Chickens coming home to roost

The civil servants’ bonus issue has come full circle and for the first time it is revealing how the government runs this country: on an ad hoc basis with little regard for policy and pragmatism.

NewsDay Comment

Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa made it abundantly clear that the country had no money to pay public workers their bonuses, but all economic expertise, knowhow and common sense were sacrificed on the altar of populism.

President Robert Mugabe declared that civil servants’ bonuses were sacrosanct and would be paid, yet all economic sense showed Zimbabwe could not afford to make such payments.

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