UK Pressure Zim To Pay £25 Million Pensions To Its citizens ‘Civil servants’ In Rhodesian Regime.

UK Pressure Zim To Pay £25 Million Pensions To Its citizens ‘Civil servants’ In  Rhodesian Regime.

British lawmakers are pressuring Zimbabwe to pay £25 million in pensions to its citizens who served as civil servants under Ian Smith’s colonial regime. The money is said to be owed to about 2 000 former workers of the Southern Rhodesia government, including ex-military personnel who committed atrocities against the black majority during the liberation struggle. Conservative Party peer Lord Alastair Robertson Goodlad has been leading the lobby to push his government to engage Harare…

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Mat North Re-introduces The Year 2000 Suspended Zim Junior Certificate (ZJC) Examination

MATABELELAND North province has re-introduced the Zimbabwe Junior Certificate (ZJC) examination as one of the many measures the province has adopted to improve the mediocre performance which it has recorded over the years. Government in 2013 once mulled the idea of re-introducing ZJC in a bid to improve the national pass rate. The ZJC examination was suspended in 2000 when hyperinflation pushed its running to unaffordable levels. Provincial education director Mrs Boithatelo Mnguni said her…

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‘Goodwill Zwelithini Cancels Visit To Zimbabwe Due To Gwanda Residents Backlash’

‘Goodwill Zwelithini  Cancels Visit To Zimbabwe  Due To Gwanda Residents Backlash’

ZULU King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu has reportedly cancelled his intended visit to Gwanda  this weekend amid a backlash from the Gwanda community. King Zwelithini was meant to attend a three- day jamboree, to be held in the mining town from Friday. The event is set to include about 102 gospel artistes jetting in from neighbouring South Africa to perform at a free-of-charge show to be held at Pelandaba Stadium and the official opening of a…

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Christmas come Early!,..Zanu-PF MP Muzarabani South, Christopher Chitindi Booted Out

Christmas come Early!,..Zanu-PF MP Muzarabani South, Christopher Chitindi Booted Out

Zanu-PF MP for Muzarabani South, Christopher Chitindi, has been booted out of the Mashonaland Central provincial executive on allegations of fanning factionalism in President Robert Mugabe’s fractious party. Chitindi’s name has been associated with the Joice Mujuru camp. The Zanu-PF Mashonaland Central provincial coordinating committee (PCC) first recommended his suspension last year, but he was finally expelled this week after noting he was “unrepentant.” Dickson Mafios, the ruling party’s Mashonaland Central chairperson, confirmed Chitindi’s expulsion….

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“We all Regret What Happened To Itai Dzamara, As Gvt We Have No Answers’-Mnangagwa.

“We all Regret What Happened To Itai Dzamara, As Gvt We Have No Answers’-Mnangagwa.

Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa says the government is also looking for answers as to the whereabouts of journalist and political activist, Itai Dzamara. Mnangagwa told the Zanu-PF Midlands Provincial Co-ordinating Committee meeting that everyone regrets what happened to Dzamara and the government is looking for answers. The Vice President said every single citizen must be protected by the state and security agents including the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) are all out trying to find out…

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‘Zimbabwe’s Illicit Beer Brewers, Endangering Drinkers Lives By Using Lethal Embalming Fluid’

‘Zimbabwe’s Illicit Beer Brewers, Endangering Drinkers Lives By Using Lethal Embalming Fluid’

Despite legislative attempts to curb drinking, Zimbabwe is still facing its greatest threat from alcohol abuse. Calamities associated with excessive intoxication – dementia, seizures, liver disease and early death  have-  done little to deter users. Not even confirmed reports by the Ministry of Health and government agencies such as the National Aids Council (NAC) that illicit brewers have been turning to lethal embalming fluid used in mortuaries have cut the rate of abuse. “Patrons want…

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Relax, Fired workers Are Only ‘ Jobless , Not Landless’ -Zanu PF Apologist Nathaniel Manheru

Relax, Fired workers Are Only ‘ Jobless , Not Landless’ -Zanu PF Apologist Nathaniel Manheru

Controversial State media columnist, Nathaniel Manheru, widely believed to be President Robert Mugabe’s spokesperson George Charamba  has boosted that more than 20 000 fired workers  could be “jobless but not landless”. Writing in his Saturday column, Manheru said widespread retracements are not confined to Zimbabwe alone but throughout Southern Africa. He said Zanu PF is well prepared to handle the crisis. “We have witnessed a spate of retrenchments in the country. It is simplistic to…

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‘Zimbabwe Is Moving, Evolving Quite Fast’-Zanu PF Apologist Nathaniel Manheru

‘Zimbabwe Is Moving, Evolving Quite Fast’-Zanu PF Apologist Nathaniel Manheru

Zimbabwe is moving, evolving quite fast. Not in the superficial neo-liberal sense in which a backsliding country can be pampered by Bretton Woods affiliates, pampered to vertiginous growth levels. Against ever deepening social crisis characterised by mass poverty, mass ignorance and an all-round collapse of social services, such chosen countries are apotheosised through esoteric markers like Ease of Doing Business Index, Transparency Index, Governance Index, FDI Index, etc, etc, all of which are oriented towards…

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Grace Mugabe’s ALPHA &Omega Dairy Charges Jobseekers US$50 For Vendor Jobs

Grace Mugabe’s  ALPHA  &Omega Dairy Charges Jobseekers US$50 For Vendor Jobs

FIRST LADY Grace Mugabe’s company ALPHA and Omega Dairy may be taking advantage of desperate job seekers by making them pay before they are employed as vendors. A senior manager at the firm recently revealed that the struggling business would have collapsed if it wasn’t for state support through orders from the army, the police and other government institutions. The First Family’s company sells ice cream, yoghurt, fresh milk, cultured milk and mineral water among…

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‘CIO Used Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa To Block Party Congress,’ – MDC Renewal Team

‘CIO Used Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa To Block Party Congress,’ – MDC Renewal Team

THE Opposition MDC Renewal Team claims it lost an undisclosed sum of money in expenses incurred as part of preparations for the aborted inaugural congress stopped by police over a venue clash with Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa’s United Family International Church (UFIC). Police early this week barred the Renewal Team fronted by former treasury chief Tendai Biti after the party’s dates for holding its first congress clashed with Makandiwa’s church meeting. The police then advised the…

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