January 2023

PUBLIC sector workers, including teachers, want good-faith dialogue with the government to end years of strained relations with their employer, which have often boiled over into industrial action. Speaking last night on independent national television station 3Ktv’s popular current affairs programme, Vantage, the secretary-general of the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ), Raymond Majongwe, said…

HARARE has only six functional fire tender trucks and six ambulances for its emergency services with the city response capacity in dire straits due to limited resources, the city’s mayor Jacob Mafume has confirmed. In his end of 2022 message, he said the municipality was gravely concerned that the city’s state of emergency services equipment…

THE World Health Organisation (WHO) says it is scaling up its support for tuberculosis (TB) preventive therapy in Zimbabwe by assisting the government and other relevant stakeholders to introduce a mobile application meant to ease screening of the disease. This comes after statistics by WHO indicated that Zimbabwe experienced a decrease in TB Preventive Therapy…

By Rutendo Ngara FORMER commercial white farmers, whose land was expropriated by the government in the early 2000s, say they are concerned with the continued delay by the government in compensating them. This comes as the government has made a new proposal to Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) representatives on how it would compensate the former…