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…

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‘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…

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‘Cabinet Reshuffle Humiliate &Reduce Zanu PF Matebeleland Ministers Influence ‘-Ncube

‘Cabinet Reshuffle Humiliate &Reduce Zanu PF Matebeleland Ministers Influence ‘-Ncube

OPPOSITION MDC leader Welshman Ncube has accused President Robert Mugabe of humiliating Zanu PF ministers from Matebeleland and reducing their influence in government with his three cabinet reshuffles in less than a year. The cabinet changes were supposedly intended to weed out suspected loyalists of former vice president Joice Mujuru who was ousted for allegedly plotting a coup against Mugabe. Analysts say the reshuffles, effected since the December 2014 split in the top echelons of…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Mugabe Gives 20 Minute Subdued ,Correct, ‘Skhanyiso Ndlovu’ Graveside Speech

  President Robert Mugabe gave probably one of his subdued grave yard speech at the National Heroes Acre at the burial of Dr Sikhanyiso Ndlovu today. Mugabe (91) stuck to his ‘correct’ prepared speech and ran through it in record 20 minutes. Mugabe did not use the platform to attack his political opponents and the West. He is known for his unrestrained salvo at his rivals. In his brief off the cuff remarks, he said…

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15 African Presidents Have Tried Extending Their Term In Office, Since, 2000: Discuss!

15 African Presidents Have Tried Extending Their Term In Office, Since, 2000: Discuss!

Africa is seeing a trend in military coups  against dictators , particularly by military powers, especially against this generation of dictators such as a total of 15 African presidents who have tried to extend their term in office since the year 2000…Discuss! ! By Sibusiso Ngwenya see more at www.newzimbabwevision.com  

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