40 000 enumerators threaten legal action

THE 40 000 enumerators who participated in Zimbabwe’s 2022 population and housing census have threatened to take legal action against the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat), which is yet to pay their allowances since April this year.

The enumerators, who said they had tried, to no avail, to engage ZimStat on several occasions to have their allowances paid, expressed concern that the census body had already started releasing preliminary results of the census before paying their dues.

ZimStat spokesperson Mercy Chidemo said plans were underway to start paying the enumerators.

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