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BCC workers end five-day strike
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) workers yesterday resumed work after a five-day strike over poor salaries, a situation which crippled critical services such as refuse collection, primary health care and b...Published: 19 hrs ago | 338 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe taking cautious approach on Covid-19 vaccine rollout
Zimbabwe is taking a cautious approach towards the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines that some African countries are set to roll out amid indications that government could delay the programme while observ...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 06:35hrs | 1755 | by Staff reporter
Invigilators paid with plates of isitshwala
THE country's examination body, the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) last week allegedly paid some "O" Level examination invigilators with plates of isitshwala instead of cash, which has ...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 06:08hrs | 2444 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga warns pen-mercenaries
VICE-PRESIDENT and Health and Child Care minister Constantino Chiwenga yesterday said Zimbabwe was still in good stead to handle the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing that public health facilities were still...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 07:30hrs | 3363 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga warns social media users
Vice President and Health Minister Constantino Chiwenga has denied claims the country's hospitals are overwhelmed amid a surge in Covid-19 cases and face a critical shortage of beds and equipment....Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 19:20hrs | 1644 | by Staff reporter
Nurses demand risk allowance
NURSES have accused the government of depriving them of the COVID-19 risk allowance several months after they were promised the stipend.Government offered to pay allowances for health workers ...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 08:02hrs | 645 | by Staff reporter
Academic fraud of satanic proportions exposed in Harare
Former top manager at the Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education (ZIMCHE), Florence Chimbumu, who was exposed recently for using fake certificates when only a single Ordinary Level pass could be certif...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 07:48hrs | 2664 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 allowances for civil servants extended
THE Government has announced the reintroduction of the US$75 a month Covid-19 allowance for all civil servants, while pensioners will get US$30. President Mnangagwa's administration introduced...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 07:47hrs | 402 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora to be 'biggest opposition by 2023' - and perpetuate rigged elections, deplorable lack of imagination
The trouble with Zimbabweans is they have no clue what constitutes a competent leader and it is little wonder the nation has blundered from pillar to post, the blind leading the blind into the ditch. ...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 14:17hrs | 1364 | by Nomusa Garikai
Funds missing at Mzingwane High
MZINGWANE High School in Esigodini is in the eye of a storm after foreign currency incentives mobilised by parents for teachers late last year failed to reach the intended beneficiaries with parents t...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 07:50hrs | 575 | by Staff reporter
Auditor-General exposes CSC rot
A NUMBER of Cold Storage Company (CSC) senior managers did not have relevant qualifications to drive the turnaround of the company with one line manager exposed as only having an Advanced Level certif...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 18:37hrs | 2423 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora gleefully awaiting $2.72 m PPFA payout - reason why MDC will sell-out again come 2023
"Only Zanu-PF and MDC-T will share the $100 million allocated in the 2021 National Budget under the Political Parties Finance Act as all other parties failed to get at least five percent of the consti...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 19:03hrs | 931 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Rule of law must be observed during COVID-19 lockdown
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (the Forum) calls upon the government to uphold human rights and observe the rule of law during the COVID-19 national lockdown.This follows the issuance of ...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:34hrs | 86 | by Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum
Afro-Sino economic relations in the 21st Century: Mixed Reactions and Misinterpretations
The Author is a Master of Science in International Trade and Diplomacy student at the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a MSc degree in Development Studies (National U...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 19:21hrs | 215 | by Livingstone Kazizi
Government should defer exams, says teacher unions
Teacher unions have urged the government to suspend the remaining examinations to save lives as cases of COVID-19 continue to skyrocket, necessitating the imposition of stringent lockdown measures at ...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 07:32hrs | 565 | by Staff reporter
AG raises red flag on CSC payroll system
COLD Storage Company (CSC) management was evading tax, prejudicing the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) of potential revenue, a recent forensic audit shows.The audit report by Auditor-Genera...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:35hrs | 835 | by Staff reporter
