Job cuts Zanu-PF trick to get votes

Civic society groups, labour experts and opposition parties have accused the Zanu-PF government of deliberately creating the current wave of job cuts, which has already affected over 20 000 workers in a bid to later appear as "messiahs" ahead of the 2018 general elections.

This came out during a public discussion forum organized by rights advocacy group Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition in Harare on Wednesday.

MDC leader Welshman Ncube expressed similar sentiments in a statement yesterday saying they suspected Zanu-PF was using the Labour Amendment Bill as a trump card so that it would appear as fighting for the workers' interests.