FOZEU Sets Conditions For NJNC Meeting, Demands Minimum Wage Of US$1260
By Staff Reporter The Federation of Zimbabwe Educators Unions (FOZEU) has set tough conditions ahead of this week’s National Joint Negotiating Council (NJNC) insisting that the workers representatives should not accept a salary review below USD1260. In a statement, FOZEU…
60 Migrants Die After Rubber Dinghy Broke Down In Mediterranean Sea
At least 60 migrants have died after a rubber dinghy ran into trouble in the Mediterranean Sea, according to survivors. The 25 survivors were picked up by the Ocean Viking, a vessel operated by the humanitarian group SOS Méditerranée. They…
Cimas Donates To Cancer Association of Zimbabwe
By Own Correspondent The country’s largest medical aid provider, Cimas Medical Aid, under their wellness brand iGO, has donated US$13,753.00 to the Cancer Association of Zimbabwe in the capital as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility programs. The donation was…
Businessman In Ambitious Hospital For Disabled
Kadoma businessman Jimayi Muduvuri has embarked on an ambitious national project that will see the construction of clinics for war veterans, people living with disability and the elderly. Muduvuri said he was emulating President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s vision for the provision…
Beleaguered City Of Bulawayo Forced To Engage Engineers Over Perennial Water Crisis
By Own Correspondent Authorities at City of Bulawayo say they are currently consulting their engineers in order to formulate a response to some disgruntled residents, who recently protested against poor service delivery by the local authority. On 26 February 2024, some Bulawayo residents…
Court Releases Toddler, Pregnant Woman Detained For Protesting School Maladministration
By Staff Reporter Mutasa Magistrates court was last week forced to set free a toddler and a pregnant woman, who were detained together with some aggrieved villagers, facing charges of allegedly protesting against maladministration by some school authorities in Honde…
Magistrate Postpones Chipinge Villagers’ Matter To 13 March
By Staff Reporter The 25 Chipinge villagers from Mahachi area who appeared before Chipinge Magistrates court today, the 11th of March 2024 for trial, had their matter postponed to 13 March 2024 for judgement. The villagers from Mahachi area are…
ZESN Releases Preliminary Report on Local Authority By-Elections
By Staff Reporter The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) has released its preliminary report on the Local Authority by-elections held on March 9, 2024, in City of Harare Ward 36 and Chinhoyi Municipality Ward 4. The by-elections, necessitated by vacancies…
Drought Crisis Grips Wedza District
By Wedza Citizen Journalist Residents of Wedza District in Zimbabwe are facing a dire situation as a climate-induced drought ravages the region, leaving crops withered and prospects for agricultural yields bleak. Subsistence farmers, who heavily rely on natural rains for…
Peace Group Calls For Decentralization of Gender Commission
By Staff Reporter In commemoration of the 113th International Women’s Day, Heal Zimbabwe Trust has demanded the adequate funding and decentralisation of the Zimbabwe Gender Commission to ensure it is able to save every woman without limitations. Embracing the theme,…