The Movement for Democratic Change says President Robert Mugabe and his government should resign because of his failure to pay civil servants on time and should not continue to bury his head in the sand because no one is going to bail Zimbabwe out.
The government failed to pay civil servants on time last month and is currently negotiating pay dates with their representatives. Security forces who should have been paid last week have not yet received their salaries.
“Any government that routinely fails to timeously pay its civil servants their salaries and wages should proceed to do the honourable thing of immediately stepping down from office. Zimbabwe is at the tipping point. The people are hungry and angry. It will be foolhardy for the ZANU- PF regime to continue burying its head in the sand like an ostrich,” party spokesman Obert Gutu said in a statement.
“ President Robert Mugabe and his faction-ridden and bankrupt regime, remain in denial mode. Somehow, they hope that they will be getting a financial bailout package from the Bretton Woods institutions. One doesn't have to be a rocket scientist to appreciate that both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), will not continue to advance any loans to a financially deliquent and politically illegitimate regime.
“It is also a cause of interesting analysis to note that more than two years after several so-called ‘mega deals’ were signed between Zimbabwe and China, there is absolutely nothing on the ground to confirm that these ‘mega deals’ are being concretised and operationalised. It still remains doom and gloom as far as the economic situation in Zimbabwe is concerned. China will never, ever bail out a renegade regime that has no respect for property rights and the legal sanctity of business contracts and transactions.”
Full statement
Wednesday, 20 July 2016
Zanu PF regime should timeously pay civil servants' salaries
Civil servants in Zimbabwe continue to struggle under the weight of a collapsing economy brought about through decades of Zanu PF misrule, rampant corruption and a generalised derelection of governmental responsibilities.
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