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By Robert Tapfumaneyi OUTSPOKEN Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions president Peter Mutasa says ordinary Zimbabweans living in the current Zanu PF led regime were now worse that animals. Mutasa was speaking in an address to mark Workers Day Saturday. He said as workers, they regretted supporting the 2017 coup that ousted now late former President Robert Mugabe and ushered in incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa. “When we supported the military coup hoping that they will progress, we actually jumped from the frying pan into the fire and we have no one else is going to rescue us than ourselve...

Workers, pensioners feel the pinch BY MOSES MATENGA WORKERS under the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) banner yesterday decried living standards in the country, which they described as “unbearable and terrible”, and worse than life during the tenure of the late former President Robert Mugabe. On Saturday during Workers’ Day commemorations, President Emmerson Mnangagwa claimed that his government had ushered in a sense of optimism to the country’s workers compared to the Mugabe era. However, ZCTU president Peter Mutasa quashed the claims saying Mnangagwa’s utterances showed t...

By Robert Tapfumaneyi ZIMBABWE Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president, Peter Mutasa has rallied Zimbabwean workers to evoke the gallant spirit once shown by late former Vice President and one time union leader Joshua Nkomo together with other fallen luminaries whose fingerprints on this front decorate the country’s unionism history. In an address to mark the Workers Day commemorations Saturday, Mutasa also took a swipe at some opposition MDC politicians for alleged betrayal of the workers’ cause. He said late founding MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai was turning in his grave after some of ...

Groups like labour federation ZCTU, the Zimbabwe National Students Union, Crisis Coalition in Zimbabwe, and Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights say they’ll do all they can to stop this.

ZCTU's Peter Mutasa THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) says opposition MDC-T legislators who last week voted in support of Constitutional Amendment Bill Number 2 were sell-outs. The proposed law seeks to, among other things, strike off the presidential running mate clause in the constitution as well as empower the President to promote sitting judges of the High Court and Supreme Court without going through any public interviews as is currently the case. The law also seeks to provide judges of the Constitutional and Supreme Courts an option of extended tenure beyond the retirement ag...