Changes loom in civil service

Civil servants must brace for major changes in the coming few weeks following the submission of the civil service manpower audit report, which contains a host of recommendations to plug unnecessary expenditure, to President Mugabe yesterday.

The audit report, compiled by the Civil Service Commission at the instruction of Cabinet, will guide the implementation of key reforms in the public service sector.

Presidential spokesperson George Charamba said the report would give the President a "statistical basis" for key reforms in the civil service as planned for in the economic blueprint, Zim-Asset, and as promised to the nation two days ago during his State of the Nation Address.