Terrence Mawawa, Masvingo

Staff members at Masvingo Polytechnic have refused to perform their day to day duties protesting at the failure by the college authorities to settle their salary arrears.

The disgruntled workers told ZimEye.com yesterday they were owed $ 60 000 in unpaid salary arrears.

“We were instructed to perform extra duties as we served ZIMSEC officials who were at the college in December and the senior officials promised to pay us our allowances.

Surprisingly they are now reneging on their promise.

We were told the money they were supposed to pay us was channelled towards the payment of water arrears,” said a disgruntled employee.

The employees were asked to provide various services such as cooking and cleaning during the said period.