$400k golden handshake for Gweru town clerk

FORMER Gweru town clerk Daniel Matau and the city council have reached an agreement to mutually part ways in a development that will see him walk away with about $400 000 as severance package among other benefits.

The development will come as a major blow for the financially hamstrung local authority, while also putting to rest the issue of double salary payments for the post of town clerk.

The city has been paying two salaries for the town clerk position since March after Matau won a High Court appeal to reverse his dismissal.

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