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'Shut down schools,' MPs tell govt
PARLIAMENT has recommended that the government immediately shuts down schools, blaming the rising COVID-19 cases on its failure to adequately prepare for the reopening of learning institutions after 5...Published: 9 hrs ago | 1536 | by Staff reporter
Munyaradzi Diya set for Bosso return
GANGLY Dynamos goalkeeper Munyaradzi Diya, who will soon be out of contract, has decided to retrace his footsteps back to the City of Kings to reunite with Bulawayo giants Highlanders, a team he left ...Published: 10 hrs ago | 218 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo suburbs blackout likely to stretch until weekend
Suburbs in Bulawayo that have not had electricity since Monday following a major fault at Richmond Substation are likely to be in darkness until the weekend.Some of the suburbs which have been...Published: 10 hrs ago | 718 | by Staff Reporter
Tenant attacks landlord with an axe
A BEITBRIDGE tenant is in trouble for allegedly attacking the house owner with an axe several times during a dispute with his landlord over why he fed his dogs with eggs.Solomon Sigauke (31) d...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:46hrs | 1211 | by Staff reporter
1,200 defiant nurses struck off payroll
MORE than 1 200 nurses who failed to comply with a Government directive to revert to the normal working hours did not receive their November salaries and bonuses after they were struck off the payroll...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:41hrs | 1171 | by Staff reporter
Fears over 2020 Exams
EDUCATION stakeholders have expressed fears that the teachers' strike could compromise this year's Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) results for Ordinary and Advanced level candidates....Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 21:39hrs | 1019 | by Staff reporter
We are not enemies of the State, says Majongwe
DIVISIONS rocked teachers unions recently over salary negotiations with government following a workers' strike which lasted for about two months. Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) ...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:36hrs | 998 | by Staff reporter
AFM pastor sues church for $13m
AN Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) in Zimbabwe pastor is claiming over $13 million from the church as he accuses it of neglecting him after he was involved in a car accident.Alfred Mujeyi issued...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:57hrs | 1312 | by Staff reporter
Hope fades in Zimbabwe 3 years after Mugabe's ouster
ZIMBABWE'S former leader Robert Mugabe stepped down on November 21, 2017, bringing an end to nearly four decades of iron-fisted rule.His resignation came days after military tanks rolled throu...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:34hrs | 628 | by AFP
Panic strikes Zimbabwe schools
PANIC has gripped the country's education sector as schools and other learning institutions battle to deal with the lethal coronavirus, amid fears of a second wave of the pandemic, the Daily News repo...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:16hrs | 385 | by Staff reporter
Govt orders all Zimbabwe companies to re-register
GOVERNMENT is expected to rake in millions of dollars following the enactment of a law that requires all registered companies in Zimbabwe to re-register by March next year.All existing compani...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 05:42hrs | 3164 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe MPs demand schools closure
PARLIAMENTARIANS yesterday accused government of rashly reopening schools when it was ill-prepared to deal with COVID-19 outbreaks at institutions of learning after a number of students tested positiv...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 05:29hrs | 1620 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants in major climbdown
HARD-PRESSED civil servants, who had been demanding a significant pay rise, made a surprise climbdown yesterday when they agreed to a 41 percent salary increment, just a week after they had rejected a...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 20:21hrs | 3399 | by Staff writer
Govt has failed to resolve strike by teachers, and all civil servants
The major reason why the Zimbabwe government is failing is in whole part for its reason to resist the tide. For a start, the government has over the decades tried and failed dismally to control th...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 12:29hrs | 3784 | by Zanda Shumba
Mverechena dumps Bosso, goes back to Harare
WITH six weeks left to his initial year-long contract and without kicking a ball for Highlanders, goalkeeper Chris Mverechena has packed his bags and quit the Bulawayo giants.The former Caps U...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 05:28hrs | 1263 | by Staff reporter
Man kills his own mother over tea
A Rusape man has been sentenced to 23 years in jail for killing his mother following a misunderstanding over food.47-year-old Muzowaka Mucheke of Tandi Village in Makoni district was convicted...Published: 17 Nov 2020 at 14:31hrs | 3243 | by Staff Reporter
Govt pay offer divides civil servants
LABOUR unions representing civil servants were yesterday divided over the 40% pay offer by government following a prolonged salary dispute with their employer.Some said negotiations had failed...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:56hrs | 3801 | by Staff reporter
15-year-old kills stepfather
