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City of Harare employees in sit-in
Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA)
April 19, 2007

The illegal commission running the City of Harare has come under heavy criticism from disgruntled city employees over alleged corruption, mismanagement of municipal resources and unfair labour practices.

At the same time, city workers in the Department of Housing and Community Services have staged sit-ins at various offices scattered around the city demanding that they be given protective clothing as they risked contracting infectious diseases through their continued exposure while at work.

Director of the department James Chiyangwa denied there were sit-ins when contacted for comment. He said the gatherings of city employees were ‘merely to receive their protective clothing and to address other issues’.

In separate interviews today, disgruntled workers told CHRA that last month senior Municipal managers including the Town Clerk awarded themselves hefty salaries’ increments, while the majority of the workforce received nothing in remuneration adjustments.

City employees alleged that the Town Clerk Tendai Mahachi and Chamber Secretary Josephine Ncube have both been allocated new vehicles bought last month at a cost around $2 billion yet the majority of city employees continue to toil for peanuts.

CHRA reiterates its demands for elections to be held in Harare to resolve several outstanding issues, including the welfare of employees and the return to legitimate authority at Town House.

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