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Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw CIVIL servants have rejected a 20 percent salary adjustment tabled by the government during yesterday’s National Joint Negotiating Council (NJNC) meeting in Harare, the Daily News reports. This comes as teachers have been on strike since schools reopened in September demanding better working conditions. Speaking to the Daily News…

SEVERAL Zanu PF bigwigs, including Cabinet ministers, survived a nerve-racking and tension-filled process at the weekend as the ruling party chose candidates for its divisive district co-ordinating committees (DCCs), the Daily News reports. Well-placed Zanu PF insiders told the Daily News yesterday that meetings of the party’s provincial co-ordinating committees (PCCs) that were held in…

THE State has opposed bail for an alleged gold syndicate, which includes Zimbabwe Miners Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya, businessman Ali Mohamad, Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) officers Steven Tserayi and Raphios Mufandauya, and Gift Karanda, claiming they will flee from the country. The State added that a hovering minimum five-year-jail sentence each for unlawful possession of…

  THE government yesterday came out guns blazing, saying people falsely linking President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his family to corrupt individuals are trying to provoke Zimbabweans to embark on anti-government protests. This comes after First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa and one of her sons, Collins, were linked to a recent attempted gold smuggling case which led…

CONFEDERATION of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) and ordinary Zimbabweans yesterday warned that the continued increase in electricity tariffs will trigger a hike in cost of production, resulting in the spiking of prices of goods and services. They warned this would derail government’s thrust to maintain economic stability after it introduced a foreign currency auction and several…