By A Correspondent| An old video taken in 2017 suggests that the man who ZANU PF leader, Emmerson Mnangagwa promoted to head the Health Ministry, the fake medical doctor, Obadiah Moyo was not only unpopular as an administrator at Chitungwiza General Hospital, he had no knowledge at all of simple industry basics.

The footage taken around the time of the coup last year, shows a myriad of complaints ranging from lack of knowledge of health industry basics such as syringes and needles to pure corruption.

In the below footage whose allegations are unchallenged for nearly a year, nurses confront Moyo saying:

1. No to corruption.
2. No to Public Private Partnerships.
3. The Med Superitendant Understands Better Than The CEOs, i.e Needles, Syringes, GlucoStrips.
4. No To Threats.
5. Our Core Business Is The Patients.
6. Patients First.
7. Taneta Varwere Vachidya Cabbage
8. Prioritise Patients.
9. We Are For The Patients.
10. No To CEOs But Med Sups.
11. No To Sharing Of Beds.
12. No To Paying Interview Fee.

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Correspondent|Zimbabweans in the country’s major urban centres woke up to a shock Monday morning with some retailers demanding payments for products in foreign currency only.

ZimEye.com sources indicated that some retailers across the country stopped taking card payments , eCoCash and bond notes amid the cash crisis in Zimbabwe.

Further investigations by ZimEye.com indeed revealed that some retailers in Bulawayo and Gweru have basically changed all their pricing to USD rates for those using local currency.

At a shop in Gweru on Monday morning, a 2 litre bottle of cooking as an example is pegged at US$4.00 and $11.50 for swipe and Ecocash and $9.00 for Bond Notes.

Reports further indicate that other retailers have basically chosen to close their business until government solves the foreign currency issues.

Most shops have also began removing price tags on their shelves due to the US dollar rate that is fluctuating almost on a daily basis.

Taxi operators have also not missed a chance at adopting a similar stance as many are no longer accepting eCocash payments. Some local short distance taxis in the big cities have started charging $1 for a normally 50 cents trip.

In areas where the charge is resisted, the transport operators have resorted to cutting their routes into half in order to force for the $1 payment.

Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube has insisted that the tough monetary and fiscal policies introduced last week and immediately became tge cause of the economic woes in the country will remain in place in order to bring the country back to economic stability.

1. By Paul Nyathi|Popular social media personality Albert Nyarugwe has roped into the on-going revelations on the fraudulent activities by self claimed Joice Mujuru son Wellence Mujuru.

In a Facebook post over the weekend, Nyarugwe revealed that Wellence is not even the former Vice President’s son and the Mujuru family is in the process of issuing a disclaimer on him.

The Facebook post reads as follows:

Official Developments on the ongoing Wellence Mujuru / Rwisa Cancer saga

I am publishing this story to provide the latest information obtaining from official sources on the ongoing investigation.

1. I can confirm from official records that Wellence Mujuru has only traveled out of the country ONCE, via the Beitbridge Boarder Post in 2016. He only has one single entry stamp in his passport, and this has been confirmed through the official registry.

2. The United Nations has distanced itself from any claims by Wellence Mujuru that he works / has worked for the organization and they have refuted all such claims. The UN will be releasing an OFFICIAL STATEMENT to confirm this position, if they receive an official, legitimate media enquiry on an official letterhead. I’m pretty sure by now this media enquiry has been submitted to them and they are working on a response to be published this week.

3. I can confirm that Wellence is the son of Mr. Joel Mujuru, a contractor who works for ZESA (ZETDC in particular) in Chinhoyi and his official address is a White City, Chinhoyi address. Mr. Joel Mujuru is cousins with the late National Hero Solomon Mujuru.

4. Sources have disclosed that the Mujuru family is concerned with the abuse of the Mujuru name and they are considering releasing a public statement distancing the family name from any dubious conduct associated with Wellence using the Mujuru name.

5. I have information from at least two victims of the Rwisa Cancer scam who have confirmed contributing to the Foundation. The first to confirm this is a certain Zimbabwean man based in the UK (name withheld); who, following the death of his mother through cancer, was moved by that experience to contact Wellence /Rwisa Cancer and contributed an amount of US$12,000. The funds were deposited into Wellence Mujuru’s personal Steward Bank account. Proof of Payment is available, but the man has decided not to pursue the matter publicly. The second victim is yet another man based in the UK who says he contributed an amount of US$1,000 to the foundation. The claim however has not been verified with a Proof of Payment.

6. Information from the Deeds Office shows that there are no records of any Rwisa Cancer registration as a Trust / Foundation, and Wellence Mujuru’s name does not feature in any records on the Deeds Registry.

The Zimbabwe media either continues to blatantly turn a blind eye to this story, or are at least oblivious to the gravity of the matter at hand. I’m not happy to be the bearer of bad news, but I’m driven by the desire to protect unsuspecting and weak individuals from being abused by cunning, devious and scheming men and women in the cyber space. We have a part to play, I’ve done mine.

Asante Sana

By Own Correspondent| ZANU PF President Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged citizens to play their role in defending the nation adding that the level of confidence and goodwill by civilians towards the uniformed forces continue to improve as shown by the increase in the number of civilian shooting clubs participating at this year’s President’s Medal Shoot competition.

By Own Correspondent| Government says the civil service is top heavy and therefore needs to shed off excess employees as part of the its restructuring exercise

In his Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP) report revealed (Friday), Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube said the civil service should be restructured.

The Government’s economic blueprint, TSP runs from this month (October) to December 2020.

The economic blueprint states that the country’s civil service needs to be restructured into a more effective public service and the process will entail reducing the number of civil servants.

Read the TSP:

“The TSP envisages the shedding of excess staff in the public service in order to create a leaner and effective Civil Service. It is acknowledged that affected staff have skills and experience gained over the years, which should put them in good stead to transition through the change as well as contribute towards the new socio-economic development trajectory of the country.”

TSP report also stated that the Government will support those who will be affected by the job cuts through providing them with tools and resources, including targeted re-skilling, re-training and re-employment programmes for them to compete in the open market.

“Those who wish to engage in productive activities will be assisted in accessing market based financing windows, with Government providing the necessary guarantees, including tax incentives,” reads the report.

It said Government will also need to attend to issues where it has more employees in senior positions like the Principal Directors.

