Staff Reporter |The country’s biggest beverage manufacturing and distribution company Delta Beverages will on Wednesday and Thursday be temporarily shutting down all its operations through out the country in response to the Shut Down Zimbabwe call.
In a statement circulated to all its staff members and signed by a Mr M Pemhiwa cited as the Human Resources Manager, the company informs its members of staff not to report for duty on Wednesday and Thursday over security concerns.
“We have assessed the situation and found it unsafe for staff to report for work on Wednesday 13 July 2016 to Thursday 14 July 2016,” reads the statement.
The company incorporates National Breweries, Chibuku Breweries Cocacola and Schweppes Zimbabwe. Two days of non production and distribution by the giant company will immediately make unavailable almost 90% of the country’s beverages.
Staff at the company’s Bulawayo offices would not confirm nor deny the statement said to be from the company’s head office. The staff however said that with or without the statement they were not going to report for duty over the two days citing personal security concerns.