HARARE – Government has retired 3 365 youth officers who were employed under the Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation ministry, effective last Friday. This is in line with the civil service reforms enunciated in the current national budget and the Transitional Stabilisation Programme. In a statement, the acting secretary of the Public Service Commission (PSC)…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) has blasted civil servants for demanding to be paid in American dollars saying the public workers were ignorant of the challenges the country is facing. “Where do they want government to get the foreign currency they want to be paid in? Do they want the…
HARARE – A cloud of uncertainty is hovering over the education sector, amid fears schools might not open after teachers vowed not to report for duty until their employer agrees to pay them in United States dollars (USD). In a statement issued over the weekend, the country’s biggest union for the educators, the Zimbabwe Teachers…
HARARE – Members of the Apex Council, which brings together unions in the civil service, will today meet representatives of government in a crucial meeting that will discuss civil servants’ working conditions and their remuneration. While the Apex Council has agreed to meet its employer today, its leadership is adamant that government should fulfil its…
HARARE – Government has given some schools them green light to increase their tuition fees and levies to enable them to survive the harsh economic climate, the Daily News can report. The fee increases, approved on a case-by-case basis, compound pressures on struggling parents and guardians whose earnings are being eroded daily by the rising cost…
HARARE – A cloud of uncertainty is hovering over the education sector, amid fears schools might not open tomorrow after teachers vowed not to report for duty until their employer agrees to pay them in United States dollars (USD). [Adz] [GoogleAd]
HARARE – As Zimbabwe hurtles towards into the New Year, the majority of the country’s population is bruised economically, socially and politically. The “Daily News on Sunday’s Assistant Editor Maxwell Sibanda spoke to several analysts to hear their views on what they think should be the key priorities for President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government…
HARARE – Meagre budget allocations are delaying Zimbabwe’s switch to digital television from the traditional analogue signals. Settlement Chikwinya, the acting chairperson of the Parliamentary portfolio committee on Information, Publicity and Media Services said there was a shortfall of about $62 million in the ministry’s bid of $100 million for the completion of the digitalisation…
HARARE – Government has been prejudiced in excess of $3,5 billion by company directors who shut-down their firms in order to avoid payment of taxes only to re-establish themselves under different trading names. This was revealed by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube in the National Assembly last month during the debate on the Finance Bill. Ncube…
HARARE – A number of years ago, I was privileged to attend a conference on micro lending conference held in India. After the conference, I travelled to Delhi with the chairperson of a global agency that was funding 250 000 small business start-ups every year around the World. In Delhi he took me to a…
