Gvt Merges Some Departments , Redeploys Personnel, Cuts Transport Allowances

Gvt Merges Some Departments , Redeploys Personnel, Cuts Transport  Allowances

Government has begun implementing recommendations of the Civil service audit by merging some departments with duplicate functions, redeploying numerous workers and cutting transport allowances for hundreds of others. Transport allowances for civil servants benefiting from government free daily bus service will be cut and the money channelled to fleet maintenance. This would be effected this month. Office orderlies and teachers (and other Grade D5 workers) get at least $100 and $116 in monthly transport and…

Read More

‘2 692 People Aged 10 to 19 , Treated For STI , ‘ January to March 2015’ NAC

‘2 692 People Aged 10 to 19 , Treated For STI , ‘ January to March 2015’ NAC

About 2 692 people aged between 10 and 19 years where treated for the deadly sexually transmitted infections from January to March this year.  Harare accounts for highest   cases with 10 135 and Masvingo second with 8 166. The National Aids Council 2015 first quarter report indicates that more young people are now exposed to STIs due to unprotected sexual intercourse. The reports says the 25-49 age group contributed the heights patients with 30…

Read More

SA, Arrest,Danish (58) With Surgical Equipment, Anaesthetic & 21 Pieces Of Female Genitalia

SA, Arrest,Danish (58) With Surgical Equipment, Anaesthetic & 21 Pieces Of Female Genitalia

A DANISH man was arrested after pieces of female genitalia were found in his house, South African police said on Saturday. Police arrested the man at his home on Thursday, where they found 21 pieces of women’s genitalia stored in plastic bags in a freezer, said police spokesman Brig. Hangwani Mulaudzi. Police also discovered anesthetic and surgical implements in the man’s home. One of the 58-year-old man’s victims alerted the police, said Mulaudzi. Police have…

Read More

‘I ‘M Absolutely Elated’ Says Free Dad Who Faced Deportation, Over Passport Photo

‘I ‘M Absolutely Elated’ Says Free Dad Who Faced Deportation, Over Passport Photo

A FATHER-OF-FOUR is finally back home with his family after being locked up “like a criminal” when UK border officials refused to believe who he was. Atterbell Maplanka fell to his knees as the relief was too much when he was released from Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre near Heathrow Airport. The 36-year-old father of four was detained at the airport after returning home from his mother’s funeral in Zimbabwe – despite living in the UK…

Read More

Binga Council Bans , Ndebele In Primary School Curriculum , To Promote Tonga.

Binga Council Bans , Ndebele In Primary School Curriculum , To Promote Tonga.

This is despite the fact that the council has no power to make such decisions which solely lie with the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education. The local authority pulled a shocker late last year after passing a resolution banning the teaching of Ndebele at council schools, a move it said was aimed at promoting the Tonga language and preserving traditional values. The matter was brought before a full council in September last year and…

Read More

Explosives Used At Tategulu Primary School In Cowdray Park, To Steal US$1 300

Explosives  Used At Tategulu Primary School In Cowdray Park, To Steal US$1 300

A GANG of robbers on Saturday last week used explosives to blow the administration block at Tategulu Primary School in Cowdray Park, Bulawayo before gaining access to the school safe where they stole more than $1 300, police have confirmed. The incident happened four days after schools had opened for the third term, when most parents had paid school fees at the Bulawayo City Council run institution. Bulawayo provincial acting police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Abednego…

Read More

Proposed Bill To Enforce US$500 Fine Or 6Months In Jail for Public Smoking

SMOKING in public will attract a fine of US$500 or six months in jail after the country has aligned the Public Health Act on Tobacco Control Regulation 264 of 2001 with the World Health Organisation statutes, an official has said. The deputy director Alcohol and Drug Abuse in the Ministry of Health and Child Care, Mrs Docas Sithole, said Zimbabwe became an affiliate member of WHO on Tobacco Control in March this year and some…

Read More

2Zims Were Last Week Robbed , Brutally Murdered & Car Burnt In South Africa

TWO Zimbabwean nationals were last week robbed and brutally murdered and their car burnt to ashes in the Amanzimtoti area in Durban, South Africa, in a chilling incident that has left locals shell-shocked. The two, Mthabisi Ncube, also known as Mtee Billionaire Cube, and his business partner Lux Tendai Chingariri were reportedly in the company of two of their South African employees, who reportedly fled the scene on sensing danger. According to one of their…

Read More

Mugabe Is President For Life: Zanu-PF National Commissar, Kasukuwere

Zanu-PF national commissar Saviour Kasukuwere has declared that it is taboo for any official in the ruling party to dream of taking over power from President Robert Mugabe, as long as he is alive. Addressing a campaign rally in Mbire, Kanyemba Mashonaland Central province, Kasukuwere said ousted Vice-President Joice Mujuru’s waterloo was holding unsanctioned meetings with United States diplomats at her private residence. Kasukuwere said Mujuru was, in 2009, “dragged” by former Mbire MP David…

Read More
1 464 465 466 467 468 549