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Magombeyi's abduction requires a firm 'Jamal Khashoggi-style' solidarity response
The recent abduction of the acting president the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association (ZHDA) Dr. Peter Magombeyi should be a wake up call for all Zimbabweans to finally stand strongly together again...Published: 7 hrs ago | 1807 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
When a government starts abducting its own doctors…
While the President of the Republic is busy trying to be endorsed by a dead man called Robert Mugabe, all the country's referral hospitals are without doctors, after the Doctors Association called for...Published: 10 hrs ago | 3963 | by Knowledge Hakata
Zimbabwe teachers to join protesting doctors over abduction
MEMBERS of the Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) and the Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) have resolved to join doctors who are protesting the abduction of a fellow m...Published: 22 hrs ago | 7226 | by newzimbabwe
Ryan Bukevicz helps the Hope Bilingual Academy in Nicaragua during desperate times
The Hope Bilingual Academy (HBA) is a Nicaraguan school that aims to give disadvantaged children the chance to succeed in life. The country of origin, financial situation, or mental and physical capab...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 18:38hrs | 245 | by Staff Reporter
'Teachers' unions pursuing political agenda'
Teachers' unions that are saying their members are incapacitated and cannot continue reporting for duty are now pursuing a political agenda to destabilise the education sector, Primary and Secondary E...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 11:00hrs | 487 | by Staff reporter
3 teachers get scholarships
Three Zimbabwean teachers have received scholarships to attend the "Noble Prize Teachers Climate Change Summit" in Stockholm, Sweden. The summit, which will run under the theme "Climate Change...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:26hrs | 428 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Communist Party speaks on abducted doctor
At around 10pm, Saturday 14th September 2019, state agents armed with automatic weapons abducted Dr Peter Mugombeya, President of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association (ZHDA) in Budiririro, Harar...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 03:57hrs | 1583 | by ZCP
Village containerised information centres, bridging digital gap
Devolution is one of President Mnangagwa's flagship policy. This policy is centred on bringing services and development as close as to the point of need as possible.The point of need in this c...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 06:40hrs | 90 | by Nick Mangwana
RG Mugabe's number one admirer speaks on his unfulfilled cherished wish
LOSS takes many shapes and likewise the death of Zimbabwe's founding President Robert Mugabe undeniably evoked contrasting emotions for many people across the country and beyond.For a Bulawayo...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 08:34hrs | 1464 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's supporters demand military training, guns
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa should consider recruiting youth for military training if he is entertaining any thought to taking power in Zimbabwe, the party's supporters in Matabeleland North have said....Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 07:10hrs | 1801 | by newzimbabwe
'Mnangagwa government dashes citizens' hope'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has decimated the trust and hope the people had in his administration through the economic meltdown and the brutal crackdown on dissent, the Zimbabwe Peace Project has sai...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 21:51hrs | 730 | by Staff reporter
Teachers declare incapacitation as schools open
TEACHERS have indicated they will not be able to resume work when schools open for the third term today citing incapacitation due to erosion of their salaries and the recently advanced cost of adjustm...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 21:48hrs | 447 | by Staff reporter
If you don't believe in yourself, who else will?
