Zimbabwe’s main opposition has said security forces were abducting its members in night raids in a massive crackdown in the wake of the unrest sparked by a national strike. At least 12 people have been killed in an army clampdown and hundreds wounded, in scenes reminiscent of the long rule of Robert Mugabe, when the…
President Emmerson Mnangagwa ignored advice from a South Africa-based local businessman that a wage hike was the best way to deal with public sector union grievances, and that a failure to award an increment would have a messy aftermath. This emerges as Zimbabwe’s main teacher unions unfurled a general strike Monday that has shut down…
United Kingdom (UK) minister of Africa Harriett Baldwin has said her country is not considering removing sanctions on Zimbabwe, as it contemplates widening the embargo list to include officials in the army, following a recent crackdown on civilians by members of the security forces. Speaking before the International Development Committee, which was making an inquiry into…
ZIMBABWE National Association of Mental Health (ZNAMH) has revealed that children as young as nine and 10 around the country are selling drugs in primary schools. The association conducted a research which shockingly showed that Grade 4 pupils are being initiated into drugs as they are selling them to others at school. ZNAMH board member…
GOVERNMENT says it has unfrozen 1 762 posts in the health sector, this comes in the wake of a massive shortage of health workers which inflamed the industrial action by doctors last year. Among the doctors’ demands was that government unfreezes posts to aid the ailing under-staffed workers, who led a crippling strike for 40…
POLICE prosecutors have spent unnecessarily prolonged periods serving at the courts and will be recalled to resume normal police assignments, a circular from the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) headquarters has indicated. In the circular issued by the acting chief staff officer (Human Resources Administration) the police prosecutors are not supposed to serve at the courts…
UNION leaders said yesterday that they had overcome the fear of security forces to record a “successful” strike, as teachers began a massive industrial action countrywide over pay demands and the improvement of their working conditions. The Zimbabwe Teachers Union (Zimta) — by far the country’s biggest civil servants’ union — and the Progressive Teachers…
ZAPU president Dumiso Dabengwa has for over a month now been sidelined from hectic political activity as he has been holed up in South Africa where he was flown after his health reportedly deteriorated late last year. Dabengwa, a strong Zanu PF critic, has been in South Africa since December last year with then party…
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has invited MDC leader Nelson Chamisa and several opposition leaders who contested him in the July 30 plebiscite to a crucial indaba at his offices tomorrow in a bid to finally resolve the country’s deepening political and economic crises. This comes as civic society organisations (CSOs) have said the mooted national dialogue should…
Rights groups have challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to immediately send the country’s soldiers back to their barracks, amid heart-rending claims of continuing savage beatings and harassment of innocent civilians. This comes as authorities are readying for a potential second wave of riots, which the government claims are being sponsored by the opposition and “hostile” Western governments….
