EDUCATION

Zimbabwe lecturers consider strike over salaries

Lecturers at Zimbabwe's state universities are threatening to go on strike following the collapse of wage negotiations with government.The Zimbabwe State Universities Union of Academics (Zisuua) and t...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 September 2025

EDUCATION

UZ graduation proceeds amid strike

University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Mapfumo has labelled striking academics from the Association of University Teachers (AUT) as "retrogressive," a day after the High Court dis...

By Staff reporter | Published: 16 August 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe nurses threaten strike

Zimbabwe's fragile public healthcare system is facing yet another major crisis as nurses across the country have signalled their intention to embark on a nationwide strike over poor remuneration, dire...

By Staff reporter | Published: 09 July 2025

MINING & RETAIL

Anjin workers stage 4-month strike

Workers at Anjin Investments, a diamond mining company operating in Zimbabwe, have staged a protest, halting operations as they demand immediate action over a range of grievances, including four month...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 July 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe strike investment, trade deals at Afreximbank meeting

Zimbabwean business leaders and economic policy figures who attended the recent African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) Annual Meetings in Abuja, Nigeria, say the event yielded significant benefits i...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 July 2025

MIDDLE EAST

Trump strikes Iran's Fordow, Isfahan, Natanz sites

PRESIDENT Donald Trump has announced that United States forces struck three Iranian nuclear sites in a "very successful attack", adding that the heavily fortified Fordow nuclear facility is "gone".Tru...

By Staff reporter | Published: 22 June 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Lecturer strike at UZ deepens

The Association of University Teachers (AUT) has accused the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) of deliberately stalling wage negotiations while exploiting the labour of part-time staff brought in to replace...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 June 2025

POLITICS

High Court refuses to strike down Patriot Act

The High Court has dismissed a legal challenge seeking to declare amendments to the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act - widely known as the Patriot Act - unconstitutional, dealing another blo...

By Staff reporter | Published: 22 May 2025

EDUCATION

UZ crisis deepens amid strike

The University of Zimbabwe (UZ), the country's oldest institution of higher learning, is reeling under a deepening crisis as a month-long strike by lecturers brings academic activity to a standstill.S...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 May 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Court strikes Tshabangu appeal off the roll

The Supreme Court has struck off the roll appeals filed by self-styled Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim secretary-general Sengezo Tshabangu and the Speaker of the National Assembly, who wer...

By Staff reporter | Published: 16 May 2025

EDUCATION

6 UZ students arrested for protesting over lecturers' strike

Six University of Zimbabwe (UZ) students were arrested on Monday afternoon after staging a flash protest demanding urgent action to resolve a protracted lecturers' strike that has crippled academic ac...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 May 2025

EDUCATION

UZ lecturers begin indefinite strike

Lecturers at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) have declared an indefinite strike, demanding a return to pre-2018 salary levels and improved conditions of service, following a successful court bid to pr...

By Staff reporter | Published: 25 April 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe civil servants brace for strike

CIVIL servants yesterday said they had run out of patience with their employer over poor remuneration and threatened to take "appropriate action" if government fails to come up with a satisfactory wag...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 July 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe health workers divided over strike

HEALTH workers are divided over the Health Service Board (HSB)'s appeal to give government a chance for negotiations before embarking on a strike that will leave many patients stranded.HSB chairperson...

By Staff reporter | Published: 20 June 2019

LANDS & AGRICULTURE

Zimbabwe strikes US$2m agric deal with Japan

Zimbabwe has entered into a US$2 million agreement with Japan, targetted at smallholder agriculture as part of efforts to revive the sector.The Zimbabwe Smallholder Horticulture Empowerment and Promot...

By Staff reporter | Published: 03 May 2019

EDUCATION

Zimbabwe teachers' union strike starts Tuesday

THE country's largest teachers' union has declared its members will not turn up for work when schools re-open this Tuesday, NewZimbabwe.com reported.In a statement Saturday, the Zimbabwe Teachers Asso...

By newzimbabwe | Published: 06 January 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Labour unrest as teachers, nurses and senior doctors join strike

Zimbabwe has been plunged into a labour crisis of monumental proportions after senior doctors, nurses and teachers joined the ongoing strike by junior doctors which is now more than a month old.Nurses...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 January 2019

POLITICS

Zimbabwe doctors' strike continues

DOCTORS at public hospitals yesterday said they will continue with their industrial action and implored government to be more serious with health care and move with speed to avert collapse of the heal...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 December 2018

POLITICS

Civil service strike looms

CIVIL servants yesterday threatened to down tools if government failed to reverse its austerity measures, including partial payment of bonus and payment of customs duty in foreign currency.In a joint ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 December 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

More Zimbabwe doctors join strike

More doctors yesterday joined the on-going strike, defying a government message to call off the job action.The doctors have been on strike since Saturday to protest poor remuneration and the deteriora...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 December 2018

POLITICS

Doctors' strike spreads

JUNIOR doctors at public hospitals yesterday stepped up their strike for better working conditions and remuneration, forcing some major hospitals to close down key departments and discharge "stable" p...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 December 2018

OPINION

Govt must address key issues behind doctors' strike

GOVERNMENT must deal with key issues behind the doctors' strike.Junior doctors in most parts of the country have gone on strike, no surprise there. The strike action by the doctors has become an annua...

By Editorial - newsday | Published: 04 December 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Call for doctors to end strike

Government yesterday urged striking junior doctors to go back to work while it was looking into their grievances. Junior doctors at public health facilities downed tools on Saturday citing several cha...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 December 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe doctors call nationwide strike

GOVERNMENT doctors have called a nationwide strike, citing what they described as "severe incapacitation and inability to withstand the current disabling working environment".The development increases...

By newzimbabwe | Published: 02 December 2018

CONSTRUCTION & PROPERTY

Strike looms in construction sector

A crippling strike is looming in the construction sector over failure by employers to increase salaries by three percent.This follows a March 27 agreement whereby the employers made an undertaking to ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018
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