Monthly payouts for vulnerable increased
Humanitarian assistance allowances for vulnerable persons hit by Covid-19 and the subsequent lockdown has been raised from $300 to $800 per month and another increase is planned for next month. ...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:19hrs | 126 | by Blessings Chidakwa
President Mnangagwa 'Develop a Strategic Thinking Approach'
During Mugabe's era, you would easily recite cabinet Ministers without reading from any script, alas today, I can only remember maybe less than five Ministers unless you visit their offices. What is t...Published: 26 Dec 2020 at 15:43hrs | 1240 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Christmas fever grips Bulawayo
HUNDREDS of people yesterday thronged supermarkets in Bulawayo to make last-minute shopping ahead of Christmas Day today. Shop attendants said they recorded much business with many outlets res...Published: 25 Dec 2020 at 07:08hrs | 392 | by Staff reporter
Govt denying pfumvudza workers COVID-19 risk allowances
Agricultural extension officers around the country are threatening to down tools after government overlooked them on COVID-19 risk allowances, a source close to the matter told NewsDay.The ext...Published: 23 Dec 2020 at 07:12hrs | 247 | by Staff reporter
Sit-in protest grounds city council
Bulawayo City Council workers staged a sit-in on Thursday and Friday protesting poor salaries and delays in payment of November salaries and bonus, a development that saw some people failing to access...Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 06:17hrs | 261 | by Staff reporter
Chaos looms as two town clerks run Harare
Two Harare town clerks, an acting one and the substantive one who has been on suspension, are now reporting at Town House, giving Harare City Council some potential headaches. Acting town cler...Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 06:15hrs | 329 | by Staff reporter
Mayhem rocks Khupe's camp
FIERCE fights over money and a voters' roll that was found to be in shambles scuppered the second attempt by the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T to hold its congress to elect a new leader, it has emerged....Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 07:36hrs | 2328 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube allocates $595 million for Parliament buses and vehicles
FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube has allocated $595 million for the procurement of Parliament buses and vehicles after MPs complained that the current fleet was dilapidated.The buses were procure...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:52hrs | 739 | by Staff reporter
Improved civil servants perks a priority
Government says it has registered success in its negotiations with civil servants over salaries and other employment terms and is planning continuous improvements on the welfare of public servants....Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 08:02hrs | 1944 | by Staff reporter
Ratepayers act against council graft
Harare ratepayers have petitioned Parliament over the tightening of laws to curb corruption in municipalities following a spate of arrests of council officials in the capital on accusations of corrupt...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 09:59hrs | 1111 | by Staff reporter
Justice Hungwe entangled in messy Lesotho 'sham trial'
SEVERAL high-profile trials of Lesotho politicians, serving and former members of the country's security agencies are in limbo as lawyers representing murder and treason-accused former army commander ...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 08:36hrs | 1738 | by Staff reporter
Police turn into beggars for survival
PARLIAMENT has castigated government for reducing members of the police force to "beggars", claiming that the law enforcement agents were now subsidising government in discharging their duties as thei...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 07:25hrs | 1012 | by Staff reporter
Ministers fingered in corruption scandal
LOCAL Government minister July Moyo and Harare Metropolitan Provincial minister Oliver Chidawu have been implicated in the ongoing City of Harare corruption scandal, after they allegedly tried to unpr...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 19:05hrs | 2086 | by Staff reporter
'Soldiers marching on empty tummies'
PARLIAMENT has exposed government for its failure to address the plight of soldiers by not providing essentials that include medical aid and allowances, as well as adequate food rations, resulting in ...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 06:28hrs | 1249 | by Staff reporter
No.1 lesson Zanu PF learned from 2008 GNU - how to turn MDC into its vote rigging ally
The 2008 Zimbabwe elections were a watershed moment in the country's political history. The elections and the 2008 to 2013 GNU that followed shook Zanu PF to the core and transformed the country's pol...Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 09:14hrs | 1323 | by Wilbert Mukori
Ministry opens online applications for Form One
THE Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has opened online applications for 2021 Form One boarding places. The Electronic Ministry's Application Platform (Emap) for Form One boarding en...Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 06:32hrs | 306 | by Staff reporter
Zifa councillors exonerate Kamambo
ZIFA councillors who voted during the elections that saw Felton Kamambo landing the top soccer administration post fingered Philip Chiyangwa, Kamambo's opponent, for vote-buying efforts that ended up ...Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 06:31hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
