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White-led DA party seal South Africa unity pact with ANC
The African National Congress and its largest rival, the white-led, pro-business Democratic Alliance, agreed on Friday to work together in South Africa's new government of national unity, a step chang...Published: 15 Jun 2024 at 13:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe carbon credit deal raises stink
THE deal in which the Zimbabwean government is selling large tracts of forests in a carbon credits to the United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based company, Blue Carbon, lacks fairness and transparency, a glob...Published: 14 Dec 2023 at 03:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
African countries stand firm on fossil fuels
The African Group of Negotiators is calling for an outcome that allows Africa to exploit its fossil fuels including coal, oil and gas to eradicate poverty while also funding renewable energy projects....Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 17:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa expected in Dubai for COP28
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa left Harare for Dubai last night and is expected to join other Heads of State and Government today at the official opening of the 28th Conference of Parties to the United Nations F...Published: 01 Dec 2023 at 04:52hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
No joy for Zimbabwe civil servants
NEGOTIATIONS for a salary hike between government and civil servants have continued to drag as they are yet to reach a "conclusive" agreement.Government and the Zimbabwe Confederation of Publi...Published: 11 Jul 2023 at 07:40hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt workers reject US$50 increment
GOVERNMENT workers reportedly rejected a US$50 salary increment offered by their employer during the National Joint Negotiating Council (NJNC) negotiations held last week Friday.Government had...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean national, wife and girlfriend among suspects arrested for kidnapping of SA businessman
A Zimbabwean national, his wife and girlfriend are among suspects arrested for the kidnapping of a Midrand businessman.Five suspects, including a Zimbabwean national, his wife, girlfriend, and...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 08:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean arrested in Mpumalanga for kidnapping, and demanding ransom
Police in Mpumalanga have arrested a 43-year-old undocumented Zimbabwean national, and charged him with kidnapping, extortion, armed robbery, and illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition....Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 09:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kidnappers arrested after demanding R50,000 ransom for Zimbabwean truck driver
Another truck driver, aged 42, who became a victim of kidnapping in Mpumalanga has been rescued by police in Komatipoort.Two suspects aged 25 and 28 were arrested on Friday."The truck ...Published: 18 Dec 2022 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
USD pay rise for Zimbabwe civil servants
GOVERNMENT has offered a 25 percent salary increment to civil servants in United States dollar terms which will result in State employees getting US$200 effectively this month.The workers have...Published: 21 Sep 2022 at 05:59hrs | 1 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police fail to break nurses' strike
GOVERNMENT yesterday dispatched riot police with dogs at Harare's Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals in a futile attempt to stop nurses from protesting against low salaries and poor working conditions....Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
100% pay rise for Zimbabwe civil servants
Government will effect a 100 percent salary increment for civil servants next month, while public sector workers will continue enjoying the US$175 allowances introduced last year.A meeting of ...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 10:02hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe mine workers get 108% wage hike
ZIMBABWE'S mining industry workers have been awarded a 108,5% wage hike following collective bargaining negotiations, which will see the lowest paid employee in the sector earning $93 074 per month....Published: 23 May 2022 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sanctions on Russia expose West's double standards
Sanctions, whether targeted or not should be considered a crime against humanity, their impact is like that of a full-fledged war.Sanctions have the capacity to destroy a nation's infras...Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 05:32hrs | 13 | by Prosperity Mzila
Mine workers understate 46% wage increment
HARARE - NMWUZ - National Mines Workers Union Of Zimbabwe has vehemently rejected the 46 percent wage increment recently awarded the already financially struggling mineworkers by COMZ - Chamber ...Published: 07 Mar 2022 at 06:25hrs | 6 | by Maxwell Teedzai
Paltry income for mine workers - NMWUZ rejects NEC wage adjustment
National Mine Workers Union of Zimbabwe Acting President Mr Kurebwa Javangwe Nomboka has trashed and rejected NEC - National Employment Council's recent 24.5 percent minimum wage increase which he lab...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 13:58hrs | | by Maxwell Teedzai
Jacob Zuma's jail case was a golden opportunity: a catalyst to real issues
Criminals have taken a golden opportunity to hide behind another criminal who disdained the nation's constitution he once presided. Chinua Achebe writes about corruption in Nigeria's early independenc...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 18:40hrs | 18 | by Nomazulu Thata
South Africans thought they were better Africans than black Africa: Thanks Zuma has set the record straight
"All of us must thank Jacob Zuma for introducing African Republic of South Africa and not some outpost of European values." This comes from a Sowetan column sent to me by a friend. The article is an i...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 16:17hrs | 16 | by Nomazulu Thata
Professor Jonathan Moyo, why do you want us to participate in flawed elections to give vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy?
