POLITICS

Zimbabwe teachers to work 2 days a week

Teachers will only work two days a week and will no longer abide by the formal dress code, the Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) declared on Friday.The teachers announced the industrial a...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 October 2019

EDUCATION

Lawyers ask court to order equal teaching of Ndebele, Shona and English

Zimbabwean law requires Shona, Ndebele and English to be "taught on equal time basis" up to Form 2, but this has not been implemented since 2006, the High Court has heard.Two lawyers on Friday petitio...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 October 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe teachers renew fight for improved salaries

RURAL teachers have threatened fresh protests to push the government to improve their salaries.Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) president Obert Masaraure said salaries for civil s...

By Staff reporter | Published: 28 September 2019

OPINION

Job Sikhala must stop behaving like a teaser bull

MDC-Alliance deputy national chairperson Job Sikhala, who has been arraigned before the courts on allegations of subverting a constitutionally-elected Government, is indeed, not new to controversy. It...

By Isdore Guvamombe | Published: 12 July 2019

OPINION

Sikhala's foot in mouth: Storm in a tea cup

THOSE who have been following Zimbabwean politics since the country's independence in 1980 are most likely wondering what all the hullaballoo is about over the statements made by ultra-controversial o...

By Editorial - Newsday | Published: 10 July 2019

EDUCATION

Govt avails $1,5m for science teachers training

At least $1,5 million has been mobilised by Government towards training of science teachers and promotion of science education, which is regarded as a key pillar for industrialisation and development....

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 May 2019

EDUCATION

Teachers not returning to their work stations next Tuesday

Zimbabwe teachers said yesterday they would not be returning to their work stations next Tuesday when the schools open for the second term, unless the government reviewed their salaries.Progressive Te...

By Staff reporter | Published: 03 May 2019

LANDS & AGRICULTURE

Tea growers need machinery

Tea growers in Honde Valley are seeking assistance to buy equipment to speed up the pruning of their plants in preparation for the resumption of production in September. Honde Valley Tea Growers Assoc...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 May 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Teachers demand audience with Mnangagwa's govt

The Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has requested an urgent meeting with the Public Service Commission to discuss the poor remuneration of its members in relation to the rising cost of ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 April 2019

POLITICS

Why Mnangagwa's anti-corruption crusade is fast-losing steam

The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) launched the special anti-corruption courts with fanfare slightly more than a year ago, but a cocktail of challenges is retarding the prosecution of graft-accused...

By Charles Laiton | Published: 28 April 2019

OPINION

Mnangagwa's reform programme steams ahead

In an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), this writer was asked what reforms President Mnangagwa had undertaken.The journalist asking the question was reminded that her mere pre...

By Nick Mangwana | Published: 28 April 2019

EDUCATION

Zimbabwe teachers' union strike starts Tuesday

THE country's largest teachers' union has declared its members will not turn up for work when schools re-open this Tuesday, NewZimbabwe.com reported.In a statement Saturday, the Zimbabwe Teachers Asso...

By newzimbabwe | Published: 06 January 2019

EDUCATION

Teachers to hold crunch meeting with govt

GOVERNMENT will tomorrow hold a crunch meeting with the statutory body representing its employees to discuss salaries and working conditions, amid positive signs teachers await the indaba to map the w...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 January 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Labour unrest as teachers, nurses and senior doctors join strike

Zimbabwe has been plunged into a labour crisis of monumental proportions after senior doctors, nurses and teachers joined the ongoing strike by junior doctors which is now more than a month old.Nurses...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 January 2019

POLITICS

MDC Alliance and teachers plotting mega shutdown

The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) yesterday cranked up the pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government, confirming it would go ahead with its planned national strike this mo...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 January 2019

POLITICS

Mthuli Ncube must resign, demand teachers

THE Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) is calling on Zimbabweans, the employed and unemployed alike, to besiege Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's office on January 7, 2019 to demand h...

By Staff reporter | Published: 31 December 2018

EDUCATION

Government to recruit 3,000 teachers

THE Government will on Wednesday and Thursday recruit 3 000 teachers in a bid to improve the teacher to pupil ratio as it moves to enhance the quality of education in schools.In a notice dated 28 Dece...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 December 2018

POLITICS

14 teachers released

THE 14 teachers belonging to the Amalgamated Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz), who were arrested in Ruwa on Tuesday while leading a 275km march from Mutare to Harare, have been freed by a Harare mag...

By Staff reporter | Published: 20 December 2018

POLITICS

Biti tears into Mthuli Ncube's budget

Harare East MP Tendai Biti (MDC Alliance) yesterday tore into the 2019 National Budget presented by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, saying it violated the Constitution for charging duty on vehicles in ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 December 2018

POLITICS

Protesting teachers buoyant despite arrests

MEMBERS of the Amalgamated Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) have vowed to proceed with the salary caravan march today, despite their leaders being arrested and hauled before the courts.Nine Artuz me...

By Staff reporter | Published: 17 December 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Grinch steals Christmas Joy

Long-suffering Zimbabweans are once again facing a bleak Christmas and New Year season - with the majority of the country's citizens jobless, penniless, hopeless and unable to afford even the most bas...

By Staff reporter | Published: 16 December 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Grinch steals Christmas Joy

Long-suffering Zimbabweans are once again facing a bleak Christmas and New Year season - with the majority of the country's citizens jobless, penniless, hopeless and unable to afford even the most bas...

By Staff reporter | Published: 16 December 2018

POLITICS

Zimbabwe post-election violence probe team slams critics

The seven-member Commission of Inquiry into the post-elections violence that claimed six lives and left property worth of millions dollars destroyed in Harare, has slammed its critics and defended the...

By Staff reporter | Published: 03 December 2018

POLITICS

Mthuli Ncube angers teachers

Teachers have reacted angrily to Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's 2019 national budget, saying it will drive them into deeper poverty as they repeated their demands to be paid in foreign currency.Ncube...

By Staff reporter | Published: 25 November 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa's new cabinet an average team

THE cabinet appointed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week dubbed the "dream team" by government publicists, though a marked improvement from previous ones, has shortcomings as it features minist...

By Staff reporter | Published: 14 September 2018
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