Vendors join civil servants demo over delayed salaries

SEVERAL organisations – including vendors, Rural Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (RTUZ), Zimbabwe Activists Alliance (ZAA) and students’ unions – have threatened mass protests in Harare today to register their displeasure at “Zanu PF misgovernance” and civil servants’ delayed December salaries.

The organisers said they would march from Market Square and petition Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa and Public Service minister Prisca Mupfumira over non-payment of civil servants’ salaries and bonuses, among other grievances.

This comes shortly after the government pleaded with civil servants to stop their planned demonstrations over late salaries and assured them their wages will be paid tomorrow.

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