Journos in census process

Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) and Zesa Holdings employees have been “smuggled” into the census process which initially had been set to be conducted by civil servants, NewsDay can reveal.

Although the national broadcaster denied knowledge of the workers deployed for the national exercise, the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStats) defended the decision to hire ZBC employees saying it was open to everyone as long as they met the minimum requirements.

ZimStats Harare provincial coordinator Elizabeth Banda-Karinda confirmed the development saying: “The census was open to every Zimbabwean as long as you had tertiary education.

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