No ghost workers in civil service, says Minister

Public Service Labour and Social Welfare deputy minister Tapiwa Matangaidze has claimed there are no ghost workers in the civil service despite numerous reports that thousands of mostly Zanu PF youths are being paid by the government for doing nothing.

Matangaidze told Parliament on Wednesday that a civil service audit conducted by his ministry this year showed that there were 188 000 posts in the public service with 157 000 workers having been physically counted during assessment.