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Broke Govt Fails to Pay Soldiers’ Salaries
13 January 2015
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The cash strapped government has shifted this month’s pay date for the uniformed forces from today to Friday.
 
Recently, nurses and doctors threatened to strike over their unpaid bonuses and finance minister, Patrick Chinamasa, was quick to reassure them that government would honour its obligation.
According to Chinamasa, medical staff will receive their bonuses tomorrow while the rest of the civil service that has not received their thirteenth cheque for 2014 will be paid on January 23 and grant aided institutions on February 6.
Chinamasa said the staggering of the payments was due to serious financial challenges that the government was facing.
Soldiers who spoke to The Zimbabwean on condition of anonymity said they failed to access their salaries today after which they were told at their various work stations that they would get their salaries on Friday.
No reason was given for the shift in their pay date.
“We were supposed to get our salaries today while others were supposed to be paid tomorrow but we have been told to wait until Friday,” said one of the sources from the military.
Another soldier based at One Commando in Harare said: “We were told by our superiors that we would get our salaries on Friday but no reason was given to us for the delay. So we will just wait to see what transpires”.
Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister, Prisca Mupfmira’s number was not reachable while Finance Minister, Patrick Chinamasa, said he was in a meeting when contacted for comment.
He did not reply to a text message sent to him over the issue.
The development comes amid threats of a strike by civil servants over poor working conditions and the government’s reluctance to improve them.- The Zimbabwean

16 Replies to “Broke Govt Fails to Pay Soldiers’ Salaries”

  3. We know they cannot print the greenbacks but the rumour is that a chinese firm has already been hired to print those zim dollars we will all refuse to have. Rumour?????

  4. We know they cannot print the greenbacks but the rumour is that a chinese firm has already been hired to print those zim dollars we will all refuse to have. Rumour?????

  5. I thought their cup was already overflowing, unfortunately not with grace but sin. Anyway, since they cant print da green backs they can always print and pay in bond dollars, hey. Remember, we are an ingenious lot who can come up with plenty something from nothing: record breaking inflation, ancestor president, diesel oozing rocks et al. Halaala, dogudugu.

  6. Dear Minister Chinamasa and by extension what is left of Zanu PF. After you rigged and stole the July 2013 elections, after having done the same at previous elections, I felt a conviction from God’s Holy Spirit that your cup of sin was now getting full and the Lord would bring judgment. And what seemed clear to me was that the financial screws would be seriously turned. And they are. You see God is a patient, gracious God but He will NOT turn His eyes from our sin forever. He has sent ZPF many to tell you to change your ways but none of you have heeded that call. At least you spoke the truth when you said that government has serious financial challenges. I will leave you to think about why you have serious challenges in a nation that the Lord has generously endowed. The income from those diamond fields alone could have salvaged Zimbabwe’s financial pride but as in decades past everything has been plundered and stolen. do you know that the Lord knows exactly where every cent of national money has gone!!!! It is time to repent! Repent or fall into the pit you have all so ably dug for yourselves. I pray you repent!

  7. simple.slowly but surely he’s introducing the Zim$.watch this space…………………

  8. simple.slowly but surely he’s introducing the Zim$.watch this space…………………

  9. The financial situation is not going to get any better but worse. This is the one issue Mugabe cannot bribe or cheat or rig his way out of. Sooner or latter the regime will admit it has failed and the only way out is to have a clean start – free, fair and credible elections.

  10. Yes Nyasha. In the public sector in Zim as indeed in many other companies, a thirteenth cheque (bonus) is a contractual obligation that’s binding.

  11. Yes Nyasha. In the public sector in Zim as indeed in many other companies, a thirteenth cheque (bonus) is a contractual obligation that’s binding.

  12. Can please someone enlighten me is bonus automatic?how is bonus paid in absence of the money.how does this work ?

  13. Can please someone enlighten me is bonus automatic?how is bonus paid in absence of the money.how does this work ?

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