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Let's share the cake equally
12 Aug 2015 at 13:07hrs | Views
Excavators and shovels being used to dish out the Zimbabwe's economic cake are consequently short changing the vast of the weary populace waiting for a spoonful chance of the same. In proper corporate governance and zero political tolerance to corruption lies the fortunes and future of Zimbabwe.
Taking a whooping US$40 thousand monthly salary from an ailing parastatals, which is wielding an axe to reduce its wage bill, is tantamount to killing the parastatals than finding lasting solutions to Zimbabwe's economy. Last time the issue of executive salaries was closed on the point of agreement that at least between US$6000 to US$9000 is a reasonable amount one can be awarded as a CEO.
Continuing to have obscene salaries baffles the mind. Can't we have a law that will help us share this cake? The recent purges of employees will not grow the cake sufficiently; rather it is creating a legion of dependents nationwide.
President Mugabe's call to have the labour laws amended was a timely intervention which fell on fertile grounds as the Cabinet recently took hid and approved the process which has been marked for completion within a week's time.
However, a business approach to the management of the parastatals will grow the cake and reduce strain on the government once they are able to function without aid from the government. The commercialization of the parastatals can remove the parastals from the present dire straits.
An example would be to lease a part of Central Vehicle Registry duties which require efficient tracking of cars for various reasons. This will reduce the risks that come with the rat race between kombi crews and law enforcers. If the data base of CVR is merged with ZINARA's, a working advantage can be born to improve licensing adherence and accountability of motorists.
This basically entails roping in the private players who are interested to invest in the field or offering similar businesses.
Sending people home has never been the option given the timeline it will require before those that are left to perform the economic turnaround can produce results.
Parastatals should spare a thought for the poor who are being sacrificed whilst the fat cats remain with hefty salaries and obscene allowances. We should rather share the same cake equitably than closing the door on the face of the less privileged.
What is more painful is the sacrifice of the poor leaving the lot of corrupt officials running the show. Indeed this is curing the symptoms than remedying an anomaly. Let's have proper legislation guiding salary allocations, if we are serious, then talk of weeding out of unrepentant characters.
Failure, in this regard, simply entails that the proponents of the ongoing purges are in the comfort zone and are the perpetrators of the corruption that has brought us to this inhuman spring of dismissals.
Let us have the labour laws amended coupled by spirited effort to end corruption which has corroded effective corporate governance in Zimbabwe.
Taking a whooping US$40 thousand monthly salary from an ailing parastatals, which is wielding an axe to reduce its wage bill, is tantamount to killing the parastatals than finding lasting solutions to Zimbabwe's economy. Last time the issue of executive salaries was closed on the point of agreement that at least between US$6000 to US$9000 is a reasonable amount one can be awarded as a CEO.
Continuing to have obscene salaries baffles the mind. Can't we have a law that will help us share this cake? The recent purges of employees will not grow the cake sufficiently; rather it is creating a legion of dependents nationwide.
President Mugabe's call to have the labour laws amended was a timely intervention which fell on fertile grounds as the Cabinet recently took hid and approved the process which has been marked for completion within a week's time.
However, a business approach to the management of the parastatals will grow the cake and reduce strain on the government once they are able to function without aid from the government. The commercialization of the parastatals can remove the parastals from the present dire straits.
An example would be to lease a part of Central Vehicle Registry duties which require efficient tracking of cars for various reasons. This will reduce the risks that come with the rat race between kombi crews and law enforcers. If the data base of CVR is merged with ZINARA's, a working advantage can be born to improve licensing adherence and accountability of motorists.
Sending people home has never been the option given the timeline it will require before those that are left to perform the economic turnaround can produce results.
Parastatals should spare a thought for the poor who are being sacrificed whilst the fat cats remain with hefty salaries and obscene allowances. We should rather share the same cake equitably than closing the door on the face of the less privileged.
What is more painful is the sacrifice of the poor leaving the lot of corrupt officials running the show. Indeed this is curing the symptoms than remedying an anomaly. Let's have proper legislation guiding salary allocations, if we are serious, then talk of weeding out of unrepentant characters.
Failure, in this regard, simply entails that the proponents of the ongoing purges are in the comfort zone and are the perpetrators of the corruption that has brought us to this inhuman spring of dismissals.
Let us have the labour laws amended coupled by spirited effort to end corruption which has corroded effective corporate governance in Zimbabwe.
Source - Caitlin Kamba