Believing is the only gateway / input into making into life. There is no where you can make it in life without self confidence . Believe is to accept that something is true, especially wit...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 15:34hrs | 478 | by Enos Denhere
Mugabe's legacy remains alive and it must be defeated
Robert Mugabe's legacy is complex and contested. He wasn't only the tyrant and the despot, nor only the freedom fighter and the educator. But he wanted power and all costs, and the legacy he leaves be...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 13:20hrs | 565 | by Doug Coltart
PHOTO: Meet the first Ndebele 'President' of Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean often skips some major events and characters. One such person who has remained unknown to the majority of Zimbabweans is the President of the short-lived Zimbabwe-Rhodesia. History dedicate...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 09:03hrs | 14860 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Robert Mugabe: The greatest trick the devil ever played
The fallacy of the hero-turned-villain narrative of Robert Mugabe is the greatest trick this devil ever played.The closest I have to feeling anything is quiet, seething rage.Rage that ...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 08:35hrs | 262 | by Siphosami Malunga
Mugabe was no revolutionary. He was obsessed with power and control
Robert Mugabe will not be remembered as the freedom fighter who helped liberate Zimbabwe, but as a man who whose 40 years in power was anything but admirable, writes Melusi Nkomo.In the future...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 12:51hrs | 1672 | by Melusi Nkomo
Zimbabwe needs is assistance, not interference
The Government of China recently provided Zimbabwe with a series of aid totalling US$13 million from South-South Cooperation Assistance Fund to WFP (World Food Programme), UNDP (United Nations Develop...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:03hrs | 72 | by Guo Shaochun, Chinese Ambassador to Zimbabwe
Cry our beloved 'Sunshine City'
In the mid-1990s, I left my village in Guruve to work in Harare and it was a city of bliss and flamboyance. My uncle Obedience Masakara, who was streetwise aat the time, took me around the city centre...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 06:56hrs | 86 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Varsity employees get salary hike
GOVERNMENT has hiked salaries for State university workers in a move that will see cleaners at institutions of higher learning earning more than teachers and college lecturers.Acting Higher an...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 08:12hrs | 2852 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa and the third force, what's the next move?
The MDC leadership is in a quandary after all of its lined-up protests were quashed by the Zimbabwe Republic Police last week. The demonstrations that were earmarked to take place in major towns of th...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 13:11hrs | 6950 | by Thomas Mukandi
Mashonaland East modern school complete
MASHONALAND East province is expected to officially open its first modern school that was built in Chikomba district along Harare-Chivhu Highway.Makumimavi Primary School is the province's fir...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 08:44hrs | 622 | by Staff reporter
Muzamhindo picked to lead Cyclone Research
Leading Academic and Harare Policy Advisor Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo has been selected by Development partners to lead a Cyclone Research. Muzamhindo who holds a B.A from Solusi University, MA from Univ...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 13:48hrs | 750 | by Agencies
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 | 915 | by Staff reporter
Ndabaningi Sithole immortalised
In a show of common purpose never experienced in Chipinge district for years, thousands of people of different statuses poured at Freedom Farm at Mount Selinda for the official launch of the Friends o...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:53hrs | 396 | by Staff reporter
Civil service undergoing massive overhaul
Public Service Commission (PSC) chairperson Vincent Hungwe has revealed that the civil service is under massive transformation to improve professionalism and efficiencies.In an exclusive inter...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:51hrs | 1555 | by Staff reporter
Govt to control school fees increases
PRIMARY and Secondary Education minister Paul Mavima has allayed fears of a possible fee hike following a spate of price increases after the government scrapped off official use of the United States d...Published: 31 Aug 2019 at 18:49hrs | 2781 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe demonstrations - like sanctions - are not targeted
IT is hoped that several developments in the past week or so will finally open people's eyes to see that party politics is the only game in town; that politics is not the only thing worth concerning o...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:22hrs | 846 | by Conway Tutani
'Zimbabweans faking abductions'
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi yesterday accused people who claim to have been abducted of being desperate attention-seekers, who would have been involved in domestic violence at their homes....Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:11hrs | 505 | by Staff reporter
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 | 3216 | by Staff reporter
DA urges SA break silence on Zimbabwe protests
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has called on Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor to speak out against the crackdown on protestors being experienced in neighbouring Zimbabwe...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 08:12hrs | 2928 | 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 | 2062 | by Staff reporter
Minister storms out of Parly over abductions
