Supa Mandiwanzira engages ZBC employees

Government has expressed concern with developments at the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation and has begun a process to establish the state of affairs at the institution after media reports that the employees had gone for five months without pay.

The Deputy Minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services, Supa Mandiwanzira, said this while responding to a question from Southerton MP Mr Gift Chimanikire (MDC-T) during the question and answer session in the National Assembly yesterday.

"The Ministry of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services is equally concerned about the developments at the national broadcaster but I must say we have had no representations from the ZBC board, management or the ZBC employees on what exactly is going on.

"We have taken note of everything that has been said by the newspapers but we don't necessarily believe that everything that has been said from that has come out in the newspapers," he said.

Deputy Minister Mandiwanzira said they were engaging ZBC and other parastatals under the ministry.

"We are engaging all the parastatals to understand what is going on and at this juncture we are establishing the state of affairs at ZBC and other parastatals that fall under the ministry," he said.

"We will do everything to make sure that our national broadcaster and its employees work in harmony and that it dispenses its duties as a national broadcaster."