The CSC, once Zimbabwe’s biggest meat processor, was supposedly taken over by a British investor Boustead Beef, but it turned out that the owners of the company are former Zimbabwean white farmers with no experience at all in the beef industry.
According to the cabinet minutes where the takeover was announced in May last year, Boustead was supposed to:
The company initially said it would start operations in September but instead it shut down operations for four months until the end of January this year to allow for re-tooling.
It did not re-open on 1 February. There was no re-tooling. Instead the company advised workers that they were being retrenched.
It said that the workers, some of whom have been with the company since 1977, would be paid the following package:
What has, however, upset the workers is that the package is based on wages that were never reviewed following the re-introduction of the local currency which was previously trading at par with the United States dollar but is now down to nearly 18:1.
The lowest paid workers earn a paltry $101 while most of the workers, especially those aged between 55 and 60 years, earn less than $200 a month.
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