The National Social Security Authority (NSSA) has slashed salaries of top management by more than 25 percent and scrapped other perquisites that were gobbling millions of dollars of workers’ monthly pension contributions. The new framework took effect on April 1. This follows massive corruption and maladministration by the previous management that saw some top managers
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NSSA Bosses Mega Salaries Slashed Down
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US Ambassador Engages Tsvangirai
By VOA|United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Harry Thomas Jnr. held a meeting Tuesday with Movement for Democratic Change founding president Morgan Tsvangirai at the party’s Harvest House headquarters in Harare. Ambassador Thomas Jnr. told Studio 7 that the meeting is part of his efforts to engage the country’s political and civil society leaders. Tsvangirai’s spokesperson
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Woman Gang Raped by Gun Totting Robbers
FOUR highway robbers fired a gun shot before pulling a woman from a vehicle and gang-raping her, police said yesterday. A haulage truck driver and his male passenger were robbed of their belongings and stripped naked in the incident on Monday night near the Mahatshula North suburb turn-off in Bulawayo. Police say they are looking
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Teenager Sodomises Grade 1 Pupil
A FORM three pupil at Zwangendaba Secondary School in Lupane has been arrested for sodomising a six-year-old neighbour after promising to give him a memory card. The 17-year-old boy and his victim, a Grade one pupil, both live in Daluka Village in Lupane. The schoolboy pleaded guilty to aggravated indecent assault when he appeared before
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Mnangagwa Wife Hunts Down Grace Mugabe Gangs
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s wife, Auxillia, is hunting down faction gangs deployed in the Midlands area. Auxillia Mnangagwa was appointed by the ZANU-PF Midlands leadership among a seven-member taskforce moving around the province looking into the causes of rampant factionalism by members of First Lady Grace Mugabe’s G40 faction. The decision was made during the
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Mujuru Pastor Abducted By CIO | BREAKING NEWS
A “pastor,” linked to Former Vice President Joice Mujuru, has been raided and abducted by the CIO (Central Intelligence Organisation) in Chinhoyi, the party says. The church elder was to officiate an interdenominational meeting with Mujuru at the local church last night before the CIO swooped in, ZimEye.com is told. While details were sketchy at
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Mugabe Health Scare| NEW PICTURE SHOCK
President Robert Mugabe’s health hit the news forums on Wednesday again after fresh state pictures (above) showed him requiring physical assistance to greet the widow of former Zimbabwe Farmers’ Union, Mrs Rhoda Hungwe. “So our dear leader can’t raise his hand now he has to be assisted,” commented a ZimEye reader. In February, a Zimbabwean
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Power Producer Fights Parliament Over Mutare Tender
Independent power producer, Pito Investments on Tuesday took its battle against the State Procurement Board (SPB) to Parliament hoping to persuade lawmakers to intervene in the dispute after the firm was elbowed out of a tender to set up the Zimbabwe Power Company’s 120-megawatt Mutare Peaking Plant. ZPC, a subsidiary of power utility, Zesa Holdings
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Married Man Sodomises 12yr Old Boy
A MARRIED man from Gweru who sodomised his neighbour’s 12-year-old son has been slapped with a 15-year jail term. Never Noah, 24, of Chihota Farm, appeared before Gweru Regional Magistrate Morgan Nemadire facing one count of indecent assault. He pleaded guilty and was jailed for 15 years. Noah will, however, serve 12 years of the
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Minister Applauds Salvation Army
By Sydney Barson | The Salvation Army church remains relevant in its ministry and continues to play a pivotal role in promoting peace, unity, health and education to the nation of Zimbabwe, Minister of State for Provincial Affairs in the Midlands Province Hon. Jason Machaya has said. In a speech read on his behalf by
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Drama as Mujuru aides Kick CIOs Out of Meeting
Staff Reporter| Matabeleland South Provincial Committee of the Joice Mujuru led People First party did the unthinkable over the weekend when they bundled CIO and police officers out of their executive meeting. The meeting ended prematurely as the CIO agents turned their anger on the owners of the private place where the meeting was being
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$200,000 School Cash Disappears
Terrence Mawawa, Masvingo|$200,000 has reportedly disappeared as a raging storm brews at the Roman Catholic owned St Antony’s Msiso High School with parents accusing the head of gross abuse of funds. Disgruntled parents yesterday accused the school head Emmaculate Tinago of rampant corruption and gross embezzlement of school funds to the tune of USD200,000. The parents also accused
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Teachers Stranded As Bank Run Out Of Cash
Terrence Mawawa, Masvingo| Scores of teachers from the rural areas were stranded in the ancient city of Masvingo after failing to get their salaries from their respective banks, amid indications the 2008 chaos could resurface. The teachers were forced to sleep on the pavements after being told the banks had no cash. Some of the
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100 Zimbabwe Girls Abducted in Kuwait, Still Missing | BREAKING NEWS
About 100 Zimbabwean women are still missing in Kuwait having been abducted there, the latest revelations show. The development comes after the Zim government set out into Kuwait sending a delegation of MPs and government officers to repatriate hundreds of Zimbabwean girls who were trafficked into that country for slavery. The women who had been
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Salary Cash Disappears, Teachers Stranded
Terrence Mawawa, Masvingo| Scores of teachers from the rural areas were stranded in the ancient city of Masvingo after failing to get their salaries from their respective banks, amid indications the 2008 chaos could resurface. The teachers were forced to sleep on the pavements after being told the banks had no cash. Some of the
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Leigh-Ann Mahachi Death: HELP NEEDED
Sheffield Telegraph- Friends of the mother of the Zimbabwean Sheffield murder victim Leigh-Anne Mahachi are urging people to donate money to help the family at this ‘awful time’. Staff at Scarsdale Grange Nursing Home, in Woodseats, have launched an appeal to raise money for Leigh-Ann’s mum Cecilia, who is too grief-stricken to work. As Cecilia
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Mugabe for Old People’s Home
Confine Mugabe To An Old People’s Home-Mangoma The Elton Mangoma led Renewal Democrats of Zimbabwe, RDZ, says the 92 year old President Robert Mugabe is “incapacitated” and should be “relegated” to the old people’s home. On Wednesday President Mugabe’s health hit the news forums after fresh state pictures showed him requiring physical assistance to greet
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Mnangagwa:Zimbabwe A Cash Purse for Other Countries
ZIMBABWE was slowly becoming a “market for other countries” with very little exports in return to drive the economy forward, Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said. Addressing delegates at the International Business Conference hosted by the Zimbabwe International Trade (ZITF) company, Mnangagwa said the country was not doing enough in terms of exports urging the public
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YARD Chaos: Mliswa Blames ZANU PF
Below is Youth Advocacy for Reform and Democracy(YARD) leader, Temba Mliswa’s press statement regarding the disturbance of the YARD Press Conference of Wednesday 27th April 2016: Wednesday’s riotous disturbance at the Media Centre during YARD’s press conference was certainly no surprise. We were expecting this sort of behaviour and now have the violent nature of
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Kuwait Rescue, Zim Government’s Shame – MDC
The Government’s shameful failure to assist in the return of 32 Zimbabwean women stranded in Kuwait, effectively condemning them to an unbearable existence in a foreign land is an embarrassment to the nation. Just recently President Mugabe just got back from one of his costly global jaunts in New York for a debate on SGDs
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