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1 300 teachers recruited

May 26, 2019 25,166

At least 1 350 primary and secondary school teachers have been recruited this term as Government seeks to improve the teacher to student ratio and ensure quality education through the implementation of the new curriculum.
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Business

Zimbabwe to axe more than 8,000 state employees to cut costs

Aug 25, 2016 273

Zimbabwe, which has not been able to pay more than 300,000 state workers on time this year, will start firing employees at its agriculture ministry, as it seeks to trim a civil service where wages absorb more than 80% of government revenue.…
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News

Civil service reforms save Govt $300 million

May 20, 2016 202

The civil service rationalisation exercise has started paying dividends as recommendations effected so far are set to cut the Government wage bill by $300 million this year.
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News

Changes loom in civil service

Aug 27, 2015 287

By Felex Share Civil servants must brace for major changes in the coming few weeks following the submission of the civil service manpower audit report, which contains a host of recommendations to plug unnecessary expenditure, to…
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Business

Banks act on civil servants arrears

May 9, 2015 269

SEVERAL banks have resorted to deducting money owed to them by civil servants directly from their accounts instead of receiving it from the Salary Service Bureau (SSB) after government’s continued failure to remit deductions despite…
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Opinion

Everyone is itching for a final push: MDC

Mar 26, 2015 196

PRESS STATEMENT - Government has announced that it is starting an exercise to downsize its bloated civil service. The civil service was ostensibly bloated by the so-called Zanu PF ward officers, a euphemism for Border Gezi youths who are…
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News

Shock salary increase for chefs

Aug 30, 2014 287

A storm is brewing between top government directors and the rest of the civil service after salaries for the former were clandestinely increased by more than double that of their deputies.
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News

Fears of a civil service purge as ex-PM’s staffers are sacked

Oct 8, 2013 208

Scores of civil servants who were employed in ex-Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s office have been fired by the government, amid fears of a ZANU PF-driven purge.
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News

Zimbabwe unions call for five-day strike

Jan 20, 2012 319

HARARE — Zimbabwean unions Friday called on civil servants to stage a five-day strike next week to demand a doubling of basic wages, one day after a stayaway was largely ignored.
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News

Ghost civil servants loot US$20m every month

Feb 15, 2011 230

Media reports on the results of the civil service manpower and payroll audit shows that there are 75 000 ghost workers on the government payroll, gobbling US$20 million every month.
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