“The structure of the Civil Service is top heavy, with large numbers of senior grade appointments that are disproportionate to the number of extant line Ministries, and their Departments and Agencies. The position is the same when comparison is made to the sizes of public services and economies in comparator countries in sub-Saharan Africa,” it said.

“Government must, therefore, create a structure that is fit for purpose through a combination of retiring officers who have reached their mandatory retirement ages; the appointment of Principal Directors where exceptionally merited and the alignment of Ministerial mandates into more integrated and cognate clusters that will result in fewer Line Ministries and their departments as well as agencies.”

TSP report revealed that the Government will, however, retain some of its skilled and competent civil servants who have reached retirement if their experience and expertise are needed. These will be employed strictly on performance-based annual contracts under a Retired Employee Retention Scheme.

The report states that civil servants should change their work culture and be result oriented while facilitating a conducive environment for services.

The policy document states that the civil service should be entrepreneurial with the capacity to identify and create opportunities for sustainable mobilisation and flow of investment and the growth of service delivery as well as enterprises that create decent jobs and incomes across sectors.

It said the civil service must embrace “a culture of tracking and auditing its performance, engage in organisational learning and continually evaluate as well as review the effectiveness, relevance, impact and sustainability of its policies, programmes and projects.”-StateMedia

By Own Correspondent| Agenda of People’s Alliance (APA) leader and former cabinet minister Nkosana Moyo has spoken out against Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube’s decision to impose a 2 percent on all money transfers describing the move as a burden on citizens.

Moyo urged Ncube to cut down on government’s wasteful spending and expenditure.

Said Moyo:

By A Correspondent| The bus driver of the Mvuma bus involved in an accident at the Chicken Slice turnoff (Mvuma and Masvingo road), has died.

ZimEye is receiving details that the Malawi bound driver died at Gweru Provincial Hospital yesterday. Further detials were sketchy at the time of publishing, and meanwhile, below was the video first breaking news at the accident scene last week.

https://youtu.be/Y_K-qwmXWJc

By Own Correspondent| The Coalition of Democrats (CODE) is now a political party, ZimEye has learnt.

The coalition which fielded Elton Mangoma as its presidential candidate in the July 30 elections made this resolution at a meeting held over the weekend in Harare.

Said Mangoma in a press statement following the meeting:

“There was consensus that CODE becomes a political party as a base for the formation of an all inclusive, broad based, democratic and meritocratic mass opposition movement.

It was agreed that a steering committee be put in place to talk to other people and entities to grow the movement and lead to a People’s Convention that will democratically elect the political leadership.

The four member steering committee will coopt other members into the steering committee as consultations with other stakeholders. Trust Chikohora was chosen to Chair the steering committee.

A Council of Elders was formed and Mangoma as a member was chosen and tasked to consult and recruit other suitable members.

The CODE created a National Executive of members who attended. Other members will be coopted as consultations continue. The National Executive to hold Steering Committee accountable.”

Terrence Mawawa|MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has assured the nation that a new Zimbabwe is imminent despite attempts by the regime to subvert the will of the people.

“I am ready to lead Zimbabwe out of Zanu PF induced economic crisis. I have the support of the people because I won the election with 2.6
million votes.

It’s my mandate that Mnangagwa
is spoiling.For a path to a truly New Zimbabwe, we have proposed a 5 point plan to make ZIMBABWE
GREAT.

There are people who did not believe in ourtalking points during campaigns.

A New Zimbabwe is imminent!

Terrence Mawawa|The MDC Alliance has dismissed Zanu PF’ s claims that it is ready to embrace new political and economic reforms.

In a statement MDC spokesperson Jacob Mafume said:Early sunset to the false start of a stolen election,
the past few days have been an indictment to Zanu PF, its politics of falsehoods and the habit of stealing elections.

Developments have exposed the pretenders in Zanu PF, that the talks of reforms are lies, their promises are fake and that the talk of forex deals are not real.
Sadly this is at the expense of the Zimbabwean people who have to endure intensified suffering.
The long queues in all the major cities, continue bread shortages and spiraling price hikes are a disturbing phenomenon to the nation, we cannot be silent and pretend all is well while the people are exposed to incessant suffering.
We affirm that the crisis has gone beyond Zanu PF’s capacity to ameliorate the economic catastrophe.
Its manifesto was void of ideas, and was characterised by economic folktales, unrealistic dreams, archaic dirigiste methods and populist rhetoric sandwiched in slogans not backed by proper plans. To make matters worse the man tasked with
economic recovery is Mthuli Ncube a guy who had nothing to do with the writing of the dump manifesto.
Not only that, but that he is a person of questionable integrity who does little to bring credibility in the national leadership and clean the high country risk profile of Zimbabwe.

By Own Correspondent| Social movement group Tajamuka/Sesjikile has given Finance and Economic.  Development Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube up to the 15th of October to reverse the new 2% Tax or face mass protests.

In a strongly worded letter to the Minister, the pressure group said is will embark on “an array of constitutionally guaranteed measures to expose government politically”.

The grouping said the measures include mass protests, demonstrations, picketing, stay-aways – a total national shut down.

Read part of the letter:

“The people of Zimbabwe, in their collective, within and outside the country, totally reject your grossly unfair 2% money transfer tax. We urge you to immediately abandon it.

Delivery of this letter serves you a one-week ultimatum, expiring on the 15th of October 2018, to have positively responded to the demands of the people.

In the event that you choose not to heed the voice of the people, we will embark on an array of constitutionally guaranteed measures to expose government politically.

The measures will include, but will not be limited to mass protests, demonstrations, picketing, stay-aways – a total national shut down.”

The letter is in response to measures introduced by Finance minister Ncube where the government raised tax on electronic financial transactions from 5 cents per transaction to 2 cents per dollar transacted in a bid to raise billions of dollars to shore up the revenue base.

However, Ncube recently climbed down from his earlier statement as he unveiled several exemptions to the tax on monetary transfers saying the 2 cents per dollar tax will only apply to transactions of $10 and above while intra-company transfers, as well as transfers of salaries, tax payments, foreign currency-related payments and transfer of funds by the government, will also be exempted.

The Finance minister added that intra-company funds transfer, including transfer from intermediary accounts, transfers on purchase and sale of equities, purchase, and redemption of money market instruments, salary and tax payments and transfers to intermediary accounts will also be exempted.

