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By Robert Tapfumaneyi 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...

By Alois Vinga PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa seems to have extended an olive branch to the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) through a surprise invitation to the hostile workers group to attend the official Independence Day commemorations this Sunday. ZCTU fell out with government at the turn of the century when its leaders formed the nucleus of MDC during its formation. The party would later become a big force which has loosened Zanu PF’s octopus grip on Zimbabwean politics. ZCTU has never disguised its allegiance to MDC and has been involved in several confrontational episodes with ...

WORKERS under the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) banner have declared that a crippling general strike was the only way out of the current salary

By Robert Tapfumaneyi ZIMBABWE Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) says the government has been captured by powerful cartels leaving workers with no social security support and earning with some earning US$25 per month. This, according to the biggest labour union in the country, is enough to buy only 25 loaves of bread. ZCTU President Peter Mutasa said it was now time for all labour unions in the country to stand-up and be at the forefront of fighting against rising corruption, repression and also for workers to shrug off ignorance and focus on freeing themselves from unjust labour practices. He ...

By Leopold Munhende THE recent increase in government’s brutality against dissenting voices is nothing other than attempts by senior ruling Zanu PF officials in protecting their ill-gotten wealth accumulated over years of corrupt governance. Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) President Peter Mutasa told journalists Thursday that the government’s fight to keep their grip on power should be a mirror of how much the senior officials had stolen from Zimbabwe’s coffers and natural resources. He was speaking at a Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition’s commemorations of the government’s 11 M...