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Mugabe is testimony of failure, says Tsvangirai
17 Apr 2015 at 07:25hrs | Views
MDC-T president Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday made sensational claims that his party has obtained intelligence that government will retrench 200 000 out of its estimated 350 000 civil servants by year end as its coffers continue to dry up.
Addressing thousands of supporters who gathered in Mkoba 5, Tsvangirai said it was disheartening to learn that people continued to lose jobs under President Robert Mugabe's leadership.
"When they were growing up during my time, Zimbabwe used to have at least 2 million people employed in the formal sector, Ziscosteel employed 10 000 people during that time, but now we have less than half a million people who are employed in this country," he said.
Tsvangirai said the current head count which was going on in the public service was meant to retrench workers.
He said that over 200 000 workers are going to lose their jobs in government mainly because the salary bill of government is laden with ghost workers.
During the inclusive government we established that there were over 100 000 ghost workers and most of them were militia who were being used to beat people up.
Tsvangirai criticised moves by Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa to suspend bonuses for civil servants just months after suspending other financial benefits which government employees were getting.
Addressing thousands of supporters who gathered in Mkoba 5, Tsvangirai said it was disheartening to learn that people continued to lose jobs under President Robert Mugabe's leadership.
"When they were growing up during my time, Zimbabwe used to have at least 2 million people employed in the formal sector, Ziscosteel employed 10 000 people during that time, but now we have less than half a million people who are employed in this country," he said.
He said that over 200 000 workers are going to lose their jobs in government mainly because the salary bill of government is laden with ghost workers.
During the inclusive government we established that there were over 100 000 ghost workers and most of them were militia who were being used to beat people up.
Tsvangirai criticised moves by Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa to suspend bonuses for civil servants just months after suspending other financial benefits which government employees were getting.
Source - dailynews
