While their workers are wallowing in abject poverty and several years of not receiving salaries, Zimbabwe’s Hwange Colliery and Cold Storage Company are busy splashing cash for the Mugabe birthday bash.
The two major companies who have not been paying their employees, have gone to the extent of paying for full colour adverts in the press, costing thousands of US dollars, while their workers are failing to put food on their tables, due to non-payment of salaries for more than five years now.

CSC and Hwange managers have also been accused of awarding themselves hundreds of fuel litres every week for their private affairs.
According to impeccable sources close to the goings on in Hwange Colliery, the management have also been corruptly awarding themselves tenders, costing the government thousands of unaccounted cash and undelivered services.
Staffers at CSC who refused to be named told ZimEye.com that they tried whistle blowing without success, as some of the senior members in the ministries, are involved in the dark deals.
‘Masvingo province villagers, where the Mugabe bash is taking place, also complain of going for several days without meals, while the Head of State prepares for his expensive bash,’ a worker told ZimEye.