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Zimbabwean migrants lose jobs in SA after raid on spaza shops
Zimbabweans working in South Africa's spaza shops are facing hardship following a series of raids targeting foreign-owned tuckshops after allegations of food poisoning incidents, which have left child...Published: 04 Dec 2024 at 06:51hrs | 358 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe starts stockpiling lithium, says Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe has to do more than ban export of lithium and other ores, insisting on processing locally before export, but now needs focused research and development towards transforming ores into domestic...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 23:40hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF accuse the US of 'barbarism and cowardice'
Zanu-PF has accused the United States (US) of "barbarism and cowardice" after Washington added President Emmerson Mnangagwa's son, Junior, three individuals and two business entities on its sanctions ...Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fossil retrenches 2000 employees
The recent placement of Fossil Group on Sanctions by United States has pushed the firm to lay off more than 2000 employees. United States of America put Fossil on sanctions list ami...Published: 13 Dec 2022 at 14:35hrs | 9 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Harare
Over 400 workers lose jobs to bank digitisation
AT least 321 bank workers were retrenched between 2020 and 2021 while a further 119 are set to be laid off this year as the sector embraces digital transformation, amid calls to retrain staff to take ...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 16:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Makandiwa endorses 'mark of the beast' drive
United Family International Church leader Emmanuel Makandiwa yesterday became the latest evangelical Christian leader to endorse vaccination against Covid-19 and urged his followers to get vaccinated,...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
IMF rules out Zimbabwe bailout
Fund International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday said it would not move an inch from its position that Zimbabwe did not qualify for financial bailouts even after clearing its debts to the global le...Published: 18 Jun 2021 at 07:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Half a million Zimbabweans lose jobs
ABOUT 500 000 Zimbabweans have lost their jobs since the Covid-19 pandemic broke out last year igniting de-industrialisation, the World Bank (WB) said, as it revealed extensive food shortages and wors...Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Business frets over third Covid-19 wave
BUSINESS is fretting over the possibility of a Covid-19 third wave, with captains of industry warning this week another stringent lockdown would push the economy over the brink.There have been...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 07:53hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
147,000 kombi workers lose jobs
OVER 140 000 workers in the transport sector in the capital lost their jobs owing to measures put in place by the government to curtail the Covid-19 pandemic, the secretary-general of Greater Harare C...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 16:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
West to impose sanctions on South Africa if Ramaphosa is removed
Lately, there has been rising positive publicity on Zimbabwe and rising negativity on South Africa by international and white media.Just recently, the world bank released unemployment numbers ...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 14:12hrs | 3 | by Rutendo Ben Matinyararire
Fears as xenophobic attacks to increase in South Africa
Xenophobic attacks are looming in South Africa after the country's President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa announced this week that there will be massive job losses in the country due to the technological ...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 13:05hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mugabe, Zanu-PF in their own world
The people of Zimbabwe have had enough of Zanu pf yet the party claims they are the answer to the country, s economic woos. Mugabe, in power for 37 years, says he ought to be in power. Bot...Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 06:39hrs | 2 | by Albert T Kadada
Roadblocks resurfaces
POLICE Spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba has urged the public not to be dismayed by the resurfacing of the roadblocks saying Government has put in place drastic measures to c...Published: 14 Mar 2018 at 06:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Councillors fear to lose jobs over political party ideas
Harare Residents Trust has said the political party aligned running of councils is going against individual's conscience as Councillors fear to lose their position if they go against their party...Published: 16 Nov 2016 at 07:00hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Police chief accused of benefiting from Tongaat land as demo is thwarted
A senior Police chief at Masvingo Central Police Station (name supplied) is a beneficiary of land grabbed from Tongaat Hulett hence her interest to thwart demonstrations against appropriation of t...Published: 10 Oct 2016 at 14:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
55,000 workers lose jobs in three years, but Zanu-PF promised 2m jobs
A TOTAL of 55 000 workers lost their jobs in the past three years due to various reasons that include lack of financial resources to keep the companies afloat, Parliament has heard. In a report on the...Published: 08 Aug 2016 at 07:03hrs | | by Bianca Mlilo
NRZ strike was a blessing in disguise, over 1000 workers to lose jobs
National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) board chairman Larry Mavima has praised the recent crippling strike saying it was an eye opener.He said it made them realise they can operate with few worke...Published: 29 Jun 2016 at 06:00hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Mugabe to resolve Tongaat fields grabbing
President Robert Mugabe has visited the sugar-producing town of Chiredzi on Saturday with one of his chief missions being to resolve a planned takeover of 4 000 hectares of sugarcane fields from Tonga...Published: 28 Jun 2016 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
2 000 to lose jobs as Govt takes over 4000 hectares
