Goche representative forced off stage

A DIRECTOR in the Labour ministry was yesterday booed off the stage when he told workers commemorating Workers’ Day at Gwanzura Stadium in Harare that the Zanu PF economic blueprint, ZimAsset, would address the country’s socio-economic challenges.

The official, identified as Francis Mafuratidze, was reading Labour minister Nicholas Goche’s speech to mark the event.

Efforts by Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions secretary-general Japhet Moyo to bring order failed with the restive workers bursting into song from the terraces, forcing Mafuratidze, a deputy director of Labour Relations in the Labour ministry, to abandon his boss’ speech.

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