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The National Social Security Authority is recruiting eight new managers barely a month after dismissing 13 executives claiming it was streamlining operations.   The development has brought to the fore the sincerity of downsizing the workforce as the posts being filled are those that were occupied by the laid-off workers. The 13 affected managers were from the departments of human resources, finance, administration, engineering and audit. New recruitments are now being done again in those…

. TEN councillors from Hwange Local Board are facing criminal abuse of office charges after they allegedly corruptly contracted a private company to develop housing stands without going through the tender process. The tender was valued at more than $1,6 million in 2009 when the crime was allegedly committed. The councillors are Local board chairperson Cosmas Ndlovu (47), Wilson Maphosa (44), Pius Shumba (43), Salani Nkomazana (47), Leonard Dlakama (39), Robert Ndlovu (58), Joseph Kakili…

‘Tsvangirai death rumours circulating across media are  false’-MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai’ spokesperson Luke Tamborinyoka Source-bulawayo24

  MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai’ spokesperson Luke Tamborinyoka has described the rumours circulating that his boss has died as blue lies indicating that the former ZCTU secretary General is alive and will be visiting provinces for meetings.   Rumours and stories have been circulating on social media that Tsvangirai passed on his way to a hospital in Harare after he fell seriously ill.   “There is a morbid and malicious rumour circulating about President Morgan…

. VICE-PRESIDENT Phelekezela Mphoko stunned President Robert Mugabe and senior government officials at a high-level meeting when he said cabinet was full of thieves while also calling for the dissolution of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc). During the meeting, held on December 20 before Mugabe went on annual leave in the Far East, Mphoko called for the dissolution of Zacc, arguing it was being used as a political tool to target a few senior government…

GOVERNMENT has announced an ambitious programme to build 500 000 housing units for civil servants in the next 18 months, as part of efforts to reduce the housing backlog and incentivise its workers..   Addressing a stakeholders’ meeting in Harare yesterday, Local Government ministry secretary, George Mlilo, dismissed suspicions that the project was politically timed to coincide with the run-up to the 2018 general elections to give the ruling Zanu PF party an upper hand….