Since the tax increase, prices of some basic goods at a number of retail shops in Harare’s central business district, which include cooking oil, mealie meal, flour, washing powder, and rice, have gone up.

By Own Correspondent| At least 38 Namibia passengers were last Friday morning left stranded in Harare after the aircraft they were scheduled to travel in was impounded by Zimbabwean officials.

Air Namibia confirmed that one of the aircraft it was leasing from West Air was impounded in Harare as a result of a pending court case brought by four Zimbabwean nationals against Air Namibia.

“By law, leased equipment is not subject to attachment,” Air Namibia spokesperson Paul Nakawa said.

The aircraft was later released, and the passengers flown to Namibia Saturday morning.

Nakawa added that the passengers were provided with accommodation and food.

However, this some passengers had made their own accommodation arrangements as they were not informed of Air Namibia’s arrangements.

“Air Namibia is busy engaging a Lawyer in Zimbabwe to attend to the matter and to advise the airline further, as well as addressing the issue of attaching or not attaching a leased equipment,” Nakawa said.

The airline is being sued for UD$1 million by a Zimbabwean family.

Chenjerai Mawumba, his wife Juliana Magombedze and their three minor children, say they were denied access to travel to Turkey by the Namibian airline’s officials.

According to the court papers, after procuring travel insurance policy, Mawumba said he made reservations for three rooms at Sheraton Istanbul Atakoy Hotel in Turkey for six nights after which on February 15, 2017 he purchased five economy class tickets for air carriage by Air Namibia to Istanbul.

On the same date, Mawumba said he together with his family boarded Air Namibia at the Robert Mugabe International Airport in Harare bound for Windhoek in Namibia where they intended to catch another Air Namibia flight that would eventually take them to Turkey through Frankfurt, Germany.

However, upon arrival at the Hosea Kutako International Airport in Windhoek, Mawumba said his family expected to be transferred to another flight, but was advised by Air Namibia officials that they were not permitted to travel to Turkey because of their Zimbabwean nationality.

Mawumba further said his family was detained at the airport for close to three days without being offered food and accommodation adding “we endured the most horrifying time of our lives without the slightest access to basic amenities.”

By Own Correspondent| Higher and Tertiary Education minister Professor Amon Murwira has revealed that all universities have complied to the government directive to reduce attachment fees by 40 percent.

In an interview with a local publication, Murwira said he had not heard of any university that had resisted the directive although the decision was not populist.

Said Professor Murwira:

“I think all universities complied. I have not heard of any that has resisted because we issued a statement that says 40 percent reduction on attachment fees.

The decision to reduce attachment fees is not populist. It was based on a well-informed decision based on research. We know we have a strategy and I will simply explain the strategy.

I have a policy called increasing the absorption of post-ordinary level in tertiary education institutions in the country.

I want you to know the context of our 40 percent reduction in tuition during attachment. We have seen that in 2017, the higher and tertiary system absorbed 38 percent of post-O-level students.

This shows that 62 percent were not finding opportunities to proceed. What is our strategy that we absorb more students? Make fees accessible, reduce fees during attachment so that you reduce drop-outs, streamline entry requirements so that we don’t make unnecessary demands on unnecessary things.”-StateMedia.

APA Statement|The population is trying to understand what happened on 1st. October. Should they be happy, unhappy or indifferent?

As APA and in my own capacity, I have resisted from commenting to avoid the accusation that we are not giving Prof. Ncube a chance. After all, the appointment of someone like him is from the APA script.

The challenge is that there is a significant body of the population, that is very interested in what APA thinks of the above event. What is also intriguing is that some of the people, who come up to ask for my opinion as I travel around the country, confess to being staunch ZANU supporters.

My first observation is that Zimbabwe will not come right until we get to understand what a TEAM with the potential to deliver top performance looks like.

The Prof. is not a team, he is a member of a team. I believe that we do not need to elaborate this point. Whoever you are, just apply the team analogy to football and I am sure you will fully get my point.

To achieve the sort of team make up APA has in mind, had I been President Mnangagwa, I would, unsurprisingly, have followed a very different approach. Before appointing a cabinet, I would have approached parliament to change just one part of the constitution because I believe it is the only part that needs to be changed at this time.

Cabinet should not largely be drawn from parliament. If a parliamentarian is appointed they should immediately give up their parliamentary seat upon accepting the cabinet appointment.

As you know we have a constituency based electoral system, so an MP is a representative of a regional “interest group.” A cabinet member on the other hand has the whole country as his/her constituency.

Again I would like to believe this point does not need belabouring. Just look at how our system has produced Ministers who behave like MPs in order to make sure they can be re-elected in the next election round.

Back to the Fiscal and Monetary statements of October 1st. As usual, often what is not said is more important than what is said. Unfortunately both the Minister and the Governor have left us in that space where we have to guess what is really behind their chosen courses of action. More so because their actions are not consistent with the facts on the ground.

Let us start on a positive note. If I am not mistaken, it is the first time we have been treated to Treasury and Central Bank putting up an appearance of co-ordination. Given Prof. Ncube is the new entrant we can assume this is his initiative, and for that we say well done Prof. It shows an understanding of the need for co-ordination if any stabilization and turnaround program is to work.

The second positive for me was the attempt at transparency. Again, I think it is the first time the extent of government indebtedness has been disclosed formally. We have official confirmation of what we have known, but never had official admission of the extent of the problem. Now we have that and again congratulations must go to Prof. Ncube as we hope he will be allowed to continue in this same vein as we attempt to move forward.

In the spirit of constructive engagement, I wish I could come up with more positives. Unfortunately I cannot see anymore.

As we analyze the other side of the situation. The first major flaw has been the silence on what is killing the patient. All of us know the patient is dying. We did not really need to be told that. What we needed to be told was ‘what is killing the patient,’ what will be done to stop it and reverse the haemorrhaging. My view is that the prescriptions that both institutions have come up with are inappropriate and are skirting around the real issues.

After quantifying the size of the indebtedness, what should have happened next should have been the detailed and line by line accounting of where the money has been going. Over and above this approach being detailed and structured, it would have added to the transparency approach so that the whole nation can feel the challenges ahead are being shared with it.

After all it is the nation that bears the burden as demonstrated by the Minister getting extortionate in the structuring of the transaction tax.

