Civil servants set for salary hike
GOVERNMENT and civil servants’ representatives are scheduled to meet this week to negotiate fresh salary adjustments and improved working conditions, amid eroding disposable income.
The new figures were scheduled to have been sealed in April, but the requisite meetings could not be held due to Covid-19 challenges.
Zim keen to re-engage America but . . .
ZIMBABWE is eager to re-engage with the United States of America, but Washington continues its hostile stance on Harare after US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Mr Tibor Nagy, blatantly sided with a faction of the MDC following arrest of the party’s leaders on Friday.
Audit unearths 3 000 ghost workers
TREASURY has struck off 3 000 names from Government’s payroll after a recent headcount revealed thousands of ghost workers.
The Public Service Commission (PSC) recently undertook a biometric registration exercise for all civil servants under which personal and educational details were captured by both the PSC and the Registrar-General (RG)’s Office.
Let’s build bridges
WE note with concern the renewed onslaught on Zimbabwe from the West, in particular the United States of America, which has singled out Harare for acerbic criticism in the wake of the worldwide condemnation of Washington’s response to the killing of George Floyd — an unarmed black man — by a white police officer on May 25 in Minneapolis.
Mamombe abduction: Car owner speaks out
ADDRESSING a press conference on Thursday last week, Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe Kazembe revealed that the vehicle driven by MDC-T Harare West legislator Joanna Mamombe during an alleged abduction did not belong to her.
To open or not to . . .
Resolving the conundrum of either reopening schools or scrapping this year’s academic calendar is one of the most difficult decisions the Government will have to make.
Coronavirus, which is wreaking havoc across the world, has so far chewed six weeks from the local school calendar.
Giveaway terms for $18bn bailout
Government is breathing a new lease of life into the economy after announcing concessionary terms for the $18 billion Covid-19 economic recovery and stimulus package.
Beneficiaries of the bailout will have a three-month grace period for servicing the loans.
‘Mukamba is special’
FOR Klaus Dieter Pagels, news about Denver Mukamba’s social problems and the demons that almost scuppered the Ngezi Platinum midfielder’s career came as a huge surprise and was hard to believe.
But what has never been in doubt on the mind of the German gaffer, who coached Mukamba in the senior national soccer team in 2013, is the player’s talent.
An unending hell for sure
Phew!!! What a year 2020 is turning out to be.
If it were one of the books in the Bible, it surely would have been “Revelations”.
The year is now turning out to be both apocalyptic and full of revelations.
NSSA rises or falls on board decisions
Tawanda Musarurwa In recent months there seems to be an increase in the number of private pension funds that have gone into liquidation — and that is a good thing.…