THE main opposition MDC yesterday demanded that Home Affairs minister Cain Mathema should issue a ministerial statement in Parliament explaining all the cases of abductions and torture of persons that...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:37hrs | 1060 | by Staff reporter
Underperforming schools in intensive holiday classes
MORE than 400 Grade Seven pupils from primary schools that often register zero pass percent rates in Lupane District are undergoing intensive holiday learning at Lupane Primary to improve pass rates. ...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:33hrs | 205 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants accept Mnangagwa pay offer
THE National Joint Negotiating Council (NJNC) yesterday provisionally agreed that Government would pay civil servants a cost of living adjustment (COLA) ranging from 50 percent to 76 percent of their ...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:30hrs | 910 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's economy has turned workers into slaves'
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) western region chairman Ambrose Sibindi has lamented the escalating level of poverty among workers caused by the continuous erosion of their salaries....Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 07:45hrs | 833 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gives green-light for school fee hikes
GOVERNMENT has said schools must be reasonable in pegging fees, taking into cognisance that parents and guardians are facing economic difficulties. In an interview yesterday, Primary and Secon...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 07:40hrs | 2101 | by Staff reporter
Fadzayi Mahere writes on the Education Bill
The Education Amendment Bill is currently before Parliament. The proposed law introduces some important changes to the Education Act which governs education policy in Zimbabwe. Given the far-reaching,...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 10:37hrs | 1848 | by Fadzayi Mahere
Mnangagwa's advisors condemn attack on Coltart by police
Two of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Presidential Advisory Council Trevor Ncube and Busisa Moyo issued condemnation on the assault of human rights lawyer Douglas Coltart on Friday by memb...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 09:37hrs | 5002 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'ZCTU will protest until Mnangagwa listens'
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) says the country was now in a humanitarian crisis and accused government of ignoring the plight of workers and of downplaying the impact of its austerity m...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 07:04hrs | 1386 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland North teachers' college set up in Hwange
A SATELLITE teachers' college established by Government in Hwange, Matabeleland North province is now operational with the initial enrolment standing at 150 students. Higher and Tertiary Educa...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 06:57hrs | 817 | by Staff reporter
Police State
Within days of President Mnangagwa lecturing the West about how 'the rule of law is sacrosanct' in Zimbabwe, the police in Harare arrested representatives of rural teachers for trying peacefully to pr...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 22:37hrs | 1481 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
The Christian attack against the native family and The Native Religion Beyond Jerusalem! Rome and London
"I have travelled across the length and breath of africa and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief such wealth I have seen in this country such high moral values, people of ...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 22:36hrs | 746 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Coltart, unionists set free
Human rights lawyer Doug Coltart and eight unionists arrested in Harare on Friday for protesting against low salaries paid to teachers were released on bail yesterday.Coltart and leaders of th...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 18:53hrs | 330 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urged to put price control measures: ZIMTA
Civil servants have pleaded with Government to set a control framework that safeguards the value of salaries following the latest adjustments.Government has tabled a 76 percent salary adjustme...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 18:48hrs | 529 | by Staff reporter
Pastor defrauds congregants
A Pastor at Fountain of Life Ministry has appeared in court facing 12 counts of fraud for allegedly defrauding congregants of over US$11 000 and over R3 000 whom he had promised to secure studying pla...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 09:51hrs | 3128 | by Staff reporter
Coltart still detained
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human rights official Douglas Coltart says they are still detained at Magistrate court due to the delay in processing of their bail receipts.Coltart was arrested on Friday...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 16:32hrs | 2738 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Police crush teachers' demo
POLICE yesterday ruthlessly crushed a demonstration organised by the Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) at Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's offices and arrested the union's eight top...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:15hrs | 722 | by Staff reporter
Teachers arrested for 'pay-day protest' charged with public nuisance
POLICE on Friday brutally crushed a wild-cat protest by the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) members who wanted to picket at the Ministry of Finance in protest over the poor salari...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:06hrs | 350 | by newzimbabwe
Civil servants reject pay rise
GOVERNMENT has awarded a 76% salary hike to its restive workers, a move which will see the lowest paid civil servant getting around $1 000 per month, but civil servants' representative body, the Apex ...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 08:08hrs | 3225 | by Staff Reporter
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