The minister is trying to change the mix of the sources of government funding as well as reduce the quantum of borrowing. In principle there is nothing wrong with that objective. The trouble is that he has rushed to increase taxes without thinking through the implications on the economy. The Prof. should have a better understanding than a lot of others in our population.

The Zimbabwean economy needs to be unburdened of over-taxation. We are the most uncompetitive economy in the sub-region because government looks for all opportunities to get money out of people’s hands rather than aiming to get more tax revenues from a growing economy.

Raising the transaction tax creates opportunities for more spending rather than cutting down on spending. It also shifts responsibility to the already overtaxed citizen rather than putting pressure on the administration to cut down on wasteful spending. In situations like this, it is not only what you do, but also the prioritization and sequencing that will determine the efficacy of your actions.

Over and above it being wrong to start with increasing taxes, this action also has the added effect of shielding government from the need to take immediate action on reducing public spending. I suspect the Honourable Minister knows he will not be able to bring down government spending.

From an economic perspective one would have expected him to leave more purchasing power in the hands of the consumer so as to create a demand pull for local production. Reducing purchasing power will lead to consumers looking for the cheapest sources for their needs. We all know those sources will not be Zimbabwean!

So then, we would argue that increasing the transaction tax was not a smart idea.

Let us now turn to the actions of the Central Bank. When the bond note was contemplated, we told the Governor that it was a very bad idea. I am sure now he knows he erred, but will not admit it. The idea of clearly demarcated accounts as dollar or bond is an obvious one.

What that more clearly accepts is that the bond note and the dollar are not the same. Yet our dear Governor continues to try and pull wool over our eyes. He is separating the accounts because he knows they are not the same yet in the same breath he goes on to claim a 1:1 relationship! This would pass for comedy were it not about our lives.

More importantly, however, is that the separation of accounts would, in a world with good governance, allow for better management of real dollar inflows. In our world, however, where power, nepotism, cronyism and patronage rule, it is an exercise in futility. The connected, who did not bring a single dollar into the country will still get access to USDs and abuse them as they have always done.

They have access to their Bond Notes which they use to convert a piece of valueless paper to real money. The Governor should know by now that he will not be able to stop them. The question then is why is he doing this?

The most incomprehensible action is the statutory reserves element of the monetary policy statement. We all know that the mistrust between the Government and Central Bank on the one hand and the citizens on the other has led to the disintermediation of banks by and large. Any liquidity in the economy is not being channelled through the banks. It is in the streets of Zimbabwe.

The Governor is going to impose a 5% statutory reserve to mop up liquidity! By definition this is statutory reserve applies to banks. I need someone much smarter than me to help me understand this one. My own opinion is that this is the governor’s equivalent to the Minister’s 2% transaction tax.

Just as former Governor Gideon Gono raided FCAs, the incumbent Mangudya is raiding deposits to fund government spending. Sad that both men have from the get go started by trying to hoodwink the citizenry.

Generally speaking, saying I told you so is not a good thing, but I would like to use this event as a reminder of something we really need to understand. Minister Bernard Chidzero was a good and competent man. But as we all know, his political masters had no capacity to understand hence no commitment to implement what needed to be done.

Another example I witnessed was Chinamasa when he was working in his area of competence. As minister for legal and parliamentary affairs he tried to be professional and do the right thing even towards MDC, but his masters only understood a political agenda.

I mention these two cases to make Zimbabweans understand that until we have a head of state whose agenda is not politics first and economics a poor second and also has first-hand competence in business, we are unlikely to sort out our economic challenges.


All I can say is, good luck to us all. We are in the dung!

Nkosana Moyo
Alliance for the People’s Agenda – APA

Staff Reporter|Physicians in Zimbabwe have resolved to start charging their patients in United States Dollars Only with effect from Monday.

According to a circular minute from the National Physicians Association of Zimbabwe (NaPaz) the physicians resolved in an general meeting held over the weekend to begin charging patients in foreign currency or at the daily prevailing exchange rate.

The doctors agreed that patients will claim refunds from their medical aid societies.

The minute brought to the attention of ZimEye.com by sources within the doctors circle reads as follows:

At NaPAZ AGM the executive was tasked to deliberate on the tariffs issue as matter of high importance.

5. We now await colleagues who do procedures to advise on their new tariffs

By Own Correspondent| Presidential spokesperson George Charamba has described the country’s leader Emmerson Mnangagwa as a man who is both “steel and wool” revealing that these sides are evident “depending on which side one tickles him”.

He said Mnangagwa’s  silence despite accusations by opposition leader Nelson Chamisa that he rigged the July 30 elections is not a sign of weakness.

In an exclusive interview with a local weekly, Mnangagwa’s spokesperson, George Charamba said there was a false narrative that the Zanu PF leader’s legitimacy depended on Chamisa’s endorsement.

Said Charamba:

“We hope that maturity will visit him [Chamisa] some day and he realises that winners do not win on the goodwill of losers.

So, the silence of Mnangagwa is not a weakness. He is a man of steel and wool, depending on which side you tickle him.

This narrative that the legitimacy of the president is made through acceptance of defeat by the opposition leader is a false narrative.

If it did, we will not need the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission or the courts.

We would need the say-so of the opposition, but there is no human being who confers legitimacy on a person who won the plebiscite.

It means you are placing yourself above courts, and all this prattling is to us prattle of an undersized political child.”-TheStandard

By Own Correspondent| President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s silence despite accusations by opposition leader Nelson Chamisa that he rigged the July 30 elections is not a sign of weakness, his spokesman has said.

In an exclusive interview with a local weekly, Mnangagwa’s spokesperson, George Charamba said there was a false narrative that the Zanu PF leader’s legitimacy depended on Chamisa’s endorsement.

“We hope that maturity will visit him [Chamisa] some day and he realises that winners do not win on the goodwill of losers.

So, the silence of Mnangagwa is not a weakness. He is a man of steel and wool, depending on which side you tickle him.

This narrative that the legitimacy of the president is made through acceptance of defeat by the opposition leader is a false narrative.

If it did, we will not need the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission or the courts.

We would need the say-so of the opposition, but there is no human being who confers legitimacy on a person who won the plebiscite.

It means you are placing yourself above courts, and all this prattling is to us prattle of an undersized political child.”-TheStandard

By Own Correspondent| Former president Robert Mugabe’s son-in-law Simba Mutsahuni Chikore is reportedly wanted by police after he allegedly detained a former Zimbabwe Airways employee against her will.

