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.
EVERSON MUSHAVA
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.
All hell broke loose when he mentioned ZimAsset three times in his first page when the crowd started booing him, ordering him to step down.
Earlier on, Moyo had blasted the ZimAsset programme saying not even people in government understood it.
Many people have accused Zanu PF of being clueless on how to address the country’s free falling economy. Zim Asset needs $27 billion to be implemented, but the cash-strapped government has without success tried to engage the international community for budgetary support.
