Opinion / Columnist
NSSA pensioners are work veterans
10 Apr 2019 at 06:46hrs | Views
Amon Taribho struggled to stand up as he rose to reach his medication for diabetes and hypertension, the sachet is kept on the top most shelf of his wardrobe, away from kids.
The former machine operator who retired two years ago from a firm in the heavy industrial area of Harare now stays with his son in Mufakose Township.
The old man receives a monthly stipend of 80 RTGS dollars from NSSA, an amount that can now hardly buy him anything. His vendor daughter and unemployed son-in-law can not make ends meet in these trying times. Amon Taribho needs healthy food, painkillers and decent clothes.
The eighty dollars can only keep his body and soul together but is not enough. Medication alone chews up almost three quarters of his paltry NSSA pension payout.
Prices of basic commodities have shot up leaving the poor widower hungry and dejected. His blank gaze at nothing shows a soul deep in thought. The grand children have since stopped asking him for a coin to buy sweets since they know he is always without.
Who shall speak for Amon Taribho and broadcast his plight and suffering?
Eighty RTGS per month, NSSA please do something about the pension payout. Amon Taribho is not alone since there are plenty old people sharing in his predicament, give NSSA pensioners a decent monthly payout.
They are 'work veterans'.
Tondorindo Chinehasha.
The former machine operator who retired two years ago from a firm in the heavy industrial area of Harare now stays with his son in Mufakose Township.
The old man receives a monthly stipend of 80 RTGS dollars from NSSA, an amount that can now hardly buy him anything. His vendor daughter and unemployed son-in-law can not make ends meet in these trying times. Amon Taribho needs healthy food, painkillers and decent clothes.
The eighty dollars can only keep his body and soul together but is not enough. Medication alone chews up almost three quarters of his paltry NSSA pension payout.
Prices of basic commodities have shot up leaving the poor widower hungry and dejected. His blank gaze at nothing shows a soul deep in thought. The grand children have since stopped asking him for a coin to buy sweets since they know he is always without.
Who shall speak for Amon Taribho and broadcast his plight and suffering?
Eighty RTGS per month, NSSA please do something about the pension payout. Amon Taribho is not alone since there are plenty old people sharing in his predicament, give NSSA pensioners a decent monthly payout.
They are 'work veterans'.
Tondorindo Chinehasha.
Source - Tondorindo
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