‘Job cuts Zanu PF trick to get votes’

CIVIC society groups, labour experts and opposition parties have accused the Zanu PF government of deliberately creating the current wave of job cuts, which has already affected over 20 000 workers in a bid to later appear as “messiahs” ahead of the 2018 general elections.

This came out during a public discussion forum organised by rights advocacy group Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition in Harare on Wednesday.

MDC leader Welshman Ncube expressed similar sentiments in a statement yesterday saying they suspected Zanu PF was using the Labour Amendment Bill as a trump card so that it would appear as fighting for the workers’ interests.

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