A 15-YEAR-OLD Bindura boy allegedly killed his stepfather with an iron bar to protect his mother, who was quarrelling with her now-deceased husband over a love triangle.Mashonaland Central act...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 21:27hrs | 1811 | by Staff reporter
Loga targets win
WARRIORS coach Zdravko "Loga" Logarušić is priming his team to play a high intensity game at home on Monday as they seek to atone for their 3-1 humiliation at the hands of Algeria in an Africa Cup o...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 05:30hrs | 483 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt tells teachers to take it or leave it
GOVERNMENT has tabled a new salary offer to its workers that will see the least paid teacher earn about $19 975, including a 10% risk allowance and shut the door for further negotiations. The ...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 05:28hrs | 4345 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean teenage sensation makes waves
A ZIMBABWEAN teenage sensation, Zanda Siziba, is tipped for greatness in the United Kingdom. His style of play has been compared to Liverpool and Senegalese star, Sadio Mane. At 17, Siziba has...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 05:24hrs | 478 | by Staff reporter
Government, employees in crunch indaba
THE government will today hold a crunch meeting with its restless workers, in a bid to resolve a long-standing salary dispute.This comes as teachers — who make up the bulk of the public sect...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 20:21hrs | 760 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec suspends exam setting
The Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council was this week forced to suspend the setting of examination papers after examiners downed tools, rejecting a $4 000 payment offer, which they deemed too little....Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 07:50hrs | 22147 | by Staff reporter
Warriors beaten
Algeria 3 1 ZimbabweZIMBABWE missed a glut of chances and were made to pay by a clinical Algeria in this 2022 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier played in an empty Stade 5 Juliet 1962 Olympic last ni...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 05:44hrs | 1167 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe trapped between State collapse and State failure'
ZIMBABWE is trapped between State collapse and State failure because President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has failed to provide basic amenities for its citizens, uphold civil liberties and arrest...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 06:28hrs | 1518 | by Staff reporter
Warriors target upsetting the odds
ZIMBABWE has been a very difficult opponent for Algeria in recent years and the Warriors stars believe that they are ready to cause another upset when they go head-to-head in the 2021 Africa Cup of Na...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:56hrs | 833 | by Staff reporter
Drugs-theft Bulawayo doctor arrested for practising without a licence
A medical doctor who was suspended for stealing drugs at Mpilo Central Hospital has been arrested for practising without a licence at a city clinic.Emmanuel Mucheni, 35, was arrested last Frid...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:47hrs | 1124 | by Staff reporter
Exclusion of Bulawayo boys in the Under-17 squad 'an insult'
FORMER national team and Highlanders captain Thulani Biya Ncube and Mkhokheli Dube have reacted with dismay and anger while questioning the criteria which career Under-17 boys coach Tafadzwa Mashiri u...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:47hrs | 1465 | by Staff reporter
Donald must phone Dambudzo
It never rains but pours for the little boy. Things haven't been going his way of late and I would never want to be in his shoes. Zvakaomera Chamisa hama dzangu and I feel sorry for him. Morgan Richar...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 18:47hrs | 2449 | by Mapombi
Zimbabwe teachers study latest pay increase offer
The government attempted to break a crippling teachers' strike on Tuesday with a 40 percent wage increase, coupled with a 10 percent risk allowance.Most of Zimbabwe's 130,000 teachers have bee...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 14:07hrs | 4865 | by Staff reporter
Clergy tells teachers, govt to find common ground
THE clergy has implored government to find common ground with teachers to arrest the crisis in the education sector as schools continued to turn students back because the educators, who declared incap...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 13:55hrs | 956 | by Staff reporter
Thunderstorms, floods expected
Some parts of the country are expected to receive thunderstorms, which may result in flash flooding and rainfall in excess of 30mm in some areas within the next 24 hours, the Meteorological Services D...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 05:31hrs | 1508 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt ignores US dollar pay demands, hikes wages by 40%
GOVERNMENT has ignored demands for US dollar wages or Zimbabwean dollar equivalent by teachers, announcing Tuesday it had increased the educators' salaries by 40 percent.This will see a teache...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 19:44hrs | 4639 | by Staff reporter
Teachers strike continuing, school heads overwhelmed
