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Mnangagwa's police officers swarm Bulawayo, Masvingo as govt moves to quash potential demonstrations
BULAWAYO was Thursday teeming with armed anti-riot police officers, stationed at "strategic" points within the city, as government moved in ahead of planned civil servants' protests set for Friday....Published: 27 May 2022 at 07:33hrs | 2394 | by Staff reporter
Rwanda starts recruiting Zimbabwean educational personnel
The Rwandan government has started recruiting Zimbabwe's educational personnel, following a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between the two countries in December last year.The MoU was...Published: 27 May 2022 at 06:50hrs | 427 | by Staff reporter
'75% of parents in Zimbabwe can't afford school fees'
PARENTS and guardians can no longer afford paying school fees with only 26% able to meet education expenses for their children, the Zimbabwe Statistics Agency (ZimStat) has said in its latest survey w...Published: 27 May 2022 at 06:44hrs | 87 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants plot massive demonstration against poor wages
CIVIL servants under the Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (ZCPSTU) are this Friday set to march against government's continued reluctance to pay them in US dollars.Worries ...Published: 26 May 2022 at 06:29hrs | 2461 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers give one-week strike notice
TEACHERS have given government a one-week ultimatum to address their salary grievances or face a crippling strike action beginning June 1.In a letter seen by NewsDay, which was handed to gover...Published: 26 May 2022 at 06:26hrs | 1029 | by Staff reporter
Govt intensifies blitz on striking teachers
HUNDREDS of teachers are set to appear before disciplinary hearings this week for failing to report for duty when schools opened for the first term this year.This follows other punishments met...Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:23hrs | 435 | by Staff reporter
Teachers hit back at Mthulisi Ncube
TEACHERS yesterday hit back at Finance minister Mthuli Ncube for "insulting" the teaching profession by claiming that government had done much to improve their lot.Ncube told Parliament last w...Published: 23 May 2022 at 06:41hrs | 1215 | by Staff reporter
Govt must stop docking teachers' salaries
TEACHERS' unions slammed the government for docking salaries of teachers who earlier in the year failed to turn up for work citing incapacitation.One educator says they only got paid $15 000 a...Published: 23 May 2022 at 06:40hrs | 312 | by Staff reporter
Jah Prayzah sabotaged Andy Muridzo?
WHEN Andy Muridzo went under his mentor and supposedly his rival's wing, Jah Prayzah, the musician said he had a bigger picture that no one was seeing.Despite being warned by everyone about th...Published: 22 May 2022 at 19:21hrs | 759 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Catholic Bishop
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa joined the Munyanyi family and the Catholic family in the country in mourning the passing on of prominent Bishop Emeritus Martin Munyanyi.Bishop Munyanyi died last Sunday a...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:30hrs | 213 | by Staff reporter
NGOs plot to unsettle Zimbabwe exposed
Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) under the auspices of Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC), which have become fretful over the proposed Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Amendment, have hatched ...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:29hrs | 203 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's govt announcement on 4 000 teachers recruited is a joke
Labour unions representing teachers say the announcement by government that it had recruited an estimated 4 000 teachers was a joke, saying the country has over about 50 000 vacant posts.Prima...Published: 21 May 2022 at 18:46hrs | 919 | by Staff reporter
Government salary deductions rile civil servants
CIVIL servants are up in arms with their employer over 2.5% deductions from their salaries every month towards a loan scheme allegedly meant to benefit them.Attempts to opt out of the "forced"...Published: 21 May 2022 at 18:30hrs | 592 | by Staff reporter
Teachers demands for US$540 salaries misleading: Mthuli
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube claims government has done a lot to improve the welfare of teachers and insisted that their demands for US$540 salaries were misleading."Coming to salaries, there...Published: 21 May 2022 at 18:01hrs | 300 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers have guns, teachers and nurses have empty threats, so government will always favor the military!