This emerged during yesterday’s court appearance of Chikore’s alleged accomplice Simbarashe Mutimbe, a security guard, who reportedly helped Bona Mugabe’s husband to detain former ZimAirways employee Bertha Zakeyo during a dispute.

According to the prosecutors, Chikore is still at large.

Mutimbe (34) was not asked to plead when he appeared before Harare magistrate Rumbidzai Mugwagwa, who remanded him to October 22 on $30 bail.

Prosecutors said on June 7 this year, Mutimbe unlawfully deprived Zakeyo of her freedom after he refused to let her leave ZimAirways premises in Harare after she had been fired by Chikore.

Chikore, who was the ZimAirways boss, allegedly clashed with Zakeyo after he accused her of selling company secrets.

ZimAirways purchased three planes, two of which were delivered to Zimbabwe from Malaysia and were grounded in Harare before they were flown back for maintenance.

Zakeyo was then caught in a purge of senior staffers who Chikore allegedly accused of being disloyal.

She was allegedly detained in a bid to force her to sign a dismissal letter after she had refused to do so.

Zakeyo allegedly told her alleged assailants that she could only sign the documents in the presence of her lawyer.

Chikore allegedly locked the office and called the police saying there was a person who was causing trouble at the company.-Newsday

Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services has assured and discouraged Zimbabweans from hording commodities amid fears of shortages saying price escalation is a result of profiteering and speculation from business people.

Posting on Twitter this morning the ministry said people should not panic as there is no expectation of shortages.

There is no need to buy large quantities of goods out of panic because there is no expectation of shortages. Most service stations around the country have fuel now. Price escalation is a result of profiteering & unhelpful speculation but no need for citizens to be worried

— Ministry of Information, Publicity & Broadcasting (@InfoMinZW) October 7, 2018

Most service stations around the country do not have fuel with motorists having to queue up for long hours to get fuel.

In addition, most Zimbabweans have been buying basic commodities like sugar, cooking oil and flour among others as fears mount of a return to the 2008 hyper inflationary situation.

TWO men who pepper-sprayed an army Captain who had offered them a lift, before stabbing him with an Okapi knife to death and stashing his body in the car which they drove for about 40 kilometres with the blood-dripping corpse, have been sentenced to death.

Masvingo High Court Judge Justice Garainesu Mawadze on Friday sentenced the two robbers to death after finding them guilty of robbing and fatally stabbing the army officer in 2017. Admire Maorere (28) of Maorere Village under Chief Ndanga, Windas Munzweru (27) of Nematombo Village under Chief Chadyamatombo in Karoi and an alleged accomplice, Nyasha Sango who is still at large stabbed then Captain Phio Jeketera (51) of Harare with an Okapi knife, several times all over the body leading to his death.

The robbers put the body into the vehicle’s loading box before driving off to Masvingo where they dumped the car near the craft centre along Masvingo-Beitbridge Road.

Delivering sentence, Justice Mawadze, sitting with assessors Messers Samuel Mutomba and Joseph Mushuku said the action of the two who were already serving 24 months each on previous convictions of armed robbery, was premeditated and they acted in common purpose to callously kill the deceased who had offered them a lift, as genuine commuters.

“In my eight years on the bench, I have not passed a death sentence on any offender and it has not been easy to pass an appropriate verdict on this matter. There is no way the two accused can escape the hangman’s noose given the circumstances they committed this crime and they acted in common purpose to deprive an innocent army officer’s life,” said Justice Mawadze.

He said according to Section 47(2) of the constitution, a law may permit the death penalty to be imposed only on a person convicted of murder committed in aggravating circumstances.

The two men who were represented pro-deo by Mr Joseph Chipangula of Tshuma, Gurajena and Partners Legal Practitioners, pleaded with the court for lenience saying that they have young families that looked up to them for survival.

Prosecutor Mr Tawanda Chikwati said in May, 2017 and along Roy-Gutu Road, the two, together with Sango who fled the scene and is still at large, killed Jeketera by stabbing him with a knife. Jeketera was travelling from Harare to his rural home in Zaka when the incident happened.

“On the 19th May 2017 and at the seven kilometre peg along the same road, Maovere and Munzweru stabbed several times an army Captain, Jeketera who had given them a lift from Gutu,” said Mr Chikwati.

He said upon arrival at Gutu turn-off at about 11pm, the trio asked Jeketera to drop them off under the guise that Sango wanted to see her aunt whose homestead was nearby. The court heard when the vehicle was stopped, Sango whose age was not given in court, produced an Okapi knife and demanded money from Cpt Jeketera, threatening to harm him. Jeketera is said to have resisted and grabbed Sango’s hand that was holding the knife and a scuffle ensued.

When the two who had disembarked from the car realised that Jeketera was resisting, they joined in and overpowered him. The two including Sango dragged Jeketera to the side of the road, pepper sprayed him, apparently to force him into submission before stabbing him several times all over the body until he became unconscious.

The robbers then took away his Gtel cellphone and cash amounting to $540 after which they put the body at the back of his vehicle.

They drove the car towards Masvingo City where they dumped the vehicle by the road side, just a kilometre from the city centre.

The following day, the court heard, the body of the deceased which had one left shoe on it was discovered in his dumped car by police officers who were manning a road block. They also recovered a blood stained Okapi knife and a pepper spray.

The body was taken to Masvingo General Hospital where a post-mortem done by Dr Godfrey Zimbwa revealed that he had died of haemorrhage shock as a result of stab wounds. The body had deep stab wounds on the left buttock, two on the head and one on the throat.

The two, minus Sango who fled the scene when police pounced at their hideout in the mountain, were arrested by police detectives through the deceased’s cellphone that Sango had sold to a cellphone vendor in Masvingo town.

Further investigations also revealed that one of Cpt Jeketera’s shoes was dropped at the scene of the crime and was discovered. A pool of blood was also seen at the scene, suggesting that the deceased had bled profusely, leading to his death.

State Media

By Own Correspondent| French Development Agency (AFD) has expressed interest to kickstart developmental projects in the country revealing that they are set to increase investments in Zimbabwe and strengthen the already existing relations between the two countries.

