Zimbabwe: Public Service Commission – Update on the Retirement of Youth Officers (04.01.2019)

Zimbabwe: Press Statement by the Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Hon. M. Ncube, On the Setting Up of a Foreign Currency Allocation Committee (04.01.2019)

Zimbabwe: Executive Summary on Meeting between Education Unions and ZINA (03.01.2019)

Joint Press Release Between the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and Delta Corporation: Sale of Products Exclusively in Hard Currency (03.01.2019)

Zimbabwe: Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals – Memorandum – “Re: Continued Industrial Action by Junior Doctors and suspension” (02.01.2019)

Zimbabwe: Delta Beverages – Payment of Wholesale Prices in Hard Currency (02.01.2019)

Zimbabwe Nurses Association: Press Release (01.01.2019)

Zimbabwe: Health Service Board – Executive Summary of Deliberations in the Health Service Bipartite Meeting of 31st December 2018 (31.12.2018)

Air Zimbabwe: Press Statement – Grounding of B737 Z-WPA Aircraft for Mandatory Maintenance (30.12.2018)

Opinion: Gen. Chiwenga there are other solutions to problems than firing people!

There are days, when Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga was a military man and the powerful man, the former Commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Force. Since the Coup d’etat or the Operation Restore Legacy, where the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) decided to drop Mugabe for Mnangagwa. That we all know by now.

The PFee has changed, Gen. Chiwenga is supposed to be Second in Command after the President. The man who is the friendly side-kick and the man who helped using the army to get the Lacoste fraction to power. However, the seems to be misconceptions in the power of the VP. If this government are supposed to be better than the Mugabe administration. Than, The VP better change-up.

The Zanu-PF and Chiwenga can act in many different ways, it is foolish to fire nurses, doctors, junior doctors and teachers. Chiwenga even gotten media persons like CapiTalk Station Manager Napoleon Nyanhi and Star Presenter Ruvheneko Parirenyatwa in August 2018. I’m sure, he has tried to get various of media persons and social media influencers off-line, as there been questions about his health and his whitening dilemma.

However, as the VP, this micro-managing of firing people because of strikes, demonstrations or even articles, radio-shows and whatnot. Is showing weakness, not strength. The PFee loyalists might like it and get some good smirks out of it. Nevertheless, on the other side of the barrel, it might not be so rosy.

The VP should think of his kids and grand-children, as they could get into serious problems. As the lack of good-governance and care for protocol. There is lack of care for the civil servants and the ones serving the state in various position all across the Republic. They are there trying to their job. What they are fighting for is just salaries, fair working conditions and all the other matters, which the VP should support.

Gen. Chiwenga, talk and reason with the ones demonstrating for a better future and a more serving state. This shouldn’t be shocking, the VP should see this and he needs to see this. They wouldn’t do it this way, if they didn’t see it fit to do industrial action. The VP has to grow up and understand that. Find measures and search for positive ways to find solutions, this is the way to build a better republic.

To fire educated personnel over strikes and demonstrations, will create a brain-drain and the ones, who has gotten educated and working in crappie conditions could easily get jobs abroad. They are easily becoming the diaspora and not serving the PFee.

An old man Chiwenga shouldn’t need this schooling by anyone, but when he acts like a fool. He needs to hear it. Not from me, but from others with common sense. It is time for the VP to govern and not to rule. There is vast different between doing one or the other. Peace.