‘Poverty forcing civil servants into crime’

THE escalating levels of poverty among underpaid civil servants is forcing government workers to engage in criminal activities in order to survive, a teachers’ union has said.

George Mushipe, president of the Zimbabwe Democratic Teachers Union, said this after pictures of a man believed to be an acting headmaster caught stealing maize cobs from a yet to be identified place in the country.

It has since emerged that the “maize thief” is a science teacher at a private school in Waterfalls on the outskirts of Harare, identified as Jonathan Chatikobo.

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