The AFD is one of the first international development agencies to visit Harare after the elections expressing its interest to kick start huge developmental projects.

The national broadcaster, ZBC reported that the AFD Chief Executive Officer Mr Remy Rioux paid a courtesy call on President Emmerson Mnangagwa at his Munhumutapa offices to discuss on the ways to improve the economic ties between the two countries and economic reforms implemented by the new government.

The investors have already shown interest in agriculture, climate change, and capacity building among others.

The State Media also reported that the visit by this important institution is an indication of trust bestowed on the new dispensation following strong economic reforms which have been implemented.-StateMediall

As the nation struggled under a fresh round of economic woes, Chamisa yesterday commented on Twitter saying:

READY TO LEAD ZIM OUT OF CRISIS.For a path to a truly new era, we have proposed a 5-point plan to make ZIMBABWE GREAT. There are people who did not believe in what we were saying but I’m sure they now know that whatever and whoever else they believed or still believe is FALSE!

ZimEye is doing a roll down of questions for Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube who is set to be grilled at Chatham House, London, Monday afternoon. WATCH BELOW

The under pressure ZANU PF information system currently struggling under a collapsing economy, has made allegations that MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is pressing Emmerson Mnangagwa to appoint him Prime Minister.

ZimEye.com has it on good authority that the state media claims are pure falsehoods. Chamisa has spoken severally saying he will now bend his knees against his win in the just ended 2018 elections. Below is the full text:

By Sunday Mail| MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa has called for an emergency party meeting tomorrow amid indications he plans to push an agenda to fire secretary-general Mr Douglas Mwonzora as part of a broad agenda to solidify his political base, which he believes will give him leverage to negotiate with President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

It is understood Mr Chamisa, who is desperate to avoid sinking into political oblivion, wants to pressure President Mnangagwa into appointing him Prime Minister, instead of taking up a position as the official leader of the opposition.
The latest bid to oust Mr Mwonzora, sources said last week, follows two previous unsuccessful attempts in September.

In both instances, Mr Chamisa struggled to garner the numbers needed to push through his ambitions.

Conversely, it is understand that though Mr Mwonzora does not have the numbers to oust Mr Chamisa, he has enough to cause him problems.

In an interview with The Sunday Mail yesterday, Mr Chamisa’s spokesperson Dr Nkululeko Sibanda confirmed tomorrow’s meeting, but denied plans to purge Mr Mwonzora and to push for a PM position.

“The president has called for the meeting, yes, but I cannot share the agenda with the Press at this stage because you will be informed of the resolutions of the meeting after it has taken place.

“What I can only say is that the president is strengthening his party and priming all his members so that they can remain in line with the SMART agenda that we seek to deliver,” he said.
Opposition sources said all party members who participated in primary polls ahead of the July 30 elections were invited to the meeting so as to be used to advance Mr Chamisa’s ambitious.
The MDC Alliance leader has found ready allies in Mr Amos Chibaya (organising secretary), Mr Charlton Hwende (deputy treasurer) and Mr Happymore Chidziva (youth leader), Mr Mwonzora has reportedly found an unlikely source of support from vice-president Engineer Elias Mudzuri.

“Mudzuri also wants to lead the party, but realises it is better to fight Chamisa first and then thrash things out with Mwonzora,” a source said.- state media

By Own Correspondent| Opposition MDC has attributed the current economic challenges affecting citizens to a stolen election adding that the past few days have been an indictment to Zanu Pf and its politics of falsehoods.

MDC national spokesperson Jacob Mafume said the escalating prices and shortage of basic commodities including fuel have exposed the pretenders in Zanu Pf as clueless and devoid of ideas on how to turn the country’s economic fortunes.

Below is Mafume’s full statement:

Early sunset to the false start of a stolen election

The past few days have been an indictment to Zanu PF, its politics of falsehoods and the habit of stealing elections.

Developments have exposed the pretenders in Zanu PF, that the talk of reform is a lie, their promises are fake and that the talk of forex deals are not real.

Sadly this is at the expense of the Zimbabwean people who have to endure intensified suffering.

The long queues in all the major cities, continued bread shortages and spiraling price hikes are a disturbing phenomenon to the nation, we cannot be silent and pretend all is well while the people are exposed to incessant suffering.

We affirm that the crisis has gone beyond Zanu PF’s capacity to emiliorate the economic catastrophe.

Its manifesto was void on ideas, and was characterised by economic folktales, unrealistic dreams, archaic dirigiste methods and populist rhetoric sandwiched in slogans not backed by proper plans.

To make matters worse the man tasked with economic recovery is Mthuli Ncube a guy who had nothing to do with the writing of the dump manifesto.

Not only that, but that he is a person of questionable integrity who does little to bring credibility in the national leadership and clean the high country risk profile of Zimbabwe.

He was the Managing Director of a fund which is involved in a global scandal which has resulted in the arrest of two of his associates including the son of former Angolan President Dos Santos.

There was a serious security lapse in the intelligence community of Zimbabwe when Ncube was appointed Treasury Chief.

Even before the arrests, his background checks could have revealed his links to the scandal.

It does not matter that the courts are yet to deal with the issue but a person with such credentials cannot be suitable to be head of a Finance Ministry of a fragile economy.

Now state failure looms and Ncube proves helpless.

Ncube’s attempt to increase tax is acceptance of a failure in seeking external funding.

His presence does not do any good especially with confidence deficiencies around the government.

When all has been said and done the buck stops with Mnangagwa who is not only the appointing authority but also failing to provide leadership out of the crisis.

An individual in authority whether de facto or de jure has an obligation to deliver.

We therefore hold him accountable for outsourcing an out of touch Finance Minister who is clueless, spineless and lacks care for the working people of Zimbabwe.

You cannot steal an election for purposes of self-aggrandisement, enjoying the benefit of theft must come with taking the responsibility of delivery.

We make the point that failure to act now may result in the masses losing patience resulting in social unrest and instability.

We therefore demand that Mnangagwa accept that he has failed, equally Mangudya, Ncube and the whole bunch must resign.

The balance sheet of a stolen election is there for everyone to see.

Zimbabwe cannot be a ship without a captain, sailing radar-less, clueless and leaderless.

We restate that legitimacy issues must be dealt with urgently, national dialogue must be done in respect of President Chamisa’s suggestions, political reforms must be prioritized to avoid future electoral problems and more importantly an urgent adoption of an economic recovery program in the form of the Zimbabwe Emergency Economic Rescue Program articulated in our SMART blueprint.