It is common knowledge that rights and freedoms are seldom given or awarded - but, always need to be demanded and taken.That is why it is virtually unheard of to come across a country that was...Published: 19 May 2022 at 15:59hrs | 1849 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
School teacher in the dock for assaulting student
A LOCAL Primary school teacher, Progress Ziweya, Wednesday appeared in court after she allegedly assaulted her nine-year-old student before expelling her from the school.Ziweya (38) appeared b...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:42hrs | 1889 | by Staff reporter
Full-blown Zimbabwe teachers strike looms
GOVERNMENT has courted the ire of teachers after it reportedly deducted huge amounts from salaries of educators who went on strike when schools reopened last year.NewsDay understands that some...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:39hrs | 1262 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt recruits extra 10 000 teachers
More than half of the extra 10 000 teachers needed by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education have now been recruited over the last couple of months. The Public Service Commission has ...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:32hrs | 219 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa lied to diplomats'
THE United Kingdom government is plotting tougher sanctions against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration, arguing the measures put in place have failed to nudge Harare towards reform, hence t...Published: 18 May 2022 at 18:48hrs | 3347 | by Staff reporter
Schools defy govt on fee
SCHOOLS are defying a government directive that they should not turn away pupils who have not paid school fees.When schools opened for the second term on May 4, the Primary and Secondary Educa...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:35hrs | 426 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec yet to pay O, A-level markers
THE Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) is yet to pay some examiners who marked the 2021 Ordinary and Advanced Level examinations, almost seven months after completing the exercise.E...Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:24hrs | 416 | by Staff reporter
A fool and his money are soon parted!
The cash taps have well and truly been turned on.It seems hardworking Zimbabweans in faraway lands have been doing their bit to support family and friends back home, including bankrolling pote...Published: 15 May 2022 at 06:10hrs | 334 | by Bishop
Banks: If gold rusts, what will iron do?
Native Commissioner Oates, I presume!LORD Jonathan Oates' ambition is becoming a latter-day colonial Native Commissioner.Too late chum, both by age and history! Still both don't deter ...Published: 14 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | 887 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Man disguises as woman, gets married for 16 months
A Honde Valley man disguised himself as a woman and got married for 16 good months while performing all the duties expected of a new bride, only being caught when playing for a women's soccer team and...Published: 14 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | 2059 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF dangles trinkets to chiefs
LOCAL Government deputy minister Mariam Chombo has disclosed that government is planning to splash on traditional leaders to cushion them against economic turbulences.Chombo, who said she was ...Published: 14 May 2022 at 06:17hrs | 1081 | by Staff reporter
'Wafawafa' Zion prophets to cleanse school of sexually insatiable goblins
Female teachers at Makumbi Primary School in Plumtree have moved out of the teachers' cottages as they allege that they were being sexually attacked by goblins.The teachers said they wake up w...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:20hrs | 1052 | by Staff reporter
Salary erosion irks employees
SALARIES in local currency are being eroded on a daily basis by the downward spiralling economic situation worsened by runaway inflation, the Zimbabwe Independent has observed.The fluctuating ...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:09hrs | 189 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urges Zimbabwean pupils to learn and manufacture guns
UTTERANCES by President Emmerson Mnangagwa encouraging students to learn to manufacture guns and bombs have been widely criticised.The averements were captured on camera by state broadcaster, ...Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:35hrs | 2198 | by Staff reporter
PTUZ appeals high exam fees
THE Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has appealed to President Emmerson Mnangagwa to intervene and reduce the recently announced examination fees because the majority of learners cannot a...Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:29hrs | 263 | by Staff reporter
'Stayaways not likely to work in Zimbabwe'
ANALYSTS yesterday said stayaways are not likely to work now as Zimbabwe is a highly informalised economy where the majority have no formal jobs.It was business as usual on Monday, the day of ...Published: 11 May 2022 at 09:15hrs | 540 | by Staff reporter
Schools sport remains on hold
GOVERNMENT has said sporting activities in schools remain on hold in the coming few weeks due to a possible surge in Covid-19 cases associated with winter. In her post-Cabinet briefing yesterd...Published: 11 May 2022 at 09:10hrs | 143 | by Staff reporter
Why others will land man on Mars whilst we still 'struggle to cross the street!'
"And we (in Africa) are still struggling to cross the street!" was the spontaneous respond of "Mwalimu" (Teacher) Julius Kambarage Nyerere, then President of Tanzania, when he learnt the American had ...Published: 11 May 2022 at 08:04hrs | 696 | by Wilbert Mukori
Pachedu's shutdown suffers monumental flop?