THE final phase of the re-opening of public schools countrywide got off to a rocky start yesterday, with many teachers failing to turn up for work — forcing some overwhelmed school heads to send lea...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 19:41hrs | 2426 | by Staff reporter
When God uncovers mortal men
The true length of a frog is known on the day it dies. Such has been wisdom since time immemorial. Juxtaposing that with the recent deaths of Genius 'Ginimbi' Kadunungure and Lazarus '...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 12:51hrs | 4248 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
COVID-19 strikes at elite college
ONE of Zimbabwe's elite schools, Watershed College in Marondera, has been hit by COVID-19 after one of its staff members yesterday tested positive to the virus.The affected staff member has si...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:46hrs | 1573 | by Staff reporter
Midlands, Bulawayo to receive rains: Met Dept
The Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has warned people in some parts of Bulawayo, Midlands and Matabeleland provinces of isolated thunderstorms which will be experienced later today. T...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:40hrs | 1715 | by Staff reporter
No bonus for council workers
BULAWAYO City Council workers have reportedly declared incapacitation and are demanding that their salaries be improved as a matter of urgency outside the approval of the supplementary budget....Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:11hrs | 444 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt will not bow to civil servants' salary demands'
THE government will not bow down to civil servants' salary demands as doing so has the potential to upset the current price stability being experienced in the economy, a Cabinet minister has said....Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 19:09hrs | 3603 | by Staff reporter
'Deploying military personnel in hospitals not sustainable'
HEALTH experts have warned that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's decision to deploy military health personnel to replace striking doctors and nurses at public hospitals could backfire as it was reaction...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:36hrs | 1376 | by Staff reporter
No going back on public exams, says Murwira
HIGHER and Tertiary Education minister Amon Murwira yesterday told Parliament that there was no going back on public examinations set to start next week despite fears that students had lost the bulk o...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:25hrs | 1048 | by Staff reporter
Military nurses take over hospitals
GOVERNMENT has resolved to deploy military medical personnel at all State hospitals to avoid disruptions caused by striking civilian nurses and doctors.The move, which is widely viewed as Vice...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 06:05hrs | 5469 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants reject 20% salary hike
CIVIL servants yesterday rejected government's additional 20% salary offer that would have seen the highest paid worker getting $16 430 per month.The disgruntled civil servants have been deman...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 06:03hrs | 3958 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU mobilises for mass protests
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has threatened to roll out a nationwide strike to press for United States dollar-based salaries and better working conditions.ZCTU president Peter ...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 06:01hrs | 2313 | by Staff reporter
Parents petition govt over teachers' strike
PARENTS have given the government a seven-day ultimatum to resolve the salary impasse with teachers, saying the strike was violating children's right to education.A Bulawayo parent Patrick San...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 05:56hrs | 1406 | by Staff reporter
Katsvairo quits Highlanders
HIGHLANDERS striker Michelle Katsvairo has quit the club to join Botswana top side Township Rollers and has agreed to compensate the Bulawayo giants for breach of contract. He only played 73 m...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 05:53hrs | 705 | by Staff reporter
CBZ armed robbers strike in Kezi
THE six-man armed gang that on Monday robbed a Fawcett Security cash-in-transit van of undisclosed amount of money at the Commercial Bank of Zimbabwe (CBZ) branch in Bulawayo, on the same day robbed a...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 05:49hrs | 2448 | by Staff reporter
MSD warns of destructive rains
THE Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has warned of violent and destructive thunderstorms as light rains are expected across the country until Friday. Most parts of the country received...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 05:48hrs | 1880 | by Staff reporter
1 032 nurses struck off payroll
THE Health Services Board (HSB) has removed 1 032 defiant nurses from its pay sheets after they declined to resume normal working hours and insisted on either not working or working sharply reduced ho...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 05:45hrs | 716 | by Staff reporter
Zimta under fire for 'selling out'
THE Zimbabwe Teachers' Association (Zimta) yesterday hit back at its counterparts who last week accused it of selling out when it held secret meetings with President Emmerson Mnangagwa where they alle...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 07:29hrs | 2966 | by Staff reporter
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