Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa – Page 2

Private Schools Likely To Increase Fees After Gvt Recall Of Teachers On Leave

Posted on February 11, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

PRIVATE schools could be forced to increase fees after the government recalled thousands of teachers deployed at the institutions, arguing that they are commercial enterprises and as such must meet their own staff costs. Over and above the pay received from the government, private and trust schools – which are also more expensive for pupils – provide a second salary to the teachers. Now, a circular sent to the affected schools and district education offices…

‘Immediate Recall Of Teachers On Leave, And 24 Hr Notice Of Termination Of service For Relief Teachers’

Posted on January 24, 2016January 24, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

HE Government will cut salaries of teachers who will fail to produce good results especially for public examination classes, among a cocktail of measures aimed at improving the quality of education in the country. This comes into effect this month following an announcement in the budget statement presented by Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa last year which also recommended that teachers at all schools which will register below 50 percent pass rate at Grade 7 and…

Police Arrest Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (RTUZ) Protest Union Leaders

Posted on January 4, 2016January 4, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights Communications officer Kumbirai Mafunda has said police in Harare have arrested three union leaders after assaulting and blocking some peaceful protesters who staged a demonstration against the government’s failure to remunerate civil servants. “Anti-riot police officers on Monday 04 January 2016 arrested Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (RTUZ) leaders Obert Masaraure, Robson Chere and Pride Mukono and detained them at Harare Central Police Station after breaking up an anti-government…

No Christmas Pay For Civil Servants Shows Mugabe’s Zanu PF Regime Is Stone Broke

Posted on December 28, 2015December 28, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

HARARE – The festive season has become a ginormous nightmare for the majority of civil servants as President Robert Mugabe’s stone-broke administration is failing to pay them not just their promised end-of-year bonuses, but their December salaries as well. Under-pressure Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa, had the unenviable task of announcing on Christmas Day, of all days, that most public servants would only receive their December pay – which was supposed to have been deposited into…

‘Zhuwao Rubbishes Chinamasa’s Policy Climb-down As Treachourous In Mugabe’s Absence’

Posted on December 27, 2015December 27, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

HARARE – Damaging discord has once again emerged in President Robert Mugabe’s Cabinet, with two ministers Patrick Chinamasa and Patrick Zhuwao reading from entirely different scripts on the country’s contentious indigenisation framework. So wide has the gulf between the two bigwigs become that Chinamasa, who is the minister of Finance, apparently walked out of a meeting which he was having with Zhuwao, the minister of Indigenisation, on Thursday – as they brawled over planned amendments…

‘Pay Us By 29/12/15 Or We Go On Strike’-Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZINA)

Posted on December 27, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

We note with regret the recent sudden change of pay day through press release by the Honorable Minister of Finance. The sudden extension of civil service pay dates to the 5th of next month is ridiculous and unbelievable. Zimbabwe nurses association (ZINA) appreciates and understand the difficulties faced by the government on financing its operations , but it is the lack of recognition and sincerity by the employer in addressing issues affecting health workers and…

Mugabe’s Zanu PF Regime Issues March 2016, Economic Empowerment Plans Submission Deadline

Posted on December 26, 2015December 26, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

. Although the original deadline for Zimbabwe’s foreign owned companies to submit their Economic Empowerment plans, was January 2014, the now desperately broke Zanu PF Regime has Issued another Ultimatum, calling for Foreign Firms To Meet a new deadline of March 2016 Empowerment Plans Submission. Mugabe’s Zanu PF regime has stepped up its campaign for Zimbabwe’s foreign owned companies which operate in the country, including mines and banks to comply with a law…

Civil Service Pay Date Moved From 28th Dec 2015 To 5th January 2016

Posted on December 25, 2015December 25, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

In a shocking display of the Zanu PF regime’s indifference, Zimbabwe’s civil servants, have had to face a most miserable Christmas because Mugabe’s Zanu PF regime has failed to pay them because its a dead broke government, which is failing to raise the much needed US$500 million wage bill for its bloated civil service. To add insult to injury the ministry of Finance announced that the Education sector would not be paid on the…

No Bonus Pay date: Teachers Association (ZIMTA) Threaten, Crippling Strike.

Posted on December 24, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

Mugabe’s absence over the festive season, and his inexperienced deputies in place at a time when unemployment running at over 90 %, with collapsed service delivery in health, roads, electricity, and housing is setting a stage for fireworks in the beginning of 2016 . The already strained and almost inexistent education service delivery crisis in Zimbabwe has reached alarming proportions as Mugabe’s Zanu PF regime is operating on little or no revenue. Teachers are yet unaware…

Gvt To Retrench Some Of Its 40 000 Soldiers, & 55 000 Police

Posted on December 18, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

The government could soon retrench thousands of soldiers and police officers, as authorities embark on a staff audit of the security sector as part of efforts to reduce the civil service’s unsustainable wage bill. Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa told Parliament on Wednesday the rationalisation exercise was now being extended to the army barracks and police stations to ascertain their numbers. “We took a decision at Cabinet to do the audit and I think the only…

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