The African Regional Organisation of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-Africa), with over 18 Million African workers, stands in firm solidarity with the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) in its principled rejection of attempts to mutilate Zimbabwe’s national constitution (…)

Zimbabwe is facing multiple crises: recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic, food shortages and the impacts of climate change. While an economic recovery programme and stimulus package were introduced to combat the pandemic’s impacts, trade unions and business representatives have criticised the (…)

Today, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) today joins Zimbabweans in celebrating our country’s 43rd Independence Day anniversary. Representing workers of Zimbabwe, we are cognisant of the founding values and principles of independence that sought to usher a liberalised and empowered (…)

Zimbabwe’s trade unions warn that not enough resources have been allocated to the implemation of the 2030 Agenda and doubt about the political will to implement the National Development Strategy in a context of failing economy and austerity plans.

The government of Zimbabwe has committed itself to implementing SDGs through the “Post-2015 Development Agenda: Zimbabwe Position Paper on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”. The paper gives priority to the SDGs that are expected to have a multiplier effect throughout the economy: SDGs 1, 2, (…)

The government of Zimbabwe has integrated the SDGs into its National SDG Position Paper and its Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper for 2016-2018. The government agency in charge of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda is the Ministry of Macroeconomic Planning and Investment Promotion. The (…)

I am writing on behalf of African Regional Organisation of the International Trade Union Confederation (www.ituc-africa.org), representing 17 million working women and men in Africa to strongly condemn the continued harassment of trade unionists in your country and the labelling of the Zimbabwe (…)

We write on behalf of the The African Regional Organisation of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-Africa www.ituc-africa.org) to condemn the labeling of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), our affiliate, as a terrorist organisation by ZANU-PF, the ruling party of Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe has been in a political and economic crisis for well over a decade. Politics in Zimbabwe during the period has been turbulent and characterized by authoritarianism and rights abuses while the country’s economy has suffered numerous ailments. These have included capital flight, low (…)

The African Regional Organization of the ITUC-Africa International Trade Union Confederation (www.ituc-africa.org) representing 17 million working women and men in Africa writes to express its concern about the continued harassment and attacks on trade unions and their leaders in Zimbabwe.

The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) is shocked by reports of the abduction of Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (Z H D A) President, Dr. Peter Magombeyi on Saturday, 14 September 2019.

The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) is shocked by reports of the ongoing barbaric abduction and torture of civic and political activists that are reminiscent of the Mugabe era. Reports indicate that most are being abducted from their homes by masked heavily armed men who torture them (…)