Sally Mugabe nurses apologises to Chiwenga
Nurses at Sally Mugabe Central Hospital have publicly broken with the Zimbabwe Nurses Association (Zina), resolved to resume normal shifts and most have apologised to the Government for disruptions in...Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 06:25hrs | 465 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's Harare City Council taking ratepayers for granted
Harare City Council's abysmal record on matters of accountability would be funny if it was not so sad and infuriating. at a time its rate-paying and hard pressed residents are trying to make ends meet...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 23:19hrs | 212 | by Staff reporter
Beware of post-lockdown gravy train
COVID-19 and the resultant lockdowns around the world, no doubt, killed the life for just about everybody and everything.Trans-border ships docked. That meant loss of thousands of direct and d...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:07hrs | 95 | by Tawanda Majoni
Harare HR boss re-arrested
As the fight against corruption continues, Harare City Council human capital director Cainos Chingombe spent less than 24 hours as a freeman after having been freed by the courts on Thursday before be...Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 06:03hrs | 251 | by Staff reporter
Harare City Council bosses off the hook
MAGISTRATE Marehwanazvo Gofa yesterday refused to place City of Harare bosses Cainos Chingombe and Tendai Kwenda on remand, saying the charges levelled against them were "incomplete and meaningless"....Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 06:41hrs | 404 | by Staff reporter
ZOU lecturers paid $5 per exam script, cry foul
PART-TIME lecturers at the Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU) said they had gone for over nine months without receiving their allowances and had also not been paid for services rendered in marking this ye...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 06:46hrs | 958 | by Staff reporter
Council top brass in US$8m binge
FORMER Harare City council top brass are facing arrest for illegally authorising over US$8 million in packages for managers and splashing millions on allowances, personal vehicles and holidays that mi...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 06:40hrs | 697 | by Staff reporter
Harare HR director arrested for corruption
HARARE City Council's recently reinstated human resources director Cainos Chingombe was yesterday arrested by police working with the Special Anti-Corruption Unit (Sacu) for alleged criminal abuse of ...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 06:18hrs | 1007 | by Staff reporter
$421.6bn inclusive 2021 budget unveiled
FINANCE and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube yesterday announced a $421.6 billion National Budget for 2021 in which he handed down tax relief measures to cushion workers and corpo...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:02hrs | 339 | by Staff reporter
Bonus joy for civil servants
GOVERNMENT has started paying civil servants their annual bonuses for this year and the first group comprising employees in the health and security sectors were paid their 13th cheque last week. The b...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 04:58hrs | 5948 | by Staff reporter
Govt staffer in double-dipping storm
A SENIOR government official employed in the education sector served as a principal for the Red Cross Independent College in violation of the Public Service Act.Investigations carried out by T...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:58hrs | 935 | by Staff reporter
Commercial and personal fiber internet advantages approaching Zimbabwe
Following the completion of a large linking project from TelOne in 2019, Zimbabwe is finally seeing moves into commercial fiber viability. Made possible through a $98 million loan from the China Exim ...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 12:49hrs | 961 | by Staff Writer
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga political tussling escalates
A FIERCE row has erupted between the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) and the Special Anti-Corruption Unit (Sacu) over the manner in which investigations are being handled, relating to alleg...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:17hrs | 10515 | by Staff reporter
Govt ranks highest payer, says Mthuli Ncube
THE Government is currently the highest paying employer in the country and pay scales for public servants far outstrip what private sector players are giving their employees, Finance and Economic Deve...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 05:57hrs | 219 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants start getting bonuses
Civil servants will start getting their annual bonuses this month with the last groups being paid out next month. The payments are based on the 41 percent salary rise and new allowance agreed ...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 05:18hrs | 1527 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe slowly going down under the new dispensation
The livelihoods of the people of Zimbabwe had been brought back and down to the levels of 1953.For the last fourty years ZANU PF government has lept from one corruption scandal to the other. I...Published: 17 Nov 2020 at 08:52hrs | 5267 | by Leonard Koni
Civil servants accept govt's pay offer
CIVIL servants have accepted Government's offer of a 41 percent salary increase and a bonus whose payment will be staggered from this month to December. The salary agreement also states that G...Published: 17 Nov 2020 at 07:33hrs | 5947 | by Staff Reporter
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