ZIBF in financial straits
Sunday Mail By Mtandazo Dube 26 July 2009 ALTHOUGH there has been a cash injection by the Culture Fund, this year’s Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF), which kicks off tomorrow and ends on Saturday, could still lack the glitz and glamour of yesteryear due to financial constraints. The money received from the Culture Fund, although
The See-Sawing Zimbabwean economy
ZimEye.org By Fortune-Galangwe 24 July 2009 The Zimbabwe economy is showing signs of life commensurately with the Prime Minister’s European trip which hit a brick wall where he met with European heads of state lobbying them for aid. The dollarization of the economy put an end to hyperinflation, artificial interest rates and unrealistic exchange rates.
Students Feel the Heat of Crumbling System
The Financial Gazette By Dumisani Ndlela 24 July 2009 Harare — HIGH school students received their results for the examinations they wrote in November last year just six weeks ago. A ministerial directive to government schools demanded that the children who had failed had to be withdrawn from school. Our Staff Reporter Dumisani Ndlela provides
Zimbabwe’s Tsvangirai to Meet South Africa’s Zuma on Unity Government Breaches
VOA By Peta Thornycroft 23 July 2009 Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s office and independent monitors are accusing President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF Party loyalists of hundreds of breaches of the political agreement that led to Zimbabwe’s inclusive government. The breaches are said to include the expulsion of several Movement for Democratic Change legislators from parliament. Officials
Teachers’ union bosses slam Biti & Mukonoweshuro
SW Radio Africa By Violet Gonda 22 July 2009 Eliphas Mukonoweshuro, the Minister for Public Service, announced on Tuesday an increase in allowances for civil servants starting this month. Teachers will see their allowances go from $100 a month to $145 (after bank charges and taxes) while doctors will receive $170. However, the salary increases
Zimbabwean Civil servants stranded
The Zimbabwe Telegraph By Getrude Gumede 21 July 2009 ZIMBABWE – BULAWAYO – Zimbabwean civil servants, mostly teachers were on Tuesday stranded at banks after failing to access salaries amid reports that the payday has been deferred to next week. By 8am, scores of teachers were seen queuing at banks in anticipation of withdrawing salaries
Despite Pledge To Increase Pay, Salaries of Zimbabwe Teachers Delayed
VOA By Jonga Kandemiiri and Chris Gande 21 July 2009 Many Zimbabwean teachers became agitated Tuesday to find that neither their accustomed US$100 monthly allowances or the increased salary promised by the finance minister last week had been posted to their bank accounts as anticipated. An emergency meeting was called between Education and Public Service
Teachers take demos to PM, Mugabe’s offices
ZimOnline by Andrew Moyo 16 July 2009 HARARE – The militant Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) yesterday declared it would take its demonstrations over salary increments to President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s offices after an attempt by protesting members to meet Public Service Minister Eliphas Mukonoweshuro failed on Monday. PTUZ president
Zimbabwe’s civil servants salaries reviewed
Zimbabwe Telegraph By Getrude Gumede 16 July 2009 HARARE – The Zimbabwean Government has re-introduced salaries for civil servants with effect from 1 July, a development that will see public service employees earning varying figures according to grades. Presenting his mid-term fiscal review statement at Parliament Building in Harare yesterday, Finance Minister Tendai Biti, increased
NEW SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
The Zimbabwean By Natasha Hove 15 July 2009 BULAWAYO – A Christian NOG, Blue Diamond, is set to build a secondary school and a clinic for underprivileged girls here. Eric Bloch, the chairman of the organisation, said the project sought to empower underprivileged girls through the provision of free secondary education and skills building geared