"Some people have said to me, 'If you want us to believe you are no longer working for Zanu PF then tell us how Zanu PF rigged the elections!’ They say that expecting some Mafia like, Movie like, wa...Published: 19 May 2021 at 07:10hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Constitution changes: Understanding the history and motivation
There are extensive deliberations back and forth in May, June and July 2012, resulting in Copac (Constitution Parliamentary Committee) formally adopting a draft national constitution on July 21....Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 07:56hrs | | by Arthur Mutambara
Negotiations continue as teachers report for duty
REPRESENTATIVES of Government workers have not called for a strike and expect all teachers to report for duty this week while negotiations for a cost of living adjustment with their employer continue....Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's push for Chamisa to join Polad a nullity
YOUR Excellency, President ED Mnangagwa.In my self-opinionated response to a recent media report where Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu said MDC Alliance president Nelson Chami...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 06:19hrs | | by Paddington Japajapa
Chifamba appointed ambassador to US
President Mnangagwa has appointed career diplomat and former ambassador to the European Union, Mr Tadeous Tafirenyika Chifamba, as Zimbabwe's new ambassador to the United States. Ambassador Ch...Published: 24 Oct 2020 at 07:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean economy unlocked to empower Zimbabwean
A large proportion of Zimbabweans if not 99,9 % are still trapped in poverty post-1980 since gaining independence from the colonial regime.One of the reasons of poverty faced by Zimbabweans cu...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 06:16hrs | | by Mandla Nkala
Mugabe 'a true monster' says ex-Lancaster House negotiator
George Walden, one of the British negotiators at the Lancaster House Agreement in 1979, which set up a constitution for Zimbabwe at the end of white-minority rule, said he had seen Mr Mugabe in his "b...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 10:04hrs | | by BBC
ANC speaks on Robert Mugabe's death
The African National Congress mourns the passing of our brother Comrade President Robert Gabriel Mugabe, who passes away having devoted his life to the service of his country and his people.In...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 09:09hrs | 3 | by ANC
Doctors threatened over strike
Suspected state security agents have allegedly been sending threatening messages to leaders of unions representing doctors in a bid to force the medical professionals to drop plans to go on strike on ...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 15:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's meeting disaster in Japan
The Local Solutions Council would like to register its outrage at the prima facie evidence of inadequate preparation by President Mnangagwa and his delegation at the 7th TICAD meeting being held from ...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 23:53hrs | 6 | by Darlington Nyambiya
Mnangagwa govt pay offer divides civil servants
SHARP divisions have emerged within the civil service following the decision by the Apex Council to accept a paltry 76% pay hike from their employer at a time the workers wanted an over 400% pay hike....Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Civil servants in Mnangagwa salary U-turn
ZIMBABWE'S impoverished civil servants yesterday made a volte-face and embraced a 76% salary adjustment made by their employer, hardly a week after they scoffed at the offer, describing it as falling ...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government, Apex Council meet to continue negotiations
GOVERNMENT and Apex Council negotiators are set to meet to continue with negotiations that will culminate in an agreement over civil servants' cushioning allowances. The proposed meeting of ne...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Paltry salary increment angers farm workers
THE agriculture national employment council approved wage increase for farm workers of between ZW$195 and ZW$390 for varying grades, has infuriated unions who feel the adjustment was far below expecta...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe civil servants reject $21 million pay rise - union
Zimbabwe's government on Tuesday offered its workers 180 million Zimbabwe dollars ($21 million) in additional pay for the July-December period, which unions rejected as inadequate in the face of soari...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 07:32hrs | | by Reuters
Muzamhindo pushes for National Dialogue Forum
AbstractThe document considers the potential for National Dialogue Forum to create substantial development outcomes to go beyond immediate political, economic and development settlements. Usin...Published: 29 May 2019 at 16:46hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Dabengwa: Zimbabwe's intelligence Czar
