adminLasting solution key to the civil service salary crisis
For the last four years, civil servants have been pre-occupied with salary negotiations, but with very little progress. Yet this is a sensitive and security issue that can affect all other sectors of the country. Civil servants salaries have become a topical and contentious issue, sometimes assuming aDealing with the polictics of labour
Albert NhamoyebondeIt is sad to think that those that toil day and night, underground, to extract precious minerals for the fortunate to parade like queens and kings, live in abject poverty. What else can one say about the plight of miners all over the world. Whether these miners are employed in capitalist,
Of tweets and hate language
Knowledge MushohweTwitter has taken the world of social networking by storm and tweeting has clearly become the most widely used and preferred communication medium by leading entertainment and sports personalities. The big distinction between it and facebook is, whereas the latter mostly involves
Tracy Mutinhiri ain’t the ‘big catch’ to trust
Mukuchana HanyaniTracy Mutinhiri, who was last year expelled from Zanu-PF and joined MDC-T, told the party’s faithful in Bulawayo that she had left Zanu-PF because it was nearing extinction and that it was a party with “blood-crazed murderers”. She was being paraded at her new party’s 13th anniversary
Charambas off to Hwange, Vic Falls
Entertainment Reporter
Pastor Charles Charamba and wife Olivia spread their wings this weekend when they perform a one-off show in Hwange and another in Victoria Falls for holidaymakers. The two gigs are part of Makomo Resources Mine’s second anniversary. Often referred to as the First Family of Gospel, the
Mudenge: Genius gone too soon
Fortious NhamburaOn Monday, Zimbabweans in their broad totality thronged the National Heroes Acre to inter an illustrious educationist, historian, diplomat and politician, Dr Isack Stanislaus Gorerazvo Mudenge. Higher and Tertiary Education Minister and former Foreign Affairs Minister Cde Mudenge (71)
Victory for Zim as West’s ‘conflict diamonds’ bid flops
Martin Kadzere Senior Business Reporter
EFFORTS by Western countries and civic society groups to expand the definition of conflict diamonds failed to garner support at a Kimberley Process meeting held in South Africa last week. The opposing nations argued that the proposed reforms were not being “objectively pursued”. Botswana, which
Kingdom boss wins top award
AfrAsia Kingdom Zimbabwe chief executive Mrs Lynn Mukonoweshuro is the inaugural winner of the Most Customer Focused Executive award (private sector category) organised by the Contact Centre Association of Zimbabwe
The prestigious award was presented to Mrs Mukonoweshuro at the Zimbabwe Service Excellence
CAAZ dismisses SAA complaints
Business Reporter
Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe chief executive officer David Chawota yesterday said there was nothing wrong with the lighting on the runway at Harare International Airport, contrary to complaints made by South Africa Airways pilots on Monday. The complaint led to the cancellation of the
Turn knowledge into wisdom
Ben Chiganze A Bassfisherman’s Approach
A few weeks ago my friends and I went fishing at Prince Edward Dam and we toiled all afternoon but did not catch anything. We were ashamed to go home empty handed, so we kept on trying until about 8pm. We caught handsomely between 6pm and 8pm. It was my first time to fish at