EFFORTS by political and civil society activists to bring Zimbabwe to a standstill Monday flopped dismally after the majority of people went on their normal daily routines.Harare was a beehive...Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:49hrs | 1053 | by Staff reporter
Armed security thwarted protests?
HEAVILY armed security detachments yesterday thwarted a nationwide shutdown called by university students, teachers and nurses.Government deployed armed security forces in the capital and othe...Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:47hrs | 564 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF identifies Zimbabwe's security threat
Zanu-PF national secretary for security Lovemore Matuke has described Zimbabwe's fast weakening local currency as a security threat.Matuke told NewsDay yesterday that the biggest threat to the...Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:47hrs | 1151 | by Staff reporter
Stayaway that never was exposes Western puppets
TODAY, Pachedu, a shadowy troll on Twitter, manned by some faceless characters, stands starkly naked, exposed as a Trojan horse of Western nations that have an incurable colonial hangover.In t...Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:39hrs | 185 | by Fungi Kwaramba
Examination fees shocker
GOVERNMENT has raised examination fees by up to three times, and immediately attracted brickbats from weary parents.Many parents, still to come to terms with school fees hikes and already batt...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:08hrs | 1654 | by Staff reporter
Student teachers join shutdown campaign
THE Council of Student Teachers (Cost)will join today's shutdown that was called for by the Zimbabwe National Students Union (Zinasu).Cost secretary-general Witness Rurumwa said the student te...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:08hrs | 885 | by Staff reporter
Govt should restore teachers' dignity
AFRICAN leaders have never valued education. It is never their culture to learn and explore.The current leadership in Zimbabwe is a very good example. Our leadership does not even value qualit...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:07hrs | 242 | by Village Teacher
Let's shut down Zimbabwe!
THE recent university fee hikes would not have been exorbitant if we had a working currency, a listening government and overally a working economy.When the Zimbabwe National Students Union cal...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:07hrs | 458 | by Desire Kateyera
Police guarantee public security
LAW enforcement agents will thwart any illegal protests called for today by proponents of illegal regime change under the banner Pachedu, an oppositional civil body.The faceless individuals ha...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:05hrs | 106 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe security forces placed on high alert over planned protests
ZIMBABWE's service chiefs have placed a well-oiled state machinery on high alert, ready to viciously thwart any protests following indications of an impending uprising.Multiple official and se...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:23hrs | 3452 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF moves to counter demos
THE Zanu-PF youth league has resolved to lobby the public service to only recruit party card-carrying members and graduates of the infamous Border Gezi programme as part of measures to counter demonst...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | 3221 | by Staff reporter
No killing each other, please!
ON the morning of June 16, 1976 more than 20 000 students from Soweto township took to the streets protesting the introduction of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in all South African schools....Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:20hrs | 1110 | 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 | 5319 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe shutdown protest call gains momentum
Internet activists joined by students and trade unions have called for a stay-at-home protest on May 9 over Zimbabwe's deepening economic crisis.Mobilising under the hashtag #ShutDownZimbabwe,...Published: 05 May 2022 at 20:59hrs | 2866 | by Staff reporter
Massive 50% drop in 'O' Level candidates
THE number of candidates sitting for Ordinary Level examinations has plummeted by 50% in five years, prompting teachers unions to raise alarm.The number of candidates sitting for the Zimbabwe ...Published: 05 May 2022 at 19:07hrs | 473 | by Staff reporter
'PSC demands videos of teachers in class'
THE Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) yesterday claimed that the Public Service Commission (PSC) was forcing school heads to record videos of teachers who report for work.Sc...Published: 04 May 2022 at 07:02hrs | 810 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans shouldn't marry political parties as if they were wives!
On a visit into the Kwekwe CBD (central business district) this morning to run some personal errands, I could not help being flabbergasted, as I always am, at the usual sight of disheveled and unkempt...Published: 03 May 2022 at 14:50hrs | 391 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe teachers down chalks
WORKERS yesterday accused government of making empty promises on improved wages and conditions of service for "too many years", as teachers declared "incapacitation" again.With schools opening...Published: 03 May 2022 at 06:53hrs | 4264 | by Staff reporter
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