On the night of August 15, 2011, I attended the launch of Wilfred Mhanda's (nom de guerre Dzinashe Machingura) memoir, Dzino: Memories of a Freedom Fighter in Harare. Mhanda was an important figure in...Published: 29 May 2019 at 08:00hrs | | by Blessing Miles-Tendi
No foreign mediation in Mnangagwa-led talks
A SPIRITED effort by smaller opposition parties which joined Zanu-PF and President Emmerson Mnangagwa's political dialogue to rope in a foreign and neutral mediator hit a brick wall after their princi...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 17:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa arrives
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa arrived in the country last night ahead of today's third session of the Zimbabwe-South Africa Bi-National Commission Summit in Harare. President Ramapho...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe to Mnangagwa: From frying pan into fire?
A time comes when overwhelmed Africans desperately desire to see a change in leadership and don't pay rapt attention to the details of the next leadership provided it is a new face. This despe...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 13:51hrs | | by Omolola Lipede
Stay away and Looting in Zimbabwe: A narrative created to push for a national dialogue
Zimbabwe does not get tired to engage into processes that will help the corrupt and governance failures survive another day. As I write this article I have no doubt in my mind that what is happening n...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 20:10hrs | 1 | by Dumisani Mpofu
Apex Council backs off strike threat
Zimbabwe's main public sector workers' union, Apex Council, has backed off plans for a national strike, with chairperson Cecilia Alexander saying the divided civil servants had failed to reach a...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 09:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Civil servants give Mnangagwa 48-ultimatum
Public sector unions on Monday gave the government a 48-hour ultimatum to make a new salary offer or face a strike after wage negotiations reached a deadlock, raising the prospect of more unrest follo...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 08:25hrs | | by Reuters
Zimbabwe civil servants reject $78 salary increment
GOVERNMENT now faces a crippling civil service strike after its' revised offer of $78 for the lowest paid worker or 20% on a sliding scale was rejected by negotiators, who want nothing less than $1 70...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa under massive pressure
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration faces a mammoth task to steady the ship and deliver the goods as pressure mounts from all angles amid massive economic, social and political turbulence wh...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 10:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants reject $41 (bond notes) pay rise
GOVERNMENT business is now headed for a grinding halt after salary negotiations collapsed yesterday, as civil servants rejected their employer's "paltry" 10% pay rise offer and vowed to down tools in ...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa running out of time
Political analysts have warned President Emmerson Mnangangwa that his government is running out of time to fix the country’s worsening economic rot- which has triggered strikes and growing unrest hu...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 11:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa commends civil servants
President Mnangagwa yesterday paid tribute to civil servants unions for displaying "maturity" during a consultative meeting on salaries and conditions of service the workers held with Government repre...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 11:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Doctors divided over strike
Cracks have begun to emerge among striking junior doctors after some of them returned to work yesterday as part of an agreement they signed with the Government at the weekend. However, others ...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 08:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teachers hire MDC Youth leader to negotiate with government
The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe has hired MDC Youth Leader Discent Bajila to be one of their key negotiators during a meeting with government on Monday.Said Bajila, "The Amalg...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 13:09hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Doctors reject Chiwenga deal
Negotiations between government and striking doctors collapsed yesterday after the medical practitioners rejected a deal struck by negotiators, prolonging the month-long strike.Doctors in publ...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 11:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
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