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Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter— The Supreme Court yesterday ruled that payment of housing, educational and other allowances is not a right to workers and employers are not obliged to pay…
ZCTU snubs crisis indaba on sackings •Body’s sincerity called to question •ZFTU, Government slam action
Felex Share Senior Reporter— THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions has abandoned workers in their time of need, with the pro-opposition umbrella labour representative body yesterday snubbing a meeting convened by…
MDC-T summoned to Europe
Tendai Mugabe Senior Reporter— MDC-T yesterday made a stunning admission that three Western governments had summoned its leadership to Europe and were funding the opposition party’s preparations for the next harmonised…
No CDF for 8th Parliament
Tendai Mugabe Senior Reporter Legislators in the Eighth Parliament are likely to finish their terms without accessing the $50 000 Constituency Development Fund as Treasury struggles to raise money even for…
Death sentence under spotlight
Fidelis Munyoro Chief Court Reporter Two death-row prisoners have launched a legal assault on the validity of the death penalty, arguing that it is not in conformity with the new constitutional…
Banker steals, blows $170k on gambling
Court Reporter A 30-year-old NMB Bank Limited banker was sent to jail for one-and-a-half years after stealing $170 000 from his employer that he blew up on gambling. Alfred Gusha of…
Govt to launch campaign against child marriages
Samantha Chigogo Herald Reporter Government will this week launch an Africa-wide campaign to end child marriages, Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development Minister Nyasha Chikwinya said yesterday. The campaign will be launched…
‘I used protection, the child is not mine’
Prosper Dembedza Court Correspondent A Harare man yesterday denied paternity of his seven-year-old son saying he used to have protected sex with the mother. The man (name withheld)claimed he needed time to…
EDITORIAL COMMENT: Salary: What matters is the bottom line
Allowances have assumed an importance in labour negotiations that they do not deserve and yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling should have no effect on workers pay or pay deals; what matters…
Magistrate reopens Gumbura’s rape trial
Court Reporter A Harare magistrate yesterday reopened the rape trial of Robert Martin Gumbura, the convicted RMG Independent End Time Message leader, a year after he filed his application for…