Clr Jacob Mafume
MDC National Spokesperson

Dark, dirty and slow, Zimbabwe’s trains, like much else in the impoverished southern African country, have seen better days.

Once the preferred mode of transport for most Zimbabweans, the state-run rail service mirrors the decline in the country’s economic fortunes during the last two decades under the leadership of former President Robert Mugabe.

Gilbert Mthinzima Ndlovu, a veteran of Zimbabwe’s 1970s independence war and a security guard at the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) for 35 years, yearns for the old days when trains were full and arrived on time.

“Times are different now as we have few passengers,” the off-duty Ndlovu told Reuters as he rested in a badly lit first class cabin during the journey from the capital Harare to his home in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second city.

Now the 10-hour journey can take 16 hours, he said.

Not surprising, then, that many Zimbabweans prefer to make the 440 km (273 mile) journey by bus or public taxi in around five hours than have to endure a cold overnight train ride – even if at $10 the train ride costs only half as much.

The train carriages often lack lighting and water, and the toilets are filthy. The signaling and information systems are often vandalized and some tracks overgrown with grass and weeds because they have not been used in years.

NRZ is now trying to improve its fortunes.

Last year South African logistics group Transnet won a $400 million joint bid to recapitalize NRZ and fix some of the problems, including acquiring and refurbishing carriages.

But for now passengers have to make do with a broken train service.

“Today you can’t even buy food from the train and all the coaches are filthy, with no water and the lights are not working,” said one passenger who declined to give his name.

Reuters

By Farai D Hove| MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has said he is ready to lead Zimbabwe.

As the nation struggled under a fresh round of economic woes, Chamisa commented on Twitter saying:

READY TO LEAD ZIM OUT OF CRISIS.For a path to a truly new era, we have proposed a 5-point plan to make ZIMBABWE GREAT. There are people who did not believe in what we were saying but I’m sure they now know that whatever and whoever else they believed or still believe is FALSE!

Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya shocked the nation when he said that the country’s economy will return to normal within the next 48 hours.

The central bank governor on Saturday sought to reassure the public as people again formed long queues to fill up their cars in the capital, with others panic-buying basic goods like cooking oil and sugar.

The panic has been caused by recent changes introduced by the government and a worsening US dollar crunch, but the governor, John Mangudya, said that people should not be worried and that he expected an improvement in the next 48 hours

“The problem is that we did not explain things. This economy is a sentiment driven economy so we need to communicate more with the society,” he said.

The southern African nation dumped its hyperinflation-wrecked currency in favour of the US dollar in 2009 but a shortage of cash dollars has worsened following a disputed election won by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in July.

Fuel queues started building up this week and on Saturday outlets in Harare had either run out or had long queues as drivers patiently waited for their turn to fill up their tanks.

“I have been here for an hour because the queue is moving slowly. I have no choice because I need the petrol,” said one motorist, who identified himself as Pascal, at a service station in the Avondale suburb in Harare.

At some outlets owned by Total, attendants only served motorists with pre-paid cards. Other outlets refused mobile payments, preferring bank cards and cash.

Zimbabwe spends $80 million on fuel imports every month.

Mangudya said the fuel shortages had been caused by an introduction of a 2 percent tax on electronic payments last Monday, which meant oil firms would incur weekly bank charges of $400 000 for fuel imports but were not allowed to pass the cost to consumers.

The companies had stopped supplying fuel as a result, Mangudya said, but he added the situation would improve in the next 48 hours because the government scrapped the tax on foreign payments on Friday night.

Zimbabweans were also stocking up on basic goods like rice, cooking oil, sugar and juice.

At some branches owned by Zimbabwe’s biggest grocery chain OK Zimbabwe, management limited sales of sugar, cooking oil and a popular local juice.

“Management reserves the right to limit quantities,” read a notice to customers.

A shortage of US dollars in banks has forced importers to purchase them on the black market, which has pushed up premiums and the price of imports.

On the black market, the premium for the US dollar spiked to a new record today, reaching 165 percent from 120 percent on Monday, traders said.

That means buying $100 in cash via a bank transfer cost $265, up from $220 earlier this week.

The situation has not been helped by Mangudya’s decision early this week to order banks to open accounts for clients who earn foreign currency and separate their money from dollars in the local banking system, known as “Zollars”.

Analysts said the move effectively makes the dollar surrogates Zimbabwe’s de-facto local currency.

There are $9.3 billion of Zollars in banks compared to $200 million in reserves, official data showed, a mismatch that creates a premium for the U.S. dollar and fans the black market.

– Reuters

Margarate Zvinavashe, the widow of national hero General Vitalis Zvinavashe, has said the decision by Government to reduce the size of her farm to accommodate a Chinese investor was a noble move aimed at creating 1 700 jobs and boost the economy.

Chinese owned company Sunny Yi Feng Tiles was allocated 100 hectares of land at Nockmallock (subdivision 2) in Norton to set up a tile manufacturing plant.

The Government issued the firm with an offer letter for 100 hectares, leaving Mrs Zvinavashe with 1 200 hectares.

The NewsDay insinuated that the widow had lost a “huge chunk” of her land under controversial circumstances.

However, in an interview yesterday, Mrs Zvinavashe set the record straight indicating that she had been consulted and agreed to the reduction of the size of the farm.

Mrs Zvinavashe said the decision was sound and fair considering that at least 1 700 people will be employed at the plant.

“As a mother and a patriot, I have no hard feelings at all. The land in question will be used for projects that will boost our economy and 1 700 locals will get jobs.

“It is better for us to share and allow thousands of Zimbabweans to get jobs to fend for their families,” she said.

Mrs Zvinavashe dismissed as false reports that she was forced to surrender the farm.

Instead, the widow said she was consulted and consented to sharing with the foreign investor for the good of the nation.

“The minister approached me and he explained to me that some investors were looking for land between Harare and the Norton tollgate. He told me that there was a policy of downsizing big farms and that if I was comfortable with it, the foreign investors would be offered part of my farm.

“He asked me to spare at least 100 hectares, which I agreed to. The Chinese investor was then allocated the land by Government. I was then issued with a new offer letter for a reduced farm size,” she said.

