Zinef has issued a statement castigating arresting of investigative journalist Hopewell Chin'ono as targeting at silencing the voice of reason in exposing deep-rooted corruption. Below is the ...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 07:47hrs | 377 | by Stephen Jakes
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 | 7343 | by Staff reporter
Mobocracy, 'dofocracy' and the myth of new dispensation
"WE spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny is rampant." Mwalimu Julius Nyerere.Dofocracy/DomocracyIn Shona a dofo is...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:16hrs | 1396 | by Brian T Kagoro
'Mnangagwa ignoring silent genocide at public hospitals'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has been accused of ignoring the plight of striking nurses and other health workers leading to a "silent genocide" at public hospitals.The situation h...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:11hrs | 738 | by Staff reporter
African judges condemn Justice Malaba's directive
The Africa Judges and jurists Forum (AJIF) has today expressed a firm view that paragraph 2(iv) of the Hon Chief Justice Malaba's memorandum of 16 July 2020 in its original or amended form, directing ...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 15:56hrs | 7539 | by Africa Judges and jurists Forum
200 nurses, doctors contract COVID-19
ABOUT 200 health workers have tested positive to COVID-19, forcing some hospitals to shut down as government continues to dither on its promise to avail adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) to...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:48hrs | 3001 | by Staff reporter
Human Rights lawyers take Justice Malaba head on
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights have condemned the directive by Chief Justice Luke Malaba that judgements of the High Courts and Labour Court be seen by the Head of Court or Division, before such Ju...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 12:11hrs | 3531 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'State did not demand repay US$ b RBZ loans, all above board' said Gono - essence of institutionalised corruption
After decades of denying that corruption was rampant is Zimbabwe, Mugabe shocked the nation in his 2016 birthday interview with ZBC TV when he admitted the country was "been swindled out of US$15 bill...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 11:45hrs | 1493 | by Wilbert Mukori
Welshman Ncube, Khupe also benefitted from RBZ looting programme
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: THE 2007/8 Farm Mechanisation Programme was above board: Taxpayers not saddled with the Bill.First of all, I must express my prima-facie disappointment with my bro...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:24hrs | 7384 | by Dr Gideon Gono
Zimbabwe embassy dismisses US trafficking report
THE Chinese Embassy in Harare has dismissed claims by the United States in its 2020 Trafficking in Persons Report that some Chinese companies operating in the country are using forced labour.I...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:21hrs | 934 | by Staff reporter
Gono slams Magaisa for ignorance
The Farm Mechanisation Programme of 2007 was above board, was funded from Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe funds with beneficiaries never expected to repay the sums, and taxpayers were not saddled with the bi...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:20hrs | 779 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants start receiving US$ salaries
CIVIL servants and Government pensioners have started receiving US$75 and US$30 Covid-19 relief allowances respectively as part of an initiative to cushion them from skyrocketing prices of goods....Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 07:37hrs | 2985 | by Staff Reporter
Chief Justice Malaba bows to public pressure
Chief Justice Luke Malaba has made a U-turn on his directive compelling all High Court and Labour courts to first subject their judgments to him or the Judge President before being handed down.Mal...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 14:15hrs | 7511 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chief Justice Malaba to approve all High Court judgments before being handed down
Chief Justice Luke Malaba has issued an order compelling all High Court and Labour courts to first subject their judgments to him or the Judge President before being handed down. Malaba justif...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 21:22hrs | 3999 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa orders Ncube to arm riot police
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has instructed Treasury to urgently buy a fleet of brand new vehicles for the police, including all-terrain troop carriers, water cannons, buses and equipment used by riot...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:51hrs | 14837 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's reality check
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube will today present the Mid Term Fiscal Statement.The outbreak of the novel coronavirus, which is also known as Covid-19, disrupted business both in the public and...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 08:03hrs | 4948 | by Staff reporter
Showdown looms over US$ salaries
Civil servants have requested a post-Mid-Term Fiscal Policy review meeting with the ministries of Finance and Public Service Labour and Social Welfare and central bank chief John Mangudya as they push...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 08:02hrs | 6780 | by Staff reporter
New twist to NetOne case
NETONE chief executive Lazarus Muchenje yesterday got a second reprieve after the High Court suspended the termination of his employment contract until the NetOne board has a chance to file its reply ...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 07:40hrs | 634 | by Staff reporter
What's happening in the MDC?
THE opposition MDC party has always commanded public attention since it burst onto the scene two decades ago. Led by Morgan Tsvangirai, who given his labour background and humble persona, gave the imp...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 08:31hrs | 4620 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo records rise in home births
BULAWAYO has recorded a 53 percent increase in the number of women who deliver at home or on their way to a health institution owing to Covid-19. Home births are a leading cause of maternal an...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 08:13hrs | 715 | by Staff reporter
'We will deal with you,' Mnangagwa threatens
IN AN ominous warning, President Emmerson Mnangagwa says the government will deal ruthlessly with opposition parties, civil society organisations and foreign missions that are allegedly bent on destab...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:19hrs | 12880 | by Staff reporter
North Korean 'forced labour' in Zimbabwe, claims US
THE United States says some North Koreans may have been forced to work in Zimbabwe by their government amid concerns of human trafficking in the country.According to the 2020 Trafficking in Pe...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:04hrs | 1197 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF will not brook anarchy'
The ruling party will not stand idle as opposition activists promote anarchy but will respond appropriately to any threats to the country's peace, ZANU-PF acting spokesman Patrick Chinamasa has said....Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:35hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
Muchenje reinstated and fired as NetOne CEO
NetOne chief executive officer Mr Lazarus Muchenje's turbulent tenure at the helm of the State-owned mobile telecommunications company ended dramatically yesterday after he was fired barely 24 hours a...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:02hrs | 1114 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube walks a tightrope
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube is expected to present a mid-term fiscal review statement next week. The country is on edge, as the steepest economic decline in living memory wreaks havoc. Even the hype...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:12hrs | 4452 | by Staff reporter
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