The country which is facing a serious unemployment crisis could see another 2 000 employees losing jobs in the next few weeks as Government has started moves to take away a further 4 000 hectares ...Published: 27 May 2016 at 15:23hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
'Less than 5 000' attended the man march, says Gutu - ostrich with head buried in the sand
We have all heard of the expression "of the ostrich burying its head in the sand" meaning someone who is refusing to confront or acknowledge a problem. With the MDC ostrich the expression has assumed ...Published: 26 May 2016 at 17:19hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Pro-Mujuru officers to lose jobs
Hundreds of youth officers in Mashonaland East Province are set to lose their jobs as top Zanu-PF officials are accusing them of supping with former Vice President Joice Mujuru's opposition ZimPF. ...Published: 29 Mar 2016 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Thousands of teachers lose jobs
THOUSANDS of teachers whose contracts were not renewed will only be considered for employment if vacancies arise after the rationalisation of the teaching establishment being done by the government, t...Published: 16 Jan 2016 at 16:11hrs | | by Felex Share
Mugabe's nephew guns for Chinamasa
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's nephew, Patrick Zhuwao, has issued a thinly-veiled attack on fellow Cabinet ministers - particularly Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa and other senior government offici...Published: 01 Oct 2015 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sibanda wants to meet Mugabe to appease the tyrant - a fundamental MDC weakness
Jabulani Sibanda revealed the fundamental flaw in his thinking which goes a long way to explain why we are in this political and economic mess."If he (Mugabe) calls me I will go and meet him, ...Published: 11 Sep 2015 at 13:39hrs | 3 | by Wilbert Mukori
Compensation for fired workers
Thousands of workers dismissed on three month notices will be entitled to compensation for termination of their contracts if the labour amendment bill gazetted last Friday becomes law. Leg...Published: 17 Aug 2015 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fired workers entitled to compensation
The thousands of workers dismissed on three-month notices will be entitled to compensation for termination of their contracts, if the Labour Amendment Bill gazetted last Friday becomes law.Leg...Published: 16 Aug 2015 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
'10,000 To Lose Jobs' Over TB Joshua
According to a report from Nigerian newspaper, ‘The Nation', up to 10,000 hospitality workers in the Ikotun-Egbe suburb of Lagos State are faced with imminent unemployment.The Pilgrims H...Published: 10 Jul 2015 at 11:50hrs | 1 | by Ihechukwu Njoku, a freelance journalist, wrote in from Lagos, Nigeria
7000 workers lose jobs in 2014
A total of 7 000 employees in Zimbabwe lost their jobs through retrenchments in 2014 as the country's economy continues to weaken.fin24 reported that according to figures from the National Soc...Published: 29 Jun 2015 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff Reporter
ZCTU gears for workers day celebration
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) is gearing itself to mark the workers day celebrations across its regional centres across the country amid outcry by workers that they have nothi...Published: 28 Apr 2015 at 06:06hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe is testimony of failure, says Tsvangirai
MDC-T president Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday made sensational claims that his party has obtained intelligence that government will retrench 200 000 out of its estimated 350 000 civil servants by year e...Published: 17 Apr 2015 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Econet loses tariff appeal
Mobile telecommunications giant Econet Wireless was last Friday forced to eat a humble pie when the Supreme Court quizzed how its lawyers filed a hopeless case as an appeal. Econet had so...Published: 25 Mar 2015 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
More Zanu PF big wigs to lose jobs
HARARE - STATE broadcaster ZBC/Ztv has warned that more government ministers are expected to lose their jobs as President Mugabe purges his cabinet of allies of ousted vice president Joice Mujuru....Published: 10 Dec 2014 at 12:12hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Grace - a useful fool?'
Those who recently allowed Grace Mugabe frequent access to the microphone did the nation a great favour by exposing the brainless dwarf that hides behind her well-groomed body. Given her enterta...Published: 20 Oct 2014 at 19:54hrs | | by Moses Chamboko
Troubled Bulawayo firms unlikely to open anytime soon
SOME troubled Bulawayo firms are unlikely to open anytime soon due to the prevailing difficult economic environment, 'The Standard' reported on Sunday.Some companies in Bulawayo sent workers h...Published: 05 Jan 2014 at 08:04hrs | 2 | by Business Reporter
MDC-T to stop people empowerment policies!, as minister says he is too old for politics
THE Movement for Democratic Change formation led by Morgan Tsvangirai will stop the indigenization and empowerment policy if it wins the forthcoming harmonized elections scheduled to take place o...Published: 14 Jul 2013 at 09:57hrs | 2 | by Busani Ncube
Join the winning team, Tsvangirai
It can no longer be wished away that we are a people and nation whose being is now defined by our pursuit of economic emancipation and attainment of prosperity. Zimbabwe's black majority, emerging fro...Published: 07 Aug 2012 at 06:04hrs | | by Rangu Nyamurundira
Arthur Mutambara, Elton Mangoma clash over Green Fuel
DEPUTY Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara and Energy and Power Development Minister Elton Mangoma have clashed over the issue of Green Fuel, with the latter taking a hard-line stance by declaring the pr...Published: 26 May 2012 at 03:52hrs | | by Fingaz
MDC-T destroys Bulawayo factory
---1200 workers lose jobs MORE than a thousand workers have been left jobless after two city companies that are heavily owed by the Movement for D...Published: 27 Mar 2012 at 10:42hrs | | by Busani Ncube
Let Bulawayo manage Distressed Industries Fund
Zimbabwe's $40 million Distressed Industries and Marginalised Areas Fund (Dimaf) created to bailout Bulawayo industries is in danger of itself failing unless the Government urgently hands over the pro...Published: 20 Feb 2012 at 06:23hrs | 4 | by Innocent Ndibali
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