The Chinese company is setting up a tile factory which is set to employ at least 1 700 people around Norton.

By yesterday, 35 people had been employed, including drivers, welders, carpenters and general labourers.

Mrs Zvinavashe is one of the prominent farmers who last season sold 860 tonnes of maize to the Grain Marketing Board (GMB).

She is also into wheat farming.

State Media

By Own Correspondent| President Emmerson Mnangagwa has refused to accept the Mines and Mineral Amendment Bill, which sailed through Parliament early this year.

The Bill is set to be re-tabled as it has been referred it back to parliament.

Mnangagwa highlighted some sections of the Bill which he feels violate the Constitution. Mr Kennedy Chokuda the Clerk of Parliament confirmed the referral of the Bill.

Said Chokuda:

“The President, in exercising his powers, referred back to Parliament the Bill.

The Bill is now expected to be re-tabled. There are processes to be followed in such circumstances when a Bill has been referred back to Parliament.”-StateMedia

By Own Correspondent| Newly appointed Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has warned Zimbabweans to brace for more painful measures as he tries to pull the country’s ailing economy out of its current quagmire.

The former banker has also said there is no going back on the controversial two cents per dollar transactional tax which has left a wide cross- section of Zimbabweans apoplectic with rage following its effect on the economy.

Addressing a media briefing where he unveiled his Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP), Ncube said things were going to be painful before they got better.

“We need to stop the bleeding and this is one way to do it; we can’t do this without pain.

At the end we will be glad, we need to fix our problem together; I need all hands on the deck.

I will be honest; there will be a little pain as we try to redress the economy. People don’t realise that already they have been paying indirectly for the sickly economy.

The previous tax has been regressive, people were paying very little. We do, however, have leeway in future to fine-tune the taxes,” Ncube told journalists.

The founder of the now defunct Barbican Bank said the two cents per dollar tax was “nothing” compared to what other countries were paying, adding that the collected proceeds would benefit the social services sector.

“There is a country in Africa; I won’t name it, which is charging 15 percent for electronic transactions. It is a norm across Africa. Government will do its part in controlling expenditure; we will be accountable for the taxes you are paying.

Soon we shall come back and tell you how many hospital beds we have bought, how many roads we have fixed.

The new tax will be mainly set aside for the social services sector, and focus will be on the marginalised areas; to ensure that they have access to health and education.

We have made a commitment, you will not see this money going into travel expenses or purchasing of motor vehicles. If it means we will scale down on the vehicles that we buy as government then we will do that. We will even buy locally,” he added.

In his statement Fiscal Measures for Reversing Fiscal Dis-equilibrium delivered on 1st October the Minister of Finance and Economic Development said:

“I hereby review the Intermediated Money Transfer Tax from 5 cents per transaction to 2 cents per dollar transacted, effective 1 October 2018. I am therefore directing financial institutions, banks and ZIMRA, working together with telecommunication companies to extend the collection to all electronic transactions.”

But Law Still Unchanged

As at the time of writing [2.30 pm, 4th October] the law remains unchanged. It is still as it was before the Minister’s statement: the rate of the Intermediated Money Transfer Tax is “US$ 0.05 for each transaction exceeding US$ 10,00 on which the tax is payable” as provided by Parliament in section 22B of the Finance Act [Chapter 23:04].

What the Minister Should Have Done

The Zimbabwean legal system does not allow a Minister to change any law, let alone an Act of Parliament, by a Ministerial statement.

The Minister’s should have been advised to gazette regulations changing the rate of the tax on the same day as his statement, the 1st October.

He the power to make such regulations under section 3(2) of the Finance Act.

If the Government wishes to persist with the new tax rate despite the adverse reaction in several sectors, the Minister can still make regulations now. Regulations made under section 3(2) of the Finance Act, however, must, as required by section 3(3), be promptly confirmed by Act of Parliament: Section 3(3) states:

“If any provision contained in regulations referred to in subsection (2) is not confirmed by a Bill which –

(a) passes its second reading stage in Parliament on one of the twenty eight days on which Parliament sits next after the coming into operation of the instrument: and

(b) becomes law not later than six months after the date of such second reading;

that provision shall become void as from the date specified in the instrument as that on which the rate of tax duty, levy or other charge shall be amended or replaced, and so much of the rate of tax, duty, levy or other charge as was amended or replaced, as the case may be, by that provision shall be deemed not to have been so amended or replaced.”

This means that if the time limits for confirmation are not complied with, any changes they may have made will fall away as if never made at all [same Act, section 3(3)] [i.e. taxes, etc collected might have to be refunded].

Implementation of the New Tax Must be Delayed

If they have already implemented or continue to implement the Minister’s legally ineffective review/directive, ZIMRA, financial institutions, banks and telecommunications companies will have done so at their peril. And they should bear in mind that if and when the Minister makes appropriate regulations, any attempt to backdate the new rate of tax to 1st October is likely to face a stiff constitutional challenge. Unlike the former Constitution, the present Constitution specifically commands “respect for vested rights” [section 3(2)(k)]. [Note: “vested rights” are those that already exist which cannot be impaired or taken away (as through retroactive legislation).]

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Staff Reporter|Giant Biscuits and other confectionery manufacturer Arenel has threatened to lay off some of its workers due to non availability of flour to run production.

Sources at the company’s Bulawayo factory told ZimEye.com that the company has advised over one and twenty of its workers that they will soon be asked to stay home due to non productivity.

Grain Millers in the country last week resolved to stop supplying the limited flour in the country to biscuit manufacturers and reserve it only for bread manufacturers.

The country is facing a critical shortage of flour which has seen Grain Millers importing the flour at a very high price. Foreign currency shortages have impacted heavily on the importation of the flour forcing the price of bread to reach $1.50 in some shops.

By Own Correspondent| The newly appointed Finance Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube has revealed that he aims to stem the government’s ballooning expenditure by cutting down public sector jobs.

Ncube said job cuts were among austerity measures needed to revive the moribund economy as Zimbabwe suffocates under a strangulating debt of $16.9bn.

He said the government, which currently has a workforce of over 300 000, will target for purging, jobs held by workers due for retirement and “those who are not correctly positioned in their positions

Said Ncube:

“We are going to do that (job cuts). Trying to restructure your workforce is never easy. It’s painful, it’s emotional and can be a traumatic process but still necessary.”-News24